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yearbook and his purported teenage drinking problem and those gang rapes that he supposedly committed? what about those? those were the biggest stories in the world not so long ago, 24/7 on the other cable channels. those stories will define this election and it defined the entire historical era. everyone on television told us that. now these are just fading memories. it turns out they were sideshows. the midterm elections were never going to be fought over vladimir putin or brett kavanaugh or just about anything else we spent most of our time talking about. this election, like all elections, was going to turn on issues that actually affect the life of the country. this year there are three big issues: immigration, the economy and nationalism. the first is the most obvious. immigration determines who lives next door to you.nd it determines who works in your office, who chooses your leaders. there is nothing more fundamental in any country than the question of citizenship. whatever donald trump doesn't

know, he definitely knows this. he's been talking about immigration for three years now. all that time, official washington has been trying to make him stop. >> the way donald trump has been conducting this campaign, attacking brown people, making up stories about possibly george soros funding caravans that are still 800 miles away to try to scare white voters. >> tucker: in other words, "shut up, racist." but trump will not shut up so they have changed tactics. the new line is, immigration doesn't really matter. the threat is hyped. only dumb people and bigots care about borders. by the way, parties of both sides seem to believe this. paul ryan's office let it be known to politico this morning that the speaker of the house begged the president to stopav yammering about the caravan from

central america and talk about something important like paul ryan's tax bill. that's preemptive blame shifting obviously.in if the republicans lose tomorrow, paul ryan can point the finger at trump rather than accept responsibility for not funding the wall that voters said they wanted. but it's also a ludicrous position to take because it's untrue.ot immigration does matter. if, for example, arizona and texas go to the democrats tomorrow, immigration will be the reason. those were republican states until the population changed. so no matter how much you lie about it, immigration is inherently important and voterse understand that. if you want people to stop worrying about the border, then you should secure the border and then it won't be an issue. people are also worried about other things that washington doesn't notice or think is important. here in washington, the economy is synonymous with the stock market. markets have boomed for ten years.to there are entire cable channels are devoted to chronicling that boom. here in washington, the assumption is, the economy must also be booming, but the truth

is after a decade of stocks going higher, the effects, the positive ones are still not very obvious outside of selectit zip codes on the coast. in middle america people understand they will most certainly make less than their parents made, a reversal of the american dream. they a know they won't be able o buy cars or buy houses, they are not getting married or having kids. our current economic system makes it more difficult than ever than families to form. our middle class is becoming unable to reproduce itself. washington should be absolutely panicked about this. it is the most basic sign of failure, their failure, but nobody in either party seems to care. their answer is to import new families from other countries. so maybe it's not so surprising that young people say they like socialism. because what we have now is not working for them, and unless we fix it, wehe may get actual socialism, which will be a disaster. and that leads to the third issue of this election, which is nationalism. despite what you are hearing day in and day out, nationalism is

not a racial category. it has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. nationalism is the belief that leaders oughtit to put the interest of their own countries above those of other countries.p it's very straightforward. the president himself declared himself a nationalist the other night. watch. >> they have a word, it sort ofh became old-fashioned. it's called a nationalist. and i say, really, we are not supposed to use that word. you know what i am? i'm a nationalist. okay? i'm a nationalist! >> tucker: trump is a nationalist so in normal times the president of the united states announcing that his main goal is protecting thel united states would not qualify as news because until about 10 minutes ago, every leader of every nation state throughout history has been a nationalist almost by definition. franklin roosevelt was a nationalistt and so was mahatma gandhi and nelson mandela. nationalism has always been the

rule and why wouldn't it be? yet suddenly it's an abomination. >> nationalist. use that word. we are going to talk about that word tonight. it's a favorite of the alt-right and it's loaded with racist undertones. globalists has been used as a slur against those in the administration, often with anti-semitic overturns, which happens to make the president come right out and embrace nationalism openly and claim that metal. what has happened here? what you're trying to say as a president of the united states as you are a nationalist. americans know what that means. it's not even a dog whistle, it's a bullhorn. >> tucker: dumb people repeating their same talking points. so the messages nationalism is now profanity, the word itself. twitter and facebook will surely be banning that term if they haven't already. but why? what exactly is going on here? why are they so intent on

