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Calculation here, chris in a midterm with turnout down from what it would be in a presidential election, its going to be a base election. the base loves donald trump. >> right. >> he is all in. now its hard to believe that he actually believes any of this based on his entire career, and based on the fact that a couple of years ago he was saying im 99% against trump. but he has decided this is his path to victory to be all in on kavanaugh, all in with trump. >> you know, it always fascinates me w...

Brave face on it, doing a great job at that. the fact is we are seeing whats called the brett bounce. we are seeing it in special elections through the country for two years. now were at a ten. it is really erased the advantage that they may have. if you look at toss up seats, heidi heitkamp, democrat from north dakota, bye-bye. >> was that a toss up? >> maybe not. shes an incumbent. shes probably gone. ted cruz in a tight race in texas, this is a huge boost for him. there still are a huge base ...

Soon. well be doing something very important in iowa, but this is maybe more important than all of it put together, right, j joni? >> president trump gave a shoutout to joni ernsterer yesterday. joining me now is kay henderson, news director for radio iowa and long-time political reporter there. our panel is back, as well. kay, lets start with you. how was todays news on nafta, or, shall i say, usmcs, doing out there? >> well, for iowa republicans, this was welcome news. if this is truly a base ...

Heller, why is he there? dean heller has a base problem and a swing vote problem. ted cruz has a base problem and a swing vote problem. trump, theres nobody to help you with the swing vote problem, so you go with trump? >> trump knows how to rub a base election, he has that gut connection with his followers. republicans have put themselves in a position where theyre already in danger, if not already have lost the middle. so in order to prevent that blue wave from appearing, in order to prevent t...

>> did you support i hillary clinton. >> that has nothing to do with it, i fully support the second amendment. >> turning against the police. >> this is why people dont like the senate you said something i didnt say and attributed to me. >> the texas bureau chief abbey living ston joins us now. we have polls showing cruz and orourke neck in neck. what are your take aways from last night. >> it was interesting to watch the college championship debater versus the political rock star. these men don...

Way that we covered now president donald trump. i mean i talked to all kinds of senators. i talk to senators every day in the hallway, democrats, republican. on the democratic side they are seeing this, too. this know their voters are incredibly excited. they have been the entire time they hardly have to do any work in that regard beyond attempting to make sure they are organizing correctly, actually registering those people to voetd. for republicans, you know, every midterm is a fundamentally a...

Character. >> yeah. >> im not surprised this stuff has come out. it remains an assumption that mueller has made this deal because theres definitely something there. certainly he has proffered something. it remains to be seen. of course, those two guys are the only two who know what he has and whether it actually does go to collusion, which is the big, very big missing piece of this so far. >> all of this comes as were less than two minutes -- two months away -- feels like two minutes. >> two min...

Get people in power. this film is for the base plus to get them excited. >> laura: his point was, this is going to be a base election, he wants people to watch his film, you were not going to persuade people going down the home stretch. its only turning out your base. i do with that? >> no. i think hes half right. we have to turn out the base. the president has to convince people to vote. if we dont have the base, we lose. its not complicated. in addition, if we pose a choice between an open bor...

This is for the base plus to get them excited. >> laura: his point was this is going to be a base election. he wants you to watch his film. you are not going to persuade people going down the home base, its only turning out. do you agree with that? >> hes half right. we have to turn out the base. the president has to convince people to vote. if we dont turn out the base, lose. if we pose a choice between an open borders democrat, gavin newsoms healthcare to give it free for every immigrant, they...

35, 34 by the time we get to election day. bob, i want to ask you this question, costa that is. obviously, everybody as we head into a mid-term election, both parties try to highlight what their argument for how its not going to be as bad, if theres negative forecast or great if itss its a positive forecast. to make an argument in a mid-term election that the base, it will be a base election would be conventional wisdom. unfortunately, for this white house, if you look at every piece of data ove...