the story here, this is one we ve seen before. in the early vote democrats got everything they could have hoped for here. the early vote s about half the vote here in north carolina in this district. the democrats overperformed in just about everywhere in the early vote. but this is interesting in terms of the same day vote, the guys who decided to go out and cast ballots today in the republican bastion here. i can show you union county. this is about a third of the district. dan bishop getting 60% with all the vote counted here. the republican last year got 59. so he improved there. in the rural areas, eastern part of the district, bishop really significa significant significantly improved in terms of the election day vote. it does raise the question, lawrence, the president was there in the district last night with that rally. is that the reason perhaps bishop had that same-day voter explosion? steve, thank you very much. we will come back to you as soon as there s more to report.
numbers start big, they come down, they go up and down. his have been in a very tight trading range and it shows that people s minds about him is made up are made up. but their minds about whoever the fill-in-the-blank democrat, that s up in the air and he s got to make it a choice. one of the most important aspects of it being a referendum on donald trump if that s what it turns out to be is the vote for third-party candidates could evaporate because that voter in wisconsin who cast a vote for jill stein probably won t be doing that this time if that voter is much more concerned with stopping donald trump. no, that s absolutely true and it fits into a historic pattern. when you ve had elections where a third-party candidate arguably made the difference, in the next election, very few people vote for third-party candidates. i mean, the desire to well, i m not going to throw away my vote. that was true after 92 with ross perot, it was true in 2000 with ralph nader. you know, th
voting age to 16. now you have the speak or your side. yes, my first amendment i proposed for hr one. we proposed for the chairman, jim mcgovern there and we earned 126 votes on the record in support of lowering the voting age. i was very proud to have john lewis cast a vote in the affirmative for that and to learn today that our speaker is supportive. we advanced the debate and the conversation. this is as many people as we have been able to get on the record and on the issue. we weren t able to get it includ included, we will get on that. when it was lowered from 21 to 18, if you can draft men at 18 and send them off to vietnam too die, they should have a right to vote. it was a powerful moral argument. what s the argument to push it to 16? it s appropriate that it was
the 44 ex-senators write in the op-ed quote at other critical moments in our history when constitutional crises have threatened our foundations, it is the senate that stood in the defense of democracy. we urge current and future senators to be steadfast and zealous guardians of our democracy to ensure partisanship or self interest not replace national interest. the list of senators has 32 democrats and 10 republicans and 2 independents. maine republican senator susan collins who cast a vote in favor of brett kavanaugh s supreme court confirmation says she is vindicated by his vote over planned parenthood. collins says justice kavanaugh joined with the liberal members of the court. the clinics offer preventive care like birth control and cancer screenings to low-income women.
is the senate that stood in the defense of democracy. we urge current and future senators to be steadfast and zealous guardians of our democracy to ensure partisanship not replace national interest. the list of senators has 32 democrats and 10 republicans and 2 independents. maine republican senator susan collins who cast a vote in favor of brett kavanaugh s supreme court confirmation says she is vindicated by his vote over planned parenthood. collins says justice kavanaugh joined with the liberal members of the court. the clinics offer preventive care like birth control and cancer screenings to low-income women. it shows what i said about him all along and his respect for precedent and he has shown it early. so progressives who supported kavanaugh says collins thinks confidence is misplaced.