stamping out not just the concept, but the very word? it's simple. what you are watching his people protecting their own prerogatives. globalization, which is the opposite of nationalism, has caused an enormous transfer of wealth from the american middle class to what we used to call the third world, to other countries. american factories closed but the job student to go aware, they just want other countries. some nations got rich from this and others got poorer. that's what happened. rather than admit what actually happened though, the people whoo got richer are trying to make the people who got poorer shut up and stop complaining about it. a borderless world has beenoo hugely profitable for them and that's why they support it. nationalism is their kryptonite so they must stop it. they scream "racism" and hope that nationalism will go away. will it go away? probably not. because the core idea is appealing to people, all people in all countries, over all timeo people want leaders who are

above all on their side. they always have wanted that and they always will want that. that's what we know. what we don't know is what's going to happen in the elections tomorrow. we won't even guess, nothing would surprise us. we know what the real issues are because it's obvious and we will spend the next hour talking about those issues. we will begin tonight onn immigration with ann coulter, the author of "resistance is futile: how the trial painting left lost its collective mind." ann, thanks for coming on. so you saw this piece in "politico" today, and it kind of stuck out.n. in it, a background source informeded politico that paul ryan has been trying to stop trump from talking about it, and what he ought to really be talking about is his great success with the tax bill that became law. if this isn't g preemptive butt covering, i'm not sure what is. >> beyond that, it so completely wrong, i'm so happy trump has

taken over my party. that's thehe old loser democrat, rather, republican party running on tax cuts. half the country doesn't even pay taxes. you know running on the economy is a loser because for one thing, all of the left-wing commentators are saying, trump should be talking about the economy. please talk about the economy and not immigration. number two, the only argument from their side that you just played, i guess from joe scarborough, was to accuse people who are opposed to dumping millions of poor people on the country, driving down the wages of the working class and joe scarborough's maid, is to claim racism. the left is so lucky that the poor countries to the south of us are latin american countries and we are not taking in, like, poland's poor or eastern europe's poor, maybe gypsies. i don't know if you consider

gypsies darker, browner than us. it has nothing to do with race until they make it so. andd i would like to see -- >> tucker: just to be clear about what you are saying, if you we were taking eastern europeans, then the left wouldn't get to claim racism, they would have to think of some other reason. >> yes. [laughs] no, our objection is dumping lots of poor people on the country is hurting the poor people already here and the working class already here. the low skilled workers already here. i'd like to know how many of joe scarborough's beloved brown people live in the houses near him as opposed to come to clean his toilet and pool. a the racism argument is -- okay, i don't have an argument but -- >> tucker: are you struck by how much -- there's a real economic argument that i think is to be had which i would have any time with anybody anywhere over the effects of migration and immigration. but they short-circuit the

debate by attacking the motives and character of the people on the other side. but does it strike you that they are doing it to protect their own pretty good deal that they are getting? their prerogatives? >> absolutely. mass low wage immigration is terrific for people. like i say, you have your house cleaned so cheap. you get to strut around like you are martin luther king. if you work on wall street, you put together all these global deals.ti globalism is great for the rich, people who live on the coast and people who need a lot -- who have a lot of servants. pool boy, nanny, someone to pick up the kids. it's terrific for them but again, for the poor people not just poor people. it goes up the scale. the working class gets pushed aside as well and it shows trump's magnificent political instincts, i think, other than actually fulfilling his promises on building a wall and deporting illegal aliens, and he's doing the best he can on

these midterms. i love that his instincts are, no, i have to keep talking about immigration. a little tip for the president, it would be so much better if you actually did the stuff that you've beenmi promising to do fr three years. >> tucker: that's true, your own party agrees with you. ann coulter, thanks for that analysis. >> thank you. >> tucker: lisa boothe is a senior fellow at independence on the showe's been several times in the past few weeks trying to help us come up to date on these elections. she joins us one last time for last-minute developments. what is happening in the final hours?s? >> thanks so much for having me. i really enjoyed it. as youho know, we've been following the florida gubernatorial race and andrew gillum is surrounded by an fbi investigation into thl city of tallahassee where he is mayor, also facing a state probe regarding failure to disclose travel and gifts. it turns out his intern is also having trouble with the law.

she made her so famous last week for this. take a look. >> you are supporting nazis. do you know that? >> don't pour your coffee on me. >> [bleep] you, i will. do you understand that fascism is here? do you understands that nazis h are here? i hope you all realize that you are normalizing and enabling nazis. and you can film me, i don't [bleep] care. >> do you really care? do you? >> tucker: so you are saying she was an intern for gillum. has he said anything about that? >> lisa: i'm not sure about that but she's been arrested and charged with battery with this incident. she was also wearing a communism pin and that she is a member of the fsu students foror justice, fun facts about her. she seems like a real peach.

