that wraps up this hour of "msnbc live." i'll see you tomorrow. andrea mitchell here in the flesh. >> thanks so much, craig melvin. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the day before the election mad dash. candidates are in overdrive with who is going to control the house and sthat. both at stake and in the closing hours, it's getting ugly out there with unproven claims of hacking, racist robocalls and what could be an historic contest in georgia. >> i'm not worried about how it looks. i'm doing my job. this is how we would handle any investigation when something like this comes up. >> you cannot be the referee and the player. he's abusing his power and he's

not fit to be the next leader of the state of georgia. road warriors. two presidents on the trail with starkly opposing visions of america's future. the polls showing record enthusiasm and early voting at an all-time high. go out and vote republican. do it now, do it tuesday. >> let's get to work! let's bring this home! let's vote. early warning signs. all you need to know for what to watch as the results start coming in. good day, i'm andrea mitchell at msnbc election headquarters in new york with everything you need to know about what is shaping up to be a midterm election for the history books. unprecedented enthusiasm indicated by a record-shattering number of voters who have already voted early or cast

absentee ballots. the next 24 hours will tell the story. let's begin with our road warriors in three critical states. morgan radford in missouri for a contest that will decide who could control the senate and katie beck in florida electing a governor and senator tomorrow. let's start in marietta, georgia, covering marquee stacey abrams/brian kemp governor's race, if even possible, got nastier over the weekend. >> reporter: it really has. i'm here at a get out the vote effort for the democrats. people are coming here, getting information about where they will go out into the neighborhood and knock on doors, encouraging people to vote for democrats. they're also phone banking inside, encouraging people to vote tomorrow. andrea, you're absolutely correct. this has gotten nasty. as you point out, just yesterday, two days before people go to the election to

vote, the secretary of state, who has two roles, secretary of state brian kemp, he also oversees the election, but he's also a candidate in one of the tough races here in georgia. that is for governor. he announced he has launched an investigation into what he called allegations of democrats trying to hack into the voter registration system. democrats have said, it is outrageous, that it is false. stacey abrams went so far as to call it a sign of desperation, distraction and a witch hunt. brian kemp says he doesn't care how it looks, he just has to do his job. he said he made this report to the fbi and the department of homeland security. quooef been doing some checking. thus far there's no real official statement from either of those departments about this beyond what they would normally do. normally the fbi doesn't comment on investigations ongoing or not. when you talk to voters about all of this, andrea, i have to

tell you, they're very tired. some of them have called it dirty politics. they just look forward to this all being over tomorrow. but as you know, it may not be over. this governor's race may end up in a runoff. >> it could well run into that runoff and we'll be going back to you in december. now to morgan in st. charles, missouri, where claire mccaskill is a key embattled incumbent in a state donald trump won big. >> reporter: it is a fight to the finish, andrea. as you know, a brand-new nbc/marist poll came out showing this as a dead heat tie. 50% mccaskill and 47% her republican challenger hawley. mccaskill is in the political fight of her life. she basically has to convince voters in missouri that she can make nice and get along with the

president who most of the constituents here like. that's incredibly difficult to do when the leader of the free world is making comments about you publicly and negatively. his tweet today says, no matter what claire mccaskill says, she won't vote for us or the people for missouri. i want to do a quick fact check. one, he's saying no matter what she says, it sounds like the president is giving a nod to the fact that claire mccaskill has been reaching right, appearing on fox news and even complimenting the president in terms of his immigration policy. he's saying not to believe her. alternative she votes with the president about 50% of the time. on the other side, josh hawley has been making an effort to stick to the president's agenda and make this a national issue here locally. we'll see what happens on tuesday. >> indeed, we will. it will be a big and tight contest there. meanwhile, katie beck in florida where we're tracking two big races. the governor's race with andrew

