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Contested contest. James sanders is here to discuss the campaigns road forward. And the comedian in chief. Gop chairman Reince Priebus is here as well. President obama roasts the rook at the Correspondents Dinner. Congratulations on all your success. The Republican Party, the nomination process. Its all going great. One of the people who helped him write that routine will join me when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tomorrows primary in indiana may be all that stands between donald trump and the republican president ial nomination. And tonight he and rival ted cruz are holding dueling rallies in different parts of the Hoosier State in a final effort to motivate supporters before the polls open just ten hours from now. For cruz and the never trump movement, the stakes could not be higher. The entire country is depending on indiana right now. It really is. Its a fundamental choice which direction the country goes. I think this is a moment where the entire country is relying on indiana. To save us from going over this cliff. Cruz had been hoping for a repeat of his triumph last month in wisconsin. The local indiana Never Trump Coalition that boosted him, the trump coalition, Never Trump Coalition, failed to materialize in indiana. Cruzs attempts to shake up the race over the last week, announcing an alliance with john kasich and picking Carly Fiorina as his theoretical running mate, seem to have backfired. Trump lead busy 15 points in the new nbc news wall street journal merris poll of likely Republican Voters in indiana. If that margin holds tomorrow he could sweep every one of the states 57 delegates which are awarded by a combination of winner take all for the state, and winner take all for each congressional district. Also 58 of likely gop voters in indiana said they disapprove of the cruz kasich alliance. It wont stapp cruz from turning to ever more desperate lastditch tactics to try to win over indiana voters. Like say directly confronting a group of angry Trump Supporters protesting one of his Campaign Events today. Asked kasich to drop out, its your trump, take your own words. Im curious, when donald doesnt get to 1237 are you going to call on him to drop out . Donalds going to get more than 1237. You know on the wall that donald told the New York Times Editorial Staff hes not going to Deport Anyone . Once again, lyin ted that came just a day after cruz reprimanded a kid who was heckling him at a rally in northern indiana. Thank you, son. You know, i appreciate your sharing your views. You know, one of the things that hopefully someone has told you is that children should actually speak with respect. In my household, when a child behaves that way, they get a spanking. [ cheers and applause ] i should note its a matter of Public Record by ted cruz that he hits his kids. At another event earlier in the day, cruzs new running mate Carly Fiorina had a mishap while introducing the candidate and his family. Help me welcome your next first family, heidi cruz, your next first lady, carolyn and katherine, and the next president of the United States ted cruz today donald trump, renowned cherisher of women, scolded cruz for failing to help fiorina get back up. She fell off the stage, did anybody see that . Cruz didnt do anything even i would have helped her, okay . They just showed it to me and i said, wow, thats really cruel. She fell off. She just went down, she went down a long way, right . And she went down right in front of him and he was talking, kept talking, he didnt even look like that was a weird deal. The same time ted cruz is playing up the high stakes of tomorrows vote, hes trying to limit expectations of his own performance at the ballot and make it all about the convention in cleveland. Witnesses interviewed today with nbcs hallie jackson. Nobody is going to get to 1237. Im not going to get to 1237, but neither is donald trump. 1235 . So were headed to a contested convention. And at a contested convention, the battles going to be who can earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the people. Donald knows that he cannot earn a majority at the convention of the delegates who have been elected by the people. If you cant earn a majority, you cant be the nominee. It means you cant unite the party. Youd be an incredibly weak general election candidate. Its true the Cruz Campaign has done a much, much better laying the groundwork, getting supporters in state after state. The cruz camp won 10 of the 13 delegate slots up for grabs at virginias Gop State Convention in virginia, despite finishing third in the states primary behind trump and marco rubio. With trump shattering expectations in last weeks northeast primaries, bringing him ever closer to 1237, some of cruzs delegates may be experiencing a change of heart. In north dakota where delegates are technically unbound but cruz supporters won a majority of the slots, a delegate named jim puman, whos committed to cruz, told the national view, i think last tuesdays vote spooked a lot of people. Donald trump has a lot of support across the country, last tuesday winning five states, one heck of a showing. In an interview with New York Times he said, im not in the anybody but trump campaign, im in the anybody but hillary campaign. Its not just republican delegates