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welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> and good to be with you. the last jobs report before election day topped economies east estimates 261,000 new jobs were added in october, a number president biden will likely tout when he speaks this hour. the commit remains the number one issue for voters this election and the white house is hoping to capitalize on this stronger report. >> democrats are facing headwinds with four days left before the polls close on november 8. and who controls congress will be determined. the latest count shows more than 34 million americans across 47 states have alread...

But also starts the winnowing process. mark mckinnon is former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain. and kathy debread vich formerly with "the des moines register." big picture, you know a loss in iowa isn't the end of a campaign. you were with john mccain in 2008, lost iowa and then won the nomination. what do you think we're going to learn tonight from trults? >> it's always really about expectations. the question is what will be the story out of tonight? donald trump is, of course, expected to win. he kind of raised his own expectations. the question is can ron desantis play second? he...

Came crosses the happy warrior. but who came out on the bottom, is what i am looking at. former vice president mike pence i think did a terrible stop tucker carlson just put him up against the wall about ukraine and what the trump administers and had done. looking at someone like asa hutchinson, who i cannot even remember who was running. i think he needs to go back home to arkansas and chill out with his family. i think what this really is is the beginning of the winnowing process. we know the first major republican debate here in the seats, a little more than a month for now and i think with...

Them can hang on? how does that work for them financially? biden for that matter? >> that's a good point opinion the ability to raise money online and the existence of all of us covering these primaries haws changed. they used to expire because they ran out of money and attention. now if you're a reasonably plausible candidate you have an ichbit supply of both. what hasn't changed is that voters don't like to waste their votes. if you -- by definition someone is going to come in fourth in eyeba, someone in fourth in new hampshire. biden probably has a second bite because he has a strong africa...

>> so half of the field is sitting in the well of the senate not able to speak or move or campaign in iowa. so they will be out of the process there for quite sometime. >> so the winnowing process, i would say if you don't win iowa, new hampshire, south carolina or nevada, your ability to stay in really dries up. from money, from constituents, from staff. >> so let's talk about elizabeth warren. her star was rising, her polls were going up and over the past week or so we've seen them -- her poll numbers broadly go down a little bit. let's look at it -- at a cnn poll out this week. warren slipp...