party have left it to its own devices. this is not race they thought would be on the map and beto o rourke doesn t need their help. he could have given that money to help other candidates. to help the dscc. there s been a bit of frufrgs that frustration that he seems unwilling to share his bounty because there s the sense he has grander ambitions in the long term. how does the party handle his star power among the base of the party especially if he loses the race. i can t figure out if he will retain this appeal. i think he will have a good bump if he comes close. if he wins, that s a game changer. last question to you. the president going to macon next. this is showcasing what i would i think he would say is the donald trump on the campaign trail in this last stretch.
sean, lets pivot to arizona if we could look at the most recent polling from there. sinema with 51%, mcsally with 47%. what are you watching for in that race? this is obviously a state with long republican dna. that s kind of what i m curious about on tuesday, if that dna reasserts itself and if the undivided break republican. if this continues into the 2018 midterms, it could spell big trouble for republicans in 2020. fred, i m going to read a recent tweet from the president of the united states. arizona is a great state, but it needs border security which martha mcsally will provide and kirsten sinema doesn t even think about. vote for martha. let s dig back into that nbc news wall street journal poll and talk a bit about the issues that are animating voters here heading into the election. the president has been talking and talking and talking about immigration. to what degree is that
thought a democrat should be doing which is running more toward the center which was shying away from identity issues. he s a person who has gone on stage and said that racist plooracists believe his opponent is a racist. he s gone and countered trump forcefully on issues of race and immigration. he said the migrant caravan is a distraction. he s fighting back on all the things that lots of democrats really tentative about doing. you have people who are looking for a stronger, safety net. when you re looking at expanding the electorate, you have lots of foe folks like the 1.4 million people who cannot vote because of felonies. you have the people that expanding the electorate means
i heard president obama speak today. why is it that the folks that won the last election are so mad all the time? it s going better than ever before. president obama, we were heading south. it s constant fear mongering to distract from the record. they re telling you the existential threat to america is a bunch of poor refugees. we don t want to go back to the obama days. when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can t work. presidents past and present with how the country is doing and how the race is going. going toe to toe today in a series of rallies. democrats hold a seven-point advantage among likely voters.
he said he s not calling him racist but the racists are calling him racist. he has he hapndled the attacks? that s a great question. i think we ll know more on tuesday. there s a few schools of thought depending on the election season. before 2016, the idea that president trump or a candidate for president would win florida when he had such harsh immigration rhetoric seemed to fly in the face of the florida voter rolls that showed a significant number of hispanics being registered to vote. it didn t cost donald trump the state. kind of quite the opposite. then the conventional wisdom has default in the idea that maybe race, certainly harsh immigration rhetoric, is beneficial to the republicans and a detriment to democrats. he s met these racial controversies and a racist one. ron desantis who said f the