host: claire mccaskill recently came out against the kavanaugh nomination this week. talk about that in a larger context of where mccaskill is in regaining the seat. guest: i think it is significant she did that. there had been a lot of pressure on her from both sides of the aisle, republicans have been attacking her on this since justice kennedy retired, before there was even a nominee. i think there was a lot of expectation from progressives that she needed to vote no against kavanaugh. she has been facing a lot of calls from groups at planned parenthood and others about that. her reasoning had nothing to do with roe v. wade and had nothing to do with the assault allegation against judge kavanaugh. she cited specifically, his views on dark money and campaign spending and concerns that he will further loosen the campaign regulations that became loosened with citizens united. policyk a very specific position to explain it. if she had voted to support the nomination, she would have offended a lot of people she needs to get out to the polls, specifically like kansas city

claire mccaskill voted no on tax cuts. for the disaster were holding together. we lost all of the democrat votes. we lost every democrat. we would've saved a trillion dollars in giving you great healthcare and we still will. we need more republicans. mccaskill voted no on case law. about case law? how do you vote no on that? you know why? because schumer and pelosi told her to vote no. as she voted no on enhanced vetting of refugees. the refugee comes and you don't know where they're coming from. i want to do it enhanced vetting. that's a term i came up with. she voted no. coming up with things over the next four weeks you like it better. she wants to let everybody pour into the country, she wants to give them healthcare. next let's give them free education, let's also hurt the state of missouri and every other state. you see what's going on in california, he wants open borders and everybody worldwide can pour into california. just pour in. he's going to give you healthcare, education, that will be california will be large

about --ever ever get get a vote from claire mccaskill.crowd boos] she has been saying there he nice things, but she will never vote for us. man, kavanaugh, fantastic fantastic. she just announced she will not go for him. can you believe that? you talk about central casting, he was born -- they were saying it 10 years ago -- he was born for the u.s. supreme court. he was born for it. and it is going to happen, but she just announced she is not voting. she will vote against everything we want to do, including tax cut, bigger that one out. so, claire mccaskill will never because sher way, loves the swamp. she is part of the swamp. and we have a swamp in washington. just look at what is now being exposed in our department of justice and the fbi. look at what is going on. i want to tell you, we have great people in the department of justice, we have great people, these are people i really believe you take a poll, they will be at 95%. but you have some real bad ones, you see what is happening at the fbi. they are all gone. they are all gone. th

claire mccaskill voted no on tax cuts.s tax cuts for the middle class families and she voted for the disaster that we're holding together, we had it defeat unfortunately but unfortunately we lost a certain vote and lost all of the democrat votes. we lost every democrat. would have saved a trillion dollars and we would have given you great health care but we still well. we need some more republicans. we need josh but we need more republicans. [cheering] mccaskill voted no on kate's law. how about kate's law? you see what is coming in. she voted no on kate's law. how do you vote no on kate's law. know why she voted no? bus schumer and pelosi told her to vote no. [booing] >> and see vetted no on enhanced vetting for refugees, a refugee comes in, you don't know where they're coming from. i want to do -- we call it -- a term i came up with -- enhanced vetting. she voted no. but we're coming out with things over the next four weeks. you'll like it better than enhance vetting. she wants to let everybody pour into our country, she

. >> claire mccaskill recently came out against the cavanaugh nomination and talk about that and talk about that in the larger context where mccaskill is in regaining the seat. >> it's pretty significant that she did that. there had been a lot of pressure on her from both sides of the aisle, rebellions have been attacking her on this since justice kennedy retired and before there was even a nominee but there was expectation from progressives that she needed to vote no against cavanaugh. she's been facing a lot of calls from groups like planned parenthood and others on that. her reasoning has nothing to do with roe v wade or had nothing to do with the assault allegation against judge kavanaugh but she cited pacifically his views in dark money and campaign spending and concerns that he will further loosen the campaign regulations that became with the citizens united. she took a specific policy position to explain it. it's a difficult -- if she had voted or voted to support the nomination she would embedded people she needs to get in the polls like in kansas city and st. louis. but she a

