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The outcome in the house. >> thats a really great point to close on there because it could be this is an incredibly traditional midterm. >> who knows. >> or nothing is traditional. >> could be. >> or nothing matters. >> we just dont know this morning, but we will very soon. okay. thank you all so much for your perspectives. so there are these severe storms and one has turned deadly on this election day. how will all of this impact voter turnout? we will give you the updated details, chad myers w...

And hes not -- he really isnt on the ballot, but people are going to the polls as if he is. and a lot of my friends in congress are going to pay a price because of the presidents behavior. >> yeah. lets look at this. i want to show this poll. this new poll has president trump at just 39%. that is the lowest pre-election approval rating for any president approaching the first midterm election of a presidency dating back to eisenhower. its not good heading into these races. so many races are reall...

Feely ad about a woman talking about keeping her daughter safe and taking her to violin lessons, the house republicans. why? because thats exactly the turf on which house republicans are fighting all across the country. in suburban districts, thats where they think they are going to lose the house. the -- >> the number in the poll -- >> the idea was do that in this ad and have the president scream and yell about immigration on the stump. >> can i give you -- >> he didnt like it. >> can i give yo...

Is racist. when presented with an opportunity to be paid to take a version of this ad, we declined. we have another live hour at 11:00 p.m. eastern with the biggest midterm now interesting its final hours. i want to begin with jim acosta at the second of the presidents three stops, ft. wayne, indiana. what is the president focusing on tonight in this final push. >> reporter: its a pretty apocalyptic message, the president trying to tell the supporters at these rallies ending tonight in missouri ...

Three things ive never seen. first one is not the gender stuff. ill put that second. first one is the party says got to do our closing argument. heres what we think it is. they put it out in the name of the president. he says i dont like it. his own partys closing argument, he says immigration is not in there. his own campaign. >> yes. >> ive never seen that before on the eve of a midterm in a way that was made public. >> look, you cant argue that trump doesnt know his base. he knows his base. h...

I did not want to wake up on november 7th, 2018, and feel the same way. >> reporter: phillips is betting on voters to turn out and help him unseat five-term republican incumbent eric paulsen. he has history and the president on his side. polls show phillips with an edge in a district that encompasses minneapoliss suburbs to the west and the citys northeastern working class neighborhood. the paulsen campaign did not respond to requests from cnn for an interview. the phillips campaign is holding r...

In our new cnn poll, the president is now just at 41% among likely voters. if you average out a handful of recent polls, hes at 43%. for this president thats not bad. historically, though, that is weak. lets pull up the numbers and give you a peek at this. you can see the two and shrink this down. imagine the president somewhere around 41%, 42%, give him 43%, ronald reagan in 1982. if you look bill clintons first midterm the democrats got blown out. barack obamas first midterm, the democrats got...

Im not quite sure that is in the lexicon of donald trump. that said, what will his reaction be, especially in the democrats take back the house? >> i think theres a 0% chance he quotes barack obama in general. i dont think he looks to president obama for guidance. i dont think he say that, whether its shellacking or thumping, im not sure. i think if president trump has breakfast, hell declare that a victo victory. i think hes going to declare victory one way or another. if democrats take the hou...

Hello, everyone. im kate bolduan. america, you are on the clock. after months of hype, rhetoric, robocalls, door knocks and everything in between, midterm election day is finally here. polls are now open in 49 states. alaska opening just moments ago. next hour, hawaii becomes the final state to start voting. and the stakes could not be higher. 36 governors races are up for grabs. 35 senate seats, and all 435 house seats are on the ballot. more than 33 million americans have already cast early vo...

Republican districts doing the same. highlighting. not necessarily trying to go after trump. as aggressively. but there is a pressure because the midterm is so nationalized. >> aisle be watching carefully iowa. and the so called blue wall. that turned. so decisively for trump. in the general election. that a governor race there. a couple house seats are up. and this is where tariffs the presidents tariffs have been felt. and iowa farmers in particular. have given him lee way here. soybeans are s...