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00:03:02elections in the United States, what
00:03:15clave, los datos de la votación y lo
00:04:13in Iowa and then also here in Solina Kansas that he's been out
00:04:16barnstorming for the last month trying to get Republican voters to
00:04:20turn out and prevent both the house and the senate from going democratic
00:04:24here in the next couple days. Trump here pleading
00:04:28how bad do you have to be for a over and over again saying pretend that I time on the ballot, if you voted for me in
00:04:312024, come out again, vote for
00:04:34republicans. now the fact that Trump is finishing up this
00:04:37rally, this rally schedule in these red
00:04:41states says something about just the situation that Republicans find
00:04:44themselves in. Kansas, for example, has not sent a
00:04:47Democrat to the Senate since 1932, that's nearly 100
00:04:51years, they have decent chance at doing it here, the
00:04:54polls showing the race between Roger Marshall, the incoming senator,
00:04:58Adam Hamilton. the democrat neck and neck, and
00:05:02that's why Trump is here last minute, just trying to turn out the
00:05:06kinds of voters, low propensity voters who may be frustrated by the
00:05:09Iran war and by the economy, but trying
00:05:12to remind them of the stakes here of de potential
00:05:16democratic turnover takeover uh so we'll
00:05:19see in a couple days whether that works out, but again Trump
00:05:23really having to come through and put all this effort in in these red
00:05:26states that used to be just kind of easy republican strongholds.
00:05:30Jessica all right uh Adam Kinkrin in Kansas for us
00:05:34thank you so much for that. Let's go now to Texas, we've got new
00:05:37polling in that race with the New York Times and Sienna showing Democratic
00:05:41senate Senate candidate J. Hello Rico leading Republican Ken
00:05:44packs in their 50 to 43%.
00:05:47That's another traditionally red state that he's turned into a
00:05:51surprise battleground in these midterm elections and CNN's Jeff Zelleny is joining
00:05:55us now live from San Antonio. Jeff, we
00:05:58heard from Talo Rico tonight at his final campaign event of the
00:06:01weekend, Texas has been a white whale for democrats for
00:06:04many, many cycles and so many people are
00:06:08wondering if if this is is the time when they
00:06:11are able to... flip it, what was Tallo Rico saying?
00:06:15Jessica, that is really just the central question of this, our
00:06:18democrats uh really uh putting their hopes in something
00:06:22more uh concrete than before, and of course uh talking
00:06:25to uh so many of them here at this campaign rally that just ended a short
00:06:29time ago here uh they do believe that their hope is well placed and they
00:06:33um point to these things, I mean about 7.8 million
00:06:36voters have already voted in Texas through early
00:06:39voting, democrats feel very good about those numbers of course lot. day numbers
00:06:43a traditionally benefit Republicans, so we cannot read too much
00:06:46into this, but the enthusiasm and the energy is so
00:06:50clear on the Democratic side, the size of the
00:06:52rallies, uh, etc., but in the closing days of
00:06:56this campaign, James Talorica was also latching to something else. It's
00:07:00the money that's been flooding into this uh campaign from Elon Musk.
00:07:03He hit hard on that theme this evening.
00:07:07Ken Packson is funded by one
00:07:11dude. Elon Musk wants our
00:07:14land, he wants our water, he wants our
00:07:18tax dollars, he wants his very own personal
00:07:22United States Senator, he is trying to buy
00:07:25Texas, but on November 3rd, we're going to
00:07:28deliver a crystal clear message to the world's first trillionaire,
00:07:32Texas is not for
00:07:33sale,
00:07:38look, the corruption message has been a central one of the midterm.
00:07:42election race here in Texas and elsewhere, but in the final days of this race, Tallo
00:07:46Rico is uh really uh honing in on the the corruption message, but
00:07:50also with the fact that Elon Musk is spending so
00:07:53much money on this race, so it's an open question how much that will
00:07:57will resonate, but there is some worry among Republicans, as
00:08:01we've been talking with Republicans as well here, a senator
00:08:04Ted Cruz just a couple days ago, he had some dire warnings for
00:08:08Republicans about that they need to show up, they need to increase
00:08:12their... enthusiasm, so Jessica, this race,
00:08:15Texas is not used to being a battleground, certainly in a mid-term
00:08:18election, a campaign, it absolutely is, so we will
00:08:21see how the next 36 or so hours uh play out
00:08:25before those polls open on Tuesday morning. I now Jeff Zellen, you're in the middle
00:08:28of it all uh coming to us from San Antonio, thank you so much for
00:08:31that. And be sure to join us on Tuesday for Election Night in
00:08:35America. Our coverage starts at 5 pm Eastern on CNN or streaming live
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00:08:42come. Here, Alaska's legal battle over the Dansullavans. A judge
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00:08:52loses. CNN's Kiung Law is there to talk to voters who say they're
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00:14:02A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from the Trump Justice Department that sought to set
00:14:06aside some ballots and delay certification of Alaska's Senate
00:14:09race that controversy stemming from the allegation Alaska Democrats tried to
00:14:13confuse voters by recruiting a senate candidate with the same
00:14:17name as the Republican incumbant. The Democrat
00:14:20candidate in that race Mary Paltola denies the allegations,
00:14:23incumbent Senator David
00:14:26said he would accept the results no matter
00:14:27what?