[laughs] and tucker, we've also been following the arizona senate race. now kyrsten sinema has come under fire foror previous statements that she's made, her antiwar statements and activities and also that 2003 comment that she 2 made where se said she doesn't care if americans join the taliban. she was asked point-blank yesterday by msnbc if she regrets those comments. listen to what she said. >> do you regret that statement? >> it was an offhand comment during an interview about a war that i believe was misguided. i still believe it was misguided. what martha has chosen to do is run a very negative a campaign based on lies and attacks. that is her choice but i think arizonans are choosing the personos that they believe shars their values and they believe will stand up for them. >> she was asked not once, but twice, and refused to say she regretted those comments that she made so arizona voters should certainly keep that in mind.. also looking at the georgia

gubernatorial race, there has been this interesting video and photos being sent around and making their way around the internet of these black panthers in support of stacey abrams. marching around the city of atlanta. but look at what they are holding. but they are holding "assault weapons" and also stacy abrams for governor signs, but only one of those things does stacey abrams want to confiscate from them and ban. that is of course the "assault weapon." she has a member of the state house actually cosponsored both ban assault weapons and also to confiscate them, yet she has been ono tv making the national rounds and refusing to admit the fact that she did such a thing. >> tucker: [laughs] unbelievable. lisa boothe, thanks for being here. underdog democrats like beto o'rourke are working to get tons of coverage. there are some impressive republican challengers though,

and they are not getting much attention at all. we will change that. for one night only michigan senate candidate john james is on the ballot tomorrow and he joins us next. ♪ when you retire will you or will you just be you, without the constraints of a full time job? you can grow your retirement savings with pacific life and create the future that's most meaningful to you. which means you can retire, without retiring from life. having the flexibility to retire on your terms. that's the power of pacific. ask your financial professional about pacific life today.

♪ >> tucker: john james is a republican in michigan and he is challenging debbie stabenow in the state. he's 37 years old. he flew helicopters during the iraq war. he's been an underdog for the entire race but polls now show him within striking distance of the incumbent senator. we think all of that might make

a compelling m news story but te press have largely ignored james while turning beto o'rourke into a celebrity. "he's our bobby kennedy." why is that? that's the question. we don't often have candidates on, but john james joins us. mr. james, thanks for coming on. >> thanks for havingbu me. >> tucker: the reason we wanted to talk to you, we want to play for our viewers a recording that you made. it's a reporter who called you, and you didn't answer and she thought she hung up but she didn't and here's what you captured on tape. >> my number is 989 [bleep] extension 109. thank you. man, if he beats her, that would suck. i don't think it will happen. he's hard to get a hold of. i hope he doesn't win for that reason, too. do you have anything resembling

a page one article? can you hear me? do you have anything -- i mean, a top story? >> tucker: so that is brenda battles, a reporter from a local newspaper and i guess she doesn't like you. is that your read on that? >> i wouldou say so. i think this is just kind of the indication that you are getting, the uphill battle that many of us are facing because a lot of the bias that we are seeing out there is just not fair for those who share different opinions than someone in the progressive liberal media. >> tucker: it's kind of on display there. what do you think your shot is tomorrow? >> we've closed the gap by the grace of god in ourur grassroots army. their excitement here is crazy. in the next room we have a rally going on with a couple hundred people back there who are fired up about getting the vote here in michigan. i will tell you, we have the energy because people are sick and tired of being condescended

