this bed. all right. this ohio 12th district race has become a proxy for the state of play between democrats and republicans. this is our best look at what might happen in the midterms to date. we have people at both campaigns and you're getting such different stories. jason carroll is at republican troy balderson's headquarters in newark, ohio. rebecca berg is at democrat danny o'connor's in westerville. two very different stories. i'll get to berg in one second. jason, what are you hearing from balderson? what are they telling right now? >> reporter: first of all, just hearing some cheers here in the room as some of the results just came in. look, they are feeling very optimistic at this point. they realize it could be tight. the race could be tight. it could be a late night. they're feeling especially good about the president, chris, coming in this weekend. they feel as though he's going to give balderson that extra bit