how can this congressman come back? a lot of folks that we have talked to on the ground have said he was there for them, he passed some legislation that helped them with flood insurance and when it came to the crime he actually committed, it wasn t a big deal. his wife yelled out from the other side of the car, and said who doesn t pay people under the table? that ultimately led the congressman to prison. and now the standard he set trying to take his seat back. do you feel like your election would shift the standards that we set for people running for public office? again, you like to put the question that way, and i understand why. but the people of staten island and brooklyn understand that. they changed the rules for me because of political corruption, and that s what the people of staten island and brooklyn think and that s one of the reasons they re supporting me. they don t like politics in our
warren tonight did that last-minute visit from donald trump help? we ll see when the polls close at 7:00. and a lot of action in new york tonight, we have not had a lot of interesting democratic primaries. these are interesting, you have four long tenured democratic members of congress, we re not expecting any of them to lose, but if there s going to be any signs, they re all being challenged from the left, younger opponents from a lot of cases here. we re going to keep an eye on these, it could be interesting, the other place we re keeping an eye on is new york. down here in staten island park, this is one republican part of new york city, the congressman there is a republican, he is being challenged by a former congressman, whose name you probably remember, the incumbent right now is don donovan, he resigned, he went to prison, he s back, he s telling people in his district he was
railroaded by the obama administration. dan donovan has the endorsement of president trump, who s told president trump, don t be intimidated by grim. there s a lot of local pride out there behind michael grimm believe it or not and von hilliard is on staten island, the heart of this district. casey hunt is there on staten island. let s start with you on staten island, are we looking at grimm taking out dan donovan potentially? steve, you said it, the local pride is the issue, people across the country, you look at michael grimm, he spent seven months in prison, he was also that individual back in 2014 threatened to throw that reporter off the balcony and told that reporter he was going to break him in half, quote, like a boy.
justice system. they don t like that i got prison when i should have only have gotten a fine. next question? the interesting part about this, steve, is that the president did endorse dan donov donovan, dan donovan was only one of two republican congressional members who voted against congressional legislation in the house, and tax reform, but the president said in a tweet, he said remember alabama, he doesn t want another similar situation on what happened to roy moore and it cost him a seat. democrats see this as a potential opportunity, essentially they believe if michael grimm can pull it off here today. from staten island, we head west to utah. casey hunt is there, and casey, not a lot of suspension when we think about the outcome tonight, but the implications of mitt romney going to the u.s. senate on national politics could be significant? reporter: that s right, steve, i think you can see the governor is right here behind