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>> reporter: top aides admit that the election results were a shock. by white house count, only 50% of the candidates mr. reagan campaigned for won yesterday. >> that was ronald reagan in the first midterm of his presidency, 1982. eight years later on november 8th, 1984, the curse of the first midterm president bill clinton in an epic, historic loss for the democrats at the time. >> tonight, the sound you hear is the sound of a moving van backing up to the united states preparing to move in a re...

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Something youve been fighting for for i dont even know. >> ten years. >> for ten years now. it is not going to be fixed in two weeks. were heading into a midterm, were talking like raw politics here. >> lets take this crisis. and see if we can find something good for border security and good for daca and stop separating families. but also stop incentivizing people to bring their kids. lets see if we can do that. maybe something goodwill come from this. >> can you trust the words coming out of do...

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You tweeted to the president over the weekend after mccabes firing. you wrote, quote, gloat now, but you will be fired soon, and its not going to be down cowardly as youve done so many who served you. theres a storm gathering, mr. president, and its going to wipe out you and your corrupt organization all the way down to the studs. you really believe that? >> yeah, i do. and i actually probably should have put an "s" after storm. there are storms gathering. i think the best outcome for the americ...

About a number of different things, though he still hasnt tweeted about specifically this story even though we have been discussing it for several weeks now. president is headed to pennsylvania later today. he did tweet about that. he should be leaving the white house shortly. reporters will have a chance to shout questions to him upon his departure. hes heading to a district in pennsylvania, district 18, where theres a special election being held. hes supporting the republican candidate, rick s...

Normal wednesday, these are wednesdays in our life now. the republican party has held the house of representatives since the beginning of 2011. they won in chairman ber in the 2011 mid-terms, the tea party wave, one of the biggest partisan swings in the house in modern american history. the republicans picked up 63 seats in that first midterm after president obama was elected in the 2010 mid-terms. when you win a majority even if its just a small majority you of course get to take control of all...

You put fools and if you put the wrong people in. it can disappear. >> dana: president trump with a campaign style rally in indiana last week, urging voters to keep republicans in control of congressman in november. bring in elise stefanik, the recruitment chairman for the national republican congressional committee. an important year. its never easy in a midterm. a president usually loses seats. as chris stirewalt was reporting, the numbers for the president and the republicans seems to be impr...

Id 40s. because of his success among republicans, as ive written, i think this is becoming a more conventional midterm. it appears that the hopes of democrats early on, t ks of the republican coalitld shear off away from donald trump almost like, you know, an iceberg going into the ocean. thats not going to happen it doesnt look like. if they are going take back the house, they have to solve their usual midterm problem, turning out more latino voters, more african-american voters, more young vot...

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