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The special primetime hour of morning joe with two days until the midterm elections. Early voting has already started, and now it is a final sprint to the finish. Trying to take control of the house and senate, and the future of president agendas. The issues that are driving the vote, it abortion, crime, how much power trump republicans still wield over the gop. In many ways, democracy itself is on the ballot with Election Deniers in multiple states poised to could take control over the next pre...

Congressional level they are on both sides of the aisle. there are people with mediocre performance skills, but its popular -- you side barack obama in the closing leg of this campaign giving a master class on how he did in. its clear that if you saw inflation roaring back in the evening after labor day, democrats didnt have a strong defensive argument on the economy, and i would say its also important to have an offensive argument, and the -- things that were popular, generally popular, youre n...

Close attention two years ago, its very much an echo of president obamas major vision for the country, is it not? >> no question about it. its been his vision really throughout the time hes been in public life. i remember interviewing president obama about income inequality in the fall of 2007. what he was doing in this speech is making a broad argument for government action across the board, not just on things like the minimum wage, but also domestic investments and infrastructure and education...

Bush? >> not so much. but i saw the same dynamic in 2004. probl president bush had not been debating in the primaries. thought he knew all the issues. hes dealing with them every day. didnt know how to frame the attack, frame the defense and he didnt do that well in his first debate with john kerry. i think exactly the same thing here. with obama sitting in those meetings saying i know this stuff, i deal with it all the time, but he hadnt been forced in a debate setting to say these are the offe...