matt rosendale pulls ahead. you are starting to watch this. tester won a close race. not a lot of change in the map. the question is, you pick democratic areas here. jon tester how is he doing? 53%. go back six years, about the same. just start to go through this. as you go through the map, you see tester underperforming or is rosendale overperforming. tester at 64. go back in time. tester at 64. it's filling in. he had a close race last time, all three-points. 3 1/2 points. now, trailing. this, again, you look at this map, this is one of the

montana rosendale will defeat incumbent senator tester there. >> on november 27th, neither the democratrepublican got 50%. >> people like congressman dave brad and scott taylor and many conservatives in the nation losing in the house. it was not good and if you look at the suburbs they are trending the other way in many places on the east coast and west coast, trump states are getting more supportive of the president and republicans but in the suburbs the message republicans put forward didn't work. republicans -- heather: let's bring up the house while you are talking about it, 219, democrats, 119 republicans, republicans at a 26 seats. >> just republicans did okay in the senate, republicans do have to do some soul-searching. i heard the president say look at his tone, the understatement of the year. if the president wants to win in 2020 and republicans want to future in this country we have to look at how to communicate to suburban women and young people and those democrats republicans got crushed. >> let's talk about key house races democrats did flip, florida 26, florida 27 as well

rosendale, a state that the president won by 20 points, rosendale on hannity talking about anonymousforced the libertarian candidate to drop out, listen. >> sent out illegal mailer and helped us unify the libertarian, independent and the republicans in the state of montana, he's the number one recipient of contributions from lobbyists in the nation. cheryl: joining us more on the latest twist and highly contested seat pollster lee carter is with us and democratic strategists howard franklin, guys, good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: howard, turn of events against mr. tester, democrat, this kind of hurts, doesn't it howard? >> maybe another cycle or two before it would have hurt him but i think with the early turnout from early voting which i think has been going on since october 9th in montana and tester is a proven commodity on ballots in montana i think he won the seat by beating incumbent, i think he will be fine. cheryl: what do you say, lee, you're a pollster, we don't have any current polling because this just happened with the libertarian backing out and en

i want to congratulate matt rosendale on a hard-fought race. this was a tough race. it was a race that broke records both i believe when it's all said and done in the number of people who have voted in our great state and the amount of must be that was spent, an unprecedented amount of money was spent in this race. it was a race that saw the president of the united states come here four times. it was a race that saw his son come here probably that many times. vice president came here three times. but -- >> you beat them all. [cheers and applause] >> montanans spoke loud and clear about the direction they want montana to go and the direction of our state. because montanans know the challenges we face. montanans know what we need in this state as a rural state to make sure we can compete in the 1st century. quite frankly, i hope the president comes back. many times. i do. but not for political rallies. in all seriousness, not for political rallies, but to see che the challenge we was in our state. to take a look at that v.a. clinic in missoula, montana, see how undersi

when i spoke to rosendale's team a few hours ago. closeness of this has been this close throughout the entire night. about a point between the two. they say they see that as a positive thing for them because they said when the polls close, they were down by 5. so they are looking at this tight race right now as good for them. still waiting to see what the other 50% of voters have to say about this. back to you guys. ed: ellison barber live from helena, montana. brian: hold a press conference at 11:30 this morning in the east room of the white house. the event is open to the press. game on. new day, two years left. ed: here we go. absolutely. ainsley: let's bring in steve doocy live at the farmhouse restaurant. he is in branson, missouri. hey, steve. hawley did well. he beat claire mccaskill. steve: oh, you know what, ainsley. that result didn't come in until late last night. the folks here in branson had kind of a late night. no one is really up except the people at. [knocking] >> the farmhouse restaurant. [cheers] >> this is a legen

challenger matt rosendale, and that's almost within the margin of error.a very tight race. >> it's laughable that he sits there and talks about campaign finance and he is the largest recipient of contributions from lobbyists in the nation. >> talk about dark money, i paid for my ads. there's a few dark money ads on and i can't stop them. >> martha: so it's the ads in the montana senate race that have become the headlines lately. this ad appears to be sent by rick breckinridge, in order to take away votes from matt rosendale, is the thinking here. but breckinridge denies ever sending this mailer out and now conservatives are pointing to 2012 when a similar thing happened in an attempt to use a libertarian candidates to take votes away from the opponent. so here to sort this out, real clear politics national reporter. so what's going on here? >> basically in 2012, this was the same thing that happened. jon tester -- we don't know in2 but there was a mysterious mailers sent out to the libertarian candidate who they present in the mailer as the real conservati

would you rather be tester than rosendale. i think it might be the other way around now. >> the president has spent a ton of time in the state of montana. >> let's look at this. there is the florida senate race. still too. scott, with a razor thin lead. to ron desantos who hugged titlel titlely. what can you tell us? >> we may not be ready to call that senate race but rick scott did. it was a big night in florida and the bill nelson campaign is saying this is not the turnout they expected or hoped for. i think what is so striking to me, in covering florida in 2016 that 2018, is that there seemed in this election cycle to be two ways to go at this. you could be a trump acolyte. the racial zpengss the dog whistles he was doing throughout the election or you could run like rick scott and try to distance yourself from the president. say you're your own man and ran for the centrist. and clearly, both republicans were here tonight despite the fact that polling showed both democratic campaigns ahead consistently. >> we'll keep it in

