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He is not getting a chance to. cheri beasley, the democrat running for senate in north carolina. five calls to campaign for the president or vice president. she said im not aware of what their schedules are. were 62 days away from election day and were going to continue to run our race here in north carolina. tim ryan for ohio, back tracked on avoiding biden. will appear with him finally today. it took some time. raymond, whats happening? >> isnt it curious, harris, joe biden and the democrats h...

That he pulled, the picture is from, he has backed away a little from that but he has to demonize the other side and watching this speech last night, he has become the harold hill of mid-terms, okay? i mean, he keeps talking about trouble and trouble and youve got democracy in peril and tiki torches and veins busting. 75% of democrats in the last poll want another candidate in 2024. he is at 42% approval rating. i would be talking like harold hill, too, if i was him. >> harris: the distancing pe...

The polls? some of them are going to vote early. this matters. this especially matters because of what is on the line on the hill, right? if a red wave or pink wave, theyll take some seats. the stress for democrats in the senate is important. your thoughts. >> well, obviously any time there is a mid-term election as a democrat i have stress. republicans show up in mid-terms to votes in numbers bigger than democrats typically. you need one seat on either side to get a majority. so whether its the...

States and he should be trying to unify and lead the country together, not separate us and divide us. >> harris: how embarrassing is it for the democrats not to learn the lesson from hillary clinton who called hers across from her in the political aisle deplorables. >> unfortunately there are some people you cant embarrass. they are willing to do or say anything in order to achieve political power and thats what i think this is. but coming from the president of the united states is completely in...

The mid-terms kicking into high gear. both sides jockeying for position. have a listen. >> this is a security election. its about groceries and gas, being safe and secure in our homes and communities. democrats have caused this problem. >> well hold the majority in the house because we have a plan to fix the problems our country is facing. the other side has only a ploy to win back power for themselves and ripping away our constitutional freedom, our reproductive freedom has a wakened millions o...

Calls maga republicans. is focusing on the instability enough to resonate in the mid-terms? >> it was in 2020. its a powerful theme in part because the former president, donald trump, has injected himself very aggressively in the campaign and so i do think it could be a potent theme. i think poll shows theres concerns about how republicans would govern. >> you recently wrote about how biden needs to keep his maga republican rhetoric from becoming, you know, a clinton basket of deplorables situat...

Way that separates republican leaders from republican voters. >> so fascinating. i would have thought -- if you had asked me a few months ago i would have thought inflation and the economy would have been a talking battering ram from the republicans right now. they really have been pushed off message by both biden and his, you know, maga republicans, semifascist comments. theyre responding to that. the former president is in the midst of all kinds of legal drama i think it had to defend against ...

And deny donald trump or youre embracing the lie. and thats tough for some, not enough but enough. >> to your point i remember so well to bring it up again congresswoman liz cheney when she repeated nearly every single hearing date that she would talk about the truth is not going to be, you know, one that maybe you want to accept, that youve been lied to, et cetera. shed try to ease into this very notion on these things. ron, obviously as mark has talked about, neither biden nor trump are actual...

Content of violence when its used, refuses to acknowledge when an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which the rules you can vote, that is a threat to democracy. >> i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein and also mark mckinnon, a former advisor to george w. bush and john mccain and executive producer of "the circus." lets start with you, ron. president biden hes trying to draw the battle lines for the mid-terms. hes more frsful than has been in recent...

He wants you to play his game. Laugh in his face instead.