and much later on, when maine senator collins had indicated in that speech with only minutes left of the trading day, to say she would be a vote, and i m not saying that for the entire market but i am saying it was among the factors and can t be ignored as a factor. we ve got christina partsinevelos here, and cpa and market analyst, dan, what do you think about a little bit of a tactic? i think it is. i think the bigger picture here, neil is the market is looking at whether the president can keep his party together. it s not necessarily about kavanaugh. it s on the other issues, the other economic issues potentially tax cuts 2.0. can the president keep his party united? i think that s the message that the market is reading into this with what happened. neil: and this is united republicans on a political basis and you could argue that that sort of reinforced the things that the street wants but what do you think? no i think i agree with what
election, if you look at the two point margin you add in four points from 538, and it is a horse race, and that s not something democrats were expecting to have. if you compare that to the 2010 elections, midterms and the 2014 midterms, democrats are now going worse in this contest than in both of those and in both of those, they were about 10 to 12 points ahead on the generic ballot around the same time and they lost to some of the largest republican majorities in both the house and senate. so, it does not look good for democrats headed into the final month. neil: you know, kat, you could argue, i don t know how to to jen s point, affect the vote in november. i do know it s galvanized the republicans to be on the same page, used to be the moderate or statism wing of the republican party and rebellious crowd that was donald trump to the white house. they were angry at the same time and on the same page and all
street i feel like you can do what you got to do until you re stopping me from getting where i need to go. went ever protesters lay in the street i hope i have the guts to walk up to them and say you know you re making everyone hate you. neil: but you alluded at the outset this is narrowing the preference gap between republicans and democrats and who takes over washington and we ve seen that because it fluctuates wildly. in a mid-term election normally it s the hate that gets out to vote. it s that you could argue just the opposite of what you said that that vote is what comes out and benefits democrats who feel this process was rigged. you say? well typically that is the case, neil and we saw that on september 18, a poll was leaked that was presented to the republican national committee, that said republicans this year didn t feel that there was much at stake, and that was an exact quote, that was in the poll. that has changed as we ve seen, with the kavanaugh attacks that has signi
have a very qualified justice. i think he is well-qualified to serve on the united states supreme court. i think that many of my other colleagues saw the same, and for those that differ, maybe they are trying to make a statement but i do believe that we will confirm judge kavanaugh to be our next u.s. supreme court justice. neil: you know senator, i know the different state and you don t get involved in those sort of things but we ve already gotten an idea that a number of prominent conservatives are upset with lisa murkowski s move including sarah palin and that she could be entertaining a challenge to senator murkowski in 2022. what did you make of that? well i think that any senator that maybe steps away or has different thoughts about any large issue facing our nation is subject to challenges from various people whether it s through a primary or through a general election. but again, as i look through the evidence that was presented,
if you had a right-leaning judge replacing a left-leaning justice. it would be no holds barred. and i expect on other circumstances we d have the more traditional process. neil: i don t know, i think now that we ve opened that gate, you know. again, if a right-leaning judge is on the court especially to replace a left-leaning judge, i don ten that high school will be far enough back to go. neil: all right. you have to defer to my legal expertise. i do, i do. [laughter] like i know what i m talking about. we are following the crowds, we are following the senators and we re following that vote, but hours away. that would make this man an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states. stay with us.