time getting a response is on twitter. the responses to the conversation we have had continued support in. that's it for us. we will see you tonight. "outnumbered" starts right now. ♪ >> harris: the excitement is building now as voters head to the polls across the nation in today's high-stakes midterm elections. we are covering it from all angleses, people. you are watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today, melissa francis. cohost of benson and harp on fox news radio, marie harf. joining us for the first time together -- [laughter] anchor of special report, bret baier. anchor of the story with martha maccallum, martha maccallum is here! great to have you! >> martha: great to be here!

>> harris: we are where you are going to be later. this is awesome. i can't wait to get all of your thoughts, get the conversation flowing. thanks. >> bret: i brought in a prop. this is a study book for the midterms. it's like a phone book for a decent size -- it has all the -- >> harris: wait a minute -- [laughter] you seriously know all the stuff. you and i sat outside before this, before the severe weather moved in. and forces back in. we sat outside and i set up "let's talk with the house, nobody's talking about that." and you took out a primer from inside your brain. >> bret: ended, specific ones. i can't turn to a page and do it. california 21. you know who's running? [laughter] >> harris: wow! b3 i am not familiar, are you?

they fall into two tall subcategories. we are really focused on those top subcategories, following those. there's lot of people. running for congress. that's what is going to make this so fascinating, i think. we think about -- with this morning, when i woke up, about how all these candidates are across the country appeared people have been working for them so hard across the past year. today's the the day. butterflies across the country. i have never seen the kind of excitement and intensity. honestly, it really does trickle down from one person. on both sides of the bench. love it or hate it, it's all about -- >> harris: it's like my wedding day, but with better hair and makeup. [laughter] the current pace of early voting is a record for a midterm, with more than 38 million votes already cast in advance. only time will tell if the record pace polls for in person voting today, as well. check and see if there is a line near you.

congress hangs in the balance. most of the focuses on the house. all 435 house seats are being contested today. democrats would need to gain at least 23 seats to take the majority. republicans are hoping they can hold that off and keep the house. vice president mike pence says he is optimistic that the g.o.p. will actually do that, while the chairman of the house democrats campaign arm says his party is going to take it. >> i believe that the republicans will grow our majority in the united states senate, and we will hold the house of representatives. working with this president, republicans are majorities have deliver the results we promised the american people. >> i am confident that democrats will win back the majority in the u.s. house of representatives. i think the american people, they want us to be working together. they want us to be reaching across the aisle and finding a way to come together for the greater good of america. that's what we are running on. >> harris: all right, let's get to it. we were listening to martha kind of talk about that intensity in

the house. what are you watching? >> bret: you will see it early on. there are some races we talked about yesterday, when the polls -- >> harris: kentucky six? >> bret: in kentucky and indiana. a couple races will be bellwether spray to mention kentucky six, indiana 2. it will tell a story early. whether it translates to the rest of the country, we don't know. look at all the early votes already. 36 million plus come in three states, arizona, nevada, and texas, they have already passed their entire 2014 totals. this is early votes and election day vote in those three states, just by the early vote, before we got to today. >> harris: i was reading, martha, that we could see 2016-type levels, particularly in arizona. >> martha: if possible. i think it goes back to president trump. since the resist movement started, the day after the election, that side of the aisle has been so animated.

obviously, people on the president's side are extremely fired up, as well. one of the things i'm going to be watching with regard to this early vote, though, is whether or not people are just voting earlier because 30 states now have early voting. every time we have an election, the number goes up in terms of where that option is available. we are talking about how we live in such a nondemand society now. people want to do something when they want to do it. they don't necessarily want to wait for that day. for other people, particularly older people, they want the experience of walking into the voting booth and during that period which i think we all loves to do. not everybody can do it this te days. >> harris: marie, i wonder, too, if the talk of voter suppression in some areas -- particularly in places like georgia where that has been a hot button topic. i wonder if that has driven up people to vote earlier, to make sure that vote is secured. don't want to figure out what is going happen with ids and whatnot. some places are putting in some pretty hefty roadblocks. it's reported.

