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Year. he was there for a month or two. what on earth do they imagine he is going to have on trump. that we were secretly colluding with russia? the wrist is resistance really think that but i wouldnt be too worried if i was donald trump. >> i wouldnt be either. i dont think he is worried. furthermore, what the democrats are doing is playing to the low information voters and viewers who look at paul manafort and tie his name to president trump and they think they have a smoking gun. if you read t...

Consideration, who does the president nominates and is there a backlash against democrats for that for compressing the timeline and bring up the information so late in the game which she was very unfair to the process. our democrats rolling the dice if they will have the senate majority after the midterms and thats whether doing this as a quid pro quo against mary garland nomination? i think voters could be really upset by that because we were having a substantive conversation. they were senator...

Now, this narrative especially in the metoo era, especially how they responded to what happened with senator al franken. this is a really difficult position for both of them to be in. were hoping to hear from susan collins at a bit more length later on today. i think theres some real risk for mcconnell if he pushes through this committee vote without hearing publicly from dr. ford as susan collins demands. >> you make a key point there. when the senate is as closely divided, every vote does coun...

Way that we covered now president donald trump. i mean i talked to all kinds of senators. i talk to senators every day in the hallway, democrats, republican. on the democratic side they are seeing this, too. this know their voters are incredibly excited. they have been the entire time they hardly have to do any work in that regard beyond attempting to make sure they are organizing correctly, actually registering those people to voetd. for republicans, you know, every midterm is a fundamentally a...

When you look at the battleground senate races when you go to any election, midterm, presidential year, they tend to break one way, right? >> yes, they break one way. usually its between 85% and 100% break the same way. of course the one or two seats that dont can make a difference in a contest this close for control of the senate. but youre right. if theres a way -- for democrats i dont think it has to be a tsunami. theres three types of waves, small, medium, and large, just like french fries. ...

All right. welcome back to meet the midterms. were going to take a look now. of course that allegation of sexual assault roiling the brett kavanaugh confirmation process. the politics of the confirmation vote, if there is going to be a confirmation vote in the end in the senate, of course this has huge significance for the midterm. right now democrats with 49 seats in the senate. republicans at 51. and we have spent so much time before these allegation hit, talking about the democrats who at thi...

Up on the screen that we had in the intro they are talking about democrats, 52 percent basically saying people would support democrats if the elections were held today. 30 percent republican. nine percent dont know. if you are on the other side, republican, how alarmed would you be by the numbers? >> i would be very concerned. the generic polling in a midterm tends to show what is likely to occur.but once again, it is about the fundamental issues out there. we are strongly campaigning on reducin...

Hispanic votes but enough to sneak over the line to become governor. now you have the two men running to replace him. gillum is up. hes up a lot. thats outside the margin of error. he is walking away -- you know, its not over until its over. but he has strong support from people of color, including hispanic voters in florida. that is a reality. if compassion doesnt move them, those numbers are real. >> and this is the entire republican party right now. we will see this play out in november when ...

Do well on the east coast or the west coast. but i think it is something that a lot of voters in the middle arent necessarily sold on just yet. >> were focussed on 2018. and president trump is front and center, even though hes not on the ballot in that election. you can have democrats running on that now as we approach that midterm. how incumbent is it upon democrats to refine for 2020. can they run on the same message, anti-trump in 2020? >> i dont think being anti-tru anti-trump. we have to be...

Detroit. for me, i decided we needed real change in lansing. i decided to run for a district about 20 minutes south of detroit, we won a district that trump won, i won by 323 votes. >> its been a problem for the democratic party recently, particularly in 2010, 2014, its been hard to get people to come out to vote. theyve been turned out by republicans. whats your sort of -- going around. youre trying to get a midterm. the stakes of the state level, of what state level means. what are you telling...