to support state attorney general josh hawley in his bid to unseat the democratic incumbent, claire mccaskill is not going to vote for kavanaugh no matter how great he is. that's sort of a mccaskill issue. google discussing ways to redirect search results days after president trump instituted the travel ban at the beginning of his presidency. in emails reviewed by the "wall street journal" google employees said they could look at islamic results. google said they were a spit balling thing and no one should be fired just because they were talking about how to block the president's agenda like several district court judges, but ultimately the president prevailed thanks to the higher court. i just want to point out before we go to the rally in springfield, missouri. with us tonight are social media superstars and some of the president's most of loyal supporters, diamond and silk. there you are. good to see you. the president is getting warmed up, getting ready to talk to his supporters in springfield. the arena is filled up. everywhere he goes he gets huge huge audiences. much i am sure diamond

i think if you're claire mccaskill, you're looking at two things.on kavanaugh? where are white suburban women? they are obviously the swing vote in every election, especially in 2016. they are again in 2018. white suburban women, who tend to swing either way, republican, democrat, many of them are dependent. they are very opposed to kavanaugh's nomination, as the polling shows. if you are claire mccaskill, you're probably looking at those two factors to help come to your determination. of course, a number of other reasons why she's opposing him. but she is a very calculated, very smart politician, and she knows exactly what she is doing by coming out and saying this. >> harris: one quick follow-up, i looked at that same polling and there's been quite a bit of it about white suburban women. it also shows that they are very anti-trump and some of those. it might be less about judge kavanaugh and more about her feelings about the president's tweets, so on and so forth. is there an opening, though, for actual information to come through rather than a pe

so claire mccaskill will never ever vote our way because she loves the swamp. she is part of the swamp. and we have a true swamp in washington. just look at what is now being exposed in our department of justice and the fbi. look at what's going on. look at what's going on. i want to tell you. we have great people in the department of justice. we have great people. these are people, i really believe, you take a poll, i have got to be at 95%. but you have some real bad ones, you have seen what happened sat the fbi. they are all gone. they are all gone. [cheers and applause] but there is a lingering stench and we'll get rid of that, too. clare mccass ski, when i read about this sitting in a beautiful house called the white house. anybody hear of the white house? she revealed her true colors when she preternlded to tour -- pretended to tour the state in an rv while she was actually flying around the state in her luxurious private airplane. and honestly, this is before i ever thought about running, by the way, we decided to run. how did we do? how did we do? [cheer

so claire mccaskill will never ever vote our way because she loves the swamp. she is part of the swamp. and we have a true swamp in washington. just look at what is now being exposed in our department of justice and the fbi. look at what's going on. look at what's going on. i want to tell you. we have great people in the department of justice. we have great people. these are people, i really believe, you take a poll, i have got to be at 95%. but you have some real bad ones, you have seen what happened sat the fbi. they are all gone. they are all gone. [cheers and applause] but there is a lingering stench and we'll get rid of that, too. clare mccass ski, when i read about this sitting in a beautiful house called the white house. anybody hear of the white house? she revealed her true colors when she preternlded to tour -- pretended to tour the state in an rv while she was actually flying around the state in her luxurious private airplane. and honestly, this is before i ever thought about running, by the way, we decided to run. how did we do? how did we do? [cheer

they said if claire mccaskill opposes judge kavanaugh, we will oppose her by 2:1 margin. >> harris:port for these five or so still -- they may not be on the fence but we don't know how they're going to vote, democrats in red states. they've been asked to fall on a sword previously, is that realistic? >> it may not be end i think again, so much is at stake because we don't know so much about what's going on because you know, this woman -- a few things. i do blame dianne feinstein for not bringing this forward when she knew about it, recognizing that i know this alleged victim wanted to keep herself anonymous. once she named yourself i think there is an obligation to come forward and i think democrats ae waiting for something else to happen here. >> harris: what would they be waiting for? i asked this of the congressman from rhode island earlier, what is the delay? if the fbi won't investigate, democrats say they don't even take a look at it but i know they did. if they won't and this woman doesn't come forward, senator grassley has said he will move forward. >> and he should move for

you look at missouri, claire mccaskill had four times as much money as josh holly. that makes a difference. i think they have done a good job on that. i think joe donnelly has done a good job, figuring out how to thread the needle come voting with trump only 40% of the time. he knows those issues. he tries to ingratiate himself with voters to win in november. >> how much capital does mike pence have? steven: he was the former governor and can get attention. he can help support the republican candidate, mike braun. i think just as much in other parts of the state, so both the president and the vice president. jonathan: as you recall from the bush-cheney era, they were constantly raising money, whether the campaign committees, house and senate, individual candidates for rnc. president trump does not do as much fundraising. when he does is for his own reelection and the rnc. why do you think that his, and has that created a demand for folks like you to be more aggressive or creative on the fundraising front? steven: i hadn't focused on it much because it does not direc