>> marie: i think that's probably true, harris. i can't underscore enough what martha just said -- democrats have been waiting for the stay for two years. enthusiasm to cast a vote against president trump, i cannot express in words how much democrats have been waiting for this. >> harris: why didn't they do that in 2016? >> marie: there's a whole lot of reasons we talked about why enough of them didn't. pull can be misleading in unexpected ways. when we can encounter that is expand the map. when you look at the map, the fact of their are competitive in places like kansas come in places like texas, some of these races -- and states and distric, places like alaska. >> harris: and virginia, we will look for some bellwether. >> marie: bellwethers in virginia, bellwethers in pennsylvania prayed indiana, kentucky, ohio. there are places democrats have not fielded a good respectable candidate who can actually win in many, many generations. this year, they did.

that may come out well for them. >> bret: the democrats did a good job recruiting candidates across country. many of them are former military. they are all kinds of -- >> harris: that's one that we are thinking of. the >> bret: i think they are well positioned with money and with "get out the vote" and intensity. it's just a matter of today. >> melissa: i'm really struck by how different the town's this morning, versus two years ago. walking around the building, how humbled people are by what happened last time. how unexpected it was. the conversations i had at the bottom of the elevator bank in the morning of that 2016 election, where people told me what was going to happen and they couldn't have been more wrong. i think a lot of people have taken that lesson home. they are more humble with their predictions this morning, and they really know that there is a lot we don't know because people keep what they do private. like you said, i don't know how much we trust the polls. i think it's not at all. >> harris: i saw you nod. [laughs] >> melissa: in the meantime, there are 35 senate seats up for

grabs today with republicans currently holding a 2-seat majority. president trump has been making a big push for g.o.p. senate candidates in the final days of the campaign. while he has said today's election is not a referendum on him, he also says that he is "kind of on the ballot." in missouri last night at a rally for republican senate candidate josh hawley, president trump appeared to take credit with the high interest in today's contest. watch. speak of the midterm elections used to be boring, didn't they? do you even remember what they were? people say midterms, they say "what is that?" now it's like the hottest thing. [laughter] >> harris: i was laughing at bret. >> melissa: the presence true and could have an opposite effect of the race. watch this. >> there are a lot of president trump supporters that he can motivate. but there's also a lot of people that him being here motivates to

vote for me. [applause] i'm not sure which side of that comes out ahead. which motivation is stronger. speak to you guys have been through a lot of elections. the midterms, he said they are usually kind of boring. this one isn't. that's what we were laughing about. do you want to do that little impression, their? >> bret: i love the speeches where he discover something in the speech. [laughter] >> harris: can you give us a flavor? >> bret: they are really boring. that's true. they are so boring. that's absolutely true. he finds it and he's like "that's absolutely true." >> harris: this is the bret we know and love. [laughter] >> it makes the midterms more interesting for him. he figures that he's the center of it. he's paying attention more than he did before he was a politician. >> marie: absolutely. he has doubled and tripled down

and holding these senate races. in a narrow handful of states. i think he is basically calculating that he is not going help in the house. he will probably hurt. he asked focused on these really narrow sets of -- >> harris: by the speaker of the weekend, and a reported phone call. >> marie: the big question for a lot of us is how he will impact governors races. where they have their own brand, state politics are often very different the national politics prayed that will be interesting. if he wins or loses, he will take credit for the good, i predict, and to ignore the bad. that's very trumpian. >> melissa: that's not what he says. listen. >> i think it's the same everywhere else. in indiana it's a lot about the candidate. if they want to give me the credit or the liability, i will be willing to take it. we have a great group of candidates, and mike braun is right at the top. >> melissa: he says he's willing to take the liability. what do you think? >> harris: the one thing that president trump -- and he knows this about himself -- is that

