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To be in some of those senate races in the final days. >> the challenge is there is no rosy way for democrats to spin it. the president is unpopular and in many cases he's more unpopular than some of the candidates who are democratic candidates who are running. people want to run for the democratic party but don't like the democratic president. that's one of these unusual things going on behind the scenes. as much as democrats want to say it's otherwise that's the reality of the challenge. people don't want to talk about questions of whether the president is going to be at his most effective s...

We didn't expect to lose their seats in the house. i mean, everyone i talked to, democrats in public will try to tell you there is a chance they are going to keep the house n private no one is saying that. >> nathan, i want to touch on the senate, though. you made one shift in the senate landscape. tell us about that. >> we moved the iowa senate race where chuck grassley is running for reelection from solid republican to likely republican. it might be surprising but one key piece of data is the poll done by the des moines register by al seltzer who is the gold standard in iowa that had grass h...

Think he is better talking about policy and we don't think it's necessary to put him in front of a raucous crowd to what end. >> i think he's doing a lot more interviews than he has been previously really between the month before the election he will do more than in his entire presidency, but, look, i think that joe biden is not the rallying kind of guy. he didn't do that running for president but the question is about the purpose of rallies, they're organizing tools, they are for early voting, registering, getting volunteers. so that's why this actually matters not just simply holding a rally...

Quietly been a reliable presence pulling in more than $10 million for gop candidates in key battleground states. cnn's michael warren is joining us with this new reporting. michael, tell us what is pence doing out on the trail? he is this in demand surrogate now that he is no longer the vice president. >> he's keeping very busy this midterm cycle. today he is in kansas raising money and campaigning for derek schmidt running against the democratic governor laura kelly. he has a final final couple of weeks. he will be campaigning for candidates in washington state, in north carolina, in pennsylv...