claire mccaskill is in one of the top tourist election battles in the country.tated he told me his popularity will help energize voters to get them to vote for holly in november. mccaskill is a moderate democrat in an increasingly red state. he's hoping to get voters out to support holly six weeks from now. martha? >> thank you very much. watching the president as he walks around the podium area here before he gets ready to speak. as garrett wasn't saying, this is 1 of 10 senate seats we are watching very closely because it's a red state. claire mccaskill has been in office for some time. she's hoping for another round in the senate. josh holly, her attorney general, hoping he can get the seat from her and build on that to be momentum from the 2016 election where as garrett said he's a head by 19 points. the race is pretty much neck and neck if you look at the reads on it, it is going to be a toss up at this point as most of those ten states are. democrats would need two states that flipped the senate in their direction. they would need to clear two states. the

claire mccaskill wants liberals in charge. that's how she votes. >> desjardins: kavanaugh met privately with mccaskill last month. she has not announced how she'll vote. she got an overflow crowd in rural franklin county saturday, a group of democrats that want her to vote no on kavanaugh. p the formsecutor explained the pressure is coming from both sides. >> everybody goes, "oh, she's ut what theigure winner is for her politically." there is none. no matter what i do there are wnsides to it. >> desjardins: missouri has been a hotbed odebate and court action over abortion since the 1970s and a factor in the last time mccaskill ran six years ag her opponent then, republican todd akin, sparked outrage when he said: "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." >> mccaskill really exploited that, promoted that. and that helped her have a huge victory that fall. >> desjardins: st. louis public radio's jo mannies has covered missouri politics for almost four decades. she says this ar sta

perhaps claire mccaskill was never going to vote for brett kavanaugh, but i want to read you one otherear thoughts on it. silber edison, who is running for the senate in tennessee, he was governor there, he's neck and neck fair with the marsha. he said if afford, the accuser, decided at this point not to do something, "i guess the committee has to go ahead and say, well, we relit it to mike willing to listen, but she's not willing to talk, we need to go forward." so the politics of this are weighing heavily prelimit go to first about her decision. do you think this will fire up but the micro publicans in missouri to vote for holly? >> absently. they have really blown this in every conceivable way. if democrats who would not meet with brett kavanaugh. you have democrats, the democratic party, cordoning with a friend is on to try and disrupt the hearing with some 600 folks getting arrested, just during the hearing. you have people that are literally unwilling to shake brett kavanaugh's hand. we have lost decorum in the senate. i think this all looks like politics, because unfortunately,

claire mccaskill tied with josh hawley. in florida bill nelson tied with the governor down there.is is the alfred hitchcock of this season. republicans holding a one seat majority, each of these races could determine controlling of the senate. in the house of representative, two new polls out. showing democrats and republicans by double digits. let's bring in tonight's round table. analyst strategist and whatever. i think on this question, of the senate race, it is personality, it is not the british labor party, you don't vote party, you look at the person you like, mccaskill, she seems local enough, that kind of thing. >> the democrats have to pull an inside straight. and everything needs to go their way even though the margin is razer thin. it is going to be hard to pull it off. >> all but nevada, red states. >> and nevada, if you look at the map, this is supposed to be a good republican year for the senate race. and a lot of these states that they are supposed to be doing well in, it is a toss up. >> showing that tonight. >> and a lot of that has to do with quite frankly it is

you had people like heidi heitkamp in north dakota, joe manchin in west virginia, claire mccaskill in missouri, joe donnelly in indiana. these are democratic senators reelection in seats that were carried by donald trump in double digits. ,ome are holding up pretty well heidi heitkamp is not holding up as well, claire mccaskill is essentially tied with her democratic opponent, joe donnelly might have a slight lead over his republican opponent. these are places where democrats are on defense and the idea of trying to win the majority while defending those seats without as many offense of opportunities is going to be hard. holdingse joe manchin his own in a conservative state that donald trump one in 2016 -- why is joe manchin holding his own in a conservative state that donald trump one and heidi heitkamp can't? guest: she has favorable numbers, but she was a candidate , thatfice as a senator has really been rolling opportunity to build your profile. joe manchin has been building independent maverick democratic streak going back to his time as governor and into the senate in 2010 after

