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Of politicians of all stripes. congress has never been held in lower regard than it is now. charlie rangel had a run-in with several ethics matters and hes managed being survived sort of being tossed out of congress, and also the thing thats interesting is, he was, for years, has been the congressman from harlan. the demographics of harlan have been changing and there are less african-american voters, more hispanic voters, and thats going to play a big factor in todays race. >> i was going to sa...

Hes going leave shortly and the district will change and the representation will change. >> which candidate is better for the democratic party? >> it doesnt matter. either one is going to win. what it says is even if he wins the round, hes gone eventually. rising hispanic power will produce another dominican or hispanic candidate. when you look at new york city, the locust of black political power left harlem a long time ago. its central brooklyn. thats where most of the, you know, political wor...

Washington for the last number of decades until, of course, his ethics town calls-- downfalls a couple of years ago. he has been a state senator in new york. hes not a newcomer. knows how to win an election. and youre right. theres a huge hispanic population in the community. he would be the first dominican-american elected to congress. hes pushing that. last time around espaillat lost to by a vote. were talked about 1,000 votes. this time it may be closer. charlie rangel has won 22 times. he wa...

I dont have a spinal injury. >> he doesnt have the leverage that he used to have at one time. he had to step down from the ways and means committee what the heck could he do if he finds his way to the house floor. >> rangel won his seat from another legend of harlem politics, adam clayton junior. the year was 1971. >> we have perilless times in that time. since then harlem has changed. you have the housing project behind me but all around gent rickivation, that is the primary concern that people...

See, 92, 88, i dont know if he outperformed george h.w. bush. mika, you would have to go back 25 years in this racist nation that donny lives in to find a president that had a higher percentage than barack obama. and did george h.w. bush get 53% twice? >> he didnt get it twice. >> you have to go back to ronald reagan to find any president, black, white, yellow -- >> confederate. >> confederate, hispanic, purple, orange. >> so that proves that theres no part of this country that would reject him ...

The cities. >> reporter: ma rta sanchez is a communitier that advocates for low income families, working to improve conditions, access to clean water and public lighting. >> they dont feel like they have the rights met and less dignified as a human being. and thats what happens when people live in the dark areas. >> you can find them all along the southern border in california, arizona and new mexico, but most are in texas. there are nearly 2300 kcolonisa one third of residents live there and al...

The district is much more divorce, much less african-american than it was. its more hispanic, actually. rangel got in a little trouble that his only credential was his ethnicity. espaillats show cases a calculated get out to vote effort, much more sophisticated than what weve seen from rangel. also tomorrow, a race for senate isnt oklahoma. given james lankford and t.w. shannon is the statehouse speaker, can it really be billed that way? theres a crowded field vying to take on the democratic gov...

Replace eric cantor. earlier this year mccarthy said he was open to some kind of reform but as of late hes back pedalled a bit. >> do you think immigration reform can happen? >> i think thats very difficult based upon what the president has done. the thing that has to happen is our borders need to be secured. see whats going forward and now that should be the top priority. >> mr. mccarthy is a conservative. its important to note hes also from california. in his case that means he represents a di...

So well is who else do republicans have? nobody else. you tell me who the republicans have. >> were just fine. >> who do you got? >> lets start with marco rubio. >> is that who you would like to see? >> i like marco rubio a lot especially with the immigration debate. listen, there are people that will push back against any kind of immigration reform. this is great hispanic guy who has risen through the ranks and i think hes very, very powerful. listen, if we could pray here just to tick you off,...

Too racially discriminatory in their impact. with that law out of the way, those states went ahead with those changes on the very first day that they could. and 50 years exactly since goodman and chaney and schwerner died in mississippi, today, this year, there are new restrictions on the way all around the country that we vote. a new report this week points out that the places where its going to be harder to vote in this years election, they follow a distinct pattern. it will be harder to vote ...