reporter: this is sort of an odd development. the border patrol says they are doing this crowd control exercise. they say it is part of their normal course of duty, simply an exercise they do to compare for any contingency. it is a predominantly hispanic neighborhood. we re in el paso, texas, it s close to the border on a railroad bridge. the aclu and other groups have said this reeks of voter intimidation to be doing any kind of large scale activity in a predominantly hispanic city like el paso. the border patrol says it s a normal course of business, it s far from polling places. beto o rourke has been asked about it. he was mostly unconcerned about this when we spoke to him about it earlier today. i m going to take a look at it myself and get a better idea of what kind of a scale of an operation it is we re talking about here. we ll let you do that. garrett haake in el paso, thank you my friend.
showed brexit might win. afterwards there was this idea the polls hadn t warned them. your new article, you talk to the authors of this new book. they basically write about the effect of fear in our politics, the title of the piece is trump is trying to scare us. here s why he s failing what did you learn? debra and james fallows have been traveling the country in the last five years in james s propeller plane going to medium sized, small cities, big cities around the country and talking to people. they didn t enjoy what would come out of it when they went out on this journey but the thing that they came away with was that despite the national political discourse, how ugly and painful things are, on the ground when you leave the national narrative and go to the state and local level, there are real things happening. people are working together. there are hopeful stories. and so what i wanted to do with the podcast today in this piece
band. if he wins it s going to be because marsha blackburn has aligned herself so closely with president trump. he came here three times again, extraordinary, three visits for marsha blackburn in a state that he won by 26 points. just to give you an idea of how much interest there is in this race and how unusual it is, the state election board has spent weeks as we watch phil bredesen leaving here, has spent weeks beefing up its website so it doesn t crash. if we have time, i d like for you as we follow him out to listen to what a couple of vo vote voters told us this morning as we talked to them about what their vote is for. take a listen. some people have called this the nastiest race in the country. i get fliers, multiple fliers every day from both sides, but more from the republican side. and that turned you off? absolutely. i have great concerns about the other candidate.
referring to presidential politics, and are you marking your x with that in mind? all of the above. i think the border wall and stuff is a bad idea, just walls don t work. i mean, berlin wall didn t work. china, great wall of china didn t work. i just think it s a bad idea. reporter: they tell us downstairs here in the library that voting has been very brisk since the doors opened this morning at 7:00. they re open here until 8:00 tonight. unlike pennsylvania that i just heard, it isn t pouring rain here, but it is kind of sprinkling a little bit. craig, on the other hand, it ain t snowing. that s true, that s true and in minnesota even this time of the year that s a win. kevin tibbles for us there in red wing. thank you. let s go to in terms of climate, the other end of the spectrum, arizona now. the senate race there, neck in neck, more than 1.5 million ballots have already been cast in that state. martha mcsally, kyrsten sinema