when he lands, with all of the creature month ago without landing -- air force one, when you see that on the tarmac. when he stayed in ohio, one of the three he did yesterday. what he's bringing is a student brand of energy. he comes with something that it seems like nobody has as much of as he. he announced "i'm going to go out on six and seven day stretches to help people campaign!" i'm sure the surrogate secret , their brain is breaking of how they could keep up with him. if he manages to drive all those people he sees come all the people they know, to the polls, he changes the dynamics. we don't know if it will change the vote totals in terms of who wins, but i definitely helps infuse energy and participation into the voting process. that's the net positive. >> melissa: martha, it's staggering how much energy he has. >> martha: you look at this -- we know that he doesn't really

take a lot of time off. he goes on a vacation, he states for maybe one day, then he starts working again. he's a person who loves to work. he works mostly through the weekends. this is fun for him. he's been doing this nonstop over the course of the last several days, several weeks, really. it's fascinating. when i saw president obama come out the last few days, day three, he has lost his voice. i'm thinking "this is a very -- >> harris: we want to go to missouri there, see the bright blue suit in the center of the screen, that is senator claire mccaskill, the incumbent in that race. she is having a hard time, really, since the kavanaugh battle. we saw some things and certain races across the country. this is one of them. claire mccaskill is struggling against the attorney general there. i see you nodding, what are you thinking? >> she was probably a senator who it hit the hardest, if i had to quantify. something she said and that could be played a few minutes ago was correct. donald trump fires up his base.

he also really fires of democrats. >> bret: but, you know what? when i went to enter view in missouri, she said she was 100%. if you wanted to move troops. that's not where her party's. they are saying it's a joke, this whole thing is made of. that's the message from top democrats. she's absolutely the other side of that. she is shifting, obviously, to try and get elected in a state that voted overwhelmingly for trump. >> harris: the question is, is a genuine? we saw the same thing from kyrsten sinema just yesterday. "i'm okay with putting troops at the border." if we are seeing democrats do that, is this a different kind of wave? by the way, i'm guessing she voted for herself. at that election. [laughter] >> marie: that's a safe bet. i think people like claire mccaskill and others are testing the notion that a moderate democrat can win at some of the states that a very pro-trump. i think she is pretty moderate on some issues. heidi heitkamp is as well.

she's very pro-gun. >> bret: she voted 80% of the time with chuck schumer, 67% of the time with elizabeth warren, 66% of the time of bernie sanders. you can call that moderate, but it is voting with -- >> martha: that's a much than many democrats. >> harris: i'm going to read your book! >> marie: it's all about where you're running come as you said. >> martha: claire mccaskill has had a good way of weaving with she -- she is very good at getting reelected. she very well may get reelected this time around. when you see north dakota and indiana, and you look at missouri, those three senators in very tight races right now. they all voted no on kavanaugh. that is the thing that -- >> marie: and they all might win. >> martha: they might, they could win, they could lose. >> harris: by the way, that information was on page 169. by bret baier! there we go. keep it right here all day. >> melissa: for up to the moment election coverage, 6:00 p.m. eastern. martha and bret will take the helm for special coverage. the polls will start closing,

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republican congresswoman martha mcsally under a lot of pressure. not to let this open red seed turn blue. >> we are still neck and neck right now, which is totally -- like it, it seems ridiculous to a lot of people. it just go to show you, tens of millions dollars part in the campaign, they know how important it is for the country. >> the democrat, congress woman kyrsten sinema, has between photos of her last days on the campaign trail. she's part of that massive "get out the vote" push around the country. for her to win, she will need moderate republican women to crossover along with the support of independence. on twitter, she wrote "we are so close to winning this election and giving every day arizonans the boys in the u.s. senate. to everyone who was knocked on the door, called difference her neighbors, and chipped in a contribution to our campaign, thank you. now let's go win." here are the earlier turn ballot numbers -- 1.59 million ballots

and nearly 42% are by republicans. democrats at about 34%, and unaffiliated at 24%. democrats say if you combine those with the unaffiliated, they have a shot. they believe they are getting that independent vote. a couple of things, harris, to watch for today -- a big push by older conservative voters in arizona who have a tradition of showing up on election day. that will be met by that "get out the vote" effort by the democrats if that wins. i heard you talking about this earlier, how all of the early ballot returns have already surpassed all the voting in 2014. the secretary of state office said it's unofficial until after the numbers have come in. they are trending to meeting or surpassing 2016. that's where that percent of the arizona voters voted. harris? >> harris: wow, that's amazing. to add to the mix, alicia, both of them showed up at the asu a game over the weekend.