00:14:30are you only going to accept the election results if you
00:14:32win?
00:14:36no, I'm going to accept the election
00:14:37results.
00:14:40CNN's Kuang Law is there on the ground in Alaska and has
00:14:43this? well Jess, the people here at this
00:14:47particular early polling place say that they
00:14:50are absolutely paying attention to what's happening. almost
00:14:53everyone here knows. about the legal back and forth, but it
00:14:57certainly isn't manifesting anyone not showing up to the
00:15:01polls. Take a look, this is the early voting spot, you see
00:15:04the line extends all the way down the hallway, it actually wraps
00:15:07around that way, and then we're going to just pivot over this
00:15:11way, it has been this long all day, we've been here four days in a row
00:15:15now, and each day it's gotten longer as we
00:15:18get to election day, so it's hard to predict
00:15:22what it's going to look like day by day, um and and as
00:15:25there's more news and you can see it going all the way around this
00:15:28way, as you stop and talk to people, they'll say they want
00:15:32their vote to matter. they are aware of the two dans
00:15:36on the ballot. and if there was some sort of
00:15:39delay in certification, I want you to listen to what this one voter told
00:15:43me, it scares the dickens out of me,
00:15:45I'm that frightens me desperately,
00:15:49um, and I get nervous about the long-term um
00:15:52effect on our country, if that's the if that's the case, but that means for elections around the
00:15:55country, so yeah, and what would that mean if it did
00:15:59happen? I mean to me that means that um
00:16:03uh no one's vote is, no one's vote matters so...
00:16:07It's not just Alaska for these voters that's on the
00:16:11ballot and their voice, they really feel like the
00:16:14difference this year for them is that the entire nation
00:16:18is watching this time, that there is a statement about democracy
00:16:21being made, and that's a sentiment that we're hearing from the people who
00:16:25are independent voters, non-partisans,
00:16:28republicans as well as registered democrats, and as
00:16:31we get to the very front of the polling place, I'm going to sweesen over
00:16:34here, this is... where they hope their
00:16:38vote will matter and that it is
00:16:41counted at the end of the day, just right, kuong
00:16:45law there from anchorage, thank you so much for that reporting. okay, we've
00:16:49got a whole new set of polls out late this evening, the New
00:16:52York Times polling showing democrats leading republicans in five of the
00:16:56seven key senate races in Michigan,
00:16:59democratic nominee Abdul El Sayed, leading Republican nominee Mike Rogers
00:17:03by 11. In Texas, the Democrat James Talorico has seven point.
00:17:07point edge over Republican Kin Paxton, in
00:17:11Maine, Ohio, and Kansas, the lead narrows, as you see there, but it is
00:17:14still outside the margin of error for those for those
00:17:17polls, and uh, there is no clear
00:17:20leader in those Alaska and Iowa contests. Our panel is back
00:17:24now, I'm saying all that because that's kind of last data point we are getting
00:17:27before we head into the actual election week. Sure, Michael,
00:17:31I'll start with you, if you're going off of of that,
00:17:35which we can, we can also talk.
00:17:39I want to make clear for the record I have not, that's fair, if you, but if you
00:17:42were, that would suggest, I i think it's fair to say if you're just you know kind of looking
00:17:46at those trend lines that you'd that you'd rather be democrat than a republican
00:17:50heading into Tuesday, but I think you might disagree with that bas
00:17:53on what you're saying, of course I disagree, there's no way we're going to lose
00:17:57Maine, I don't think we're going to lose in Texas, look, these races are certainly
00:18:00more competitive because of the enthusiasm gaps for my friends on the other
00:18:04side, I will acknowledge that, this is not an ideal environment.
