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Strong if you look at history the only president who had as low of an approval just before midterm was bill clinton in 1994. and bill clinton, as you remember, the democrats lost control of the congress at that time. i know the times are different and president trump never enjoyed that high of an approval rating but his numbersr improving. >> look at this poll. it is a five-point bump but its particularly strong among independent voters. thats the switch that drives this between september and oc...

Night, everyone. >> reporter: blum turned us down for an interview. >> guy, im sorry, but he doesnt want to talk to anybody. >> reporter: he just went out the back? >> yeah. >> reporter: blum is counting on supporters like john hoffman. >> a lot of corn. >> reporter: an independent, he voted for obama and then trump. while the trade war with china hurts him now, he wants trump and blum to have more time. >> i think experience helps in anything you do in life. well see how that plays out with the...

That weve been hearing from the president and from some republicans that the kavanaugh fight alienated women, that they were worried about their husbands, their brothers, their sons being accused, is just that, it is spin. this is apparently -- and the other polls seem to bay th-- be this out, that the kavanaugh fight has simply reinforced womens alienation from the trump administration. four weeks is a long time. things could change, but everything seems to be moving in that direction. >> midte...

The swing vote he replaced on the court. we will get that as they get big cases. the country divided. a majority did not want him confirmed, however there were pitfalls for others. this was among independent voters in the mid-terms. do you approve or disapprove of the way democrats in the senate handled kavanaughs confirmation. approve 34% and disapprove, 61%. some evidence with a swing vote in the mid-term that is the democrats need to be careful. >> yeah, thats why you are seeing the republica...

Boltons involvement in this is a part of why ambassador haley departed. i think thats one of the more interesting questions, why did she leave and why now. the norm is that an ambassador to the u.n. serves more like four years because of the importance of depth of relations, and certainly it would have been more in the norm for her to have waited until after the election to make an announcement. it is all very curious. as my colleague mark sanford said, theres something not quite right here. may...

>> well, it certainly is helping democrats a great deal. it is pretty clear that women have been driving the surge in the democratic party in this particular midterm. there are a record number of women candidates from top to bottom of the ballot. and when you look at volunteers, activism and voters, you find that women are disproportionally democratic and men are still leaning republican in most places. so the gender gap is becoming a gend gender chazm. >> who turns out is what is going to matte...

And a new ccn interview with hillary clinton. she sat down with our christiane amanpour who asked about the brett kavanaugh controversy, the midterm election and the possibility president trump might be impeached. watch this. >> is the president going to get impeached? if the democrats win, will they impeach him? the minority leader nancy pelosi told me last month it was not her goal to go for impeachment. what do you think? >> i think there are many ways for a congress to hold a president accou...

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Older republican voters who still hate the clintons, who are disgusted with the clintons, who he needs to come out and vote in the midterm elections. totally a strategic play, and kind of a smart play actually on mitch mcconnells part. >> no civility on one side. you have mob rule on the other. here is your branding for midterm. so its uplifting. great to see you, man. thanks. >> thanks. up next, a new poll shows democrats ahead of republicans by double-digits in the fight for congress. will i...

Is about me, and you have to come out and vote. he is -- once he injected himself into it, and instead of sort of being the hands-off, oh, shes an incredible person and got in there and became the street fighter and now got his people up, and weve got this for trump. >> ultimately, brett kavanaugh is in the supreme court, which might ive heard people high paththise inflate democratic intensity. is that what youre seeing in ohio? >> just a little bit. democrats are going to continue to be energiz...