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>> bill: drew hammel pushing back says at the end of the day the mid-terms are about the president and his party. yet you have 27 house democrats who have either not endorsed her for not outright said yes, they will vote for her, jason. >> the only problem with the statement is the very first vote that you have in congress is who will you vote for for speaker of the house. a legitimate question that democrats dont want to answer. when she is telling people that she wants to raise their taxes, sh...

To the supreme court, guys, because every time something goes to the supreme court it is like lighting another match in the partisan struggle that we have going on in the country right now. >> bill: a lot of people think if you dont get answers by the first of september it goes to after the mid-terms. were digesting the news from tuesday night. you are as well. how you can go into central ohio, win the district by 11 points, mitt romney won it by 10 and now you are in a virtual dead heat. karl r...

No senate landscape has been as favorable to the party in power since 1914. he goes on to argue that yes, the president drives people to the polls when he makes appearances in different districts across the country but he also drives up the other side as well. soft republicans likely will stay home as we have seen in ohio and we saw in pennsylvania 18. react to that, anthony. is that the reality for mid-terms? >> he is in an astute political scientist. the party out of office is riled up and hig...

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>> what it does is put a huge number of seats in play for democratic enthusiasm. now, thats going to result in a lot more republican spending than we had before. maybe both sides get motivated on the money but republicans will have more money. so thats a big concern for democrats. >> i think the ground game in a close election like this matters. that infrastructure is there, and we have the money for that. its more speaking with the voters. like i said before nancy pelosi could be the speaker, t...

Pay the price in the mid-terms. good advice? >> well, no doubt its good advice. i think lippedy graham has gone from the most intense trump critic during the primaries, had a bit of a debutante and now hes become close to the president. i think he kind of sees himself as this kind of translator between the hard core pro-trump world and the never trump world, although i think hes lost a lot of his cred -- i do think hes tried to be this kind of bridge even though hes gotten awfully close to the p...

Republicans when you look at congressional races overall. >> how important, harry, is support for the president in places like ohio 12? >> in the mid-term election mid-terms are referendums on the economy. and it was about even with this approval rating, and thats where we end up about a 50/50 race. if you look at the polling towards the fall you see that voters who approve of the presidents job are overwhelmingly voted for republicans, those who disapprove overwhelmingly voted for democrats. na...

The outcome of the mid-terms. and even future presidential elections. >> essentially, alex jones has been deleted from these websites. you wonder if hell have any influence going forward because the private companies who have an incredible amount of control over the internet. >> laura: thats the point. controlling who has a voice and who doesnt on these monster platforms is tantamount to limiting speech and its also viewpoint discrimination. back in february, facebook launched a new algorithm th...

Getting the same levels of support from 2016, the mid-terms could be really tough for the rnc and republicans in washington >> i again caution putting presidential level turnout on special elections because special elections are just so different. you cant really compare them. it is apples to oranges. when you have 307,000 people turning out in 2016 and 200,000 last night there will be a drop-off in voting and that percentage will be different than a presidential year. the bottom line is we won ...

I know paula very well. a coal miners daughter. she ran on no money. she was out there knocking doors herself no money, joe manchin dropped $2 million against her and she still got 30% of the vote. in west virginia, which went almost every county in west virginia went for bernie in 2016 who was further to the left, you know? that to me tells me that we need to start reframing our issues instead of left and right to top and down. >> bill: the important point about this interview she is getting so...