and in missouri, clair mccaskill tries to hold on over josh hawley.hat republicans are thinking will save them is the battlefield is so tilted in their favor. this is quickly what i mean by that. if you gave arizona the democrats based on that poll we just showed you, if you take that tie in missouri and you say, hey, that's going to be broken for clair mccaskill, she wins that state. tennessee, if that one flipped and if you had montana, we just showed you if chester got that. mansion has been ahead in polls there. i've given six states to the democrats and they're not even at 50. they need two more at this battleground to get the majority. if you're a republican you could say, hey, we can flip south dakota and all cruz has to do is hang on in texas and there's republicans there. the good news for them? those polls suggest there could be a wave there. the bad news for them is geographically that's a tough climb. >> nobody better at breaking this down. i wouldn't do this to you, but at 50. they need two more at this battleground to get the majority. i

host: claire mccaskill came out against the kavanaugh nomination.out that and talk about that in the larger context of where claire mccaskill is in regaining the sea. guest: it is pretty significant she did that. had been pressure on her from both sides of the aisle, republicans had been attacking her on this since justice kennedy retired before the writ even a nominee. there was a lot of expectations from progressives that she needed to vote no on kavanaugh. she had been receiving a lot of calls from groups on that. her reasoning had nothing to do with roe v. wade or the assault allegation against judge kavanaugh, she cited specifically his views on dark money and campaign spending to concerns that he will further loosen the campaign regulations that became loose with citizens united. she took a very specific policy position to explain it. to support thed nomination, she would have offended a lot of people that she needs to get out on the polls in places like kansas city and st. louis, but she also has to do this delicate dance because she is going

senator claire mccaskill is a moderate democrat in an increasingly red state the president won by doubleits so tonight donald trump said a good part of his speech listing mccaskill's agenda items she voted against. >> doesn't represent the people of missouri. she represents the radical democrats in washington. she voted no on case law. how about case law? you know why she voted no? because schumer and nancy pelosi told her to vote no. >> the top two issues for missouri voters our healthcare and the economy but the sun deciding issue could be supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. this week senator mccaskill announced she plans to vote against brett cavanagh's confirmation. recent fox news poll found a quarter of likely voters may change their mind before election day and among that group 32% said they would be less likely to support mccaskill if she opposed brett kavanaugh. tonight both her opponent and the president went after her on that issue. >> the president said he would put pro-constitution judges on the bench and he has. judges who love the constitution, judges who love our count

you have senator claire mccaskill in a dead heat. skill announced she is a no vote on brett kavanaugh. is there a price to pay for that? it's not surprising, but how do you see that playing out? >> this is september. the election is november. the way the news comes at us, so much in avalanche form, i wouldn't be surprised if we don't remember mup about the supreme court nominee unless it stretches out. as far as missouri is concerned, that is a toss up. mccaskill has help from a third party that may take more votes from the republican than the democrat. as far as bringing trump there, it makes more sense in missouri since he carried it by 18-19 points than nevada. he lost nevada by two points. i'm not sure how much he helps heller. i don't think he's going to elect holly. >> before i get to john and alexi here, let's start with texas. you have the first debate tonight between ted cruz and o'rourke. you have this as leaning republican right now, of course. in a reuters poll, you have o'rourke leading cruz by twopoints. earlier, ted cru

. >> claire mccaskill announced on twitter she is a no on kavanaugh. the votes of other red state democrats like west virginia joe manchin, indiana joe donnelly and heidi heitkamp from north dakota are unclear at this stage. while professor ford's attorney raised concerns about her client's safety, fox revealed vulgar and threatening e-mail messages sent to judge kavanaugh and his wife in recent days. they are very graphic. lou? >> lou: but no investigation sought on their behalf from the f.b.i. thank you very much, mike. joining us tonight is congressman matt gaetz, member of the house judiciary committee, the freedom caucus. it's great to have you with us. we look at this economy i just reported on and have been reporting on for all of the months since the president was elected. i don't understand what the democrats have to say about the president's leadership and the republican governorship of both the house and the senate. >> the democrats keep trying to make the argument that donald trump is incompetent but we continue to see the fruits of his lab