it makes sang the national anthem and you have participation as well. they've been looking at at the middle the lineal's, as well. >> they really need that younger vote, both of them. martha mcsally often tells people that she won her 2014 seats by 167 votes. when she says every vote counts, she knows it personally. >> harris: i always great to see you. thank you. ringing the sunshine there, and bringing it here. martha and bret. what do you think about the tightness in a red state? jeff flake -- that scene he's retiring from, he is a different sort of a republican. although he votes up north of 90% of the time with president trump. >> bret: obviously, he has spoken out numerous times about president trump arrayed against him. some of the policies. think about john mccain, also stood up against his party numerous times.

i think arizona is one of these states where it has been tougher democrats, but there is a lot of mobilization. kyrsten sinema, there is a lot of democratic "get out the vote." she has a lot of money. it will be a close race. this will be one of the tighter races. just recently come at the green party candidate got out and endorsed cinema. not that she needs it, because she's trying to be a moderate. >> harris: and they give a talking point to the right, too, because those are sinema's roots. she came from the green party. that was splitting the vote, now they are back together again. what you think about the president waiting until the last of the primary season to really hype up much about representative mcsally? she wanted against dr. kelly ward. that was the tough primary for her. >> martha: she said she has owens been supportive of the president, but she was definitely in the lukewarm and tepid category for a long time. she said she supports the president very wholeheartedly. it's just one other interesting

point about looking at arizona, sinema comes from maricopa county. she comes from the more conservative base. mcsally comes from the tucson area, the more democratic area, largely come of the state. that also is probably impacting the tightness of this race, here, because those are the areas where these candidates have become so familiar to their home constituents. it has also been the first woman, no matter how you slice it, to be a senator from arizona. i agree with bret, in terms of the jeff flake/john mccain. it's a mavericky fan, he continues to be so. >> harris: i don't know when that'll happen, may be now. in columbia, missouri we saw previously claire mccaskill voting. this is josh hawley, republican challenger. he's the attorney general of the state. kirkwood missouri, i know the state well because i lived there. you have some interesting things to add in to what's going on in

missouri, bret. >> bret: if i'm not mistaken, they don't have early voting there. >> harris: so it should be a crowded day. >> bret: they have absentee ballots, but this is a state where the "show me" state needs to show on election day. >> melissa: i would ask you, marie -- when alicia was breaking it down and shout about the never feel voting early, which party they were from -- she talked about the independence independents and they said democrats would pick them up. i think about the people i know who are not affiliated with the party. not because i work at a new station, because i don't feel like i gel with any party in particular. why do people assume that the independents are going to go with the democrats? >> marie: this is a state that has not elected a democratic senator in 30 years. all of the polling -- and i know we are all nervous about polls, but all of the data we have seen over the past two years is that independent or less have been moving in general away from the republican trump partied toward the democrats.

the data points could be wrong, but those of the transfer of the last couple years. what's interesting is that kyrsten sinema has had a lot of opposition from a really nasty stuff. some her own fault, by the way, thrown at her in the past month. the fact that the rates on election day is still neck and neck, that she survived videos of her in a 22, talking about people joining the taliban. she has had to deal with a lot of nasty taxpayer they are still neck and neck. in a state like arizona? that's interesting. >> bret: by the way, confirmed. they have no early voting. [laughter] >> harris: it's the fox news briefing book, edited by bret baier. [laughter] we are fearing the polls. at fox news, we're doing some indifferent. we are not doing exit polling. we are doing election previous, during, and post to find out how people voted, y. canvassing 125,000 people, our decision team. that's a different look than asking somebody coming out with their sticker "how did you vote?" as we found out in 2016, they may not always tell you how or

