The final vote will be cast just hours from now. Our experts will weigh in on where they see the vote, what they think might be the message of these midterms as the 11th hour gets underway on this election eve monday night. Well, good evening once again from our msnbc news headquarters, our election headquarters here in new york. Day 605 of the trump administration. The question hangs in the air, are things about to change again in this country . The last polls are done. That means the last wave of p l polling data is in. Predictions are being made and with only hours to go with election day, the president tells voters tinged with regret which he admitted earlier today. Here he is in the last hour, cape girardeau, missouri. I will say we have to get out tomorrow and we have to elect a republican congress. We have to do it. Weve got to stop crying Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi from erasing everything that weve gained. Our economy is setting records on a daily basis. That rally tonight made number three for him following illinois and arkansas. Tonight trump was asked by Sinclair Broadcasting if he had any regrets about the last two years. And there is much speculation that the answer youre about to hear came after the last wave of polling data perhaps was shared with him, and again, perhaps but not necessarily, including what may be a sizeable gender gap favoring Democratic Candidates tomorrow night. Here is the president on his regrets. Is there anything, as you look back at your first almost two years, that you regret that you wish on you that you could just take back and redo . I would say tone. I would like to have a much softer tone. I feel to a certain extent i have no choice, but maybe i do, and maybe i could have been softer from that standpoint, but i want to get things done. Any regret over softness and tone, of course, comes too late for a change in tone for donald trump and his party. Phillip rucker of the Washington Post writes that in trumps Closing Arguments, the president is, quote, painting an astoundingly apocalyptic vision of america under democratic control in the campaigns final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as crime, squallor and poverty. In the leadup to tomorrows elections, trump has taken his ethos to a new level, putting democrats in distortion and using the power of the federal government to amplify his fantastical arguments. For those of you wanting the latest on what may be the races you are following and are most interested in, we have one last round of polling. This will be the last until we get election returns tomorrow night. In missouri, a new nbc news marist poll is showing democratic candidate Claire Mccaskill leading Republican Josh Hawley by three points. Andrew gillum is leading ron desantis by four points. Bill nelson leading by four over Current Governor rick scott. Indeed i new quinnipiac poll those gillum and nelson both leading their respective races by seven points. And in whats become a closely watched senate race across the river here in new jersey, a new quinnipiac poll out today this was surprising shows democratic candidate bob menendez who has dealt with profound ethics and legal problems leading bob hugin, his republican challenger, by 15 points. In georgia, in that hotly contested race, from Emerson College released friday, shows brian kemp leading stacey abrams. Democrats have a 7point advantage when it comes to control of congress, the socalled generic ballot. Were also getting a look at some new job approval numbers from trump just ahead of an election that is widely viewed as a referendum on his presidency so far. Our nbc news wall street journal poll reveals this his approval is at 46 . But just today a new cnn poll looks much different with President Trumps Approval Rating sitting at just 39 . That is a very low number. Thats lower than any other polls, and it may indeed be an outlyer, but there it is. With all that established, lets bring in our leadoff panel for a monday night, the afo aforementioned phillip rucker, writer for the washingtwashin post. Phil, since we knew you before rihanna, i thank you for appearing before the likes of us. Let me ask you about tonights rally. We had various charges from the lectern, especially about hillary clinton. We had the president relitigating the same points over and over. And yet we heard the president expressing that regret over tone today. What do you make of it . Brian, if he has any regrets on tone, hes not changing his playbook here. He has had a very Divisive Campaign in the home stretch, and it goes back to the way he ended his 2016 campaign. That is really his only formative political experience as a politician, and he won that campaign against most of the odds by turning to native themes, by stoking divisions in the country to his personal advantage and having a very divisive tone with regard to his opponent, hillary clinton. Hes doing the same thing here. Hes demagoguing the democrats. Hes talking about what they will do if they regain control of congress which is not true or exaggerated. The Washington Post fact checker analysis has shown an extraordinary uptick in the number of false and misleading claims that he has been making. But he is driving the discussion. The narrative of this campaign is turning on what the president has been saying at these rallies. Thats what people on the news are talking about, thats what a lot of voters are talking about and thats what democrats are having to respond to. Its been a challenge for the Democratic Candidates and the democratic leadership to grapple with all of this. Sabrina, i want to show you two different graphics. Number one is the classic pollster question about right track, wrong track about our country. These numbers were kind of astounding when they came out. 54 , i believe were on the wrong track, 38 the right track. With that in mind, what is paul begala doing writing this on twitter . Im as nervous as a porcupine in a balloon factory. What are democrats so nervous about tonight as we go into tomorrow . I think that democrats are always going to be concerned with the prospect of complacency, this bakedin narrative that we have a blue wave upon us. There might be some voters that think they dont even need to go out to the polls. The fact of the matter is midterms are typically a base turnout election. The president is making the effort to boost his supporters going out to the polls. Whats striking is if you look at the numbers and at the number of americans that think were on track, this is at a time when the economy is booming. If it was any other president , the argument would be that we have managed to maintain strong job growth and employment. This president is not getting credit for the economy, and thats very much why hes falling back on this hard line message when it comes to immigration, because he knows thats what motivates his voters to the polls and ultimately he hopes that they will, in turn, make this election very much about fear, particularly when it comes to immigration, and that way he can distance himself from the fact that he is not getting that credit for the economy where its due. Shannon, you have come to know this president s communication skills very well. If tomorrow night doesnt go well for his team, what do you think we might hear from him starting tomorrow night on twitter but certainly by wednesday . Ive been asking white house officials and his advisers about this, because there is a sense im sure they appreciate it. There is a sense within the white