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Well, hello everybody and welcome to Wired In. I'm Cabot Phillips coming to you live from Daily Wire HQ. I hope you're having a wonderful Thursday. On today's show, we're going to break down the tightest midterm races and hear from Mark Halperin on what GOP campaign strategists are telling him behind closed doors. We'll also tell you about the newly unearthed text messages in the Cornell 7 case and talk with Heather MacDonald who says the entire story is the latest example of the campus rape myth. President Trump is touting a historic decline in the number of legal immigrants from Muslim-majority countries. We'll cover the impact of that policy and how the left is responding. The US military will no longer welcome fatties, trannies, beards or weirdos.

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All right. The countdown to midterms now stands at just 33 days. So let's bring on Mark Halperin, host of the morning meeting and next up to give us the lay of the land. Mark, last time you were on, I dubbed you the Sultan of the Swamp. You informed me that you're actually in New York City. So I've done some research. Let me know if any of these names work.

Barron of the Broadway, The Prophet of Park Avenue, The Oracle of the Outer Loop. Any of those work?

Mark Halperin (3:31)

I'd go with Hamlet on the Hudson if it were up to me, but you pick.

Cabot Phillips (3:35)

Okay. It's Hamlet on the Hudson. That's very classy, very classy. That is what it should be from here on out. Mark, I saw your name quite a bit last week. I imagine your Twitter mentions were just unusable. You caused quite the stir.

You penned a Daily Wire piece on the midterms saying, quote, my Trump sources say the president's worst nightmare has arrived. You followed that up with a challenge to GOP consultants saying, if you think my sources are wrong, please reach out. Has anyone reached out to contradict your reporting?

Mark Halperin (4:06)

Yes. Just to correct you, Daily Mail, not Daily Wire. I haven't been asked to write for the Daily Wire, but I would if I had asked.

The only people, people have reached out. I've heard for now over 60 Republican strategists, office holders and candidates, and their replies are in two categories. One, the group that says, yeah, you have it just about right, and the other says things are worse than you're actually suggesting for Republicans. It doesn't mean that's the way it's going to turn out. I'll always issue this reminder. I'm not rooting for any outcome. I'm not predicting the outcome. I'm just saying, Republicans I talk to now say the current state of things is quite bad. They've gone from believing that anyone in a district or state, plus Trump plus 10 from two years ago was safe. They now think plus 15 isn't necessarily safe. They've gone from saying they'd win close races to saying, if anybody's within the margin of error, they'll likely lose. Now, Republicans are spending a lot of money. The Democratic candidates in many instances are extremely vulnerable to negative ads that are running. So let's wait and see. But today, every Republican I've talked to, with one exception, suggests things look pretty bad right now because of the overall environment.