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>> melissa: the midterms are about more than just the house and senate, of course. there are also gubernatorial races across the country with 36 seats up for grabs. it could change the g.o.p.'s current 17-see an advantage. one of the most closely watched contests is in georgia. democrat stacey abrams is running against republican secretary of state brian kemp, who come on sunday, accused democrats of attempting election hacking. he wants an investigation into the state democratic party. both candidates laying the groundwork to take their battle into overtime. if neither side secures more than 50% of the vote. a tight race, also shaping up in florida. trump supported former congressman ron desantis is facing off against tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. that you are trading harsh barbs in the run-up to today's vote. maureen

>> the candidate hoping to become florida six governor, now is the big election day waiting game. both men are voting this morning. both the mic both men are done campaigning. here in tallahassee, andrew gillum exited the car to cheers from his supporters. he, his left, three young kids all went inside the polling precinct together, hoping to make history. mayor gillam is a progressive letter bowl prowling promising health care for all. raising the corporate tax rate to invest into education, and is endorsed by senator bernie sanders. he has had big energetic crowds including this "bring it home" rally here in tallahassee last night. that had p diddy and others. >> i think winning tonight will send a message to mr. trump and mr. desantis, as well. but the politics of hatred and division, of separation, they come to an end. at least in the selection, that's what we're going to show. people are going out and they are voting for something and not

against. >> republicans former 3-term congressman ron desantis made his vote south of jacksonville, along with his wife and their young kids. desantis is a conservative low-tax trump supported, promising to keep florida's economy humming. he made a comment after voting, but here he is yesterday. >> this is a significantly higher turnout the 2014. we are already seeing it with republicans. our thing is, we have identified the voters we need. we are trying to turn them out. we want to do that after event. we will get more democrats then gillum will get republican vote votes. >> this seat is open today because current governor, republican rick scott, is termed out. that's why he is challenging 3-term incumbent senator bill nelson, the other big race on this ballot. i say this could be a historic election in the gubernatorial

race because, if gillum does win, he will become florida's first black governor in the southern most of the deep south states. as with the last two gubernatorial elections, florida is a huge toss-up. we all know that. rick scott won the first time by 1%. he won the second time by 1%. we will see what tonight unfolds. it is officially a toss-up. back to you. >> melissa: you are in the place to be. thank you for that. let me start with you -- andrew gillum has been a big surprise. he is a magnetic figure. you can see. i'm in economics grow. to me, it's amazing to me when people vote against their own economic best interest. no matter where you lie on the spectrum in florida, when the government sucks more than $1 billion out of the economy, that's better for everyone. he raises wages, it raises the prices of everything for everyone. it doesn't matter where you are, it's going to be tough on that state that has been a haven for businesses where they go. people are looking at a lot of other things.

>> bret: health care, he has run a lot on health care. in florida, that's a big issue for a lot of folks. all over the country it is. it has effectively turns at issue around. remember, 2010, republicans were elected on the issue of health care and obamacare. it wasn't working. now it is coming around, and it is owned by the administration. i think that's why his success -- look of us. i looked at these numbers. no g.o.p. gubernatorial candidate is leading outside the margin of error. florida, georgia, pennsylvania, ohio, minnesota, michigan, wisconsin, iowa, and nevada. that's a long string where, if the g.o.p. loses some of those states, it makes a big difference heading into 2020 in the reelection by the president. >> martha: absolutely. those will have such big implications in terms of redistricting, potentially come in the states. i thought it was very interesting, ron desantis is making an argument that some

democrats will cross over and vote for him. what we see, not all states give you an indication of the divide politically of the early voting. florida does. the democrats are turning out in larger numbers than republicans in early voting in florida. he believes he is going to get some of those crossover votes. the other thing i would mention is that you were talking about independence before. we are seeing an increase in the number of people who have no party affiliation. this independent group is becoming more and more interesting all the time. i think part of that was the result of the 2016 election. >> marie: that list you read, you can add some states to that. democrat could take as many as ten governor's mansion's back tonight. the fact that 35 governors in this country have veto power over congressional maps, when we redistrict after 2020, that will matter. pay attention here. >> melissa: a better set race comes to an end today in new jersey. can republicans unseat bob menendez? after some very negative messaging from both sides?

