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Agreement when you were with the trump campaign in 2016. not sure you abide by it, but you did sign it. i want to ask you about this kentucky race. it's going to be one of the first ones we see the results from. andy barr against amy mcgrath. it's a district president trump won by 16 points in 2016. obviously a bellwether. one of the things we were talking about during the break is the democrats -- and i know this is much to your chagrin -- the democrats have done a pretty good job when it comes to candidate recruitment. >> democrats have done a phenomenal job. look this is the kind of war goi...

Observed from talking to voters. the democrats we talked to are incredibly fired up. they are treating this more like a presidential election. they are saying this is the most important time for them to vote. that is something that's a little bit different in many ways from 2016. obviously, hillary clinton had her core supporters but i covered that campaign in its final weeks and the vibe was entirely different. democrats are definitely fired up. on the republican side, i do think that, you know, to a certain extent the president's strategy ever making those voters feel an additional urgency t...

These swing districts. >> there's a big difference between 2016. obviously, one thing is that a lot of people in our profession didn't take trump seriously. didn't believe he could ever win. he got a lot of scrutiny but this is true not just in the media but a lot of voters. we look at what happened -- >> comey didn't think he was going to win. >> a lot of democrats looked at hillary clinton and found her uninspiring and just said i'm going to stay home because they assumed eventually she'd win anyway and then they looked up and went, wait a minute. her defects are minor compared to his. the h...

Andy barr. this were the democrats have nominated amy mcgrath. she is the former fighter pilot. she had that viral ad that raised all sorts of money, raised her profile. the interesting thing than district, this is a district donald trump won by double-digits in 2016. obviously it's kentucky. but it's a district that's got lexington, which is a college town, university of kentucky. it's got the area sort of suburban white collar professional area right outside lexington. that's about half the district right there. and then it's got sort of a classically kentucky rural ex-urban second half of t...

We're going get real numbers from on election night. the sixth district in kentucky. kentucky has a very early poll closing time. the sixth district of kentucky is represented by a republican, andy barr. this were the democrats have nominated amy mcgrath. she is the former fighter pilot. she had that viral ad that raised all sorts of money, raised her profile. the interesting thing than district, this is a district donald trump won by double-digits in 2016. obviously it's kentucky. but it's a district that's got lexington, which is a college town, university of kentucky. it's got the area sort...