host: glad to be joined by david wasserman, cook political report editor. let's start the news of the foxhole that came out yesterday finding that 41% of respondents to this poll said they would vote for a republican on the generic ballot. 41 sensing they would vote for a democrat in election 2022. do you want to put -- 41% saying they would vote for a democrat in the election in 2022. guest: we typically see democrats do a little better on this generic ballot holes than they end up doing at the ballot box but we have seen some narrowing in the past few months. this is a complicated election cycle because ordinarily you would look at a president with 39% approval and high inflation would say they are headed for historic losses. democrats have gotten a boost in the last couple of months. the enthusiasm gap has closed significantly as a result of dobbs. the longer exists when you look at special elections we have seen in races in nebraska and minnesota last week, or democrats actually did better than the 2020 presidential margin in those red seats. we have se

david wasserman, u.s.se senior editor at the cook political report, cookpolitical.com and on twitter @redistric. that does it for our program today. the house will get ready to gavel in. we will take you live there now for gavel-to-gavel coverage.

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our house editor, david wasserman, has changed our forecast from one that was predicting republicans somewhere between 20 and 30 seats, to one that -- to one that -- 21 now that is more 10 to 20 seats. the big reasons are not -- are the ones you mentioned, abortion, trump, and lower gas prices. on abortion, since the decision came down at the end of june that overturned roe v. wade, but we have seen is an increase in democratic enthusiasm. we have seen it in special elections, specifically the special election in the hudson valley in new york that we talked about last week. but we have seen it in a number of other better districts where the republican turnout did not match what we had seen in 2020. that is one factor, increased democratic enthusiasm. and you are right, president trump, ubiquitous president, on the political scene, he himself does not want to leave the stage. but it is also true that what we are seeing from candidates is that they, republican candidates specifically, are embracing him and his theory, the big lie about the election. that is turning off a bunch of voter

and our house editor, david wasserman, has changed our forecast from one that was predicting republicans somewhere between 20 and 30 seats to one now more 10 to 20 seats. and the big reasons are the ones that you mention, abortion, trump, and lower gas prices. on abortion, since the decision me down at the end of june that overturned roe v. wade, what we have seen is an increase in democratic enthusiasm. we have seen it in special elections, specifically the special election in the hudson valley in new york that we talked about last week. but we have seen it in a number of other redder districts, where the republican turnout just didn't match what we had seen in 2020. so that is one factor, increased democratic -- democratic enthusiasm, and really the political scene, trump himself doesn't want to leave the stage. but it's also true that what were seeing from candidates is that republican candidates specifically are embracing him and his theory, the big lie about the election. i think that starting off a bunch of voters, many of whom republicans had wanted to pick up in this election on

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he spoke with david rubenstein about the challenges of planning a global sporting event. >> i spent some good time with l.a. 28 people, casey wassermanis team. i spent time with the salt lake people who are trying to win the 2030 winter olympics. they organize the salt lake olympics and i have learned a lot about what makes olympics work and what makes olympics failed. and one of the most important things is something that is near and dear to my heart. that is planning and front end loading. that is the actual term for engineering. front and the means i am going to project them forward and then start to solve those work streams ahead of time so i can implement and change the plan. we have the luxury of 10 years but most olympus get six years. it is all planning with the governments, with the organizing committee, the ioc, all of that. >> is this designed to break bunny -- make money or break even? >> we will have net zero neutral. we will have $4.5 billion spent. the majority of that is from broadcasting rights but i have to go fund raise 1.7 billion dollars with my ceo and my team. i am recruiting the ceo right now. anyone out there