of in the uk. and so i wonder if we re going to see those kind of staggering numbers today. jackie, you write about the youth vote and donald trump s approval rating among young voters is i think 26%. but young voters need to be motivated by what they re for as much as what they re against. do you see specific campaigns and candidates that have done a better job than others at putting out both the positive and the negative message? well, not to spend too much time talking about this beto race because it s already gotten its fair share of media attention, but i think what s been also really special and interesting about this race in texas is that beto has sort of eclipsed this partisan rancor and focused on largely the positive and i think at a time of such partisanship, that has been especially attractive to people, you know, as you said, florida governor andrew gillum has been really attractive to younger voters. yes, i want to get yes, candidates matter, but i want to
battleground governorship. donald trump is going to wake up tomorrow with a completely blue governorship and try to run for re-election. all right, you re going to text me when that happens. we ll mark that point if that happens tonight. all right. robert costa, thank you for spending time with us again today. when we come back, donald trump s fake election scandal, how his reckless and unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud are targeting the very voters who just might swing the midterms against the gop. and what one publication is today calling the midwest massacre. matt miller previewing that for you. we ll bring you that reporting and show you who might be out of a job. and we go to the hottest races of the cycle. beto versus cruz. gillum versus desantis. and abe rarams versus kemp. all those stories still coming up. well, here s to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck. that s when you know, it s half-was
the issues beyond the names and the personalities. that it s about really the issues that are on the ballot. especially things like gun violence and these unfortunately, these shooting sprees and these massacres have really activated young people to get out there. jim messina, this was something your campaign did better than i d seen it done before. young people were very inspired by president obama. that wasn t surprising. but they actually went out and voted for him, which they don t always do. i mean no. i think young voters have some solve the lof the lowest ts in the country. yeah. what are you seeing, first of all how did you do that and what does beto replicate that might throw this into a tossup? ten years ago, president obama became president of the united states. we were talking about it during the break of lines of two miles of all these people waiting to vote for barack obama. when i saw the beto lines today, they looked like those kinds of lines.
obviously is a 77-year-old woman, but i think the people making the biggest difference here are voters under 30. and, you know, people have largely written off this beto race. yes, it was attracting a lot of media attention, but gop operatives were pretty confident that cruz was going to win this race by double digits. those operatives have quieted, though, in recent days as the early voting numbers have come in showing that the race actually could be poised to be the most diverse and young electorate voting in a midterm ever. and the epicenter of that being coming out of this beto race in texas. and, you know, even outside of these personality politics, beto obviously has been a very captivating personality that has drawn a lot of young people to become civically engaged and involved, but even outside of that, we spoke with jacqueline koren, one of the founders of march for our lives, a parkland studenting w student. who said that young people are understanding that it s about
he voted this morning in el paso. he s a superstar there. listen to how 77-year-old pamela aguirre described him. reporter: you were here when beto came to cast his vote and you told me this was very emotional for you. why? well, because i wasn t expecting it and because we think he s pretty important and we re honored that he was here. reporter: why is he so important? because he represents everything that donald trump isn t. reporter: you re so proud. what will it feel like if you see him win this race tonight? everything. just everything. we want him to win. and we ll be watching the tv tonight with him. he ll be someplace in the city. but it will mean just so much. it will mean that, by gosh, we all still have a chance to have