for the next couple of days but also driving his rhetoric. he's been tweeting this morning multiple times about the caravan of migrants coming from central america to the southern border. he's promised to deploy troops. but all of this seems to be trying to get the message to his base that immigration and not other things, perhaps like health care ought to be their top priority going into the midterm elections. poppy and jim? >> thank you very much. let's discuss this. so i wonder if there is a message in the president's strategy in these last few days. focus on strong, red states, particularly senate races, states where he already did well. you know, basically increased the lead. does this mean that they're pretty much granting they have lost the house? >> i don't know if they're pretty much granting it. but it's pretty clear. it's only going to states he won. it's a decent political strategy. don't go into the suburbs of chicago.