adversaries. the president has been unable, he started, 46 in the election, at 39 in our poll today despite a booming economy. come on. a moderately well trained chimp in this economy would be at 55 or 65. let s not compare any humans to chimps. i m just saying, our president should be at 50, 60%. let s all rise above this. democrats should learn, president is giving us the field of the future of hope, of unity, of positive agenda, and andrew gill gillum, beto o rourke, stacey abrams, are running much more positive campaigns. you have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. they kept up and responded. the debates, the one jake tapper moderated, it was a wonderful debate, and it was lively. they went toe to toe on policy. and on issues that matter to voters. so you have to be able to respond. you have to be able to hit back. but you have to be able to do it
all right. there you re looking at a shot, not the best shot, but andrew gillum, the florida democratic candidate for governor there, is voting. this is at a polling station in tallahassee, florida. this is a race that the country put a lot of attention on, but also the president has talked a lot about this race. i think he s going to make remarks to reporters in a bit. we ll bring that to you. this is him voting. candidates know every vote counts. it s a message from a lot of folks. get out there, exercise your right. joining us, jackie kucinich. ana navarro, paul begala, and steve. steve, there s a fair amount of doom and gloom privately on the republican side and some positive expectations among democrats. listen, polls could be wrong. we have seen that before. how do you feel this morning for the republican party?
but listen. and i don t want to talk about 2020. it makes me go like this, but that s going to be one of the challenges. you can wait until tomorrow morning. that s going to be the challenge of the democrat that eventually rises up through the massive field of candidates, to bring the democrats. i m curious how you feel, steve, when you see that message there. would you have preferred the president to stand on the podium and brag about what he has every reason to brag about. historically low unemployment, and say to some degree what you heard gillum there, i want to be the president for red states and blue states? right, well look. two things, yes, first, i think he should emphasize the economy more. absolutely. we got a jobs report this last friday that our campaign practically wrote that report, that s what you would think. that s how stellar it is, and by the way, vastly different and better than the slow growth of the obama years. i would have been trumpeting that nonstop t
andrew gillum. that s right, and president trump had endorsed gillum s republican opponent, congressman ron desantis in the primary, there was a lot of controversy around that decision, given that this is one time considered a very winnable race for republicans, and there was some thinking in the party that perhaps desantis primary opponent could have been a better match against gillum. this is just one of the many races the president will be watching closely today. we re told by press secretary sarah sanders that the president will be making calls today, keeping tabs on the house, senate, and gubernatorial contest. we re also told the president is likely to stop by the war room his political team has set up to keep tabs on voting throughout the day, and then later the president will be inviting friends and family into the white house residence to watch the election results. there s no clear answer yet on whether the president will make some kind of statement or appearance tonight o
me, ron desantis, or a progressive democrat. that word scares me. i m a republican. the word progressive scares me. i thought about it a lot. and look, unless you have been living in the international space station for two years, you know i don t like donald trump. therefore, i don t like his mini me either. hold that thought. let s listen in to the guy you voted for. that is andrew gillum after he voted. in tallahassee. i voted for you. all right. my wife also voted for me. but we re extremely excited. this has been a long journey. 21 months moving across the state of florida. talking to everybody that we can meet. even as late as yesterday in the panhandle of the state, talking to folks that are part of the state that a lot of folks don t think might go my way, but that s okay because what i want folks over there to know, including in the deepest red areas is i want to be their governor too. and in order for that to be true, you have to go there, you have to hear from people, t