who are coming around to trump. Hes picked up three more congressional endorsements in the last week. Now according to the associated press, Republican Leaders are beginning to make peace with trump as the nominee. One of trumps supporters in the house used almost the exact same language as the north dakota delegate. Its not never trump, its never hillary, wake up and smell the coffee. Katy tur, i watched a little bit of the trump rally, it seemed that theyre feeling pretty confident. Reporter the trump rallys just started behind me here in south wend. Theyre feeling extraordinarily confident about indiana. I spoke with Donald Trumps Campaign Manager a moment ago and theyre feeling good, especially seeing that they are up 15 points in the latest nbc ne news merris poll. Theyre running a general Election Campaign they tell me despite ted cruz and jo kasich still being in this race, theyre looking ahead to how to take on Hillary Clinton. Today when donald trump had a lunch at shapiros in indianapolis with the infamous anticlinton author ed kline, that should be an indication theyre trying to figure a way to frame their attacks going forward. Theyre already trying to get Bernie Sanders appeal out there, saying that he has been treated unfairly by the dnc and that his supporters should go to donald trump, who is also an outsider. But indiana again, that is the task at hand. It is tomorrow and they do believe theyre going to take out a win here. But its not a mustwin like it is for ted cruz. Even with that the campaign thinks theyll be able to go on and easily make to it 1237 by the time california votes on june 7th. Katy tur at the trump rally with lusty boos in the background, it wouldnt be a trump rally if there werent any. Joining me, nbcs hallie jackson. Hallie, its looking tough. 15 points today. There was a sense maybe they could bring back the wisconsin magic, has not materialized so far. Glenn beck on stage trying to work that magic. Calling for a fast. Whats the thinking there . Listen, i think theres a sense within the Campaign Based on conversations i just had with the Senior Adviser that they know tomorrow is not going to go the way they want it to go. That it will probably be a tough night for them. That its going to be possibly a singledigit loss. Theres pushback against the idea that the margin will be as big as our nbc news wall street journal poll shows, which is a 15point lead by donald trump right now. But theres a sense that cruz will hang on until there is no longer, as he put it in that interview we did, a viable path to the nomination. That means trump hitting 1237. Why . Why stay in . As was phrased to me, you never know. The idea within the campaign is that trump is such a wild card, theres no reason, they believe, for cruz to get out of this race. They want to be able to offer conservatives a choice in case something happens and trumps candidacy does fall apart. People have been talking about what trump could do to lose the nomination since, what, august, july, even earlier. Maybe since that moment he came down those escalators back in june. So theres a question as to sort of how realistic that is. But cruz tomorrow night, i dont think youll see him come out and give some sort of concession speech if he loses. He will continue to fight, june 7th the big day when trump could lock up the nomination and if he does, that is when you will see a real reassessment within the Cruz Campaign. Hallie jackson, thank you very much. Joining me, former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst Michael Steele and charlie pierce, writer for esquire. Magazin michael, im bemoussed as i watch the never trump forces start to maybe flirt a little bit with, maybe trump. Maybe eventually trump. This is mr. Crystal who is a flagship member of the never trumpers answering a question earlier today. And there are things trump can do to win you over . I mean, i guess never say never. On the one hand, im never trump. On the other hand, never say never. Ill leave it there. Fair enough. This is the writing on the wall, michael. Everyone loves a winner. That is so precious. That is so precious because he flipped out on me in a conversation we had about this very thing, about 30 days ago. And he was like, no way, no way im like, okay, dude, just wait. I wish we had that on tape, id play that in a heartbeat if you had that on tape. Gosh no. But this is where they are. They have been longsuffering on this slow death march to nowhere. And meanwhile, the base of the party is like, dudes, were over here. Were going with this guy. And this reconciliation within the party has probably been one of the most amusingly frustrating things to watch. Because the base has been saying for some time, as you know, this guy, we like him. Yeah, we dont like everything he says, we dont like everything he does. But hes the kind of fighter we want for this fight. And there has been nothing since the beginning of this campaign that anyone other than donald trump has been able to do to slow his role and thats the reality of it. He has moved this campaign to the point now where were at our last wall, our last firewall, our last bridge, our last whatever. In indiana tomorrow night. And theres nowhere else to go except to get on board and thats what youre seeing. Charlie what im looking for tomorrow, the polling out