to end the ineffectiveness and hyperpartisanship of debbie stabenow. people want a combat veteran who understands what it takes to take care of our veterans and keep this country safe. people want a business leader who understands how to create jobs in the real world, somebody who understands how to grow our economy in the state of michigan. the liberal bias that you are seeing, that you just heard for yourself right here in the state of michigan, are intent on maintaining the status quo. because i don't fit in anyone's black box or a little white box. or a little red box or little blue box.e i'm red, white, and blue, baby. and when i get to washington, i'm going to make sure that we move this state forward and we move this country forward and we are not going to let anybody stop us. it's about keeping america safe and it's about putting michigan number one. >> tucker: i was wondering why -- we've been hearing so much about beto o'rourke orng whatever his fake name is. and nothing about you and now we know why. so if we come to washington and we hope you do, we hope you will stop in on the show

so we can hear more. mr. james, thank you so much. >> thank you so much, go to johnjamesforsenate.com. god bless. >> tucker: god bless. so whatke are republicans going to do if the blue wave fails to materialize and come up they win? what will democrats do if they do as well as they hope, and get both houses of congress? what will happen if they don't? what is going to happen, period? dana perino is the person we go to for questions like this, she of course hosts "the briefing with dana perino." the most beloved person in the building, as you well know. >> thanks. >> tucker: so first, what would happen, the pulse pollsters are saying unlikely but possible -- >> there's always a chance. >> tucker: there always is. but the scenario where the democrats don't take the house, what happens there? >> they will have a lot of soul-searching to do. they will say why, how can it be? we ran on health care.of everybody said health care was the reason. we will have a mad scramble of probably, not kidding, 35 or 40 democrats who think they can run for president. they they will all be pointing their fingers at each other.

we areth looking at about $5 billion spent in the midterm race. the democrats start in a deficit in the senate. john james is an interesting candidate. i would watch that recent michigan, he's only two points behind, really close behind did not raise. one thing that happens, and the rust belt states, a lot of the republican governors are up, like governor walker, a very tight reelection effort there. lots of stuff happening in the rust belt. the democrats are the favorite to win back the house by some but there is still a chance. let's say this. t if democrats do take back the majority in the house, and they only take it back by ten, what happens then to the speaker's race? >> tucker: exactly. >> nancy pelosi is unlikely to be speaker in that scenario. there is already about 24, maybe 30 democrats who have publicly aid they would not vote for her. there's going to be scrambling all across the map.

if the republicans hold on, legislating is going to be very difficult and they have to figure out, what are we for? they talk about tax cuts 2.0, is that going to cut it?? can they go in to 2020 not addressing health care? can they figure out a way to work with democrats to do something on immigration? that will be the big test at 2020. >> tucker: interesting. who do you think, if pelosi is not the speaker? there is some latent hostility people agree with -- people are scared of her. >> she is very good at politics and she is let people takes -- she will take all the slings and arrows. as she said the other day, this is politics and not a tea party. >> tucker: and she's legitimately tough. if it's not pelosi, who is it? >> if she doesn't have a nice cushion of 45 seats or something like that it's likely it will be hard for her to hold on.ni so then you'd go to her caretaker position of perhaps james clyburn or someone, andd they can figure out

generationally and directionally where they want to go. there will be some interesting new democrats that do win. you will have some veterans from the iraq and afghanistan wars, that will be interesting. you wille have some younger people, which will be very interesting. you will have some that are very into identity politics and you will e have some from midwestern states that say no. we have to do a better job of talking to blue-collar voters on the economy and on immigration and all of those things. so the struggle is going to be really tough for the democrats. president trump has been able to do is unite the you know mike republicans behind him in a way that 18 months ago, you might not have foreseen. >> tucker: thank you for saying that, i don't think anyone would have guessed that he made his party as fast as he did. >> the democrats helped. what they did to brett kavanaugh was a unifying effect for republicans across the board. >> tucker: by being unreasonable. dana perino of "the daily briefing," and a key part of tomorrow night's election coverage. >> we will see you then.

