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Are called special elections for a reason. her only two candidates on the balance. a huge issue in august before it starts. it will be critical. i will tell you, president trump will win this district today and he will win it in november. it really comes down to the two candidates. how did they get their message out west and mark making sure that republicans understand that democrats are going to come to washington to resist and repress. republicans mean more jobs and a higher wages and a better...

Going into that first midterm. we need to wake up our voters and let them note that they have got to come fight for this election, fight for this turnaround that this country is feeling. people are taking home more money, their lives are better because of republicans and washington. the only weight that we are going to set washington free and get bipartisan ship and washington, is to obstruct and resist and not work with this president. so, we have to reject that and bring more republicans. and ...

President every turn but saying im going to be a compromise kind of guy. reminds you of the election in pennsylvania. >> whats so interesting about this midterm and its probably the most consequential midterm in recent history. there is so much at stake, so much riding on it. not only the two parties fighting each other, there are really important battles going on within each party for the ideological soul, the future future policy direction for these parties. in a lot of democratic races or pri...

They were with less and less diverse views in them. this is a weird district in which it is a classic, it is structured. even though r plus ten or something like that. it is structured the way districts were when you could have a race on your hands if somebody made a big mistake like this may be 24 hours after. in a midterm like this and special like this, turnout is going to be low. i know we have had crazy high turnouts but, in the middle of august? >> yeah. see maybe we got a little more. you...

Wall in san diego. trump has been pushing congress for more money recently, even threatening a government shutdown if his budget demand are not met. white house officials the entire wall could cost 8 to $12 billion while dhs estimates clock it as high as 21 billion, yasmin. lets talk about the wall a little bit. joining me world news editor for axios, dave lawler. once again shall good to talk to you. lets talk about the newly-released watchdog report louis just talked about. is it hurting tru...

Covering past midterms, there are voters who will literally vote against the white house party in the midterm and then come back to it by the following. different than resistance. take a listen to rush limbaugh saying it all boils down to trump hate. >> in the democrats win, what are we going to get? the democrats are basing this blue wave on one thing, trump hatred. the resistance. theyre not basing it on peoples desire for democrat policies. now, isnt that kind of flimsy? >> is that flimsy? >>...

Discipline and some people say too precise. but he was ready to talk to lawyers. something jumped out at me in that clip with lindsey graham. when graham says hey, is that trump asking that question, it sounds like trump and the rhetoric, that is a room full of republicans there. it sounds like trump has reached the base of his party with the message. >> first, i talked to lawyers who were on the clinton legal team, and the number one thing they did was to make sure that president clinton wasnt ...

Though, john, is in the midterm that latter group, the minority and millennial turn out at much lower rates than the presidential race. trumps strategy for the midterm is pretty clear. it is to try to gin up cultural racial conflicts that energize his base and increase the turnout. the cost of that -- one cost of that is apparent. these kind of white collar white suburbs like well see in ohio 12, its not clear the other cost is going to be there though for republicans, which is are these core de...

This is no alex andrea owe caco. is this bigger? >> clearly, this democrat does fit the district more than owe cast o-cortez would if she were running in the suburbs. but i think david irvin is underplaying. we understand the psychology that this has. if republicans are victorious tomorrow, theyre going to breathe a sigh of relief. because they know the headwinds theyre facing, and this will avoid sort of moving into fullout panic mode before the fall election season. the home stretch here. conv...

In a special special election toex, republicans in ohio risk losing a seat in the district they have controlled for three decades. thats why president trump made a special trip there for a rally this weekend. >> we must elect troy balderson. we have to elect troy. i need your vote august 7th. >> the special election is an ohio 12th district and last major race before the midterm and may reveal a lot about what well see in november. in fact it is john kasich, says it should be an easy win for rpz...