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Lawrence: someone to follow this -- race, i see weak ground game there. what were the republicans doing? if you really want the seat, then you've got to make the pitch to the voters and if republicans were able to win that governor's race, i mean, they could have done same thing here it looks leak weak candidate or candidate that wasn't willing to go out there to make the case to the voters. >> i think adam ran a great race but republicans have to do more than just tell people to show up on election day. this is kind of a throw it at the wall and hope it sticks strategy democrats pulled fire a...

Sfl sfl >> reporter: take a look at "the new york times" siena vol, there is a 6 percentage point spread between the two candidates. but something else to point out is that this poll was conducted eight to ten days ago. conditions are changing rapidly. almost day by day. it is impossible to know, especially with independent voters, who might decide at the very last minute which way this race is going to go. the two campaigns telling me they think it will be a nail biter until the very end. >> and the tracking polls, not fantastic. kyung lah, good to have you there in phoenix. thank you so much...

Traction because there is a 60ers of t60% of the electorate there is black. then you may see a higher number. >> if he can hang on to south carolina. >> impactly. b exactly. i don't know the answer but i do have some theories, right? i think there's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy in campaigning. and i can say this as someone who's sort of been on the inside and sort of watched the polling go up and down. and you watch the pundits get on tv and analyze the polling. and that is excellent. but if you are on a campaign, you should tune all of that out because your job is to wake up every singl...

Was not only the best way to do it but that it would be counterproductive. that would aid the president's re-election. this is a story that everybody can understand. he sold them down the road for his own political favors. >> how much should democratic leadership be playing on these polls? full steam ahead? >> they need to keep their eye on the ball. i'm not in favor of changing your behavior and plans based on tracking polls because it is really just a snapshot of what one group of people in the country think about a thing. it is not a reflection of what's going on in the bigger picture. the ...

Democrats put up if they're looking at the numbers right now against the president? >> almost two different conversations. you talk about the impeachment and where you're going to be at the end of the year, we don't know yet. so, who they're going to -- the democrats are going to put up and what environment they're going to be in, we still don't know. >> yeah, i mean, at the end of the day, the numbers you just laid out there, that were laid out this morning, show that 53% of the country, if we believe this, are going to be against him no matter what, shows that this is already a -- people are...