today that has him over 50 , it was one thing he wins over 50 in new york. Its another when he clears high 50s in the northeast which is sort of the ancestral home of trumpism, if you will. In the case of indiana this is not the kind of place youd expect him to clean up or to romp. If he clears 50 tomorrow that seems a clear statement from the gop base about where they are and how ready they are for this. Yeah, first of all, id like to say that it was hard to hear bill kristol talk over the sound of the cock crowing in the background. However, youre right. I spent a day with the cruz surrogate team yesterday, which was god help us Louis Gohmert and Carly Fiorina and heidi cruz and mike lee. And outside of a slice of the evangelical vote, and not a very big slice anymore, theres no support for him in indiana right now. Theres no reason to vote for the guy. You saw him today. This is diet who was the ivy league debating champion and he was arguing with a guy in fake oakley sunglasses and a fake weatherbeaten sweatshirt whose entire riposte was, uhuh no i expect to see ted cruz on a Street Corner outside ft. Wayne with a sign saying will debate for food. By the way, that was a biblical reference from charlie pierce, anyone who accuses us of being godless liberals. Jesuiteducated Michael Steel knew. So this was the other thing. The question that cruz is going to play. Right now i think youre seeing calculations about peoples future in the party. I want to play you ted cruz and chuck todd going around and around on this question of the fundamental never trump question. Thats the real thing that hangs the air right now, take a listen. If hes the nominee, i take it you cant support him anymore, can you . I believe if the Republican Party nominates donald trump, we will lose to hillary are you going to support him . We will lose i understand what you believe in the Republican Party. Can you support him . Can you tell your delegates chuck what im going to do is lay down your arms and support trump . Chuck you may not. I recognize that many in the media would love for me to vend tore donald trump. If its a time for choosing, say it. For him . Or against him . As the nominee . Its a time for choosing, is it not . Chuck, youre welcome to lobby for support for trump as much as possible. Let the record show you have not taken a position on whether you can support trump if hes the nominee . Fair enough . Let the record show you tried very, very hard to get me to commit to supporting trump. The record will show that. Michael, whats that about . I dont know. Bottom line is, just say no. Nancy reagan said it. Just say no. This is the problem no one can take it seriously at this stage, just say no. You cant support the guy . Just say pitt thats been the problem from the beginning. Youve got to be in it all the way or not. And theres a small group of intellectuals who i think both feel it on principle basis, they really do believe it, they hate trump, and also feel insulated from the consequences of that. Aside from that, charlie, like youre saying, thats not a huge constituency, never has been. No, its not. I think that the historical irony of course is that the very fact that ted cruz is a figure of National Politics at all is a failure of the republican establishment, especially in texas. Michael steele and charlie pierce, thank you very much, both. Could democrats win back control of the senate this november if donald trump is the nominee . A look at that. Plus president obama lets loose in his final white house Correspondents Dinner. How humor played a strategic part of obamas legacy. After conflicting messages on Bernie Sanders plan going forward, the candidate offered clarity and Saddam Hussein ascenders joitds me. Allergies can distract you. So when your symptoms start. Doctors recommend taking nondrowsy claritin every day of your allergy season for continuous relief. With claritin you get powerful nondrowsy relief, 24 hours a day, day after day. And with fewer symptoms to distract you. You can focus on the extraordinary things you do. Every single day. Live claritin clear. 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But Campaign Manager jeff weaver has argued superdelegates are free to support the candidate of their choice and even override the will of the voters, giving sanders a potential path to victory even if hes trailing clinton in the popular vote and among pledged delegates. Yesterday the candidate himself offered his own thoughts. It is virtually impossible for secretary clinton to reach the majority of Convention Delegates by june 14th with pledged delegates alone. She will need superdelegates to take her over the top at the convention in philadelphia. In other words, the convention will be a contested contest. Sanders says overall he wants to flip superdelegates who have already endorsed clinton, especially in states where he won. Superdelegates who support clinton should switch allegiance to him. As Greg Sergeant notes in the Washington Post the math doesnt work for him at least as of now. Tonight sanders is in indiana. Perhaps showing how confident the Clinton Campaign is, shes on a twoday tour targeting voters in appalachia with stops in West Virginia, kentucky, and ohio. Kentucky and West Virginia will hold their primaries later this month. Ohio, on the other hand, has already