Scalise: Dems creating midterm "fauxmentum"

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) is brushing off signs of improved midterm prospects for Democrats, suggesting that the party is trying to manufacture optimism.

“It seems like when you get about two months away from an election, Democrats always try to create what I would call faux-mentum,” Scalise said in a Tuesday press conference.

“You saw it two years ago,” Scalise said. “[Speaker] Nancy Pelosi was going to flip 15 or 20 more seats to the Democrat side, and they tried to create that faux-mentum on the left. And what ended up happening? We flipped 15 seats from Democrat to Republican.”