for a lot more advertising. but i think the people are going to prove strong for renacci. reporter: what about the other race? diviewine has it in the bag. reporter: when you look across the map, in places like ohio, brown has a strong in-state brand. that s helping him. you re also seeing it help other democrats across the board. joe manchin, he s polling consistently ahead of the republican there. when you re seeing democrats with strong in state brands, sometimes it helps them overcome demographic shifts that have happened in their states. ohio continues to be swinging. we ll see how it swings on election night. all right. allie, thank you. let s go to garrett haake standing by for us in houston now following arguably the biggest senate race. one of the three or four biggest
senate republicans hoping to pass tax reform by the end of the year now plan to include a repeal of obamacare s individual mandate to help pay for that bill. let s go to garrett haake standing by on capitol hill. senate republicans now trying to tie health care reform to tax reform. how is that going on the hill? well, krashgs unsurprisingly democrats are furious about it. they feel like this is an 11th-hour switch on which they ve been working with. there were a handful of democrats republicans thought would go with the tax bill. that s more or less out the window since the politics of health care have been reinjected into this. democrats say this is a hail mary effort to get the mandate out of obamacare when they couldn t do it by going through the front door. republicans don t really dispute that. here s senator john kennedy and