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Bolder -- balderson is better on crime and taxes and ordinary issues and the question is whether the trump base will respond to that a oppose to the more personality consult that surrounds trump as an individual. >> if the numbers froze right now, if the democrats even with an l in this race still have won because it went from double digit down to single digits as least as of todays polling. >> well, they will definitely spin it as a win. and you could argue that the fact that they are narrowing...

Fewer toss-up seats than many other years. plus, the opposition. with some frequency, instead of talking about areas where they may be very successful like family separation, they go to abolish i.c.e. they tendency to overplay their hand is a hope for the republican party. >> dana: we have seen many people saying that they do believe that the democrats could at least win the house. what is the best message for democrats, and why do they think that they could win a question mark >> history is the...

An advantage incumbents have, a geographic advantage, theres the gerrymandering issues, seven points for democrats, thats probably right around what they need to win the house. that night get it there for them, it might not. how about this, though, how does that compare? being ahead by seven points to the democrats right now to the last time we had wave elections. 2006, remember democrats, they won back the house from republicans in 06. george w. bush, post-katrina. iraq was spinning out of cont...

Lets show you what thats meant looking into november. to draw a map where your party can get 13 states even though its candidate is barely winning the state that means there were already, even before this court ordered redrawing, there were already a lot of vulnerable republican seats in this state. these are republican incombants who were elected in 2017. some of them yet a single-digit trump margin. even before this court case, democrats were saying we got opportunities in pennsylvania. then t...

Industry. wait until you see what we do for michigan. a trump administration will stop the jobs from leaving america and we will stop this jobs from leaving michigan. that i can tell you 100%. >> that was candidate trump making michigan his last campaign stop before winning the election. president trump scheduled to appear tonight and tout his economic achievements, tweeting looking forward to being in the great state of michigan, major business expansion and jobs pouring into your state. michig...

You, we see apparent motivation, theres a lot of complaining, a lot of resistance, a lot of outside, they are protesting in the street and making noise, you dont see the enthusiasm the same way, you see that there might but lagging there for the democrats come november, explain that. >> oh, absolutely, rob, if you look at the congressional generic polls, recent abc, washington post one, i think democrats should be concerned, they were up double digits coming into this year and this new one they ...

In the congressional generic ballot. ainsley: president trump touting these numbers, the big question can they carry them through the midterm elections in november co-chair matt schlapp is the co-chair behind cpac where the president will speak this week. good to see you. >> good to be with you. ains haines what do you make of these numbers, will the republicans be able to carry that through in november? >> i think its the cpac bounce clearly, right? all of these polls have shown that the democr...

Double digit gap between how many people will vote for democrats this november and will vote from republicans went from double digit down to half a dozen. is that it? they were dripping away and losing their advantage come this november on this daca thing. >> leader pelosi knows. >> sure, they all saw internal polls that saw it narrowing for democrats and believe the democratic base will be there in february and march ahead of the daca deadline to fight to push it the republicans around. >> than...

Sometimes every day. what are companies now doing in reaction to this tax reform bill? >> you know, this latest from j.p. morgan weve seen a stream of announcements like this. the last week or two apple announced it was going to be bringing a whole bunch of revenue from overseas paying a $38 billion tax bill. all these stories have helped republicans and president trump. youve seen it in the polls. the polls arent great republicans are down against democrats in the 2018 elections, thats a ways o...

Obviously, it is going to be challenging. i think the question is, how much water can be in the boat before the boat capsizes? and i think that will be crucial. >> elise, two weeks in, it feels like were losing a member of congress on the republican side of the aisle about every couple of days. let me just put up here past house waves, the last three times congress changed hands. in 1994, republicans needed 41, they got 52. in 2006, democrats needed 16, they got 30. in 2010, republicans needed 4...