gillum and ron desantis and a senator race with bill nelson trying to replace rick scott. >> reporter: that's right. while these races remain close, that same nbc poll that morgan just referenced coming out with some new numbers that show democrats in both the senate race and the gubernatorial race have opened up a narrow lead. andrew gillum and senator bill nelson holding at 50%. their republican opponents, desantis and rick scott holding at 46%. that's bad news for republicans on the eve of the election, which is probably why president donald trump took to twitter to talk about both of these races earlier today, taking specific aim at democrat andrew gillum and his time as mayor of tallahassee, seeing he has no business running for this office. basically if he's elected, florida will become overridden with crime and high taxes. we just finished an event. in orlando, florida, for ron desantis. senator rubio was speaking on

his behalf, trying to rev up the republican base, trying to get every republican to the polls tomorrow to try to close that gap. >> thanks to all our road warriors. joining me to break this down, bill kristol, cecilia richard, jim messina, manager of president obama's re-election campaign and bloomberg news/white house reporter shannon pettypiece. bill, let's go to you, in terms of what you're seeing in terms of voter enthusiasm. our new poll shows people really like the economy. why isn't president trump talking more about the economy and not so much about immigration? >> it will be ironic if the president's democragoguing hurt the voter turnout. they may have scared a way a few more swing voters that they

needed. it feels to me, but who knows, but it feels to me, and i've been saying this for a while, like 1994, like 2010, the two most recent off-year elections after a president has had control of the congress for the first years of his term, both of them were waves. both of them the waves sort of subsided in early/mid-october and there was a bear market. i remember this so well. the economy was coming back and people thought, some of these incumbents will hang on, the republican victory won't be so big. it turned out to be awfully big. it feels to me from the late polls that the democratic wave ticked up in the last week. and i think they could have a big showing tomorrow night, including, i think, the senate is really in play. i do not rule out the democrats winning the senate. >> that's counterintuitive, given how bad the map is. when you have all these senate

seats, an historic number of incumbent democratic senators that were in overwhelmingly red trump states. they have to pick up a net two and they have a very hard march there. >> they really do. it's amazing that we're this close. this is the worst map any party has had in 30 years. we had only two republican seats really available to us. there was ten incumbents who started out the cycle in trouble. now we're to a place where we're at least even and starting to move in some of these races. i think it's clear we'll win nevada, which is a pick up. i think it's clear we'll win arizona, which is a pick up. the question is can we hold red state senators, tester, highcamp, missouri, florida, they're within the margin of error. the democratic strategy right now is turnout, turnout, turnout. >> what about the issues, has the immigration, you know, argument -- shannon, you cover

this 24/7 and then some. he has gone with fear over hope. he's gone with fear and the caravan and coming and giving inaccurate statements about the migrants on the march. instead of talking about the economy. he has a great economy. >> he tried -- i was at his rallies on friday and saturday. he tried to make this switch to talking about the economy more. we could tell stephen miller put in a lot more numbers about the economy in there. >> after the jobs numbers on friday. >> exactly. they thought, let's try to capitalize on this. but this is the bind the president's in. what he has to do to get his base out, it's going to alienate moderates, women and swing votes. they made this calculation, the white house, that moderates probably wouldn't turn out in the midterm. women probably wouldn't break their way so they had to focus on turning out their base. they decided immigration would be their closing argument and closing strategy. that's why we saw them go hard

on that last week. they tried to get the economy in the last week but it's really about a base play for them at this point. >> by the way, president obama, one of the better surrogates trumped only by -- no pun intended -- trumped only in georgia by the oprah appearance. president obama is in the fairfax county district where you see barbara comstock challenged by jennifer wexton and tim kaine. barack obama has been a big weapon here. what the president decided to do, jim, and is to violate his own principle of not criticizing a successor. why do you think that he decided to come out so strongly against donald trump and against -- >> i don't know exactly why he -- i think he had to draw the distinctions. i think the important thing is, he clearly saw this is a race, this is an election about enthusiasm and to me the

