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In early polls with around that percentage and its because he has name recognition whereas some of these others dont have that. now, thats why theyre pumping all this money in because you can pie name recognition if you inundate the airwaves between now and the may primary. we are looking at expensive, angry, trumpy maga primary. where if you are matt dolan and having a slightly different message maybe you run up the middle and catch fire. >> and tim ryan i assume hes not going challenged, nobod...

The interesting thing about dolans candidacy is hes doing different, he is the one candidate in the race who is not tightly hugging donald trump. he is running a more classic traditional gop rob portman-esque campaign which they are all running to succeed rob portman and nobody is running like rob portman except matt dolan. its a liability others believe to be the next rob portman. it might not be enough. there is another guy spending over $11 million, mike gibbons. its a wild ride in ohio and t...

He probably doesnt have a lot to worry about with this primary challenge. to your question how far right is too right, how right is too right? you know, if he draws a really super right challenger even though this is a state that trump won with eight points, tim ryan might start looking more like the sensible center in a state like ohio. >> hes trying to position himself ala sherrod brown. lets look at the flip side of how a primary could impact the democrats chances. wisconsin, natasha, thats w...

Welcome back. if democrats can hold on to the senate in november that will go a long way to blunting a potential problem on the house sides of things. we have nbc news politics reporters working, living, listening in some of the places that will determine control of the senate like in ohio where republicans are look to go hang on to rob portmans seat and the primary may show us just how far right is too far right as the gop candidates vie to appeal to trump supporters. in the upper midwest where...

Henry, it seems like a week doesnt go by without some candidate writing a big check to go on tv. that candidate is matt dolan for those of you in ohio the last name the dolan family owns the cleveland guardians and, yes, they are related to the nicolle wallace dolan family if you are really keeping that support there. is it four self-funders we have in this primary right now? licks louisiana i it out there for you us, henry. >> i think there are four self-funders right now, i think six of them h...