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The senate floor voting no and tweeted this. just walked off the senate floor where i voted no on brett kavanaugh. every republican except one voted yes. i'm upset and i know you are, too, but the silver lining is there is an election in less than five weeks where we can change all this. >> it is very interesting to me always where we do see red state democrat who is don't veer towards trump. jon tester who the president is trying to unseat is voting in montana and so is clair mccaskill and he thought he could unseat her and she is voting no as well. the politics for this especially for democr...

Red state. mobilizing is more significant than it is for a donnelly or mccaskill. they are in a different position and have different races. manchin hez takas a significant. >> we will talk about house races after the break, but senate races are different. republican bases are not as enthused. this is dangerous in the senate races. >> that's what the president's central role is now. look where he is not going. florida and some places presidents would normally go. he is going to the reddest of red states. the geography line for him perfectly. north dakota and montana. i'm talking to democrats t...

>> a week ago you had the rush of red state democrats saying they would vote no. that's how we ended up in this situation. joe donnelly in a tough race there. clair mccaskill in missouri. the politics seem clear. even in a state where donald trump won by a significant majority, they could win with a no vote. whether manchin and hide camp feel the same is unknown, but perhaps this vote is not as significant in their reelection because of the other factors. >> the point here is they have to worry about their own base as well. every red state democrats need the liberal base to show up. >> worry t...

Democrat claire mccaskill in missouri, bob corker's open seat in tennessee. both races feel like coin flips and frankly, the next category, it's a slight lean, but man, slight lean. indiana, donnelly, slightly ahead. florida, nelson slightly ahead. montana, new jersey, texas. all five races, we give a slight av av advantage to the incumbent. all of the seats are democrats, except texas. new on the list, bob menendez in new jersey. a poll out today had him up 11. another poll had him up two. he's in the five to six sweet spot there. not great, probably winnable for him, but not great. so, joini...

Women, hugh hewitt. >> well, the npr poll that came out this afternoon showed -- >> that's this one. >> intensity has gone through the roof for republicans, it was already through the roof for democrats. and lindsey graham quipped that democrats did what republicans couldn't do, bring the republicans together. i think he will retreat from it and it believe it is a clear-cut case of people like heidi heitkamp, a woman, taking it on the chin. she went from four points down to ten points down, and that's even as it began to break. i think joe manchin is in trouble, i think joe donnelly is done, c...