Will drive you to the polls this. November maybe it is matters of gun control, or immigration, perhaps an interest in changing the house or senate, or to keep that from happening. What are your issues in the upcoming november elections . Call and tell us, 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. Independents, 2027488002. You can also post on twitter, or tell us about the issues leading up to the november elections on facebook, you can go to facebook. Com cspan. Cnn this morning has a piece by Ron Brownstein taking a look at the november elections and the places that will decide, in his estimation, the 2018 election. He says red pockets, bluecollar blues those labels describing the seats in the house of representatives that will likely determine control of the chamber in the election. Virtually analysts agree that the epicenter of vulnerability for the majority for republicans are the red pockets, the predominantly white color suburban that the gop holds in metropolitan areas that are solidly them credit including orange county, call poignant, new jersey and the suburbs outside of new york city. Even if democrats make gains in those districts, none of to provide the party for the 24 seats needed to change over the house. Those red pockets will be the most reliable source. He also says longterm trends have seen democrats demonstrate increasing strength up and down the ballot and in major metropolitan areas, even in republican leaning states. That is some of his issues when it comes to the 2018 election and what could change that. Mitch mcconnell, even as the majority leader, in an interview done a couple of days ago and reported on in the business insider, says he projects as well that a seat in the upcoming election. He is quoted in the New York Times saying the odds of that we will lose seats, history tells you that. We going to this clear eyed, this will be quite a challenging election. He pointed to the fundraising cap ahead of the elections, which he says was spurred by a large number of democratic challenges for those seats that had been deemed safe. The story ends that into trouble women have stepped up to the plate and 2018 to challenge republican incumbents. A record doubling number of women, 79, considering running for governor in 2018. With the midterm elections coming up in november, we want to let you know about your interest in them, and what your issues are. Maybe it is a matter of economics, gun control, or other issues. You can let us know, republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. You can also post on our social media sites. On the phone, starting off is jay, hampton, connecticut on the independent line. Thank you for calling. Tell us about the issues that concern you most going into november. Caller think you for having me on thank you for having me on. Ive a question about mitt romneys qualifications for running on any ticket. On when he was running for president , an interview with the Massachusetts Governor that took over after him. That mittm was romneys administration left them with a half page of to run thes on how massachusetts government, but the actual problem was that all the Government Computers had been wiped clean. Host that is one concern you have going into the midterm elections, is that the most concern or are there other issues you are concerned with going into them . Caller listen to what the concern is. What possible reason is there being for wiping the massachusetts Government Computers . What could those be . When you made that case, it comes to mitt romney and was the president offering support for his senate run, saying he announced he is running for the senate from the wonderful state of utah. He will make a great senator and successor to orrin hatch and has my full support and endorsement. The president giving that on twitter. Then a response from mitt romney, saying thank you for the support and i hope i ran the support and endorsement of the people of utah. That is one of the issues going into the november elections. Florida. Ma city, beach liz, cohead, youre on go ahead, your on. Ok, we will go to loretta. Democrats line. Caller good morning. One of my issues is gun control. Is soot understand how it easy for individuals to get whatever you call them, and why they are on the streets. I looked at ebay one day and us on one of these guns advertised for sale. An so why is it not organization that looks at the internet and ebay and places like this where you can purchase, you can actually purchase these guns on ebay . Host how do you think the november elections will change that, particularly depending on who you plan to vote for . Caller that would help, ok . That would help stop some of the killing, because we have too many. Then if you look at these people these places,g in schools and stuff like that, shooting, these are not muslims like everybody wants to blame all the shooting and bombing on the muslims, these are americans. The Washington Post has a poll taken a look at the president and congress, if they are doing enough on issues of gun control, particularly do you think the congress is doing enough to prevent Mass Shootings in the country . 