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♪ >> marie: one of the most bitter senate races in the country will be decided by voters in new jersey just down the street today. and commit incumbent democrat trying to hold off. accusing menendez of being untrustworthy and corrupt. after the corruption trial of this year ended a mistrial. meantime, menendez said he will be an ally of president trump, who wasn't popular in the state. david lee miller is live in union city, new jersey for us. david? >> marie, the so-called "battle of the bobs" is starting to wind down. on one side, as amended, bob menendez, his opponent is republican bob hugin. they both grew up here in union

city, new jersey. only about a mile or so apart. the ideological divide between the two of them is much greater. although menendez is corruption trial last year ended in a mistrial, he was reprimanded for accepting gifts. bob hugin's that entered the race because he considered menendez to be unworthy of being a senator. bob hugin, a retired pharmaceutical executive, linked menendez to underaged prostitutes. an allocation for which he was never charged. he defended those ads, which menendez has called unfair and nothing but lies. >> $40 million of negative advertising. of the worst, most salacious, false advertising. >> if they thought it was something inappropriate, they would have sent us a cease and desist letter. i stand -- the facts of the

facts. >> he has his own vulnerability in this race. his close association with president trump in a predominantly blue state. although bob hugin is a trump delegate and donated to the campaign, he now describes himself as a different kind of republican in an effort to distance himself from the president. menendez, meanwhile, is portraying himself as the anti-trump candidate. some democrats say that alone might be enough of a reason to give menendez a third term as a u.s. senator. back to you. >> marie: david lee miller, on the ground in new jersey for us today. thank you very much. martha, we were talking in the break about these insane ads. many of you have seen them living in washington. i have not seen them. they've been pretty crazy and nasty. >> martha: generally, races in new jersey get almost no attention because it is a very blue state. every once in a while, a candidate comes along who looks potentially like they could win, from the republican side.

bob hugin certainly has tightened this race. a million dollars subtracted from chuck schumer, his pact tod help them in this race. when loosing aspect is that we haven't really seen the big guns come in to help bob menendez. it said that he attends press events with cory booker. that's not exactly -- is he going to answer questions? it's very under the radar. i think the democrats are just kind of hanging back, seeing what happens above menendez. they are definitely not rushing to defend him. >> harris: isaac is more on purpose than that. some of the ads running -- for those of us who live in jersey, i've watch things pretaped to avoid some of the ads because it's so crazy. some of them are a little nasty so i've got to get the kids out of the room. there are a couple of ads that have run over and over and over that say, as a democrat, how can you support bob menendez?

that's where you get some of the unfiltered -- ali put it that way? topics that come in the ad. it's not that is just one side that is going after menendez. it looks like people are on purpose saying "this is not our guide." actually, in the ad, it says "democrats can do better." you've seen it. >> marie: bret, i think democrats have calculated that given the makeup of new jersey's electorate, given how much they hate the president, they sort of can just wait it out and not bring in the big guns. not to other things. it's not going to work tonight? >> bret: i think it may come up because of new jersey. when the cook political report move this race to "toss up," everyone's eyes went because there is a separation there. recent polls obviously separated it further. there is an underlying issue here, and it depends on who shows up. motivating democrats to get to the polls for menendez is going

to be a little tougher than it is for gillum in florida. >> melissa: marie, i would ask you, for democrats -- was this an unforced error? i remember the early days of bob hugin and nobody thought he had a chance. this was letting anyone run because the republican, no matter what happens, doesn't have a chance. especially in a year when democrats are trying to say -- you hear it again and again -- "vote your values." it's funny how they swapped sides. republicans used to be about family values, now democrats are very much clinging to that in this election. if you are a good person, you vote against trump. then he run somebody like menendez. >> marie: they probably underestimated this a little bit. they are also some key house pickups democrats are focused on the new jersey. they don't want menendez to have a negative impact on the ballot. worried about that. >> harris: you've got governor christie in our history in new jersey. there is a legacy.

