to thing that a black woman in georgia where martin luther king jr. is buried where people were beaten for even voting is my opinion a highway to winning the florida governorship is progress. but always remember it was not even in your reach let alone your grasp in the past. but i have hope but vote is not enough. we need restoration of the voting rights act and i think the shelby county decision played out and i think we re seeing the results. we saw that again last night. we ll see if stacey abrams makes her case. exit polling confirms nearly
lecturer at the l bj school. let s take up this question of immigration and how important you believe it was tonight. obviously the president was banging the drum on this caravan as some imaginary threat to the border of the united states, sending down troops and putting up concertina wire. how important do you believe immigration was in our exit polling? 23% of voters said it was the most important issue. since donald trump descended from the escalators in trump tower in 2015, immigration has been at the top of his list, because he knows it can mobilize that base. it is pure red meat to that base. he used it in his 2016 campaign. he is using it at different points throughout his administration. and in the last couple of week, he has ramped it up. in an ideal world, i would like to think that over the next two years, maybe with the democratic
person in the seat. so that you couldn t have something happen like this. on a certain level, this is worse than watergate because the saturday night massacre, he kept firing senate confirmed people until he found jork who was a senate-confirmed person to do this. and the other thing about the privilege i had of working at the department of justice is we had a duty not only to seek justice but to ensure the appearance of justice. and this so violates that. and so and one other thing that i ve been reflecting on with this is, it s clear to me that they may want to buy some time so they have more republicans in the senate in january, and then they nominate someone even worse. let me just ask you this. and all of these options are bad. fortunately, we have a majority house. you agreed earlier to be on the show before we had this news. i was going to ask you that exit polling indicates are more
i was talking to my friend amanda loveday who was running a senate race and you can feel the kavanaugh vote all the way down in the senate race, so it is real. but the excitement is something that i think worked for both parties, because women in this country, it is yet to be seen, especially college-educated white women which we have been discussing. i think if this election were a month ago we would be talking about republicans taking the house very seriously. that still might happen, but most likely today we ll see. i m very curious to see what the kavanaugh effect will be and we won t know until exit polling will be on joe donnelly in indiana. he came out earlier than he probably had to yes. against brett kavanaugh. heidi heitkamp had to make that decision. as you said, claire mccaskill had to make that decision. but there was a reason the kavanaugh factor will be interesting the look at for democrats. but manchin, there was a reason he did what he did.
race. i talked to the data department. when president trump rallies we see movement toward the g.o.p. nominee. tennessee, marsha blackburn was down by 5. president trump comes. he rallies he suspect why 14. dean heller down by 4. trump rallies. all of a sudden up by 7. same in texas, ted cruz s first double digit lead came after a trump rally. there is quantifiable change toward the republican party when the president gets out there. steve: kayleigh, what do you make of the fact that the former president barack obama has been out on the stump and he has essentially said without mentioning donald trump by name he has said that the character of the country is on the ballot. who we are is on the ballot. what kind of politics we expect on the ballot. clearly, that s talking about the tone that donald trump has taken. 2016 was cat gorical rejection of president obama. all the exit polling showed that voters wanted change. president obama, during his first midterm had a she lacking. he los