11 19 say they are doing enough, 11 say that congress is a strongly doing enough, 59 itagree with that, when comes to the president 21 say that the president is doing enough on this issue, 62 say not doing enough, 50 of those strongly disagreeing he is doing enough on the issue. Of gun control one of those concerns you have going into the election, there may be others as well. The president this morning reportedly opened to the idea of doing more when it comes to federal background checks, saying that the president on monday expressed his support for some changes to the gun background check system by opening the door to a bipartisan congressional proposal designed to improve the sharing of Mental Health and criminal record information between state and local agencies. While discussions are ongoing and revisions considered, the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal back on check system. That from Sarah Sanders. Gun control may be one issue, there may be other issues driving you to the polls this november. Republican line, from trenton, new jersey, tom go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I think the most important issue is immigration. , aunts,r and uncles they are all democrats and i think that my generation turned republican. I think we are flooded with immigrants. I do not know if our economy can handle all of those. With welfare and help and, i do not know, nobody is assimilating. I think we need to stabilize immigration at a certain level for awhile. Host as far as the legislators that represent you, how do they stand on illegal immigration . Caller i do not know, i have one of the republicans who is he is on the liberal side, by will support what he does. I cannot expect my legislator to agree with everything that i think. On the other issues, i think that i stand by him because he is really reasonable in his a spending, we cannot reduce it completely, but we have to reduce it by a certain amount and i can live with that. Arizona, theake in senator from arizona in an oped this morning talks about what is going on with the dreamers, when it comes to the daca legislation and the attempt that failed in the senate last week. I cannot see congress agreed with the president on a package that has a path to citizenship for daca participants. Changes to our structure, comprehensive reform has proved to be beyond our grasp. When the Senate Reconvenes the first action i will take is to introduce a bill extending daca protections for three years and providing 7. 6 billion to fully fund the first three years of the Border Security proposal. The free forthat free approach is far from a perfect solution, but it would provide a temporary fix by beginning the process of improving Border Security and ensuring Daca Recipients will not face potential deportation. Immigration might be your issue, as our caller expressed. Gun control might be your issue. We want to hear about those issues this our. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. William is next on the independent line. Caller i have seen [indiscernible] from congress. You know, the people that give the money, i do not think my by the money. B that is the only way we take our country back. People,e individual 535. They want to tell how 300 million americans live. We need to tell them what we need and then they vote on it. What somebody whether we need guns or do not need them is not important. Host jeanette on twitter says, i would like to see the leaders of the house and the senate enact a law of term limits. It should not be a career. This would give fresh ideas into congress, help people have more faith in politics. John in pennsylvania, democrats line. I, this is john. Inconcern, among many, is pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court has just issued a newly drawn map of the Congressional Districts. It was different than the governors map and the republican majority map. My county has been split in half. Johnstown now in district 15. District 13, excuse me. North of johnstown, the city i live in, that is not in now in district 13. Pennsylvania has become a wildcard state. Im not happy with my current Republican Congressman, i think he is a coca circuit koch circuit. As pennsylvania kock circuit. Surrogate. As pennsylvania goes, host do you think of pennsylvania that will challenge the map . Caller when the Supreme Court said that the republican drawn map was on constitutional, by the state constitution, they appealed to the Supreme Court and the spring court deferred to the state court because the decision was made initially in the state Supreme Court, so they said, hands off. The republicans are at fault. The governor summit at his map at the submitted his map at the last minute. Long story short, the court made the choice. Now they have completely redone the map, it is completely refigured, and according to the experts it is nonpartisan and it is a competitive map. Gerrymandering is done in pennsylvania. That is part of the reason that congress is the poison is. It is time for this to change. Pennsylvania is leading the charge, im happy to say. Host john in pennsylvania, we have showed you this map several times, this coming from the state Supreme Court which originally ordered the map. Here is the republicans version. Whether new will stem from that, we will see. Line,on the republican talking about the issues leading up to the november elections. Caller good morning, i would like to state that the house of representatives, we need to clean house on both sides. I do not ever hear them talk about how this country is not self supported any longer. We need more jobs here. And also on immigration, i do not see anything wrong with everything is being taken over by technology, we need our students. Gun control, it should start in the home. Take the computers and games and everything out of the kids hands and sit down at the dinner table and be parents again. Host the idea of the country being selfsufficient, what do you mean by that . Wrong if anything goes and we are cut off from everybody, how are we going to our our people, clothe people, do anything . We do not make our own planes and ammunition. China takes everything for the we turnedn, even over to them. How can we support ourselves . Host a viewer says one of the issues that he or she is looking for this november is to protect the security of our elections, defend us against russian attacks aimed our elections, this coming after the indictment of 30 people involved in that. The larger issues of these troll farms, and that involvement. These are some of the issues we can talk about the next 45 minutes. