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Most closely watched and most polled midterm races in the country. to the annoyance of most republicans who said all along that cruz has it in the bag. but hours before the polls open, this race is very notably not a lock for republicans. the polling all of a sudden stopped. fivethirtyeights nate silver pointed out, a democratic affiliate group show cruz and orourke neck and neck. as we were saying before, the early vote in texas has smashed records. 5.8 million people have already cast their ba...

Divide us, tear us apart. >> never again after the most desperate moment will we ever take a child from the arms of their mother or father. >> what it comes to immigration, what do texans want? we want to build the wall. >> we enter our 18th year of war without him. iraq, 27 years through six successful presidential administrations. >> for eight years under barack obama, our military was weak and our readiness was undermined. we are in the process of turning that around and america is back. >> t...

Filled with raging ant anti-obamacare protess oteprote. the whole political discussion in the country is about this resistance to the new administration. this movement that members of congress were facing at home and their districts every time they popped their heads up about anything. this activist tea party movement was really fueled by the conservative media. it gave a ton of energy to the conservative wing of the republican party. it led to republicans being primaried from the right. it also...

And with a victory as big and as sweeping as obama and the democrats had had ten years ago tonight, obama won in 2008 by 8.5 million votes. he more than doubled mccain in the electoral college. democrats had already had a majority in congress before that election. they added another 21 seats that night. they went up to a super majority in the senate. when the pendulum had swung that far to the democrats in 2008, followed by two incredibly hard years thereafter, and one of the biggest policy lift...

His outer circle advisers are things like pointing to paul ryan as a potential fall guy for all this and this issue of censorship that they feel of conservative media on social media and on -- you know, this ad not being aired, this immigration ad that didnt air. so there is this under bubbling conversation too about how you can see how the media is censoring conservatives. i wouldnt be surpriseed if that starts to percolate out to the presidents twitter feed. >> phil rucker, youve written about...

Votes in clark kocounty to offs what might happen on the election day, because the republicans come out in greater numbers and the independents sometimes they will tilt towards the republicans, and the democrats feel pretty good, but i think that they are also very nervous. >> and john, it is kasie hunt, and great to see you. my question for you is watching the president in the last couple of weeks here really trying hard to win in senate races like in missouri and the themes he has been hitting...

Whats happening with the caravan or what they are told by the president and by the most watched news network in the country is happening with that caravan. and it really instills a sense of fear. what i will say, though, has got me thinking maybe this isnt going to work for republicans in the way they hoped. i went to enough of these rallies over the last few weeks. i talked to one person who told me they voted early. republican rallies, that is. i dont know that trumps popularity transfers down...

This. we infiltrated by mistake a troll group that was trying to mess with this immediate tirm a -- midterm and trying to get one talking point out. >> you got yourself into a troll room and then what happened? >> they were struggling. they were trying really hard on twitter to get this stuff up and it didnt work out. they couldnt -- they had to take weeks to build up accounts which is much better, but on facebook, those accounts have been there for years. theyre taking those pieces of disinform...

Midterm for obama, the pendulum swung back very, very hard. the democrats didnt just lose the house that year that. >> lost 63 seats in the house. they lost six senate seats. it was just brutal. but that shellacking didnt just emerge from the ether on election night itself on 2010. there were signs all through those first two obama years that it was coming. even though obama was sworn in january 2009 with a 67% approval rating, by the following month, by february 2009, there were little protests...

The final run-up to todays election, president trump told rally goers in indiana last night that he hopes to bring the country together at some point. >> i shouldnt say this, because i want to unite. i do eventually want to unite, but the fact is were driving them crazy. were driving them crazy. they dont know what to do. theyre going loco, loco! thats all right. hopefully its going to all come together someday like a beautiful puzzle. >> president trump has penned an op-ed as part of his final ...