If Republicans want to gain control of the House of Representatives, a district like California’s 47th is one they’ll need to flip. Pollsters consider the race there a toss-up as Democratic incumbent Rep. Katie Porter runs for re-election in a vastly redrawn district against Republican Scott Baugh. Geoff Bennett reports from California and speaks with both candidates.
On Election Day, South Dakotans will have the option on their ballot to expand Medicaid coverage, which would likely have outsized benefits for the state’s most vulnerable people. Ali Rogin speaks to Laura Santhanam, who recently returned from a reporting trip there, to learn more.
In our news wrap Saturday, Biden, Trump and Obama descended on Pennsylvania in a final midterms push, North Korea fired more missiles into the sea as the U.S. and South Korea conducted air combat exercises, Ukraine is seeing daily blackouts amid Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, deadly tornadoes tore through Oklahoma and Texas, and the Powerball jackpot has grown to a record $1.6 billion.
One of the closest races for a seat in the evenly divided U.S. Senate this midterm election is in Pennsylvania. Judy Woodruff joins Geoff Bennett from the suburbs of Philadelphia to share what she has been seeing and hearing over the past few days, in the final stretch before Election Day.
In 2020, the state of Georgia flipped blue for President Biden and secured Democrats' control of the U.S. Senate by electing Sen. Jon Ossoff and Sen. Raphael Warnock. But in one of the country's most divided states where Biden beat Donald Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes the question is whether Georgia will stay blue come November. Geoff Bennett reports.