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>> it is exciting across the board. i want to bring mark thompson back. mark, as im reading all the names of the people who are going to be down there, this is at a time when the state of georgia has been marred. this particular -- is marred by voter suppression issues. at the same tile, weve seen a huge amount of early voting turnout. take me there. what does stacey abrams camp think? >> they feel very confident and specifically what stacey has always said from the beginninging is she anticipat...

Does it mean what we think it is, does it benefit the out party in almost all instances? >> actually, i dont think we can divine that much from the early voting data. what it shows is theres extraordinary historic interest in this midterm election, and that could mean a number of different things. what i keep coming back to is the fundamentals here. there are three big, big problems for republicans. the first is that trumps approval rating among women with college degrees is 27% in the most rece...

Rapists or criminals or drug abusers. that community here is, you know, already dialed up and activated, but its traditionally not a community that votes. its the single biggest challenge, the orourke campaign or any democrat would face in sort of chasing down this white whale of making texas a blue state is getting that latino electorate to actually come out and vote on these issues. if donald trumps rhetoric over the last year and a half or two years cant do it, i dont know what can. >> one st...

Im talking presidential election, than 2014. the early vote does not seem to show a big edge for either party. as of wednesday, 43% of early voters identified themselves as republicans. 41% said theyre democrats. that is roughly the same breakdown as the last midterm. on wednesday night, the president was in florida. more than 3 million people have already cast their ballots. >> you have go out on november 6th or sooner. who voted? oh, wow, everybody voted already? no kidding. let me see it agai...

Asked to pick up the entire tab. >> i want to bring in michael steele, former senior advisor to jeb bush and a former aide to house speaker boehner, who joins our democratic party chairs. thanks to everyone now. let me start there with you, michael. is it a sign of weakness that donald trumps closing argument is so reliant on blatant lies that i dont think you or boehner, certainly not jeb bush, would agree with? >> well, donald trumps appeal has always rested in large part on falsehoods that he...

Criminals and murderers in. when most people see some connection between donald trump, the tree of life synagogue, even the kroger shooting, charlottesville. people have not forgotten that. thats where the violence is really stemming from. i think most americans are smarter and they can see through the lie. >> i think stephanie is right, by the way. i think democrats actually have a good record on security. theyve voted over and over again for bills stepping up security. but theyve not talked ab...

Shows this race continues to be within the margin of error. the big x factor here is what does election day look like? is it different than a normal midterm? will turnout be larger? can the democrats hold their own on election day? they think they can. the republicans need to do well on election day. >> and garrett, there was one new texas poll that indicated the race had dipped under four points, the ted cruz lead to beto orourke. what do the campaigns say about that poll? do they tick it with ...

Hispanic workers, and today 60% of the people who live in dodge city are hispanic. its one of the few places in kansas where the population is majority minority. when white people are not the majority population in the town. alejandros family is one of those families that moved to dodge city for work. he was born and raised in dodge city. and now hes old enough to have a say in who represents dodge city in our democracy. >> im the son of immigrants, and the son of two people from mexico, came he...

In office in his first term, the first midterm is a tough time for anybody. >> reporter: so as you can see, he said, okay, look, the midterms are always tough. ive got to tell you, i was struck by, first of all, on the issue front really no conversation about immigration or the caravan or any of the things that the president is trying to make this midterm election about. instead, it was about taxes and they were trying to run on the republican tax cut asnd against what the democrats would change...

About voting, early voting specifically. the reality is if you look at the numbers, the energy appears to be there. i want to point to this headline, this is actually now from nbc news. it shows as of yesterday 24 million votes have already been ca cast. when you count up the early voting, the absentee voting, that number higher than all of the early votes from our last midterm in 2014. it also shows that 43% of the early voters, republican. 41% democrats. what do you make of that, christina, wh...