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a margin of air ahead of a much anticipated debate there tuesday night. so is a gop weight on november 8 possible after all? was asked republican pollster strategist ed is a partner at the tarrance group. nice to see you again. so, first of all i want to ask you about the public mood. the right track numbers, the polling 25%. can you recall a time especially for an election when the public was in such a sour mood? there was a period in the spring we saw the numbers move slightly worse....

willie, you look at the leads in the papers today, the major papers today. "the wall street journal" talking about the white house warning that funding for kyiv to run out in weeks. obviously, a desperate, desperate situation for those trying to stop a russian invasion here. the leads on "the times," also, their lead story, of course, about israel pushing further south into gaza and approaching another large city center and the growing concerns about a humanitarian crisis. and, of cour...

>> harris: new information on this. so much for deterrence. 47 is the latest number of attacks on our troops in irrelevant rack and syria since october 17th. two the number of times we fired back. irans threat is on full display with growing fears of a much wider war. iran pays and trains those killers attacking our military men and women as you know. im harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." our latest strike on wednesday hit a weapons storage facility inside syria. thos...

Most money were united behind jeb bush. maybe not -- well see how it plays out in this race. i mean, its been this growing trend as we have observed over the course of the last few months, the republican donor class, from the circles of listening to karl rove, the people in the club for growth, the people now out front. weve known the kochs have been moving this direction for some months. theyve now all decided they are definitely, definitely, definitely going to try to challenge trump. i think ...

Back in 2016, and a split republican field, the trump base looks at all these documents, and, says they do not believe -- they think fox news is not, liberal they dismissed, all can trump continue to, when can trump when a republican nomination with a split field, and it hard-core 40% of the republican party, im not saying he will the bill will maintain that maybe it will dissolve over the next few months, but that is a winnable ways for donald trump if you can keep us 40% who laugh at the ad mo...

Rules dont apply to him. from a legal standpoint, devastating. conservative lawyers who have stood up for trump in every instance are looking at him saying, dude, you are digging this hole so deep that you, with all the help in the world youre not going to be able to get out of it legally. i will say that politically if you want to make the counter case, the counter case is 2016. a split republican field, you dont need 50% to sam steins point, you dont need 50% to win a winner take all primary. ...

Legitimate arguments when he argues by hyperbole. >> well, okay. lets play a little bit more of what the president had to say yesterday. campaigning and speaking publicly after the indictment landed and was unsealed. >> biden is trying to gaol his leading political opponent, an opponent that is beating him by allowed in the polls. just like they do in russia or communist china. >> he clearly -- he is running away with it in the polls. the last indictment helped in fundraising as well. is there a...

Legitimate arguments when he argues by hyperbole. >> well, okay. lets play a little bit more of what the president had to say yesterday. campaigning and speaking publicly after the indictment landed and was unsealed. >> biden is trying to gaol his leading political opponent, an opponent that is beating him by allowed in the polls. just like they do in russia or communist china. >> he clearly -- he is running away with it in the polls. the last indictment helped in fundraising as well. is there a...

The irony is his legal troubles or even worse than we thought they were, and yet not a single one of his rivals has updated the strategy. they have not even gonna, i think its a witch hunt but its a lot of baggage around to be carrying. they just never touched it. >> yeah thats right, mehdi. i think every single republican candidate other than donald trump, the basically the strategy is that only donald trump can ruin donald trump and somehow his legal challenges will ultimately take him down. b...

>> yeah thats right, mehdi. i think every single republican candidate other than donald trump, baked into the strategy is that only donald trump can ruin donald trump and somehow his legal challenges will ultimately take him down. but we are learning now thats not the case, it actually strengthens his hand. i would take a slightly different premise in this entire conversation and suggest this, think donald trump in 16, 20, are going to 24 is convincing republicans of anything. i dont think donal...