voting tsunami continues. 57 million casting their ballots across the country. texas leads the nation with more than 8 million already voting. that is 90% of the entire vote from 2016. nice to meet you. reporter: democrat beto o rourke lost a narrow senate race in 2018, but saw a huge increase in turnout. he is now canvassing with covid restrictions to try and turn the state blue. texas could end this country s national nightmare on the night of november 3rd. reporter: biden trails by just four points in the polls. the republican governor going door-to-door himself to hold off the challenge. i work in oil and gas, so what biden and kamala harris have said is very scary. reporter: in the battleground state of florida, nearly 7 million have voted, surpassing the early vote from four years ago by 300,000. enthusiasm at a fever pitch. in orlando, a woman showed up to vote just after going into labor, refusing to go to the hospital until she filled out a ballot. i was letting
continue to see these numbers shift. and all due respect to our own poll, i would imagine that the people who think they know today how they would vote may have a different answer in a month from now. because we know it s plenty of time, a lot of time for mistakes, a lot of time for breakout movements. obviously, as i ve said before, i think the debates will be really critical for people in making up their minds. laura, one of the interesting things in the poll, take a look at this. for older democratic voters, biden is way ahead, 45%. for democratic voters under the age of 45, biden trails with 19% support. sanders is ahead with 26. there really is a huge generational divide with older people liking biden and younger people liking sanders. i think that captures perf t perfectly something that karen and vi talked about repeatedly, which is this huge can demographic gap in the democratic party. a politico poll found it when it comes to the iraq war. younger voters care more about wh