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How the GOP Captured Congress

Despite losing four of the last six presidential elections, Republicans won control of both houses of Congress in last year's mid-terms. Thomas Schaller, a political science professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County and op-ed columnist for The Baltimore Sun, unpacks the current GOP in "The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress But Surrendered the White House." We’ll also talk about the GOP’s 2016 presidential field.