house that the republicans will lose control of the house, theyre optimistic. They still pick up two seats in the senate. So point one is to shift attention to the senate. But on the house, theyre going to sort of emphasize that this was always an uphill battle, this has nothing to do with the president and his job performance, that this is all about how historically the party in control of the white house loses congress. Theyre going to point to all these historic numbers. That will be the official message. Thats the official message being discussed in the white house right now. The unofficial message, though, that im hearing from sort of his outer circle advisers are things like pointing to paul ryan as a potential fall guy for all this and this issue of censorship and social media, this ad not being aired, this immigration ad they didnt want to air. And there is this undertone bubble of conversation that, oh, you can see the narratives. I wouldnt be possible if that makes it to his twitter feed. Phil rucker, you predicted this. I know its not an art form, but what do you think is coming later this week . Brian, the white house has been preparing for a pretty major shakeup on the staff of the white house and within the cabinet. You know, the midterm is sort of a natural transition point for most administrations where, you know, people who are tired of being in Government Service for two years will look for an exit. But that may be in overdrive for President Trump, and there is some sense that a number of officials will be announcing departures or be fired in the coming days. The most vulnerable at this hour seems to be the attorney general, jeff sessions. His allies and confidantes at the post tell us he expects to be fired as early as wednesday after the election. If the result is bad for republicans, the president may want to make some changes in his administration to reset the narrative and try to look for a reboot for his presidency. Because the recriminations on him personally are probably going to be very bad if democrats are to prevail tomorrow. Sabrina, youre at the Republican National committee. Is there anyone at these races, ideally east coast, thats early on that youre looking to to see if it will be a good night for republicans . I think what weve been able to glean from the president s closing message is a lot of the attention is maintaining control of the senate. We talk about this Closing Argument thats so heavily focused on immigration. The house is ultimately going to come down to a number of competitive suburban districts. Voters over there, their top priority is not immigration when they go to the polls. The senate, on the other hand, will ultimately come down to a handful of reliably red rural states. Thats where the president had won in 2016 by double digits. So i think they are looking at indiana, at west virginia, north dakota. These will some of the states where you have very vulnerable incumbent democrats that were on the ballot. Make no mistake, regardless of the results and there may well be a mixed result with regard congress, this is a referendum on the president. He has placed himself squarely on the ballot. During his Closing Argument, he religiously told republican voters, vote as if i am on the ballot, so he wants it to be about him. He certainly did. Shannon, the president issued a warning on twitter today. I heard someone on another network tonight say this was right out of the Lester Maddox playbook from the old south, a south we thought we had moved on from. Law enforcement has been strongly notified to watch closely for any illegal voting which may take place in tuesdays election, or early voting. Anyone caught will be subject to the maximum criminal penalties allowed by law. Thank you. And, of course, in the old south, the last refuge was to say, well, when you show up to vote, you may be in legal trouble. Hes really drawing from his greatest hits album right now. Immigration, illegal voting. I mean, im wondering why we havent heard about the russia witch hunt hoax in a while. Hes really started pulling out all the stops in the last messaging here. Because there is a sense that they have lost the house, and as sabrina was saying, it is a battle for the senate. I would caution, too, when we look at all these polls and you see him pulling out these messaging in the last attempts, so much of these polls are margin of error. When you see democrats up by two, by three, by four, that is still basically a tied race. The white house knows that and the president knows that, and hes in full fight mode. Hes going to pull out every messaging strategy as he can here because his next term as president depends on it. Democrats who control the house is really going to derail his domestic agenda, but if they lose the senate, boy, any judicial nominees reappointing anyone new to his cabinet, they realize they cannot lose the senate right now and his presidency depends on it. As we go to break, i want to share with the audience facebook is out with a statement about what theyve identified as being some potential bad actors on their front. The statement says, on sunday evening u. S. Law enforcement contacted us about Online Activity that they recently discovered and which they believe may be linked to foreign entities. Our very early stage investigation has so far identified around 30 Facebook Accounts and 85 instagram accounts that may be engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior. So facebook eager to let us know they are on the case or trying to be. 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Yeah, and so weve talked so much about the house side, and one of the things weve seen on the house side ais the polls in the individual races in the final days, they do seem to be moving in the democrats direction. The polls can be wrong, they can miss things, so well see where it moves tomorrow. If the house does end up moving at the last minute in the democrats direction, that brings the senate back in the picture. We talked about the long path for democrats, so lets just take a look at that. Its a possibility tomorrow, we can put it like that. Lets see what it would take for democrats. What you got here is sort of the battlefield. We have two that are tossup states but the polling in each, in missouri you mentioned earlier, bob menendez a democrat, double digits ahead there, republicans, double digits there. Indiana is the first state thats going to close. Trump won the state by 20 points, joe donnelly is trying to defend it. Look how close the republicans are in terms of 50 seats. Joe donnelly must win in indiana. Polls will close at 7 00. Same category for democrats. Bill nelson must hang on there. Hes leading by a couple points in the late polls. You come to tennessee, this one gets interesting. Democrats still have some hopes here. They think phil bredesen, very popular personally. Maybe its coming a little closer at the end of this race. You can see it puts republicans on the cusp of 50 just by getting tennessee. West virginia, manchin has been running ahead. He better hold on for a democratic seat. If beto orourke cannot put a surprise there and tennessee is already gone, north dakota, tennessee, texas, that right there would be 50. That could be the end of the night there. But lets say the democrats succeed in shaking one of these loose. Lets just say its texas for the sake of argument right now. Lets say theyre able to put it in their column. That would change the game. Because then at that point if Claire Mccaskill could hang on in missou