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Presidential years to midterm years has been among democratic voters, minority voters, young voters. and so you would presume that a larger turnout would be good for democrats. in that democrats havent been as reliable as midterm voters. >> you hit on something important. its one thing to turn people out in a presidential year. how do you turn out young voters, black voters, hispanic voters where you need them, in places like florida, georgia, texas, in a midterm? whats going to be key? >> well,...

It was a huge crisis during the obama administration. when we started under president trump the numbers lowered dramatically on his rhetoric alone. i think we missed the mark. the leaders of our agency. but now, were seeing a president thats going to enforce the law. he is not bringing anything new to the table. he is saying protect our borders. what a crazy idea. >> laura: but its racist and youre hispanic, yourself. how does it feel to have the president called racist and anti-latino. xenophob...

Won by 2%. i think its is not only indicative of texas, specifically but america broadly that this large blue wave is not nearly going to be so big as. pete: will hurd is a good candidate. at some point that will matter. >> will hurd district. heavily hispanic. he has identified issues and championed issues that reflect that district. he is a fantastic candidate. pete: you have david young incumbent republican 41% right now. cindy at 43%. within the margin of error but what do you think of this ...

Candidates well like in west virginia or missouri, but what about states like florida, where 18% of voters in the last election were hispanic, or texas, where 24% of voters in 2016 were hispanic? candidate trump won both of those states two years ago, but will president trumps tougher language on immigration help or hurt republicans running for state-wide office now in those states? with me now is a familiar face to "meet the press" viewers, al car dennis, former chair of the republican party of...

Coalescing for democrats? where are latino voters going and what does this immigration rhetoric do to the vote? >> remember, florida has always been a bit different in terms of the hispanic vote because of the cuban american vote in south florida. it used to be two thirds who vote in florida, its now a third. so now theyre probably slightly more. puerto rican votes. so cubans are now one third. as a matter of fact, when they were two thirds, president bush, for example, got to 55%. >> shows you ...

Have they borrowed any of the obama presidential campaign strategy of trying to win, you know, 20 or 30 states? is there a turnout operation? have they borrowed technological operations from the dnc? what is their ground game? what does it look like? >> if they borrowed anything thematically its from the, you have to show up and give these people a reason to vote for you. orourke has been to every one of texas more than 250 counties. spent a lot of time in the rio grande valley. its four hours f...

Can promise you, hell say much of the same, perhaps even more, here tonight. >> jeff zeleny and the dulcet tones of guns n roses. "outfront" now, samuel rodriguez, an informal faith evangelical faith adviser to president trump and he led a prayer at president trumps inauguration. thanks so much for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. what do you make of president trumps closing argument in which he seems to be focusing quite a bit on undocuments immigrants? >> well, a couple of points here firs...

Asylum. this is something that the president has taken issue with because it is what those central american migrants are seeking as they make their way, hundreds of miles, through mexico to the u.s. southern border. but as you pointed out, this ad has become part of a broader strategy here. it is all about the midterm elections just days away. and according to one other source who spoke to cnn in the last day, this ad is an attempt to move the conversation away from family unification to this is...

This election, its kind of hard to wrap your mind around. it was only six years ago that the republican national committee following the 2012 election when mitt romney did so poorly with hispanic voters. years ago they came out with this autopsy and said we have to do a better job of talking to and talking about hispanic voters. that was only six years ago. seems like 600 years ago. >> trump figured out with republicans in the worst days of the red scare and communism and demagogue issue, the re...

Long agree with ending birthright citizenship as a policy matter. how to do it? theres a debate among legal scholars. some legal scholars argue the only way to do it to us with a constitutional amendment, other legal scholars argue you can do it with a statue passed by congress. i think whatever happens, its going to be litigated the courts are going to resolve this. the president has said he may try to do it with an executive order, my view is whatever means that is used, the policy is the righ...