Brooks Flubs Basic Facts As PBS Tries Dunk­ing on GOP’s Midterm Chances

<div>Brooks Flubs Basic Facts As PBS Tries Dunking on GOP's Midterm Chances</div>

The media’s week of try­ing to focus sole­ly on Repub­li­can gaffes and hot mic com­ments con­tin­ued on Friday’s episode of PBS News Hour, but the tables turned as The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks flubbed two basic facts when try­ing to paint the GOP’s midterm out­look as dire.Anchor Geoff Ben­nett began by recall­ing Texas Sen­ate can­di­date Ken Paxton’s recent remarks, “And look­ing down the bal­lot, you have some­one like Ken Pax­ton, the Texas Repub­li­can Sen­ate can­di …