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Incumbents in supposedly vulnerable red and purple states are holding not just leads but leads that are getting wider. narrow but getting wider. in the context of the economy and everything thats going on these should have been slam-dunk races for the republican party and quite the contrary. >> a group backing president trump is reportedly warning that his cries of fake news is hurting republicans. oemp the weekend, trump tweeted, while our poll numbers are good with the economy being the best e...

Character. >> yeah. >> im not surprised this stuff has come out. it remains an assumption that mueller has made this deal because theres definitely something there. certainly he has proffered something. it remains to be seen. of course, those two guys are the only two who know what he has and whether it actually does go to collusion, which is the big, very big missing piece of this so far. >> all of this comes as were less than two minutes -- two months away -- feels like two minutes. >> two min...

Its easy to make the argument of the crimes hes convicted pre-dated donald trump and he had no way to know about them. by the way, i would like to remark that you can run the tape back on me in 2016 saying i dont know about this manafort character. so im not surprised that this stuff has come out. it remains an assumption that mueller has made this because theres something there. hes profited something but it remains to be seen. those two guys are the only two who know what he has and whether it...

>> jonathan swan, youre report thoi ing on this idea that republicans are buying this point of fake news to a point its causing a real problem for republicans because their voters dont believe the democrats could win congress. >> a month ago i reported in the same newsletter based on focus groups that -- republican strategists were getting concerned because they were doing focus groups of trump voters and saying, fake news. we dont believe the polls. its going to be a blue wave. and that was wor...

Only reason why the so-called booming economy is not helping them so much. we have a economy defined by income in equalities. the things that make up what we call a good economy, strong gdp growth and corporate profits and stock prices, those benefit comparatively small number of americans and so the economy is one thing but the individual financial lives of american voters are something much different. i was talking to a republican pollster a few days ago, 51% of the electorate lives paycheck t...

Morning on the nike stuff. what was nike thinking? so he is injecting himself into both of these debates. where do you see the nike situation? >> nike caters to athletes and selling sneakers. im sure theyve done their focus groups and research and they feel they are going to be on the right side of history. and they have made a decision that people are going to buy their sneakers or not buy their sneakers not because of i guess or maybe because of this issue. so theyre betting on colin kaepernic...

What about you? are you finding dinner with friend in mississippi a little tougher? >> well, specifically with my family, i just heard from so many of them. they are sick of talking about donald trump period just because hes sucked up so much of the oxygen justin national conversation. while george w. bush was president he might not have been universally popular but it wasnt the singular obsession of the country to dissect george w. bush every second and it wasnt with barack obama either except ...

Ive heard a lot of people talk to me how their families just dont talk about politics any more. tell us what you found out there. >> i was in a focus group with frank luntz that he was conducting back in april. it was really one of the most telling moments ive had in kind of observing voters this year. he asked a question how many of you have stopped speaking to a family member or friend as a result of politics in this last presidential election? close to half the hands in the room went up. and ...

There might be a spoiler candidate, given trumps popularity within the republican party which is historic, is there a plausible republican that could give him a run? >> sure. if you look at these focus groups a lot of people say they approve of trump. half of those are core supporters. yeah i approve some things. i doppler like the judges. i like the tax cuts. when they are pushed, they are off trump, trump supporters. they dont like the attacks on trump. but when ask after this election, after ...

Howie: how polarized is america right now. frank luntz has been conducting focus groups across the country and he find the audience erupts with animosity and cynicism. frank: how many of you lost a friend. >> he says hes not my president. but he is your president because you live in this country. >> hes a despicable human being. >> the media has really -- if you meet people in general like you used to before facebook, et cetera, i feel like the media has really fanned the flames.