00:18:07environment uh for Republicans, but when you start looking at
00:18:10just some of the structural advantages in places like Texas where you have a Republican
00:18:14governor with 92% approval among all registered Republican voters, I'm
00:18:18somehow led to believe that they'll vote for him, but not the
00:18:21Republican who's running for senate. I i just find that hard to believe. Look at
00:18:25Maine, democrats have counted Susan Collins out time and time again,
00:18:28she's continued to excel and win all of those races. I don't believe the
00:18:32voters in main will vote for Troy Jackson over Susan Collins. I
00:18:35mean, some of these things just don't seem really. realistic to me, I think Dims may win
00:18:39seat or two, maybe even three if I'm being generous, but five or
00:18:42six, which I know Bakari believes, I just don't see it, uh, yeah, I
00:18:46mean, I, I do think Democrats are going to have a good day, but but
00:18:49listen, I if Polles mattered, Hillary Clinton would be
00:18:53president of the United States or would have won in 2016, right, we would have been wearing
00:18:57our all white, we would have been in the jabvet center watching the glass fall
00:19:00down, um, and that that's not the case, what I will say is is you have to like
00:19:04turn the page on the polls, not just taking the early voting data, but turn the
00:19:07page and in Texas for example, it it's the perfect
00:19:10storm for democrats to win, the polling shows that
00:19:14Talorico's been above 50% for the last two or three weeks, which is hard for democrat
00:19:18in the south as someone who's run statewide, and 50 is an
00:19:21important number when you're looking at that, but but he also doesn't need
00:19:2450, which brings me to my second point, because democrats you have to
00:19:28have one, a piss poor candidate on the republican side which can paxon
00:19:31is, you have to have an environment which is favorable, which we have right now, and
00:19:35then you have to have a third-party candidate which... was able to siphon a little bit so you can
00:19:39possibly win with 48-49% of the vote,
00:19:42that's what gives Talo Rico a chance, that's what actually puts some of these other states in the south, it's
00:19:46a crazy strategy though, the be relying on these random third party candidates, mean it's the only
00:19:50strategy we have in the south right now, well the other thing that happens in texas,
00:19:53we can't i mean sir michael, the reality here is paxon is a
00:19:57really bad candidate, mean he's one of the most corrupt, he's one of the
00:20:00most i'm not saying he's the ideal person here,
00:20:05republican legislator? legislature to impeach you right,
00:20:09like they went after him in the republican legislature, so um the only reason
00:20:13he's there is because donald trump got him there, i know
00:20:15lot of republicans who are in the state who were corn voters who are trying to
00:20:19organize against Pakistan, this is kind of our on our
00:20:22fighting right, the George W. Bush wing of the party versus the Donald
00:20:26Trump wing of the party going at each other, democrats are just there to kind of pick up
00:20:29the pieces, hold themselves together, win the Latino votes that Donald Trump has
00:20:33offended over the last 18 months and bring them back to the democratic fall.
00:20:37and see what they can do on election day. I also think it's really important though to to remember
00:20:41that Donald Trump spent lot of time in Texas, he was talking about, he's like, "I'm here twice
00:20:45in one day, cuz I love you Texas so much because you've elected me so
00:20:49many times." but he's out there and there's a reason he's there and it's because
00:20:53voter turnout and it's because they know that it's so close now that
00:20:56poll that we just saw, I'm not so sure that it's right, but it
00:21:00is so so close and what the president has done,
00:21:04he's gone back to these states and reminded his his
00:21:07base what's at stake, so lot of people have heard
00:21:10ter that he's so great, you know he's a minister, he's
00:21:14all of these great things, the conservative could get behind him, look at the bushes are getting behind
00:21:18him, whatever, and he's going. in there and he's like, I'm going to play this video that's going to make you remind
00:21:22what's at stake here, we're going to talk about socialism, he talk about some of the mistakes made, other kinds of things and
00:21:26people are getting out there and voting. Texas is a hard state
00:21:29for democrats to win, and that's why the president was there, and I don't think that we should
00:21:33underestimate that, and I think the polls are underestimate that we we want the
00:21:36president to go lot of places and the crazy part about we
00:21:39being the democrat, yeah, I mean, I heard Tim Scott give one of the best closing
00:21:43messages ever today this morning on TV. Tim, Tim Scott literally
00:21:47said that we are running on Trump's agenda, please got. God, let
00:21:50let's run on Trump Trump's agenda for the last two years. The fact is,
00:21:54I, Donald Trump is going to Kansas, Donald Trump is
00:21:57going to Texas. You know where he's not going, North Carolina,
00:22:00Georgia, Michigan, he's not going to New Hampshire, he's not going to Maine, he's
00:22:04not going to Alaska, he's not going to campaign in Wisconsin in
00:22:07Guvernatorial races or Nevada in, because he can't go
00:22:10there, because we're races, he did go to Michigan and Alaska, but but
00:22:14but your points did, I mean he he can't go to these
00:22:17places because he's an albatrost. so he has to
00:22:20go in ruby red areas where all he can do is juice turn out, he
00:22:24is not convincing anybody else to come out and vote for me or my agent that turn
00:22:28out, but that turnout may help some of those republicans, like when he went
00:22:31to south carolina, citidal pole and had some results that came out that
