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Push ahead, push ahead. keep pushing it forward. and that strategy seems to have worked for them. and, you know, i think that the president feels -- we've heard him talk about it publicly. we've seen him tweet about it, that this fight has just galvanized his base, has really energized core republicans to feel that, you know, brett kavanaugh was treated unfairly and that all this was really was a proxy fight over him, donald trump, and that he won that fight. and i think he's going to point to the confirmation vote tomorrow as proof of that. and on the other side, i think we see that democrats...

Judge kavanaugh looks set to be confirmed by a narrow margin. it was bitter partisanship all the way, a partisan battle. but how does the white house feel right now, you think? >> i think the white house feels terrific because they're -- you know, the president is getting the nominee he wanted. their m.o. throughout this whole couple of weeks of back and forth on brett kavanaugh's confirmation at times thinking that it might be dead, at times being more optimistic, was just push ahead, push ahead. keep pushing it forward. and that strategy seems to have worked for them. and, you know, i think ...

Rosenstein. what would all of this mean? what would it mean for sessions' fate if rosenstein is fired? >> well, you know, the issue of rosenstein's fate is i think an interesting and complicated issue. the issue of jeff sessions' fate is not complicated. i think the polls close at about 7:00 on the mid -- day of the mid terms. he's out by 7:30 at the latest. he is just gone. the president hasn't even tried to pretend -- to pretend otherwise. this will lead to the appointment of a new attorney general who will not be recused from the russia investigation. as we have all been discussing, the sen...

Full disclosure, to senator ted cruz. what we're seeing in these two states and the polling, which we're showing on screen, early on certainly, but we're seeing neck and neck within margins of error even, right? >> yeah. these are going to be reasonably close races. i think that ted cruz should have an edge. texas is a very red state. you have a governor's race. florida might be a little closer. florida is a swing state, and that is going to be a proxy fight between the trump support and the bernie sanders wing of the party, i believe. when you look at the democrats, there is a big struggle. a...

Gillum who has run on impeachment. why, by the way, if you're running for governor of florida you use all the powers at his disposal to impeach the president, which are zero. a very nationalized race and see on the one side you have far left and on the other side you have this nationalist populist movement. >> dana: gillum was backed by bernie sanders. you can imagine that president trump and senator sanders are going to be in florida and this is a proxy fight now. >> in a state that trump won by less than two points and the crucially important swing state above all swing states. >> dana: look...