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olay ainsley: with less than 24 hours until polls open, it s a tight race for the next governor of florida. president trump rallying for ron desantis this weekend as the latest real clear politics average puts progressive mayor andrew gillum ahead by under 3 points. steve: joining us right now with reaction on a busy campaign morning on this monday, ron desantis. congressman, good morning to you. thanks for joining us from jacksonville. good morning. steve: we have heard so much about the early vote down in florida. there have been so many people lined up for hours to vote early. you combine that with the absentee ballots requested, what can you tell about the party demographics about who has already voted? well, republicans, we have done better in that than we have ever done. i mean, when the president won florida in 2016, republicans were down significantly going into election day. now, we always win election
there s your big thing for democrats. ainsley: candidates do better with the fear? brian: do better with the fear. there is no control at the beard. nobody seems to care. ainsley: democrats say healthcare, healthcare. brian: that s what people fear. if people fear their economic success is going away not sure people feel that. ainsley: the races are very close. go and vote tomorrow if you want your voice heard. brian: one number is beyond reproach. president trump in 2015 had 40% approval with republicans. it s now 89. that s how much power he has on the stump. he is galvanized the party. steve: well, we will know exactly how galvanized the parties are wednesday morning. ainsley: correct. steve: on this monday morning, jillian has the news. jillian: that s right. and we are starting with a fox news alert now. the trump administration unleashing the toughest sanctions ever on iran overnight. the move coming hours after protesters took to the streets in the middle eastern country to burn
day, but this time we were able, with the absentee and early and i don t have the final data, but we are either ahead or investor close going to election day and today on monday, the panhandle still has early voting because of the storm. so you are going to have republicans rack up some more votes today and here s the thing. we have a lot of our super voters as republicans will not vote early or absentee. they want to vote on election day. and so i think the momentum is on our side i don t think we could have asked for a better turnout for republicans for male and early voting. and we know we are going to get a good turn out on election day. ainsley: average of all the polls, real clear politics have gillum your opponent ahead by not much a margin of error. what s your reaction. if the poll is saying there is going to be a democratic wave. we know that s not true because republican turnout is very strong you to look at how they are doing it some of these polls say 40%
as big as 2016, but you know what? in a way he may be right. here s why. yes, the enthusiasm is there. there s no doubt about it in terms of 2018. the asterisk here is that he isn t on the ballot. yes his agenda is on the ballot and all that but he is not. we know there is a book called from drew weston, the political brain, talks about people vote with their heart, not with heir they head. and they vote for the candidate themselves. if trump is not on that ballot. the question is will it make a difference? it could at the margins, we will see. ainsley: i know you work for cbn the evangelical base. let s talk about that. most important issue for many of them was the supreme court issue. the kavanaugh effect we heard about that. that was a few weeks ago now. will people have forgotten about that will evangelicals get out to vote. the sense is they will. the question is how much. here s the deal. the statistic 26% of the electorate in midterm, made up of evangelicals. 26%. can they be