>> tucker: we definitely will. thank you, dana. >> okay, goodbye. >> tucker: it used to be a given that american leaders would put america first. now even suggesting that they would be doing that is being denounced as evil. why isut that? mark steyn joins us after the break. ♪ - at afor the financialt's time world to stop acting the same old way. you need a partner that is willing to break free from conventional thinking. we are a different kind of financial company. we are athene, and we are driven to do more. and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of ,

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>> tucker: every great president in the history was a staunch nationalist. probably the worst,

woodrow wilson was an avid globalist and he got us into the worst war in history. despite that, american elites tell us that nationalist natio. only globalism is morally acceptable. they say this because nationalism is racist, they claim. in fact, nationalism has nothing to do with race, look at the democratic party, who are obsessed with race. people are celebrated and attacked purely on the basis of skin color. democrats want job jobs, opportunity itself, divided and divvied up based on dna. this is tribalism and it's destroying the country. nationalism doesn't cause tribalism, it is the anecdote to tribalism. rallyse around the nation and nt your tribe. author and columnist mark steyn believes this is obvious, having spent his life traveling around the world, and he joins us now to reiterate it. [laughs]

this is so orwellian because leaving trump out of it, nationalism is the antidote to tribalism. we are i all in different tribe. ignore our tribes, come together around the country, right? >> and that's actually how functioning states get by. your principal identity is thatt you are an american in america or you are a swede in sweden or you are a tuvaluan in tuvalu. if you begin nationalism, people look for other identities. and it doesn't matter that racial identities or religious identities, like islam, or sexual identities, you have, as he said, tribe allies to the population and peoples of subnational identity becomes more important toti them than te national identity. and that is an extremely dangerous experiment. because actually, nationalism is the first duty of a government

in self-governing societies. >> tucker: flesh that out a little bit. nationalism is the first duty of a government? why? >> without it, there is actually no point to being able to elect your leaders. they have a duty to take care of the people they represent. so when you have a situation, you said putting trump aside, but let's put him back for just a moment. a couple of years ago, people switched on the television and they found that the mainstream candidates of one party were talking about boots on the ground in afghanistan or libya or yemen or wherever is next, and the other party's plan is they want afghanistan and yemen and libya and other countries to come and move to america, to solve, as you were saying earlier, the problem that they have because of later family formation because americans can no longer form afford to

form families and have children as youngng as they used to. the democrats and half the republican party want to bring in foreigners to be a kind of permanent peasant class, reproducing at the rates that they think are necessary for the economy. these are all insane. sometimes that is made absolutely explicit. angela merkel in germany brought in 2 million young muslim men to be theon children that germans didn't have for t themselves. and this is an economically a defective way to organize any kind of been a society. >> tucker: is also an abandonment to your core responsibility, to your own people, the core of nationalism. mark steyn, i don't think anyone could have said it better than you just stated, thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. d j >> tucker: democrats spent more than a month trying to destroy everything they could in brett kavanaugh's life. it was impersonal, though. they were just pushing obvious lies or political effect.

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♪ >> tucker: last month, democrats claimed that they were absolutely certain that brett kavanaugh was a rapist, likely a gang rapist. but now they have revealed that we knew all along which was, they knew that but they didn't care that it was true or not, they only cared about saying anything they could to keep him off the court no matter how libless and absurd. last week one of the accusers of brett kavanaugh admitted to thet senate judiciary committee admitted they in fact made that up. tammy bruce joins us tonight. you would think there would be people who make a living protecting women t who would sa, wait a second. this is a big deal, you should always admit when you are wrong

but i haven't heard anybody talk about the story and certainly no one on the left. why? >> not only are they not admitting that they were wrong, but the argument could be made that they knew from the start. this was a political stunt. the problem is, though, they should also be angry. if they were serious, they would be angry that these certain people lied. that it reverses the impact of what we were trying to do for women for the last 20 years to get them to be taken seriously, on the issue of sexual assault and domestic violence, et cetera. but you hear crickets, it's silence. and even the media. this was so important. of course, it consumed media 24/7 for weeks, if not upwards of a month.mp now you would think, if this is still socially dynamic issue -- my goodness. is it not a rapist we've got on the supreme court? wouldn't that even require more outrage and more investigation

and yet, not only is there no more investigation into kavanaugh, but there is no defense of the women. now, julie swetnick and michael avenatti and others, they will need lawyers. they will need money moving to the future, they will need to be able to defend themselves at a federal level. and there is silence for them, too. everyone has run for the hills and what this confirms is this was simply a stunt and they knew what they were doing. f they didn't care about the impact on women overall and they still don't andst that is the largest fraud facing the americanla people. the american left not only not being champions for women and others on the fringe and these issues, they've been enablers of having those issues get worse and they are the enemy of women across this country and i believe tomorrow, we will see some of the results of that. we saw some change when it comes to democrats' enthusiasm and the gap between the enthusiasm after the kavanaugh hearing because i think that fraud finally was exposed.

