Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington. Welcome to mtp daily and what you might call the chicken little presidency, which saw a fascinating and some democrats would argue, a fascinating split screen courtesy of oprah. Was her message the antidote democrats have been looking for when it comes to this president s fear campaign. For his part, the president continues to amp up his rhetoric, much with violent undertones. Hes telling the country the press is the enemy, democrats are a violent mob, and a caravan thats 900 miles is an imminent invasion. Just moments ago at the white house, he reiterated that warning. Some people call it an invasion. Its like an invasion. These are tough people in many cases. A lot of young men, strong men. And a lot of men that maybe we dont want in our country. But they have overrun the mexican police, and they have overrun and hurt badly mexican soldiers. So this isnt an Innocent Group of people. The president also claimed that he plans to block immigrant
the democrat raised more money, that s almost half of republican seats in the house. and so that has the potential to create some election night surprises. speaking of money, there is a money problem on the republican side in senate races, too, and one place where they re missing an opportunity, i m hearing complaints from republican consultants all over. minnesota. last minute the they re throwing money into it. i m hearing if republicans had money, this would be a race, but they admit, they forgot it. you know, i think that there s a lot of woulda coulda at this point. republicans are not going to have a great year in minnesota generally. you know, they re going to take a big hit in the governor s race. i think that makes senate races harder. tina smith, who is the appointed democratic senator, this is a special election. the al franken seat. right. she hasn t been there long. less than a year. and so you know, she is underperforming, certainly, right now. republican ken ho