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Campaigned he won. florida is a great example. you can look at so many others. spent a lot of time in missouri and indiana flipping seats from democrat to republican. the president still draws more crowds than anybody. when president trump went to a state to do a rally, it might have been a 15,000 seat arena there were 15,000 to 20,000 people waiting outside because theyre excited what president trump is doing to get the economy back. >> sandra: what does the agenda look like? can democrats and ...

Elections but in off-year elections, whether its 94 or 2006 or 2010, even 2014, its not the economy, stupid, its a variety of other issues. >> you know, and this is, of course, so frustrating to the white house and to other republicans that the economy is good, the unemployment rate is at a historic low and yet its not rebounding to their benefit. i think thats also perhaps one reason why the tax cut which republicans once thought would be a driving issue in the midterm election is basically not...

Not a setback for the midterms for democrats. i think kavanaugh getting through probably is a plus. you know, just politically. >> politics is counter, right? you vote when youre angry. you turn out when youre mad. >> i think particularly women, and if you want to look at the house, the races that matter are suburban and urban, where women turning out will make the difference. its hard to see today and tomorrow as a negative for democrats. it is a negative for the country for a long time, given ...

Election day. that was a driving issue especially for evangelicals who came out in droves for donald trump. they knew this was a possibility, this day, this moment for kennedy, the swing vote, to step aside is a big moment for the conservatives. >> ed: 15 seconds, you have a big interview with the vice president tomorrow on "special report." he is immediately jumping into save this nomination? >> bret: we will be talking with him and its likely the nominee will be up there as well and there will...

And the white house realize that immigration is a driving issue for this base. its less clear if this reversal today fits into that. but anderson, i was struck by that, as he was here in minnesota, even saying that this is the state that he wished he would have won more than any other. this is the first state hes come to that he didnt win, actually, in 2016. he said he will carry minnesota in 2020, anderson. >> jeff gzeleny, thank you very much. to help sort through the legal questions, the fo...

Were saying its a big reversal for the president. you would certainly never get that sense from having listened to the president today. >> reporter: no doubt about it. we have covered so many rallies that candidate trump has had, president trump has had, really for the last three years. anderson, im not sure that i can remember one where immigration was less of a focus than it was here tonight. yes, there was some talk about building the border wall. but really in passing. the president likes to...

Melania goes down and now theyre complaining about the jacket. you are never going to get a win on this issue. a normal issue like gas prices. healthcare jobs, those are the things that actually effect the lives of everyday americans. yes, migrant families will tug at your heart strings and makes you feel bad and want to find a solution. its not going to be a driving issue for regular voters in the midterm elections. >> dana: greg, i had congressman burgess on the 2:00 show today. >> good for yo...

You see what the president said the other day, we wont be a migrant center refugee camp, thats very clearly coming from him. he is an ideological believer, he and jeff sessions, in, essentially, making sure that immigration, legal and unauthorized, into the country is choked off, and that the demographics of the country stay the way they are and dont shift in the direction theyre shifting. this is a first order deeply held principle of stephen miller since he was a young man at santa monica high...

Sound bite leading into this segment, this idea for paw to say if we fought this when barack obama did it, why are we suddenly okay with it when its a republican president and a republican controlled congress saying let us continue to spend in this way regardless, he didnt win this argument tonight. he brought this back into the forefront for a party that is largely turned away from this as a driving issue under trump. at the end of the day, the vote was the same. this still passed the senate. d...

Look, conservatives will look at rand paul as somebody who has held the line on what was for a very long time conservative orthodoxy that the debt was a big problem and than spending against the deficit was something that republicans should fight back against. you played some of that in the sound bite leading into this segment, this idea for paw to say if we fought this when barack obama did it, why are we suddenly okay with it when its a republican president and a republican controlled congress...