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Speakers] >> have one more question. early voting. we are seeing historically high numbers. as of friday, 20 million people voted early. question, is it that people are more enthused and intense is the more opportunity than it used to be? and you cannot get me to the weeds here because i have a minute left. is it -- >> bigger almost everywhere. 37 states voted early. we will have the biggest midterm election since 1966. roughly between an arizona 53 percent of 2016 turnout, florida 68 percent. >...

Parties starting to govern our country. i hope both parties get that message. >> neil: after the final votes are cast in a midterm the presidential race is on, hillary clinton made some noise, she might be looking to run. what do you think of that? >> i think were a long way from the presidential election. i think youre going to see a lot of people talked about particularly on the democratic side. i do not think theres any front runner now for the democratic nomination. i think its wide open. th...

In the state of new jersey there are roughly more than 900,000 democrats than there are registered republicans. sandra, the last time the state of new jersey elected a republican for the u.s. senate was back in 1972. we expect this news conference here with senator bob menendez to get underway in about a half hour. >> sandra: setting things up in new jersey, david lee miller. >> bill: dueling campaign rallies on the trail. president trump and former president obama offering dramatically differen...

Think. >> chris: heres the problem with the house -- the people talk about the house generically. "is the house quit a flip or not?" but when youve got 435 people up, its hard to focus on individual races and individual personalities. this is a big deal. murray is exactly right. the governors races are very important for two reasons. first of all, because redistricting. also, when they run a 2020, if the government in one of those swing states as a republican or a democrat, that means the home m...

Believe theyve lost up to 2 percentage points in the arizona and nevada senate races and also in swing districts on the house side. this caravan, asylum restrictions birthright citizenship ban talk has absolutely changed the subject into an area that motivates the other side and depresses republican votes and member who are holding on are very concerned about the campaign going into the final hours. >> shepard: early voting has been high in some areas historically high for midterm. which traditi...

Historically tough. for the party of the new president peerless prep some numbers. since world war ii, the presidents party loses an average of 28 seats in the house in the first midterm. between two and three seats in the senate. i think president trump is doing and trying to break that historic tradition? >> i think the one advantage he has is that he has had the base that is about 40 percent of the vote. people that approve of his present theme. when it comes to republicans is up 80 to 90 per...

And a half points. florida 2.8 percent swing toward republicans in early voting. in a state they won by 1.2 percent. nevada 1.85 percent in a state they lost by 2.45. >> i am so glad we did not get to the weeds. its interesting. one last question. our people voting, would have voted on election day anyway just transferring or is this new voters? >> we dont know but in some places there is evidence that it is, there are episodic midterm voters.if you see this in early midterm we will see a lot th...

In missouri, a county he easily won with 76% of the vote. why is he doing it? he has said for weeks that the midterms are base elections and thats when he is banking on. think about these data points as he gets information throughout the night. >> dana: greg, 45 seconds. >> greg: martha took my question. >> juan: bill, it is its also a weather map? turnout is so key tomorrow and what we are hearing is you could have rain in georgia, west virginia, wisconsin, ohio, indiana, michigan, minnesota. >...

State that they won last time 3 and a half points. florida 2.8 percent swing toward republicans in early voting. in a state they won by 1.2 percent. nevada 1.85 percent in a state they lost by 2.45. >> i am so glad we did not get to the weeds. its interesting. one last question. our people voting, would have voted on election day anyway just transferring or is this new voters? >> we dont know but in some places there is evidence that it is, there are episodic midterm voters.if you see this in ea...

Exclusions to some degree of the economy. >> i think it is an open question. whether the trump 2016 playbook that hes using as his closing argument will actually work what is on the ballot. when there is a lot of independence and women that have had two years to get really angry about his rhetoric. and when he does not have hillary. i think that this closing argument based on immigration, chris, help them keep a narrow set of senate seats but i think definitely hurts when youre talking about the...