democrats gubernatorial candidates a little higher, it s helping to push the democrat most likely to win the primary today to take on ted cruz in the senate race. i talked to a lot of democrats in suburban houston who really think he at the top of the ticket will he will some of these congressional races in places democrats think they might be able to pick up seats because some of these are sort of traditional bush republicans who have really turned against president trump. going to be fascinating. fascinating returns tonight in texas. thanks so much, garrett haake. thank you, rick tyler and ron klain. coming up, spy stories. riveting new details about the man behind the trump dossier. stay with us.
in our pal garrett haake, who is in a polling station in houston because it is election day. we all love election day. garrett, you are in your home state of texas. we are talking about turnout, talking about democrats running in more congressional districts than they have ever even fielded before because they are hoping that the activism that we have seen in other special elections will translate to what has always been a red state. reporter: yeah, that s right. you are seeing this sort of rising tide mentality here, kind of like we saw in virginia where democrats had all these candidates running in state level races, but they hadn t always contested before. then all of a sudden they started winning some of those races. you are seeing the same thing happening here in texas, where democrats have fielded candidates in every one of texas congressional districts, for the first time that anybody can remember. that s drawing out democratic voters in places where there may not be a ton of
are even at this hour days later, still trapped in their homes. we don t often, however get a picture of exactly what s going on inside those homes unless somebody happens to be with a foe to go fer. she normally document the trouble spots across the globe like iraq and afghanistan but this week it was a disaster in her own home. she was back here at home. she was visiting her mom here in suburban houston, and harvey came to pay a visit. and erin joins us now. you are often in disaster zones of one kind or another, but you came home to visit you were not expecting what you encountered this week. tell under the circumstances what was unfolding. right. yeah. i was home visiting my mom and sister just for a short trip.
a view from above, it is dry in houston although chilly. you might be able to tell from my teeth chattering. in the stadium for the game will be played it does have a retractable roof should things turn wet tomorrow for the big game. the meteorologist an update on tomorrow with how things are looking for those looking in houston. a good news for you, you will will be warming up for your sunday forecast. you ll be tracking a couple of showers moving through east texas. you may see rain tomorrow. all of the details coming up in my full forecast after the break soon learned that one of our ancestors was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didn t know about. anyone ever have occasional constipation,diarrhea, gas or bloating? she does. she does. help defend against those digestive issues.
i don t see why we even need to worry about it. thanks to harry reid, the one thing that he did in his career, he created this nuclear option. so i don t think that anybody is worried that gorsuch is not going to get in. leyland: not worried at all? no, i think that the democrats, unfortunately, have opted to be the party of anger, and protest, and so they re going to kick and scream because they don t have the votes and think what can we do to gin up our base so don t lose face with our people. we are going to kick and scream and drag our heels. you can do that, but there s no way it can be effective. leyland: all right. appreciate you being here, sir. we ll have you come back and talk and get a sense in terms of not only what the evangelicals are doing about this and the johnson amendment. that s huge. leyland: it certainly will be. thank you, enjoy houston. thank you. leyland: you re not here for the super bowl, but fun anyway. that s right.