when you look at the governor's race where mike dewine beat cordray, i would say that was also 53-47. when they ran against each for attorney general back in 2010, that was within a percentage point. it upsets me a little bit that the democrats -- we focus too much on all the issues that are going on that we don't have enough time to stop and say what are we doing wrong? that's how we end up being able to take the house by a slim margin but lose the senate. we made some good gains in some of the gubernatorial races yesterday. host: let me ask you about the governor's race. the one with mike dewine, former senator, and richard cordray, former head of the consumer financial protection bureau. were you expecting mr. cordray to win that race? caller: i don't know if i was expecting him to win simply because when you look at name recognition in ohio, mike dewine has been around forever. long since before i was born. it's looking now like he's going to stick around for a while. cordray had an uphill battle, considering that he lost his re-election bid for attorney general in 2010 to mike de

>> i'm a mike dewine republican i guess.tion in this campaign for voters whether we go back. eight years ago my opponent, richard cordray, ted strickland were in charge in ohio. we had double-digit unemployment. we lost 400,000 jobs. we'vecome back. we've regained 400,000 jobs plus another 150,000. a statistic came out couple days ago indicated this past year we gained more jobs than we gained for the last 2is -- 21 years. we're moving in the right direction. connell: right. >> when my opponent becomes governor, he will raise taxes. he talked about increasing programs, we totaled that, up $4 billion a year, unlike washington we have to balance our budgets. so when you spend four billion dollars more than you have, you have to raise taxes. that is what cordray will do. connell: he also talked a lot about you and talked specifically like many democratic candidates around the country about health care. democrats think that is winning issue. he come after your time as state attorney general saying that you are not a supporter of

mike dewine, of course, been endorsed by president trump but richard core dadray, this was t guy named to head the financial bureau when elizabeth warren was not able to get approval because every single republican senator did not agree to vote for her. so richard cordray took over that job. he resigned from it in order to run for the governor of ohio. now, as you know, president trump has gutted the consumer m financial protection bureau. let's look at what's going on in iowa. the governor of iowa was made the ambassador to china, so that is an open seat. the nominated incumbent is kim reynolds. she's fighting off fred hubbell. he's a former insurance executive. we will be watching that one closely to see how that goes. let's go out now to nevada, where we have three people running. this is an interesting one. there's an independent candidate there as well. brian sandoval is the term-limited governor. steve sisolak is running in

you talk about how happy the republicans are to hold ohio with mike dewine. an upset in one of the states the president likes to hand out his maps about michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. at the end of the night tonight if this holds up michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin will have democratic governors. >> interesting. what about arizona? the senate race right now. >> let's switch over to the senate map. let's head west. let's bring it up and see what we've got. 9,000 votes. 49 to 48.5. 57% of the vote in. let's watch this out. it's a competitive race in arizona. that in and of itself is an anomaly in the sense that jeff flake won easy when he last ran. john mccain had some interesting primaries but he won when he was in the race. so what are you looking at? maricopa county this is your big democratic base. 60% of the population. look how close they're running. look how close they're running. you have phoenix and the suburbs. then you get out here it gets more rural, gets more republican. very close there. move out to this part of the state here. 61% for

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mike dewine, boy, he's fighting, he's great. and i know his opponent. he's a disaster. there are some democrats, they're fine. this guy is a bad guy, not a good person. he's hurt a lot of people. what he's done to people is a disgrace. and i hope he loses for two reasons. number one, mike dewine is -- he's going to be a great governor, and cordray a bad person who will do a terrible job. okay. now that i have that out of my system, let's go. it's true. it's true, he's a bad person. we actually essentially fired him, so i know a lot about him. you're fired. republicans have created the best economy in the history of our country and the hottest jobs market -- well, you take a look. take a look what's happened. this is the hottest place clickical economically anywhere in the world right now. i have some wonderful leaders of countries, presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, some dictators, but we don't mention that. the first thing they say to me is congratulations, mr. president, you have the hottest economic nation anywhere in the world. congratulations. [ cheers and

