states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. president biden is at home in delaware after a campaign swing to three western states. ahead, why he says this year s mid-term elections are the most important in decades. plus, chinese leader xi says they will take taiwan by force. a live report from beijing plus reaction from taipei. elon musk changes his mind when it comes to offering peace for ukraine. we ll look at the decision and huge implications in the war against russia. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with ken brunhuber. > . president biden has just wrapped up a rare four-day campaign tour across the west costa head of the critical mid-term elections. much is at stake as it tries to hold on in congress and win key local and state elections. biden s approval is low across polls fueling worries that it could weigh down the party at the ballot box. stumping alongside the most vulnerable candidates. the pre
the triple threat, as the gop calls them, signaling a potential political realignment as donald trump made gains with latinos in 2020. my habolita was democratic. reporter: de la cruz was won over after attending her first trump rally. he didn t have a political background. he was a businessman and his business policies, again, they made sense for people. he stood up against the establishment and he put forth policies that helped families. reporter: pro tax cuts, pro wall and against abortion. he says he pays three times what he used to for a box of eggs while faulting democrats for under valuing faith, family and
argument is everywhere. business leaders will say capitalism in 2019 doesn t work for everyone, it needs judgment. but the socialism argument is a gift for republicans. they want to say that all day long, because you have huge people around the country going, no, no, no, socialism isn t the answer. when elizabeth warren puts forward an idea of a wealth tax for the super rich, does that bring people together or is it a gift for republicans? i think that donald trump would be smart to run against socialism in 2020, much the way he ran pro-wall in 2016, but i don t think that elizabeth warren s wealth tax necessarily screams socialism. i think that you look at the trump tax cuts and people were promised a rise in their take-home salaries. they were promised that they were going to be a lot more economic gains than they frankly realized. my taxes went up, i m usually all for a tax cut, but unfortunately this wasn t didn t affect people in blue states
puts border security in the public sphere according to democrats whether you are against a wall or whatever, the american people believe in sovereignty and some kind of border security and they know there has to be some kind of fix when it comes to securing the southern border and calling it a slush fund makes it not seem like a serious prospect. bret: nancy pelosi having this issue on the first part of taking over the gavel as house speaker a positive thing for democrats or a negative? the opposition to a wall funding will be even stronger than it was with the current class of democrats. it helps her and the public is divided over this it doesn t matter which words you use, the one thing you are going to hear is everybody talk about how much they support border security. if you are a conservative or pro-wall, the more you hear people talk about electronic measures and surveillance the more you view it as a dodge to