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And for our future. >> reporter: so a fiery debate, but perhaps failing to engage with a large section of the french electorate. you know, guys, commentators here talking with that this is not a hope election, that people are very cynical here at this point because of the war in ukraine, because of the issues of inflation and the pressures on people's pocketbooks. and many people will be voting without much enthusiasm for who they're voting for. >> nbc's keir simmonds. thank you very much for your reporting. ed luce, what are your thoughts on the french election as it stands right now? >> i ...

The vote that is outstanding is going to decide whether dan bishop has a 2500 vote lead. can he hold on? 58.5 to 48.9. this shouldn't be close, but it will be close. the question is, can dan bishop hold on. so what do you do? you look at the map. you see what vote is still out, and you see is this possible. so let's start in the biggest pool of votes in this district. that's mecklenburg county. let me bring it up. it's the edge of charlotte. it's the suburbs to the southeast of charlotte. if you here, dan mccready up bay very healthy margin, 16 points counted so far in mecklenburg county. so i...

50.3%. 49.7%. but it is tightening in the past few minutes. it's tightened pretty dramatically. >> you know what's interesting about this, the conventional wisdom is andrew gillum, because he was a more exciting candidate according to the pundits was helping nelson and pulling nelson across the finish line although we obviously don't know who's going to get across the finish line first. right now, nelson actually has more votes than gillum so perhaps that conventional wisdom, like so much conventional wisdom, was completely wrong. >> we got a key race alert coming up right now. >> wolf, look a...

I could get super wonky, but i don't want to, and here is the point, we don't really know how that is factoring in, but the democrats will call it a win if he only loses by five points. >> and donna, what kind of number does he need to post to have huge national profile and potentially launch a bid for president? everybody has kind of said hold off, see if he can win in texas first. is the potential still there in your view if he loses? >> look, i think a lot of things are up for grabs on november 7, after all of this is over, and i think if beto can be within that five to seven-point range, i...

Missing anything. this is an economic gibberish argument the president's making, and to the extent that people who are on the short end of the stick economically from that argument are nevertheless embracing what the president's doing, that is a leap of faith they're making for somebody they see as an ally on other issues, and sort of their trust -- they're trusting he has their best interest at heart. if you talk to economists, nobody thinks they're going to come out ahead through the policies which, in fact, are going to be destructive to the american economy, and destructive to many of the ...