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He just said something racial. hes gone. >> in a word tribalism, maybe. to donnas point whoever emerges has to you night the working class because that was the one thread we saw between berniecrats and trumpsters. they believed in this message of the forgotten man and economic advancement. >> american people are not greedy they just want what they have. thats what people want in scranton and in oshkosh. thats all they want. give it to them. this is "hardball" where the action is.

A sweet spot with so many of the more traditional democrats in scranton, impossible to beat. im fascinated with bucks county. if they go knock mike kelly in eerie. >> fitzpatrick and kelly, both republican incumbents. >> yeah, they could knock them off and win the 10th in lancaster. they could pick up bucks county against a well recognized incumbent, theyre in business. sweep time. >> how much of a difference does it make if they thad weak candidates, the guy running against tom wolf disappeared...

Process to be able to make application, to be able to have a path to citizenship as well. thats what we mean. theres a process forward to fix the broken um grags system. thats what im talking about. >> congressman, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having us. everyone, get out and vote today. >> everyone get out and vote. >> what are you look at tonight? >> im looking at the virginia seats. clearly, at 6:00 were looking at whether joe donly pulls this out. some...

You should do well. that party has been broken. i know they call me middle-class joe. its not meant as a compliment. its not that im not sophisticated. but i know why and who we are. when the middle class does well, the wealthy do very well in the poor house some hope. folks in cleveland and in wilmington, my hometown in scranton understand. that is, middle-class is not a number. economists who work will tell you middle-class means $52000 or $53000. middle-class is a value set. its being able to...

Barletta doesnt have that same spark. did you vote for president trump in the last election? >> yes. >> reporter: are you a lifelong republican? >> actually im a democrat. >> reporter: and you voted for trump? >> yes. >> reporter: why? >> because i dont like hillary. kind of tired of professional politicians. >> reporter: are you going to vote for barletta for senate? >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> i dont like barletta. >> reporter: you feel like he is trustworthy? >> no. >> reporter: here in s...

>> no. >> here at chicks diner in scranton, democratic craig malen says theres a bigger problem. >> i dont think barletta is running a local campaign like casey does, and i think thats by design. >> he says the presidents effort to nationalize the race wont work here where voters care more about local issues. >> youre going against a different kind of candidate. youre not going against hillary clinton right? youre going against bob casey. >> so locally, thats a totally different thing. >> totall...

For example, a lot of voters said we also want to hear about health care. we also want to the hear about jobs. but we did hear immigration come up a few times. as you saw when i asked the last gentleman, hey, look are you really worried if theres going to be a caravan containing thousands of migrants coming to scranton, pennsylvania. and he said, well, yes, i already cant lock my doors at night because the crime rate has gone up. i said, do you blame immigrants for the crime rate? he said absolu...

The campaign event in scranton, pennsylvania, im getting now the statistic device alert on my phone. its taken over my phone. im just going to read it too. "emergency alert: the suspicious device on west 50th street and eighth avenue was safely removed by nypd bomb squad." they are letting people know simultaneously here in new york city and burrows added together about 8 million people prayed i would imagine many of us getting this on our phone instantaneously. as of now, just to finish who mig...

Office of democrat congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. vowed to hold anyone behind this accountable. chief white house correspondent john roberts has been with us covering this at the white house. john, this latest reaction we await is actually at a news conference or a signing, if you will, for a bill on opioids but the president now expected to talk about this. >> its an event thats going to happen at 2:00 this afternoon in the east room, a very ceremonial type of event, very formal but we...

98-1 it passed in the united states senate to address that epidemic. we have john roberts there at the white house for us. john? >> reporter: good afternoon to you, dana. we expect the president is going to make remarks about what has been going on at cnn and at the mail sorting facility, screening facility for the white house and up in westchester county and in florida. we just got confirmation from a source, the u.s. capitol police are investigating a suspicious package addressed to congress w...