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Democratic candidate is going to be to challenge a republican and the republican's name is congressman yoder. this is one of those hillary clinton districts, brooke. so it's in a red state, but hillary clinton won this particular district. and democrats on the national level are kind of concerned, are pretty concerned that the more progressive candidate who they want, his name is brent welder could win. it would make it tougher to beat the incumbent republican. and that is going to be one of the tests, first of all, to see if bernie sanders and his sort of help get this progressive candidate o...

Donald trump will come back to the democratic party, but you have to tell them exactly what you're going to do for them. you have to talk to them about these bold, progressive economic ideas. that's how we're going to win them back. i think that's why i'm beating congressman yoder by seven points right now, the largest lead in the country even though i'm right here in kansas. these economic ideas are resonating so well with people in my district. >> the third district includes kansas city, am i right? >> yeah, that's where i live in fact, so i hope it does. >> so that's helping you in terms of...

>> so, boy, oh, boy, is this some mix of what you have going on in the primary there. i was just trying in the break to figure it out. i can't give you a sense of what we think is going to happen. what do you think happens tomorrow night, and more importantly, why? >> well, we are up in the polls right now both in the general election. we're beating congressman yoder by seven points, which is the largest lead of any democratic challenger in the country. we're also up in the primary polls for tomorrow quite a bit. now, obviously i am not taking anything for granted. we're working hard for every...

I'm proud of it. it's the largest lead of any democratic challenger in the country, and it's right here in kansas. i think that pretty much kind of speaks for itself as far as the policies i'm running on. i'm fighting against the corruption. you know, kevin yoder votes with donald trump virtually ever single time, and people are sick of it, and that's why i feel really confident that we're going to be able to flip this seat in kansas. you know, 25,000 people have gone to brent wilder.com to give small donations, 25,000. >> brent welder, it is an interesting race. i'd never think that the bigge...

Four pillars. >> laura: bid then came a typical sneak move that we expect from democrats but not from the president's own party. before running to the airport today for their working august recess, the house held a sneaky vote on a homeland security appropriations bill that will only end up adding to our problems at the border. the amendment basically codifies daca and was the brainchild of congressman david price, a democrat from north carolina. wasn't just david price. g.o.p. congressman kevin yoder, the all-important chair of the homeland security subcommittee, was also in full support of t...