incredible thing is -- i've been in ten battleground states in the last two weeks. all anyone is talking about is health care and the cost of health care and women are completely fueling the enthusiasm. we're seeing in texas and in georgia, florida, other places. i think that when you say that, in fact, the president is worried about women, for good reason. women are breaking for democrats by double digits in the nbc poll. >> it's an historic gender gap. >> it's incredible. want only a gender gap. obviously, women are candidates. 80 women of color running for congress, competitive races all over the country. they are also voters, volunteers and activists. i think women will be the most important political force in this election. >> i wish people would stop talking about this blue wave. it's a pink wave. when is the last time democrats have been outspending republicans in every single battleground state? when you look who's giving that money, 58% women. women are standing up and saying no to this trump and we're going to take a stand right now. and tomorrow night women are going to have their say in this country.

>> the way -- i would just add, the white house is very aware of that. they're not expecting there to be a big youth turnout, hispanic, black turnout but they expect women to turn out. if the election turns, they expect it to be because of the women vote. >> how do republicans recover from this if women break so heavily for the democratic candidates? how do they close that gender gap down the road? >> just on the women issue for a second. there's a good column in "the washington post." i don't know why men get exempted by being offending from trump's -- >> women have evolved. >> women are superior to men in all kinds of ways. that's just a fact. but i think men should be held bui accountable, too. trump had such -- he was helped so much by winning in 2016. it was an inside -- all kind of

thins happened. nonetheless for republicans that lost in '08 and '12, i found this all the time arguing with my fellow republicans, mccain and romney, the guys you like, lost. if the republicans are no longer the majority party in america. that could be trump's legacy after two years. he took the republicans from a position of strength to a position of parity at best with the democrats and on a downward slope, losing younger voters. i think there's been a serious reconsideration. i hope there is, of whether we want to have a trumpee republican party and if we want donald trump leading it. >> i don't want to go without talking about texas. when is the last time a democrat won statewide? lloyd benson? >> my mom won 28 years ago the governorship. i've been in texas a lot. i haven't seen this kind of enthusiasm since her race. and, in fact, i was just looking at numbers of the early vote, which is important in texas. more than half of the early vote are folks who don't vote in

midterm elections. the way for those to win in texas is to expand the electorate. >> one thing we're seeing in key areas you would have hoped if you're a democrat supporting him, you're not seeing a big hispanic turnout. >> i looked at el paso where beito is from. they had more people vote early than voted the entire 2014 election. i do feel like we're seeing numbers in historic numbers. i was in travis county. they'll beat the percentage of turnout they had when mom ran. we just haven't had these kind of numbers before in texas. it's being fueled by young people, women, people of color and by great candidates. >> you hang on with me for the hour. we'll talk a lot about this in another moment. coming up, the obama factor. what the former president is hoping to change this time around. you can see him there live in virginia. former senior adviser to the president, valerie jarrett joining me next on "andrea mitchell reports." hello mom.

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is injecting more racism into the final hours before election day. both stacey abrams and brian kemp, her republican opponent, have condemned the automated call, which was sent to an unknown number of georgia residents and included an impersonation of oprah winfrey, who had campaigned for abrams last thursday. joining me, valerie jarrett, chair of former first lady michelle obama's when we vote initiative. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, andrea. >> first of all, your reaction to all of the racism that's been injected into this georgia race. >> look, this is the last gasp of desperation. it's the playbook of fear mongering that sometimes we've seen from the republican party, designed to scare people, polarize people, inject racist rhetoric. and i, you know, spent some time in georgia. i know a lot of the folks down there. they're not falling for it this time. i think, as stacey said yesterday, it's this last gasp because they're afraid. they recognize the enormous

