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Main focus is getting out the vote. you can see the folks voting behind me, and this is a state that president trump won in 2016, but he hasp an extremely competitive governor's race, and i want to bring up eric sellers who is here as the county director of elections. how many have you seen by mail and in person? >> we have had 113,000 that we have manld 68,000 have been returned where we are almost 60% of the return rate. typically we will see 90% of the ballots coming back. >> and in-person voting? >> as overyesterday, 26,000 people have come here no the voting location, and over 1,000 today...

Cold and snowy election day in western pennsylvania. polls in district 18 will close? a little over four hours. because of this special election. the deciding between conor lamb, democrat, rick saccone, the republican, who president trump tweeted his endorsement for mths morning a few minutes before dropping the news also on twitter he fired rex tillerson. vaughn hillyard is in mcke mckeesport, pennsylvania. vaughn, what is going on, how are things looking there? >> reporter: good, despite, snow, ali, there are plenty of voters coming here to this voting location in mckeesport. the question is...

>> yeah. and you have examples in arkansas. a republican election commissioner intimidating voters showing up and yelling "shut up and go home" to early voters. you have white nationalalists claiming they plan to go and distribute weed and alcohol in african-american communities to try to suppress the vote. the idea that people can actually show up at a polling place with a gun, yell at people as they're voting, is it legal to be on the property of a voting location and do that? >> well, states do let people be certified poll mono -- monitors working with campaigns. you're in the allowed to ra...

>> reporter: clinton campaign organizers stress the need to get out the african-american vote especially here in the northern counties of ohio. and to that end they're going to do another one of these souls to the polls. this has been traditionally african-american churches where after service the church buses are loaded up and people go to the nearest voting location. if you're not a member of any faith, then they have another way, you got rapper jay-z coming to town. he's going to have a concert that is expected to be, i believe friday, and you can bet that there will be a message as well to...

Someone who may become president, what that does is embolden less stable, less invested people in this country to attack, to shoot, to possibly try to capture a voting location and that's a problem. trump is responsible for it. >> let's all remember, it didn't start with trump. jesse helms joked about the president being assassinated if he came to north carolina back when bill clinton was president. thanks for joining me. >> thank you, chris. still ahead, the state of the race eight days out, coming up. ♪ ♪ and the seagulls they'll be smilin' ♪ ♪ and the rocks on the san♪ it's so p...