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Midterm. we will take a closer look at whether that strategy is working. democrat claire mccaskill is fighting to keep her missouri senate seat against a strong challenger john hawley. kristin fisher is on the ground to lewis. >> hi, art bell. this is one of the closest races in the entire country. so much so president trump will be holding a final campaign rally this election cycle. here in missouri than in missouri the night before the polls open all be breaking down the state of this race rig...

Ed: sure. >> can they turn out their bases? look, president trump is popular in this state. does the president turn out. another big rally in indiana tomorrow. home state of vice president mike pence. does that push braun over the top? >> thats absolutely right. if you look at 2016 when trump made that famous swing in the homestretch through all those states. trump knows thousand turn out the base. ed: late momentum. every six years tough shape polls it out. will it be different this time with j...

Go until election day. arthel: no doubt about that, kristin fisher, thank you for it much. eric. strangest kristin noted immigration is one of the hot button issues. president trump up as a non-immigration in the valley of reports tuesday. .of florida governor senate race there as the president obama and trump. phil keating is standing by with the very latest from tallahassee. reporter: icon eric. both of those races are absolutely critically tossup races in today for most of the state of florid...

Since world war ii, the presidents party loses an average of 28 seats in the house in the first midterm in between two and three seats in the senate. how do you think president trump is doing and trying to break that historic tradition? >> i think the one advantage is that base of 40 percent of the vote. people who approve of his presidency. when it comes to republicans, i think its become the party of trump. what hes done in this cycle, you can look at his - - over the last few days. hes going ...

President trump is just arriving via air force one in macon, georgia. a rally in support of republicans. lets get some analysis and we will be taking the president live when he takes to the microphone. a couple journalist covering this election are with us now. jeff mason is the white house correspondent for reuters. - - has that same job with the - -. its been interesting to watch these two presidents, both of whom youve cover. former president obama is in gary, indiana. hes losing his voice. t...

Maryland, another state. but in texas alone. there is the states over there on the right if you know your geography. i cant read that too small. texas alone, more people have early voted, 4.9 million than voted all together in the midterm in 2014. and early voting actually closed in texas now. so you have to wait two days if you want to vote on election day. 200,000 people have already voted already. katie: this has always been the argument for midterm elections, turnout, turnout, turnout for de...

Were not blind to the fact this a presidents first midterm when we have this many seats up, like i said 26 of the 36, we knew we had our work cut out for us. thats why at rga weve worked hard, raised a record amount of money this cycle and making certain were putting that money to good use here in the last three weeks of the campaign. >> when you look at the great lakes region in general, that part of the midwest, it seems to me that thats going to -- its possible youll have democratic governors...

Back now with "end game." i want to put up a simple chart which is presidential approval and number of seats lost in a midterm. first midterm. we have donald trumps rating, 46%. we dont know how many seats his party will lose. check out barack obama. his approval rating, 47%. 63 seats were lost. bill clinton, 48%, 54 seats. hugh hewitt, 46%. i have some republicans going, well, hey, thats survivable, but if you look historically, and i think one of the things we failed to do in 16 was remember h...

Governor of georgia, chris van hollen, and governor bill haslam of tennessee, the head of the republican governors association. and one last look at where the race stands. will democrats win back the house? will republicans actually make gains in the senate? and what message will voters be sending to president trump? well have the results of our final midterm nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. joining me for insight and analysis are savannah guthrie, hugh hewitt, nbc news capitol hill correspo...

Voters, chiefly women in suburbs. >> but congressman, hes not going to lose his base, the 35% base loves him. but what hes done is pick up corporate america and rich people who dont have signs in front of their houses saying go trump, but when they quietly go to the ballot box when no one can see him, they will vet fote him. and they didnt vote for him last time. >> no presidents party has picked up seats in a midterm election since 1865 with three exceptions. so its always a referendum on the p...