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. Going to our cspan library, you will see leaders of both sides speaking with constituents, members of congress, by the november elections. Was thehose leaders former Vice President joe biden speaking with democrats at their retreat last week, talking about the midterm elections. Here is some of what he expressed. [video clip] who wouldve thought that we would be here at this moment, with a this president . We have a president who is consumed by his political survival. It is the beginning, middle and the end. Everything is run through the filter of how it affects donald mind. And Donald Trumps no matter, as we look at this he is in the process of shredding some of our core values. Theknow, things that institutions i never thought that we would ever be talking about, are in jeopardy. There is attack on the guys wearing a striped shirts, the press and the courts. It is a technique that has been used repeatedly throughout history by those who want to clear the field so that they are in a position to abuse power, more than they otherwise would be able to do. Is no matter how much damage being done to the moral fabric of the nation, or no matter how much damage is being done to our standing in the world. I will not get into quoting statistics, but you know what the national, the International Polling shows now about how we are viewed as a nation. We are below, not much above russia, were below china. It is things are changing in a way that have so many longterm profound impacts on our security. Now we have a Republican Party that seems to have its major role, and i think they know better, to do anything to protect this president. Host if you want to see that speech to democratic members of congress, go to our website at cspan. Org. You will see other messages that the members to the members of congress. Cspan. Org is where you can find that. Liz, good morning come alive for live for morning, democrats. Caller after listening to these kids in florida this weekend, it really hit me how they seem to know just a little but more about politics and what is going on in this country and how to work on a nonpartisan way to get some of this stuff done and i think they made a very poor net poignantich is point, which is the lobbyists and the money that they are putting in todays candidates, enough is enough. And when they called b. S. On that, i was a super proud of them. If we want to look at these elections coming up, they say andof the mouths of babes these kids really know what is going on. They are super intelligent. And they have my support and they are right, they are dead on. Is it about guns, is it about this stuff, i think it is more about what they are saying, working in a nonpartisan manner, which is not what is happening now and getting this lobbyist money out of washington. Host ok, liz talking about the protests in florida. Protests in front of the white house last night, students part of that. Here is video from the Washington Post website of those students, some wind down and holding signs, some just standing, this in support of solidarity about the issues that were raised about the shooting that took place in florida. We got that from the Washington Post website. Philip, cambridge my maryland. Republican line. Good morning, go ahead. Caller i am glad that we do not have 14yearold kids voting, that is why we have 18yearolds voting, because they are thinking more about it. Gun control, if we take let ar15s. , i own three i have probably 25 guns, i do not know how much ammunition. One of my guns, i loaded it last night and i put it on the porch and this morning i looked out there and it did not shoot a person by itself. It is the people. If you take the ar, then they grab a shotgun. Are we going to ban those next . More people are killed with pistols, will we been pistols . Ban pistols . Host is that the main issue driving you . Caller i will be joining the nra again. I would rather get shot with an ar15 one time, it is a tiny bullet. I have mine for shooting coyotes and foxes. You take a shotgun with buckshot and you have probably 25 shot you are using, you might have 25 shots coming out and it will spend maybe 10 feet wide. You hearlip when the president opened the idea of expanding, or doing some more when it comes to federal background checks, is that something you are ok with . Caller more background checks, we dropped the ball. We had warnings. The three major shootings we had, except for the one in las vegas, they were never passed the background check. The guy in the Church Shooting in texas, they if they had in the paperwork right, he wouldve never passed. I thought about it, i am so glad the neighbor had an ar15 and came out and shot him before he shot everybody. Host ok, that was philip giving us thoughts on gun control, an issue he is concerned with. The first item on the majority agenda for the house turning back the house schedule, he says, the representative al greens impeachment resolution, that is what he wants to see if democrats take control of the house next year. Lets go to andrew in chicago, illinois, democrats want. Line. Caller good money, the gentleman from pennsylvania still a little of my thunder on gerrymandering, but i want to follow up on that also. Our system, are looked world alstem in america elector system in america is rigged, not just by the russians, but by the republican gerrymandering that is going around this country and has been around since 1812. I do not know if a lot of people know, gerrymandering started from a governor in massachusetts. Eldridge gerry. He would skew the Senate Districts in massachusetts in 1812 to help the republicans. Now, what the Supreme Court did in pennsylvania is telling the whole country, and all these gerrymandered districts and states, that congressional seats are going to be of for grabs in the midterm election. When you look at where gerrymandering has done the most in this country, it is north carolina, pennsylvania, West Virginia, kentucky, texas, thatsas, these are states if i was a republican and i was running for a house seat or senate seat, i would be scared to death. Host lets go to paul in florida, repub