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Colleague says that the early vote is so pro-clinton at this point that the state might be gone. >> thats funny. thats always what the polls say. >> but the actual. nevada is a state where the democratic machine is kind of, the turnout machine is living up to its billing. its not true everywhere by any means. north carolina is going to be decided by whether donald trump is going to blow the doors off in rural north carolina. he may lose the big metropolitan area. real quick, in 2012 president ob...

>> the money that matters is the earlier money that you can invest in analytics and building a turnout machine. this money can go to late mobilization efforts, it can go to television, but i dont know how meaningful it is, well also see, you know, how much he ends up actually spending of his own. hes sort of turned this into a money-making exercise as well. so hes been throwing those numbers around for a long time. but bottom line, i think the late money is less important than the money that he ...

Close to or over $100 million of my money spent on the campaign. >> david, trump might be writing his campaign a $10 million check but that wont change the fact that hes at a huge disadvantage. clinton has $62 million cash on hand, friday trump only had $16 million. >> the earlier money you invest in analytics and building a turnout machine. this money can go to late mobilization efforts, it can go to television, but i dont know how meaningful it is, well also see, you know, how much he ends up ...

Disadvantage. clinton has $62 million cash on hand, friday trump only had $16 million. >> the earlier money you invest in analytics and building a turnout machine. this money can go to late mobilization efforts, it can go to television, but i dont know how meaningful it is, well also see, you know, how much he ends up actually spending of his own. hes sort of turned this into a money-making exercise as well. so hes been throwing those numbers around for a long time. but bottom line, i think the ...

Thing and frankly i believe we should be joking it should be mocked because it underlies the integrity of the system and he has no basis for what hes saying no matter what pocket you identify but there is an argument to be made by saying its rigged its rigged he pushed the democrat turnout machine to drive early voting in a way that they werent anticipating even a month and a half ago. that could have wound up blowing back on him a little bit. >> right. basic the idea of early voting is very sim...

Like the overall threat is. >> according to catalyst more than 5.1 million voters have already cast just one time. this has been in 35 different states and the majority of votes are in battleground states. lets bring in mark preston, executive editor of cnn politics. mark, great to you here. so, what can we glean from what we little we know about this early voting? >> well, one thing chris and i talked about last hour was the idea that democrats have a better turnout machine, a better operation ...

>> one thing trumps campaign is calculating, if they drag this campaign so far down into the mud, it will depress turnout such that they could get lucky and pick up a couple states or two because we know trump has electrified the smaller base of core supporters whereas clinton is banking on a turnout machine. >> i think shes got to go positive. im not the boss obviously. ashley? >> i think youre right. we also have to keep in mind if we werent talking about trump right now, what we might be talk...

Views go mr. trump think about the democratic ad the longer he stays in the republican race. he is a turnout machine for the obama coalition. he still questions the presidentpresident a presidents birth certificate. now hes insulting women. >> just spit on some young voters and wed be done. thats essentially the problem for the establishment which said we need to do as a party to win presidential elections and the prescriptions were just as you said, make things right with these groups. its amaz...

Republicans, but were seeing more democratic votes proportionally being cast in that race and possibly eating up some of the republican margin of registration. republicans hold a slighter edge in registration in the district. but polls seem to show that alex cink is going to win this. >> tactically, it seems like democrats -- in fact, ive been ahead of the republicans on this issue for years. in florida. the recent years, going back to 2008, that they essentially, obama carried the state both ti...

Ballot poll tests for an election that will never take place. these elections at the end of the day, even if there is a national wave are 435 individual races. and there are a lot of republicans sitting in marginal districts who have better personal brands. by many, many points. you think of some of these districts particularly in the northeast where a lot of socially moderate republicans do well. that really makes democrats job of getting of seats they need a lot tougher. >> you look at new jer...