>> i think rosendale is going to win. the irony is test ser running as somebody who voted for trump. now he's exposed. he didn't give us a vote on tax cuts or kavanaugh or gorsuch. i think he's been exposed and trump made it his mission to see him defeated. he's been to montana. mark: a tight, tight race, if folks vote, they lose. texas, ted cruz and robert francis o'rourke. $70 million o'rourke has spent. half of it has come out of manhattan, los angeles area, hollywood and so forth. they're trying to take out cruz because cruz is the leading conservative in the united states senate and behind trump, people would argue is the second most prominent conservative. they want to make an example of him. how's that going to turn out? >> backfiring on him. another state that post kavanaugh, trump is popular in texas. it won't be close. he'll win decisively, cruz. o'rourke is sending votes to cruz every day. mark: he's also running on bernie sanders issues, unbelievable. >>> quickly, florida rick scott versus nelson, this is a na

rosendale, 6,500 votes ahead. this is interesting. look what's outstanding -- 82% reporting or less. these are three blue counties. in montana you're not going to get huge numbers of votes. in total, looking at a little over 325,000 votes. the fact this is out there is a big deal for john tester. earlier it looked like this was 100% reporting. this is 67% reporting. missoula is dem country, blue country in montana to the extent it exists. the margin, 28 points now. again, 22,000 votes total in this county. that's a couple thousand votes there that john test kerr pick up based on this marge -- tester can pick up based on this margin. the top line, rosendale, 6,500 votes ahead. if you're tester, where are you going to get votes? missoula has 33% outstanding vote. you're picking up a couple thousands votes there if you're john tester. great falls, this is the fifth-biggest county in the state. not a huge amount of vote or distance, but ten-point margin, you could pick up 1,000 or 2,000 votes there. ga gallatin county, the third largest c

tester cut rosendale's lead in half.it in half because we finally got vote in in glacier county. half of it in there. this is why i was circling it earlier. we were expecting a giant tester win there. still half to come so tester can get more margin out of glacier county to cut into that rosendale statewide lead which stands at 1800 lead. in the bozeman area, tester expected to get more vote out of there. great falls area, tester expected to get more vote out there. blaine as well. those are the places left on the map where tester can still make up gains. if you just put all of those together, that would certainly put him ahead of rosendale. of course, the question is, right here in particular, get that to -- try to get that to work. oh, my goodness, it won't work. come on. maybe if i do it 20 more times it will work. no, it won't work. there are two more counties we expect rosendale to win by significant margins and a couple rural ones, too, where he'll get a margin much a couple hundred votes. wow, we'll know when they

you look at the statistics now, matt rosendale ahead. you're looking at the map and saying okay, what can we find? let's just go looking through the big democratic areas by montana standards, 100% in. 100% in. so you come back out here, and you're looking at the map, 61%. so if you're tester, you're thinking okay, i'm winning here by ten points. here is an opportunity. let's see. we got some more votes to count. you start looking at the smaller areas if you go back to the last race, which is a close race for jon tester, which is montana, he won this big. so if you're jon tester and looking at the map, you're saying okay, i got a chance down here. but if you're matt rosendale and the republicans, you're looking in this corner, go back six years, republican wins it big. so now you're sitting in the headquarters, and you're calling. you're calling all your county people and check your list, double-check your list, what's outstanding. what's the problem? the other thing you're saying is why do we have 61% here and 100% there. and nothing her

lead for rosendale. tester still has to leapfrog him, but you can still see the path for him to do that. arizona, you mentioned this a moment ago. the margin, 15,000 votes. we're getting one report on the ground there, trying to track down, that we may not -- it may not be until thursday that we get more votes out of maricopa county. hundreds of thousands of vote we may not get until thursday. a minute ago, that outstanding governor's race in connecticut now, ned lamont, a radio station in new haven, connecticut that says bob stefanowski got on the air and conceded. he was leading all night and in the last couple of hours lamont took the lead, hartford and bridgeport, two largest cities in the state, overwhelmingly democrat democratic. stefanowski ran out of real estate. in georgia, unknown number of absentee and provisional pal lots, if there are enough of them we expect they probably would break democratic. would it be enough to bring kemp under 50% and force a runoff? possible. think of what we saw if

