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Seat in tennessee appears to be a close one. real clear polling average has the republican blackburn leading bredesen by six points. marsha blackburn is with me now. i saw a poll that shows your opponent up a point. whats going on in tennessee on this race? >> i tell you, there will be all sorts of polls. the only one that counts is november 6 on election day. we intend to win this race. were going to win this race. >> bill: so the president right now is doing a four-state swing. his strategy is...

Own popularity to members of his own party. and the second reason is in the same ta states trump is actually pretty unpoplar. more than his favorability is low. pollsters say that that is really the predictor of how someones going to vote right now in some of these places. if you have a favorable view of the president, you know, 80% or more are voting for the republican. if you have an unfavorable view, about the same percentage are voting for the democrat. theres a lot more with an unfavorable ...

Welcome back. data download time. so why is all the talk about the midterms suddenly turned to the senate actually being in play? you know, there was an assumption that the biggest challenge for democrats in 2018 would be the ten states president trump won where democrats are up for re-election, including some states that went from blue to red, including ohio, michigan and wisconsin. in fact we were talking about how many seats republicans were going to pick up in the senate. but right now repub...

Rod rosenstein decides to refer that report to congress, i dont know anybody who worked with the united states congress who doesnt think that document would be leaked almost immediately. the notion they will be able to prevent this from coming to the public, i dont think that strategy is going to work. >> david, in the latest "washington post" abc news poll 63% of americans still support is the mueller investigation. 29% opposing. so more than 2-1 there. that was after there was some dips in rob...

That is serious business. and remember, none of this would have come up -- we wouldnt be talking about in -- he wouldnt know who michael cohen was if president trump had just stayed a private citizen, if he had not run for president or if he had not won. but now that he is president all this is a matter of national concern. on the other hand, don, here is what i think republicans are holding onto. if you look at the polls, real clear pliks polling average, the president is at 42. he was at 44 on...

First mid-term election. it was a big part of the victory. the bigger part was president bill clintons unpopularity and what drove the republican gains in 1994. i understand why speaker gingrich is stressing that. i would say the other half of it that members of congress cant control is how popular or unpopular president trump is at the time of the election. >> jon: his popularity has been coming back but he is still right around, well, right around -- not quite 50% mark yet. so -- >> we all kno...

Percentage points. conor lamb is leading by a few hundred votes. same time there was a congression congression congressional vote. democrats didnt bother running somebody and that somebody looks like hes going to win. >> the president was in this part of pennsylvania over the weekend. did his presence in pennsylvania or even just his presence, period, is it an asset? is it a liability? >> i think it depends on the district. in this district his approval rating is equal to his disapproval rating....

Changes his mind whether its politically or the private message. >> two sides to that, fred. inside the white house by all accounts, it has been a chaotic disspiriting week for president trump staff. people are overwhelmed by all the different scandals and departures and so forth that have been on display week after week after week. we just got through the rob porter scandal and then chief of sca staff general kelly brings it up by reporting and doing things that were sort of indefensible. at th...

Taken never to have been over 50% on a single day, including his inauguration day. hes never had majority support. you can cite, as he did, the rasmussen poll all you want to, but the polling averages are better and you were correct to say the polling average is at 38%, not 46%. so i think republicans should be concerned for that reason and quite a number of others. >> jerod, lets talk about taxes and that "new york times" interview that the president did there at mar-a-lago. he said in part, qu...

Jersey, same thing and the other lesson from 2010, remember, democrats voted against obamacare thinking this is going to be unpopular. ill say it myself, didnt see much of a difference between the democrats who voted for or against it and there was a national wave against it and maybe those votes dont matter. >> right now weve got a generic ballot which is the top-line indicator. its coming in at 11, 12, 13. its opened up this week in the polling average. thats been an indication of the directio...