republican mike dewine won the open race for governor by four points and the incumbent democratic senatorut is he an outlier. this makes a lot of sense. ohio is lot whiter than the nation as a whole with a much smaller hispanic population and lower than the national average for bachor's degrees. on the flip side, colorado, a state that has moved squarely to the blue column. in 2016, hillary clinton won the state by a relatively narrow five point margin. in 2018, the one competitively held gop seat flipped blue pretty easily and the democrat from boulder won the governorship by ten points. and in many ways, colorado is the inverse of ohio. it is more diverse. with a much higher hispanic population. and it is above the national average for college education. so which states could be taking the place of ohio and colorado in the 2020 battleground map? here are three candidates that could replace them. two are red, arizona and georgia. and one is blue, minnesota. it is all more evidence that the 2018 midterms were less about a wave and more about a realignment that is remaking the way we under

mike dewine was a former member here in washington, then was a state attorney general, candidate forand the vote coming in so far, blue-collar out here, youngstown area, democratic area, running up big. this is a democratic area right here. although mike dewine is well known in franklin county because of his service in state government but this is a democratic area and a democratic base. if you look at the map, you're richard, you're happy to be ahead in a key battleground governors race. this is not just about ohio tomorrow. it's about ohio and the 2020 presidential campaign, ohio in 2021 when you're doing post-census redistricting, these governors races across the midwest where democrats think they can pick up ohio and michigan, beat scott walker in wisconsin, so again, those results are early in ohio. long way to count. but democrats think the midwest is going to be very good for them tonight. >> let's resett what's going on in the house of representatives right now, john. in the u.s. house, 14 democrats are leading right now in republican held districts. now it's gone up to 15. 1

congratulations to mike dewine.y half his adult life has been getting to the governor s&h the guy finally got there. >> he has taken the bus to the state house. we will ep watching an exciting nightere. you're headed down the highway when the guy in front slams on his brakes out of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you've got a good record and liberty mutual won't hold a grudge by raising your rates over one mistake. you hear that, karen? liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges. how mature of them! for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty mutual insurance. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> welcome back to degremocrac plaza. some of the drama now has been, we've gotten some answers to, certainly not the florida senate race. claire miscass kill traing josh hawley. claire mccaskill a democrat. c too close l. >> people will be saying what's that spread about?ou mi is notorious. those urban counties come in really lat

in ohio, staying in the midwest, richard cordray is in a tight race with governor mike dewine. by the president, and is expected to succeed kasich. deeply red state against a polarizing republican, kansas secretary of state chris kobach, strong ally of the president and headed controversial and now disbanded committee on election in integrity. we're waiting these first votes in these races that will very much shape the political landscape heading into the next election. >> lots at stake in these races. right now they're at a tremendous disadvantage among the governors, all the governors that are democrats versus republicans. >> that's right. take a look at this map. this will help illustrate why democrats are in a position to take advantage of it. it's because they start off at such a tremendous disadvantage. democrats only with 16 of the governors' offices in the country. republicans with 33. there's an independent in alaska. as nia machine malika mentioned, we'll take particular notice of the races in florida, in georgia, in ohio, in wisconsin and in kansas. that's where democ

there's a dark contrast between mike dewine, and richard cordray, i think talking about the economy makesot of sense. i think that's what he closed with yesterday. >> john than, let's go back to georgia for a second, this race between kemp and stacey abrams. it has been especially nasty, and there's been a racial element to this race from the outset, and there was this tweet last night from kemp, the black panther party is backing my opponent. re-tweet if you think abrams is too extreme for georgia. what have we seen in georgia, and do we think that is going to be in any way, shape, or form effective? >> that tweet, i was -- tweet, should not be shocked anymore by the overt racism that we have seen either from the president of the united states or republicans who are trying to win election. and that tweet that he sent out ranks up there not as bad as the horrible robocall, but they are pulling out the stops in georgia to try to keep stacy ab rey abr from winning the election, and it is going to be tough, and the key thing about the abrams' campaign before she announced that she was runnin

