he didn t seem to be aware of every detail. he led the two and a half year investigation. so i think for democrats, what they have to ask themselves is are they willing to risk politically opening a hear which may indeed backfire in battleground states where whoever the nominee will have to win. you have to keep in mind, ayman, the 43 moderate democrats who beat republicans. many of those democrats made it very clear that voters in their respective districts are not talking about impeachment but bread and butter issues, health care. they need to focus on those two draw a distinction which could give them an advantage in regards to turnout in 2020. i have to get your reaction to this one. joe biden is up by 10 points. bernie sanders leads by six points. both of those men beating out
is run when that is precisely their job. so they are the check and balance which i think is one reason why the president is attacking them. we did check for records of at least up to this point of those who are elected republicans, the hill, zero so far at least by their count and that is, at least, at this hour at 4:00. thank you so much. by the way, stick around because the rev will be back in a matter of minutes. the top of the hour for politics nation 5:00 p.m. eastern. coming up, the latest on tropical storm barry as it moves inland and continues to dump heavy rain causing serious potentially life threatening flooding. more, more, more
people as it can that have these final orders. we re talking about 150,000 people last year detained. 250,000 people deported out of of the country. the other thing that has to be discussed and i think the way that we sort of laid this out this hour is perfect. this is all part of a branding exercise by the president. the detention facilities at the border, the tweets, the announcement of these i.c.e. rates and keep in mind the first announcement of these i.c.e. raids came two weeks ago. this is designed to keep these communities on edge, it s designed to make an impact and fire up the base and drive a wedge between republicans and democrats. the problem is you hear that you ll have this collateral damage, which is people that should not be caught up in these raids will be caught up in these raids. let s go to hans nichols at the white house. what we hear is these are final removal orders. these are i.c.e. agents that are working hard. this is not about them.
those of us like you and me who are months and years into this presidential race but what we re seeing is most of the country is still just tuning in. was maybe beginning to tune in at the debates at the end of june. continuing to. barry sanders and joe biden had the highest name i.d. going into it. they re the name that everybody knew. harris had a strong debate performance. a number of other candidates are getting better known as well. when you look at the polls, it seems like what they re indicating right now is any well-known democratic would beat donald trump according to those polls. polls are a long way out. whoever the nominee is, whether it s one of those four candidates or someone else in the field, would be pretty well known by the time of the general election next november. you talk politics about the generic ballot in house races, democrats beat republicans, this looks to me and to a lot of people like a generic ballot
provide to voters is a democratic candidate willing to take on donald trump on that debate stage and go at him on things like this tweet and on policies from healthcare to immigration. vaughn, thank you so much for that. let s get over to edward. edward, you know, when you look at the number of folks that are foreign born and we looked into that and the numbers here while put on screen for you in the cabinet there are two republicans in the senate. there s one for democrats in congress. we have three republicans and then when you look at the numbers, 20 foreign born politicians. the president coming out with that tweet today and reaction that might come from both left and right. it really affects in terms of the message here. both sides of the aisle. i think almost anybody who does not have white skin or is a minority group in some way has been told go back where you came