and nrcc distanced themselves. does that show unease atnthis mo >> it shows that the party does not want to be associated with espoused white supremist views. and if democrat in every district in america before this week could say the nrcc who supports steve king, who supports white supremacists anda that's n narrative republicans really want. i will say, the nrcc, the republican congressional committee is pretty risk a verse when it comes to things like this. members of congress pay dues into the organization. this was a relatively the realm of bold moves aiv rely bold move in the election season. robert: there been much talk about the possible of a blue wave and the battle of control of then house i the senate. but let's remember, there are 33 gubernatorial race this is year. republicans currently hol 36 governor's mansions compared to 16 democrats plus bill walker. and one of the most hotly ntested race this is year is in georgia. that's when democrat stacy abrams hoes t become the nation's first femalen- afrier

toxic robert: when you think about the nrcc. they're not breaking with president trump am what's happening in pittsburgh. but they are raising some questions about mobes of their own party like congressman steve king. his association with national lism and different far right groups. and nrcc distanced themselves. does that show unease at this moment? >> it shooe that the party not want to be associated with es spoused white supremist views. cad if democrat in every district in ame before this week could say the nrcc who supports steve king, who supports white supremacists and arrative a republicans really want. i will say, the nrcc, the republican congressional committee is pretty risk a verse when it comes to thing like this. members of congress pay dues into the organization. this was aat rely in the realm of bold moves a relatively bold move in the election season. robert: there's been much talk about the possible of a blue wave and the battle of control of the house in the senate. but let's remember, there are 33 gubernator

when you're at the nrcc you have to make decisions on how you'll spend resources. at virginia 10, florida 6 and illinois 14. nrcc doing $5 million there for barbara comstock's race. i know she's a strong competitor. she's down in that race. then in florida 6, nancy soderbergh almost doubling the almost of campaign spending that has been spent in that race so far over the republican down there. then illinois 14 at $700,000, that one is kind of a surprise sort of last-minute looks like the republicans might be in trouble there. i'll turn it over to you and you tell me if you made good decisions. >> first of all, let's talk money. we're constantly evaluating how to use our limited resources, with the only goal keeping the majori majority. some group doss not have contribution limits. we do. we have raised over $180 million. that is a record. more than we ever have before. that also includes $20 million we've had to spend in nine competitive special elections. so, again, we have a good story to tell. we have limited resources to do it. when it comes to virginia, barbar

nrcc said no, he's speaking for the committee as well.re, but not all of the party has jumped on the anti-steve king bandwagon. ted cruz, steve king let it be known that ted cruz called him personally to reach out. the cruz campaign said he was calling as a personal friend. steve king was the co-chair of his presidential campaign in iowa. is this going to have some sort of fractures impact on the white house shop, particularly if president trump decides to endorse king or re-endorse him?t trump endorses king? >> i will say re-endorse. the white house and national republicans appear to be holding their breath until tuesday. king seems safe, but certainly the number of times that he seems to have endangered himself in the last two weeks does have republicans concerned, assuming he is reelected, i don't expect him to have quite as many friends as he had before. >> brad todd, better for the party to have steve king in or out? >> i was thinking i can't believe the democrats aren't sending money to steve king to keep him in office instead of se

many thanks, matt gorman, nrcc communications director.ase don't miss our special election night, on television and radio. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ david: you are watching balance of power. i'm david westin. we have two stocks of the hour today, both in big oil. shares in exxon mobil and chevron rising after delivering their strongest third-quarter results in years. emma chandra has more. emma: enjoying the benefits, profits not really seen since we had $100 oil. obviously not trading close to that at the moment. exxon and chevron is all about north america. both of them had neglected for a number of decades but have recently made more plays. chevron emerging from what have been called years of production setbacks. finally they are performing. propelled by its expansion in the permian basin. we also have a chart that shows exxon finally beat production estimates, for the first time in 10 quarters. you can see that in the bloomberg. total production reported is blue, white above is the previous quarter. that is where it was estim

gotv messages, what is the closing argument from the nrcc?ike touched on those competing messages and their range of messages that republican voters are hearing. what is your ideal closing message these last four days? john: part of it is this resistance mob mentality the other side has. the notion -- just the thought of nancy pelosi taking the house back and getting the reins on congress and getting back to running this country i think our race is -- running this country. i think our race is credibly motivated by immigration as well. that is part of the focus. and what the democrats would bring. nancy pelosi today said she wants to focus on -- i think it is impeachment and hearing after hearing and investigation after investigation. i think that will be really motivational for our chokes out -- for our folks out there and should be. mike: let me continue on this line. let's say it is november 7, next wednesday. you guys have stunned the world and kept the majority. john: there you go. mike: could you have done that without nancy pelosi being

