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Donald trump, you may want to stay home but come out and vote for the senate candidate. >> looking at some polling in ohio where portman seems to be safe. 20% of clinton voters in ohio plan to vote for portman. >> it's amazing. we've been talking about this for several years about ticket splitters and we have strategists that say voters don't ticket split. it happens. voters are showing us how smart and tuned in they are in this election, this idea of republican senate as a check on clinton is probably the strongest argument that republicans have for the next two weeks. >> probably the only ar...

Trump because they're worry that there's not that many ticket splitters across the country those who will vote hillary clinton but still vote republicans in the house and senate. that's also the reason he is continuing to campaign in multiple spots like pennsylvania, this is a state donald trump is trailing hillary clinton by a hefty margin in the polls but also a place where it's tight reelection for senate seat. so if you can bring up donald trump's margins that will keep pat to me competitive enough at least tume could keep a senate seat here in pa. >> thank you very much. now congresswoman...

>> and the governor is a big supporter of trump, too. maricopa county, a very key county, you looked at that. what'd you find? >> most of the voters in the state are from maricopa county, about 65%. >> around phoenix. >> yeah, so it's key to any sort of turnout in the state. but we found a huge percentage of these ticket splitters were there. and a lot of them, we found, were mormon, which is one group. we also found a lot of them follow the same sort of trends that trump has had problems with. women, high-education voters, young people, things like that. >> so, steve yaccino, thank you very m...

So unpopular. i talked to a party chairman in arizona, who was for trump, totally supported him, but he said, we're working in the same direction, but we have different goals. my goals are to turn out all republicans and at this point in the race, not all republicans are for donald trump. >> so how are campaigns, in terms of methodology or mechanics, how are they trying to find ticket splitters? >> we tried to recreate this with me and my colleague, sasha issenberg. we took two different sets of data. we took the data that shows a voter's likelihood to be republican or a democrat, their partis...

If it's really a changed election, and if trump loses by two or three points, that could make the difference between republicans being in control or losing the senate. >> absolutely. that's really the key. and republicans are, you know, they are looking for ticket splitters. they need folks to be able to vote for them even if they don't vote for trump at the top of the ticket. toomey is the classic case, the suburbs of philly, and those voters left donald trump over the past couple of weeks and toomey can't win without them. it's a delicate dance. two-thirds of the voters say they want congres...