this race. part of it is that really big states like california and texas have moved up their primaries to earlier than we ve ever seen them in recent years, so that means the campaigns will start to spend money in those states which is hugely expensive endeavor, much earlier than they have in the past. you need a lot of money but in a big field as we ve been talking about, you need to stand out and show strength and viability. no one wants to bet on a loser an one of the best ways to show early strength is to put up some big numbers in the beginning. she enters this race with more money at the moment than anyone else. any of the other potential 2020 candidates. she has about, yeah, you said $50 million. $12.5 million left over in her account from 2018. that s more than anybody else. she has a large e-mail fund raising list and also able to raise money from more conventional means. at the same time, bernie sanders raised a ton of money online. he has the kind of gold standard e-mail li
looking forward, cruz will continue to rely on star power and touting his record. seems to be working. most polls show him ahead while congressman o rourke continue to shatter the fund-raising records, raking in the dough. $38 million to be exact in the last quarter alone. he s been crisscrossing texas and will continue to do so, shepard, as we enter the final stretch here. shepard: thanks. president trump denied that he would not accept blame in the gop loses control of the house of representatives. the a.p. released the transcript with the president yesterday. when reporters asked if he would take the blame for republican losses, the president said no. i think i m helping people. i m 48-1 in the primaries. it s much higher than that. i endorsed a lot of people that were successful that people don t even talk about. many of those 48, as you know, were people that had no chance in some cases.
strategist, tharon johnson, and noelle nikpour. to you first, ken. it seems to me the scale of money here off the charts for a midterm but also the idea that this was raised online. i remember the novelty days of howard dean doing this online. obviously barack obama had great success. is this the new model for politics, it s not so much about these high-end fund-raisers, it s about going viral and collecting $20 a pop? well, yes, steve. we re seeing like a real sort of divergence here between these two fund-raising models. on the one hand you have democrats raising just a ton of money online, breaking fund-raising records. on the other hand we see republicans seeking to offset the democratic advantage in small donor enthusiasm by relying increasingly on super pacs and extremely wealthy donors giving huge sums to super
republican senator ted cruz will debate his democratic challenger, representative beto o rourke. and what is easily one of the marquis midterm races in the country comes on the heels of a brand-new cnn poll that shows cruz has a seven-point lead over o rourke, despite o rourke breaking fund-raising records and bringing in more than triple what cruz did in the third quarter. let s talk about it with the experts. are republicans happy, seven-point lead, three weeks out? is that good enough? they re happy about that and also happy about the fact that democrats are spending apparently $38 million in a race that their overwhelmingly likely to lose. and look, it isn t just the money that it s going to be the determining factor. obviously, if it were, o rourke would win. but to rely they re relying on a new texas that has, you know, a lot of minority voters who are going to turn out. they haven t yet in off-year elections. you know, minority voters just don t seem to get to the polls in o
speaking of a bunch of money, texas senator ted cruz s democratic opponent breaking fund-raising records. beto o rourke, that campaign has raised $38.1 million in the third quarter of 2018. that is three times the amount that cruz received in the same period. o rourke tweeted about the milestone highlighting the amount of unique contributions his no pac campaign has raised. the latest quinnipiac poll has o rourke trailing cruz by nine points. 54-45. the first lady in a rare interview talking about her husband s alleged affairs and where her concern lies now. plus, some jarring video of a homeowner shooting at a teenager who knocked on his door to ask for directions. where s gary? saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico. goin up the country.