momentum she's developing on the ground and they're trying whatever they can do to try to tamp it down. and i don't think it's going to work. >> one of the big factors, of course, is president obama was out there for her over the weekend. we've seen him now campaigning so energetically and campaigning against a successor, taking on the record, taking on the misstatements. this goes against his reluctance to do that during the first year donald trump was in office. what motivated him to be such a strong campaigner this midterm? >> i think he's very troubled, just the way many americans are with the direction our country is going. the tone, the rhetoric, the core values which are in jeopardy. he wants to use the platform he has. he's still the most popular man in this country and he wants to use it to try to push forward the values he believes. when we're stronger together, when we should focus on what we have in common, we shouldn't be polarizing each other and highlighting our differences, but we should be working to give

every person that fair shot. those are the core values that drove him into running for office in the first place. he thinks they're in jeopardy if we continue on our existing path. he's been very clear that he thinks this is the most important election in his lifetime, including the times when he was running for office. and so he's going out on behalf of candidates he believes in, who he thinks represent those important core values and who are going to fight every day on behalf of the american people. he wants to add his voice to the equation. >> the economy is fairly strong. the jobs numbers were good. wages started to go up. can't president trump argue effectively that between the tax cut and some of the other steps he's taken that he has a good record to run on as the president in this first midterm? >> a lot of the benefits of our economy began a while ago when president obama was in office. we're heartened to see the progress we're making. i also traveled around the country and i talked to americans who are still very

concerned about what's happening in their pocketbook. i think the economy isn't the only issue. the other thing i hear front and center is health care. so many americans are worried about the republicans' plan to take away their health care and make it unaffordable for them. they won't be able to cover people who have pre-existing conditions. i hear that. people are worried about our values when we start taking families and tearing them apart on the border or threatening to shoot people who are using stones and walking away from a climate deal where we're worried about our next generation and whether or not our children or grandchildren are going to live in a world where they don't have to worry about climate change. there's so many important issues that i'm hearing about. a woman's right to choose, that's front and center. you heard on your earlier panel about how important it is for women to get involved in this election. they're showing up in record numbers. we still have one more day. so, part of my appeal on coming on your show is to encourage everybody to vote. elections are close in our country.

they always are. so, you can't just simply say, my vote doesn't matter. it does matter. >> thanks so very much, valerie jarrett. thanks for being with us. our panel is still with us today. that call from valerie jarrett not to take anything for granted. i think everyone at the table, reporter, political campaign manager, activist that you are, we've all seen what happens and what happened in 2016. i don't think anybody is taking these polls for granted. >> no, that's exactly right. i mean, i think most of the polls are always wrong. you can't assume any of it. we can assume there's real turnout. it's a good night for the democrats. what you're seeing, the early vote numbers have been historic. the bigger question, though, is who are these early vote people? are they people who don't usually volt in midterm elections? when you look into the numbers in texas, arizona, florida, you're seeing historic numbers of people who don't usually vote nonpresidential elections. i think that's why bill's right. you could have a much better

than night for the democrats. >> the early vote, the interesting thing is, it does break on gender gap. women are more likely to be early voters in florida, texas, georgia. i think that enthusiasm, women are more enthusiastic about the midterms. not only more enthusiastic than men, but they're more enthusiastic than they were last midterm. so, women are really fueling the voting and the energy right now. >> and one of the things that happened, for instance, in florida, in 2016 when i was covering hillary clinton's campaign, they were so excited about the early vote, it turned out that the early vote were mainly people who would have otherwise voted for her on election day. >> that's exactly true. >> you're saying these are different people who don't usually vote in midterms and the numbers certainly indicate that. >> the numbers are showing that. we can already tell the gender gap. i agree with jim, too, polls don't vote, people vote. tomorrow is a huge day. everything can really come down to tomorrow. >> and the weather, of course, the midwest is going to be awful and into the northeast. >> our folks are committed, though. i think women are committed. they've been doing this since

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in the big battle for the house, democrats need to pick up 23 seats to win control and two states to win the senate. a much harder task given the large number of incumbent democratic senators rung in red states. what should you watch for early tomorrow night that a blue wave is really going to happen, if it does? nbc national political correspondent steve kornacki joins me from the big board. steve, take us through those races. what are you going to look for in early closing states?

