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Democrats say, look, donald trump won this state by 21 points last november in this election, it looks like a seven-point margin, a seven-point victory for the republicans. so, democrats will say, hey, we ate into the trump margin. this is progress. if we could cut 14 points off the trump margin everywhere, we'll be in great shape in 2018. of course, republicans would say, hey, this is was an open seat race, different dynamics. if democrats were going to win this thing in montana, number one, they needed bigger numbers here. college town, university of montana, go grizzlies. democrats got 6 %....

Tonight, as greg was giving a separate interview, the guardian's ben jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a recorder in greg's face and began asking badgering questions. jacobs was asked to leave. you heard the questions he was asking about the congressional budget office score. the statement continues quote, after asking jacobs to lower the recorder, jacobs declined. greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. jacobs grabbed greg's wrist and spun away from greg pushing them both to the ground. the statement concludes, it's unfortunate that t...

Hour about the allegations against the montana campaign -- candidate for house allegedly assaulting a reporter. >> right, the story broke on the air. my reaction was sort of no big deal, don't make a federal case out of it. i think i was wrong. this is a big deal. if the facts are as the reporter alleged which is he asked a question and the response from the candidate was to body slam him, that's a matter for law enforcement. that's a serious thing. i regret making light of it. >> on this other story, the fact that sessions didn't disclose meetings with the russian ambassador, should point out...

Supporters, soft supporters got up this morning, saw it was snowing out w all this craziness, i might stay home. that would be the thing that would tilt this race to rob quist. it's not a fast counting state. it might be a long night tonight before we find out exactly how this whole thing plays out. stephanie? >> what by a different reaction? did you speak to anyone today that maybe wasn't thinking about voting but after seeing something like that said, i've got to raise my hand and get out there and vote? because you can register today. >> reporter: that's right. there is same-day registratio...

>> the democratic candidate, rob quist, so far declining to comment. one other thing worth noting, the sheriff, brian gutkin, has confirmed he gave gianforte's campaign $250 but says it will have no bearing on his investigation. early voting has been under way for weeks, and hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots have already been returned. to be clear, more than 250,000 votes have already been cast in this election. you could expect anywhere between 350,000 and 500,000 total votes in this election, so it may already be over. >> and some republicans who were looking to vote for gianforte, t...