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The midterm and in special elections. what i find so interesting is the republican candidates -- the republican field so far just supports it. some of them have doubled down on it, for example with nikki haley. im curious to see if there is a pro choice or pro life light lane. im thinking of governor sununu in particular in figuring out, is there a lane there? is there a lane for a moderate republican to say, hey, fiscally, lets be conservative but morally and socially, lets allow for this? >> j...

Maggie haberman, they say the desantis people have $200 million and a key political group supporting ron desantis is preparing $100 million voter outreach push that is so big it plans to knock on the door of every possible desantis voter at least four times in new hampshire, nevada and south carolina. that is a lot of people. >> kayleigh: that is how you win elections, look at shining spot of the midterm, state of florida. he organized mail-in ballots campaign, it is the next challenge, can he d...

>> donald trump has always been worried about this. he was never really a hardliner on abortion. he had to sort of get there. but i think hes reading the tea leaves from 2022, which was sort of the first midterm after the dobbs decision. and he is seeing some worry here if youre a hardliner on abortion in terms of winning an election. >> if they are fighting about this through months of primaries that it helps them. well see. up next, brand new developments in several donald trump legal battle...

Down ballot. a candidate recruitment. part of the reason why the candidate quality issue as mitch mcconnell called it in the last midterm was based on the supply issue. people didnt want to run. the strong candidates didnt want to run. i get calls from people who are mainstream center right republicans, thinking about running, and when i talk through all the challenges of running with trump hanging over them, many of them decide not to run. some of them are maybe i can run as a democrat, an inde...

The legislative session and he said, quote, since we can vote, its hard to get our voices heard. but we cant be hiding. we have to speak up. what was your message to those legislators and want to fight mean to you? >> this fight was really personal since it was about our education. and we basically told them how i cannot be -- my whole life here and my goal is to graduate with a bachelors of business and -- my marketing firm and here in orlando be able to provide that to the community that i gre...

What was your message to those legislators, what does this fight mean to you? >> this fight was personal sense it was about our education. we basically told them, how i came at the age of three, i studied my whole life here. michael is a graduate with a bachelors and business marketing of my marketing firm youre in orlando, and able to provide that to the community i grew up in, which was my home. >> so you are traveling from miami to tallahassee? that is a nearly eight-hour drive. you pull a ti...

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So i think its reflective of where the media attention is. at the end of 2022, what were we talking about? what a terrible midterm they had. what was a big reason? trump candidates flopped. were not talking about that now. were seeing republicans rallying around an embattled friend of theirs, who is getting picked on by the media, getting picked on by prosecutors. what we dont know is will that rally around continue once we hear from fullton county. >> once you get that, one more thing i want to...

Hot dogs, eat the ribs and hot dogs, then breathe into the bag. >> take a -- >> its only may, people. >> its only may, exactly. lets talk really quickly about joe biden. >> oh, okay. wait, what? >> no, no, we talked about the poll for a second. swear to god, im getting so sick and tired. i cant talk to a democrat without them just collapsing. >> about that one poll? >> biden is old. he is going to lose. he was at 38% in the polls. they talk just like that, all of them do. i was like, do you peop...

Hes too old. yeah, i know he won the midterm, but hes too old. he does the state of the union. they go, he looks really good. this keeps going on. >> shows up in kyiv few weeks later. >> shows up in kyiv. oh, hes mighty. two days later, oh, hes too old. you know, then this poll comes out a week and a half ago, and everybody freaks out over it. nobody paying attention to the other polls that have him crushing donald trump. >> he does. oh, and he doesnt do press conferences, then he takes a lot of...