>> 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow, that's the time to keep in mind. we'll get our first real vote coming in. think about the senate side, first of all. here's a big battleground. indiana, joe donnelly, democrat, trying to defend his seat in a state won by trump. there's early voting in ind i i. let's get a sense right away. how is donnelly holding up against braun? that could be a clue not just about how this race is going, that could offer us a clue nationally about whether there's a trend for or against one of these parties in the final days of the race. the house side, the magic number for democrats, 23. they need to flip 23 republican seats. a net gain of 23 republican seats. now, there's 435 districts in the country. most of them aren't that competitive. what you got here is we call it the big 66. these are 66 republican districts where we think democrats have their best chance at flipping seats. you see where the districts are here. these are the actual names and

numbers of the districts here. the first one on that list that we get vote from will be the sixth district of kentucky. again, 6:00 p.m. eastern. we expect to start getting votes coming out of this district. we'll show you about it on the map. it's based around lexington, kentucky. we'll see, is there surge democratic turnout in and around lexington? will that be a theme? how about the rural areas outside of it. they're very republican, very pro-trump. have democrats made any inroads? is enthusiasm down there at all? is enthusiasm up there, for that matter? those are some clues we might get revealed. 7:00, things start to pick up in intensity. four districts right here in virginia. four republican-held districts that democrats have invested heavily in trying to flip them. we're expecting the democrats to get the tenth. they're certainly favored there. the question, though, do they succeed in going further? the seventh district, richmond suburbs. the fifth district based around

charlottesvil charlottesville. the second district around virginia beach. also florida at 7:00. look at all those democratic targets down there in florida. some endangered republican incumbents. think of carlos kurbcurbelo. georgia, if stacey abrams, the democratic candidate performs well outside atlanta, someone like rob woodall, republican incumbe incumbent, could be in big trouble there. >> you were mentioning the pennsylvania, where we find anne thompson. in virginia ten, barack obama is campaigning with tim kaine and jennifer wexton right now. thanks, steve. i don't know how you do it, how you keep your energy up, but we'll be watching you 24/7. joining me to drill down on one of the races steve is looking at, anne thompson in the first congressional district in

bucks county. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: these are your old stomping ground. you know bucks county well. it's known for its ticket-splitters. the first congressional district has been redrawn since 2016. this area went for hillary clinton in 2016 by two points, but it has a republican congressman. his name is brian fitzpatrick. and he is trying to hold off a very strong challenge from the democrat named scott wallace. he is the grandson of one of fdr's vice presidents, henry wallace. this is a toss-up state. the wallace campaign is outdo dr knocking. they have the goal of knocking on 200,000 doors in the last days of the campaign because it's all about get out the vote effort. this has been one of the most expensive congressional races in the country. fitzpatrick is touting his bipartisan, saying he is willing to work across the aisle where you have wallace trying to tie

the republican to president trump. speaking to voters today in bucks county, i was struck by two things. one, they are very happy about the state of the economy and they are very unhappy about the state of american politics. i spoke to one man who was wearing the star of david and he spoke about the anti-semitism that he hears both blatantly and subtly. he was so upset, he was visibly shaken. i spoke to another man, a small businessman, he's white. he says, look, i'm sick and tired of being labeled a nationalist because i believe in gun control and strong borders. so, the name-calling has really gotten to people on both sides of this issue. tomorrow it's all about the get out the vote, as i said, and the question, andrea, is what will the weather do, because it's supposed to be miserable here and rain. that may affect how many people go to the polls tomorrow. andrea? >> in fact, in those suburban areas around philadelphia, that's the classic district where we're going to see whether

