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Ways you dont expect. weve got our eyes on the ojeda race but there are other ones if in fact that kind of midterm happens that really come out of nowhere. >> and youve got a demographic wild card too. most of ohio is covered up by these, but somewhere here in the middle of ohio we just had that special election a couple weeks ago in the 12th district, the columbus area, columbus suburbs. theres a district it wouldnt fit the criteria im describing. trump won it by 11 in 2016. but what we saw in ...

Depend on what happens everywhere else and how people are feeling. were kicking off the midterm elections season with live reporting from key battlegrounds. joining us now in miami beach, florida, nbc correspondent jacob soberoff, in milwaukee, wisconsin, vaughan hilliard, and in biloxi, mississippi, nbc news correspondent katie beck. we have been looking at the battlegrounds and seeing how people really feel. >> we sure will. and jacob, lets start with you. if tim russert were here today, i do ...

2006 and 2010. a whole bunch of people win in ways you dont expect. weve got our eyes on the ojeda race but there are other ones if in fact that kind of midterm happens that really come out of nowhere. >> and youve got a demographic wild card too. most of ohio is covered up by these, but somewhere here in the middle of ohio we just had that special election a couple weeks ago in the 12th district, the columbus area, columbus suburbs. theres a district it wouldnt fit the criteria im describing. t...

Infighting. they get upset seeing republicans trashing the republican candidate. they say theres enough people that do that. why dont you just help donald trump? and so, theyre going to have unity rally. i think this is as much for president trump than it is for ted cruz because he wants a big rally. >> a big rally. >> he does. >> theres a -- the other side to that coin is whether the president comes in, it does fire up the other side. and in texas, you are seeing more enthusiasm among democrats...

In this country. plus, the u.s. economy booming under president trump. the commander in chief forecasting this will be the issue that helps get republican candidates elected in the midterm. is he right? we will debate it, next. ♪ >> we are the greatest country in the world, and we are now -- we are now the greatest economy that we have ever had. ♪ (man) managing my type 2 diabetes wasnt my top priority.

Smile. i wonder what kind of candy it was. that is "special report" for this labor day. if competence of coverage starting tomorrow morning, 9:15. martha and brett. "the story" hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. hi, martha. >> martha: thank you, mike. good to see you tonight. breaking this evening, the president appears to be working over his attorney general yet again. this a short time ago. too long time obama investigations of two very popular republican congressman or to a well-pub...

Confirmation of brett kavanaugh but the argument that theres a midterm and that president trump is under investigation. he wants to see millions of pages of documents from when he was secretary for president george w. bush. the white house has now invoked executive privilege to withhold 100,000 pages from one brett kavanaugh worked for the white house counsel. i think its fair to say that none of that has worked. the question is why is it that democrats have so far been unable to gain any tracti...

New questions about how president trump presidents on to mike dubke my presence on the campaign trail will impact the midterm. they say that hes expected to campaign for publicans and at least seven states this month. hes looking to be the most aggressive president campaigner. in history. his odds in order to be able to pick up seats in the senate and retain the majority in the house, president trump has already been crisscrossing the country for the g.o.p. watch this. >> that is why you must vo...

Hundred 67,000 new jobs added to the economy. gdp 2% in the second quarter, the best pace in nearly four years. we are also witnessing the longest bull run market on record. the dow is surging since president trump took office, theres also this -- tweeting just last week, a quote from a cnbc article of the highest level october 2007. the latest poll shows that the economy is the most important issues for voters in the midterm tied with health care. dagen, i was talking to you before the show and...

Very much still a question, whether or not he will help republicans running in general elections against democrats. in many of the house seats that they are targeting our districts that hillary clinton won. i dont think republicans there are itching to have donald trump come in. i think there will be an open question, again, particularly on the house side, if donald trump can deliver results in a general election when he is not on the ballots. we know that there are a lot of particularly indepen...