america. abortion rights, the biden presidency and elvis presley s second cousin all facing tests today. israel is making new advances against hamas near gaza city. new reports of more tunnels being taken out and the israeli prime minister for the first time really talking about what comes after this war. ivanka trump set to take the stand in the fraud case against her father s business. the admissions that donald trump made in his testimony that could leave a mark. i m john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is off. cnn news central starts now. it is election day in america once again, my friends. thank you. you want to know where the country is headed in 2024? pay attention to today. candidates and issues on the ballot in key states that could be a barometer of what is to come. abortion rights have been a huge issue since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, a winning issue for democrats. today, ohio, a red state, will decide whether to enshrine abortion rig
party can call the shots on the hill for the next couple of years. right now we have a split senate right counsel the middle folks, 50 democrats, 50 republicans with the vice president able to cast that deciding vote. now, bun seat here could really change everything. the biden agenda would hang in the balance. bret: voters have been lining up at the polls throughout the day today. georgia s polls close in the next hour and pennsylvania, the hour after that. martha: but not all states count and report their votes the same way. here s where it s going to get pretty tricky and we will guide you through this tonight. georgia, pennsylvania, and wisconsin are known to be historically slow counting states. they start opening the mail-in ballots at 7:00 a.m. on election day. other states like florida and texas, they start processing those ballots that come in before election day. therefore, it will happen there probably much faster. bret: virginia is quick, too. that s why we
college crowd? reporter: yeah, mostly college. mixed crowd, fredricka, still not full but they have an hour to go. the message you ll hear is effectively the president preempting a tax on the economic conditions in the u.s. he expects the romney campaign is going to attack the unemployment rate and the president s stewardship on the economy, so you ll hear him talk about how hard the economy was hit before he got in office, what he inherited, and how he made things better, how much worse they could have been, in the president s view, and what he could do going forward. he ll also, because this is a manufacturing state, a big emphasis on how he believes the auto bailout made conditions better. that s a popular theme in ohio. then you ll also hear the broader messages you ve heard him emphasize, a much more political speech. the first campaign official campaign rally to date. he s appearing as well with the first lady. so this crowd is excited, fredricka. so jessica, pret
our goal was to take out one-third of the delegates and possibly slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. your goal wasn t to win one of these states? i don t think that anyone expected to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, this was an away game for him and i think that is true. this is a delegate contest. like i said our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. at least one person did expect, mitt romney in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney, listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you this. we will have throw or four days in the news miedia. these are the same people that said why isn t he dead. they raise this every few weeks. i don t know if you heard about him wanting to finish second
that. i think we will exceed that goal. it s important to your goal wasn t to win one of these states? i don t think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him. i think that s i think that s true. look, this is a delegate contest and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping him honest on that claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in fact at least one person did expect, mitt romney in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney. of course listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you this a second. what will become a challenge is we ll now have three or four days of the news media and they ll a say why doesn t gingrich quit. these are the same people that said last june that i was dead. they recycle this every