republican matt rosendale has a slightly over democrat john tester.na, we are waiting to find out who will be the state's first female senator. martha mc sally has the edge at the moment but we have to wait a couple days to find out who will win and finally in nevada a win for the democrats, jackie rosen defeated incumbent republican senator dean heller late last night but some of those races are too close to call. jillian: breaking that all down. rob: donald trump takes republicans to victory in key battleground states flipping four seats read in the senate but democrats now own the house. jillian: the biggest midterm take aways, republican strategist david mcintosh. thank you for your time. we wants to get right in here. let's look at this scorecard, 59 candidates donald trump rallied for. looking at updated numbers 33 of those candidates won, 14 candidates lost, 12 have not been called. those are pretty good numbers. >> donald trump really won last night in these elections. you see that happening even in the close calls in montana where everybody t

still a race between myself and matt rosendale for united states senator.he difference between me and my opponent are 180 degrees on nearly every issue, that's what it is about. whether the president comes here or not doesn't make a difference, still a race between matt rosendale and myself. i will tell you this, i think the president coming is a good thing and i would like to see him get around, not just do rallies, but see some of the challenges in a rural state like montana. he is from new york city. he could learn a lot. >> reporter: senator tester getting a dig in there, saying the president is from new york city, could learn a lot by traveling around montana. fredricka, the president won't be doing that. he is cutting to an airport rally, staying here a brief period of time, then flying to florida. the senate and governor's race there. you mentioned the early vote that's coming in. here in montana, the majority vote by mail. two-thirds of the ballots are already in. more coming in monday. you have to ask are rallies at the end of the race as effective

i was out with matt rosendale in montana and people were giving him the old attaboy and we're rooting for you. it's the kind of thing his candidacy had been lacking against john tester. that authentic montanan. always overcome his party identification. he's really one of them and i think what kavanaugh did was awaken a complacent conservative electorate and that's why this is closed. the libertarian candidate dropping out after early voting began means that the boost he could have provided had he gotten out a lot earlier may be neutered a little bit. >> interesting, yeah. so over in georgia, do you think that stacy abrams has a shot in that red state? >> yeah, really interesting because i'm always skeptical of georgia showing democrats in the game. the election happens and it's never close as those polls suggested but my republican sources that know how to poll georgia say this is real, it's a toss-up and not because republicans are not enthusiastic to vote. they expect to pull a big huge vote out of the rural areas that generally pull republicans in large numbers. mr. kefrp is strugg

matt rosendale, jon tester presents a clear contrast. jon tester doesn't even have a hunting license and he lives in montana. matt rosendale i think is the man you want to vote for. >> dana: i do want to bring up one other race, michigan. i have a good friend of mine who said watch michigan. john james is the republican candidate, challenger against the incumbent. a voice mail from a reporter that was left on john james' message. listen to this. >> and he beats her. jesus. that would suck. i don't think it's going to happen though. >> dana: that was a reporter. john james last night was on tucker carlson's show trying to make the case he could win. very good friend of mine said watch michigan. this could be a big surprise. have we not talked enough about michigan? >> i don't think people have talked about michigan. john james is a phenomenal candidate. you talk about the religious devotion in that voice mail that was left. i think this will be an tune for us to pick this seat up. john james closed this race very much so in the last few d

a little more than 3,000 votes, but he is ahead of his challenger, matt rosendale. let's go to maine. maine is an interesting case because angus king is an independent. he caucuses with the democrats in the democratic column. he's ahead by a wide margin but only 17% of the vote is in, which is why we're waiting to see if it's going to stay in angus king's column. i should say, nevada is out there. we haven't gotten any votes back from nevada. that is one of the seats that the republicans, dean heller, is trying to hold on to. i want to go down to nia to talk about the governors' races. >> let's look at wisconsin, a race we were eyeing all night. it's still, tight, tight, tight. 6,200 votes separating the democrat, tony evers, from the republican, incumbent, scott walker. 93% reporting, a really, really close race. in connecticut, some good news, and a possible flip here for republicans. bob stefanowski is up 28,000 votes over ned lamont. still some votes to be counted there. that could be a pickup for republicans. in georgia, another race we're watching, brian kemp

rosendale, 47.3% of the vote. 95% of precincts reporting in montana. we will continue throughout the evening showing you the results and briefings from today. looking ahead to tomorrow on washington journal, more about and discussions throughout the day, including at the american enterprise institute. tomorrow, the smithsonian associates are hosting a panel on the elections and what they reveal about america. average tomorrow includes c-span2 and the brookings institution with their look at the factors that produce the results we are seeing today. c-span2,discussion on journalists and analysts for a breakdown of the election outcome at 12:30 eastern. on thethat live tomorrow c-span networks. one more governor result to tell you about this afternoon. the associated press with this tweet. mike dunlevy winning the race for governor in alaska, defeating the former senator mark begich. one that is still too close to call is georgia. the secretary of state there has declared victory, it is still very close with 100% of the precincts reporting. 50.3 of the vo

