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Republicans. it is a competitive race. if republicans do end up posting a win, trump, you know, after being there is in position to try to take some credit for that. indiana, obviously trump won the state by 20 points a couple years ago. mike pence, his vice president, the former governor of indiana. joe donnelly was leading in our most recent poll of that state, but only by a couple points. braun certainly within striking distance. missouri very similar to indiana. trump winning in 2016 by 20 points. a lot of republicans felt that mccaskill had gotten lucky in 2012 in getting re-elected. her ...

She went out and was voted against kavanaugh, not just voted against him but announces his opposition to him quite early. but she's like one of these red state democrats who is a rare red state where there is a big chunk of traditional democratic base in st. louis and in kansas city. she knew that's where politics had to put her and she had substantive issues with judge kavanaugh. she took a little hit on that but she's been in this race throughout. just a couple points, always within the margin of error, but here at the end, all of a sudden it seems like mccaskill -- it's still a coin flip, r...

Candidate who has been able to convince small donors that he is viable. ed: some democrats are mad that he is sitting on all that money when it could go to a state like indiana. >> exactly. ed: joe donnelly voted no on kavanaugh, for example, even though he is trying to say look i vote with president trump a lot. mike braun, we had him on the show yesterday. he running a pretty good campaign. where does it stand. >> it's all about who is surging. mike braun was doing all right. the no vote on kavanaugh played to brawn's favor. kavanaugh is popular in that state. pretty much all g.o.p. candidat...

>> what's going on with the garden state? the fox news power rankings show that new jersey senate race between incumbent bob menendez and bob hue begin, the republican challenger, moving from likely democrat to leaning democrat. joining us new jersey republican candidate bob higgin. we reached out to senator bemenendez, he declined. you have to be feeling good, but it's blue new jersey, improbable to have this conversation. >> the energy is spectacular, the momentum is clear. our latest poll, we've been trackingracking is up a couple points. we're very encouraged. >> how do you explain it, fel...

National dynamics. might be the sorts of things that will create widespread enthusiasm or depress enthusiasm in a big way. that the right way to look at it? i mean, when you've been on the precipice of previous elections like this, do you find that national events start driving the ultimate bottom line? >> i think so, because one of the common threads in this tier of district, i can just show you, if you go inside some of these, like in maine right here, republican-held seat, the polling shows make the democrats ahead by a couple of points there. you look at pennsylvania 1, this is right outsi...