congratulations to mike dewine.he guy has literally half his adult life has been getting to the governor s&h the guy finally got there. >> he has taken the bus to the state house. we will keep watching an exciting night here. >>> welcome back to degremocrac plaza. some of the drama now has been, we've gotten some answers to, certainly not the florida senate race. claire miscass kill trailing josh hawley. claire mccaskill a democrat. too close to call. >> people will be saying what's that spread about? missouri is notorious. those urban counties come in really late. >> that member mccaskill territory. >> you have to wait to double check. you'd rather be hawley right now. >> a great state of arizona, my home state. hi, mom. we have a too close to call race. kifr sten cinema, martha mcsally. andrea pointed out, the democrat was a flip. >> martha, two members of congress the first who him to fight to become a combat pilot. a jet pilot. i covered that issue with the pentagon. she fought all the way up to finally leon pan

workers, that really helped me win that race, and maybe some of those people apparently voted for mike dewineut i do know that a career where i've spoken out, one of my first votes in congres against the north american free trade agreement, and i supported it 20 years ago, i supported marriage equali and opposed the iraq war. a long career of, as a ogressive, outspoken, getting things done, always through the prism of >> you know, if you run and win the presidency, a republicanve or would appoint your replacement and believe it or not, you know, a slate, somebody's slate, it is actually writing that is a reason you shouldn't win. writing this. ultimately, the question hanging over brown isn't whether he is a hod candidate or each a great one, it is whethis so much better than the other 2020 contenders that it would be worth waving his senate seat good-bye. is that a reasonou for to decide yes or no? is that even a fair reason to throw at you? >> well, i ink a lot of people have a lot of time on their hands to project that out. >> i do, too, actually. >> actually, more than 24 months. 26 mths.

however, mike dewine is more john kasich than mike dewine is donald trump if you think about philosophythe republicans held the governorship of iowa, but the democrats picked up two seats, congressional seats in iowa. iowa always a swing state, small in the electoral college. but if you're looking at the map, bakari was talking about this earlier. a couple of democratic pickups in north carolina. sun belt states are becoming more democratic. democratic enough, north carolina is a competitive state in presidential politics. trump won it pretty handily last time. watch that as we go forward and one of the things people will talk about, it used to be -- i'm going to switch this to senate just to show you the blue out here. used to be nevada was a swing state that leaned republican. nevada is now a swing state that leans democratic. arizona is going to be a big battleground in 2020 because you just elected a democratic senator in 2018. we know in these sun belt states, there are more opportunities for democrats. does that mean that's about to flip to blue in presidential politics? it doesn'

richard cordray and mike dewine. too close to call. georgia race, still too early to call. you see 16% of the vote in >> florida governor, too close to call. a lot of votes counted but not all of it. call at this hour. indiana senate race, too close to call. you see quite a difference in the vote there at this hour. here is a battle for the ages. missouri, claire mccaskill trying to hang on to her sen seat in a state that is becoming redder and redder. that is too close to call. >> let me warn you both on missouri and indiana. they have the democratic vote, the counties that they get pretty much the last counties that report their returns. >> you think that's a reflection. >> that's why we're not calling indiana. you see that wide -- you see the wide disparity there. the fact of the matter is, gary, indiana, a big democratic area. that is literally the last county to report. you have to find out how much is there. >> sorry, andrea. we have a call to make. senator menendez in new jersey, blue new jersey, he hangs on despite the fact that he went on for a corruption trial. we

