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Nationwide and perhaps a bellwether going into 2020. >> neil: we shall see. thank you, as always. president trumps approval is going down. recession fears ramping up. but the numbers indicate anything but. going on he that one?! no! what about that?! no! what about now?! no! that do it?! [ buffer stops ] still not working! how bout now?! no! i just dont know. i mean, i dont know who labeled this thing. yeah?! no!

>> in a way. you can say the republicans are responsible for what went wrong the first time around and theres backlash there. most of the money was spent on supporting the marine. but they havent lost that seat since the 60s, i guess. i know theyll say its a bellwether if they lose. theyre in a dead heat. it will last one day, a one-day story. you saw it. ambassador bolton is the story now. it was sharpie gate saturday. and guess who is coming to camp david and who is not coming. in this world, ...

A kind of referendum, whether he likes it or not, on president trump in a place he smoked the kme competition last time around. but hes had some mixed messages on whether this is really all about him. >> i dont see it as a bellwether. the 18 election, the big thing is, i was not running. people say, oh, it was a referendum on trump. it wasnt. im not running. im not on the ticket, but i am on the ticket, because this is also a referendum about me. >> our nbc news team is here following a lot of n...

They always ask that question. >> tomorrow is your chance to send a clear message to the america-hating left. and its got to be. and, by the way, were building that wall, and its going up very big. >> so, maybe its a message. maybe not. nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki is here. whatever the president thinks, an awful lot of people on both sides, republicans and democrats are looking at this as a bellwether. >> if hes in the district, its on his mind too. how did we get he...

North carolinas ninth congressional. right now the race is too early to call. president trump beat hillary clinton there by nearly 12 points in 2016. and last week some aides told politico if north carolinas goes democratic tonight so does the presidency next year, of course. yesterday the president told reporters just the opposite. >> no, i dont see it as a bellwether. they always ask that question. >> well, the election redo, thats what it is this time, was ordered after state officials discov...

>> yeah, well, look, hes traveling to north carolina, because of the special election, if its not important why is he going? i mean, this president really understands that people are going to look at this election, and he said, oh, its not a bellwether, theyre going to look at this election and say, is it an indication of things to come? are the winds still blowing in the same direction they were both in the 2018 midterm elections or have things shifted? and they understand thats important? let ...

Election that is, you know, has a lot of different complications in it. the third is going to be won by the republicans. the third district. thats coastal carolina and the outer banks. thats a strong republican. this, ive listened and talked to people in the bishop campaign. their internal polling is much better than people think. the early voting was strong against him, but theyve recovered. and its really now who can get their base vote out. and trumps rally tonight is a big part of that. beca...

That. i have to stand as a very interesting situation. we have been there for 19 years, 19 years. and we are not really policeman in afghanistan. so what is happening is this, we are talking to the government. we are talking to a lot of different people. we will see i canceled camp david on the basis they did something they sure as hell should not have done. >> [inaudible] >> president trump: no, i dont see the bellwether. that we see that question. you never talk about the fact as an example in...

Two weeks ago, and i got involved about two weeks ago. the numbers have gone way up. i think dan has a very good chance of winning the election. >> neil: i asked the president this afternoon, neil if he thought tomorrows election in the ninth district was a bellwether. he said no. and a lot of republicans will sing indicative of what might happen in 2020. if he loses, you can bet a lot of democrats will be saying it could be indicative of what will happen in 2020. the president also this afterno...

This district has a suburban component to it but this is a more republican-friendly district than you saw generally going to the democrats last november. >> thats right. and, of course, that was ultimately the result. it was very close and there were a number of strange things that happened in this race, which is why we have a new one in the first place. obviously democrats dont feel as strongly about this races they did during the 2018 midterms when you saw more resources going into it relative...