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>> it is my joy to welcome you to the lbj library. i know you will be spending a little bit of time, welcome home. >> reporter: thank you, it is good to be here. are you shocked that once again this is a battleground state. >> well, i am obviously, delighted because i feel that texas is becoming a majori majority/minority state and it is important for all of our voices to be heard. >> reporter: can hillary clinton really win here though? >> the answer i learned many years ago, and i have been in public service business for 58 years. my first political campaign was when my father was elected to...

We are back in warren, michigan, where donald trump will be holding a rally. hillary clinton is leading in the polls here by a average of 6%. in texas, shows that clinton is just five points behind trump. it is a very red state. the last time texas went blue was 1976 with jimmy carter. chris jansing is joining us now from austin, texas. chris is at the johnson's library. records are being set for early turn out in the loan star state. >> reporter: it is extraordinary, who would have thought now 40 years after the last democrat won here as a presidential candidate that hillary clinton will be c...

He's the only guy who could do it. and he knew there would be a cost. famously saying democratic party may have lost the south for a generation. >> between the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965 democrats knew told each other the story they would lose the south for a generation. yep. and now according to republicans in the south and nobody's contesting them, it is metaphysically impossible for a democrat to win statewide office in mississippi even as the state reckons with its own culpability for the recent past, even as mr. antebellum ball is a republican nominee for t...

Dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation. he's the only guy who could do it. and he knew there would be a cost. famously saying democratic party may have lost the south for a generation. >> between the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 196 are 5 democrats knew told each other the story they would lose the south for a generation. yep. and now according to republicans in the south and nobody's contesting them, it is metaphysically impossible for a democrat to win statewide office in mississippi even as the state reckons with its own culpability for the recent pa...

He spoke at the johnson library without mentioning the 36th president. last night he changed that. >> we celebrate the passage of these laws at this place, because of president johnson's pivotal brilliant leadership, and passing them. just as abraham lincoln stewarded the 13th amendment through congress, johnson's leadership embodies the power of the presidency, to redeem the promise of america. >> part irony, part triumph that we find ourselves returning to the ideological battlefield of the era. the health care law that president obama put in place is the most ambitious domestic program sinc...