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Ago." >> from virginia, two incumbent republicans may be at risk of losing their seat. in the senate, tim kaine faces cory stewart and president obama made a surprise visit to virginia to campaign for tim kaine. brian, whats the story where you are? >> reporter: a very energized voting base in sterling. this is a key suburban battleground. its in the suburbs here and all offer the country that the battle for the house is going to play out. here in sterling and in this tense voting district where...

Hard. everyone is nice to me. no one hits me because i set it up like that, that way they dont have to answer the question, but we have been asking everybody if donald trump is a reason theyre here. almost everyone we talked to said the president of the united states has some influence in why theyre here, either pro or con. >> you can sense some of the sensitivity there. politics are always sensitive. particularly sensitive in this time period. thanks very much. >> only gary can ask the tough qu...

Touch screens, the digital voting apparatus because they were too concerned with tampering and possible hacking so they are doing it all on paper ballots now and here is where people put their paper ballots in. once you vote over here, you put it in here and watch this gentleman here will give you a cardboard covering to cover your vote for privacy purposes. this gentleman has one of those, he is about to put it into the machine and then it will scan his vote. he hands the cardboard cover back t...

That shows not the historic gain that youd expect, that shows the actual projected seat gain in the house for democrats based on how carved up the congressional maps are now to benefit republicans. so if you just start at the top there, if the democrats win the national popular vote by two points, historically speaking, you would expect that to result in democrats pick up 19 seats. but because the districts are drawn so aggressively now to favor republicans, instead of 19 seats, what democrats w...

Mostly of bucks county and a little slice of montgomery county. as far as politically, the first congressional district went for hillary clinton by two percentage points in 2016. so the big question tonight is can the democratic challenger flip the house seat, which is currently held by a first-term republican named brian fitzpatrick. his challenger is scott wallace. thats what were going to watch. what we have seen here in this voting district, which is warwick 4, has just been an extraordinary...

In the special election. i think this is the most encouraging one for democrats. >> thats the trent franks race. >> and this was recent. trump had won the district by 21. a republican won the special by five. but heres why that is significant, and if youre a democrat, encouraging. the republicans like to say, this is about energy. this is about democrats circling the date of the special election, being out, going out, and republican voters not doing that. arizona 8 is a mail-in voting district -...

Supreme court where less than an hour from now, justices will take up a case that could have a major impact on the future of elections. theyre focusing on gerrymandering, the act of manipulating the boundaries of a voting district to favor one party over another. nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me from outside the supreme court, pete, what will the justices be looking at? >> reporter: its a simple question, chris, how much partisanship is too much, gerrymandering the drawing of con...

Both of those presidents, the democrat and republican are stiending bind the tariffs of the president. while they see republicans and several -- i talked to a gentleman yesterday who is a republican voter, he says he is against the tariffs because of the the outlie that the runs are saying. theres 18,000 union steel household members in that voting district. so despite what republican lawmakers are saying this is very much of a constituent and steel worker issue here for these people. >> theres ...

Than one in 20 votes. 4.6%. they end up with 56.6. how does that work? >> just 26,000 votes per seat. for the nationalists. nearly 4 million votes. and just one seat in the parliament. thats because the united kingdom independence party support was just spread too thinly across the country. britains voting system is first pass the post in each voting district. each parliamentary consistency. do it by one vote. and you are there. if you are a party like the democrats have been through their histo...

Generational divide that twists in cuba. the older folks are staunch in the support of the embargo but younger people are not. theyre changing their perspective. its time to see that the new generation sees things differently. you represent the youngest voting district in the state of florida. youre not a old guy yourself. >> im 364. >> tell me about the again rational divide that exists between cuban-americans. >> what upset most people in my generation is to see our country, the united states ...