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Obama care has become more popular over the years. >> i have to go to a break. thank you very much. will be back in a moment as we continue three days to the midterm. >> more crime and less jobs. very simple.

Ill be there. ill be watching. and on monday, im going to deliver my closing arguments to recall your voters across the country. if youre on the fence, forget it. were going to talk about moving forward, not backwards. thats what youve got to do. >> >> shannon: welcome to "fox news @ night". im shannon bream in washington. the final weekend before the midterm election is shaping up to be a battle of two legacies: trump and obama. both claiming their accomplishments are in danger. president trump...

Donald trump and obama hitting the biggest swing states crucial for the balance of power but it wont stop there. the competing you pan campaign events will stretch through the weekend. the economy delivering donald trump a robust october jobs report but hes not wavering from the focus of his midterm message, immigration. lets start with what to expect in days ahead of the midterms. >> the last couple days are all about turning out the base, with the key senate races and where the vote totals wil...

Side -- i dont agree with all the policies, but hes talking about issues. the failure of the democrats is not to join issues. i dont hear any of that being joined on the other side. i think thats a big mistake. >> sean: i agree with you. democrats have not picked a single issue that they are runningng on. there are even being told to not talk about immigration, stop talking about impeachment, lots of hate trump rhetoric and they do want the comes back. herman cain, i do think we are toe take ser...

And voters wherever the issues might be motivating voters. theyre getting them to vote. so we have 29 million voters who have already early voted. thats the biggest in decades for a midterm and youll probably see that carry through to election day. >> and the political pundits say the early voting record numbers are helping each side, but from your point of view, who do you think it helps? >> i think its helping both sides. you see people registered as republican, numbers surging and the same th...

So its really going to have a long-term effect beyond one election. and i think people on the democratic side who typically may not vote in a midterm are starting to see that and understand this is really one of those lifetime elections. you know, theres an interesting thing on the map from my perspective as a new yorker which is rarely are new york or new jersey so credit can kal, you know, in flipping the house or something like that. but we have a number of seats in new york and new jersey wh...

>> you know, i think that, again, president obama, former president obama is the biggest celebrity for democrats. i mean, he did well with independent voters in elections in 2012. >> mid western fire wall. >> you know, we could possibly see that, but you know, well have to see on tuesday. >> well see on tuesday whether the former president is able to get some of those swing votes as he was at least earlier when he was running for president. curtis lee, anita kumar, vivian salama, thank you. it...

Because you see so many new people into the party. and i think that we will see a lot on november 6th that a lot of people havent considered. we talked about this before, rev on your radio show, so many people after andrew gillum won baffled and who is this guy? there was a lot of us who knew who he was, covering his campaign since the beginning. its presented a challenge for the media and the political base to look at how we capture some of these trends that were seeing in midterm. >> and knew ...

Television, so its a harmonic convergence where we are going to have record high turnout. >> and bill part of that, it looks to be as the two of you know here, a little bit confusing at times because typically early voting numbers favors democrats but in for instance, the state of texas, at least early numbers show its more republicans showing up. >> well, first i think these numbers are an indication we could have a hundred million people vote in a midterm but when you get that many, what it me...