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Political commentator alice stewart. alice, gallup has a new poll this weekend showing the issues that rank by priority for voters, health care at the top at 80%%, tied at second, economy and immigration with 78%. this among registered voters. reconcile this with the president almost exclusive, if not primary focus, on immigration. >> that is his big issue. for him, in his mind, it worked for him when he was running for president and he believes it will work this time. it is securing the border ...

The gop are happy to take credit for a historically low unemployment rate and they call it a booming economy, a recent poll from gallup shows 64% of voters say they have not seen an increase in their take-home pay. where is the disconnect? lets start with worker pay. wages are just starting to rise after years of stagnation, up 3.1% over the last year. but heres the issue. cost of living issues are eating that up. much like the criticism of the obama-era economy, it is not a booming economy for ...

I watched him speak today. he had a very small crowd. they dont talk about that. >> barack h. what do you think that meant, huh? the 44th president calling the 45th a liar. >> what we have not seen the way were seeing right now is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying, just making stuff up. thats what theyre doing right now all the time. dont be bamboozled. dont be hoodwinked. when words stop meaning anything, when truth doesnt matter, when people can just lie with ab...

Lying, just making stuff up. thats what theyre doing right now all the time. dont be bamboozled. dont be hoodwinked. when words stop meaning anything, when truth doesnt matter, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy cant work. >> lets compare and contrast their approval ratings, shall we? president trump at 40% in the latest gallup poll. the former president barack obama at 63%. but both have seen their share of hecklers. lets also compare and contrast their reactions. >> were okay. we...

Off this horse of not everybodys going to be covered. >> chris, i want to show you the top five issues mentioned -- rather what the top issues are for midterm voters are. when we look at the comparison here of what voters think about the issues, health care is at 80%. this is actually the issues that are mentioned in advertising but we can talk about that. here is what i was looking for. the gallup poll that shows that health care in terms of what is important to voters, right at the top 80%. bu...

Care, and i would want to carve out my space where the polling says the public trusts trump, and at this point i dont think motivating base voters is the issue. i looked at the gallup this week and it shows the republicans are good to vote. democrats are making one key argument, and we are making the other and thats where you want to fight it out and i am not sure immigration is the closer you want in a lot of districts. >> if you look at a state like missouri and you see how claire mccaskill wh...

Judges and all those things and none of this nonsense that these people are proposing can pass through the senate. i am very optimistic about the next two years under trump and i think it will be a long, good, prosperous era. i think he has six more years. >> bill: lets talk about message then. it doesnt seem like republicans are really hammering home this message. it is more about immigration, defense on healthcare, etc. do you believe that people vote on the economy when the economy is good, o...

Into the final days. >> this is a boost that you mentioned for the democrats but gallup is saying the presidents approval rating is now at 40%. thats like a 4-point drop in a week. weve will the mail bombings and synagogue shooting. but i dont know. is that going to affect the midterms? >> ill say a few things. we do know the presidents approval rating is tied up in how his party does. at 40%, his party is not going to perform very well. a seat loss between 30 and 40 seats. that being said, i do...

Majority. the forecast is for them to get 226. its a net gain of 31, they only need a gain of 23. senate is a different story. we expect republican whos currently control 51 seats to gain one seat, get to 52. >> the forecast hasnt changed much. the week before is when they gained two seats or last week they gained two seats. >> the forecast hasnt changed very much. i wouldnt be surprised given the house polling that if the forecast gives democrats a little bit of a boost as we head into the fina...

But lets turn to the third chart which is really the most interesting one and this really -- this charts the presidents approval rating against how many seats were lost. you can see here there is a very high correlation. theres actually a 70% statistical correlation the way statisticians do this math. what it implies is that at a 40% approval rating which is gallup, the same numbers that are used in all the dots on this chart, you can see it implies a lost of about 42 seats for the president. no...