andrea. and moving on to georgia. there s so much attention on the georgia senate race. the governors race, the republican governor, brian kemp, is somewhat comfortably ahead of stacey abrams. it s warnock s big hope there will be enough ticket splitters to help him defeat walker. reporter: so warnock s campaign, they will tell you their focus is just on turnout in general. i had the chance a couple of days ago to ask warnock specifically about split ticket voters and what his message is to them in the final days. at that time, he said i think we have run a campaign that has been focused on all georgians from the beginning. that being said, they have a new attack ad that came out just in the last 24 hours where within that ad, you have a warnock approved message featuring two fairly prominent republicans here in georgia raising questions and concerns about herschel walker as a candidate. so there seems to be a subtle
when voters with saying inflation, crime are the top issues you can t ignore that. bill: washington post today by the way i think you nailed it. i encourage all viewers to check it out. dana: very good. bill: the ten most pressing questions in the mid-term elections will answer. that s the headline. i will a few of them. will republicans remain undefeated in the house? we get to that in a moment. how did the democrat-backed maga candidates do? and did ticket splitters show up in various states? point being. if you read marc s piece, this is what we ll be talking about on wednesday and thursday and friday and the days and weeks. so many fascinating questions. the last election republicans flipped 15 seats. didn t lose an incumbent. will they continue in this election here? did the democrats spent tens of millions nominating maga candidates who they thought would be poison pill candidates.
you ve got a fight that campaign within the campaign. that s the thing about campaigns, you have to kind of do it all. you have to push where you have offensive advantages and then build them out very have concerns. i agree with rich, you know, trump was what 44,000 votes and 16 is pennsylvania margin? biden under 100,000? hard to believe the sting wouldn t be that close. everyone watching this should understand, you know, it is gonna be friday saturday before we know. because this looks like it s gonna be really really tight. and there s two things, dasha talked about the ticket splitters, clearly exist in pennsylvania. so the shapiro margin is gonna be important, if that gets high enough, there s not gonna be enough tickets for mehmet oz. rich mentioned the activist in mastriano. i would be looking very carefully, i don t think it s gonna be a lot of voters. but there may be some republicans who vote for mastriano and don t vote for us. and you know, if it s ten or 20,000 people that
trump was what 44,000 votes and 16 is pennsylvania margin? biden under 100,000? hard to believe the sting wouldn t be that close. everyone watching this should understand, you know, it is gonna be friday saturday before we know. because this looks like it s gonna be really really tight. and there s two things, dasha talked about the ticket splitters, clearly exist in pennsylvania. so the shapiro margin is gonna be important, if that gets high enough, there s not gonna be enough tickets for mehmet oz. rich mentioned the activist in mastriano. i would be looking very carefully, i don t think it s gonna be a lot of voters. but there may be some republicans who vote for mastriano and don t vote for us. and you know, if it s ten or 20,000 people that can make a difference, in a race like this there s nuances are gonna be really important. let me ask you, each just a quick question here is kind of a big picture. looking about the map here when it comes to the senate, rich all start with yo
democrats spent a lot of money putting that message on the air. oz has spent a lot of money putting the message about crime on the air. and we are running into so many voters here who are splitting their tickets, who are going shapiro and oz. we don t know what s gonna happen here but it s very possible that ticket splitters are going to be a big part of the story here in pennsylvania, potentially, and other states as well steve. all right dasha burns in pennsylvania i m sure we ll see a lot of you in the next couple of days thank you for that report i appreciate it, and joining us now david, the former campaign manager and white house senior adviser to barack obama and he is an msnbc political analyst. and richard, he s also an nbc news political analysts. thanks for being with us. rachel, let s start with you, so i think this is a question that is hovered over a lot of the senate races this year where atmospheric lee, big picture, there are a lot of things working in republicans fa