he is the director of the national republican congressional committee, the nrcc. he has been with the organization since 2011. his job, working with the chairman, is getting republicans returned to the house of representatives. thank you for being with us. mike debonis is back from the "washington post." and alexi mccammond writes about politics for axios. mike, you are first. mike: thank you for joining us. so close to the election. i just want to ask you a very simple question. what group of voters do you think has the biggest potential control of the house on tuesday, and what has your group and doing in the last week to reach those people and commits them to vote for republicans? john: sure. thanks her having me come i am really excited to be on the show. i have to give two groups -- one is where people swing would be independents. specifically married, college-educated women is where we are most focused. figuring out what messaging works for them and what is most effective. the other is republicans. it is the midterm, not the same turnout as a presidential wo

was before i think king, a lot of these things about king have come out and his own party leaders, nrccist -- >> a personal call or call of support? >> a personal call. what happened was cruz was asked about king and his inflammatory comments in texas. it sounded like he called him. king described it to me as this was a call of support, but cruz did say publicly that he's disappointed in king's comments without necessarily renouncing him. so, it wasn't a condemnation call and -- as far as i know, it wasn't necessarily endorsing for reelection. >> danny, i know you wanted to jump in on king. if he wins, he's going to feel bullet proof in the house. just think about that. thank you all. >>> up ahead, an up or down vote. take your razor, yup. alright, up and down, never side to side, shaquem. you got it? come on, get back. quem, you a second behind your brother, stay focused. can't nobody beat you, can't nobody beat you. hard work baby, it gonna pay off. you got this. with the one hundred and forty-first pick, the seattle seahawks select. alright, you got it, shaquem. alright, let me see.

about whether or not to back him or just not say anything and actually saw one republican leader, nrccchair come out and say, listen, this rhetoric is not acceptable. we have to stand up against it, no other house republican leader did that. and he was re-elected. >> brennan: we have so much to digest from this week, i think all of us by the end of it. we're going to be right back here on "face the nation." stay with us. when i was shopping fothe choice was easy. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. excuse me... winner! that's a win. but it's not the only reason i switched. hi! geico has licensed agents who i can reach 24/7. great savings and round the clock service? now that's a win-win. winner. winner. yay me! oh, hi! good luck. switch to geico®. it's a win-win. who transition out of the u.s. formilitary every year...ers ...one of the toughest parts is the search for a job that takes advantage of the skills you've gained while serving. you can now search with the phrase 'jobs for veterans' directly on google... ...and then enter your military occupational specialty code. google br

gop leadership, the chairman of the nrcc he got in trouble privately when he said steve king's comments were unacceptable. no other gop leader said anything about it. this just highlights them letting this stand. >> roy moore in alabama was a troubled candidate and accusations he behaved in sexual ways with young girls. it's still really, really hard. >> democrats sat out of this race so far. >> to that point, good for steve stifers, number one. putting principal, pride over power. >> in suburban districts. >> if they invited me to a public hanging. anyone who said that is a negative connotation is ridiculous. a heavy work load and plenty of a heavy work load and plenty of drama. so, let's talk about conference calls. there's always a certain amount of fumbling. a lot of times it doesn't work. we have problems. comcast business goes beyond fast. by letting you make and receive calls from any device using your business line. and conference calls you can join without any dial-ins or pins. (phone) there are currently 3 members in this conference. i like that. i like that too. i would use t

i spent a part of my career at the nrcc.he committees, you draw the lines in a way it advantages your party. the science and technology that's involved in this is extraordinary. it's important to understand because it blows apart the middle of your electorate. >> even your super educated voter doesn't pay attention to this, like an elected official would. >> most members of congress do not fear a general election opponent. they fear a primary from the far right, the far left, that's what's cleving congress, that ends when you have fair districts. we're going to see this tuesday, will the voters in these four states decide to end the engineering of partisan districts and give the power back to people. >> tuesday, the most important thing everyone watching can do is vote. pick up your friend, a neighbor, your mother, your father, your sister, everyone must vote. congressman, steve, thank you so much for joining me on this important night. i'm stephanie ruhle, you can catch me every weekday morning at 9:00, and then again at 1:

