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Shes from the bau hes from the baltimore area. police have been going through his home, trying to find answers to those questions. at the same time, lets recognize a mass shooting like this, where he had, well, with the two murdered here, plus the gunman who took his own life, plus 11 people who were wounded in all of this, that when you look at mass shootings in our country, since january 1st, weve had 28 mass shootings in the country. among those who were inside during all of this was one of t...

Yeah, id like to see it. no judgment. just guidance. td ameritrade. thing 1 tonight, theres a congressional district in california, the 50th district, unlike the vast majority of districts in that big blue state because it is very red. the most red district in southern california rated r plus 11 by the cook political report.

Southern california rated r plus 11 by the cook political report. not quite mississippi red but quite quite red. and there is a democrat running for that congressional seat. his name is aman, a palestinian mexican-american and hes campaigning on medicare for all and against income inequality. good luck with that except for some reason, the cook political report this week changed that race rating from solid republican to lean republican. and why would that be you might ask? because californias 50...

>> you have gone to a district trump won by 11 points. that romney won by 10 points. and now, it is a squeaker. mo, what -- for frz. >> john. >> you lost, we won. >> you have to thing about it this way. if they needed the president to get him over the hump in supremely red district that should tell you that the district was in jeopardy. the best read you could give. what that means is there is a surge of momentum at least in this area. we cant necessarily transpose that sort of rest of the natio...

It is a plus 11 trump district. particularly the places he went is actually the kind of the part of the district that he doesnt want people to know the election is happening. >> and heres a fundamental problem. governor kasich hit on this. the overall party, identification with the party is shrinking, you have a base there very much pro trump. but you need moderate republicans, moderate women who have been leaning republican to go your way. it is a 25 plus race. whats close is you have college e...

What are you seeing on the ground among the trump voters that the democrats would have to win the district like this? >> i think what were seeing in ohio is just a real challenge from a couple years ago. people are recognize go that there is health care to merely a million, and the affordable care act, nearly a million people in the state. we need good jobs. the triple down policy thats have been pursued in the state house have not reached voters in the district. and we need strong public school...

Theres a real political headwind in this years election for the republicans. this is not the kind of district were used to fighting for. >> and just to be clear, troy balderson endorsed obamacare, or the affordable care act so kasich has actual lly sided wit him and was questioning him as to why he brought trump in. he was there on stage so he was certainly not running away from the president. >> the strategy is pretty much, line up with the president. heat up the base. turn out the trump vote a...

Special election, dont use it as a litmus, wont tell you about the midterms. how do you see it, what are you watching for tuesday? >> well, if its close, i think thats indicative of where places like ohio are and other congressional districts that are trump plus ten or republican plus 11 district, that democrats are going to be competitive in there. we have a shot to win this thing. it is very close, neck in neck, comes down to turnout. frankly the democrats have no bisque business being in the ...

Seat. >> bellwether when bratt won it. >> tea party, wave seats, covering virginia for a long time, thats been a republican seat. that was not something the republican party thought they had to worry about. the rankings here have moved that into the toss-up category. if thats a toss-up seat for republicans they have to worry about, thats the canary in the coal mine that they have problems they need to address. >> lets look deeper at the numbers, 2018 numbers, crept numbers, compare them to how t...

Certain things. thats got to be addressed. democrats need to address the districts based on the needs of those districts. >> let me break those down him i want to first go to howard deny. the used to be your job to figure this out. lets start with the question of the secret trump voters and that ron brownstein question. this idea of spending money to go and try to convert suburban white voters who voted for donald trump, is that a worthwhile spend on the part of democrats rather than registering...