MARCH WHATEVER THAT MUSIC
MEANS WE ARE 10 DAYS AND
COUNTING UNTIL THE MID
TEMPLE ELECTIONS CAN YOU
BELIEVE IT IN IT'S ALL
COMING DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT
NOT WHERE MANY EXPECTED.
DEMOCRATS NOW GETTING CAUGHT
A LITTLE BIT OFF GUARD WEST
VIRGINIA AND NEW JERSEY NOW
LOOKING INTERESTING TO SAY
THE LEAST WHICH THEY USUALLY
AREN'T.
IN NEW JERSEY CHUCK
SCHUMER'S PACK APPEARS TO BE
DUMPING ANOTHER $3 MILLION
IN A LAST-DITCH EFFORT TO
SUPPORT SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ
AGAINST HIS CHALLENGER
REPUBLICAN BOB HUGIN THAT'S
ON TOP OF THE 3 MILLION THEY
THROUGH IN A WEEK OR SO AGO.
IN WEST VIRGINIA, DEPENDING
ON WHICH POLLS YOU TRUST.
COULD BE ANYBODY'S RACE
THERE BETWEEN POPULAR
DEMOCRAT JOE MANCHIN AND HIS
REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER
PATRICK MORRISEY.
HERE NOW TO HELP US GET
UPDATED ON EXACTLY HOW CLOSE
THESE RACES ARE CHRIS
STIREWALT FOX NEWS POLITICS
EDITOR.
GOOD TO SEE YOU, SIR.
>> HOWDY MA'AM.
HAPPY FRIDAY.
>> Martha: HAPPY FRIDAY TO
YOU.
LET'S TALK ABOUT NEW JERSEY
MY HOME STATE WHERE USUALLY
YOU DON'T EVEN SEE POLITICAL
ADS ON TV BECAUSE EVERYBODY
KNOWS HOW IT'S GOING TO GO
BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE THIS
TIME.
TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON
THERE.
>> CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW UPSET
DEMOCRATS ARE HAVING TO
SPEND ALL THIS MONEY ON WHAT
SHOULD BE A SAFE SEAT.
BOB THEN THEN DID HE SEE
DECISION TO SEEK RE-ELECTION
HE HUNG ONE A HUNG JURY AND
PROSECUTORS SAY THEY ARE NOT
GOING TO PUT THE CASE
FORWARD IT HAS PUT A
TERRIBLE STINK OVER IT AND
DEVELOPED ENORMOUS I WILL
WILL AMONG THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IN NEW JERSEY THAT
THEY ARE HAVING TO DO ALL OF
THIS FOR THIS GUY.
LOOK, IS HE STILL FAVORED TO
WIN MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT
THAT.
THE TIGHTENING OF THE POLLS
IS UNMISTAKABLE.
WE REMEMBER THE LEAN OF THE
STATE THE VIBE OF THE YEAR.
IS HE STILL FAVORED TO WIN.
NOW THEY HAVE TO SWEAT IT
AND TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM
OTHER RACES WHERE IT MIGHT
BE INTERNET SPENT INSTEAD OF
SPENDING IT ON A SEAT THEY
SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE TRYING
TO SAVE.
>> Martha: YOU SAY THOSE
CASES HE WAS NOT CONVICTED
ON THOSE CHARGES OBVIOUSLY.
HE IS STILL IN THE SENATE
AND STILL RUNNING.
HE DID HAVE ETHICS CHARGES
HE WAS SANCTIONED.
WHAT'S THE WORD CENSORED BY
THE ETHICS COMMITTEE FOR
EXACTLY THE SAME CHARGES
THAT HE WAS UP AGAINST.
SO MAYBE SOME OF THAT IS
HANGING AROUND AS YOU SAY
HAS PUT A STINK ON SOME OF
THAT RACE WEST VIRGINIA IS
WHERE WE STARTED THIS WHOLE
THING.
WHERE YOU STARTED FROM THE
VERY BEGINNING.
>> THAT'S TRUE FROM THE VERY
BEGINNING.
>> Martha: WE DID THE DEBATE
IN WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE
PRIMARY RACE VERY
INTERESTING.
PATRICK MORRISEY EMERGED
REPUBLICAN SIDE THERE VERY
REPUBLICAN STATE BUT STILL
MAYBE MORE INTERESTING THAN
PEOPLE THOUGHT, CHRIS.
>> JOE MANCHIN IS FAVORED TO
WIN.
DEMOCRAT IS FAVORED TO HOLD
HERE.
IS HE ENORMOUSLY POPULAR.
FORMER GOVERNOR.
ELECTED STATEWIDE MANY, MANY
TIMES.
BEEN IN STATE POLITICS IN
SOME FORM OR ANOTHER SINGS
THE LATE 1980s.
PEOPLE LIKE AND KNOW IN WEST
VIRGINIA.
MORRISY, EVERYBODY OUGHT TO
REMEMBER.
THIS WHEN YOU START OUT AND
HAVE YOU NO ELECTION AND
NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF
CANDIDATE X.
DO YOU LIKE POPULAR FORMER
GOVERNOR Y OR CANDIDATE X
NEVER HEARD OF AND DON'T
KNOW WHAT PARTY HE IS.
IN X IS GOING TO TRAIL BY
MORE THAN HE SHOULD.
AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE END
AND HERB KNOWS WHICH TEAM
EVERYBODY IS PLAYING FOR.
THESE NUMBERS TIGHTEN UP AND
CREATES MAYBE NOT ENOUGH TO
GET OVER THE FINISH LINE BUT
CREATES THAT TIGHTENING.
>> Martha: ESPECIALLY IN A
PLACE WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP
WON BY A BIGGER STRETCH THAN
ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.
TRUMP HAS BEEN IN CONTACT
WITH TOP FLORIDA REPUBLICANS
ON DAILY BASIS PEOPLE CLOSE
TO THE PRESIDENT CONCEDE
THEY ARE WORRIED TRUMP FEARS
FLORIDA WIPEOUT PASS THE
TITLE OF THIS STORY.
WHAT SAY YOU?
>> THEY HAVE NOT BEEN HAVING
A GOOD RUN IN FLORIDA IN
EITHER THE SENATE OR
GUBERNATORIAL RACE.
BUT, AGAIN, THAT SAME
EFFECT, THAT SAME TIGHTENING
WE HAVE SEEN IN SOME
POLLING.
THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO
BACK DOWN THERE MAYBE TWO
MORE TIMES WE ARE HEARING.
IS HE GOING TO STUMP HARD
BUT FLORIDA, I DON'T KNOW
WHETHER YOU KNOW THIS
SOMETIMES THEY HAVE NARROW
ELECTIONS DEMOCRATS FEEL