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Driven politics. no matter how old or young you are you never participate in an election that is as consequential as this election nationally and locally. >> democrats produce moms. republicans produce jobs. [cheers and applause] this november, go for jobs, not mobs. eric: jack connects whats taking place on the campaign trail this weekend. >> good morning, eric. midterms are critical to both parties with lawmakers retiring this year and historical trends join the party in power will boost seats...

When you or your love one need it. traffic and roads... a mess, honestlyrents going up,le. friends and family moving out of state, millions of californians live near or below the poverty line. politicians like gavin newsom talk about change, but theyve done nothing. sky-high gas and food prices. homelessness. gavin newsom, it happened on your watch. so, yeah. it is time for a change. time for someone new. leland: big names the democratic are here coming out in hitting the campaign trail to shore...

Some republicans celebrate after hinting the former secretary of state could be in for one more presidential run. >> i was not being cute. i think the odds are probably in the powerball range. i think people have political astigmatism or they see only one thing, which is she annoys them for not going away and i think thats because she threatened certain people including donald trump. leland: without we bring in former white house chief of staff president bill clinton friend of the show mike mcla...

This comes as security advisor bolton expected to meet with foreign minister sergey lavrov. with less than three weeks to the midterm, many are still concerned about election security. but colorado is being called one of the safest places in the country to cast a vote. alicia acuna explains why. >> colorado secretary of state williams says part of the reason the department of homeland security considers its election security measures an example to other states, it didnt wait for the federal gove...

Racism or sometimes homophobia. were seeing the threat or fear of brown and black people, immigrants, muslims, which is what donald trump did in 16, using the fear of the other, youre losing your country to those brown and black people. play three is rig the rules many were seeing this too. suppress the vote. so georgia, texas, north dakota, you just change the rules to suppress the other sides right to tilt the playing field in your favor. were seeing all three of those plays right now in this ...

Welcome back. the panel is here. eugene robinson, peggy noonian, my friend katy tur, and david brody, chief political analyst for cbn news. welcome, all. so, trying to figure out what this poll is showing us today, in our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. and lets put it in a little bit of historical context here. presidential job approval, connected to seats lost in the first midterm. we go back. heres president trump sitting at 47%. that seems to be an improvement for him. but what woul...

Actually have to do the same thing, even though republicans do vote in midterms, the trump base not made of the hard-core base, its not the regular voters. he brought out people who dont often or usually vote, regularly vote. and they have to come out of the midterm. >> that trump base has been fired up, obviously, since the brett bounce, as weve been talking about. theres no doubt about it. anecdotally, my sources on the ground telling me all the time. for example, north carolina, a state that ...

Approval rating numbers? i want to talk about that. because among registered voters, 47% approve. that is a new high for him. its also a 3% jump from last month. 16 days now left until the election, fred. so what do you think the higher approval ratings suggest for democrats? >> well, i think -- so its 47% -- not to get wonky, 47% with registered voters, but 45% with likely voters. so those are two different audiences. and look, i would say, yes, hes had an uptick, but in general, presidents wit...

Final weeks? >> so when i see that poll, it says to me, okay, republicans are probably coming home, which would make sense as we head closer to the midterm elections, 16, 15 days tomorrow. and so it actually makes sense. what is worrisome, i would -- if i were a republican is the independents. theyre still losing independents and women. so, yeah, this number at 47, still historically low. but there are pockets in there that i would be really concerned. but the thing that when i look at just what...

Population boom in the last census, and they decided -- of latinos, they decided thats what they wanted to restrict, and every single jurisdiction afterwards had a 25% increase in latino votes. sadly, the way both the republican and democratic party decide to go after midterm election voters, disproportionately, they identify high frequency voters. people who vote all the time. most latino voters are literally -- probably only voted once or twice. 60% of latino voters are under the age of 33. un...