voted, back in march. It is of course a crucial swing state that could decide the general election in november. I spoke with jane sanders, spouse of Bernie Sanders, and i began by asking whether she could point to a precedent for what sanders is now calling for. Were doing it bernies way as always. Of course there has been precedent. Teddy kennedy with jimmy carter. Hillary clinton with barack obama. So the fact is that its not over until its over. Neither hillary nor bernie will get the requisite number of pledged delegates to be able to wrap up the nomination before the convention. So we go to the convention. Right, so if you go to the convention, i mean, that was also true back in 2008 if you name checked Hillary Clinton, who lost to barack obama. Once it became clear. It didnt happen until june. I think she dropped out first or second week of june that she was not going to be able to surpass that lead. She did not essentially force a roll call vote at the convention. 1980, thats exactly what ted kennedy did. And there was a pretty active floor battle. His folks trying to win over votes, ultimately that was unsuccessful. But theres a lot of people who look at that example and say, carter went on to get his clock cleaned. And that kind of terrifies them. Because they think that played some role in essentially weakening the eventual nominee. Well, as i remember that, it was a little bit rambunctious, shall we say, that convention. We will fight on the issues. And theres going to be a fight on the issues no matter what at the convention. You know, bernie is very strong on going to a 15 minimum wage, stopping fracking, taking Climate Change very, very seriously. He wants to have Electoral Reform so that one person, one vote, actually is carried out. Both in the primaries and in the general election. He wants to stop the revolving door between corporate contributors and the executive branch. We will be having great discussions. I think theyll be good for the American People to hear those discussions. Because i dont think theres discussions are going to be happening on the republican side. And thats what were hearing about as we go around the country and talk to people. I want to give you a chance to respond to critics of yours. Paul krugman in the New York Times has been really hammering the sanders campaign. There are others who basically say that the sanders campaign, by soliciting donations to make Bernie Sanders the nominee, is essentially running a con on its donors. What do you say . Really . What is john kasich doing, what that is ted cruz been doing . No, were running on the issues. You know that. I dont take paul krugman seriously anymore. I used to. I think there are a lot of other, better economists and people who seem to have better critical thinking. So thats a disappointment. But i dont read him so i cant tell you what he says anymore. I do think that we are running on the issues and bernie we just had a fantastic rally this afternoon, were in indianapolis, were having another one. Everywhere we go, people say, please keep fighting for us, youre our voice, dont give up. We owe it to the people that have been part of this movement to take it all the way to the end and to work really hard. Everybody knows, anything can happen in politics. And especially this year, chris. I mean, if anybody had said to you a year ago, we would be where we are today not just bernie. Of course nobody believed a year ago or any time in between in the National Media that he had a shot. You still dont but we do. The five final candidates would have been predicted by zero people a year ago. Exactly. I will give you that. Jane sanders, always a pleasure, thank you very much. Still to come, president obama delivers a literal mike drop at his final white house Correspondents Dinner. Some of the best moments 80 seconds away right after the break. You live life your way. We can help you retire your way, too. Financial guidan while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. This year i once again observed my annual tradition of skipping the White House Correspondents Association dinner to go on a date with my wife happy birthday, babe. The date ended early enough that we did get to watch and for the eighth Straight Year president obamas performance was not something you wanted to miss. The president roasted the roam with a combination of deadpan charm and barely concealed scorn. Heres a bit of what he had to say about the republicans who showed up. Gop chairman, Reince Priebus, is here as well. Glad to see that you feel that youve earned a night off. Congratulations on all your success. The Republican Party, the nomination process. Its all going great. Keep it up. Just look at the confusion over the invitations to tonights dinner. Guests were asked to check whether they wanted steak or fish. But instead a whole bunch of you wrote in paul ryan. Thats not an option, people. Steak or fish. You may not like steak or fish. But thats your choice. President s use of humor has been a key Political Tool in an era in which audiences are fracturing. The president has to get ever more creative of his use of the bully pulpit. Well look at how hes done that and relive some classic comic moments with someone who worked on all eight of the Correspondents Association dinner speeches next. And congestion. , watery es no other nasal allergy spray can say that. 