matt rosendale, club for growth spent $5 million on that. >> that was our biggest spend. a disappointment. we lost that narrowly in the end. what really happened there, john, was right after the primaries, we didn't have any money left. we helped him win a tough primary. and tester to his credit did a good job and immediately started attacking him. so june, the month of june, matt rosendale had so many negative ads run against him that by the time we replenished our coffers in july, he was under what they call underwater. more negative impressions than positive. and that just hurt us from then. now, i will say we demonstrated to everybody that would have been a good investment because he was down ten points in july, and we narrowed it down to really a tie towards the end. tester with a big surge of voting in the end won by 2%, 2.5%. and jon tester ran a good campaign. had we had a little more money in june, i think we would have won. >> richard in kentucky, republican. thanks for waiting. >> caller: yes, sir. you know, i'm 71 years old. i watched all this unfold. you know

not decided until the next morning when democratic incumbent jon tester claimed victory over matt rosendale. he discussed the election with reporters wednesday afternoon.

. -- matt rosendale is a vote for low taxes, low unemployment. strong borders and montana values, real montana values, john tester. , by the way who'll never vote for us, he might be a nice guy, except he tried to destroyed on mirror admiral johnny jackson. reporter: tester had a rally of his own in boseman. >> because they -- point out to folks today. it might be a different narrative tomorrow, we have a damn good secretary. he is going to fight too. the bottom line is there is a lot on the ballot this year. reporter: big name republicans have campaigned with rosendale, tester keeping it more local, with mostly campaigned with the governor of state also actor jeff bridges. >> alison thank you. >> and president getting ready to take stage for second time today, leaving montana to rally supporters in pensacola, florida, stumping for ron desantos, and senate candidate rick scott. president to speak next hour, phil keating with live in pensacola now. reporter: president trump returning to the sunshine state, second visit, second make america great a

he is here supporting rosendale.an't say that i agree with everything that rosendale is doing right now. reporter: president trump mentioned health care here today. promising people of montana he would protect preexisting conditions. health care is a big issue in the senate race here in montana. as is veterans issues and also public land use. arthel? arthel: ellison barber, thank you. eric? eric: arthel, as election day draws near both parties are focusing on very different political agendas, in hopes of coming out on top. many experts are predicting the house, it could tip to the democrats. if so what can we expect, what if it stays in the hands of gop. emily rogers joins us a capitol hill reporter for "the daily caller." it is a blunt contrast. you can count on russia investigation hearings, possible impeachment talk, obamacare and other measures. where do things stand 72 plus hours out. >> eric i think republicans will lose the house, which will cause a lot of gridlock amongst congress obviously. as you know the s

he doesn't dropout but endorsed rosendale.etarian -- libertarian wasn't getting a lot of support in the polls. the problem is we've only had two polls in october. one was completed two weeks ago. so we have almost no data in montana to tell us what is going on there. trump has been there. this could be a surprise election night because we don't have good data on what's going on. >> laura: doug, in florida things are interesting there. it looked like gillum built a big momentum. then we started hearing more about this corruption, the -- getting bribes, potentially, the fbi investigation and now stuff with the anti- israel group. and now his lead has been cut in half and obviously trump spending a lot of time there as well. what's going on? >> look, florida is a very close toss up state in both the governor's race and the senate race. and you're exactly right. gillum opened a double digits lead. since then, we've heard a lot more about a corruption scandal, potentially during his administration, travel, gifts. and there's also t

in montana, jon tester trying to hold off matt rosendale. you see tester leading statewide.ere's what i can show you quickly. tester had a close re-election in 2012. in a lot of key counties, if you just start looking at them, flathead county, republican county. in 2012 when tester won re-election, he only got 37% here in this core republican county. he's doing eight points better. he won statewide getting 37% of the vote here. how about lewis and clark, helena, a democratic county. tester got 54% of the vote when he was narrowly re-elected in 2012. he's running seven or eight points better than when he won re-election. it's too early to call but you see tester out in front in montana. >> steve, can i -- there are five democratic senators who are up for re-election tonight who are not just from states that trump held but from states that trump held by double digits in 2016. mccaskill, heitkamp, donnelly, manchin and tester. manchin has definitely held onto his seat and tester, as you said, too early to call. looks like he's well situated compared to his previous election cam

