00:23This way, this way, you have to talk.
00:34Well, you can see from the Senate for Politics map for the Senate that there are a lot of
00:39competitive races.
00:40Look at the striped states, for example.
00:43Texas is the one that looms here because, incredibly, a Democrat might win a Texas U.S.
00:50Senate seat for the first time since 1988.
00:55This is going to be a blue wave, and the blue wave simply means that Democrats are going
01:01to come back in a midterm election and they're going to defeat a fair number of Republicans,
01:06especially in the House of Representatives, but probably in the U.S. Senate, too.
01:10They're also going to pick up state governorships, which are very important in the American scheme
01:15of things.
01:15Now, what's interesting is Trump was hurt even in the first midterm.
01:20He lost 41 seats in the House of Representatives, which was a lot.
01:26He'll come close to doing that again.
01:29And of course, in the Senate, if he does, in fact, lose it, as I think he will, that's
01:35worse than in 2018, his first midterm.
01:37He did not lose the Senate then.
01:39He only lost the House.
01:40And keeping the Senate meant he could get his Supreme Court nominees through, for example.
01:45And his cabinet appointments, when he had to replace a cabinet member, that will be gone.
01:49I don't think Democrats are likely to vote for a single person he nominates for just
01:55about anything.
01:56So it's going to be a difficult two years for him if these things happen.
02:01The voters we're hearing from in a variety of ways tell us they can't make ends meet.
02:05They're most concerned about inflation and the high cost of living.
02:10Some have said it's the worst they've ever experienced.
02:12And certainly in rural areas and for farmers, for example, it probably is.
02:17And remember, that has been a strength for Trump.
02:20He has carried rural areas 70 percent or more.
02:24And now in many of them, he's below 50 percent, well below 50 percent.
02:30Republicans can't win without overwhelming support from rural areas and farmers.
02:36So it's a major problem for the Republican Party.
02:42So early voting this time, we really saw unprecedented turnout.
02:46So we actually had an increase from a like election, 53 percent increase of people turning
02:51out to vote early.
02:52So great news for Wake County voters, you know, that we have that participation level in this
02:58upcoming election.
02:59We're proud of our voters for showing up early.
03:01We are anticipating a high voter turnout for Election Day as well.
03:05But again, that early voting number does alleviate some of that strain on Election Day.
03:10So we actually met with our local law enforcement, our emergency management team.
03:14We even worked with our Wake County attorneys as well just to talk about some of the things
03:19that could be could be a horizon issue.
03:22I know there's a lot of information kind of being floated in nationally about ICE being
03:28at the polls.
03:29So I think the biggest thing for us is making sure that we're ahead of those things.
03:33We know what to do.
03:34We know the partners to call and we've made those relationships ahead of time.
03:37So it's a smooth Election Day if anything were to occur.
03:40When I'm on the ground, when I'm going to these rallies, I went to a Watley rally on Saturday.
03:45He is super strong.
03:46His message is super strong.
03:48People are, you know, they're just very much behind him in North Carolina.
03:52I'm hoping that the Republicans come out and, you know, Republicans tend to wait until
03:57Election Day to vote.
03:58We've tried to get people out earlier this year.
04:00We started pushing months ago to get vote early, as early as you can.
04:04But we're seeing that the trend we're seeing is that as it gets closer to Election Day, we're
04:08seeing more higher Republican turnout.
04:10I think we've done everything we could do.
04:13We left no stone unturned.
04:15We pushed as hard as we could push.
04:18We, you know, we were out canvassing.
04:21We were out, we had phone banking going on.
04:23We had a lot of get-out-the-vote events with elected officials.
04:27And then with the text blasting, I think, you know, that helped a lot as well.
04:45We have to do it.
04:48You
