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	Podcast:		Morning Joe
	Episode:		El Desesperado: President Trump's Unconstitutional, Last-Ditch Effort to Reel-In Wandering Republican Voters
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		01:26:33
	Publish Date:		2018-10-31 07:44:14
	Description:		There are 6 days left until one of the most anticipated midterm elections in decades -- and Republican support numbers are slipping. That's according to a new USC Dornlife/Los Angeles Times generic tracking poll which has voters overwhelmingly supporting Democrats, next week, with 57% leaning blue, and just 40% leaning red. Congressional races across the country, including those with Republican incumbents, are either virtually tied, or are showing the Democratic candidate with a comfortable lead. Except for Tennessee and Texas. In Tennessee, Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn is outperforming her Democratic challenger, Phil Bredesen, by 5 points, 51% to 46%, respectively, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll. Blackburn's number is up 5 more points since August; while Bredesen has lost 2 points within the same time-frame. And, to Texas, where, according to a Real Clear Politics polling average, Republican Senator Ted Cruz leads his opponent, Democratic Representative Beto O'Rourke by 7.2 points -- a race that has, statistically, shown little give in favor of O'Rourke. But those two races have not stopped the President from making especially-outlandish, and dangerous comments over the past month, in a thinly-veiled attempt at stoking fear in Americans to get them to vote Republican, next week. The latest, being this: President Trump has floated the idea of amending the 14th Amendment to the Constitution with an Executive Order -- implemented to halt the process of Birthright Citizenship, given to children born within the United States regardless of their parents' citizenship status. President Trump's plan is being lauded by members of his administration, including Kellyanne Conway and Vice President Mike Pence. Pence argued that "the Supreme Court of the United States has never ruled on whether or not the language of the 14th Amendment ... applies specifically to people who are in the country illegally." Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), following the president's word, announced that he would introduce legislation that would also spell the end to the clause. House Speaker Paul Ryan, however, fired back at the president, saying, in part, quote, "We didn't like it when Obama tried changing immigration laws via executive action, and obviously as conservatives, we believe in the Constitution." Also among the plan's dissidents: George Conway III, husband to Kellyanne Conway, who penned an op-ed, published in the Washington Post, with Neal Katyal. With us, this morning, we'll be joined by Katyal to discuss his and Conway's scathing piece. It's Wednesday, October 31st, 2018. 6 days until the midterm elections. Welcome to Morning Joe.
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