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Results of the midterm. where the real hard left candidates have won has been in districts with the democrats are going to win any anyway. states where they are losing the senate, such as, for example, delaware. where tom won. the establishment candidates have won. i think the democratic party is going to be fairly pleased about the primary season. one of the ways in which the establishment candidates have won these races, and one of the ways in which i think andrew cuomo is going to win tonight...

Pundits, you know, down to jimmy fallon and his treatment of donald trump and to be maligned for "humanizing" trump, funny, i thought he was human. if you have a nominee for president on your show and hes your guest, then he is your guest. >> laura: oh, fallon had to apologize for having trump on. >> raymond: messed up his hair, humanized. president is human, controversial, we reached a low point, whether watching this norm macdonald show or not, new series on instagram t.v. >> laura: i dont kno...

Smearing and rhetoric from folks in our party. look, the republican party thrives on misinformation and lies at this point. >> laura: yeah, i get your -- >> popular right now. >> laura: so obama and hillary are kind of back by popular demand leading charge for midterm, both are out fanning out. for barack obama, to come out and trash donald trump for being tough on the press? i mean, lets not forget what he did with the -- >> right. >> laura: the act and going after reporters, espionage act goin...

>> youve been doing stuff with college kids. show that working out? >> its been awesome. this upcoming midterm, there will be a competition across the big ten. students will compete to see who has the greatest turnout and greatest improvement. >> so matched up against each other. >> so you won two years ago. >> i did. >> that was the first time you were elected. why did you run? >> before i was elected i was a teacher. i walked into my classroom first day of school and got appointed department c...

Shift to go even further back after this immigration issue of families getting separated at the border. a lot of people on the ground working on the midterm campaigns feel like that was one of the key moments that started to really erode whatever support there still was for this president. and then yes, you throw in the books, you throw in the tapes, you throw in a hurricane and thats how you get to the situation were at right now, where the president has about 36% approval rating in a number of...

Families getting separated at the border. a lot of people on the ground working on the midterm campaigns feel like that was one of the key moments that started to really erode whatever support there still was for this president. and then yes, you throw in the books, you throw in the tapes, you throw in a hurricane and thats how you get to the situation were at right now, where the president has about 36% approval rating in a number of polls at this point. >> and sam, i want to show you another p...

These ones being made by those outside and closest to him. and people also tell me that they feel like there was a big shift to go even further back after this immigration issue of families getting separated at the border. a lot of people on the ground working on the midterm campaigns feel like that was one of the key moments that started to really erode whatever support there still was for this president. and then yes, you throw in the books, you throw in the tapes, you throw in a hurricane and...

That we protect our clean water and provide families like here in flint with clean water. its not just in the city of flint. in my own district, just last week we heard that the state has now told us do not eat the fish in our river because of contamination. so its affecting communities all over michigan. and we need to make sure were standing up to corporate interests that are doing all the polluting. >> how do you feel about the stakes this midterm in >> the stakes are very high. theres a lot ...

Party. >> one of the ways that i thought after the election that i should have known that donald trump was going to win was that costco, there were lots of trump/pence bumper stickers. i drove around the rural parts of connecticut, there were more yard signs. it is not scientific, sometimes after the fact you look at those anecdotal proof points i saw this coming. what does texas look like now? are there beto signs in places where there usually arent democratic yard signs? are there people talki...

Infrastructure, that we promote and improve our public schools, that we protect our clean water and provide families like here in flint with clean water. its not just in the city of flint. in my own district, just last week we heard that the state has now told us do not eat the fish in our river because of contamination. so its affecting communities all over michigan. and we need to make sure were standing up to corporate interests that are doing all the polluting. >> how do you feel about the s...