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Let's motive those folks. let's use the energy generated by the trump era to motive those folks to get them to turn out, to change the map of georgia. can that be done in the year 2018 or is she a little ahead of the demographic change there? that's what we're going to find out this fall. who will she run against? that's the open question here. this is lieutenant governor, republican casey cagle. you see he is leading by a couple margins. georgia is a runoff state. there is going to be a runoff here in july. cagle versus the secretary of state, brian kemp. winner goes on to the general electio...

For more, we are joined by the great steve kornacki, who is the man you want the talk to on nights like this. steve, what can you tell us? >> well, yeah, look, not much of a contest. we know what democrats in georgia are in the mood for now. put this in some perspective, we talk about how georgia is changing demographically. in 2016, the margin here for donald trump, it was five points. in 2012, mitt romney won this by eight points. this is one democrats think is on the horizon, with the demographic changes, with the influx of folks, especially in the atlanta area. abrams just cleaned up here....

Report says that premiums will rise. >> carr has a tough road ahead. tennessee is not a runoff state and as many as nine republicans are running in the august 7th primary including memphis radiologyist george flynn meaning the anti-alexander vote will get split eight ways. he had a 64% favorable rating. alexander's job rating was 47%, even with tea party republicans though. national conservatives endorsed alexander or stayed out of the race. at the end of last month newt gingrich weighed in on his behalf. mr. carr, good morning to you, sir. >> thank you, chuck. thank you for having me. >> let ...

>> south carolina is a runoff state. >> ask david dewhurst what a runoff is like. >> that's true. >> steven star has a great new restaurant on 14th street. a french restaurant. i was there three times the last couple of weeks. i'll be there tonight. join me. >> i ate there tuesday night. >> did you like it? >> yes! what am i going to say? >> i'm going to pennsylvania for dinner with my wife and kids. >> where is your restaurant? >> almond cancer fund board of advisers. volunteer opportunities are available in d.c. and they are moving down here from the columbia, maryland, area. >> touch of gra...

The polls have blanche lincoln up by 10. is that enough, amy, fighting it out against a hard-charging mr. halter? >> we just have to remember that it is a runoff state. it's not a plurality state. she needs to get 50%. everyone that i talked to, both sides of this, think this is going to a runoff. so the real question is when all is said and done we're going to have the end of this not over until june. and who's going to be the more -- or in this case the less banged-up candidate between now and the end of june? this has been a very tough -- >> who's taking votes away -- who's the third candid...