and they will continue. britt hume, great to have you with us, thank you. the martin luther king holiday simony democratic presidential hopefuls trying to gin up enthusiasm and media coverage. one of them so the day to say she is all in for 2020. peter doocy has that story tonight. reporter: another day another announcement, this time, kamala harris, the third senator into the race, when the campaign trail is open, even of the government is virtually shutdown. federal government employees and contractors are not ponds in a political game. all 3 senators officially running for president are women. kirsten gillibrand with women s march, first in the nation caucus state. the primary state hosted two essential candidates for martin luther king jr. day rally, cory booker. this is the moment in america where we don t celebrate king gaps policy, we recommit
the unknown is similar to 2016. whether there is this other cohort of voters who haven t shown up in polls or don t look as enthusiastic on the surface as they actually are. even if they are, they are still willing to show up to the polls which is what trump is counting on. whether there is a blue wave or not, democrats are heading in with a lot of enthusiasm. that s what you see the president trying to address. he wanted to be on the campaign trail and his schedule, ohio, missouri, indiana. those were states that were once the typical toss upstates. they want to get to those who vote in elections and they are his base voters in 2016. he is trying to gin up enthusiasm. there is a price for that in that the republicans are facing the greatest risk in the places that are doing the best. the defining number in this poll
the end, gin up enthusiasm. the idea if this had gone the other way, it probably won t, if this didn t look the way it did now, it would have been mass. the psychology of actually losing versus. the other way to look at it is like the first act of the walking dead and the zombies come and don t get in then but then in three months, the zombies get into your cave. it may just be staving off the inevitable. i m just former republican congressman, you ran. having to deal with donald trump a little bit. if you were running right now as a republican just trying to survive, in terms of what s the strategy you try to employ? you can t survive a 50-50 district. one of the take-aways from balderson s race is interesting. he was not fully in with donald trump. he occasionally said the right things.
greater than the republican growth in turnout. what that builds up to is a likely wave. we don t know if it will be across the board. but the more interesting thing to me i guess from last night is that republicans find themselves in a little bit of a box. on the one hand, donald trump s incredible unpopularity has hurt the party politically obviously. but on the other hand, they desperately need him to turnout his voters. and so after last night he can conceivably say, you know what, my visit on saturday to delaware county helped gin up enthusiasm enough i was able to save the republican candidate in the race. i think he can make that argument even though the republican race shouldn t have been that close to begin with. what that means is republican candidates in difficult districts will be left with an impossible choice. do i latch onto the president or do i not? and i don t know if there s really great answers there. we have two strategists at the table. what do they do? it s re
your most recent conversation has been talking a lot about what they are seeing in the early vote among latinos. they are feeling bullish about tuesday because they are seeing so many young latinos turn out. they really are trying to gin up enthusiasm among the younger, minority populations. earlier on in the campaign, that part of the obama coalition was moving slowly behind hillary clinton. that s been a huge focus the last couple weeks and are hoping beyonce and jay-z concerts will help with that as well. donald trump said last night, j-lo, jay-z, he doesn t have them. it doesn t matter. look at the crowds that show up. they are in wilmington, north carolina. what is it about north carolina that is in play the way it is? north carolina went for obama in 08, mccain in 2012. it really is a swing state.