and now that is confirmed with senator grassley's report. >> tucker: it's remarkable when you put it that way. they are not even trying to protect the women whose lives theyey said they so deeply care about. what about all the candidates who said that last month when who are running for office? they have not said a word one -- it's very strange. they are never asked about it. >> that's the strange thing.ha i know the news moves quickly but everyone, thinkes about it. these women have thrown into a volcano and they don't care what has happened. no one will save those women, no one is going to save the people -- i mean, this is the doj. this is not the local prosecutor, and i love the local prosecutors as well but this is serious federal crime. and grassley is not done yet. they are looking at witness tampering on the leland kaiser case, and all of that. >> tucker: it's amazing! >> none of these women have support and that's the

democratic party that's looking to have more power tomorrow. >> tucker: totally transaction, no, we are not calling you in the morning apparently. tammy, thank you so much. if tomorrow goes well, republicans could pick up a senate seat in new jersey, which hasn't happened since 1972. certainly a long time. that would be kind of amazing. we will investigate that and other major competitive races, after the break. ♪ >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. >> student: i did mine on volcanoes. >> teacher: you did?! oh, i can't wait to read it. >> tech vo: so when she had auto glass damage... she chose safelite. with safelite, she could see exactly when we'd be there. >> teacher: you must be pascal. >> tech: yes ma'am. >> tech vo: saving her time... [honk, honk] >> kids: bye!

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♪ >> tucker: it's been an awfully long time since a republican has been elected to the senate from the state of new jersey, but thanks to the obvious personal corruption of senator bob menendez, it could happen tomorrow. seth, do you think this could really happen? >> well, there is a shot. it's a disgrace that bob menendez is in the senate to

begin with and it has been for years. when he was appointed in 2006, "the new york times" said it was a real disappointment and the "newark star ledger" just urged everyone to choke on it andis ve for him. people know that they should not be in there. this was a guy who came in from the hudson county democratic machine. this is where the meadowlands are, and the sea caucus. this is a guy who knows where the bodies are buried. metaphorically, metaphorically. he has a great deal of corruption in his whole story.y. he just was found -- there was a hung jury in his federal corruption t trial. for accepting dozens of trips to the dominican republic, and paris, from a well-connected ophthalmologist for whom hehe dd all kinds of favors. >> tucker: it's pretty sleazy. if you had to rate this in 30

seconds, the likelihood, where would you put it? i'm sorry to put you on the spot >> in the last day or so, but i'm interested. apparently the polls have opened up for him a little bit. so it seemed like it was close now, the experts are saying that his lead has widened. but there is a lot of problems with this guy and his opponent bob hugin has been putting money into ads focusing on menendez's corruption and dirty dealing. so i would say 60/40. >> tucker: that's pretty amazing in the state of new jersey. we will save the tape. thank you. republicans are hoping to unseat incumbents in missouri and indiana. for the latest on those races, trace gallagher. hey, trace. >> the fact that president trump made his second visit to indiana in the week is a good indicator that they believe mike

braun has a genuine shot at knocking off indiana's incumbent democratic senator joe donnelly. the real clear politics average has a dead heat with donnelly at 44.3% and braun at 43. though the latest fox news poll has braun down seven points. but the indianapolis star newspapers as people waited in line for hours in fort wayne to get to see president trump's rally. lou holtz, a man who is beloved in indiania for his 11 seasons coaching notre dame's spoke as well tonight. but here's what the president said. >> tomorrow the people of indiana are going to send mike braun to the u.s. senate to keep america's economic booms surging full speed ahead. >> in the meantime, in the missouri senate race, it doesn't matter what polls you look at, it's a toss-up. the rcp average has republican challenger josh hawley with a little more than a half point lead over

