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Permanently. prop 27. they didnt write it for the homeless. they wrote it for themselves. president biden set to deliver a major speech in philadelphia tomorrow night. the president making what he called maga republicans a target of his midterm campaign. senior political analyst scott jennings is here, along with senior political analyst

To go with this now. the republicans criticized for lacking a midterm message. a sign the investigations they are planning which we keep hearing about, but some believe the rest of the g.o.p. midterm message, like i said, is lacking. and harold ford jr. is saying the g.o.p. actually does lack a message rather than put push an investigation. >> and some of the things i hear them say is they will invest hunter biden. and invest january 6 over again. and they will invest. and it sounds like an inte...

And now mar-a-lago raid and youre able to have biden seem like the adult, the president that at least is a calming force and is keeping whatever cohesion is alive and well in america together. >> is this a moment, george w. bush the only president in modern times not to lose house seats in midterm election? thats the one that came right after 9/11. the country viewed it as a crisis moment. but every other. ronald reagan was a good politician bill clinton was agood politician, barack obama was a ...

Now the situation on the ground is completely different. if anything, we have a slight breeze at our backs. i still dont want to understate the challenge of a midterm of a presidents first term, but our candidates are doing extremely well. theyve recruited largely because of trumps involvement, a lot of unelectable people, extreme people. and i do think when we really began to see that change, as you were indicating earlier, was when the supreme court took the rights americans away. jeopardized ...

Trump and maga republicans, in his view. but when you step above this back and forth, what this is is simply the opening outlines of the midterm election fight, the fight for the fall campaign. a couple things i was struck by, kevin mccarthy walked right up to the line of talking down the economy, saying that the economy is in recession. he talked about gas prices, did not mention, of course, that they have gone down throughout the summer. so, look, these are pretty typical political back and fo...

Brinkley is with us. it was a very effective message, joe biden versus donald trump, an incumbent president. can we make that in a midterm election campaign. you called this a state of the union for a midterm why? >> because 2021 was not a good year for joe biden and 2022 is starting to shape up to be pretty good. he got gasoline prices down. the roe decision, you know, the overturning of voe v. wade was an apocalypse in the democratic world but biden is able to say get behind democrats or this ...

Special elections. this is the -- i believe the fifth in a sequence of them that democrats have overperformed in. the forecasters and experts like to tell us, those have been low turnout events where they are not exactly the make-up of the electorate were going to be seeing across the country in november, and at this point, i dont think we understand which party really has the upper hand going into what has become an x factor election and not a traditional midterm. but certainly, mary peltola wi...

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You may have seen this. billboards across the country, encouraging americans to vote in the upcoming midterm.

And charlie dent, a former pennsylvania republican congressman. congressman dent, this trump tirade on truth social, going after the fbi, talking about rerunning the election. this is not what were hearing a lot of republicans would like to be focused on. is he draining the energy? how much of a problem is this for republicans heading into the midterms? >> well, john, this is an enormous problem for republicans. they want donald trump to simply shut up and go into hiding between now and the midt...