but right now how is it going? this is ed royce s former district. young kim was a staffer when he was in congress. the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee. young kim has opened up a decent lead, 8,000 votes ahead. we talk about what democrats have done on the candidate side. this is a republican candidate that if you talk to anybody this the party, they say she a superstar. why is she a superstar? why did she raise a ton of money? this district is 33% asian. this district is not we talk about demographics and latino vote and all. 33% asian, young kim, the country to become the first korean house member from this area. that s important. candidates were important here. right. she has a lead right now. democrats felt good about gil cisneros, raised a ton of money and donated a bunch of money from himself, a former lottery winner. but young kim opening up lead. that s as much about the candidate as anything else. by gender, by ethnicity, by party, you re seeing t
having those conversations on the trail, i think something we expected in this election was the bottom was going to fall out of the republican enthusiasm. something i think we didn t necessarily expect was that there were going to be so many independents who were pervaded, both by the positives on the democratic candidate side, but also by the fact the republicans have sfafallen in line with tru. kevin, jump in here. i see an active eyebrow raise. they also have oprah and taylor swift knocking on doors. in terms of the economy, i think it s going to be really interesting to see how trade and the trade debate plays out in the long run. if you talk to senator elizabeth warren, they re not pushing back on tariffs, for example, particularly with the renegotiated nafta deal. there actually is this strange populist streak in american politics where there s some strange bedfellows, so to speak, in terms of the trade debate. what i find interesting, and you picked up on this with the tax i
his own caucus for the job of speaker which should be his. he performed an unforced error and gave the clinton s a talking point, and the clinton s are taking the ball and running with it, they should. it s the first bit of good luck they ve had in a long time. and let s turn around and look at what s happening on the republican candidate side. donald trump leading in polls but he s slipping. this as others make gains. how concerned should the trump camp be right now? reporter: the trump camp is always working under the assumption that they would have a limit for how much support they could achieve inside the republican caucus without breaking into the larger mainstream audience. they ve failed to do so. that s a major problem for the campaign. this was always going to be a long race. trump has said he s in it for the long haul. he doesn t have a money problem, but there s a growing