And this week on Face the Nation: It's down to the wire when it comes to the midterms.
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And the campaigner in chief is making one final trip to the heartland to get his party to the polls.
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STATE REPRESENTATIVE JAMES TALARICO (D-Texas) (Senatorial Candidate): We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.
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VIVEK RAMASWAMY (R-Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate): It is now or never.
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ABDUL EL-SAYED (D-Michigan Senatorial Candidate): It shouldn't be this hard to afford a bag of groceries.
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Even President Trump is pushing ahead despite the wear and tear.
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He's held dozens of in-person and tele-rallies just in the month of October alone.
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More than 52 million votes have already been cast, but there are tens of millions still out there.
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And Mr. Trump's taking a positive tone when it comes to Republican prospects.
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I think we're going to surprise a lot of people.
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You know why?
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We could lose Texas, and, by the way, not just the Senate race.
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We could lose every single statewide race in Texas.
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We will talk with Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders, New York Republican Congressman Mike Lawler, and a look at what's ahead with Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro.
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We are just hours away from voters in 50 states going to the polls for an election that could shift the balance of power here in Washington.
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We begin with someone who has been on the campaign trail quite a bit, although he is not up for reelection.
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That's Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who joins us from Burlington.
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I have been told you've hosted tele-rallies, town halls for Maine and Michigan this weekend, Troy Jackson, Abdul El-Sayed.
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You're focused as well on Florida and Minnesota.
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Why Florida, since it is likely GOP according to CBS numbers, and CBS also rates Minnesota as likely Dem.
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Well, I don't take anything for granted.
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I think Angie Nixon in Florida is running a great grassroots campaign.
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She pulled off a huge upset in the Democratic primary.
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I think she has a real chance to win the general election.
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She is mobilizing working-class people all over this country, and she's talking about the right issues.
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People are disgusted and frustrated with an economy in which the billionaires have never ever had it so good.
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Elon Musk now owns more wealth alone than the bottom 53 percent of American households, while millions of people today are struggling to put food on the table, pay for – you know, pay to fill up their gas tanks, pay for rent.
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So what Angie is talking about, what Troy is talking about is an economy that works for all.
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That's resonating.
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Well, out in Michigan, there appears some inter- Democratic Party squabbles that are ongoing here around the Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed.
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She lost the primary, but she continues to make public her deep misgivings about backing him now, citing concerns about his ads and his views on Israel.
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At this point, is the Democratic Party just too divided to pull off a win in Michigan?
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Is it getting in its own way?
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No, I think – no, I think the over – you know, Haley Stevens lost a very, very close primary.
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I can understand being upset about that.
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But I think two days before the election, where people all over Michigan understand that this is the most important midterm election perhaps in the history of the United States, because we are taking on the most dangerous president that we've ever had, somebody who's an authoritarian, does not believe in the Constitution or the rule of law, who wants to give massive tax breaks to billionaires, throw 15 million people off their health care, that they had started an illegal, unconstitutional war in Iran.
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So, what the people in Michigan understand, sure, we have disagreements with Abdul on this or that issue, but, from what I can see, all over the state people are standing up.
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They're going to stand with Abdul, take on somebody who will be nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Trump administration.
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Just want to clarify there Haley Stevens has been criticizing ads associated and endorsing Abdul El-Sayed that he has said are – are not his ads, but she's still criticizing him for them.
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS:
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Right, and he had nothing to do with those ads.
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