democrats will cross over and vote for him. what we see, not all states give you an indication of the divide politically of the early voting. florida does. the democrats are turning out in larger numbers than republicans in early voting in florida. he believes he is going to get some of those crossover votes. the other thing i would mention is that you were talking about independence before. we are seeing an increase in the number of people who have no party affiliation. this independent group is becoming more and more interesting all the time. i think part of that was the result of the 2016 election. marie: that list you read, you can add some states to that. democrat could take as many as ten governor s mansion s back tonight. the fact that 35 governors in this country have veto power over congressional maps, when we redistrict after 2020, that will matter. pay attention here. melissa: a better set race comes to an end today in new jersey. can republicans unseat bob menendez? aft
obviously, people on the president s side are extremely fired up, as well. one of the things i m going to be watching with regard to this early vote, though, is whether or not people are just voting earlier because 30 states now have early voting. every time we have an election, the number goes up in terms of where that option is available. we are talking about how we live in such a nondemand society now. people want to do something when they want to do it. they don t necessarily want to wait for that day. for other people, particularly older people, they want the experience of walking into the voting booth and during that period which i think we all loves to do. not everybody can do it this te days. harris: marie, i wonder, too, if the talk of voter suppression in some areas particularly in places like georgia where that has been a hot button topic. i wonder if that has driven up people to vote earlier, to make sure that vote is secured. don t want to figure out what is going happ
melissa: the midterms are about more than just the house and senate, of course. there are also gubernatorial races across the country with 36 seats up for grabs. it could change the g.o.p. s current 17-see an advantage. one of the most closely watched contests is in georgia. democrat stacey abrams is running against republican secretary of state brian kemp, who come on sunday, accused democrats of attempting election hacking. he wants an investigation into the state democratic party. both candidates laying the groundwork to take their battle into overtime. if neither side secures more than 50% of the vote. a tight race, also shaping up in florida. trump supported former congressman ron desantis is facing off against tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. that you are trading harsh barbs in the run-up to today s vote. maureen
marie: i think that s probably true, harris. i can t underscore enough what martha just said democrats have been waiting for the stay for two years. enthusiasm to cast a vote against president trump, i cannot express in words how much democrats have been waiting for this. harris: why didn t they do that in 2016? marie: there s a whole lot of reasons we talked about why enough of them didn t. pull can be misleading in unexpected ways. when we can encounter that is expand the map. when you look at the map, the fact of their are competitive in places like kansas come in places like texas, some of these races and states and distric, places like alaska. harris: and virginia, we will look for some bellwether. marie: bellwethers in virginia, bellwethers in pennsylvania prayed indiana, kentucky, ohio. there are places democrats have not fielded a good respectable candidate who can actually win in many, many generations. this year, they did.
the house. what are you watching? bret: you will see it early on. there are some races we talked about yesterday, when the polls harris: kentucky six? bret: in kentucky and indiana. a couple races will be bellwether spray to mention kentucky six, indiana 2. it will tell a story early. whether it translates to the rest of the country, we don t know. look at all the early votes already. 36 million plus come in three states, arizona, nevada, and texas, they have already passed their entire 2014 totals. this is early votes and election day vote in those three states, just by the early vote, before we got to today. harris: i was reading, martha, that we could see 2016-type levels, particularly in arizona. martha: if possible. i think it goes back to president trump. since the resist movement started, the day after the election, that side of the aisle has been so animated.