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Transcript: Fox Hits Trump with Brutal Polls as Aides Feed Him Hopium

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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 14 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . After we recorded, new Fox polls found Dems up eight in Ohio and down four in Michigan . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. This week, Fox News released a poll showing Democrat Troy Jackson up two points over Susan Collins in Maine . Even more strikingly, Trump is more than 20 points underwater in the state. So we went back and looked at the summer’s Fox polls, and it turns out they’re some of the very worst for Trump of all. He’s deeply underwater in many states he won. This comes as two new forecasts have Dems narrowly favored to win the Senate. And it also comes as new reporting suggests Trump and his advisors don’t understand how they got to this point. So do Dems really have a shot at the Senate? To parse this question, we’re talking to Democratic strategist Caitlin L