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jdbalart@msnbc. yasmin vossoughian picks up with more news right now. ♪♪ good to see you. it is thursday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian live for you here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we got a lot to get to this morning. right now a jolt of good news on the economic front. 12 days out from the midterms which could very well be decided by how voters feel about the economy. the gdp grew more than expected and how the white house is responding to that. new urgency and new questions in two of the most consequential races of the midterms. first in georgia, a new allegatio...

Points. and so let's -- that's not realistic. we have close races in this country. go back to 2020, pennsylvania, 49/50, wisconsin, 48/49. the republicans need to expand the playing field. when you look at the ideal that this is supposed to be a republican wave here, this is supposed to be the view that republicans have a 2010 like year where they pick up 30 or some seats, there's very little evidence in the data. when you have toss-up races and solidly red states, see ohio, see north carolina, i would actually argue that quite frankly it's democrats who are quite frankly have taken some of th...

Concentrates the mind. >> so let me add a little bit more to the pessimism, because i think part of the problem is on the left and on the right, there's a sense on each side, we speak for the people. it's only trickery that lets the other people win. on the left, it's gerrymandering that has caused the other side, it's russia that has caused the other side to win. on the right, if it's not for the media and hollywood, we'd be getting our way on everything. with both sides thinking they already speak for the majority, they feel even less reason to persuade. >> that's why populism can be so powe...