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Throughout my career. we have to have a good number of cross overs. >> you heard secretary espy talking about a good number of cross overs. this state is red. the reason to have a run off is cindy hyde smith came in first and mike espy is second. nobody got over 50%. that's why they had the run off. this is a ruby red state. president trump carried it by over a dozen points. however, even if the african-american turn out is overwhelming, he needs to cut into this and get a decent number of the white vote. democrats look at this and remember last year in neighboring alabama. this is what we wil...

Washington for me today. one way republicans are fighting to keep an incumbent woman in. on monday president trump will hold not just one, two rallies in support of hyde-smith. she is favored to win. she's a lot closer than expected in this deep ruby red state in the south. first she was caught on tape making comments that seemed to support vote are sr suppression. and then there was this remark about a public hanging. >> if it was a public hanging, i'd be on the front row. >> and this week she addressed the controversies. >> i certainly apologize. there was no ill will, no intent whatsoever. ...

We have been on the forefront of the resistance. we are also not just on the forefront of the resistance, but we are actually behind the defeat of a lot of his candidates. it was black women, black women voters, black women organizers, roy moore is a perfect example in alabama, a ruby red state, we have talked about this over and over again, trump had backed more, ultimatelily and came out aggressively for him. that is part of what his issue is. the second thing is trump knows what racial buttons to push. he has, he always has from the central park five. his attacks are specific. talking about...

And other folks that may make a big difference in three or four of those house races. >> real quickly on beto, he's at 47. that's his top. he spent 80 million bucks for two or three points. it's crazy. >> if the voter models are correct, and i never have any idea -- >> but it could win three or four house seats for the democrats in d.texas. >> beto has all the money and enthusiasm in the world, but when you read the stories about his campaign, they don't have an internal polling director. why? they have no strategy to flip republican voters in a ruby red state. that seems like malpractice. >> ...

Targeted with hateful language. and it is succeeding in some corners. but i would caution at making any sweeping generalizations that everyone is buying into it. >> when you look at that race in tennessee where martin was just reporting, why do you think the democrat is competitive in that ruby red state especially when the republican marsha blackburn has really tied herself to trump and he won big there? >> yeah, well, we're seeing that on the ground here in my home state of kansas as well. we have a neck and neck gubernatorial race between republican kris kobach and democrat laura kelly and ...