republican matt rosendale gaining ground against jon tester.n the latest poll, tester is down by three. 50% of the state voted it will all depend on turnout tomorrow. tester voted with schumer 87% of the time, you might as well have schumer in tennessee, a very important race. marshall marshall blackburn sho, but anything could happen. in nevada, races are always close. republican senator dean heller in a must hold seat for the republicans. we will have an actual race on her hands and west virginia between incumbent democrat joe manchin and patrick morrissey. and in florida, let me be blunt. everything in florida is as usual too close to call. democratic do-nothing schumer, democrat bill nelson against rick scott who has been there again and again for the people of florida. in florida the gubernatorial race also so tight between ron desantis and corrupt socialists. by the way, wouldn't it be great if we could get from an fbi investigator free tickets to hamilton and free vacations like gillam, and the worst crime rate in all of florida. republi

and going home, tester and rosendale spoke to reported not to say the won were lost but it was goingore from them in the morning. 1:00 am right there. 300,000 votes counted, secretary of state said 49% of those votes for rosendale, there is a long way to go, 700,000 registered voters in montana. a few days ago the republican auditor matt rosendale got a game changing endorsement from the libertarian candidate, if the libertarian dropped out of the race it would be a big deal. in 2012 the montana senate race the libertarian candidate won 7% of the vote. the republican at that time had all those votes, all those people, who republicans want to those votes six weeks ago they went to the libertarian votes too. and the issue of dark money. and in an unknown group, without his permission. >> stark money is an outside influence, bigger than all of us. i don't think matt or john could stand up to the political parties and say enough is enough. >> whether or not that situation will impact this race remains to be seen. in the room behind me no clear winner tonight as of right now with a little

it's still a race between matt rosendale and myself. although, i will tell you this.the president coming was a good thing. and i would like to see him get around and not just do rallies but actually see some of the challenges we have in a rural state like montana. he's from new york city. he could learn a lot. >> so jon tester there taking a bit of a dig at the president saying he's a new york city developer and lowering my voice here as they're doing a prayer before the rally but no question, this race is one of the most competitive. i'm told the president is telling his advisers, this is the one he wants to win the most. he's having a bit of a personal feud with jon tester over who's going to lead the v.a. earlier this year and that's one of the reasons that president trump has been out here so often. we'll see what happens on tuesday. the final stop here before flying to florida tonight. fredricka? >> jeff zeleny, thank you so much in belgrade, montana. president trump will finish in pensacola, florida. cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez in pensacola. bara

as for matt rosendale, montana has now state in play.y the way, he is giving democratic incumbent jon tester the fight of his life. that is a dumb equitable race hafor republicans. why? breaking news in that race tonight. the libertarian candidate has dropped out and endorsed rosendale, tester's opponent. giving a big boost to the g.o.p. montana, you now have a chance to pull off a major political upset because this race is dead even. by the way, indiana, you y may want to follow suit.do don't vote for the libertarian. that only helps the incumbent, chuck schumer democrat by the name of joe donnelly in indiana. inel sixth days you will definitely see one of three results. first is a best case scenario. let's start with the good news. republicans pickh up seats in the senate. they hold onto a small majority in the house. second scenario would be a a split decision. g.o.p. holds onto power in the senate, picks up some seats but loses the house. there she is. nancy pelosi becomes your ncspeaker. the third, well, that's sort of like the doom

race is in a dead heat with jon tester and matt rosendale.ript, baseless claims about the migrant caravan and now some insight why trump chooses this rhetoric. >> they all say speak about the economy, speak about the economy. well, we have the greatest economy in the history of our country. but sometimes, it's not as exciting to talk about the economy, right? >> let's bring in doug high, the former rnc communications director and hilary rosen. you first. the economy is a great sell for the president, so why not focus on that instead of this fear strategy? i mean, this president can boast that these are probably the best economic numbers, you know, in 60 years for a president during a midterm elections and wouldn't this benefit him and his party? >> it would benefit all republicans. we get jobs numbers every friday that have been very good for this administration but when the numbers come out at 8:30, the president is probably already tweeted something guaranteed we'll talk about anything else which doesn't help republicans. yesterday, brendan

montana now, the republican rosendale up by 3. in the state, josh hawley up by 3. heller holding on by 3 or 4. arizona, i don't know how a woman that supports americans fighting with the taliban even gets 5% of the vote but it's apparently a tight race with martha mcsally, a war hero. >> president trump: i think martha is great, she's a hero, one of the best fighter pilots. she was really good. i spoke to some of the people that went with her and were with her, they said she was tremendous as a pilot. i don't know how she could possibly lose, the other one, she is just terrible. you talk about border walls, the other one doesn't want any border walls, she doesn't want any production, nothing. i think martha is going to do well and north dakota is going to do well. florida is a very, very close race, and it's inconceivable because -- >> sean: it's always close in florida. it wasn't that close for you. >> president trump: we did great. but bill nelson is a terrible senator. >> sean: it was funny, you called me the other night and said, p i've neverre talked toib him.