when you talk about "oh, my gosh, new jersey." it's obsolete right. it's like we live under a tent, nobody sees us. governor christie started to see that. not by winning, but by the way he governs. the "get off my beach" and hurricanes and whatnot. he reshipped the voice from jersey. >> he really put us on the map! [laughter] >> marie: keep walking down the street in new jersey. a rare self-rick -a critique fra president known for his "take no prisoners" style. what did he express regret about on the eve of the midterms, and whether it would make a difference if he did that one thing differently? state treatment. ♪ delicious 100% real chocolate embracing the lightness of crispy rice. crunch. the chocolate bar all americans love. should happen everydred five hundred years, right? fact is, there have been twenty-six in the last decade.

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postcode he wouldn't achieve the same thing if he had a different tone. other people have had nice tones, and it hasn't worked out so great. >> bret: he has his own style. it has worked for him. we will see if it works tonight. he, interest interestingly, weo states that he won. more so, as marie mentioned earlier, for the senate races in red states. he wasn't going to house races in suburban districts. his tone -- it's interesting to hear him say anything that he regrets, because he is always forward-leaning like that. we will see. >> melissa: i'm not sure if you said you think he can control the tone out. martha, do you think you can? >> martha: i think with president trump you get what you get. i think he's very aware of that. when you go to the issue of tone, which can be during the 2016 election. jeb bush went after him for his tone.

he said "he's going after my tone? people are being beheaded about ices and he's worried about my tone?" that was a strong moment for him. that's when he blasted up with that idea that politicians and presidents need to speak in a certain way, where they need to be sort of reverent and presidential all the time. you can make an argument that not having the town has worked for him. also, he is starting to reach out potentially to say that he would work across the aisle of democrats to take the house. my guess is that if they do take the house he will probably adopt a much harsher tone. they are likely to come after him after a lot of investigations after investigations. >> marie: absolutely. tone in a campaign is different than when you are governing as president. whether these voters that supported him in 2016, despite the town, are still in favor of a tone when he is president. when terrible things are happening in the country and the world and he is responsible for representing the country, we have the anecdotal and the data, polling data, that shows many

independents and many women are uncomfortable with that tone as president. when he isn't on the ballot himself, when it's not him but he's trying to transfer that popularity to other republicans, it is very much an open question if and where that will work tonight. >> melissa: i would take the flip side of that, harris. there are a lot of people uncomfortable with the tone but like the outcome. they are like "i've gotten used to the tone. i don't like it, i don't want at my house, i don't like people talking this way, i do like the name calling, but, boy, i like the g.o.p.." be one that may speak to the issue while he's not in the suburbs for so most races. we already know that the women in those areas don't like those tones. they express it. they like the other parts of the menu you are talking about. he goes to where democrats are in trouble in battleground states that he won. some places that are as much as 30 points and more. >> melissa: keep right here for the best election coverage on television. thank you for bret and martha for spending the hour with us on a very busy to! >> they aren't leaving! >> melissa: no, not yet,

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>> melissa: thank you to bret and martha. >> bret: you can donate a pizza to long lines. america is hungry for democracy. ♪ >> melissa: here's harris. >> harris: they are still sitting next to me but we will move on. a fox news alert, decision day, yes. we are hours away from knowing which party will control congress next year. let's go "outnumbered overtime," i'm harris faulkner. after countless rallies, endorsements, debates, attack ads, election day is finally here, millions of americans casting their ballots and what may be the most consequential midterm and memory. democrats say they believe they will take that house will republicans say they believe they will