is what s going to happen. we don t know. maybe the democratic challenger gets out the vote. he said it is all about getting out the vote on the day. four years ago i wouldn t have been so hesitant. now every third graph is if gellis is right and they do get out the vote. to your point on credibility look at this polling from 2016 to 2018 there is an increase, an improvement in people trusting or believing the press is trying to get it right. that is from a record low in 2016. it ticked up to 46% this year. still a low number but to your point we can improve our credibility try to make those numbers go up or they can drop either further depending on how the press is careful in assessing this election. one more element to this before we take a break. that s the celebrity factor. oprah winfrey campaigning in georgia, taylor swift endorsing tts in tennessee. it is going to be i think one of
the storylines on tuesday is whether those celebrity endorsements matter that much. any sense about that? democrats have to contend with the celebrity factor that donald trump brings to the campaign trail. he was the ultimate celebrity in to 16. and he was able to make democrats who voted for barack obama cross over into the republican party. i think you see democrats like oprah winfrey, taylor swift and others trying to bring the democrats back into the tent the ones who crossed over. and trump still has his celebrity status he brings onto the campaign. i think we will see tuesday if those efforts will work, but that s what those efforts, to face trump s celebrity in 2016 and continues now in 2018. this is the first election since the women s march, since the harvey weinstein scandal,
reaching such extraordinary levels. laura: both side are accusing the other of ramping up rhetoric for political reasons. niger what vice-president pence said today. reacting to what oprah did in georgia. let s watch. i would like to remind stacy and oprah and will farrell, i will kind of a big deal too. this ain t hollywood. this is georgia. [cheers and applause]. laura: how much star power? oprah had an effect if 2008 and turned out voters for barack obama no doubt about it. the economy now is doing well. in 2008 it wasn t. the great economic statistics yesterday with raising wages. did the celebrity factor work
nd that s why you see this rhetoric reaching such extraordinary levels. laura: both side are accusing the other of ramping up rhetoric for political reasons. i want to go to what vice president pence said today, kind of reacting to what oprah did in georgia. let s watch. i would like to remind stacy and oprah and will farrell, i am kind of a big deal, too. this ain t hollywood. this is georgia. [cheers and applause]. laura: how much star power? i mean, oprah did have an effect in 2008. she really turned out some voters for barack obama, there s no doubt about it. but the economy is doing well. in 2008 it wasn t. the great economic statistics yesterday with raising wages. so, niger, does the celebrity
860 volunteer offices. that will help texas going forward in the long run but certainly help him. the celebrity factor is interesting, too. certainly bernie sanders who i covered in 2016 had that with millennials. treated him like a famous person like they were meeting kim kardashian as opposed to their run of the mill senator or politician. that seems to be at work here. i m wondering if that s a quality democrats won t be looking for as they try to take on donald trump. trump himself is a celebrity, of course. there s the adage that democrats want to fall in love with their candidates and they did with barack obama and bernie sanders. and to have beto o rourke, a senate candidate doing that now is remarkable. he s getting celebrities in l.a., donors in new york, people all over the country who are just excited about him and think he s cool and want to hang out with him. but that s not texas. he needs votes in texas. but you mentioned the rock concert. i talked to the lead singer