00:22:35suggested that republicans were far more responsive after
00:22:39the president's visit, that makes a difference with car in the Kansas and in
00:22:43Ohio, in a Texas, we were a week out for an
00:22:46election, the guys may win two by two or three points, we were a week out for election in the world. that did
00:22:50the heavy lifting in that sentence was the president was in South Carolina,
00:22:54do you realize the fact that the president is campaigning in South
00:22:57Carolina, it's badly absurd, go ahead, I will say
00:23:01this, I will say this, the one thing about Donald Trump is that we can't underras, he's done the
00:23:05hardest thing there is to do in baseball twice, he won the white house right, and so
00:23:08anybody who's won the white house I have great respect for because they clearly have some
00:23:12political ability, what I know about Trump is that he's
00:23:16crazy, but maybe crazy like fox, and I think that he has some
00:23:19sense of what... out there in the electorate to go after that all democrats should pay
00:23:23attention to, because now when you really understand how you data target
00:23:26people, he is clearly going after some part of the
00:23:29electorate, trying to move them, and he knows if he can talk to them in
00:23:33these very discrete ways that the rest of us don't see because it's not in our
00:23:36algorithm, he's making content that goes at them, and i just don't
00:23:40know who he's going after and what kind of turn out he'll get from them, but i think it's
00:23:43probably just to hold the bottom up and not necessarily to win states
00:23:47that are democratic leaning, but just... some place you can save as many people
00:23:51as possible so it's not a complete, but that's that's important for helping us keep the
00:23:55majority in the senate though, right? because if you can take Ohio,
00:23:58Kansas, Texas, bakari off of that. I mean, I'm not s on
00:24:02Texas, you can't, you can't get to five or six seats that are necessary for you guys to gain
00:24:06control, it's just not there, but maybe it's not even about winning control, maybe it's just
00:24:09about like helping a congressional race or helping some state legislators, but to your point,
00:24:13Jamal, I do think that Donald Trump, and I think most people who've watched this since he came
00:24:17down the escalator 10, 11 years ago... Donald Trump is more like
00:24:21ticket master than anything else, I mean he's he's really non-transferable
00:24:24right? we what we see about Donald Trump is that what he
00:24:28has, no one else is able to duplicate, that's true, we have
00:24:31we have we have seen other people try to come in and coop the megabase, look at that, well
00:24:35let's go home,
00:24:37transferrable, except the big issue here is voter turn out, and
00:24:41republicans were not going to go anywhere, they're going to sit on the couch, if
00:24:45you asked me this six weeks ago, I would have said democrats are going to run away with it, this is
00:24:49going to be really really... bad for Republicans, the fact that Donald Trump has been out there
00:24:52zigzagging across the country to places to your point are unexpected and you're surprised
00:24:56to see him, actually says I think it's going to be harder for democrats to have the big
00:25:00big huge night that ever was talking about than they will keep those, we got to stop the
00:25:04bleeding, that's that's the purpose of this, and I think it's an interesting theory, most
00:25:08presidents when the polling numbers are this low, they're saying at the white house, no one
00:25:11wants them out there, or Trump is saying, I'm willing to bet these vulnerable
00:25:15Republicans or in competitive races will get a boost by a 2%,
00:25:193% turn. from my base and I think he's mathematically correct, well there's one president who
00:25:23has been out there, his name was Barack Obama, and Barack Obama has been in all of these states
00:25:26doing the same thing, but he's been, but he's been in Michigan right, he's been in Georgia, he's
00:25:30been in these places and he's juicing turnout in these neighborhoods that people are are talking
00:25:34about, he's Barack Obama actually went to Ohio right to campaign with
00:25:38Sherry Brown, and so we're seeing these things happen, and well
00:25:42look, I am not someone who believes that that Democrats are going to have like this
00:25:46tsunami right, I do think we'll have a good night and we're going to have a good night down b like
00:25:50in places like South Carolina, we have an opportunity to break a super majority in the state
00:25:53legislature, to the people watching that may not mean a whole lot, but to
00:25:57South Carolinans, that means well in local communities those things matter lot,
00:26:00those things matter, and so and... and even you're giving some hope to places because you have
00:26:04polls that come out and show where you're competitive in Louisiana, are we going
00:26:08to win Louisiana? that's a whole another conversation, are you going to win Mississippi? but
00:26:12at least the same polls that we're looking at say that maybe on November 3rd
00:26:16right, or the day after the election, if we begin to organize and build
00:26:19infrastructure, Stacy Abrahams type of playbook, maybe we can actually
00:26:23transform you guys doing that, I mean despite the
00:26:27environment for my party, Republicans are still competitive,
00:26:30if this was 6-10 years ago. you look at this map and say there's no way in the world these
00:26:34guys would have fighting chance and we do because of some of the vulnerabilities and
00:26:38risks that democrats currently still have. all right, stay with us, we've got more to
00:26:42discuss. uh, as we've been talking about just just right now,
00:26:46is this blue wave potentially real? is it not coming up?
00:26:49we're going to tell you what experts are watching for when the polls close Tuesday
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