i just don t like the fact it s this close. to be fair, we don t really know how close it is. the polls haven t been closed to show what the effects are in. just making a lot of little mistakes and seeming unsure of herself during the debate, which is not what you want to see. and normally that s totally fine because the republicans have such an advantage in the state. the only reason ware talking about this are the dual tail winds of a her comments and b the elections. it s really hard to see how the democrats pull this off. it would be i mean it would be far more shocking than the dramatic wins of the democrats on the house. speaking of those wins for democrats on the house side, as of earlier today democrats led republicans in the cumulative house popular vote nationally by
let s come back to the map. you want to look, pull back out florida. let s switch over to the senate. you sigh the map starting to fill in. you see this is florida. tightening. you can change the names and you d have a very close race. what do we have? 51%-49%. 92,000 votes. healthy lead. you re happy to have it in a state like florida, that can change. the question is, can it change? so you were talking about this with jake. we have to wait. these are generally republican areas. we have nothing. polls haven t closed there yet. right, nothing out here yet. we re waiting for the top of the hour. we ll start to see results come in. this, if you re in the republican campaign quarters, when the polls close, you already have input from your field operations. you know who you turned out today. for the republican candidates whether it s the senate race or the competitive governors race, that needs to fill in red. let s just take a look right here. how this duvall county, used to be a
close and pretty quick. right now the polls haven t an absolute toss-up. this will be a nail-biter, it will be a long night, but if you are looking at the trendline the way things were moving, they need stomach seem to be shifted in her direction toward the end of the campaign. martha: austin, what you think the trump factor is here? look, there s no way this district will ever be competitive for democrats if at this point in his presence he donald trump didn t have the lowest approval rating in the history of presidential polling. this is a district that the democrats really had no business winning, maybe someday in the future, but they ve lost this district by 25-40 points except for the one year they couldn t even get a kennedy and they lost by 99 points. i think republicans in the senate especially and all around the house have absolutely one eye on this race because if a democrat could actually won in a district like this, i think
personality can overcome. they create the sense of victimhood. victimhood say they are foreigners and people who are victimizing us. it comes down to this huge personality that s needed by extraordinary means. a lot of people saw a big difference in what he said a few days ago about keeping muslim people out of country. that was nonsense. it doesn t affect the polls. the polls haven t shown any change. probably helped. that s something the white house is pointed out too. in the past the white house has not commented on the things that
it doesn t affect the polls. the polls haven t shown any change. probably helped. that s something the white house is pointed out too. in the past the white house has not commented on the things that trump or any of the republicans have said. this week you saw stark change from the obama administration. you had white house press secretary hitting him really hard. netanyahu hitting him. yeah. saying no thank, i reject this proposal. all these candidates coming out against this proposal distancing themselves. supporting trump now is to make a statement in support of what he s been saying. i don t think you can say i like him except for this.