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Nation, as you know, i, stephen colbert, have never cared for our president. Thanks, obama. Have you heard of healthcare. Gov . Here we go. Okay, lets get this out of the way. Whatd you come here to plug . I could call a Nuclear Submarine right here from this i bet you dont have that. I dont have that. Yeah. Its a cool feature. Plus seat warmers. So between the Nuclear Submarine thing and the well, youve got that. Mr. President . Can i live . Watch theed spider bite. Thats the other hand. Its everywhere. Obama out. Joining me now, john lovett, speechwriter in the white house, still pitches in, helped write all eight of the president S White House Correspondents Dinner speeches including the one the president delivered this weekend. All right, john. Heres my first question. Where is the line . How do you figure out where the line is . The whole schtick here is, the president s saying things he wouldnt normally say, hes telling uncomfortable truths, he said some things about Hillary Clinton that were pretty rough. Thats not rough. I mean, ive seen rough, that was not rough. I think, look, when we started working on these speeches in 2009, we were trying to figure out how whats the tone were going to set at these Correspondents Dinners . I remember we did a draft. It was actually the president who was like, guys . I can go a little harder. We dont have to and you know what, he was right. Hes got the chops for this. It occurred to me also it ends up being a situation i think the whole night, even the Larry Wilmore as well, where a person is just insulated just say things they think are truths. Thats the best. The Reince Priebus thing wasnt even a joke. Its like, youre terrible at your job and im telling you this in front of everyone. The best jokes he has ever done, you read it after, what exactly was the joke there . We did a joke one year where hes like, you think i should get a drink with Mitch Mcconnell . Why dont you get a drink with Mitch Mcconnell . Thats not a joke, thats just something he doesnt want to do. What about this idea of the president and his bully pulpit at this time . So i think theres this idea of theres the fireside chat, there was kennedy and the sort of dawn of network television. Theres a sense of gravitas that surrounds the office. Net you guys and people around the president have made these decisions to put them in all sorts of positions that are not filled with gravitas, like talking between Zach Galifianakis between two ferns. That doesnt seem president ial to you . You go where the people are. You rob a bank because thats where the money is. Theres such an incredible thicket of garbage that you have to cut through to reach anybody. Listen, i dont know if you know this, but cable news kind of sucks. Are you doing your own Correspondents Dinner schtick on my show . I do it 24 hours a day, im insufferable. Its great to be here, chris. Thanks, john. But look this president is really good at this. I dont think its a coincidence that a president that campaigned in a new way and reached new audiences is also the kind of person who understands how to do this and how to reach people in a funny way. And its just whether its cable news or things that go viral on twitter or facebook, comedy does work. We do the state of the union. We made a dumb joke about salmon. Right . I dont want to get into the details of the joke. Because it was awesome. But afterwards, the next day, npr called people or somebody called people and up did a poll, what do you remember from the speech . This was a speech about the economy. Right. The only thing people remembered was the word salmon. So i think this stuff breaks through. When its getting harder and harder, when news is atomized, when people are so mistrustful of everything they see i used to remember when bush said that thing about how its hard to get through the filter . He kind of was making a good point. Its hard to break through. Comedy does break through. People share it, people want to do it, its entertaining. Its a good way to get across a message to people. Its interesting to me that going back through this, the moment when he did most of these was around healthcare. Gov. Right. The president was almost just hat in hand selling this thing. Right. It was like he wouldnt say no to anything, they just wanted people to enroll. Right. And if you remember, when he did comedian in cars, and he just says, i think this was the talk about healthcare. Gov, usually thats what i do in these things. Thats right, exactly. John lovett, great pleasure, thanks a lot. That was fun, thanks. 