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His side. things have changed. being below 50 is survivable for an incumbent president, but being below 40 is a truly worrying thing. the president of the united states is going to come into this re-election campaign in a historically weak position, not a position in which he cant win but a position where he is historically weak. if he drew a straight flush in 2016, hes going to have to draw a straight royal flush in 2020. we now see people modeling worlds where donald trump could lose the popul...

Right? it is something i wish could be avoided and talk about all the positive things that we should be talking about. melanie makes a good point, there is a long laundry list of things to do, to get things accomplished, the trade deal, that moderate democrats, conor lamb in pennsylvania and a slew of others, 30 plus others, were elected to get things done. were going to go to washington, were going to work with my counterparts across the aisle and accomplish things and they got to go back and r...

That message and to call what some 270 mayors have signed bipartisanly on a letter to say we need to pass into the senate an up other down vote on hr-8. its very easy. we want an up or down vote on background checks, which 90% of americans agree with. 87% of gunowners in ohio agree we need universal background checks and the time is now. we dont want another city to be like dayton. >> you heard senator schummer there as i just played saying this is on two people. this is on president trump. this...

Theyve already said we dont need to win the first two states. those states are overwhelmingly large compared to the democratic electorate. >> there was a head to head poll out this week from the important state of wisconsin. that state we know could be key for either party to win the presidency. thats the take-away there? >> i think the take-away there is that joe biden is up in the state of wisconsin over trump. that was the state that helped put trump over the top with over 270 electoral votes...

But could lose the popular vote by 5 million votes and still thread that needle to get to 270. in wisconsin, which he needs, if im donald trump i look at these numbers, i say yeah, theyre daunting and the front-runners biden, hes above 50, but the rest of these democrats are all within the margin of error where donald trump is. i think obviously the presidential comes into this re-election campaign in a historically weak position. but if you know -- if you won the last time by pulling an inside ...

270. in wisconsin, which he needs, if im donald trump i look at these numbers, i say yeah, theyre daunting and the front-runners biden, hes above 50, but the rest of these democrats are all within the margin of error where donald trump is. i think obviously the presidential comes into this re-election campaign in a historically weak position. but if you know -- if you won the last time by pulling an inside straight, you know that pulling another inside straight is less -- is even more unlikely b...

People who are looking at this electoral map and saying -- starting to do the math on ways that trump loses not by 2 million votes or 3 million votes but could lose the popular vote by 5 million votes and still thread that needle to get to 270. in wisconsin, which he needs, if im donald trump i look at these numbers, i say yeah, theyre daunting and the front-runners biden, hes above 50, but the rest of these democrats are all within the margin of error where donald trump is. i think obviously th...

>> trying to convince people that voting is worth the time and effort is a challenge. and thats at least in part because so many potential voters feel disconnected from the process, especially when it comes to the unique way we choose our president. >> we are the popular vote! >> because of our electoral college system, we dont vote directly for the candidate. instead, each state is assigned a number of electoral votes based on its population. the candidate that gets 270 electoral votes wins. bu...

Could last for weeks or even months. so when big storms hit, a lot of people talk about the strength of hurricane andrew in florida that happened 23 years ago. and meteorologists are see something similarities between that storm and dorian. take a look. heres what andrew did back then, after crossing the bahamas, the hurricane hit southern florida as a category 5. the storm had winds of 165, or 270 kilometers per hour. it killed 26 people and caused some $26 billion in damage. it destroyed more ...

Take a look here. here is what the storm did, andrew, back then after it crossed the bahamas. the hurricane hit southern florida as a category 5 storm, it had winds of 165 miles per hour, that is 270 kilometers per hour. the storm killed 26 people and it caused some $26 billion in damage, destroying more than 25,000 homes. another story were following this day, at least ten teenagers were hurt when gunfire broke out at a high school football game. this happened in mobile, alabama. five victims...