clair mccaskill is doing well. senator nelson is doing very well. the midwest and i think democrats have the opportunity to pick up nevada and arizona. we're confident, not overconfident, but confident. that we can run the tables in the senate. >> governor mick mulvaney said the republicans could lose in texas. he said of the ted cruz race, sometimes the likability of a candidate matters. >> likability always matters. >> could ted cruz lose? >> no. ted cruz is not going to lose. by the way i don't think you'll see joe donnelly win in indiana or claire mccaskill and heidi heidkamp is running for her life. the republicans are going to win the senate. they'll probably add a few seats to the majority. maybe they get to 53 or 54. they're not going to lose in arizona. joe manchin is a unique candidate in west virginia. he served as the governor for two terms. people get to know their governors and really have an investment in them. when you look at the senate, the 1-3 thing, 538 was also saying president hillary clinton. i'm not going to rely on them too

you had people like heidi heitkamp in north dakota, joe manchin in west virginia, claire mccaskill inissouri, joe donnelly in indiana. these are democratic senators reelection in seats that were carried by donald trump in double digits. ,ome are holding up pretty well heidi heitkamp is not holding up as well, claire mccaskill is essentially tied with her democratic opponent, joe donnelly might have a slight lead over his republican opponent. these are places where democrats are on defense and the idea of trying to win the majority while defending those seats without as many offense of opportunities is going to be hard. holdingse joe manchin his own in a conservative state that donald trump one in 2016 -- why is joe manchin holding his own in a conservative state that donald trump one and heidi heitkamp can't? guest: she has favorable numbers, but she was a candidate , thatfice as a senator has really been rolling opportunity to build your profile. joe manchin has been building independent maverick democratic streak going back to his time as governor and into the senate in 2010 after t

and in missouri claire mccaskill trying to hold on against josh hawley. add all this together. that battleground i showed you. in it breaks down like this, what democrats are hoping for is a wave, a big wave. what republicans are thinking will save them is the battlefield is so tilted in their favor. this is quickly what i mean by that. if you just go by these polls, if you gave arizona -- it may not happen. but if you gave arizona to the democrats based on that poll we just showed you, if you take that tie in missouri and say hey, that's going to be broken for claire mccaskill, she wins that state, tennessee, if that one flipped and if you had montana, we just showed you, if tester got that, manchin's been ahead in west virginia when we've polled out there, and then if you took a state like indiana where our own poll had donnalley ahead, i've given six states to the democrats and they're not even at 50. they need two more from this battle xwround to get the majority. if you're a republican you look at that and say we could flip north dakota, we've got a shot in florida and all

don't underestimate claire mccaskill.senator certainly, but more importantly has great political skills. >> a lot of people say she's already chair, i can't believe two term senator caucus. she may be a three. >> i was about to say, she was written off two terms ago. i think that's a reality check for a lot of republicans, looking at the numbers. yes, missouri is republican, should go that way, but -- >> jon kyl, deucy has a political struggle. safe to name a registered lobbyist as the caretaker than try to navigate his own politics. >> and the fascinating thing is that the guarantee is to early next year. that's as long as kyl is willing to do this. what happens then? there's a lot of speculation, martha mcsally falls short in november, does he appoint her to hold that seat through 2020. >> there's one more scenario i heard. if deucy loses, that was the other one. >> raise the other question. which one of those would prompt bigger backlash. the pers-- either way you're in uncharted territory. mcsally is sort of their fut

claire mccaskill is a worker for missourians. >> i am claire mccaskill and i approve this message. ,ostrepublican candidate one of the top 10 or 12 senate races that will determine control of the senate. here is an ad now in that state. [video clip] >> they are not getting claire mccaskill on this. >> she is up for reelection. >> she is going with her base. >> not the red state, missouri feel. there is a desire in the base of our party to take a step. i completely get hit. i am very comfortable voting against him. >> not the red state, missouri feel. the ads in the air in the senate missouri race. this tweet saying i am going to vote republican so i can protect my country, my president, and my children. democrats work every day to destroy the usa they want to bring socialism to the usa. that is a total failure plan. mike on the democrats mine, crofton, maryland. also a governor's race in your state. good morning. caller: i actually thought i called independents line. in any event, thanks for having me. based on issue by issue. i don't vote across party lines, generally. i think, as citi