richard cordray and mike dewine. too close to call. georgice

mike dewine ahead over richard cordray in this tight race. it's basically tied at this point in ohio. let's move to georgia. another race we're watching closely. brian kemp at this .20 points above stacey abrams with about 37% reporting. important to keep in mind in this race that atlanta in the suburbs haven't quite reported votes at this point. that's going to be probably a good area over stacey abrams gaining votes. at this point she's behind by about 190,000 votes. 27% reporting. we've going to toss you to wolf and jake. >>> another high stakes hour ahead as voting ends in 14 more states. we're about to get a huge round of results that will help decide the battle of control for congress. polls will close in arizona, colorado, michigan, minnesota, new mexico, new york, north dakota, south dakota, texas, wisconsin, and wyoming. lots on the line in the next hour. >> there is. we're watching a dozen competitive house races in republican held districts. many of them are tests of president trump's appeal including the house contest in upstate n

senator mike dewine is the winning candidate.a, this race has not been declared, but brian kemp has been holding onto a lead with 96% of the vote now reporting over democrat stacey abrams hoping to make history as the first african-american woman to be elected as governor. oprah winfrey campaigning last week was not enough to help her so far. daniel strauss following all of this for politico. let's talk about the georgia governors race. what is your takeaway? >> at this point the abrams team does not expect to make any definitive announcement tonight. thatcomes despite the fact throughout the entire night, brian kemp has led. it is looking like the abrams team is really hoping they can leverage a runoff. skim enough of cap's leadoff he will not have 50%, the support he needs. and that he will go into a runoff. >> it is surprising, though, has held a- kemp commanding margin. >> as you look at the results , where areof georgia the strongholds for brian kemp? >> the strongholds are outside the major metropolitan areas. outside atlan

mike dewine who will keep the ohio governor's office in republican hands defeating richard cordray in race that tested whether the right would draft that helped president trump when ohio by nine percentage points could last. the two were running to replace outgoing ohio governor john kasich. >>> here is a look at some races in san mateo county. >>> we will be right back. >>> what does help for heart failure look like? ♪ the beat goes on. it looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. ♪ the beat goes on. it looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. ♪ la-di-la-di. entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps your heart... so you can keep on doing what you love. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. it helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pr

attorney general mike dewine defeated richard cowe courdray.governor kim reynolds, the republican defeated fred hubbell in a toss-up contest that hinged on local issues including healthcare and the economy. iowa is first in the nation caucus state. big changes there. and they will be meaningful in the 2020 election. liz: joining me on the phone, kentucky congressman andy barr. he won in a hotly contested race. a lot to talk about the blue wave that wasn't. it just wasn't there. what's your take? >> it was more of a green wave in terms of money flooding into all kinds of congressional districts. this was a very competitive race because this is a competitive swing district that was represented boulevard me by democrats. i defeated an incumbent democrat to come to congress in 2012. and it's and very politically diverse district. i have the privilege of representing a district that looks like the country and its diversity. there is a liberal urban core, lexington, kentucky. then there is some suburbs which include a lot of moderate swing voters, mo

that is likely the city where the governor's race between former senator mike dewine and richard cordray will play how. all of ohio is important but cleveland in particular is very important. cordray now leads by five points in the real clear politics average. the rest of the day will be spent trying to win senate seats in indiana. the recent polls have been swinging donnelly's. the president finishes up in missouri where democratic senator claire mccaskill and republican josh hawley are neck and neck. president will not be back home until midnight tonight. the president pretty confident about retaining control of the senate. he thinks might be able to maintain the 51-49 margin. maybe increase that by a couple of seats. there's been a democratic surge in some states including indiana in the last couple of days. just by how much they might increase their margin is in question. no doubt about that. the house is a completely different story, though. it's going to be a democratic blowout, could they win 20 or 30 more seats. or might republicans hold on to a slight lead. the president not rea

senator, republican mike dewine. have you on board this morning and congratulations. >> good morning. thank you very much. >> senator, we want to ask you to be political analyst because that's not why you're here, but my gosh, ohio certainly is looking red top to bottom for the first time in a long time. it's considered one of the key swing states. what do you think -- what's made the difference? why did republicans avert the blue wave that swept through a lot of the industrial northeast? did kasich and other republicans do a pretty darn good job over the past eight years? >> i think the answer to that is yes, and i think also, you know, the president's tax cut has helped the economy. our economy is moving forward. we are obviously -- you always can do better, and we're going to focus a lot on children's issues and getting kids ready for kindergarten because ultimately that has a huge impact on their ability to, you know, live the american dream. we're going to focus on the drug problem. so things are not perfect in

