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Emotions. >> 42% of the country doesnt have $400 available for an emergency. >> were going into a midterm election. i think you really have to localize it. if you are living on the iron range in northern minnesota in a congressional district thats competitive, you love president trump because he gave you tariffs on imported steel. but if youre living to the twin cities and youre a soy farmer, youre voting against president trump in this midterm because of whats happened to soy. so i think you re...

The trend were seeing that democrats will like and independents, its among the younger voters. theyre more likely to identify as independents but likely -- >> i was looking at tennessee and florida and texas. what which ones jump snout. >> those are the big ones. massive increases. when you look at the polling there, that poll is looking at what they think turn outis going to be like. at this point no one know. >> i would love to be the fly on the wall in our office. youre getting all the early ...

Correspondents on the ground. joining me now is democrat chris van hollen of maryland. hes the man in charge of getting democrats elected to the senate. senator van hollen, welcome back to "meet the press." >> chuck, its great to be with you. >> you were the dccc chair in the 2010 midterms when democrats lost more than 60 seats. it was the first midterm of president obama. you were the dsc chair here in the first term of president trump. compare the two atmosphere. >> i was also dccc chair in ...

Sure. howard, is senator cruz worried or trying to make sure remembers get out there and vote. hes saying it would be dangerous. >> i think hes worried. i saw a poll that had it 49/49 and ill go on a limb and say i think beto will win. the numbers of early voting are shocking. i cant vouch for this because its not the internet but i saw one survey that said more people had voted early in texas than voted in the midterm election in 2014 in texas. hes not the guy of guy, ted cruz, that brings peop...

If you turn out on tuesday to vote for this whole incredible florida ticket, i promise you something powerful happens. change starts to happen. hope starts to happen. >> they want to invite caravan after caravan, and it is a little suspicious how those caravans are starting, isnt it? isnt it a little? and i think its a good thing maybe that they did it. did they energize our base or what? >> welcome back to this special mid term road trip edition of "am joy" live from fort

Self-recruiting saying im going to run and you can either help me or not help me, but im going to run and im going to win. so most of the energy in this midterm has been propelled specifically by those fired up women. and i just cant wait for them to win and come to the house of representatives and help create a transformational moment in the united states congress on these vital issues. >> and what do you think about this being a twrns formatiinfo moment? how do we ensure that this continues? >...

President and the presidents party have not lost seats. one was in 1934, the other was in bill clintons final midterm, 2002 george w. bush picked up seats. so these are a referendum on the president. the closing arguments of this midterm have really been fascinating. i think that the closing arguments have been a referendum on anger at the president versus fear by the president. so this president has made this a referendum on fear. he has pulled the fear card. here is why that is backfiring. bec...

No greater messenger than president obama. let me play you this sound bite and ill get your reaction afterwards. >> i had to take off my coat. i had to roll up my sleeves. i had to get a broom and a mop. we had to clean it up. and we got the economy growing again. covered another 20 million folks with health care. cut the deficits by more than half. made sure the wealthiest paid their fair share of taxes. >> so hes been bouncing around the u.s. was in florida. hes obviously perhaps the greatest ...

Republican side. 30 seconds. >> well, dishonest in terms of health care and so many republican candidates saying that they love coverage for pre-existing conditions when a lot of them are on a lawsuit that is against that. and then the racist part is trump and michelle summarized that very well. people are still 750 miles away. >> great. thank you all three. tough always being the last block. well be talking to you no doubt a lot right here on msnbc because this is your midterm election headquar...

And hes just campaigning to keep people divided and to be shortsighted and frankly vote against your interest. that hustle is going to come back to bite them both in this midterm and when we get to 2020. young voters and white voters, this is not in your own interest and this guy is doing a disservice to our country. how do you want your days to go a and your life to be like. these boogie man, you want to drum up hate for latin americans who are some how taking our wealth fair but not stealing o...