so zach advises not to get too excited about the early vote turnout. are either of you particularly excited to see this record-breaking turnout before election day, joan? i m always excited to see turnout, ana. i think it s a big deal. especially the millenial turnout. it s up by about 400% in all three states, florida, georgia, and texas. having said that, zach is right, sometimes democrats bank those early votes and then they get outperformed on election day. so neither side can sleep. these three states are incredibly tight. they are basically deadlocked. jack, you spent more than two decades as a republican congressman there in georgia. you won a lot of elections in that state. and in georgia right now, the early vote turnout nearly mirrors the 2016 presidential election, that s incredible of course for a midterm. the early vote among young people in particular, look at these numbers, up five times this time around compared to the 2014 midterm.
this week when he suggested that migrants that throw rocks at military service members at the border could be shot. he said he would advise military service members at the border to consider thrown rocks as firearms. he tried to clean that up yesterday, telling reporters he meant only that migrants that throw rocks at u.s. officials should be arrested, and the whole reason this part of the request was rejected in the first place is because arresting migrants is illegal for troops to do in the first place. but fred, this is all coming as the president tries to make deployment of potentially thousands of troops to the border to defend the border against a caravan of central american migrants, a focus of his midterm message to gop voters as he tries to inflame passions around immigration for election day. a partial defeat but not a complete defeat. they re still moving forward on a good part of that u.s. troops on the border plan.
he actually does run between 2 and 4% ahead of where mitt romney did. that s not what i m asking. did you ever hear him use the n word? never. absolutely not. absolutely not. look, michael cohen has become a tool of his new handlers, this is a partisan attack. i have known donald trump for 40 years. i have never heard him make a racist comment. he had many african-american friends. the white house yet to comment on the allegations coming from michael cohen. still ahead, trump takes his closing midterm argument to montana. he s set to hold a rally in a couple of hours. will his tough lines on immigration resonate in a state not along the southern border, what people there want to hear from the president next.
female employee of an oil and gas company back in the 50 s. we want to we wanted to dip in and share a little sound of that event for you in houston, texas right now. in just five days the people of missouri are going to retire far left democrat claire mccaskill. and you re going to send missouri patriot and that s what he is. he loves your state, he loves you as people. he loves his country, josh hawley, to the united states sena senate. he s a good man. he ll be a star. leland: that was thursday, president trump rallying for josh hawley in missouri. to give you an idea how important a race it is, the president will make his closing midterm arguments in missouri on monday night. no two better men to talk about this with than missouri s former g.o.p. chairman john hancock, the other side of the aisle, michael kelly, former executive