the new legislation he s introducing to ban american gas exports. john: one week to election day, republicans are strong in the final days. projecting a big night for the gop in the house, they gain on crime and the economy. john roberts in washington. hello to you. i m sandra smith in new york. our power ranking suggest republicans could take a 19 seat ma rt jo majority in the house. voters in four states will determine which party takes control. john: 12 moving toward republicans, six toward democrats. deep blue california leaning toward democrats now true toss-ups. florida republican senator marco rubio reacts to all of this, and his own re-election fight in moments. sandra: team coverage begins now, mark meredith ahead of the town hall in columbus. john: mike, interesting moves in the rankings. no doubt, john. buckle up, interesting shifts in the power rankings. in the house of representatives, and hayes moves from lean democrat to toss-up. north carolina 1
some sort of, you know, 70s dystopial hellscape. i think you saw what the first press conference was once it became clear they had the majority. it wasn t about inflation, wasn t about crime. it was about hunter biden s laptop. if you watch that, somebody tried to ask them about something else. they were like, no, we re here to talk about hunter biden s laptop. that is what they care about. and even if kevin mccarthy would rather focus on issues of greater concern to the voters, he needs every single one of their votes if he is going to become speaker. so he needs to keep marjorie taylor greene, for example, on board. marjorie taylor greene is in the house because she wants to investigate a bunch of conspiracy theories related to joe biden and pursue a bunch of ludicrous impeachments. stuart, the thing is there s no accountability from the republican base, right? will there be any punishment or any consequences for telling your base that this is an election about inflation and
that s different from the exit poll that we saw, the general exit poll we saw from nbc that had inflation as number one. abortion was number two. then crime then gun policy. do you think the emphases of the candidates, the black candidates who are running in wisconsin, arkansas, florida, kentucky, et cetera, i wouldn t take out kentucky, i think he ran a really strong race in a tough state, we re to focus on the issues, the national broader audience cared about and not be black audience? i want to play for you ads that will be run by some of these campaigns. thanks. where is the beef going out this year? aggravated assault. total violent crime, all lower than a year ago. under her leadership there has been the most dramatic decrease in violent crime in
people who are promising nothing but chaos and pointless investigations into things like hunter biden s laptop and the doj s handling of january 6th insurrectionists who are where they belong, in jail. joining me is stuart stevens, he s worked on five republican presidential campaigns and is a contributor to resolute square, a new pro-democracy media platform taking on fox news and right-wing media. very much needed. michelle goldberg, columnist for the new york times and an msnbc political analyst. this is a really good mash-up, take a look. i talked about the main issues which is 40-year high inflation, record gas prices, skyrocketing crime. we have now have record inflation all across this country at 40-year highs. he supports biden s energy policies which have made gas and utilities more expensive. inflation, run away immigration, crime problems around the country. do they want to stay on the same path of inflation, of gas
prices rising, of a cost of living as you go to the grocery store. this election is about the biden agenda, people don t like high inflation, high crime, open borders, fentanyl. that s what we re talking about. i take it back, i love midas touch, but that was by us. meanwhile, michelle, let me show you a graph. not only are republicans no longer talking about inflation and crime, they have dropped it. i think one tweet from kevin mccarthy not withstanding. fox news was averaging 141 weekly violent crime segments per week from labor day through friday before the election. in the week of the midterms they aired 71 week day crime segments. it dropped 50% just in a week. they no longer care about crime and inflation. your thoughts. two things. one, the whole there really has been an increase in crime, and there s been troubling disorder in a number of major cities, but so out of proportion to the incessant coverage that make american cities seem like