does he mean that we have to yun let rally increase our posture with north korea or does he mean china get onboard and work with us? that s the challenge with tweets. no matter what you re talking about, is that you really have a very limited space to say quite a lot. well, it s certainly illustrates one thing, rebecca, right? china is listening. right? and it s already reacting. absolutely. absolutely. and so i think that is maybe the most significant element of this these tweets from president-elect trump, because any u.s. president would come in wanting to prevent north korea from proliferating its nuclear weapons from obtaining nuclear capabilities but what is unique about donald trump has always been his very aggressive stance towards china and his very vocal way of addressing them. and so it is very significant of course that he is doing this before he is sworn in as president but also significant in the context of after that, after the inauguration how he will deal with ch
raised a lot of conscience of it. you can t say one way or the other this will sort of and of course, we have and entirely different candidate. you cannot compare what would have happened. we don t know if those people will come out to vote on election day. we know they are not early voting. that could change. that is what obama is doing. let s look at florida quickly and what we see different between 2008 and 2016. let s look at republican turnout. republican turnout is almost exactly the same. democrat down. independent up. rebecca. this is a good sign for republicans because as i said, democrats tend to do better in early vote. to go back to the issue of what does this actually tell us. it tells us less than ever in this cycle. you have two candidates who are
let s look at north carolina. here is by race. 2016. more whites so far. let s blacks and more hispanics. that number is not an impressive number. you have more hispanic. when you look at the trendings, rebecca, what does that trend? it goes back to what we are talking about in the previous segment. african-american turnout is so far diminished. for democrats especially, we expected democrats to do better in early voting. what they want to do is turn out low propensity voters. african-americans fall into the category. they want to make sure they voted on election day. they can focus on other demographics. as we are seeing in north carolina, that is not the case across the board. that should not necessarily panic democrats, but i m sure it is raising alarm bells for them and mapping out what they need.
clinton is showing signs of confidence. drawing a parallel to the history-making world series championship chicago cubs. the last time the cubs won, women could not vote. i think women are making up for that in this election. reporter: so today, clinton is not focusing on expanding the map. she is hitting pennsylvania and michigan. both had gone democratic in the last six presidential races. we are looking at the final push. in addition to pittsburgh and detroit, heading to cleveland tonight, she is going to florida and philadelphia tomorrow. new hampshire and back to ohio and then the final event in philadelphia on monday night. let s talk about the big battleground blitz in the final days of the campaign. we have matt lewis, the political reporter of the boston globe. we have errol louis and rebecca
so, rebecca, when we look at north carolina, if obama lost it in 2012, that doesn t suggest that he will be able to motivate the african-americans the way he did in 2008 for her in 2016. she is focusing there on the millennial vote. what is your read on what that vote means in that particular state? it is important. clearly you have a number of universities in the state. university of north carolina, duke, et cetera. those are key areas for hillary clinton. that s why yesterday she stopped by one of the university campuses with pharrell williams, the singer. she is trying to get the students out early to vote. i would argue that the college educated white vote is important in north carolina because this was a share of the electorate that supported romney in 2012 and not obama. what we have seen this time is college educated white voters are trending toward hillary