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Could heidi heitkamp lose the seat after voting no? >> reporter: heidi heitkamp having fun, walking in a classic north dakota parade. >> hi there. >> hi. >> reporter: her smile masks her political reality. shes the most endangered senate democrat. and those voting against brett kavanaugh probably didnt help. >> its been a tough week for me. the political rhetoric is, you cant vote that way if you expect to come back. and i tell people, my parents didnt raise me to vote a certain way so i could w...

Listening audience. i was kind of surprised at the result. >> you believe still that despite the polling out there that shows her down quite a bit, she can still overcome it. i know she overcame a ten-point deficit in 2012. >> she did. she overcame a ten-point deficit. i dont believe its 12 points. im pretty confident its not. because shes my sister, i get to know things. ed in -- m.north dakota, it doesnt poll well. its a whole different philosophy. this vote probably didnt help. you cant reall...

Explain how these latest details illuminate that point. >> coming into where they are today, wasnt able to locate a supposed assault, the time or date, and the early 80s, made 80s, she was a young teenager, a little bit older. there was a lot of doubt. we had the collapse of the six accuser, the fifth or third, second, ramirez -- that didnt help. we have the boyfriend coming forward. her own testimony, that she admitted that she flies regular, corroborated by the boyfriend. the two door thing, p...

Whats your impression of it? >> my impression is that the interview didnt help miss swetnick corroborate her claims. she, if anything, changed a few details. and number two, and this is important because it goes back to the original declaration submitted by michael avenatti, she is not alleging that brett kavanaugh attacked her or committed a crime against her. and so that makes her -- although she has been lumped in by some as one of the so-called accusers, that makes her fundamentally differen...

To talk about the status of puerto rico, but about the fact that we ought to be treated as regular american citizens, regardless of what the status is. >> yeah. some people who live in puerto ri rico, 200,000 of them, have left the island and gone back to the main land here. do you see that affecting politics here on the mainland? do you see them registering to vote, actually making their voices heard? >> we do, and we hope that the new puerto rican families who have joined hundreds of thousands...

Speech top to bottom. as you pointed out, he said, i would like to be quiet, but he had also said around the same time, if things get really out of hand, if things are anti-democratic as we fear they might be, i may have to say something. this is him saying something. >> that would not be the headline, though, that you would see for what he had to say at his first campaign event in california yesterday. so the day after that fiery speech, he didnt mention president trump by name. he was not near...

Are seven candidates -- >> depends where, right? >> depends where. the democrat only -- if i were the democrat i would not want high turnout in the rural counties because -- the democrat only has to win franklin. they can lotz rest counties as long as they win franklin by enough. the county im watching is delaware. it is a truly suburban county. if we talk about the suburbs, all this whole midterm cycle, you want to find out whats going on, what happens in delaware really mat do the republicans ...

What happened with this meeting beyond just the meeting. was there any sort of further contact, any sort of further conspiracy to disseminate any of this information. because thats obviously what happened after this meeting. and also goes to this idea -- youve had president trump basically saying, oh, the russians didnt help. the russians really wanted hillary clinton to win, theyre upset that i won. he said at his rally just recently. but here he is, admitting that there was this meeting with t...

Retail because of the toys r us closing, so that didnt help. does this seem transparent to you as it does to me? >> yeah, it does. i like the term fake news because thats what were hearing and seeing every day. our economy has very strong footing right now. consumer spending is going up. that means creating more jobs. as a prosecutor, the more unemployed, i feel the fewer people committing crimes. its great for our country. i do believe in the term fake news. yes, its extremely transparent. when...

Would do that. >> bill: topic two. >> if were talking about the jordan race i would like to move on. talking about anything else we can continue. i want to talk about politics. >> bill: your bread basket, right? brian kemp. the president tweeted congratulations. go win against the border crime loving opponent the dems have given you. how is he doing in his endorsements? >> in this race it did make a difference. casey cagle. there was a tape that hurt him severely he pushed forward with bad publi...