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hello and welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing your busy newsday with us. president biden hits the road as we hit 12 days till election day. a handful of key senate races are a toss-up. republicans increase will go i confident about capturing the house. early voting way up, some democrats do see some hope there. plus, get this quote, security is a joke. we have some new cnn reporting shows millions of your tax dollars earmarked to protect elec...

pitch their closing messages to voters. well have a slew of new polling numbers to see what, if anything, is getting through. also ahead, this weeks jobless claims are in. what the new numbers on of the of another interest rate hike tell us about the state of our economy. professor eddie glaude jr. and jonathan lemire are with us. and joining us, nbc news national political reporter marc caputo and republican strategist and nbc news political analyst susan del percio. its good to have ...

Some of those -- perhaps those biden voters in 2020 kind of back into the republican column because they see sununu and may be willing to take a chance on the republican. >> then theres the issue of split ticketing. mark, you have new reporting on a closing strategy some candidates are oling out in the final days of their campaigns, appealing to voters who are considering contenders from different parties for office. what more can you tell us about ticket splitters? >> well, theyre a phenomenon....

Voting for the republican for governor but voting third party or democrat for senate because it came down to the specific qualities that they see in the candidate. >> and thats a critical point. i just want to point out these are senate race, georgia senate race outside the margin of error, pennsylvania stat race is a statistical tie, the nevada senate race is a statistical tie and wisconsin too. youre in the final 12 days, ive been covering midterm elections for a long time and this one may be ...

The hunt for what is now an endangered species in america. the voter called the ticket splitter. those voters are the focus of the latest piece in tour bafa bloomberg politics eight-week series we call battleground 2016. here to talk to us about the latest installment, our colleague, steve yaccino. why do these down-ballot candidates think they can change that and get a lot of ticket splitting and run ahead of donald trump in some of these contested placed? >> it is more common now. about 11% in...

What did people walk out of the exit poll saying? when someone says to youalking out of a voting booth, they say to walker because he years and im for barack obama. that tells you serveoes to your point which iill split tickets in certain states. theyll do it in virginia. will we see a ton of romney/kaine ticket splitter? will we see any allen/obama ticket none. >> what happ thompson wins. >> everybody on the ground me thompson is not going to win. the reason being the fe vote t ning offices the...

Its kind of hard to see a ticket splitter going for, say, mitt romney in virginia but also going for kaine or the opposite in massachusetts. >> so is claire mccaskill getting some separation now in missou missouri? >> yeah. republicans dont even want to put money into the race anymore. they think its unwinnable, and she is a candidate who should lose by all measures. her popularitys low. its a state republican should win. they elected an unelectable guy. >> yes, they did. jim vandehei, thanks so...