in montana, jon tester now projected to win his senate race against matt rosendale. president trump and vice president pence made several trips to montana to campaign for him, but tester who wins there. republicans have retained control of the senate. the democrats lost two seats down to 43. the gop gained two seats and now has 51 seat. a handful of seats are still to be determined. meanwhile, dianne feinstein won her race here in california with quite a significant lead. 97% of precincts reporting. she was up 67%. of course he congratulated her last night in his concession speech last night. he lost despite the endorsement of the state democratic party, which was a clear message that party leaders wanted a more combative approach to handling the trump administration. all memberses of the house of representatives were up for re-election and here are the latest results. democrats expected to gain 28 seats bringing their total up to 223 seats in the house. the gop will lose 27 seats. that's down to 201 seats. the results are still a toss up in a few highly contested di

the incumbent democrat jon tester facing a very stiff challenge from the republican matt rosendale. too early to call in montana. let's take a look at the balance of power in the senate where things stand right now with these projections. 38 democrats. they will be in the senate. 45 republicans in the senate including one pickup. 17 seats right now remain outstanding in the u.s. senate. we're watching those 17 seats. democrats must pick up three republican seats and not lose any more of their own. three republican seats in order to get closer and closer to the majority. it's looking tough for the democrats right there. let's go over to john king and take a closer look because these senate contests are very significant. the house races very significant. two different pictures emerging right now. >> two very different pictures. i was just peeking at florida as you were coming over. 99% now in the senate race. let's look at the governor's race. 99%. the republicans on top in both of them. so your question is when you get to this, let's go back and use the senate race because this is ke

yesterday was an interesting day, it's not over electoral wise as we're watching montana where matt rosendale was up and hopefully will stay up but it is so close we don't know how it will come up. we saw an influx of conservatives in the senate and we saw in the vast numb of races in the house the primary trend was those who ran and fought for conservative principals survived -- principles survived. not every single one but the real wipeout was among the left side of the republican caucus that followed house leadership advice on not nationalizing the race. don't run on important principled proposals. part of the problem was they had not kept their promises from 2016. something that as you heard here from others, jim jordan has advocated strongly, you've all heard him say, we need to do what we said we would do. and the house leadership actually urged their members to run campaigns away from that theme. incredibly enough. and the results were predictable losses. that now leave us in a position where we are probably a week out from a leadership contest. and until the republicans commit to retu

they vote for matt rosendale it's a vote for low taxes, low unemployment, strong borders, and montana values. >> reporter: while the president was in montana, vice president mike pence was in wisconsin. and former vice president joe biden campaigned for democrats in ohio. former president barack obama hit the trail in georgia and florida friday, leveling harsh criticism against the trump administration, a sign of how high the stakes are in the 2018 midterms. >> they promised to take on corruption. instead, they have racked up enough indictments to field a football team. >> reporter: democrats need 23 seats to control the house of representatives and 2 seats to control the senate. after 2016, neither party is taking anything for granted. nbc news, new york. >>> in sannc dolores park today, activists marched in support of prop c at a get out the vote rally. prop c aims to help address the homeless problem by taxing large companies. sales force chairman and co-ceo mark benioff is a high-profile supporter. he says the homeless problem is an epidemic and san francisco has no choice but to

i felt montana was the smallest where trump could go in and push it to a recount if not rosendale winningent into montana for five times this year. that's unordinary. montana usually gets a presidential visit once every four years. he was there for five times this year because he was mad at chester because chester was the one who forced out ryan jackson. as the va secretary. trump had this beef with chester for what he had on ryan jackson. the fact that you could win the senate seat was also cool too but he wanted to get blood revenge from tester and he going there every time and they mentioned and then the actual candidate would be standing there waving. but small enough where that could matter and for a long time tuesday night rosendale was actually winning. it wasn't until yesterday that tester finally took the lead and now going to win. but trump played pretty hard in those senate seats in the final stretch. but trump giveth, trump taketh away, i think with nevada nevada does not go for jacky rosen and first is a lack some of the new senator and governor there respectively. if donald

right, the president is headed back to montana to rally for the republican senate candidate matt rosendale after t outing the booming jobs numbers yesterday of course we gained 250,000 jobs 3.7% unemployment that's the lowest we've had since i think neil armstrong was walking on the map back in 1969 fox news correspondent, ellison barber is in montana with the very latest. reporter: neil so president trump, his approval rating in this state is above 50%. he won this state in 2016 by about 20 points, and many polls his approval rating is slightly higher than the incumbent democratic senator john tester but in this senate race, tester is ahead by about four points, he's ahead of his republican challenger matt rosendale. republicans want to try and capitalize on the trump factor trying to make this a more national race. rosendale is talking about things like the economy, jobs, the tax cut, he's also talking about the supreme court vote and trying to hang tester on the fact he did not vote in favor of kavanaugh. democrats and john tester in particular, they're trying to keep this race more loc

