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About president trump. the big question we're asking today is this, are the 2018 midterms about anything other than donald trump? joining me senior election analyst sean trendy, ashley parker and jonathan lemier. ashley, let me start with you. the president obviously making the case that, hey, you got to vote for your local republican candidate because that means you're voting for me. it also seems there's going to be stepped up campaigning activity from the president. what do you know and what are you hearing about what the white house has in mind in terms of his campaign schedule these final...

From a guy who won that state by 28 points. so from a national perspective, that's one way to understand why the u.s. senate is about to get one more democrat from this most unlikely of states. but here's one other way to look at it. this is the same voter data from last night's election viewed through a slightly different lens. this was put together by miles coleman, who was an election analyst at decision desk hq. this shows how alabama voters voted last night in each congressional district in the state. there are seven congressional districts. and this is what the vote last night looks like...

Day, rallying with roy moore. moore's campaign was very much associated with trump and trumpism. turns out trump and trumpism are less popular in alabama than they used to be. recent fox news poll in alabama had donald trump less favorable than barack obama in alabama. exit poll data last night showed that the same percentage of people viewed trump unfavorably as they did favorably. from a guy who won that state by 28 points. so from a national perspective, that's one way to understand why the u.s. senate is about to get one more democrat from this most unlikely of states. but here's one other...

Could have gotten more in 2012, and there's an election analyst of r real clear politics that said there were white voters this did not show up in 2012 versus 2008. even he admits that had they turned out in their 2008 levels that barack obama still would have won, and then, of course, as you extrapolate the future elections, come 2016, 2020 when that white population ends up decreasing, then all of a sudden barack obama could end up losing the white vote by 20 points and still comfortably win a presidential election. come 2016 you could lose it by 222 or 23 points, joy. that's the power of de...

And sean trende is the senior election analyst for real clear politics. gentlemen, thank you. i've done the calculation. what is going to happen, because of this election being held in october, being held three or four weeks before the normal time when christie is running on november 5th, six senate days will occur. in other words, calculating $24 million, cost of the elections, we'll be able to get a guy in there, a woman in there enough times to vote six times on the floor. that's $4 million a day, steve, to have a senator come in a month early. that's hard to explain if you're governor chri...