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Turnout machine come next week. it is unbelievable the amount of energy. it is unbelievable the amount of energy bernie sanders has. >>what bernie brings is medicare for all and the talk of democratic socialism. where do you fall in that. >> i will tell you what we need first and foremost and that is turnout. when our demographic -- when the voting population looks like a demographic population, we'll have an idea of what the two university campuses and bringing a phenomenal job bringing young people out to vet. >> are you concerned that he brings out that independent voter, who says i'm not a...

It's not multiple choice. you have to vote "yes" or "no." that should help democrats because they're the party that's taking on trump, obviously. >> i do think that's true. there's a little bit of nuance when you're talking about the difference demographics of women. for example, in 2016, as you know, donald trump won 53% of white women, but he lost the majority of all women. that means that black and latino women and aaip women are voting for democrats. normally that does impact the outcome of certain elections. you saw that in alabama with doug jones and you saw that in virginia. so i do thi...

Approval and generic ballot polling do not get better for them. the danger for republicans and one thing that could put the house out of reach for them is if those indicators get worse. thoughts on that? >> i think the environment is largely locked here. democrats are going to have an overheated turnout machine and not much we know based on the elections are already happening in this cycle. i think a better indicator of the challenges for the republicans is in the structure of the election itself. we knew this midterm would be difficult based on history because of the president and president's...

It was 40%. does that mean the democratic turnout machine was better than thought or people were motivated? >> people were motivated. we saw a high turnout in virginia as well. roy moore, to say the obvious, was a candidate with unique vulnerablities and liabilities. but how much this result had in common with what we saw in virginia, new jersey and for that matter about who approves and disapproves of president trump to begin with. as we talked about yesterday, alisyn, three components all clicked together. it was huge african-american turnout and margins. they were a bigger turnout yesterday...

Tom cotton, i don't think anybody is going to beat tom cotton for a very long time but you go into selective districts into some of these places, it's all about turnout at the end of the day. democrats do not turn out in off-year elections. they just don't. what is the percentage of people who actually voted, you know, for donald trump as president or hillary clinton? in the 30s or something? you get all of these people out right now, sam, they are going to come out even in states and districts that lean republican 5 or 10 pranel poinercentage poinl about turnout. if they are this focused even...