. >> vote for matt rosendale, w is a worker. is a vote for low taxes, low unemployment, strong borders, and montana values. >> reporter: while the president was ine montana, vesident mike pence was in wisconsin. d former vice president joe biden campaigned for democrats in ohio. former president barack obama hit the trail in geoia and florida friday, leveling harsh criticism against the trump administration, a sign of how high the stakes are in the2018 midterms. >> they promised to take on corruption. instead they have racked up enough indictments to field a football team. >> reporter: democrats need to win 23 seats to control the house of representatives and two .eats to control the sena after 2016 neither pty is taking anything for granted. chris polone, nbc news, new york. >>> today is the final dayf in person absentee voting in fairfax county, and the turnout has been county elections officials say early voting has surpassed levels from the 2012 presidential election. nearly 67,000 voters have already cast their ballots in f

is he hoping that he can move the needle in favor of rosendale.d rosendale are hoping. pete, ed, katie? ed: ellison barber still waiting for the sun to come up over missoula. pete: let's bring in kellyanne conway live in d.c. this morning. >> good morning. pete: the presidents you know going across the state big crowds lots of enthusiasm. does that tell you anything about the electorate two days before the polls open? >> indeed. let's recall 2016. same situation. same dynamic. everywhere that mr. trump, then candidate trump would go, thousands of people would follow him. they would wait sometimes in the rain for hours. and the media would always ask the same question yes, kellyanne crowds will they vote? no they just stood in the rain for three hours to get into the rally and left outside. many of them have already voted. for all the talk about the enthusiasm on the democratic side, that's typical for the party out of power. very typical. what's a typical is to have a president who is able to command these crowds and be so active out on the trail.

small enough where that could matter and for a long time tuesday night rosendale was actually winning. it wasn't until yesterday that tester finally took the lead and is now going to win. but trump played pretty hard in those senate seats in the final stretch. but trump giveth, trump taketh away. i think nevada does not go for jacky rosen and the new senator and governor there respectively if donald trump is not president. midterm turnout in nevada collapses for presidential cycles and the fact that those candidates won by five points or so each in a midterm year in nevada is extraordinary. the reason is because the democratic organization in las vegas had a hell of a turnout lever. right? donald trump raging about caravans and a migrant invasion -- and you're tyring to turnout hispanic casino employees, that's a pretty good turnout motivator right there. the fact that heller attached himself to trump i think pretty much doomed him there in that state. dr. barker: another progressive who did really well is sherrod brown in ohio. i would say he's somebody to keep your eye on. jonathan:

mcsally and rosendale also winning at this hour.lling to work across the aisle to get things done for the american people. >> the president already has shown in the first couple of years that he is willing to meet the democrats. we just two weeks ago had historic bipartisan legislation on the opioid and drug crisis. every democrat in the house voted for the law the president signed into law. every democrat in the senate voted for it. when he elevates an issue and leads, that they follow. >> kellyann conway again live coverage at 11:30 with the press conference. for now back to you. >> sandra: we look forward to that. kevin corke at the white house. >> bill: want to bring in sean spicer, former press secretary for the trump administration. we've been going around the table for the last hour and five minutes. you go ahead and react. >> i don't like the fact we lost the house. considering what we were facing historically i'm happy. historically we should have lost five seats in the senate. we picked up probably four. that's big news. t

ros rosendale's lead has dropped, and so the question is what is still outstanding in the vote. look at what is outstanding. john tester trailing by 2500 votes. while there's not a ton of vote he has an opportunity to pick up 1100 votes pushing him over the top. we will have to keep a close eye on this right now. a little different down in arizona. another state we have not called yet, and as it currently stands, martha mcsally, this is for the open seat from jeff flake had, and she is now over sinema. right now maricopa, sinema won that. as it stands in florida, rick scott up by 34,000 votes, and the important number is .4%. there's still absentee ballots coming in, and that is why it's not called yet as people wait and see. so keep an eye on florida as well over the next couple of days. if you are mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader you are looking at the map and are very happy. a democrats lost in indiana and missouri and in north dakota. o o'rourke lost in texas. the democrats looking at a larger majority for republicans in the senate. you want to take a look real qu

he doesn't dropout but endorsed rosendale. lisbertarian wasn't get a lot o support. have 2 polls. 1 a week ago. we have no data in montana. it seems like a close race. trump has been there. this could be a surprise election night because they have not polled. >> laura: doug, in florida things are interesting there. it looked like gillum built a big momentum. then we heard about this corruption and getting bribes and the fbi investigation and the anti-israel group. now his lead is cut in half. trump is spending time there as well. what is going on? >> look, florida is a very close toss up state in both the governor's race and the senate race. you're absolutely right. gillum opened a double digits lead. then we heard a lot more about a corruption scandal. travel gifts. and there is also the issue of the role of the president trying to mobilize voters for ron desantis who was slipping until recently. a slight advantage to gillum but no more. >> laura: now missouri where claire mccaskill made a comment is donald trump's border security policy. the wall and other things.

