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Ago." >> from virginia, two incumbent republicans may be at risk of losing their seat. in the senate, tim kaine faces cory stewart and president obama made a surprise visit to virginia to campaign for tim kaine. brian, what's the story where you are? >> reporter: a very energized voting base in sterling. this is a key suburban battleground. it's in the suburbs here and all offer the country that the battle for the house is going to play out. here in sterling and in this tense voting district where barbara comstock defending her seat against wexton. they have more than doubled the output from t...

Hard. everyone is nice to me. no one hits me because i set it up like that, that way they don't have to answer the question, but we have been asking everybody if donald trump is a reason they're here. almost everyone we talked to said the president of the united states has some influence in why they're here, either pro or con. >> you can sense some of the sensitivity there. politics are always sensitive. particularly sensitive in this time period. thanks very much. >> only gary can ask the tough questions with a smile and make it work. let's get to the battleground state of virginia with brian...

Touch screens, the digital voting apparatus because they were too concerned with tampering and possible hacking so they are doing it all on paper ballots now and here is where people put their paper ballots in. once you vote over here, you put it in here and watch this gentleman here will give you a cardboard covering to cover your vote for privacy purposes. this gentleman has one of those, he is about to put it into the machine and then it will scan his vote. he hands the cardboard cover back to the voting worker here. we can show you that it has a running count of how many people have voted....

That shows not the historic gain that you'd expect, that shows the actual projected seat gain in the house for democrats based on how carved up the congressional maps are now to benefit republicans. so if you just start at the top there, if the democrats win the national popular vote by two points, historically speaking, you would expect that to result in democrats pick up 19 seats. but because the districts are drawn so aggressively now to favor republicans, instead of 19 seats, what democrats would actually pick up this year with that kind of a vote margin is more like five seats in the hous...

Mostly of bucks county and a little slice of montgomery county. as far as politically, the first congressional district went for hillary clinton by two percentage points in 2016. so the big question tonight is can the democratic challenger flip the house seat, which is currently held by a first-term republican named brian fitzpatrick. his challenger is scott wallace. that's what we're going to watch. what we have seen here in this voting district, which is warwick 4, has just been an extraordinary amount of voting. they had 900 people vote by midday today. that's out of 2200 possible voters. t...