in ohio, the democrat was up, republican mike dewine comes back and wins.unds, the republican president has to have come to florida and ohio, he has the machinery in place. >> the two most important for me, looking forward to 2020. the two most important gubernatorial races, ohio and florida, the president was involved in both of those races, help both candidates raise money, to events, these big rallies, the president goes to, he was dressed in ohio and a couple of times in florida in recent days. he has -- he went all in on those races. rick scott is going to be a great u.s. senator now from florida and adds to our numbers. this is very good news tonight. very good news for president trump's reelection. what do you see is now the beginning of what people will have to work with as we look toward the map and what their strategic effort is 42020. >> julie: what we have learned is what we already knew, the president trump knows how to campaign, everyone has said that he's basically campaign that has not stopped campaigning since he took office in 2016. just i

mike dewine was easily able to win. is ohio a swing state ? >> interesting. interesting as always. got to look at those state races. >> you're pretty good at your job, my friend. >> he's fine. he's fine. >> thanks, poppy. >>> stay with us, okay? we have an important two years ahead. you will be busy. >> next, we will take you to florida where the senate race is still too close to call. but we do know this. voters just gave felons back their right to vote. everyone, this is huge. this is over a million new people that can vote in 2020. stay with us. >>> florida still up in the air. never seen that before. a highly contested senator race. >> scott is leading with slightly over 50% of the vote. you see it there. 0.4%. the difference with nelson less than 35,000 votes. cnn correspondent is in him with the latest. rosa, it is not quite 537,000 votes like 2000, but it is tight. >> the morning the candidates have not said anything just yet. but last night rick scott announced his victory. bill nelson has not conceded. cnn has not called this race because it is in re-counter toitoi territo

obama traveled to ohio stumping for gubernatorial candidate and mike dewine won the race, extending controlidwestern battleground state. obama then went to miami. that didn't work out too well for andrew gillum in florida. republican ron desantis now governor-elect. and then the former president parachuted to georgia. backing stacey abrams. the race hasn't been called but the republican brian kemp has a strong lead and appears to head for victory, all part of obama's troubling track record when it comes to the mid-terms and the campaigning for dimms. back in 201, then president obama lost 63 democratic house seats. 63. more than double of the republican party, 27 seats last night. democrats lost staggering 1,000 state legislative seats, gubernatorial seats and congressional seats during obama's presidency. joining me now to take up president trump and the republican party's election day victories. charlie hurt, the "washington times" opinion editor and fox news contributor. what do you think? >> you laid it out perfectly there. comparing it to obama first term. there is no way of looking at

mike dewine has been serving as ohio's attorney general. richard cordray was head of the consumer protection bureau. what about those two politicians facing off against one another? nathan: is a stark contrast. democrats are trying to portray attorney general dewine as a lifelong politician. he has been in office decades. but cordray has held office in ohio and served in the obama administration. republicans are trying to portray him as a bureaucrat as well as a politician. i'm not sure that either candidate could be described as inspirational figures, but ohio is a competitive state, and this is a race, i think it is a tossup. it's one democrats should when on a good night, but it is not a done deal. susan: the associated press has called the senate election in ohio for incumbent senator sherrod brown. the democrat. he has already served two terms in the u.s. senate. his opponent was a congressman who was hoping to have his political position elevated, but he was not able to attract any funding from the republican senate committee. what wa

donald trump going ohio where mike dewine won the race, extending control of the critical battleground went to miami. that didn't work out too well for andrew gillum in florida. republican ron desantis now governor elect, and then, the former president parachuted into georgia. backing stacy abrams for governor. with the race hasn't been called yet, brian kemp has a strong lead and appears to be headed for victory, all part of obama's troubling track record when it comes to midterms and campaigning for dems. back in 2010, then president obama lost 63 democratic house seats. 63! more than double the losses of the republican party 27 seats last night. the democrats lost a staggering 1,000 state legislative seats, gubernatorial seats and congressional seats during obama's presidency. >>> joining me to take up president trump and the republican party's election day victory, charlie hurt, fox business contributor, washington times editor. an amazing performance in a senate and average historical result in the house. >> yeah, indeed, lou, you laid it out exactly perfectly there, comparing it

