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Come together and solve the problems facing people like work constituents? >> i think the people in my area are absolutely the folks that believe that moving to the middle is the best solution. they are not radicals like my opponent. i see the ryan budget as a radical budget that hurts students, that hurts the elderly. people in need of social security and medicare. people in need of student loans. the people in ohio, they are, it is a swing state. and i live in the most swing district in this swing state with 165,000 new voters in this district. it has a very slight democratic means, so we ha...

With that. >> so i want to push on that a little bit, but before i do, i want to bring in angela zimmann in ohio. you have a real shot in your district because of all the new voters, because it's a newly-drawn district in 2010. when you hear about closing down early voting, making it difficult for certain populations to get out to vote, what does that sound like to you? >> what i'm most concerned about in ohio is the fact that what is a bipartisan belief that everyone has the right to cast a ballot to elect our leaders, voting hours are being restricted. and that's my number one concern. eveni...

House of representatives. my next guest is one of the women running. she's a democratic nominee in ohio's fifth congressional district and is taking on the incumbent described as one of the most conservative members of the house. joining me from toledo, ohio, is angela zimmerman, a mother, pastor and college professor and member of the united states congress. good morning. >> good morning, melissa. how are you? >> i'm just fine. there you are in ohio. >> here i am. >> and the gop ticket is in your state campaigning today. >> i am campaigning here in northwest ohio. like you mentioned, i'm a mo...

This is a congressional district, as we've been saying for days and weeks. president trump carried by nearly 20 points back in 2016. that's why tonight's race has been viewed as a bellweather for things to come, potentially in the midterm elections. if you've been watching our coverage, you know that steve kornacki has been manning the big board tonight. and steve, the takeaway from watching your coverage is that this may turn out to be an absentee race decided -- absentee vote-decided ratece, correct? >> here's where we are. 95 votes is the lead for conor lamb. 95 votes, i finally got it. it ...