The ballot. how mu of the coming mid terms are about president trump? almost exclusively. there are some exceptions to the rule. but almost exclusively. midter elections are about the presid and even the president now says i m not on the ballot but i m on the ballot. that is why we head into the final three weeks, we have the democr in the lead and plenty of room to take control of the house of representatives. 206 seats are solid democrat. 201 are solid republican. why? becaus of what you just mentio let s take a look at the number mentioned the cnn poll. post poll. look at the president s approval rating 43% approve. 53% disapprove. look at how americans say they r going to vote for congre three weeks from now. 53% disapprove of the president. 53% say they re going to vote for the democrats. 43% approve. 42% say they re going to vote republ there is a direct correlation betwee you think of the presid and how you ll vote for congress. if you think of the president
Six in ten women disapprove of the president. six in ten women voting democr for congress. this giant gender gap right now is the big asset that the democrats have that looks very good. what about the whole id politi being local? how mu this rings true in the congressional races? it s an important question. rememb the presidential electi we talk about the national polls. hillar clinton was ahead. yes, she won the in ational v e vote but she won the election. suburb democrats are up. rural, republicans are way up. that s why you do see republ starting to think okay. we feel better about these lean republ seats in rural areas. democr feel very good about suburb want to zoom in quickly here. it s in the state of virginia. you come up here. we ll know on election night. democr need to take the close in suburbs. can they win the districts that are somewhat suburban but have rural. that is the tug of war. becaus of the rural numbers, they f better about the seats that are in red areas.
Most valuable thing for me was listening to the students themselves talk about what matters to them. listening to anybody across country talking about what matters to them. because of the hurricane we were not able to bring you the students at purdue university and what they shared during on stop there on wednesday, so we ll share it with you now. president of the purdue university college democrat and republicans. welcome. i want to ask the crowd a couple of questions before we get into our conversation. first off, how many of you raised your hands are registered to vote? that s really impressive pm democr. republicans raise your hands. democrats. refuse to be affiliated by the party. a couple of them. the hardest part is getting young people to register and getting them to go out and vote.
There s a difference between being tough and right and getting into the gutter. how do you beat trump? you fight like trump. there s a difference between fighting and being strong and getting in the gutter. frints, the democr for instane democrats have been angry at trump s policies. democrats are out performing by great numbers. they have won a deal of special elections.
They have democrats plus 14. that would be a blowout and democr and the fight about it makes it more race the numbers, quinnipiac has 50% wanting the democrats to i want to caution you, if you plus 7. senate races are state by stat bepts defense in indiana and missou we into the final five weeks. wow. that s a reminder that things can change drastically in a points democr are looking and saying this i not over. we have to keep working and
Here. out there, they are alienating need to show up to vote for them we are seeing voter it s a massive number. that in theory would look good o rour but it s more likely in those very marginal seats again, i would look at voter state. the national polling may not the map is still very hard for democr in the state by
Questioned why the committee has not subpoenaed mark judge. the only other person ford said was in the room. cnn s phil mattingly has more on capitol hill. reporter: dave and christine, the stakes are enormous. senators have to decide to change the balance of the supreme court and their institution and how people deal with sexual assault allegations. all of that this morning. this is going to be a small and contained hearing. they will limit the number of press and limit the number of visitors to watch the hearing. don t expect the protests like we saw in the first brett kavanaugh hearing. expect a high stakes drama. here is why. democr democratic senators have a lot of questions for kavanaugh and ford.
At president trump and all that he brings with which is really just a personal t ty that defie policy and somebody who was hard charging and won because he connected with at a least part of the country that joe biden could also connect with. and so there is joe biden being nostalgic, and saying that i could take the head of my party, but the issue of course is that joe biden not only the age factor and people say that the democr democrats should use the younger politicians they are building up, and the anita hill hearing and the fact that he did not call other women ready to testify to support anita hill may come back to bite him in the metoo movement. and he was a keynote speaker right here in d.c. and the human rights campaign. yes, we did a little opportunity to do the photo line with him and one of the first words out of his mouth is what he told craig melvin saying that i think that the democrats are going to take the senate in
This is about policies like the muslim ban that was just upheld in the supreme court today. i m not done. i did not interrupt you. let me finish. my point is is very simple. i demand that people stop requiring congresswoman waters to be to behave in one way while others can do something else. n nancy pelosi says let s make america beautiful again. steve, at the beginning of this program, said this isn t america. what america are you talking about? childish gambino told you what america is and what it looks like some f us see a very different america. the fact that chuck schumer called what a black woman said un-american is problematic and this is the reason why democr democrat it has everything to do with the fact this black woman is is intimidating to some people who can t handle the truth. it has everything to do with it. it has nothing to do with that s what you wish for,
Crimea. i was there when president obama called him to tell him he won be in the next g8 meeting. putin was not happy about that. he hung it all on the fact that he said we were behind the protests in ukraine that led to the ouster of yanukovych when in fact they were people protesting on behalf of anti-corruption and democr now we have a president of the united states who won t even speak up for democracy around the world. not necessarily a coincidence when you consider what vladimir putin has been doing since those protests in ukraine in 2014. he developed an information warfare capability he used in ukraine and then he brought it in to our election and as we ve heard most recently from the dni, dan coats, he s going to do it again in the midterm elections and the next one. and that s why this week, this convergence of events, is really bigger than even just the summit we re seeing kind of reorganized of what the role is the united states played in the world, that we re going to be d