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Senate, perhaps even trying to increase their margin in the senate and has kind of conceded the house. thats the suggestion. >> i dont agree with that. the president understands that wherever he goes, he gets national visibility. yeah, he is targeting his time in the states that have the senate there but he knows that his participation in the process really does reflect across all the house seats. of course, axios is trying to spin it its own way and i think theyre wrong. >> bill: mercedes schla...

What makes you think history will repeat itself in this midterm? >> we divide history already - - defied history already. weve won eight out of nine special elections. we actually have an economy where we have four percent economic growth.unemployment at 3.7 percent. the highest consumer confidence weve ever had and weve lifted up all subgroups including record low unemployment among african-americans and 18-25-year-olds. i think people will reward us for what weve done. we have more work to do....

Midterms are coming up. >> no. i have defended the president fighting back when hes regularly attacked. doesnt matter if theres a midterm or not, the presidents going to defend himself and fight back. >> from a political perspective, right? >> from any perspective. >> at what point does a national tragedy cause the president not to fight back. >> i think you saw the president do that. not just this week, but every time our country has experienced the type of heartache and pain that we have over ...

Thing, i think republicans we dont have a -- theres a lot of places where republicans have a chance to pick up a governor seat in a year like this, in off-year election, first midterm of presidency, i think that they will because -- because whats happened is incredibly unpopular governor, what happened his state hit financial crisis when oil prices went down and instead of shrink budget, he tried to raise taxes and upped the spending and whats worst for alaskans, he cut in check that they get fr...

Barack obama. >> dana: we are about 90 seconds away that sarah sanders will brief in a couple of minutes. ill get as many thoughts in as i can and hopefully hold you over after her briefing. the democrats counting a lot on these young voters this time around? >> they definitely should be, because they are, by far, the only age group that is overwhelmingly against president trump. and so theyre motivated to vote in the midterm by trump. they overwhelmingly want democrats to take control of congre...

Win back the house.we built our strategy around our candidates. incredible men and women with records of service.many who served in the u.s. military. a former cia and if the eye agents who committed their lives to keeping our country safe. they are connecting talking about personal stories. i never said this would be easy but we made a commitment to leave no stone unturned and thats why im confident we will when the majority in nine short days. >>chris: the fact is history at least is against y...

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Pull that up at 48%, so its pretty tight, lets broaden this out. not a lot of chances for the republicans to win many governors races in the country in midterm with a republican president, tell us why thats a tough fight, we are watching one, the most popular the florida with desantis and he doesnt have -- hes about 4 or 5% behind at this point. >> i think the most interesting thing is that you have two republican governors in deepest blue states, larry hogan in maryland and charlie baker in mas...

2500 have been shot in chicago so far this year. we can come together and make it happen, lawmakers on both sides of the ill calling for unity following week of violence on our nations soil. >> we should come together as a country, this should not be a political response but rather a response on how we can further bring us together. >> democrats are not my enemy, they are my opponents, we are americans first, we need to come together and do whats in the best interest of americans no matter who w...

This is a coin toss. interesting. the governors race is not much of a competition, doug ducey is rubbing away with it. not lifting mcsally the way you might have expected this race is really really close. steve: house republicans need to win all the districts that donald trump won in 2016, right? >> if they do that, they will pick up a couple of democratic seats and be able to hold. we 30 toss-up races in real clear politics rankings right now. if republicans can hold on to 18 of those, they wil...