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Promises are impossible and your mathematics dont add up. hope they come home and make the argument about trump. lets not blow it. dont blow it. i think until the polls change, thats a good way to hold on to the lead. >> bret: new york city mayor bill de blasio was not buying it. >> with all due respect to joe biden, unless theres a message thats strong and forceful, youre not going to see democrats want a candidate without that strong message because without that message we dont beat donald tru...

Large john harwood and "l.a. times" white house reporter eli stoke els. john to you first. larry kudlow in the past specifically 2011 was highly critical of the payroll tax, saying it didnt work. whether it is the payroll tax or any other tax cut why should we believe it? the president was out there just before the midterm saying get ready for a middle class tax cut. we never saw it. why do we think well actually see one now? >> we dont. we have a trillion dollar deficit. the administration has ...

Going on but by the time i got to thursday, i felt maybe were pulling back. >> i think what the president needs to realize though is that those rallies are not focus groups. those are echo chambers. people that wear maga hats and pretty much agree with everything he says. if you talk to business leaders in downtown dallas, you talk to business leaders in downtown ft. worth that are republicans that belong to the nra that have memberships at local shooting ranges here, they will tell you they don...

04 you knew well, the economy was good back then, was there fear among those in the administration, those in the white house of what do we do if the economy turns south between now and november? >> well, i wasnt on the campaign, i was working at the white house council environmental quality at the time. the economy -- there were not dark clouds on the horizon at the time. now, there were in 06 going into the midterm and in the midterm is when the president lost the majority in house and senate. ...

Cycles especially strongly during the midterm and well hear more in this presidential campaign cycle. i think conservatives would do well to pay much attention to it because it is not an outlier view. if this is not something that is given the weight it deserves i just think it ends up being a much more difficult p.r. situation for israel over all. >> when the decision was first made as you well know a number of pro israel organizations including aipac said this isnt right. they said, look, we d...

Republicans still won in red states. these states arent abandoning trump. theyre not going flip. and you look at montana. voters know that there is a difference between sending a democrat to run their state in the governors office and sending a democrat to the united states senate. and they vote differently when given the option. >> how about you? >> you need a blue wave. you need a huge blue wave. but i think youre more likely to get a huge blue wave if you have your best, most popular candidat...

That many of the candidates who ran, this is the midterm before the presidential saying that i voted with george w. bush 75% of the time. he was a popular president post 9/11. the country wanted to heal, the country wanted to come together. they saw george bush as someone who was on the job trying to protect the homeland. remember the so-called security moms? they wanted eggs commander in chief who felt that they could keep them safe and secure. that combined with the fact john kerry who eventua...

Lawmakers. its in these very places that the members of congress are wondering if they should return themselves to the private sector. that suburban trend is about two things. its about demographics but its also about the affordability of the big cities, and i believe big city voters being pushed out to the suburbs taking their big city values and their big city votes with them. >> you just said something interesting, brianna, about sort of giving people something to vote for because texas does ...

And i say it here today. we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. thats why primarily im running for president. [ applause ] charlottesville was no isolated incident. when trump announced he was running for president, he called mexicans rapists. daze before the midterm, he fomented fears of a caravan heading to the united states, creating a hysteria when he said, look, look whats marching up. this is an. an invasion. he asserted that immigrants would, quote, carve you up with a knife. mor...

This politically fraught moment in america squarely at donald trumps feet. >> charlottesville was no isolated incident. when trump announced he was running for president, he called mexicans rapists. daps before the midterm, he fermented fears of a caravan heading to the united states, creating hysteria when he said, look, look whats marching up. this is an invasion. an invasion. he said immigrants will, quote, carve you up with a knife. more recently he called american, a major american city a d...