Cornell Belcher

It is the one that is taken on election day.

Joining me now is Cornell Belcher, president of Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies.

He is a pollster and an MSNOW political analyst and Stephanie Valencia, co-founder of Equis Labs, an organization that works to elevate the Latino electorate.

Who better to talk to than both of you? Thank you so much for being here.

And that's something that typically does not happen.

So that motivation and what polls have been picking up, you can see it actually on the ground.

Cornell Belcher, MSNOW political analyst and president of Brilliant Corners Research and Strategy.

Stephanie Valencia, co-founder of Eckes.

A lot of Democrats with a little PTSD as they see those right now.

MSNOW political analyst Cornell Belcher is with us.

Cornell, thanks for being here in person.

We did that.

And the thing with polls is that you never know how accurate they are until the votes are counted.

Joining us, Democratic strategist and pollster and MSNOW political analyst Cornell Belcher, Cook Political Report senior editor and elections analyst Dave Wasserman, and former advisor to George W. Bush and John McCain, Mark McKinnon.

So I had a pre-conversation about this with our polling guy here at MSNOW, and he talked about the difference between presidential polls and midterm polls, Cornell.

The presidential polls have been off when Donald Trump is on the ballot, but the midterm polls, Cornell, have been surprisingly accurate.

Even with my best posters.

Cornell Belcher is my poster, tremendous poster.

I'm still like, okay, I see what we came up with.

What are the people saying? How do the people feel about this? Like my constant check-in with my kids, I got four, two 16-year-olds, 18, 24-year-old.

It's not even clear that that's legal.

I want to bring in Democratic pollster and political analyst, Cornell Belcher.

Also joining us, Midas Touch podcast co-host, Brett Mycelis, his new book, WTF America, The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy is out right now.

It is must read and we'll talk about it in a minute.

The anecdotal data from focus groups, along with Republicans shifting resources to defend deep red districts that Trump won by double digits, plus Trump himself traveling to places like Kansas, where he is tonight, all suggest that the Republicans really are on the defensive.

Margie Omero is a veteran Democratic pollster, Cornell Belcher is a Democratic pollster and strategist, and MS now political analyst, and they join me now.

Let's just start with your sort of like, Margie, I'll start with you, just sort of the top view of where you view the race right now and, and, and relatedly, your level of confidence about, about the polling in the aggregate.

Um, in the aggregate.

Yeah.

That's the, that's, those are good benchmarks to look for.

Margie Omero, Cornell Belcher.

Thank you.

I'm going to the swing districts.

I'm going to the places that the pundits and the pollsters say we're going to lose.

They are wrong.

We have incredible turnout.

[inhales] Thanks.

Let's bring in Washington Post reporter who broke the story, Nancy Cook, MS Now White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, MS Now co-host of The Weekend, Michael Steele, and MS Now political analyst Cornell Belcher.

Nancy, this is your reporting.

Thank you so much for being with us.

If it's necessary, I'll go back.

We gotta win these races

racesCornell Belcher, Michael Steele are back with me.

Uh, Cornell Belcher, so now he's having buyer's remorse over Katie Zacharia and Ken Paxton?

The survey, conducted by the Highland Project and Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies, includes 700 Black women.

Pollsters, Cornell Belcher, says he hasn't seen this level of enthusiasm since Barack Obama was running for president.

But there's a difference.

Back then, Black women were motivated by hope and change.