Newsroom. Great to have you with us this weekend, im ana cabrera in new york. President trump making good on his promise to hit the road full throttle for republicans this summer. In just a few hours, hell be pumping up gop voters in ohio in a deep red district that he won easily on election day. But now, a republican win there is by no means a given. These two are fighting for a congressional seat in tuesdays special election. On the left is the democrat, can danny oconnor, suddenly surging, making it a tossup against Republican Troy Balderson. The president s visit is last minute push to keep that seat republican. Boris sanchez is on site. If this district flips, what does this mean for midterms . Reporter hey there, ana. Well, it could be a signal of that blue wave that commentators have long been prognosticating for the 2018 midterm elections. This could be a referendum on
where President Trump stands with midwestern voters as well. The fact is, we wouldnt be talking about the 12th
all of that going on. so they say, oh, pizzagate is real. that stuff s real. maybe barack obama wasn t a legitimate president because he was born in kenya. they claim the seth rich conspiracy theory, he was murdered by hillary clinton, this dnc staffer. so it combines all this stuff that s been bubbling up for a listening time now and offers this explanation of trump versus this global cabal. but a lot of those we hear that are not supportive of the president, the person in power, these seem to be backers of the current president. sure, so this is the interesting thing about qanon, is that conspiracy theory experts have looked at this and they say normally you get a conspiracy theory like, let s say, birtherism, when your side loses. this time, though, it s the president s supporters. the republicans control the entire government. so what s going on? i think what s going on is that the president he made such extravagant promises and his supporters believed in him so much during t
where president trump stands with midwestern voters as well. the fact is, we wouldn t be talking about the 12th congressional congressional district of ohio when it not for president trump. as you noted, this is a solid red republican district, one that has been reliably that way for decades, which president trump won by 11 points. now on this special election for the district seat on tuesday, i want to show you this, a monmouth university poll that shows that this race is essentially a toss-up between republican troy balderson and democrat danny o connor, a one percentage point difference between the two of them with such an important district for republicans and such an important swing state. president trump is going to come here to try to work some of his magic, and he did that earlier today on twitter, sending out tweets in support of troy balderson. he writes, we ll be going to ohio tonight to campaign for troy balderson for the big congressional special election on tuesday. troy
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