and it speaks to the intensity that these are voters who are not waiting for election day. they re getting out, in some cases, a week, two weeks before election day to cast a ballot. so tom, this is the voter personification of the never trump people that we ve been seeing on shows like this for months now, saying that they wouldn t vote for donald trump, and as you say, it s been a little bit of a mystery of what will they do, will they go third party, will they not vote, will they vote for hillary clinton. 28% of registered republican voters in the early vote in florida voting for hillary clinton. yeah, that s exactly right. and it s important to keep in mind in what makes this survey unique and our partnership with william and mary and our team at target smart is that we are actually compiling the data in terms of each, on an individual level, who is voting each day. and so when i say over 3.6 million voters have voted, we
and tomorrow morning a new tracking survey of florida voters conducted by target smart and the college of william and mary will be released in full. that survey contains the most important news yet about the early vote in florida, and joining us now with an advanced look at the data that will be fully released tomorrow is tom bohnyard, the ceo of target smart. what are the basic results you re finding? what is the state of the race in florida now with all the information you have. lawrence, in our survey, and, as you said, we re releasing the full results tomorrow, but we re excited to be here to share these results for the first time with anyone publicly. we see this race as an 8-point spread in favor of secretary clinton, 48-40. which really is challenging the conventional wisdom of what
joining me now, colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff for the state department under general colin powell. a distinguished professor of government and public policy at the college of william and mary. colonel, your reaction to the kind of rhetoric that we re hearing from the gop field. trump talking about, well, not ruling out data bases or special i.d. cards as comparison to rabid dogs, talking about only letting christian refugees in. what s your response to all that? it doesn t surprise me, chris, especially coming from the more or less right-wing palaver of the republican party and the people who are speaking to that wing. but it does disturb me. it s very dangerous talk. it s the kind of talk that surrounded the internment of the japanese, who were loyal to a fault to this country at the beginning of our participation in world war ii. we put them in concentration camps essentially. it s the kind of talk that s extremely dangerous. it s the kind of talk that plays r
in the region to make sure there s security there, and that their interests are defended. and everyone has our iron clad commitment in that regard. ambassador wendy sherman, undersecretary for political affairs at the state department. thanks so much for being here tonight. thank you. let me bring in former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell, and adjunct professor at the college of william and mary. i wish they d be quiet. this deal is in national security interest of this cun. it has its imperfections, it has its flaws, i m astonished we were able given the lack of leverage we had due to the destruction of the balance of power by my administration, the bush administration in 2003, i m astonished we got as much as we did. i take the opinion of the op ed page of the financial times that
unless you think the opposition will be sober and serious. this graphic tweeted by the president of the block. counselor lawrence wilkinson at the college of william and mary. i can t help but be reminded when i listen to the invocations of world war ii to the cries of appeasement, to you will let them get the weapon in their hands. i can t help but remember the run up to the iraq war. it s the same people saying the same things. that was my feeling when i heard senator cotton, for example, say a war with iran would last a few days. it reminded me of those in 2002 and 2003 saying that the war would be easy.