or not donald trump's anti-immigration rhetoric has had an effect on the normally republican voters, a lot of republican women, suburbanites, often -- many of those people did not come out in droves for hillary clinton. that was the big factor in her losing pennsylvania. anne? >> reporter: right. and now the question is, are they turned off enough by what some people see as president trump's antics over the last two years to switch their votes and say, put a protest vote, saying i'm going to back the democratic candidate here tomorrow. that's one of the things people will be watching, because if there is to be a big blue wave, one of the first places you'll see that effect will be here in pennsylvania one. >> thanks so much, anne. very briefly, cecile richards, one thing driving a lot of these races is, as we pointed out, women most importantly affected by health care. and that argument that many of the republican candidates are making, arizona is a great case

with martha mcsally where they're advertising they're going to protect pre-existing conditions when she and other republicans voted nearly 70 times to get rid of obamacare. >> it's an incredible irony to see health care, the affordable care act, protections for women, gender rating, all the things that are advantages that suddenly republicans are trying to make right and go back and change their record. i think voters and women in particular are very aware of this issue. interesting, talking about pennsylvania, is that independent women, this is a huge issue, i love the fact we were talking about pennsylvania, though, because we're about to break through the first -- i mean, the only all-male delegation in that state because there are five women on the ballot for congress be and something's going to change. >> and we have some good democratic candidates as well. thanks again. coming up, the fear factor. how are voters responding to president trump's latest attacks on immigration? former homeland security secretary jeh johnson is with us

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thanks very much for be, with us. let's talk about immigration. you had some challenges at the border. you had to make some deployments. but what about deploying 5200 troops and saying there could be up to 15,000. what is the mission, what are the rules of engagement, what are the training costs and what -- what is legal in terms of what their mission can be? >> you just spelled out all the questions that would normally be asked with any deployment of troops. first the way this typically works, first, there's the mission. someone decides we need to supplement the mission in the following ways, the following substantive ways. then there's an assessment, how many people will that take? you arrive at a number. you figure out what they're going to do. you figure out the rules of engagement. when we talk about the southern border, we have to remember the laws passed in 1878 after the

civil war which restricts the u.s. military's ability, for good reason, to engage in domestic law enforcement. whether it's 5200 or 15,000 or 10,000, the most they can do is supplement the work of the border control and immigration enforcement personnel. and i'm not sure that this is the wisest use of our u.s. military or our taxpayer dollars, simply because the administration has not spelled out why they are needed to be there in addition to what we already have deployed on the southern border. >> you're a lawyer as well. what about birthright citizenship be raised? birthright citizenship by executive order. >> you don't need to be a lawyer to know that you can't rewrite the u.s. constitution or an amendment to the constitution through an executive order. but aside from that, there are huge implementation issues with trying to implement a regime where someone is only a citizen

if their parents are lawfully present in the united states. normally you establish citizenship through a passport. to get a passport, you present a birth certificate. and the birth certificate simply says, i was born in x hospital on x date, these are my parents. and the hospital, whoever issues is, doesn't delve into questions about the citizenship or the status of the parents. >> you have to create a whole new paradigm. >> i hope someone is telling the president that. >> as homeland secretary you were involved in states with vulnerability. what about georgia, there's no paper backup. it's only one of five states that have no paper backup if machines are hacked. >> first, this discussion should deter no one from voting. no one should think their vote won't count. no one should think their vote doesn't matter because of what we know the russians did in 2016. if our leaders are telling us

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the final campaign push for two first-time candidates both democrats, max rose and mikey cheryl looking to flip republican seats in new york and new jersey joining me now are the candidates. thanks for coming in from the trail. >> thank you for having us. >> max and mikey. mikey, you are in new jersey.

