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Columnist for the "wall street journal," and david brody, chief political analyst for cbn news. welcome to sunday. its "meet the press". >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning and welcome to the "choose your own adventure" midterm elections. is there a democratic wave coming? weve got data to support that. as a surge of post-kavanaugh enthusiasm for republicans turned back the demo...

Was 52-40. but wait, theres more. among likely voters, democrats lead grows, from 50-49. its the first time ever in our polling that our likely voter model shows a better number for the democrats than the registered voter number. normally, in midterms, republicans have the likely voter advantage. so whats different this year? its the heightened enthusiasm for democrats among millennials, latinos, and younger women. groups that historically have had low turnout rates, but are making it into our l...

Hopefully not have this shellacking that barack obama had in 2010 because, as he said, you know, a vote for a republican is a vote for him. if he loses seats it will be a referendum on him and his behavior and his governance in the past two years. >> felipe, youve been doing this a long time, youve gone through a lot of tabs. >> is that good or bad? >> its good. i was talking about likely voters. you have that group and then registered voters. if you look at that wider pool. the democratic advan...

Gin up the anger and the emotional intensity thats necessary to get republicans or any party, for that matter, to the polls in the midterm election is to keep talk about the stakes and painting a pretty dire picture of what should happen should democrats take control of the house or senate. >> this nbc wall street journal poll is chalked full of numbers but theres a lot of anecdote in there as well. you look at the reasons they determine why the nation is so divided. for republicans its barack o...

Tell me about it. >> here we have a community that traditionally doesnt vote. theres a number of factions in our electorate that dont vote, but theyre empowered now. theyre empowered. because of the response to maria and a lot of them have been displaced to florida, pennsylvania, new york, california, this is a community that were trying to energize to get out there and in certain districts with a couple of,000 votes here and there we can make a difference and flip a lot of these districts. that...

$1.6 billion up for grabs now if you win come tuesday night. >> im good for another five. >> youll do that? >> good for another five. >> do you do the same numbers or random? >> i give money to the pool. i dont want to be the one guy who comes to work the next day. i dont want to be the one guy left. >> paolo? >> usually a random pick. i bought one ticket yesterday at a store. then of course, some of our clea colleagues said, would you like to jump in on the pool? i do it because, like victor, i...

They think is in the lead. because the polls are all over the place. well, we can tell you about today though. definitively. is that today is an extraordinarily important day. it is the first day of early voting. 60 percent of the vote in nevada takes place in early voting. so essentially election day has already begun. it begins today. thats why youre seeing all of these heavyweights come in and this tale of competing rallies. what we will be seeing here at the top of the hour in elco, nevada, ...

And the balance community would be wise to assume at that saudis are playing a game to distance the crown prince rather than find the truth. >> so as we go and lean on this word "credible" now, how credible do you find or do you expect the administration should find this 30-day investigation thats led by mbs? >> look, i think that certainly theres indications that the goal will be to relieve mbs of his open culpability rather than find the truth. that said, there may not be that many options. th...

Vanquish it. soon, president trump will continue his midterm campaigning as he stumps for republicans around the country. the president is set to hold his latest make america great rally in elco, nevada. in less than two hours from now. cnns kyung lah is there. youre just over 400 miles outside of las vegas, if folks are wondering where elco is. there is a significant turnout behind you. whats the likely message? >> a very significant turnout. especially when you consider this is a town with o...

Weighing in on that, and the president of the united states saying he thought it was a credible explanation coming from saudi arabia, that the journalist died of a choke-hold. arlette saenz, thank you so much from las vegas. and now, about 400 miles away from that, in elko, that location, elko, nevada, where president trump is, he is continuing his midterm campaign swing through the west. cnns kyung lah is there. early voting already under way in nevada. what is happening? >> reporter: well, y...