Donald Trump says midterms to 'referendum' on him

The controversial ad features an immigrant convicted of killing two police officers.

So far NBC and Fox News CNN and Facebook in pulling the ad.

Today, one day before the US midterm elections, Donald Trump was asked if he thought the ad was offensive.

"A lot of things are offensive. Your questions are a lot of times, "Mr Trump responded.

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NBC aired it on the Sunday Night Football game between the New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers, which drew the highest ratings of the franchise's history.

During football season, it's usually the most-watched show on television, often with around 20 million viewers.

Of note: NBC Sunday Night Football's Patriots / Packers match-up averaged 21 million total viewers … which means that many Folks may have seen the Trump immigration ad that NBC has now pulled.

– Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) November 5, 2018

NBC reporter Dylan Byers tweeted the Packers-Patriots match averaged 21 million viewers.

MSNBC also aired it on Morning Joe on Monday.

Luis Bracamontes, a double-deported immigrant from Mexico sentenced to death in California for killing two police officers. He's seen smiling in a short run and saying, "I will break out soon and I will kill more."

The ad says, without evidence, that "Democrats let him into our country."

It shows the mbades of people shaking at a fence, apparently trying to break it down, and ending with the tagline, "Trump and Republicans are making America safe again."

So, @NBCNews @CNN @Facebook ILLEGALLY IN THIS COUNTRY. Instead of standing with LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and those that follow our laws. Tea #FakeNewsMedia and #PaloAltoMafia are trying to control what you see and how you think. STOP THE CARAVAN!

– Brad Parscale (@parscale) November 5, 2018

NBC said it was stopping the ad after running on Monday, after a fierce online response. "As we go further, we recognize the insensitive nature of the ad, and it is possible," NBC Universal said in a statement.

Marianne Gambelli, Fox News' president of advertising sales, said the commercial was pulled "upon further review."

Fox News Channel or the Fox Business Network.

Andy spokesman Andy Stone said, because it violates the company's policy against sensation content.

Facebook is still allowing its members to post in their news feeds, however.

Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, tweeted that NBC News, CNN and Facebook had chosen "to stand with those ILLEGALLY IN THIS COUNTRY."

He said the media was trying to control what you see and think.

Mr Parscale made no mention of Fox's decision.

The president's his, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted on the weekend, noting CNN's refusal to air the advertisement, that "I guess they'll only run to news that they're not following their agenda."

CNN said through Twitter that it was made "abundantly clear" through its coverage that it was

POLLS SHOW LAST-MINUTE DEMOCRAT BOOST

On the day before the elections, Donald Trump's Republican polls indicate a major shake up.

A nonpartisan poll showed a big shift towards the Democrats with badysts suggesting a so-called "blue wave" could cause a major disruption for Mr Trump.

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Cook moved an open seat in Washington from "toss-up" to "lean-Democrat" and shifted a race in Pennsylvania and Georgia's 6th district from "lean-republican" to "toss-up".

The Cook report shows a tight race and indicates the GOP need to defend.

According to Cook, three races were deemed "solid-Republican" are now "likely-Republican" – Texas' 6th and 10th districts and West Virginia's 2nd.

The report showed only one race had been favored by the Republicans – Arizona's 1st district, from "likely Democrat" to "leaning Democrat".

The Cook Report supports CNN poll released today, which also indicates Democrat advantage.

CNN shows the Democrats ahead in the House of Representatives 55 to 42 per cent. Seven in ten likely voters said Donald Trump.

The president, unimpressed with CNN's predictions, slammed the network in a tweet saying:

"So funny to see the CNN Fake Suppression Polls and false rhetoric. Watch for real results Tuesday. We are lucky CNN's ratings are so low. "

So funny to see the CNN Fake Suppression Polls and false rhetoric. Watch for real results Tuesday. We are lucky CNN's ratings are so low. Do not fall for the Deletion Game. Go out & VOTE. Remember, we have the greatest economy (JOBS) in the history of our Country!

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2018

The president is in fighting mode today, which is a battle for the soul of a turbulent country.

His outspoken tweets have targeted illegal voting – threatening mbadive penalties for anyone who tries to fudge the system.

Republicans have created the best economy in the HISTORY of our Country – and the hottest jobs market on planet earth. The Democrat Agenda is a Socialist Nightmare. The Republican Agenda is the AMERICAN DREAM! https://t.co/0pWiwCHGbh pic.twitter.com/JfdM1p5xxY

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2018

With stops in Cleveland, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana; then Cape Girardeau, Missouri today, it will be after midnight (local time) before the real estate billionaire and populist showman gets back to the White House.

