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Just -- >> thats deep red. >> yeah, this is a place that he won by 28 points. that tells you, this is not about steve bannon or even to a large extent, roy moore. its the president doesnt have -- when we would see him come out for roy moore, things would move two or three points. it would help roy moore, but not a lot. and within a couple of days, it all drifted back. >> thats interesting. >> to us. >> it just doesnt -- hes not what he was the day he won the election in november. he didnt win th...

Service and integrity of someone who has given 40 years of service to utah. he called it an unquenchable thirst for clicks. as he has said, he has to announce by the end of the year whether he is going to retire. by the way latest when he returns to washington next week. there has been a holding pattern among republicans in utah for a long time bah hatch had that seat for 40 jeers. -- years. there is going to be quite a fight for that primary seat. republicans are still favored in deep red utah ...

Rallies and looking forward to spending much of 2018 campaigning. but a new poll from nbc news wall street journal is highlighting the challenges hes facing. it found that 62% of voters who backed hillary clinton last year are reporting a high level of interest in the midterm races, just 50% of trump voters reporting the same. former director of strategy i can communications and nbc analyst and senior advisor and vice president of the communications for the policy center. always good to see you ...

A state so republican the last time they elected to a democratic to the senate, two years later he changed parties and became republican. this is deep, deep red. trump trounced hillary clinton in this state. but tonight a democrat won. its a resounding rejection of everything president trump was standing for. >> when the president chose jeff sessions the then senator from alabama to be the attorney general, no one even considered the notion of what were seeing right now, that a democrat could be...

Got 52%. already a history of underperforming in elections. >> a tough race to predict also because polling is so difficult in that state that -- its a question of peoplish not willing, perhaps to admit they want to vote for roy moore. or conversely, maybe someone wouldnt want to admit to vote for a democrat in a state that is deep, deep red. i think theres a sense certainly its close. people, the white house now, they believe moore will win but certainly not a suggestion that its a done deal or...

How can you be a white separatist and represent all the constituents in your state? >> so, scott, youre there in birmingham, england. but birmingham, alabama, is home for you. the question we ask you as a hometown guy, does this matter when these local high profile names speak out? what impact will it have on the mines of voters in the state of alabama in. >> every move matters at this point. charles barkley is an alabama sporting legend. i covered him 30 years ago as a young journalist. just ye...

Could see a democrat flip a seat in a deep red seat it actually could impact the nation. >> yeah, but republican roy moore is not giving up. hes firing back once again against allegations that he sexually harassed and abused multiple women. >> five state campaigns, four years of honorable service, roy moore has been intensity scrutinized and not a hint of scandal. but four weeks before the election, false allegations, schemed by the republican establishment to protect their big government trough...

This race. if you look at the house of delegates a lot of those people able to flip those seats were women. they were very much firing on all cylinders. the kind of fracture of the democratic party that we know so well embodied by tom perriello and ralph northam it, didnt hat matter. they all came together. tom campaigned heavily for northam. we sort of expect trump to say its not about me because thats what he always thinks. it very much was about him. >> can i underscore one of the things that...

And theyre receiving disinformation about the alleged wrongdoing of trumps political opponents. its very hard. those people will still skeptical. i think what happens, though, in moderate districts that are held by republicans, its a problem there. and its a problem for republicans there. theyre going have a hard time i think increasingly. >> yeah. >> holding on to those seats. and those seats are the majority makers. so at a certain point, first republican leadership will say hey, wait a second...

We were talking about alabama. theres a poll that shows moore and jones are tied. theres ab 11% of people saying theyre undecided. does this concern you, somebody who wants to see republicans elected to the senate? >> yeah. theres another poll showing a wider margin. but if you take the real clear politics average its 4.4 points between them with moore in the lead. this poll obviously showing the two men tied. over the last 20 years republican candidates for senator, governor and state wise offi...