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Something interesting a potential divergence. another new poll is in the iron range of minnesota, the eighth district of minnesota, diuluth and the iron range, the democrats not running again. one of those districts that went obama, trump, held by a democrat. over the summer this was a dead even race. this has broken in a big way for the republicans. >> what's happened? >> kavanaugh effect. i wonder if you're seeing -- this is trump country. this is white working class. this is blew collar. trump demographics we're always talking about. we're seeing a big shift towards the republican just like...

Hanging. >> so there it is. this is interesting because republicans felt over the summer they had polls shows fitzpatrick their incumbent leading, they thought democrats had made a big mistake nominating this candidate, didn't even live in the district until recently, but it may be that that suburban energy to go after trump is so strong it overrides everything here. >> the one thing i've been in thing in the upshot polling, during kavanaugh and post kavanaugh every race was breaking republican. i think we are getting -- we've all said that that post kavanaugh high that republicans felt, that ...

It's the case for women in those suburban districts or if anything from kavanaugh to the extent that it matters, they are more fired up than they were before. >> as far as tennessee goes that's fascinating what you say. what that suggests is post-kavanaugh you had, of course, the republicans going to ma marsha blackburn. but the democratic party running away from a former democratic governor who is the most popular politician in the state. those are the sort of things that subside. as you get closer to the election you have democrats going well wait a second. i guess maybe we would prefer the ...

Anything in the tropics. we're dealing with a flood potential in texas, a lot of rain this morning from little rock to nashville, on and off rain showers from d.c. to philadelphia, boston and also new york so carry your umbrella. but the at risk area is in texas. 8 million people have gotten soaked this weekend, another two to three inches over the next couple days in texas. the week ahead forecast we are watching the rain today, up through the northeast down through texas, middle of the week looks pretty quiet, we're going to see a really nice end to the week in areas of the northeast, but th...

Except in very extraordinary circumstances, especially in mid-term years, you don't hear a lot of foreign policy discussion even in a place like in devon nunez district where if any place in the country we expect to hear discussion about russia and his role as trump's lap dog on the house intelligence committee most people except for activists in the far parts of either part of the party -- they've heard it a little bit but focused on other issues. they will vote for or against him on a lot of other issues. >> so here's my question about what john heilemann just said. so foreign policy is not ...