between trump and members of his own republican party up on capitol hill. tillerson s close business ties to russia and trump s own reluctance to criticize putin but instead takes shots at u.s. intelligence officials is concerning, to put it lightly to the republican party. a tillerson pick comes amid the uproar reports that russia intervened to help trump win. because of exxonmobil s working relationship with the russian government, tillerson was given russia s order of friendship decoration. there he is getting the award in 2012. florida senator marco rubio tweeted, being a friend of sl d vladimir is not an attribute i m hoping for from a secretary of state. lindsey graham said, if you received an award from the kremlin, order of friendship, we re going some talking. and here s what arizona senator john mccained that to say. it s a matter of concern to me that he has such a close personal relationship with vladimir putin and, obviously, they ve done enormous deals
offices in ohio, 39 more offices in florida, 32 more in arizona, 282 offices more nationwide. i know you guys just got off a call about the ground game. what can you tell us? let s talk about voter contact. when you look at those votes. you brought up ohio. the top four counties that went for become are all significantly down for democrats. a state like wisconsin. the top three republican counties are in double digits from where they were in 2012. all of them up in the high 20s. with the case of wasaki county, up 49% from 2012. florida, up 9% in the early vote on monday alope. big republican turnout in the all-important i-4 corridor. north carolina, iowa, again. there s a pattern. early vote where the democrats have to do very, very well. republicans have closed that gap significantly. democrats are having a big problem when it compaes to thei
about to or have begun early voting, underestimating hour important this is for hillary clinton. look at team trump, get numbers in a minute. where s their bench? well, if you even look at north carolina early voting starting and had absentee voting already and the republican ballots turned in are way behind where the republicans were at this point in 2012. florida, same thing. absentee votes are where republicans build up their lead and hope to keep that to win a state. you start losing those absentee votes, you ll were get killed on in-person early vote and then on election day. that s another tough climb. and playing out if the you re hillary clinton, perfect storm in the sense donald trump is in trouble, tanking in polls. republican morale crisis, fighting with state parties critical to gets this done and she s rising up, not only rising up, inherits the obama organization, very good at this. and surrogates everywhere.
in a humiliating fashion and in a way that hurts their other work in politics. even candidates who aren t really running except to the extent that they keep a suit clean in case somebody calls and asks them out. nobody is quitting. and alongside that, nobody s in a hurry to wrap this thing up. it s fascinating and it s totally different than the way it has happened in previous election cycles. usually by this time in the presidential race the states have been fighting like a bag of hornets that somebody just shook as to whose primary can be earliest. that definitely happened in 2008. remember in 2008 they were voting like while the christmas trees were still up? yes. it happened in 2008 and then it happened again in 2012. florida poised to move its presidential primary to the last day of january. the speaker of the florida state house telling nbc news he considers the 31st to be the date when florida formalizes it tomorrow. if that happens it means south carolina will move its primar
really running except to the extent that they keep a suit clean in case somebody calls and asks them out. nobody is quitting. and alongside that, nobody s in a hurry to wrap this thing up. it s fascinating and it s totally different than the way it has happened in previous election cycles. usually by this time in the presidential race the states have been fighting like a bag of hornets that somebody just shook as to whose primary can be earliest. that definitely happened in 2008. remember in 2008 they were voting like while the christmas trees were still up? yes. it happened in twas and then it happened again in 2012. florida poised to move its presidential primary to the last day of january. the speaker of the florida state house telling nbc news he xnz the 31st to be the date when florida formalizes it tomorrow. if that happens it means south carolina will move its primary date up, which means nevada will move up its caucus state which means new hampshire will move up its primary d