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District. maybe voted for the president with reservations or against clinton. there we saw a case if you do a full embrace of the president in the general election in a fairly safe republican seat, didn't go very well. >> i get the sense that some republicans are feeling a little better about the midterms now than maybe they would have two months ago and some of the congressional ballot tests the margins have shrunk. you can look at that. but also there's intensity of support. how do you see it? >> look, if you're republican, you'll take a little bit of comfort knowing the generic ballot is cl...

>> certainly cnn poll encouraging for republicans. i would still -- if i'm a republican i'm operating under the assumption i'm down. you can never work hard enough, raise enough money and hope for the best and you have to plan for the worst. these generic numbers float. that's a national generic number. in my district, there's a plus 11 generic right now for the democrat. >> democratic advantage. >> my district's dead even. i look at the generic ballots to learn from that way and only one factor. i look at the intensity levels and certainly the democrats have a lot of intensity, anger, enthusi...

Phenomenon saying the split personality of the election makes it difficult for any party to develop any kind of overarching message. and it looks like the democrats will lose seats in the senate. is this unusual to you? how does this affect midterm strategies? >> this is probably a more complicating midterm election than most. primarily because of who is in the white house. he's such a focus of attention for the media and others that to some extent it's complicating the midterm messaging and strategies that some campaigns and elections are trying to run. historically if you look at the numbers...

Of the -- it was a plus 11 rf. trump won that, ours was a plus 5 r. trump won it by 10. we are definitely looking forward to it. that's why you heard rumors that paul ryan was thinking about getting out. as far as him saying that it's because of his family, well, if that was the case, if that's the only reason he's going to get out, then why did he just recently perform a poll? >> do you expect him to campaign? do you expect him to campaign if it's not paul kneeland? >> i'm sure the republicans will put all kinds of money behind whoever their candidate; there's no doubt about that. just as the...

When has he ever said -- even when he talks about russia generally, he does not criticize putin. some of the putin moves that he has put forward. even the elections in russia right now. there's virtually no one running against mr. putin. why? because he tries to punish his adversaries and put them in jail or do something to them. mr. trump would like to do the same thing. he has articulated just that fact. >> western pennsylvania special election. how confident are you in nancy pelosi's leadership? do you think she took a hit there, just the back and forth between these two candidates as her r...