here for democrats. they want to run up the score right around columbus. they want to be right around where clinton was in delaware county. they want huge turnout here, and that s the other question, can they improve, can they get back somewhere close to where barack obama did in the other part of that district? can they erase that trump surge in those non-college white, the blue collar white part of the district. a fascinating story. two very different parts of the district that went like this in 2016. again, this is it. this is the last major special election test before the midterms. you know democrats would dearly love to win this one. republicans hope and they don t have another p.a. 18 on their hands. 7:30 tomorrow night eastern time the polls close. you better believe we re going to be here. up next, republican candidates were happy to embrace the president in the primary season, will the same hold true in the midterms? we ll get to the roundtable straight ahead. you re watch
not prosecuting. that s his choice, with regard to this meeting in 2016. all right, that s where it seems to lay with so many of the questions on this topic. we can talk about what we think, what the political world thinks, but ultimately, it matters what robert mueller thinks of it. robert costa, susan page, michael steele, daniel alonzo. coming up, week two in the manafort trial begins as a key witness takes the stand. what we will learn from the testimony of former manafort aide rick gates. plus, we ll go to the big board and take a look at what s at steak in the big special election. we teed it up a second ago, out in ohio, can democrats pull a rabbit out of the hat? pull off a win out there in john kasich s old district? what will it mean tomorrow and for november. also, the uninvited guest. donald trump dropped by a troy bolderson rally and leaves behind his endorsement, the problem is the gop contender may not have asked for one. hardball roundtable is going to tackle
11 points. if you have been following these special elections, you know democrats have been able to make gains so far right around 10, 11 points on average in these house special elections. so what are we going to look for tomorrow night? if it s a dead even race, i ll be at the board all night watching the returns coming in. i want to give you a preview of what we re going to see tomorrow. let s take a closer look at the district because this district is fascinating. it s really a story of the two different americas we talk about so much in terms of how 2016 happened. one group we talk about, we talk about college educated, upscale white collar professionals. suburbanites. that s a big part of this district. at least in terms of population. it s right here. you see this? this is that part of columbus right here, upscale suburbs right outside columbus, bleeding over into delaware county. really more than half the vote in the district will be come out right here. you see franklin county
out there trying to sort of poison the jury or do they want him saying absolutely nothing? it depends on how you define competitive. if you re talking about competitive in a plus 20, plus 30 congressional dict, yeah, you ll run with trump all day long because that s largely where the base in the district is, and it doesn t matter the democratic opposition that may come. you still have you have the cushion, if you will, to withstand whatever they do or however they try to nationalize the election. in fact, you will likely nationalize the election yourself. you know, if you re talking about something where it s a little closer, it s a different conversation. if you re in a plus-three, plus-five congressional district, you are going to walk a little differently. you re not necessarily going to nationalize it. you re going do keep it local and you don t want to necessarily bring the president s problems into your district because, like we see in a number of states, including ohio, that
kobach in the republican primary for governor there. kobach, the former vice chair of trump s defunct voter fraud commission. the new york times reports that trump bucked advice in making the endorsement, noting the republican governors association and a number of high level operatives counseled against supporting kobach because he would provide democrats an opening to take back the governorship. i m joined by the roundtable, susan del percio, basils michael, a democratic strategist, and caitlin huey-burns with real clear politics. susan, let me start with you. we just laid out the dynamics in this district. i m looking at kasich basically saying the president maybe is doing more harm than good for republicans. half this district seemed to love donald trump in 2016. really gravitated towards him, and the other half seemed to run away from him. from the republican candidate s standpoint, was it good or bad