so it goes to show you, it's very rare you see like the head of the nrcc come out and say, this is not steve king has done and language he's used. republican on republican criticism is unusual. >> the guy went out of his way to endorse essentially a neo-nazi candidate in a toronto mayoral race. >> that's why that ad -- >> these guys were in america, they would be republicans. >> that's why that ad in a way is a rebuke not just to his democratic opponent but to the republican leadership because he's probably mad at them for abandoning him, and, you know, i have to give them a little credit here for distancing themselves from him. >> they deserve it endorsing neo-nazi. >> the key test is if he gets reelected, whether he gets power and welcomed back and how that goes and i think that will be the test. >> 2018. >> the republican leader. >> you're absolutely right here. we sit here and sit around the table and we try to extrapolate what is going on in america and try to see it through the eyes of votes. guess what? this is democracy and the ugly bit of democracy and there are people in nort

so it goes to show you -- ands it' very rare that you see the head of the nrcc come out and say, thisceptable what steve king has done and the language he's used. republican on republican criticism on that level is unusual. >> is there a fear of what he's done here? the guy went out of his way to endorse and essentially a neo-nazi candidate. a toronto mayoral race. who cares about toronto? >> he met with nationalists in europe. >> he said these guys were in america, they'd be republicans. >> that's why that ad, i think in a way, is a rebuke not just to his democratic opponent, but a rebuke to the republican leadership because he's probably pissed at them for abandoning him. you know, i have to give them a little bit of credit here for distancing themselves from his work -- >> he endorsed a neo-nazi. >> the key test is if he gets reelected, whether he gets power and welcomed back and how that goes. that will be the test. >> you're absolutely right here. we sit here and we'll sit around the table and we try to extrapolate what's going on in america and we try to see it through the eyes

me to watch carlos cabello in a tight race in a swing district in florida to watch the head of the nrcc distance themselves from him, it says something to me about where the political winds are at this moment. what do you think? >> listen, politics aside, thank you for doing that ad, evan. i come from a family that lost a lot of our people in the holocaust. and, you know, in the beginning when you hear these things about hate, whether it's toward latinos, or whether it's toward african-americans, or jewish-americans or the other, whoever that may be, and you don't say anything, and you don't get out there it's a problem. now, politically, clearly, i believe in the american people. i believe they're better than that. and so the best thing could be if steve king is defeated. the next best thing is if they censure him, but far better if he wasn't in the hallowed halls of congress. >> everybody has ptsd from 2016 in many ways. there might be overcorrection. >> me too. >> people have a sense that what the president is doing right now, which i have to say has really gotten shockingly disgusti

the nrcc ran 15 ads in swing states and 14 of them targeted pelosi. turned her into this boogieman but she's still standing and the democrats have taken over the house. >> stacey abrams is coming up behind me. she's coming up to the mic. there she is. we want to listen in to stacey abrams. let's listen. >> love you, too. [ crowd chanting ] >> thank you. thank you so much. love you, too. when you chose me as your democratic nominee, i made you a vow. in our georgia, no one would be unseen, no one is unheard and no one is uninspired. [ cheers and applause ] but we know a vow takes effort. it takes commitment to hold truth. reaching out, reaching across is hard work. as i told you then, hard work is in our bones. and we are proving this every day, georgia, with doors knocked, with miles traveled, with prayers prayed to the highest heavens. and tonight, we have closed the gap between yesterday and tomorrow. [ cheers ] but we still have a few more miles to go. hear me clearly, that, too, is an opportunity to show the world who we are. in georgia, civil rig

the nrcc, and former national press secretary for bernie sanders, symone sanders.looking at the governors races. republicans control two thirds of the governors mansions in the united states. 36 are up. beyond washington, how this shakes out in terms of governorships. what will that tell us about the direction of the country? >> well, the same -- it will be part of the whole election narrative. and this is an election where republicans came in, they had two big challenges. they had to turn out their base and they have a challenge with independent voters, particularly women. i think the base part of that challenge has been met. remains to be seen how we do with independents and with women voters, especially educated women in the suburbs, but the high turnout, high early vote turnout, high vote turnout today is both parties. one of those critical things republicans had to do is turn out their base, and it appears from everything we're seeing that has happened. >> can i ask you a question? isn't it possible with the way donald trump chose to solve the first problem of

>> i was told by both executive directors of the dccc and nrcc that they fully expect we will not know who controls the house for a week or so. which is horrifying because it just drags out these nerves even longer for many people around the country. but you know, i think that republicans have a much narrower path to keep control of the house, and that's worrying them. they know that democrats set out from the start to target more than 100 gop-held districtins a seats. they have a broader path to take control of the house to get those 23 net gain seats to win control of that chamber. that's not to say it's going to be easy, but they have many more paths. if we look at pennsylvania, they could pick up four seats. i think that's worrying some republicans. >> i want to get everyone up to speed. we have early voting numbers. that's a huge focus. continues to be a big story. some 33 million americans have cast their ballots already. big rallies, as we've been saying, continue across the country. 4:00 p.m. this afternoon, president trump and president obama speaking simultaneously, counterpr

