mississippi there s a possibility, as tight as the race is for control of the united states senate as it looks seven, eight weeks out, that there s a possibility that if it ends up in a dead heat, and then you have a special election three weeks later whoever wins mississippi will control the united states senate. that would be interesting. right now all i m doing, i can t speculate on that. we don t know what s going to happen to other races. i m keeping my head down. we re in the bushes. we re getting every vote we can. we have a turn out of the african-american. no doubt about that. also have to have enough cross over votes to compliment that and win. we re doing it in every space. joe, you were in congress. i was too. i don t like to talk about it, but go ahead. think about this. we ve been every year cochran
off against the republican but heavily favored to win his third term. the question is, she had some real strong moments. i guess the question is why didn t she run for mayor of new york? i think that would have probably been a better probably because de blasio occupies the lane she s in. andrew cuomo was going to win this race. the polling before election day had it like 40 points. came in somewhere about 30. he s got the state wire. he has for a long time. i m interested, john and i were just talking if this emboldens him and draws him into the presidential race in 2020. cynthia nixon had some strong moments. she did. coming up both barack obama and joe biden take it to president trump at an event they held yesterday. we ll play their marks and much more. hurricane florence drenching the carolina coast. right now the storm hasn t even made landfall yet.
as you talk about taking on trump agenda this state went by almost 20 foirnts donald trump in 2016. yes. what do you say to trump supporters, you re hoping to cross over and win their vote. if you re talking about going in and challenging his agenda they like what he s doing, what do you say i m not running against trump i m running for u.s. senator. i m a democrat. i acknowledge that. i caucus with democrats. i m an independent, small i. i don t care where the idea comes from. i ll pro-minute. if it comes from the administration and well meaning and not ill will i ll support it. but the reverse is true. i do not care about gender, about race, about religion, about party. i care about getting the job done. so wherever the idea emanates it makes sense i ll be there. i ve proven that in 1986, 1988, 1992 and even in the usda.
a lot of huge races in florida. you are looking at the governor race and senate race in florida, florida, florida. absolutely. puerto rico is a huge issue in the state of florida whether it is republicans or democrats or in central florida. when you see rick scott coming out and when you see paul ryan coming out and when you see, of course, the governor of puerto rico who s really trying his best to be as positive towards the president through this whole process everyone thoun though t president is it is causing the republican of the state of florida discomfort. that s a central issue with the governor s race coming up snoch. they re americans. thaey re going to vote.
race is going well? going well. we re very pleased. people like george will came. we met at a restaurant. wrote a column and he quoted william faulkner and said illusions are really just as powerful and just as real as bones or blood. so many people will get mississippi a democrat from mississippi an african-american from mississippi san illusion but george will according to william faulkner illusions is just as real as bones and blood. we ll get enough votes to win. failing that there s a runoff three weeks later and i got polling, recent polling that shows that we ll do very well on november 6th. if we don t get that 50% plus one we ll move on and show we re beating the incumbent. either way i win. that s what s so interesting. one of the reasons we re here in