Polls . Our team of road warriors is out there with the early voters. And we are definitely taking stock this morning after another chaotic day on wall street, the president now saying that businesses, theyre using him as an excuse for slower earnings. He told the wall street journal we dont even have t tariffs before once again blasting his own fed chair saying his instinct is that Interest Rates are being raised too quickly. He didnt have that instinct when obama was in office. Well begin this morning with the president doubling and tripling down on immigration as the issue he wants to focus ahead of the midterms. With just 13 days to go, are the candidates following his lead . I have a great team this morning to break it all down. First, were going to go through this. Voting is now under way in a total of 31 states and thousands of ballots have already been cast. That is good news. Even with election day still officially 13 days away, all over this country, candidates are fine tunin
Separate President Trump from our economy right now. Speaking of the economy and trump so often is, the volatility over the last few weeks in the market, its got the president playing the blame game. Now pointing the finger not at the fed, but at democrats as well, of course, as his fed chair and the reason for the big october selloff. Plus, not just in the u. S. , but a world divided with news of german chancellor Angela Merkels plans to not run for election and the newly elected president of brazil. Is the world taking a hard turn to the right . Jam packed schedule for President Trump and candidates across the country with just six days to go before the midterms. According to the political reports, there 50 races out there that are considered tossups. I have a great team to break it all down. First, let me break down exactly where we are. We have a lot to cover. Out of those 50 races the majority are in the house. But a dozen are in governors races and nine more in the senate. More t
A week away. Serious questions about what this violence will mean at the ballot box, if anything, are arising. The president is falling back on his campaign playbook, in the meantime. Instead of uniting, hes dividing, blaming the media for the toxic political environment and continuing to target some of the same democrats who were the targets of sayocs bomb. Today in what looks like an effort to radically change the subject, trump is going even farther right on immigration. He is sending troops to the border, refusing to rule out suspending habeas corpus, and now claiming he can overturn a constitutional amendment all by himself. It was always told to me you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what, you dont. Number one, you dont need that. Thats very much in dispute. You can definitely do it with an act of congress. Now theyre saying i can do it just with an executive order. How ridiculous. Were the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is es
People together, marijuana. Well look at that, but we start with the fear and falsehood election. Exactly two weeks before the midterms, President Trump is pulling out a slew of unsubstantiated attack lines. Phantom riots, attacks on muslims and latinos, mystery tax cuts all perfectly truthful perhaps inside the trump bubble, but one difference from 2016, though . Republican candidates show less hesitation about using the trump play book. Here to dig in our two reporters, nbcs Peter Alexander at the white house, Mariana Atencio in the southern part of mexico near the border of guatema guatemala, also from austin, texas, our analyst chris wilson, republican pollster who worked for the ted cruz campaigns. Also worked for george w. Davis. Wendy davis, a democratic, she was a gubernatorial candidate four years ago. Peter let me start with you at the white house. Explain the strategy here. Well, its a good question. I think chris will have a sense of what republican pollsters are saying. Th
Congress does not return until this is for middle income people, and all middle income people, and 10 and we will put it in next week. And the naked truth, the leader of turkey calling the murder of sjamal khashoggi savage. And he was doing the best to make the saudis squirm. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where President Trumps midterm strategy is clear, divide and conquer. He is road testing the message across the country starting with the mondays raucous rally tuesday for ted cruz, and laundry list of misstatements have the Fact Checkers working overtime today. Joining me now is geoff bennett, and nbc political analyst phil rucker, and Washington Bureau chief and usa today bureau chief susan page who interviewed the president exclusively last night on the trip to houston. And jof, to you first, the caravan claims of going to washington and the caravan coming, and take a look at part of what he had to say. Go into the middle of the caravan and search. And no