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At that point. as dakin said on the break, you dont actually know what issues might change over the next year. what is a barometer, i would say, president donald trump and vice president mike pence and don jr. a posthumous ability to get the vote out. they are all coming into these districts that trump won. republicans have been set back on this largely by a delegitimized election because of a side consultant and a short runway to run against the democrat. >> kat: the issue for the republicans o...

North carolinas ninth congressional district has captured the attention of both parties amid predictions that the race could be a political barometer for 2020. republican dan bishop and democrat dan mcgrady are locked in tight race less than two weeks before voters head to the polls. both candidates taking cues from national talking points on hot button issues. bishop has called his opponent a socialist and echoed president trumps rhetoric on immigration and security policies. while mccready, mo...

Annexation of crimea in ukraine. and obviously the support for ukraine and the military aid is viewed as a key barometer fof u.s. support for ukraine and also its effort to counter russian influence in the region. now, next week, the president is set to meet with the ukrainian president for the first time, the new-elected ukrainian president, so well see if that meeting perhaps changes the presidents mind at all. but right now weve already seen a lot of criticism from democratic lawmakers and we...

Action, blocking $250 million in military aid to ukraine, its not clear at this point whether the president is actually going to follow through with it. but one source is telling us that the white house has begun to notify relevant agencies and congressional committees about this possible action, but that source did stress that the president has not yet made a final decision on that. we have asked the white house for comment on this matter, provide some kind of an explanation for why the preside...

Return to the purposes that had defined it when it first started back in june when we saw that support, the 1 and 2 million people coming into the streets. thats why sundays rally was such an important test. it would be seen as some sort of barometer from where the public stood here. . >> right >> reporter: even though it was pouring rain, even though there was a police ban in effect, the scope of the turnout, the fact that it was a crowd gave a lift to the protest movement to show that they did...

You look at the quality of her campaign in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina and the sense of clarity from her message shes emerged from this pack almost no one else has. >> i think youre right and im hearing similar things from consultants and voters watching this closely. take a look at the grassroots fund-raising campaigns have seen come in the door. joe biden, when he jumped in, raised a lot of money online and that dipped the last six months and dried up for him with small donor vot...

Trump administration or get a better deal just to try and get the administration to agree to something. so there is that risk that comes now. or the administration could just try and ride this out, take a strong arm on china, and hope the unemployment number hangs in there. the advisers are telling the president not to focus on the stock market and have told him that for two and a half years, to focus on the positives like the unemployment numbers. we saw the president just last week at a rally ...

The second quarter. the university of michigans barometer of consumer sentiment dropped this suggests if consumers are getting nervous and this turns around that could be a troubled sign. home values plummet, voters get cranky. the last time we had a one-term president, george h.w. bush could not convince voters that a mild recession was over. and it was. how worried is the current president? he blinked and hit the pause button on his escalating trade war with china. that was on tuesday, even be...

Could be some kind of national background check law put into place that we dont currently have. then it was only a matter of about 72 hours or so and he seemed to shift completely. he started talking about reinstitutionalizing mentally ill people, that that was going to be the solution to the gun violence problem in america, most which has nothing to do with mentally ill people unless we set aside the fact that guns kill tens of thousands of people through suicide which is a big problem as well....

And affected all of this. thats where joe biden is to put his attention. he is jumped 16 points since march, that is incredible, now ahead of sanders. one thing they also didnt talk about last night about manufacturing jobs is the fact that all these jobs that have been added under his presidency and i think this is coming down to do they want to run on culture or policy? if you try to go after trump on policy and the economy, youre going to lose. the vehicle after culture and those in the fox n...