missouri democratic incumbent claire mccaskill. the fox news poll has him deadlocked at 43% each, and the nbc mirrors poll has mccaskill up by three points but that is still within a margin of error. it is notable that 54% of missouri voters approve of president trump's job performance and, in an effort to push josh hawley across the finish line, the president is also holding a rally in missouri about an hour and 5 minutes from right now. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks. fundamentally, most elections are about the economy, that's always been true but what's listriking in the polling in ths one is how many voters say they want profound change to the u.s. economy. youngfo people famously say they identify with socialism pretty strongly. the question is, why is that? it's not just that they are being misinformed.d. as the current economy not working for them? a professor of political science

and international affairs from brown university in providence joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. my theory, andng i think it's right, is that a lot of young people say they want real economic change because the current economy is not working for them and the boom that we are seeing in markets isn't reflected in the economy that they experienced, do you think that's true? >> i think there's definitely a lot of truth and what a lot of viewers will feel themselves is that they are working harder constantly but at the same time, there is lots of employment and loss of jobs and no one isns saying the economy isn't good, it's not showing up in wages and that's been a story that's been going on for a long time. all the way back to the late '70s, in fact. >> tucker: interesting. so is it also true that young people entering the labor market for the first ten years of employment, 22 to 32, they are finding themselves behind where they're at parent's generation was at those ages? >> that's true. they also have something that their parents didn't have, in many cases, a very large debt burden coming from studentt loans. so whenn you think about what that does, by the time their parents were getting into

their 30s, marrying and having kids and building houses and homes, forming assets as you would say, you are paying off your debt and you haven't had a chance to do that yet so that's acting as a drag on their future consumption and ultimately, on their lives.o >> tucker: what i don't understand is why this isn't causing alarm bells to go off. if young people can't form families by definition, your society will become less stable. nobody seems to care. why is that? >> i think because the incentives of both parties have been skewed in the following:in old people own 80% of the assets in the world and they vote twice as much as young people. so if young people are too worried about paying off their loans and not going out to vote and so politicians go with the old people which is where the money is andnd that's what they care about.ut >> tucker: but don't long term you risk having upheavals in your society, things become volatile and that's bad for

everybody, if you don't have an economy that allows people to get vested in the society? >> where it's particularly dangerous, less than social upheaval, is in the financial sector. we all borrowus against our futures and we try to use that cash wisely to invest in ourselves, but if wages have not been rising that people are borrowing for consumption. and if at the end of the day the wages aren'tf going to rise none they g don't pay that off until the long term. and the big stress is in the financial sector. >> tucker: that is really prescient. i'm always grateful when you come on the show, thank you. >> pleasure. >> tucker: "saturday night live" came out with an editorial right before the midterms and went after a republican candidate for the crime of being wounded overseas. recap of that is next. ♪ is next snacking can mean that pieces get stuck under mike's denture. but super poligrip gives him a tight seal. to help block out food particles. so he can enjoy the game.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: in the past two years the democratic party has

outsourced much of its political philosophy to late night tv shows and they haven'tti closed the think tanks here i in d.c. t they don't pay any attention. they pay attention to "saturday night live." it's not as funny as it used to be but it does tell you a lot about what the left now believes. here's their final pitch for the 2018 midterms. and the republicans are disgusting and some are even wounded in wars. >> you may be surprised to hear that he's a congressional -- >> tucker: i thought it was a sound bite, but it's not. you are seeing on the screen, part of "saturday night live." texas candidate dan crenshaw while stan and i pete davidson marked him as "one of the gross people" running for office. he added, i know he lost his eye in world war whatever. soar that's their position and they are not hiding it anymore. useful p for you to know. that's it for us tonight, we are out of time. that hour went quick. we will be back every night at

8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn and sincere enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. midterms tomorrow, we'll see you then. election coverage kicks off at 6:00 p.m. eastern and we will be here at the usual time at 8:00. sean hannity right now from new york.up >> sean: tucker, great show as always.m welcome to "hannity." it is midterms. hello, guys, how are we doing, all right? [cheers and applause] look at this! we are broadcasting live from cape girardeau, missouri, where president trump and radio legend rush limbaugh, this is hisir home. they are such a take the coming up, the president himself stage right behind me. an exclusivefor live interview, plus, we will have rush limbaugh's speech as it happens. so much is at stake in a few short hours. are you ready? a packed house. americans, you have the power. you have