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According to the National Conference of state legislators, in 38 states and the the district of columbia, most exfelons automatically gain the right to vote upon completion of their sentence. In some states, sentence is defined as just prison time. In other states, sentence means prison plus parole and or probation. Governor mcauliffes executive order brought virginia in line with the vast majority of the country. Virginia republicans Like State Senate Republican liter Thomas Norman have two main complaints, saying the action is a belate cant political ploy to help a democrat win virginia in the president ial election. They charge governor mcauliffes executive action exceeds his authority because Voting Rights of exfelons are set out in the state constitution of virginia. While they may be right about that, im not sure thats their best argument. Ill explain in 60 seconds. Governor Terry Mcauliffe restored Voting Rights of 206,000 exfelons who have paid their debt to sea site. Virginia republicans will sue to stop it. The governors spokesman said in a statement these virginians are qualified to vote, they deserve a voice, not more partisan schemes to disenfranchise them. That is not empty rhetoric as detailed in the atlantic. The governors executive action marks an exorcism for one of jim crows last vest vestibles in the constitution of virginia, decades of postreconstruction, white supremacist, segregationist efforts reflected in the virginia constitution. Words a designed not just to maintain segregation as the law the land but actively keep africanamericans from voting through means that included but were not limited to literacy tests and poll taxes. As detailed during virginias constitution at convention the suppression of the black vote was openly discussed. I told the people of my county before they sent me here i intended as far as in me lay to disenfranchise every negro that i could. Thats what r. L. Gordon told his fellow delegates. Late 1960s, Supreme Court decisions and the the Voting Rights act of 1965, most of that part of the constitution had been struck down. But left unscathed was the provision barring felons from voting for life. According to the sentencing project, felony disenfranchisement policies have a disproportionate impact on communities of color. When Virginia Republicans say governor mcauliffe lacks the authority to restore Voting Rights theyre pointing to a portion of the virginia constitution that was design the with the specific intent of keeping people of color from voting. Theyre pointing to a provision that in practice disproportionately affects people of color. However this plays out legally, that is what opposition to governor mcauliffe is hanging their hat on. A deluge of digital records. Xrays, mris. All on account. Of penelope. But with the help of at t, and a network that scales up and down ondemand, this hospital can be ready. Giving them the agility to be flexible reliable. Because no one knows like at t. Back in the vietnam days the berigan brothers were big, attracted tens of thousands of people. Now youre not as big. You do not attract the same attention. Is that hard for you . No. I dont think we ever felt our conscience was tied to the other end of a tv cord. I think weve tried for a number of years to do what was right because it was right. Father daniel berrigan, a towering figure in american political life, at one time a celebrity, died on saturday in the bronx at the age of 94. As a jesuit priest and antiwar activist, he and brother philip organized one of the most famous protests of the vietnam era. May 1968, the brothers led a group that walked into a u. S. Selective Service Office in suburban maryland, seized hundreds of draft records, and burned them in the parking lot using homemade napalm. As the New York Times recounts, all these years later when the police came, the trespassers were praying in the parking lot, waiting peacefully to be led into the van. Berrigans and their accomplices inspired the larger Antiwar Movement and the brothers were eventually convicted of destroying Government Property and sentenced to three years in federal prison each. Both brothers went on the lam, earning them a spot on the fbis ten most wanted list and the cover of time magazine. They were april helpeded with daniel serving 18 months in prison. Following his release he kept doing the exact same work. Leading demonstrations, getting arrested, using civil disobedience to protest war, racism and nuclear proliferation. He was an inspiration to advocates, social justice, generations of catholics, including my father, a former jesuit sell fairian among them. 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Ask your doctor about the proven full 24hour blood sugar control of toujeo®. Today, president obama sat down with six local tv stations across the country to push for a senate vote on his Supreme Court nomin nominee. He sat down with milwaukee, kansas city and others. All those cities have one thing in common, states where republican senators are up for reelection on november 8th. 6 of 24 seats republicans are defe defending. Democrats are defending just 10 seats and need to flip five gop seats to take back the senate. Even months ago heading into this election democrats had chance of picking up some senate seats. Now, as the trump phenomenon continues to take shape, is there open fretting from republicans they could lose control of the senate. A new ad out of Arkansas Senate race shows just why the gop is worried. The web ad released by democrat Connor Aldridge will likely only play on facebook gives us a snapshot what these down ballot races will look like with donald trump at the top of the ticket. She ate like a pig. Id look in that fat ugly face of hers. Once sent a picture of herself with the words the face of a dog written on it. The boob job is terrible. They look like two light bulbs come ing out of a body. Coming out of her whatever. Pattern flatchested is very hard to