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>> what time does the debate start? >> reporter: 7:00 p.m. it will coincide interestingly with something else. >> yeah. they will be up against the guardians. good luck getting clevelanders to watch that debate. let me wrap this up, kristen, by asking about former president obama. biden has been out there talking about the economy, what he believes his administration democrats have accomplished. obama remains most popular democrat. he's going to georgia, michigan, wisconsin. but when i look at releases announcing them, they often focus on abortion, voting rights, defending democracy. have demo...

Wave, but republicans don't need a wave to win the chamber. when they do, it'll get to the internal questions of, is mccarthy going to be the leader? how much power are the far right factios of the house going to have? >> let's talk about the democrats who absolutely have momentum on their side. you mentioned it, president biden's approval rating, though still in the 40s, is up five or six points from where it was not too long ago. they've had a string of recent accomplishments and legislation signed, not bipartisan and some democrat only. the president is about to hit the campaign trail with ...

Senate and a narrowly controlled house. they'll point to republican extremism, whether it's the overturning of re v. wade, anti-democracy sentiments on the gop side. the closing message is, our side is delivering. the other side is pushing extreme and unpopular policies. >> all right. "insider" senior politics reporterpetetta. this week is going to display democrats on the offensive. biden with a number of wins. the president playing a backseat role to this, deferring to legislation. he's a man of the senate. that's how he believes it should be done. he was there to act as a closer. now, with ...

Most attention, you're seeing a lot of money being spent on is that race for democrats to determine who is going to take on florida governor ron desantis. he's a governor who is popular in this state, approval ratings above 50%. he's built a $130 million war chest to take on whoever the democrats nominate. you have both of the candidates framing their final pitches to votes around ron desantis, saying that they are each the biggest candidate or the best, the strongest candidate to go ahead and take on ron desantis. listen to a little bit of that closing message that they told me during our con...

Been there many years. that's a factor in this. >> when you look at barnett slipping, she was sort of both boyd and perhaps complicated by the closing message that tied back to january six, and more and more scrutiny of the commons that she made attacking minorities. you have the sense at this hour of how that's playing? is she underperforming as someone would call a surge for the cell for the crime supermarket candidate? >> it was always really difficult to tell what that surge was going to be, because it was so last-minute and it was happening when she hadn't been scrutinized very much and h...