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There is breaking news. we're getting our first exit polling results from virginia and new jersey, the two states where voters are choosing new governors today. let's go right to our political director david chalian. david, what are you seeing? >> well, wolf, as you know, we're one year away since that upset victory president trump had. how do you feel about how donald trump is doing? look in virginia here. donald trump according to voters today is getting a 43% approval rate in virginia. he's upside down there by about 12 points. 55% disapprove. that is not necessarily -- those are not necess...

The mid-americwestern states, t about sanctuary cities and whether that is going to work for ed gillespie in trying to bring over some of the working class democrats that donald trump did nationwide. we'll see if there is a correlation between his assess, his ed gillespie ksuccess with the trump message and how donald trump is personally doing in the commonwealth of virginia. >> very interesting. mark preston, will ed gillespie's showing tonight in virginia give us a hint of just how appealing this notion of trumpism without trump is to voters? >> i think so. because as dana said, what we've s...

More unpopular than president trump. he may be having a bigger factor on new jerseyens minds today. >> very interesting. i want you to stay with us. i also want to bring in some of our other political specialists. dana, let me start with you. what do you make of the attitude of voters towards president trump. >> if you focus on virginia where the race is certainly going to be. he is certainly underwater, he, the president, with regards to his approval rating but doing much better in our nationwide polls that shows only a little bit more than a third of respondents said that they support donald...

Behalf of ed gillespie. ed gillespie hasn't asked him to campaign. we've seen donald trump tweet in support, as have his children in support of ed gillespie, but, again, we haven't seen that picture of them standing next to each other. one more thing, i would agree with dana on this as well. 43% is a number, an approval number you don't want to align yourself with in any normal election year. he is still doing -- when i say he, trump is still doingvert in virginia than what we have seen him nationally. if i was northam, i'd be a little bit concerned about that number. >> interesting. david, yo...

The russia issue plays into the overall notion of kind of fatigue about donald trump, if it does at all, i think that might be the biggest factor. >> do you think, mark, what happens tonight, the results we'll get let's say in virginia and new jersey, will be a bellwether looking ahead to the midterm elections next year? >> we're certainly going to overanalyze every bit of data we can pull out of these elections, specifically in verge where i live, wolf. i think new jersey in itself is a different race. it's going to be a democratic win. it's a democratic state, even though chris christie had ...