i have been playing phone tag with the incoming republican governor in ohio, mike dewine.ake this happen, but look, we need general motors to be a successful company. we have thousands and thousands of people getting general motors pensions in our community. so to hurt them, to potentially hurt their company, is foolish because now we're going to lose 1600 jobs and then we're going to damage and maybe bankrupt the pension. we don't want to do that. we want to work with general motors, as upset as we all are. >> let's play this out, because as you know, the president of ye general motors said a matter of months ago, talked about the future in many respects being in driverless cars and also in driving services. right? that they can make multiples by selling rides versus selling cars. so if that's the future, and you have, you know, thousands of autoworkers in your district who are the best they can be at making cars but aren't necessarily trained on future technology on the computer systems that make -- that you would use in the future of driverless vehicles and also ride sh

. >> maybe democratic ohio senator sherrod brown, the same night they elected mike dewine as governor, here's somebody who represents, you know, the blue collar area of cleveland, the mahoning valley where president trump performed so well. there are arguments that that's the democrat that trump needs to model and performs so well in the environment we operate so well. kennedy: there are so many wings the party might take flight on its own. chad pergram, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. kennedy: coming up, cnn's jim acosta wouldn't let go of the microphone during the president's fiery news conference, and tonight they kicked him out of the white house! who's right and who's wrong? who overstepped their . kennedy: welcome back, we've got breaking news tonight, the white house suspended the credentials of cnn's jim acosta after he took his daily grandstanding routine too far at today's lengthy press conference. it happened after he pushed away the arm of a female intern who is trying to take back the microphone when he was playing ball hog, and as you will see, he was hardl

>> dana: president trump is in cleveland right now about to hold a rally for ohio candidate mike dewineso making stops in missouri, indiana and a last minute push to convince voters one day before the polls open. and now a look at some other stories that you should know about. first up, florida police searching for the motive in last week's shooting at a tallahassee yoga studio. two women were killed after a gun man opened fire in a seemingly random attack. second, the son of murdered washington post columnist jamal khashoggi say they want their father's body returned for a proper burial. turkey reports say he was dismembered last month. a utah mayor was killed in an apparent inside attack in afghanistan. 39-year-old major brent taylor, who was a father of seven children, was there to train members of the afghan army. severe weather across several southern states with strong storms threatening the east coast and mid-atlantic tomorrow. meteorologist adam cloth is live with the election day forecast. adam? >> hey there, dana. there are going to be some big storms across the country. here'

he's got a similar populist politics, vision of politics as you, not able to pull it out against mike dewinedo you have thoughts about that? it is a tough state for democrats. >> it is a tough state. it's moving -- we've won a total of two statewide elections in the last decade. these two races for the senate in '12 and '18. it's -- i mean, i think it's -- i mean, it's a -- you know, we talked about -- we talked about republican interest groups. we talked about -- made the contrast on health care and taxes that -- talked about patriot corporation, active companies, pay decent wages and provide good benefits and make their products in the united states, get a lower tax rate, we talked about the corporate free loader act, if you're a large company and you pay -- you pay $8 or $10 or 12 an hour, and your workers rely on medicaid and housing vouchers, and earned income tax credit, and food stamps, then you pay a corporate free loader fee, you pay a higher rate. and that -- i think that -- voters in the end think you're on their side because i am on those kinds of issues. i think that matters. >>

