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N. tennessee, race to replace the senator bob corker, he is retiring and not on the ballot, so the seat is open. former democratic governor phil br bredesen faces marsha blackburn. >> shep, this is a record-setting election in tennessee. record early voting 1.3 million people in tennessee casting ballots early, triple what it was four years ago, really on presidential level here in tennessee. record spending, as well, more than $80 million spent, $50 million in outside money. groups from across the country trying to shape this race, which could determine who controls the senate. this is a stat...

Be in the state for the next four years? >> i hope not. >> it's been a rough race. >> it was very rough. >> have you tuned it out? >> it's just a bunch of twitter and just garbage. >> this is pushing you away? >> yes. >> i would say and i have three or four voters who said similar things to me. they're just burned out on the negativity. >> arizona now knows how cleveland feels every two to four years. we're seeing record spending, not just in the senate race but ballot initiatives, congressional races, the governor's race. $100 million, which blows away any kind of spending we've seen before. ...

The people who are struggling like jeb bush, don't have strong candidate skills. at the end of the day, i think that's reassuring. they want a candidate at the end of the day who can communicate with republican voters. they are sick and tired of having candidates who are brittle and can't communicate and move voters. because at the end of the day they don't want to lose the election. >> yeah, it's interesting. i think at ted cruz's stump speech, and he uses dole, mccain, romney, holds them up and says, we lost. we don't do that again. the conventional wisdom, this is going to be about billiona...

Province on tuesday. none of the people on board survived. the plane's black boxes have been found in good condition. the flight lost contact with air traffic control on sunday shortly before it was scheduled to land. still to come here on "cnn newsroom," a second democratic senator delivered another blow to the iran nuclear deal. the u.s. forest service says as the number of wildfires increase, so does the cost to battle them. more on their record spending, just ahead.

>> all right. >> any appropriations bill that comes to me, obviously, i'm going to look at. look at from the confines of my committee on energy and commerce. i'm also on the rules committee, i'll be deeply involved in it, but just the fact that the president said he needs more money, i don't know if i buy that, chris. he's had plenty of money, he's had plenty of time. he's had plenty of warning. >> record spending. >> he is -- >> record spending at the border. >> thank you for coming on, i'd love to check back in with you on this. >> any time. >> why are gay rights employers discriminating aga...