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president weighing in at a rally in missouri last night, this time going after democratic senator claire mccaskill who said she was voting against judge kavanaugh. >> brett kavanaugh, fantastic man. she just announced she won't vote for him. can you believe it? and he was born -- you talk about central casting, they were saying it ten years ago about him, he was born for the u.s. supreme court. he was born for it. and it's going to happen. it's going to happen. >> senator grassley pushed that deadline back one day. will ford likely testify? and if so, when? >> we'll have to see. there was talk of a thursday testimony and other days. however, it's important to note that i think a lot of what ford's attorneys were saying and a lot of what other critics of the president have said and critics of the republicans have said is there's been, i guess, a cavalier attitude towards ford and the idea of sexual assault in all of this. i think this is really pushing this issue at this point. i think the president's tweets yesterday, a lot of critics would have said that it shows a misunderstanding of reporting w

claire mccaskill: seems to me this is a court appearance problem and we ought to figure out a way to make court appearances more likely and there are -- i mean believe me , when you're facing prison you don't want to go to court. but we have a very low rate of absconding in the criminal justice system compared to this system. i think we can learn lessons there. for one, you hire enough judges to handle the case load. and mr. edlo, can you explain why you can only hire 100 judges a year? >> well, since the beginning of this administration, we have hired over 128 judges. senator mccaskill: why can't you hire more? >> well, first it took a while to get the authorization. i realize that based on what you said that you do have the authorization and i believe mr. mchenry spoke to this at the last hearing, it's not just a matter of getting the judges. the judges are important, but it's having the facilities for those judges, it's having the courtrooms, having the appropriations, the video teleconference if that's the way the hearing is going to be handled and also appropriations to ensure t

matt rosendale in indiana joe donnelly is likely to you lose to micron and in missouri you have claire mccaskill likely you'd lose to josh ali and so you get through those four before you get to the first republican competitive seat which is in nevada so i got to say i really like where we republicans sit right now far more than i would like it if i were democrats and to be clear that's not usually the case it just so happened because we're coming off of the re-elect of those who are the democrats who won in a very difficult cycle.

new tonight, missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill says she plans to vote no on judge kavanaugh. she says he's concerned about nonymous political contributions. she is in a close race for ct re-eleion in a state president trump won handily in 2016.gh >>> to neighbors of a beloved handyman are pleading for the hit and run driver who killed him to comerw d. a prince william county police officer saw the man lying in thd mi of rte 1 here last night. before that officer could check on him, a blueehicle ran the man over. the driver stopped to check for damage, then drove off. today, alvin smith's loved ones brought flowers to the spot where he die >> that's somebody's son. somebody's father. just left him there like he was n'nobody, like he d have anybody. >> reporter: police say it's possible the driver of the blue vehicle didn't know he hit a person. it i't clear w smith was lying in the road before he was run over. >>> dozens of police cruisers swarmed a montgomery county apartment building tonight. chopper 4 zooming in on an officer by a dumpsterhi pointin riving towards the buil

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rosendale in indiana joe donnelly is likely to you lose to my braun and in missouri you have claire mccaskill likely you'd lose to josh ali and so you get through those four before you get to the first republican competitive seat which is a nevada so i gotta say i really like where we republicans sit right now far more than i would like it if i were democrats and to be clear that's not usually the case it just so happened because we're coming off of the reelect of those who the democrats who won in a very difficult cycle in two thousand and twelve where democrats pick up a lot of seats that you know in the republican states where trump won last time so i guess i think mcconnell's doing his job but it's republicans are good shape right and. i think chris is right i think mitch mcconnell is just doing his job his job is to raise funds for republican candidates and so he's doing his job if i had to venture a guess i would say that democrats would probably take the house i would say that right now i think the senate is probably in safe hands with republicans i think chris is right you know for ev

in missouri the race is tied at 47 between claire mccaskill and hawley. the former governor needs blackburn, 48 to 46. two points. i think he can win that i think blackburn can win. and in indiana. joe donnelly leads by six, margaret. go irish. >> you didn't put in manchin in there. state by state. watch the show, margaret. two or three a night. >> i must have missed something. went to the stove to stir the pot roast. so sorry. >> she is tough. >> one tough girl. i admire that i wish i were that tough against you. >> you don't need to be that tough. it is getting too personal. >> i think they have a shot. i didn't think so two week ago. do you think trump's calamitous week -- >> from harris, booker, and they want to turn out. >> can you say this make a predic? >> i can say, if the democrats play defense, i think they got a shot. >> can you say this? can you make a prediction. >> if the democrats play defense, they keep the seats. if they can maybe get two out of arizona and nevada, tennessee, maybe put texas in there. >> they are in the low 50s. >> bredes