to president trump in cleveland at this hour, campaigning for gop candidate for governor, mike dewine. outside of ohio, there is still a huge plethora of toss-up races, too close to call, including two major battles in florida. you have the senate race between governor rick scott and incumbent bill nelson. that is shaping up to be one of the most expensive races in u.s. history. and the gubernatorial race between congressman ron desantis and tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. the democrat. that remains hotly contested. to kristina partsinevelos at a rally for governor rick scott. you have been talking to people specifically about this. bill nelson according to some polls, the democrat, is ahead here. reporter: yeah. that's correct, liz. right now, you are seeing the margins, democrats beating right now in the senate race. i'm at a rally, rick scott's rally. sounds like i'm at a big fiesta party but this is the heart of the manufacturing area in miami. this is a showcase of rick scott, who will be coming up. one of the most important issues for a lot of voters in this state here is taxes

vote for mike dewine as governor. president sees jeff flock in indiana.sa: iran's president vows to defy sanctions from the trump administration? where do we go from here? danny danon, ambassador to the u.n. he is up next. ♪ e from conventional thinking. we are a different kind of financial company. we are athene, and we are driven to do more. connell: breaking news. we bring you another presidential tweet at this hour. i guess this is a little in between rally tweeting trot president aboard air force one. here is the next tweet. republicans created the best economy in the history of our country and the hottest jobs market on planet earth. the democrat agenda is socialist nightmare, tweets the president. the republican agenda is the american dream. there you have it. melissa. melissa: the trump administration releasing the toughest sanctions against iran but iranian president rouhani is vowing to defy the white house saying, quote, unfair sanctions are against the law, u.n. resolutions and international accords. therefore we will proudly break the sanctio

in ohio yesterday donald trump came, spent the last day in the campaign trail, campaigning for mike dewine, running for governor of ohio. did he give mike a lifeline or did he push his head under the water? when we look at these florida returns right now, it seems to be the case that donald trump was an anchor around the ankles of the two republican candidates. at the end of the day, what the race has been about is a referendum on trump and trumpism. donald trump has traveled the country, incited the american people, he's stoked a cold civil war. he has led a campaign of racial animos, the likes of which we have not seen in the modern era, something that would be re recognizable to lester maddox or george wallace. what we're going to watch play out over the night is whether trumpism faces its first validation or first repudiation, looking at the early returns, i would bet on repudiation. it will be a long night, we'll see. >> do you feel like republican candidates have a choice as to how they align themselves with trump or not? one thing chuck todd was talking about, republicans had a hard

went up there and did a rally and now they have a great governor, a great governor in ohio, and mike dewine is a fantastic person and i went up there for two reasons, i felt his opposition was not a good person and we know a lot about him and i felt that mike was a fantastic person and he won. not only did he win, he won easily. add that to florida and add that to georgia and all the other races we won outside even the senate races which were the biggest of all. these were races that -- mike pence can tell you, these were races that were going to be unopposed, we were not going to oppose certain people running, certain senators. they said they couldn't be beaten. they said heidi could not be beaten. this was a year out. you're telling me about popularity. they said many of these people, when i said 9 out of 11, many of these people, these weren't easy races, these were tough races. and so i think the level of popularity with -- the first question i was asked, what have you learned, what about your own popularity? that's what i learned, i was very well received by this great country, by the

here's where they stand, the democrat running for governor, richard cordra is edging out mike dewine.c senator brown is leading over his gop opponent, congressman renacci. do what you do best, give us a read on what folks where you are are saying? >> reporter: yeah, hallie, it's so interesting, this was a trump state in 2016 but if you look at that polling, you wouldn't necessarily know it. we have been talking to voters here. we're at the trump rally. we asked what they thought about sherrod brown and how they view the democratic party now. take a listen. we'll talk about it on the back end. what's your view of sherrod brown, what do you think of him? >> i'm not a fan. it seems like the democratic platform is we oppose trump. okay. what else, what do you stand for? >> brown has been the only statewide elected democrat right now. i think the polling is probably going to be a little bit tighter with rallies like this, and i think the race is going to be closer than what the polling shows. >> reporter: and hallie, it's interesting, you can hear in voter conversations kind of an acknowle