trying america s critical alliances, bankrupting our country and we can go on. laura: lines and tigers and bears oh my. she ran out of breath there. the facial expressions and demeanor looked a lot like, i don t know, election night. i would submit the acceptance of a deeply, deeply, deeply dishonest american president is the single most important issue of our day. laura: once again from the curb she confines of their manhattan studios, they don t understand the obvious. people across the country vote their pocketbook and they may just choose results over resistance. republicans are trouncing democrats by 15 points in the margin for handling the economy. the top issue is the economy. 38% of voters said that s their top issue and republicans in this poll are winning on that
welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead, and president trump trying to defy history and stand in the way of any pending blue wave with just 18 days until americans across the country vote in the midterm elections. president trump is booked solid for the final push, holding four rallies in just the next five days, where we will likely see more from his newly debut rallying cry, claiming republicans create jobs, democrats create mobs. and attempt to remind republicans of the bitter partisan confirmation process for supreme court justice, brett kavanaugh. an issue that, according to polls, at the time ginned republican voter enthusiasm. another one of the key issues the president is raising, the there s of undocumented immigrants. those who say they re fleeing violence and seeking asylum in the u.s., the president using the caravan to fire up everyone wearing those red hats.
melissa: i don t think it would be at or after the midterm. i think we have reach the fever pitch. a lot of this is out of frustration of people feeling disenfranchised on both sides paid on the right, people feel like if i don t like the outcome of your policies, if i don t like the divide between rich and poor getting bigger, if i don t like slow economic growth, i am automatically races. i m automatically a bad person. that s a people on the right field. people on the left feel totally disenfranchised. they are having a really hard time finding their place in making any sort of a change. all of that anger and hostility is butting up against each other. i don t know what the solution is, because it has gotten really ugly and tough. toxic. harris: i actually don t mind the vitriol driving people to the polls. because not enough people in this country vote. on either side of the political line. but when you mix in potential violence and attacks, and language that is more incendia
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9 months old, and as big as he can be. judge jeanine: this week we have seen a lot of pushback against women, republican conservative women. maxine waters flipping her lid literally saying go after them. sarah sanders being forced out of a restaurant. pam bondy will be on in pam bondi will be on in a little bit. i hope people would have more sense than to listen to somebody who sounds as crazy as maxine waters. if we can be civil to one another, it should worry everyone out there, you have someone who is an elected official calling for harassment of people supporting our president who half the country vote voted into office. women, men should be concerned with this. that s the reason the mid-terms