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Projection, we're talking about connecticut, illinois, maine, maryland, massachusetts, new hampshire, oklahoma, pennsylvania as well as rhode island and the volunteer state of tennessee. let's turn it over to kasie hunt with some updates for senate races. >> let's start in georgia. you just gave us an update on the governor's race. let's compare to the senate race. raphael warnock up at 54.5% to herschel walker's 43.9%. that spread between where the republican governor kemp is at 48.2% right now has widened. walker is just at 43.9%. that has to be giving some of the democrats i have been talki...

That inside this evening. >> i think that shirt said i.c.e. i.c.e. baby, which is an indication of just how much the president is trying to push the immigration message ahead of 2020. >> reporter: yeah. i think that's not about vanilla ice. or the 82-degree humid day. likely about immigration and customs enforcement. that's what a lot of people are focused on today. >> peter, thank you, some i friend. see you later tonight on "nbc nightly news". steve kornacki is holding it down at the big board. walk through as the president now, and, again, he filed his papers for re-election two and a half ...

At all these numbers today, and i remain skeptical that this guy is as easy to beat as the numbers show. your thoughts looking at the newest numbers. >> yeah, take you through. this is his average approval rating. take every poll and it clocks in at 43.9%. you would normally look at that president in that territory and say that president is going to be in trouble next year for reelection. the interesting thing about trump is he's pretty much lived in that range his entire presidency. his high point as president, his high watermark, this is his honeymoon. he hit 46% in, about two weeks in early...

Point, they take the house, but it is so tight. this could be either way. >> the numbers i'm seeing, it's fascinating, because in our j generic ballot democrats have the seven-point advantage. they can't just win that house popular vote, they probably need a pad of a few points. they're getting it in our poll. we have trump's approval rating at 46% which is as good as it's been in one of our polls since he's been president. >> that nbc poll seems way out of line with the abc poll that has him at 40 and gallup at 41. >> abc has him at 44. if you take the average approval rating of everything ou...

Rating of everything out there it locked in at 43.9 yesterday. >> so he is at 43.9. >> there is another one coming out this morning so we will see what that says. i would also say "the new york times" has been doing these individual house districts by house district polls around the country -- >> by the way, the upshot, i used to make fun of people going to make silver, the little meter. i go to those polls every five minutes because i'm always -- >> they're addictive. >> the old politician in me, i'd always tell everybody that worked for me, don't look at the number, looks at the trends, all ...