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your podcasts. the news continues with jake tapper and "cnn tonight." welcome to "cnn tonight." i'm jake tapper. tonight with exactly three weeks until the critical midterm elections here in the united states, candidates across the country in key races are increasingly taking extremism to the extreme. but what exactly is the definition of extremism? obviously that depends on who you ask. in a new ad airing in pennsylvania, republican u.s. senate candidate dr. mehmet oz paints himself as a middle-of the-road type of guy. his opponent fetterman is extreme for supporting criminal just...

>> do you think the democrats' plan is going to backfire in some of these places? >> i think it's unquestionable that it will backfire in a few of these seats. i mean, it's one thing to look at what they did in the governors race in illinois or massachusetts, and see that as a way of potentially sidelining a more electable official who could flip what would otherwise be a safe democratic seat in normal times. it's a whole different thing to look at that and take that role in swing seats just for a marginal advantage. it gets back to the fundamental cynicism in politics right now, that there's ...

Democratic party at least partly responsible? >> you know, i think it's impossible to look at that type of cynical action and not see a degree of responsibility for having, frankly, achieved the outcome that they may not have desired. obviously they did that and they are hoping that they can flip this seat. but as i said before, you know, less electable is not unelectable. in the moment we're in right now, i saw the segment you were playing earlier, the assumption on the democrats' behalf is these republicans have a personality problem, so we will surely overperforma. but the democrats have a ...

U.s. government, of course. >> how do you get avid gun owners and people that support the second amendment to give up their guns and go along with anti-gun legislation? how do you do that? maybe you accomplish that by performing a mass shooting into a crowd that is very likely to be conservative. is that what happened in las vegas? >> no, it's not. in the long-ago political past of last year, it looked as though all of this crazy talk was too much for republican party leaders to stock. after a bunch of past statements were unearthed in which greene supported executing democrats among other hid...

American politics is coming from inside dr. oz's own party, but extremism, extremist, that's an insult we're hearing on a lot of debate stages and no doubt you're hearing it on your tvs. >> masters is so extreme and so wrong for arizona. >> greg abbott signed the most extreme abortion ban in the united states. >> he is too extreme on abortion. >> this guy is so extreme. >> way too extreme for me. >> he's just too extreme. >> stop extreme liberal ryan. >> for republicans, the focus has been on extreme democratic policy positions. at the top of their list, defunding the police, which of course b...