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Telling themselves that their best hope is to increase republican base turnout to try to match that democratic enthusiasm. but it's not clear that the president doesn't actually motivate more democrats when he goes to a particular place than he does republicans. so in a place particularly like nevada or arizona where obviously, there is a large segment of the electorate that is latino, those are places where republicans would prefer not to have the president going in and potentially stirring up more democrats. >> uh-huh. so let's bring in larry now. larry, the president's divisive language on ...

Midterm election 37 we'll find out for sure on tuesday. and the president and some of his advisers have been telling themselves that their best hope is to increase republican base turnout to try to match that democratic enthusiasm. but it's not clear that the president doesn't actually motivate more democrats when he goes to a particular place than he does republicans. in a place particularly like nevada or arizona where obviously there is a large section of the electorate that is latino, those are places where republicans would prefer not to have the president going in and potentially stirrin...

Donald trump won by double digits. john pointed some of them out. missouri, indiana, montana, north dakota, west virginia. this is trump country. and so that's where you see the president going to try to have the best possible effect, drive up that base turnout. so in those races the republicans are fine with his messaging here around birthright citizenship or even picking a fight with the establishment, the outgoing speaker, paul ryan. but in the battle for the house, which you've got to remember, democrats need 23 seats. 25 republican-held districts right now are ones that hillary clinton wo...

>> david, what do you think the current thinking in republican circles is about how the president has handled this campaign? just today he's at odds with speaker ryan on birthright citizenship. >> it all depends if you're a republican working on senate races or a republican working on house races. as gloria is describing, it's two totally different universes. >> why are those so different universes? >> because the terrain where the battle for senate control is taking place, anderson, is in trump country. you have five democratic incumbent senators in states running for re-election that donald ...

State, how do those areas not doom a progressive candidate? >> i don't think they doom it because andrew gillum is focusing on the more populated counties across the state of florida. he's focusing a lot of resources in south florida, in southwest florida, the tampa bay region altogether. he's focusing on those regions to try to pump up base turnout, which, again, he came out of nowhere. this was a guy that was continuously during the democratic primaries in third or fourth place, considered a nonfactor, and then on primary election day people showed up to the polls in just droves to vote for ...