tonight, the nation is turning to pennsylvania, a major battleground in american politics, from the three rivers in pittsburgh, to the striking green home of the capitol building in harrisburg, heart of government in the commonwealth, to historic independence hall in philadelphia, those across pence im , pennsylvania, are making choice to influence the presidential race. i m jake tapper and we re standing by for results in what is sure to be an eventful election. the political spotlight on key primary races in pennsylvania, north carolina, kentucky, idaho and oregon. in phil pennsylvania, north carolina republican senators retiring seats, tonight, we ll bring more to the direction of the two major parties, also a significant new test of former president trump s grip on the republican party and president biden s sway over the democrats. as both weigh a potential rematch in 2024. perhaps the biggest test of the trump factor is his pick in pennsylvania republican former tv dr. m
what is all about? he s taking a lot of backlash. general jack keen will be here to talk to us about the leak, china taiwan, ukraine, iran is up to no good again. we will talk about that. two senators from opposite sides of the aisle who don t really vote the same on just about anything, and yet we re going to let you meet them and hear about the one thing that s brought them together on capitol hill. thank you very much. we will be watching thanks. i think it is an interesting conversation that s been brought up. dianne feinstein has missed i think all of her votes recently. she s 89 years old. for a couple of months. he s saying you have to be able to vote. you have to do the job. there s also the undercurrent of he s got someone he would like to replace her. nancy pelosi has her camp. there s internal california politics of the establishment. there certainly is. it brings up what about fetterman who has also missed a lot? even on the republican side what about congress
perfectly healthy but their staffers do everything for them like lindsey graham who didn t know he had cosigned on to the restricter act. those are all kinds of issues. now just about the people s health or how it runs? are they actually doing it or is the it staff? in feinstein s case, fetterman s case and graham s case, how did you not though that you signed on to the restrict act, one to have greatest threats to our civil liberty i m sure they have to outsource to the staff. how do you co sign a bill and not know you cosigned it that s very important. one topic and another topic is that if you are so unhealthy you can t do the job, maybe you shouldn t be doing the job. that goes all the way up to joe biden. sure does. we want to bring you this morning this is out of hartford,
as united states senator and he will. tom, you ve been following the pennsylvania voting very closely, the early returns at least, and when i was in pittsburgh last week, the allegheny county officials and local congressmen were telling me there s been a huge early vote and they believe a lot of it is democratic. what are you seeing? it s really remarkable what we re seeing in the early vote really around the country. we talk about pennsylvania. we know the early vote was very democratic in 2020 in pennsylvania. it was a big part of how joe biden carried the state. this is remarkable. pennsylvania s one of the few state where is the democratic share of the early vote right now is actually bigger than it was in 2020 so there s a good sign for democrats. fetterman. and we re seeing similar things around it had country. it s consistent with a very close battle between each side for control of congress. no way to know whether these are democratic ticket splitters. people concerned ab
saw john fetterman i think of courage. this guy stood up last night, god bless john fetterman. laura: do the voters of pennsylvania really appreciate what happened on wednesday? now, it was an insult to them what happened to them on wednesday. now, god bless everybody, but that s not what the pennsylvania voters need. they only get to send two senators to pennsylvania and this is the one the democrats chose as the best in the state to run. really? and the same people who lied about fetterman s condition were trying to tell us that dr. oz is supposedly the bad candidate in this match-up. a former heart surgeon and an entrepreneur from an immigrant family who achieved the american dream, that s the bad candidate? yeah, nice try. the race is so dire there that obama is swooping in. swooping into western pa to try to do the rescue attempt. and they re so freaked out that even biden and kamala are pairing together at a rare rally appearance for fetterman.