joining from montana the senate candidate rosendale and from indiana, senate candidate mike brawn.g rally tomorrow? >> coming in tomorrow. to indianapolis and then next monday to fort wayne. >> sean: listen, both of you were in the same predictament until idea. matt you had a libertarian in your race and he dropped out. john tester doesn't represent the values of montana? >> no, he did not. john tester sent out an illegal mailer that helped us unify the libertari libertarians. it came as no shock to us. john is the number 1 recipient of contributions from lobbyists in the entire nation. more than chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. >> sean: did he vote for kavanaugh and gorsuch? >> they would have really liked those things. we are seeing a dramatic expansion of our economy and jobs being created as a resultav those tax cuts that john tester voted against and he voted against gorsuch and kavanaugh but embraces the idea of open borders and sanctuary city. that's out of line with the ideas of the people of montana. >> sean: mike, you don't have the luxury of the libertarian dropping out.

here's a little bit from rosendale and tester. >> we are seeing a dramatic expansion of our economy and jobs being created as a direct result. he voted against corsets and kavanaugh. >> healthcare is absolutely important. i think government accountability is important. >> in many ways republicans are running a national race. we see testers team focusing on local issues. big lines to get into this rally to see the president. i think you can hear the announcement now were expecting president trump any minute. a handful of people waiting to get inside said they haven't decided who to vote for. most said they voted early and they all said they came here primarily to see president trump. >> i'm hoping he can stay on message and convince people to vote correctly on tuesday. >> he has done what he said he's going to do. no surprises or anything. >> i'm guessing you are not old enough to vote. are you making sure your mom is voting? >> yes, i hope she votes. >> so, we spoke to some people who said they have already voted for tester but they came here because they liked president trump and they

vice president speaking moment after his montana rally for the republican in the senate race, matt rosendalean 11th hour claim ahead of the midterms. accusing democrats hacking the voter registration. and the secretary of state making the election official. the accusations are made up hopes. >> there was never a hack. there was never a problem on the side of the democratic party. >> this is a criminal investigation. and another investigation. >> as yet to publish any evidence to the public and insists the voting system is safe as no candidate gets a majority of votes, that will be a runoff election. a winter coat, umbrella, anything you got when you head the polls because stormy weather is expected to hit every state east of the mississippi river. rob: tornado risk in the southeast, a twister touched down in louisiana, tornadoes in tennessee, some areas up north could see snow this afternoon. janice dean, where is the snow? >> northern rockies in northern plains, and the tornadoes, a couple tornado reports in louisiana, alabama and tennessee, and thunderstorms moving across the southeast. to

indiana, they look likely to -- president trump went to montana on saturday, looks like for matt rosendaleood about them, bullish about republicans to senate, they can get to 53, 54 seats republicans in the senate. heather: president trump's approval rating right now is surging, surging at the right time? >> it is. it's not -- it's because of the economy, really americans feel better about the economy than any point since he took office, 10 points better than when president obama left office and because of that it really provides, that's why you see him campaign, enthusiasm to republican voters and trying to help republicans pick up additional seats an help pass the agenda. heather: all about the economy, 2 a day to 3 a day to try to gardner that support. thank you so much chris, we wile right back heather: welcome back, time now the good, the bad and the ugly, up first the good, officer hit the right note responding to an emergency call comforting a family with music after an older man had a bad fall. officer hernÁndez sitting down at piano playing journey don't stop believing, likes play

very interesting state where he will be stumping for matt rosendale for the gop. and taking a look at gallatin county. if i can find this. from what i see, looks like it's going to be -- i'm going to move this over on this map. let's me just tell you, this is growing to be a tough county. we had hillary clinton carrying that back in 2016. over 50% of the votes. let's move on to the next stop on saturday. that is in the warm state of florida. if i can just bring that up on this map for you. we're going to pensacola, florida. that's in iscambia county. heading out there to pensacola. that is trump country. here it is. great country there. on the tip. just to show you the 2016 results where trip carried that in 2016. he will be stumping for desantis. let's talk about sunday. close races that we're talking a look at. macon, georgia. georgia on the mind. bibb county, this is a celebrity filled race. oprah here nor the democrats. just to show you happened here. if i can bring up the entire state. neil, you'll have to do this for me. here we go. georgia and we're going t