Steve Kornacki On How Ed Markey Protected Seat From Rep. Joe Kennedy III | The Last Word | MSNBC

I want to go to Massachusetts breaking news, the Democratic Senate primaries, this is history making breaking news, let's go straight to Steve Kornacki on the big board Steve, what's the story in Massachusetts tonight? It really is historic when this race started. supposed to disagree with joe

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on election night this turned into a disagreement against joe

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ed

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the winner garrett hake our garrett hake reports that kennedy has called marky to concede how marky did this tonight the basic story is that merged two powerful coalitions in democratic politics together ed

markey

running up the score with young voters college towns parts of boston parts of cities with a lot of young voters running up the score there and there are also Sanders voters on one end, those are the young voters warren elizabeth voters Warren supporters, especially in those suburban bedroom communities outside of Boston, again Markey ran up the score there, that double whammy is too much for Joe Kennedy and you mentioned the historic nature of this.

This is what would happen tonight. The Democratic primaries in Massachusetts are on the right track. Back to JFK in 1946 26 democratic primaries with Kennedy 26 wins for Kennedy never a loss we have to update it now so let's change the score and there it is Kennedy's first loss in a Massachusetts democratic primary and Steve uh Alexandria costa cortez was the biggest out of state sponsor of ed markey nancy pelosi was the biggest out of state sponsor of joe kennedy what can we interpret from that you could see the power that's where the power came from and i don't want to? attribute it all to aoc but i think she symbolizes something and that is ed markey, 74, ed markey, who came to congress back in 1976, spent three decades in the house before ascending to the senate, managed to successfully endorse the new deal ecological and A much broader movement that is seen beginning to reshape democratic politics.

A movement that supported Sanders in the Democratic primaries was not enough to obtain the Democratic nomination at the national level, but it is a powerful movement in a state like Massachusetts especially and this was the other key for Markey. As we say, he took that and built on it, he got some voters. I think Bernie Sanders couldn't participate in these democratic primaries. Markey was able to put the two together. It is a remarkable reinvention. It's almost the

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that Ed Markey has been here. During four decades in politics he became, at the age of 74, the vehicle of a youth movement.