it comes to a midterm election are almost at president level. that s going to be interesting. many presidential election as chuck todd, our good friend, was saying today on meet the press . another breakdown preferring republicans-controlled congress. white men without college degree, 65%. white women without college degree, 54%. white voters overall, 50%. this may or may not fit into what we have looked at leading into this election. when you look at those numbers and you look at donald trump s rhetoric, you see why he s starting to ending this campaign going and talking about immigration. it s plain to the racist in the extreme part of his base. in a really it s a dangerous thing to do as well, but if he felt he had a good message to close on, he probably would be using that, like tax cuts or some other achievement he had accomplished. he s not doing that.
for us. i don t know what you re doing here. why we came? yeah. because the democrats have a chance of changing this district. do you think they have a shot? this election is really important just to make a shift. the sixth district could shift because of its dem gafr demographics. we headed to a part that s called the mile high united nations. they think this district might flip because of the diversity. we ve got chinese businesses, thai businesses, korean businesses and a vietnamese business. ee ethiopians make up the second largest minority group here. this is an area that voted for democrats for president, but a republican for congress. why do you think that is? the congressman, mike
it worked out good for me. now that that s happened, suddenly you ve got the republican leader in congress, mitch mcconnell, who s saying well, you know, i m very disturbed by these deficits. to bring the deficits down, we re going to have to cut programs like medicare and medicaid and social security. don t boo. vote. president obama there, former president of the united states, in gary indiana, one of the key races. he s alluding to the senate, joe donnelly against republican businessman mike braw businessman mike braun. he s trying to make a difference right now. so is the state democratic party by bringing out the big guns. also big guns in macon georgia. we re watching for that. president trump will be out there. of course the key gubernatorial race happening in the state of georgia that we ve been watching.
senior strategist and an msnbc contributor. mark, let s start with you, because you just put out all of the numbers today for us. when we look at not only what i was discussing, there is the breakdown of those who do prefer democrats controlling congress. i ll just do that very quickly. likely african-american voters, 84%. latinos, 57%. white women with college degrees, 61%. independents are kind of going heck, i don t know what to do this time. most of the parts of the democratic coalition are fired up. and our pollster republican half of the poll said republicans have made gains over the last few months. when you look at this democratic coalition, he said you might want to put your thumb on the scale for the democratic side. the republican, while they are fired up, it s not as much. you look at enthusiasm among latinos, among independents, and then also looking at millennials and those places, at least when
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