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Environment. it relied on building a huge battlefield, recruiting candidates with strong records of service and ensuring they have the resources to tell their story. our candidates are anything but generic. we recruited and empowered military veterans, former cia operatives and prosecutors and independent-minded leders who are over performing in districts that trump won by double digits. >> sandra: what do you see as far as your partys chances tomorrow? >> im very confident that well be able to ...

To watch? >> upstate new york. new york 22 where anthony - - is running an incredible campaign against claudia tenney and intersect president trump won by 16 points. is a trusted local elected official from the reddest part of that district. hes talking about an economic message and bringing jobs. hes ahead in the polls. above 50 in many cases. so thats a good sign you for able to compete in district like that that trump won by double digits. >> if jobs is the key message, dont republicans have ...

Hes going to do to expand access, lower costs and ensure coverage for more people. >> let me ask you this final question. youve got a big state, a fascinating state with all kinds of different people and all different stages of life, famously weird, i say that with love and affection, for those in your -- >> watch it. >> for those in your state who say look, this gillum guy, i like im, i also like the president, the president says hes a bad guy, people who voted for the president, like the presi...

Should they vote for you if they also like president trump? >> well, i want them to vote for themselves. i mean, over the course of this race weve been willing to go anywhere and talk to anybody. i was in putnam county, a county that trump won by double digits. and we had a room that could fit 600 people. we thought we might get 200. the room was not big enough to receive everybody. weve campaigned famously in the villages, one of the most conservative areas of our state, pensacola yesterday, ac...

Donald trump won by double digits. john pointed some of them out. missouri, indiana, montana, north dakota, west virginia. this is trump country. and so thats where you see the president going to try to have the best possible effect, drive up that base turnout. so in those races the republicans are fine with his messaging here around birthright citizenship or even picking a fight with the establishment, the outgoing speaker, paul ryan. but in the battle for the house, which youve got to remember...

>> david, what do you think the current thinking in republican circles is about how the president has handled this campaign? just today hes at odds with speaker ryan on birthright citizenship. >> it all depends if youre a republican working on senate races or a republican working on house races. as gloria is describing, its two totally different universes. >> why are those so different universes? >> because the terrain where the battle for senate control is taking place, anderson, is in trump co...

Democrats won or held seats. take a look at what happened in 2016 in the presidential. all turned red. the president winning many by double-digits. west virginia by 42 points. these are states where he is popular. all of these four states here, he has an approval rating above 50%. down in florida, not are inially the case. he is going to pensacola, a place where in 2016 he racked up votes to the point where the rnc was stunned. he knows he can help people turn out and why he is doing the traveli...

Right there. and i can just take you through some of these. this one here in new jersey, there is polling thats got the democrat ahead by double-digits right here. these are all republican seats. there is polling here. this one looks gone. republicans arent even contesting this one in new jersey. these two here in the corner of pennsylvania, again, buzz of redistricting, they are as good as gone for republicans. basically, in this region right here, these are seven republican-held seats where th...

The map, one of them is in minnesota, and one of them is in pennsylvania, where they did that redistricting this year. there are two seats on the map that look right now that they are likely to be democratic seats that flip into republican hands. so that 23 could very quickly go to 25. so 25, if you say thats the target for democrats. but now look at the flip side. if there are two democratic seats that are likely to go to republican hands, how about the most vulnerable republicans? well, look, ...

In-person early votes in absentee ballots thus far that would be way above the pace, way, way above the pace, like more than double the pace from the last midterm election in 2014. but were also seeing in terms of partisan affiliation that look likes republicans may have a slight edge in terms of the number of people bipartisan affiliation who youre turning out. what do you make of the early voting enthusiasm that youre seeing and the partisan balance of those who are turning out? >> well, i tel...