. >> he's a true mathematician, knows every district like tom davis used to when he was at the nrcc,ed as a staffer, went back to california and became back. he was someone who represents the entire republican caucus, not just a small group of it and has a great relationship with president trump, which has extended long before he became the republican nominee. >> how does trooup keump keep h from getting wet? >> an umbrella. >> east over in paris, no umbrella, no wet hair. he calls it the burning bush that never burns up. anyway, thank you to my panel. when we return, let me finish tonight with trump watch. you're watching "hardball." fidelity is redefining value. introducing zero account fees for brokerage accounts. and zero minimums to open an account. at fidelity, those zeros really add up. ♪ maybe i'll win, saved by zero ♪ at fidelity, those zeros really add up. the roasted core wrap. ways to lose stubborn belly fat. 2, 1... not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. and no

then pete sessions, he was the chair of the nrcc. >> that's just a shock. and i've got to say, if beto has any chance of winning, this is a good district to look at. because dallas suburbs, the numbers, the turnout, the early voting there is extraordinary. this -- if you ask me who was one of the safest people i served with, their seats, i would say pete sessions. the fact that he is in danger of even losing to a democrat suggested that, my gosh, something big that people have been talking about for a long time is starting to happen in texas. that's a shocking result to me and it suggests that the beto race may be closer than a lot of cocky conservatives were talking about two weeks ago. >> and this district fits that profile. it's with one of those, traditionally republican suburbs voted for clinton in 2016. didn't like trump. now the risk for session sess for those voters to say two years in, it's not just trump, it's trump's republican party and they start turning out in those huge numbers. go down to the houston area there, you might see it there. there

thing that's not coming through stuart, and you think it has to be said i have spent two years at the nrcche wing of the party that oversees the reelection of these members of congress there were had a lot of campaigns that were plagued with incompetence on republican side i think that factor -- needs to get, you know, thrown in the mix is hasn't been part of the discussion i think in some of these cases you have member of congress who face this -- first serious challenge they've had in a long time yet ignored it pep and probably could find themselves back in house of representatives had had they done due diligence to prepare themselves to face a level of political atrophy that caused their doom. >> thank you sean got it. check futures, already flat now maybe up 10, 15 points at the a opening bell for the dow. the california wildfires yes they are still burning. path of destruction i want to know what this is going to cost the state. we're going to get into that in a moment. back to the -- every investor should ask questions. is our money in the right place? what am i really being charged?

i was at the nrcc in 2010 and it was the case.f ads that showcase nancy pelosi as the face of the democratic party and they suffered historic losses during the 2010 election as a result of the republicans picked up 63 seats. you look at the fact she mentioned healthcare. that election cycle in 2010 a vote for healthcare cost democratic incumbents 5.8% at the polls. she will be reelected but she has a lot of issues. >> bill: this whole gavel thing. i said clint eastwood, it was charl charlton heston. did you see "meet the press" yesterday? 56% say replace pelosi. easier said than done. yesterday lauren underwood who won the congressional race in your home state of illinois. and a newly elected democrat from michigan. i didn't get a good sense from either one of them willing to say they would vote against her and i did not get a good sense of either one as to what the real message is for the next two years. how big of an issue could this be for these incoming freshmen? >> a couple things. one is the issue of message. the other funct

in fact, he even -- he ran the nrcc, as you know.liked, popular guy, he was a powerful guy, but he unfortunately was in the dallas suburbs and, man, the dallas suburbs which you -- i mean, that's george bush's home. that's w.'s home. >> that's how it's changed. >> man, that has turned democratic in a huge way. >> an 11-term congressman, a leader in the party, but we watched that suburban trend happen over the course of the night. it started on the east coast, started in virginia in 7 and 10, in the richmond suburbs, the d.c. suburbs and just moved west to cincinnati and all the way out to california later on in the evening. but that's where the ground was made up for democrats in the house was in those suburban districts that may have tested the waters on trump in 2016 and not last night. >> and do you know what dave brett learned last night? he learned that you can try to tie nancy pelosi around your opponent's name, but if your opponent knows how to push back -- >> yes. >> -- you lose the race. >> yeah, can i feel croak dial tears

he is the director of the national republican congressional committee, the nrcc. he has been with the organization since 2011. his job, working with the chairman, is getting republicans returned to the house of representatives. thank you for being with us. mike debonis is back from the "washington post." and alexi mccammond writes about politics for axios. mike, you are first. mike: thank you for joining us.