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49% support of likely voters. youngkin close behind with 48%. democrats have taken the lead in early voting ahead of tuesday. according to a democratic data firm, target smart, at least 937,000 virginians have submitted ballots. thats 54% of those voters so far, likely democrats. the u.s. is one step closer to vaccinating young children against coronavirus. the fda approving emergency use authorization for pfizers vaccine. last hour congresswoman kim shrier told us how critical this would be. >>...

Gerrymandering. why is that so important? well, a new analysis shows that republicans could retake the house, in 2022, just with their control of redistricting, in just four southern states. that is according to the democratic firm, target smart, as first reported by mother jones. the republican-controlled legislature in north carolina could draw one or two new gop-controlled districts. in texas and georgia, it could be up to three, each. in florida, it could be as many as five. according to the...

Control of redistricting, in just four southern states. that is according to the democratic firm, target smart, as first reported by mother jones. the republican-controlled legislature in north carolina could draw one or two new gop-controlled districts. in texas and georgia, it could be up to three, each. in florida, it could be as many as five. according to the political report, when redistricting begins, republicans will be in charge of redrawing congressional lines for 187 districts. democra...

US Republicans push ahead with attacks on voting rights In the latest assault on the democratic rights of millions of people, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump acolyte, signed Senate Bill 90 into law Thursday after it passed the Republican-dominated Florida legislature earlier this week. The anti-democratic measure is one of hundreds that have been advanced by Republican-led state legislatures across the country following former President Donald Trump’s attempted coup on January 6. Ron ...

About this age tax. that race looks pretty good for the democrats right now. >> karen tumulty -- well, let me get to karen in just a second. 85% of likely democratic voters expressing a high level of interest in the midterms and 82% for republicans. according to data from targetsmart, nearly 35 million americans have voted early or absentee nationwide. so that could bode well, you never know. karen, talk about the gubernatorial races and how important they are, and what theyre looking like. >> t...

President trump has been leading the country. 38% dont want much or any change. on saturday president trump explained why he does not stick to the economy amid what he described as advice from fellow republicans and criticism from news outlets. >> msnbc is probably worst than cnn. they tell you, hes got the greatest economy. why is he talking about the border? well, you can only say so many times that we just created 250,000 jobs last month, right? now, i could say it over and over and over agai...

A lot of the energy right now pointing at the president, shall we say. we also have some brand new numbers to share with you. in to msnbc and nbc news on the very large number of people who have voted early in this years midterm elections including there in gary indiana. according to target mart, almost 35 million ballots have already been cast. those numbers fresh into us today. that number is expected to edge toward 40 million more than the 2013 total as early voting continues today in 13 stat...

>> let me give you information from target smart weve been working with nbc news. the percentage of republican-affiliated first-time voters, 40%, is equal to the percentage of democratic first time voters and democratic affiliated first-time voters outpaced the voters so in florida 40% to 30%. themmer son college poll, rick, has a race statistically tied. it may be the poll that the emerson race poll is the one that howard was referring to. do you think beto orourke can get the gains. >> texas i...

Who knows what will happen when they see the name green, they may not realize she is not even running. lets talk about early voting. >> sure. arthel: i want to show another poll conducted by target smart. this is engaging early voter turnout among the millenials, 18 to 29-year-olds. compare it to 2014 early voting, right? >> sure. arthel: tennessee up 767%. texas up 448%. georgia up 415%. nevada up 364%. arizona, 217% plus. florida 131% on the plus side. show you another poll. >> please. arthel:...

5.4 million early votes so far. that bypasses just about everybody else that weve been tracking along with target smart. what do you make of that, julie? >> it really depends on whos coming out to vote and thats hard to track right now. we know that the young vote is definitely out. however, it depends if there are more republicans out to vote or democrats out to vote. then it will play into who will benefit from this. the early voting is up in texas, which each candidate can look at as a positi...