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Florida now. thank you. joining us for the daily fix chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and founder of the washington post fix blog and wall street journal political editor jean cummings. we ll start with you. i want your take on if there is reason for concern that the clinton campaign, at least whether some democrats should be concerned that they are getting ahead of themselves with a pivot to promoting senators and others down ballot instead of keeping the focus on donald trump now. the only poll that matters is november 8. democrats tend to be more concerned in general about are we missing something in the electi election. what hillary clinton is trying to do and you can argue the cart is before the horse. success and legislatively speaking if she is elected president. look, the tv ad time has been bought. her schedule has been planned. ....
Central command. chris cillizza, jean cummings, thank you. if you are second in line to the presidency or you want to be, well, you are on msnbc tonight. vice president joe biden playing hardball with chris matthews at 7:00. at 9:00 rachel maddow has tim kaine and at 11:00 governor mike pence. a plate here on andrea mitchell reports on msnbc, the place for politics. ....
We will be watching. joining me for our daily fix, washington post editorial columnist ruth marcus, wall street journal political editor jean cummings. how big a problem is it for ted cruz to be acknowledging a goldman sachs loan, goldman and others saying it wasn t at a favorable rate but it was not disclosed in a timely way when it was supposed to be to the federal election commission and so he had to do an amendment on that, and it does undercut his whole narrative, i mortgaged everything in order to run for the senate, i put everything on the line. on the line with the backing of goldman sachs. we both used to cover money and politics and reality is, this is a transgression. it s a technical transgression. it s not fatal but it s not the greatest time in the world for ted cruz to be talking about this and any time you are saying ted cruz and goldman sachs in the same sentence, it s not the kind of campaign that he wants to be running right now. how many iowa voters, caucus ....
Mayor in response to trump said either at real donald trump has memory issues or willfully distorts the truth, either of which should be concerning for the republican party. jean, you have watched politics for a long time. i said a week ago on meet the press that trump could actually benefit from the paris attacks. the big man, strong man theory. arguably, the president s nuanced approach as he travels around asia has perhaps played into that. absolutely. i agree with jeremy. trump is personality and right now, he s a big, tough guy and that s what people will turn to. i think if anybody might be in some risk of losing support, it might be dr. carson, because of his very low key persona in addition to his lack of knowledge about foreign affairs. so he may be in a more vulnerable position. but it s also interesting, there was a poll out in the last month ....
Thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down, thousands of people were cheering. you know, the police say that didn t happen and all those rumors have been on the internet for some time. did you misspeak yesterday? i saw it. it was on television. i saw it. it did happen. there were people cheering on the other side of new jersey where you have large arab populations. they were cheering as the world trade center came down. i know it may be not politically correct for you to talk about it. donald trump s controversial statements over the last week about muslims and his misstatements about 9/11 have if anything solidified his standing in the polls. what s going on here? joining me for our daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and founder of the washington post fix blog, wall street journal political editor jean cummings and jeremy peters. you have been watching this republican race up close. the last seven days or nine days ....