testimony. process wise and with the outcome, democrats would have had an issue to take to the base. now it is more of a toss up. republicans went through the past week, their nominee was under additional fbi investigation and they came out on top. democrats got this extra week of overtime and still got the same result, not the result they wanted. i don t think it means they re sunk in midterms but i think it is deflating to the base. here s the thing to remember. the president will surely lose seats in congress in his party. the president has a 43.5% approval rating in real clear politics average, barely below where he was on inauguration day. democrats have a 7 point edge in generic congressional ballot, but that s not a big enough edge to say in these individual races in swing seats that s going to get them over the top. so i think we are where we were. it is going to depend on which side can turn out the votes.
32 was the previous record. we re going to exceeds that by two feet. one of the other rivers we have been keeping an eye on is the cape fear river. that is sitting at 43.5 feet. that s minor flood stage. we expect it to jump all the way to 62 feet before it finally comes down. the reason for all of this, we said it before, is the amount of rain that we have had. we have brand new numbers in to talk about exactly how much rain has actually come in. some of the numbers have been impressive for a while but some of these others starting to creep up. look at some of the other ones. wilmington nearing two feet. the first one of south carolina to hit a high number is 18 inches. i cannot emphasize enough, these numbers will keep going up because we still expect rainfall in a lot of those areas for the next 24 hours. that s why it s so important,
could happen and possible because menendez has bad reputation with corruption charge. no, you re exactly right and the opposite is the case in the house obviously 435 seats are up, 48 to 50 we call competitive seats, the lions chair of the competitive seats are held by republicans and that s what creates among many other factors the likelihood that the democrats can pick up the 23 seats to take over the house. so that would be pretty interesting given the fact that the president s job performance on average, 43.5%, real clear politics average, this is what we have not seen before, 45% approval approved the president s job performance. it hasn t budged outside of sort of margin of error for months. rob: light-blue wave in november. i think you re probably in the
have a democrat take this seat and start to push toward wanting to change things that are growing. ohio is happy with the direction we re going now. we ll continue to make sure these things continue to grow in that fashion. sandra: we ve heard the president suggest maybe there could be a red wave. not the blue wave democrats hoped for in november. do you see that happening? i agree with the president. in the primary 200,000 more republicans voted than democrats. as i travel the state, people are happy with the economy and happy with the job the president is doing. troy balderson will continue to work with this president to get things done. that s what the people of ohio want to see. they want to see the economy continue to grow and troy is the guy to get it done. sandra: the presidential election the outcome in ohio trump 51.7% to clinton 43.5%. it will be closely watched as are all of these races
and ultimately the white house. after those protests. it is not very smart politics. and another interesting similarity we forget about 1968, richard nixon won with 43.5% of the vote. yet, he won in a landslide. and that s exactly the sort of thing we are looking at today. steve: all right. past prelude to today. charlie hurt, thank you very much for joining us live. thank you, steve. steve: 10 minutes before the top of the hour on this thursday. mike pompeo at this hour on in the air on his jet flying to north korea for another round of high stakes talk with kim jong un. we are going to talk about what needs to happen in that meeting coming up. dog days of summer. literally we have the gear to help your dog beat the heat. is that a dog cooler? it s a dog cooler.