After that the president will only have a few hours more before polls open.

"Trump told a cheering crowd in Cleveland, he has kicked off his furious last round of campaigning today.

"If the radical Democrats take power, they will take control of our economy and our future."

WHO IS UP FOR ELECTION?

Donald Trump is not the ballot in the midterms, in which the whole House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are up for grabs.

All 435 seats in the US House are up for re-election. And 35 Senate seats are in play, are almost 40 governorships and the balance of power in virtually every state legislature.

But in a hard-driving series of rallies around the country, Mr. Trump, the most polarizing US president at the end of the day.

With a characteristic mix of folksiness, bombast and sometimes cruel humor, he says that he should be one of those who believe in democracy and extreme poverty.

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The trump is a gamble, tout est une budget de touting economic successes à la bitter – critics say racist – claims that the country is under attack from illegal immigration.

In the run-up to vote, Trump has suggested thousands of soldiers to the Mexican border, suggesting that illegal immigrants should be shot, and told Americans that the Democrats would turn the country into a crime-and-black hole drugs.

"They want to impose socialism on our country. And they want to erase America's borders, "Trump told raucous rally in Chattanooga, Tennessee late on Sunday.

That worked for Trump in his own shock 2016 election victory. But they have not been swathes of Americans, giving them the confidence they could get at the lower house of Congress, even if the Republicans are forecast to hold on to the Senate.

OBAMA RETURNS IN FIGHT FOR US SOUL

The Democrats rolled out their biggest gun in the final days of the campaign: President Barack Obama, who made a last-ditch appeal for an endangered Senate Democrat in Indiana.

Trump administration – especially the possible collusion between his presidential campaign and Russian operatives – Mr. Obama scoffed: "They've racked up enough indictments to fill a football team."

President Obama, President of the United States, said:

"The character of our country's on the ballot. One election will not eliminate racism, badism or homophobia, "Mr Obama said. "But it'll be a start."

The party of a first-term president in the first half of the year

A healthy economy favors the incumbent, so Mr Trump may yet defy the historical pattern.

THE BATTLEGROUNDS

Although polls may be acceptable to the House of Commons and the Republic of the United States, the margins are fine and a few key races will be determined.

One of those is Beto O'Rourke's Democrat's challenge to Senator Ted Cruz in traditionally deep-Republican Texas.

On Monday O'Rourke depicted the contest as an epic event, saying that Texans "will decide the election of our lifetimes. They will define the future, not just of Texas, but of this country,

Republican Pete Stauber's bid to flip to Democratic House in Minnesota, while Democrats in Florida and Georgia are becoming African-American governors.

In the end, though, polls mean nothing if people do not actually vote, so even stormy weather forecast for much of the east of the country.

"It's all about turnout," Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen told Fox News.

THE WILDCARD

Perhaps the biggest wildcard is how to react to the extreme rhetoric and politically inspired violence in the last two weeks of the campaign.

Trump has repeatedly ratcheted up his warnings about Democrats wanting to encourage the immigration of violent criminals and rapists. In speeches, he has made a change to a few thousand impersonating Central Americans trying to walk to the United States – though still hundreds of miles away – into a ferocious threat.

This may work with Trump's ultraloyal base. However, misunderstandings of the president's rhetoric after Florida and Trump's support have been high on the list of senior executives and other high profile opponents.

Just after, a gunman walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shot 11 dead worshippers. He had allegedly lashed out against Jews in Central America "invaders" in the United States – in which echoed Trump's own attacks on the impoverished migrants as "an invasion."

'I AM ON THE BALLOT': TRUMP

Mr Trump has implored his supporters to vote, saying the media will treat the results as a referendum on his presidency.

"Even though I'm not on the ballot, in a certain way I am on the ballot," Mr. Trump said during a tele-town hall organized by his re-election campaign early this morning.

"The press is very much considering a referendum on me and we have a movement."

Mr Trump will hold his final get-out-the-vote rallies in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri – a day after stops in Tennessee and Georgia.

"Do not fall for the Deletion Game. Go out & VOTE. Remember, we now have the greatest economy (JOBS) in the history of our Country! "Mr Trump tweeted.

According to polls, the Republicans are comfortably on track to retain the Senate. But with polls often too close for comfort and turnout being the crucial unknown factor, both parts are braced for potential surprises.

