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Well, if donald trump was so bad and this wasn't rigged, why did the republicans win and do so well in the house? republicans overperformed expectations, based on the terrible polling that was out there. but it is important to remember that the house still remained democratic. and remained democratic by, you know, i think they're plus 9, plus 10. that's about the same. biden did about the same that bill clinton did in '92. did about the same, bill clinton did in '96. did much better than jfk, if you just look at the house side. biden did much better than either party when you came to the senat...

Going to throw the pitch to you --. >> he's ready. >> -- you can't watch it go by. when we were in law school, professors would throw at my classmates and i questions, cases that we wanted nothing to do with, and yet it was our job to figure out how to defend a person we didn't want to defend or make an argument that we wouldn't make most of the time because it wouldn't pass the straight face test as professor peerson said. i'm looking at the poll numbers, florida down by 13 in the quinnipiac poll we've said it's more like 8 or. pennsylvania plus 11. michigan plus 9. minnesota plus 13 for now....

All of these numbers and i'm hesitant to suggest this is where the real numbers are right now. obviously we are at the end of july and when i saw the quinnipiac plus 13 out of florida i thought that's probably an outlier and maybe we are closer to 8, 9 based on the other polls but look at the fox news polls, pennsylvania trump up by 11. that makes a lot more sense to me given the makeup of that state than the plus 13 from florida but there are other polls out of florida that show wide disparity. michigan plus 9. minnesota, a state that trump's campaign had believed for three years that they we...

It was a very show of strength and a show of confidence in this arm of government. the secretary of defense was at fema. i don't know the last time the secretary of defense ever went to fema, if this sort of thing. that's where trump started talking about alabama. the folks in alabama did their job by calming residents. the president hasn't been able to put a period on this one. >> no, he absolutely hasn't. here -- so we talked about why it matters in terms of people's lives and their concern about a very real storm. let's talk about why this matters politically, this is "inside politics." thi...

Advantage from trump plus 9 to democrats winning by four points. >> his people say he wasn't on the ballot. >> baloney, his name was definitely on the ballot insofar as you look at the correlation between the house results by district and the presidential vote in 2016, it was the highest correlation i've ever seen going back since all the elections i've studied. >> proof that it will stick potentially in 2020? >> proof that it might stick. this is another key. one of the reasons why the state of iowa moved so far to the right in 2016 was because of non-college white voters moving towards repub...