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The other thing that theyre energized by, frankly, are the justices, gorsuch and kavanaugh, and the federal court appointees and thats powerful here. leland: ill come back to the first question. if as you say the economy in arizona is red-hot and the statistics and the numbers support that hypothesis and people are motivated by the economy, why arent more people coming out for marsha mcsalley. why is this razor thin if people are so happy? well, i think in the end republicans have been complacen...

Enthusiasm? >> oh, sure, i mean the democrats are killing it fund-raising wise, and i do think the energy there is as much anti-trump as anything. picking up on something my friend eddie said a minute ago. i do think the timing of senator warren pushing out her blood test is really not something thats helpful to democrats. it probably is helpful to republicans because it allows republicans to remind ourselves what were against. but going into election day, i do think the democratic fund-raising ...

Election. thats what midterms are all about. if you cant get your base out, which he needs to come out, then youre not going to do well in a midterm election. donald trumps polling numbers, favorability numbers are down. you have him at 36. we saw "washington post" at 36 two weeks ago. helsinki with putin and hurting him with key voters that he he will need in november. >> which ones specifically? >> we saw some softening with rural moms as well. thats a problem for republicans and fighting for ...

And its a sign of how important the midterm elections are to both parties. this is a rally your base election. in a weird way, obamas speech may be helpful for trumps quest to get his base out, like every time trump makes a speech at a rally it may be useful to obamas base and getting them to come out this fall. >> ryan, as i pointed out president obama had not a lot to say before the election, but it didnt make much of a difference. its weird watching he predicted all of this as a lot of people...

He knows his popularity. this is a question of getting the base out, but the last question that were going to be watching is what happens with the middle. those that dont always vote democratic. that is what we have deserved in politics. so how does that play out with candidates in florida. >> it was a closed door event, one of the participants did capture audio of what he said, and it was frightening.

Theory that bill nelson financially really needed gwen graham at the top of the ticket. but theres also a theory that andrew gillum could really get the base out, whether he can win or not. so is bill nelson a happier man today or not? >> i would think bill nelson has a skip in his step not just because andrew gillum is out there and he has shown he can juice the black vote, he gets high margins and a high turnout but so does shawn shaw. the first florida democratic official who is running as th...

>> he wont do it. >> first of all, from a political point of view, this could help him from the point of view of he could get his base out, lets say. think he could say, look, bill clinton got through it. he could say, well, im being persecuted here because of winning an le corbusiewin winning an election. he could play it that way. >> even if don junior was going to jail. >> in terms of pardons, perhaps he would pardon. perhaps he would. thats a prediction i cant make. what hi can tell you know...

Women in suburban places, democratic base voters, the way the president has behaved in addition to the policy points you made, in addition to the corruption points, then theres the president as the overarching thing in our politics who is so offensive to voters in those districts that democrats have to win. >> thats the motivator across america to get the base out, to get a lot of democrats out, to get independents out, to get republican women out. you saw in the alabama race where you actually ...

They can snatch a defeat from the jaws of victory. >> i dont think that will happen. i think we have a lot of wind behind our back. there were two things made this win possible. first you had people who typically voted republican. donald trump won by 20 points. he switched over and voted for a democrat. and then a nice surge in turnout among democrats. that surge is what has been helping us in these other special elections. were winning deep red seats by huge margins. the question for us in the ...

Black women delivered two important races for democrats in 2017. that was virginia and that was alabama. red states that we had no business playing in, we hadnt had a democrat in that state in 25 years. so we have to lean in to the base. the only way were going to win is if the base comes out. we have to get that base out, which is the black community, the latino community, which is also millenials. democrats need to do all those things, and not chase voters who are not going to vote for us. >> ...