one thing those in florida governor s race and senate race. retirees have more to democrats than the g.o.p. for the first time in decades that does not look good especially in a retiring community like florida for the republicans. steve: we just talked to griff about this. the early voting down in florida has been historic. and when you look at the historical trends across the united states, four years ago. ainsley: that s amazing. look at that. steve: 20.2 million did the early voting. and as of this morning. they are estimating that close to double that number, 36 million have early voted. in axios this morning. they say donald trump has made voting great again. records shattered. it s the only bipartisan show in town. both sides are energized. the republicans are all about immigration and the democrats have made it all about healthcare. brian: in florida early voting at 4.1 million. floridians 3.1. got extra million. by the way they ran out of ballots in miami yesterday.
hands of the u.s. voters. what are they thinking on this election morning? ainsley: todd piro live at the spinning wheel diner in lebanon, new jersey where the race for the senate is now a toss-up. it s a deep blue state it could go red though, right, todd? todd: it is a wild race, guys. typically a blue state. could it go red? let s ask the people. who here has already voted? [cheers] who here is about to go vote once we are done here. [cheers] some people have voted twice. but that s okay. we begin with terry. terry is our resident comedian. when i asked her who she is voting for in menendez, hugin race. she said and i quote she is voting for bob hugin because he has a better criminal history. why did you say that? i said it because i need to highlight that menendez is a disease. it s commented and only tear new jersey down further. we are going to be we are going to really fall apart as a country because new jersey is not contributing as always. if you are led by people
their own security, personally. yet, when it comes to our country, some people want to let people just walk into our country. i mean, we don t have a country without borders. we just don t have property without a fence. fences make good neighbors. i lock my door at night. todd: i have never heard jersey people that succinct with their words. i am one. i can say that we will have bob hugin here later on. we will talk with him about the big race. quite frankly the biggest day in his political career. back to you. steve: todd piro live in lebanon, new jersey. my daughter sally just voted. jason chaffetz former chairman of the houseover sight committee. author of the book called the deep state. let s talk about the state of the race. where are we? there is going to be an election today. and we are going to have some winners. it s fascinating. donald trump, i m amazed by his energy. he is everywhere. i think the candidates, they embrace the trump agenda and
this is the line at this hour. it s been pretty steady since people were allowed to come line up. several political analysts have called the race here in the first district a real toss-up. it could go either ways. voters will decide all over the state. analysts say voter enthusiasm will decide this race. which side is more motivated to actually get to the polls to vote. that s the key in the first district. incumbent brian fitzpatrick is a self-described moderate republican. he has led most recent polls by a small margin in the districts which include part of montgomery county here. wallace, his opponent, a multimillionaire philanthropist born in bucks county but spent most of his life in south africa running his family s foundation. he has tried over and ove over steve: all right. so democrats have a small registration edge in bucks county which makes up a large portion of the first district. voters split the tickets here back in 2016. the county supported
arlington, virginia outside of washington, d.c. brian: voters making a choice that could reshape the future of our country. that s all. the balance of power is at stake. and we re tracking all the critical races live from fox square and across america because we re right in the middle of america, if you look at a map. we are talking to voters in diners all morning long. todd piro is in lebanon, new jersey. pete hegseth is not. he is in fort worth, texas. but, first, griff jenkins is live in lakeland, florida. is he our favorite at the moment so we are going to him first. [laughter] griff: good morning, guys. you know, we are taking talkingt this governor race and senate race. probably the most closely watched in the nation. a little bit of talk about florida football. we will get to that later. i want to start with shirley. i have a loft veterans and guys here. finally shirley come in. you have a rough crowd of guys here. i do. but they are all great guys. and they would stand up and