be a 10. You dont think you could get it up for her . I think id have a hard time. I dont find her attractive. Ill support the candidate e regardless who you pick, donald trump it certainly would be a lot better presidency. Joining me, analysts and supporting prochoice woman candidates and they have endorsed Hillary Clinton. I want to come to you in a second about that ad and the strategy here. Before we get to that you seem anxious to talk about that. Before we get to that, harry, what do we know about the relationship between the margins of the president ial election and how much we can predict what that swing in the senate is. Is there a fairly straightforward relationship . You win by five points you get this many seats, win by 10 points you get this many . Not necessarily. There is an increasingly strong relationship the last few cycles what the president ial election is in a state and the swing. In 2014, 75 of variation of Senate Results of states and how the president did in 2012 in those states. Meaning increasingly, its this case, as we get more rid d ridgedly polarized, you get v e voting red states vote for republican statewide and blue states vote democrat statewide and particularly true in a president ial year. Thats true. You look at the map where president obama is going, missouri and iowa, those werent on anybodys radar. Chuck grassley a household name in iowa, talking on the phone and doing tv hits, that suggests those states could be in play not anything republicans want. If that this is case obviously democrats are feeling their oats on this because of the headwinds for republicans, one question is ads like that, to what extent can the personal things that people might find odious about donald trump be text to candidates running for senate be connected to candidates running for senate. It seems easier onto a policy or platform, to they all report the budget and this guy is a pig and Chuck Grassley is running for senate. How much can you pull that off. It makes its easier when every single one of the republicans we are attempting to knock out in 2016 is willing to support trump and wants him to nominate the next Supreme Court justice. That seems like a fairly easy link there. Its more important than womens ah tutonomy or the white house women absolutely understand that. Theyre stuck with him. Theres this compounding factor, all those seats you mentioned democrats are challenging republican incumbents for the senate, out of 8 of the 9 most com competitive, six are women. Its not like hes polling from the 80s, he said it yesterday. You will see a democratic woman for senate. The top places theyre vulnerable it seems to me would be wisconsin, illinois and new hampshire, in all those places you have a republican incumbent and states fairly reliable, illinois, quite reliably blue, all of them are essentially products of the 2010 electorate, a very different than we project. Exactly. You look at the state of illinois the fact there is a rememb republican in that seat is amazing. Its amazing. That is a state that will have more minorities this time around. Kirk barely won in 2010. Hes probably already a goner. His own polls show hes trailing tammy duck worth and you go through the states one by one, wow, this is easy to get to the number of seats necessary for democrats to take control. And illinois probably the most imperilled and watching the behavior of mark kirk an indication of what we will see more of. Duckworth served in iraq and the department of affairs. He will not go to the convention and one of those to say meet with Merrick Garland and first one to say, get a vote. You will see him trying to distance himself from both the National Party and trump. Absolutely. They will try. Mark kirk also called tammy d k duckworth a naive fool and spent all her time picking out dresses for the event. And most of them dont know how to talk to or about women. We all know the most effective messaging around an election is being able to use an opponents words in their own voice where you can see the video of them saying it. The trouble here is what to choose from, not where to find it. Heres my question for you. One interesting lesson to me from the primary so far is the diminishing marginal value of each ad, each dollar of tv sp d spending. It seems to produce diminishing returns. Do you expect it in the general . In north carolina, debra ross running against richard burr, shes not very wellknown and richard burr doesnt have that high name recognition either. Shes tied. Exactly. Shes tied. You will see whatever the ads are this kind of ad spending play a bit role. Down ticket ads make much more of a difference. Thank you for joining me. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, chris, thanks my friend. Its called an automated dialing announcing device. Did i get that right. Automated dialing announcing device. When you get a phone call, pick up the phone and the voice you hear when you answer the phone is something that is not eman e emanating from a live person, its a recording or like a robot voice or something. That means congratulations, you have been contacted by an automatic dialing announcing device. In 1988, the great state of indiana banned that. The idea was sort of a Consumer Protection thing. The law was aimed mostly at e e easing peoples annoyance with telemarket