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Income families. >> reporter: and ron desantis, we were here with him on this ranch in lakeland, florida, just before he went to pensacola and he was feeding the crowd a lot of the red meat you might expect to hear from donald trump. and donald trump jr. tends to trot out lines who they are voting against. some mention of elizabeth warren's native american heritage. we heard things about bernie sanders, someone who endorsed gillum. it's to gin up the trump base are red meat lines we will probably hear from the president. as he was leaving i asked him about that rally, and he said he's hoping i...

These republican incumbents. >> dan, same question for you, who's fighting for the middle, the votes that might swing the outcomes here? >> i think you see some congressional seats, fighting for the middle. the governor candidates, you have andrew gillum representing the liberal base, and you have ron desantis that's basically a spawn of donald trump, so you really don't have anybody representing the middle when it comes to governor candidates. they're going to try to get back to the middle. you hear them talking and distancing themselves through certain radical policies. andrew gillum was on ...

African-american governor? >> yeah, you know, obviously just like donald trump is going to these very strong republican areas like the panhandle and he's in fort myers, they're sending obama down to miami, which is just a mother load of votes and potentially a mother load of democratic vote. he's trying to gem up the base, too. race, inevitably, not just because andrew gillum is the first african-american nominee for government but because donald trump is president and a lot of what we talk about when donald trump is president is race and division, so that inevitably is part of the discussion,...

Adam, you heard what aly was reporting on. the answers were not bringing up the words president donald trump, and you know the big headline has been at least up until today, this is a referendum on donald trump whether you like him or you don't on the local level. really, anti, you know, all politics are local. what do you see, adam? >> i think you still, they may not be bringing up donald trump, but donald trump's shadow is over this election in a big, big way. you know, a lot of this is a national election and a lot of these issues, health care, preexisting conditions, certainly are big prio...