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She needs those ticket splitters to come to her. >> so far it sounds like for people who don't like mitch mcconnell a ton of good news. what happens when she has to balance this national fund-raising support, this enthusiasm from the resistance with what you just alluded to vaguely as is your way, you're a politician. >> i was. retired. i'm liberated. i'm free. >> you're not anymore. >> i'm free. >> you look a little bit like a politician. my job is to call it as i see it. you're alluding to something you know is everyone loves to get out there and say be strong, be tough, be blue, whatever. y...

Democrats. there were genuine ticket splitters. >> before you call it the good old days. before people say people were tougher on barack obama because he was black. jerry fallwell, the main player in evangelical politics accused bill clinton publicly of murder. >> i'm aware. >> that was pretty bad. >> but i'm not talking about, when i talk about the polarization thing, i'm not talking about the vitriol level, a lot on clinton, bush, on obama, different kinds but just the degree to which the polarization is a different phenomenon whereby, no longer room for people in america who vote for both p...

>> a big rush this morning. long line. people had to wait to vote. took about 10 minutes for the voters to go through. at stake, as you said, is the congressional seat in the first district in pennsylvania. this is one of the most closely watched races in the country. brian fitzpatrick and wallace. on the ballot today are very strong democratic incumbents for governor and senator and they are expected to win. the question is can that momentum pull scott wallace across the finish line? that's what makes this so interesting because bucks county where i am is famous for ticket splitters. they don...

Bucks county. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: these are your old stomping ground. you know bucks county well. it's known for its ticket-splitters. the first congressional district has been redrawn since 2016. this area went for hillary clinton in 2016 by two points, but it has a republican congressman. his name is brian fitzpatrick. and he is trying to hold off a very strong challenge from the democrat named scott wallace. he is the grandson of one of fdr's vice presidents, henry wallace. this is a toss-up state. the wallace campaign is outdo dr knocking. they have the goal of knocking...

Focus their attention exclusively on republicans and in addition you have ticket splitters that would put a check on the president than give him a blank check. >> post-alabama, yet another one of the wake-up calls that some people are hitting the snooze part on too often. you could pick apart a specific race but the trend line is the same. democratic is surging. the republican leadership view is this. we're not going to do much slate legislating and we're going to run on the ticket, is that a good strategy. >> that is not a good strategy. we held in the house in '96 and we got welfare reform a...