having to fight their way back, with leadership from kevin mccarthy and steve scalise and others and a lot of fund-raising by paul ryan, they are within fighting distance, and i told people, it's probably somewhere between 229 republican in which case we're a majority and worst case 204. mark: what is the majority? >> 218. mark: 218. >> we currently are at 241. mark: you are fairly optimistic? >> very optimistic in the senate and pretty optimistic overall, and we still have ten days to get to the election, and in 2016, we actually got stronger every single day. mark: well, the early numbers, and they're that, from nbc among others, looking at a number of these state, and the than nevada, some of these other states, georgia, florida, texas, montana, early voting