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Trump took this state by about 1% in 2016, and the midterms are no exception. let me set the scene for you because i'm live in the heart of the financial district here in downtown miami. now, this polling place at a church, you don't see a line right now at the moment, but don't be fooled because by the time you woke up this morning, 39% of florida's registered voters had already voted. when you compare that to 2014, that's an increase of 62%. people here are involved. they're out voting. now, when you break down those numbers by party, that's when we get these razor thin margins that we're ta...

You don't know what the early vote is all about. for or against something. >> two things. context matters. let's take a look. that was early voting and absentee voting. -- it was early voting, not early and absentee. if you combine them, this time around republicans have 40.1% of the early and absentee votes in florida. the democrats have 40.6%. half a point. but that's only 24,000 votes. two years ago the democrats combined out of the two had a 96,000 vote margin. this time around if they were doing the same percentage that they had last time around they would have a 72,000 vote margin coming...

5,940, 645. if you look over here to the left, those computers right there, that's where they're taking some of the votes that were early voted and they fed them into the machines. they're verifying the votes. they're not tabulating. nobody has any idea who is ahead or behind in those who have voted in the state of florida. the clerks here you see right now are busy doing what they need to do to get the finalization together. and because so many people are curious about this state, it looks like ultimately those independent voters may be the ones who determine the very hotly contested governor...

Certainly has an impact on voters. now, remember. when we're looking at those who have early voted in the state of florida, we have a record number of early voters. 5 million -- i have written it down and tried to memorize it. 5,094,645 early voters at the polls and when you break it down by the party affiliations, assuming people are following their party affiliation, 40.1%, republicans and 40.5% which are democrats so let's break it down a little bit more now and take a look first at the republican candidate, ron desantis out of nowhere with the endorse. of president trump that took him thro...

Major outline money, and republican candidates, when with runoff in georgia, glad to be of help. ossoff heads into a runoff with karen handel in a race, only have one. here's a look at the final number from last night, 40.1%. bob grade 10.8 and so one. now handle failing to aggressively fight a seat that has been held by republican jimmy carter days and once belonged to newt gingrich. >> tomorrow he starts the campaign a new. it is imperative that all of us come together in unity and recognize beating ossoff and holding this seat that has such great legacy in tom price rises above anyone perso...