>> yep. >> talk to me about that district and why there's a shot for a democrat this year. >> sure. i'm on the eastern edge of the district and stretches out into sussex county. this is a district that's really excited about the idea of change and new leadership in washington. i think people in my district want to see bipartisan legislation that works for new jersey. >> what about the trump factor? how are people reacting? if you could put on your non candidate hat, how do people feel about immigration, the migrants and the cara and the rhetoric? >> i think people feel different ways of president trump and whether's coming out of washington. what's uniting them behind my campaign is this tax plan is worst for new jersey than any other state in the nation and we need infrastructure spending and so while they really look at things coming from washington and all different ways they look at what new jersey needs similarly. >> max rose, we are talking

about staten island. typically republican area. but you're a weekend warrior in the reserves. you were in afghanistan. de decorated. how do you feel about the president sending troops to the border for a deploy. that some say is of questionable value. >> sure. i and i know mikie and others are for strong borders. that's not what this is. this is a political stunt through and through and no surprise they did it five days prior to an election. and the reason why they did it, i firmly believe this, so you ask me about it. the less i talk about infrastructure and opioids and gun violence, the way the congress shipped a trillion dollars to people that do not need it, they know that's to the political advantage because it's incredible their failures and inaction. this is a political stunt. i find it disrespectful and, you know, we need to focus on real sound national security policy. >> the fact that the military has no real mission there.

i mean, it is a support mission but it's not a legal mission that -- you know, soldiers are taking out guns and shooting at people if they do throw stones. >> everybody knows the military cannot conduct domestic law enforcement. you cannot. and think about it this way. 5,000 troops doubled the number of troops we have in iraq and syria. it's a -- our military is so stretched at this point. for close to a generation now. people i know have been deploying five, six, seven times to a myriad number of countries and now we're going to do this just for political gain? it is wrong. >> mikie, what about young people? do you see any signs in your area that college students and people in their young 20s are going to vote this time? because they have disappointed before. >> they have. and yet, i'm hoping this time they won't and we see them knocking on doors. we had vice president biden in the district and over 1,000 people come out at montclair

state university and the young people seem energized in this cycle. >> how much of a factor is donald trump? he seems to be front and center. it's fair to say this is a referendum on him. >> i think young people like many people are concerned about some of the actions of the president but i think they're also really concerned about how they pay for their education, what the future of the economy looks like, how they get good jobs in new jersey. 85% of the people leaving the state are between 18 and 250 while young people are concerned about the president they're really concerned about their future. >> and, max, you guys are really part of a wave of more military veterans running and former intelligence officers in some case. we interviewed a candidate in michigan. at the same time, people who have never been in politics before. what do you think is happening? what's this dynamic? >> i think that the way many of us look at this is not suddenly becoming politicians but continuing our careers of public

service. at a time when i think that is desperately needed on both sides of the aisle. irrespective of whether you're a vet or a cop or a teacher or nurse, what unites people in public service is that when you show up to work, you can't afford to fail. you can't afford just to bicker or to worry about your social media. we don't see that in congress today at all. they certainly love to thank us for our service. and that's good. but we need to try to replicate vets and public servants, you know, overall sense of their dedication to results. down in washington, d.c., and i'm looking forward to that happening in 2019. >> max and mikie, thank you so much. not just for your service but for your continuing service. >> thank you. >> bringing the issues to the fore and having you on the ballot is a great way do do it. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> be safe out there on the trail. >> thank you. >> thank you. and we've reached out to of course max rose and mikie

sherrill's opponents. they declined the invitations. we look forward to hearing from them. tomorrow join us for complete coverage of the 2018 midterm elections right here on msnbc. stay with us until the very last vote is counted. it may be a long while. all day, all tomorrow, all tomorrow night. stay with us right here on msnbc. ♪ ♪ i'm all for my neighborhood.

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and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show on facebook and on twitter and here's ali velshi and stephanie ruhle for "velshi & ruhle." everybody should vote. >> everybody should vote. >> just vote. >> that's exactly right. >> people died for -- >> wednesday morning, saying there's a record turnout for midterm elections. that is the right that we have -- that people have died and fought for. thank you. >> thank you. >> that will be america getting the job done. good afternoon, everyone. i'm stephanie ruhle. >> i'm ali velshi. monday, november 5th. let's get smarter. >> i think we are doing great in the house and in the senate. but who knows? right? if the radical resistance and that's what they are, takes power, they will move immediately to reverse america's progress. they want to take away and destroy your health care. you look at w