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President facing his first midterm election in well over 60 years. at the same time, look at these numbers, more than half of the americans think the country is doing very well or fairly well right now. bottom line, this thing could go either way. the president is going full throttle for republican candidates, holding rallies in three states. this hour we have reporters in those states, also here in d.c. lets begin with rebecca berg in springfield, missouri. good morning to you. the president wi...

Whatever happens tomorrow. >> and that ad, its so important to point out, that add is not only full of racism, but that ad is full of lies. the man was deported under clinton, the man came back in under george w. bush, the man was released by joe arpaio, the guy that donald trump pardoned in arizona. so to blame democrats for that guy in particular is just, you know, a bald-faced, shameless lie! which hes okay doing, because we know he does that. >> so let me end on this note from jim acosta. a ...

Find ways to survive that you could keep them from losing. probably not when you look at the kind of numbers today that cnn had 60% of college educated whites say just think about that for a minute, this is the group where trump is less than 40. yes, they could find their way but an awful lot of races tilting democratic would have to go the other way. >> democrats have reach to be cautiously optimistic but it was a mistake for former speaker pelosi to come out and say, yeah, were going to win fo...

Pollsters. >> we all love pollsters. lets talk about actual votes. early and absentee turnouts, actual votes, have been high, compared to this point of obamas first term as of this morning, more than 31 million votes have been cast for tomorrows election. 2014, obamas second midterm, 19.3 million. is president trump, do you think, scott, is he the biggest driver of this, both for and against? >> yeah. everybody is always worried about low voter turnout in america. who knew that all we needed was...

It around seven. there is a difference that matters. if its around seven, democrats can probably still win the house. if its at 13, youre talking about a potential wave type of issue. what im being told, its somewhere in the middle. you can see the numbers clearly give democrats an advantage. the question, what kind of advantage? >> how much of this vote is about president trump? >> the interesting thing, first off, look at the top line approval ratings. right now a poll of polls, cnn and other ...

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Georgia voter had shared with them when he believed that he detected flaws in the database. wolf, there has been controversy surrounding brian kemps role as secretary of state, the states top election official, in the process of overseeing an election he is running for and that will continue. >> it certainly wikileaks. kaylee, thank you very much. the race for florida governor also is a potential history maker. cnns ryan nobles is in tallahassee for us following that and the heated senate race a...

Vote otherwise im going to look very bad with this statement. >> he says, nia, im not on the ticket but i am on the ticket. which is it? >> he is on the ticket and hes very much made this a referendum on him. any midterm is a referendum on the sitting president and all of the trends suggest his approval rating, which is about 39% according to our poll, means that theyre going to lose seats, right? i think the average if you are under 50% is something like 37 seats. democrats obviously need about...

Consequential mid-term in u.s. history. >> president trump: it will decide whether we build on the extraordinary prosperity that weve achieved for our nation or whether we let the radical democrats take control of congress. and take a giant wrecking ball to our economy and to our future. >> lets take a look inside the numbers while we have a moment. the real clear politics average in the u.s. senate battle between brown. brown is in front by 7 1/2 points. as for the governors race the democrats ...

If republicans are going to hold on, that would be a huge victory for donald trump. >> harris: kennedy, i specifically wanted to ask about florida peered so much as happened down there, you got rick scott going against bill nelson. you got parkland, tragic event going on. >> kennedy: not to mention the hurricanes. fans of rick scott have pointed to his executive ability to deal with some of the storms. also, offering outrage. florida is also critical for the reasons chris is suggesting for the p...