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Style of politics that has dominated the nation. >> im not calling desantis a racist, im simply saying the racists believe hes a racist. >> im not going to sit here and take this nonsense from a guy like andrew gillum who always plays the victim. >> headlines have called the race the epitome of politics in the trump era, the candidates representing the polarizing extremes of both parties. >> the democrats get in power, the country goes in the wrong direction. >> if we dont have a blue wave comin...

About me. >> what i mean is everybody -- nothing is going to get better after this midterm. everything is going to get more intense, and it may even get worse. but let me say this. not only did he not do all the things you just laid out. he introduced birthright citizenship. he doubled down. he doubled down on what motivate ed them to go in there and kill 11 people. ill say this on your show, nicolle. i was critical of hillary clinton and get hemmed up on twitter every day for criticizing donald...

Citizenship. ashley parker writes just in time for halloween trump has transformed the federal government into his own fear factory as part of his midterm strategy. there is so much to talk act he is even getting into a twitter fight about paul ryan. lets start now. >> reporter: the president is about to start on an 11 stop tour. from now until election day he will be trying to campaign for candidates he wants to get into office. first stop will be florida. later today there is not only a compet...

Talk of a gigantic democratic wave and seeing fired up democrats, big, big turnout of people who already voted and also seeing that on the republican side so i think our two marquis races of governor and senate are toss-ups. >> who influences the other, adam? does enthusiasm for gillum help bill nelson for the senate? are they not related? >> help rick scott running for senate, no? >> with bill nelson -- >> sorry, sorry. >> in other words, who depends on whom to get the turnout required to win? ...

Polls. >> yeah, the vice president clearly backing the president up on his plans to get rid of birth right citizenship via executive order. i want to just kind of highlight how problematic this is for the white house as we head into a midterm and the more than 50% chance the democrats will take the house. if the president does this, it will not only be subject to inn terminable court action, i think, immediate court action, but i assume that democrats one of the first thing they are going to do ...

Down other male members of their conference after it was found that john conyers, in fact, was guilty of sexually harassing members of his staff. >> so joyce advance, when this woman was calling around to tell her story to reporters, she said she was supposed to say she worked at the same law firm as bob mueller and this alleged incident took place then. nbc news called that law firm, quote, we have no record of this visit working for our firm. so the woman who is being put out did not work at t...

Situation. alexi, they saw the numbers in 2016 and -- >> there is a wake up call. it follows the trend weve been talking about the entire cycle. people in the middle feel like they dont have a home. and maybe candidates in the middle feel like they dont have a place to run. did you mention they all endorsed the democrat? >> not all. the libertarian in montana endorsed the republican. >> so a come of them. >> in different states that works in different ways. >> nobody wants to be jill stein. >> o...

White house and the presidents team is quite deliberate, its that especially in midterm elections where generally less people turn out, if the president can help recreate some of that coalition, that base coalition who maybe showed up and voted for him but maybe hadnt voted as frequently before, as regularly before, that he could be incredibly helpful. theres a sense that every midterm, and this is correct generally, is a referendum on this sitting president. he has an ability to insert himself ...

I do believe that it would be best to put the attention on the families this week. if he were to visit, choose a different time to be able to do it. our focus as a city will be on the families and the outreach that they will need this week and the support that they will need to get through it. once we get past that, then i think theres the opportunity for presidential visits. >> listen carefully to the words the president has chosen since the attack and since bombs were sent to his critic. he is...

Gillum. >> look, here is a guy who in my opinion is a stone-cold thief, a disaster. >> reporter: that followed a tweet from mr. trump that described gillums opponent as a harvard educated man. gill lum fired back saying, i heard trump ran home to "fox news" to lie about me, but as my grandmother told me never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty but the pig likes it. the white house is scrambling to clean up after the remarks. mr. pence tried to claim that mr. trump respects the american press...