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Used in his race. states like texas are fool's gold for the other side until they're not. right? pennsylvania was always that way for republicans. for cycle after cycle, republicans invest in pennsylvania. >> dana: michigan, too. >> then the wall crumbled. that could happen in texas. we don't know. neither does beto. >> dana: let me ask you about tennessee. blackburn pulling away. new york times poll 54, 45 percent. phil bredesen trying to run as a moderate. if you cannot win there in tennessee, can you not win at all? >> marsha blackburn has been a great representative for tennessee. she's be...

Cruz. he's falling behind. do you think it was worth it putting all this money towards this race? >> i don't know how you can call it fool's gold when benson won it in 1990. this is a tough, tough place for democrats to run in. beto o'rourke has run a tremendous race. to be even this close, this is a race that was on no one's radar. lot of this money is small dollar donations, real just grasping enthusiasm. so he still has a chance to pull this out. but this is red country here. democrats win here, it's not a blue wave. >> dana: i want you to come back and explain if that happens. let me ask y...

Even or down, it's pretty close. >> that's right. it's the only state where we are truly on defense. it's the only state that hillary clinton won. she won the state by 2.5 points, nearly 30,000 votes. so i think to be now barely a month from midterms and have senator heller leading in some polls or being tied despite all the democratic enthusiasm that we hear about, that's very encouraging to republicans. not only are we gonna hold the majority in the stphaeurbgt but likely increase it. >> dana: nevada will be one to watch. another state we've been talking a lot about is texas and the race bet...

>> cornell, that's a sort of chuck schumer, montel jordan, this is how we do it now. is that a problem for the dems if that's how they even seen? >> truth is, women were against this kavanaugh by better than 20 points. the idea that kavanaugh is going to be beneficial to you is fool's gold. that said, you know, what is schumer to do? schumer's case is going to be, we need, in fact, a democratic majority in the senate. because if we have a democratic majority in the senate, we could have stopped this from going through. so i think that's a rallying cry. from a procedural stand point, we don't h...

Be concussive to the status quo and con cuss alternative the republican party. >> there is also, cornell, a huge difference between the senate map and the house map, and that is part of the problem, right? because that senate map is so favorable to the republicans, it's so many red states the democrats have to defend, you can sort of get your voters worked up in those states and win in a way that you can't in the suburbs in orange county, california or new jersey? >> that's right. and i think, chris, i've thought the enthusiasm gap to an extent was fool's gold because republicans we know tend ...