nobody sent them back but if you did send them back and have it postmarked by monday that will still be counted. some of these will still be counted. some of these are also military. but in the end are we talking about a scenario where o connor laps balderson? probably not but a triggered recount that s what we re waiting on. you know what i m looking at there, 52.2, 49.3 and 1% to manchik. is this an alert to green party guys saying hey guys, imagine if that 1% went to o connor. you d be looking at 50.3 for balderson. give us a look on the ground there. reporter: may, stephanie, for there are a combination of overtime and halftime in the race. steve talked about the idea they re still counting ballots here. the democratic candidate danny
in the areas and did poorly in the near suburbs. in this case the district is more a suburban district and our candidate is from the rural area. so it sort of stacks up really well for them. having said all of that, i think balderson will win this thing. there was a very divided republican primary, 500 votes separated the two. i think there s been a little bit more coming together because the folks who were sort of anti-balderson were trump people. trump coming there will hopefully consolidate and pull this off. i think it s a risky strategy because as the senator was saying it is a suburban area but also an area where you have college educated voters and those are the voters trump is doing the worst with and particularly women. i think the district is just a little bit like 50.3% women. and i certainly think that a rally like where probably a lot
the areas den did poorly in the near suburbs. in this case the district is more a suburb ban district and our candidate is from the rural area. so it sort of stacks up really well for them. having said all of that, i think balderson will win this thing. there was a very divided republican primary, 500 votes separated the two. i think there s been a little bit more coming together because the folks who were sort of anti-balderson were trump people. trump coming there will hopefully consolidate and pull this off. i think it s a risky strategy because as the senator was saying it is a suburban area but also an area where you have college educated voters and those are the voters trump is doing the worst with and particularly women. i think the district is just a little bit like 50.3% women. and i certainly think that a rally like where probably a lot people who were there may not be
with the e.u., they ve been unable to. we were able to do this. that is key. if you believe the term strategy is ultimately low tariffs in dealing with china s unfair trade practices, they are doing these high tariffs as a way to get to low tariffs. so the question really is, are you okay with china s system of stealing intellectual property, their state control of so many businesses, unfair barriers, or do you want to change the situation? if you want to change the situation, trump is trying this sort of risky tariff approach which you are not hearing a lot of suggestions from people who don t like it. bret: in the meantime, the realclearpolitics average of the president s job approval on the economy is approved. 50.3% disapprove, 42.4%, 7.9 spread there, average of recent polls. i mean, people are feeling pretty good about what he s doing on the economy. that is why i don t think china will make any kind of concession before the midterm election. because as that chinese
the national democratic party was hoping brad ashford former congressman from this district would win this. he was challenged from the left by kara eastman and just in the last few minutes, a final batch of votes came in putting eastman ahead of ash ford. it appears critically 50.3%. 49.7% the trigger for recount is 0.5. half a percent. it looks like if this is 100% reporting eastman could be outside that window and could be the democratic nominee. this interesting because national democrats thought maybe she s too progressive for this district. that will be a test. she s running on single payer. this is going to be a test. obama won a electoral vote there in 2008. this is where that is. so that will be an interesting test. and numbers in idaho here. gubernatorial part any raul labrador running behind in the