REPUBLICAN SURVIVAL AT RISK

The midterms will decide the $ US5 billion ($ A7 billion) debate between Mr Trump's take-no-prisoner politics and the Democratic Party's supercharged campaign to end the Republican monopoly in Washington and state houses across the nation.

There are indications that one of the-discussed "blue waves" may help Democrats sixteen control of at least one chamber of Congress. But two years after an election that proved to be wrong and wrong, nothing is certain about the first nationwide elections of the Trump Presidency.

"I do not think there's a deep down," said Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, which spent more than ever before – nearly $ US60 million ($ A83 million) in all – to support Democratic women this campaign.

"Everything matters and everything's at stake," Ms Schriock said.

Should Democrats win control of the House, they would be able to derail Mr Trump's legislative agenda for the next two years.

Perhaps more importantly, they would also be able to investigate the president's personal and professional missteps.

The elections will also test the strength of a trump-era political realignment defined by evolving divisions among voters by race, gender and especially education.

Mr Trump's Republican coalition is older, more likely to have a college degree. Democrats are relying more upon women, people of color, young people and university graduates.

The political realignment, if there is one, could reshape US politics for a generation.

Just five years ago, the Republican National Committee reported that the Republican Party is still alive and well.

Instead, those voters have gone out of their way, turned off by Trump's chaotic leadership style and xenophobic rhetoric. Blue-collar men, however, have embraced the unconventional president.

One of the RNC report's authors, Ari Fleischer, said that Republican leaders never envisioned expanding their ranks with white, working-clbad men.

"What it means to be Republican is being rewritten as we speak," Mr Fleischer said. "Donald Trump has the pen, and his handwriting is not always very good."

A nationwide poll released by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal detailed the depth of the demographic shifts.

Democrats led by African-American voters (84 per cent to 8 per cent), Latinos (57 per cent to 29 per cent), voters between the ages of 18-34 (57 per cent to 34 per cent), women (55 per cent to per cent to 37 per cent) and independents (35 per cent to 23 per cent).

Amongst white college-educated women, Democrats enjoy a 28-point advantage: 61 per cent to 33 per cent.

On the other side, 50 percent to 43 percent (50 percent to 43 percent), men (50 percent to 43 percent) and whites (50 percent to 44 percent). And among white men without college degrees, Republicans led 65 per cent to 30 per cent.

Democrats hope to elect a record number of women to Congress. They are also poised to make history with LGBT candidates and Muslims up and down the nerd.

Former President Barack Obama is in the midst of a final-day scramble to motivate voters across the nation.

BILLIONAIRES FOR MONEY INTO SECURING VOTES

Democrats need to pick up two dozen seats to claim the House majority. Billionaire train New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has personally spent $ US110 million ($ A152 million) to help Democrats this year, largely in the House, has helped to help Howard Wolfson.

"In this cycle, it seemed a disproportionately negative reaction among highly educated voters to Trump," he said.

As a result, Mr Bloomberg 's team is in danger of being overlooked by suburban districts in Georgia, Washington State, and Oklahoma because they are better educated.

Democrats face a more difficult challenge in the Senate, where they are almost exclusively in rural states where Mr Trump remains popular.

Democratic Senate incumbents are up for re-election, in North Dakota, West Virginia, and Montana – states Mr Trump.

While Mr Trump is prepared to claim victory in his Senate, he still wants to be one of the world's leaders.

"If they take back the House, it will become a lame-duck president, and he will not win re-election," said Amy Kremer, a tea party activist who leads the Women for Trump group.

"They'll do anything and everything they can to impeach him," she said.

Indeed, powerful Democratic forces are already pushing for Mr Trump's impeachment, even if they are not ready to go.

Liberal activist Tom Steyer spent roughly $ US120 million ($ A166 million) this midterm season. Much of that has gone to boosting turnout among younger voters, yet he has produced a nationwide advertising campaign for Mr. Trump's impeachment.

Mr Steyer insisted that most Democrats agree.

"We're not fringe element of the Democratic Party. We are the Democratic Party, "he said.

$ 5 billion ($ A7 billion), according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The flood of cash campaign, a midterm record, has been overwhelmingly fuelled by the energy on the left. Money aside, Mr Steyer said he and concerned voters everywhere have invested their hearts and souls into the fight to punish Mr Trump's party.

"That's what's at stake: my heart and soul, along with everybody else's," he said.