effectively cuts off any democratic path to victory. bill: for democrats to hold onto power not chamber they would need to win all 26 toss-up races and pick up another six districts republicans have the advantage. an extremely tall order. dana: the house may be slipping away but the senate is still anyone s game. it is expected to be decided by four key races, all of those in a dead heat with one week to go. bill: democrats separate to try to keep the upper chamber banking on former president obama to do this. he is going to nevada and arizona and later make a joint appearance in pennsylvania as they look to prevent republicans from flipping that senate seat. dana: the former president making it a point to address inflation and crime. two issues his party has shied away from. we have a plan. that s why democrats actually have plans. they pick up a few more seats in both chambers they can force through extreme unpopular laws from education, to abortion. who will figh
key battleground among all the big early calls, all the big east coast states. that s the bell weather of bell withers but pay attention to pennsylvania, georgia and nevada. whichever party takes two of those three senate races is very likely to hold the senate majority. dana: kellyanne top issues nationwide inflation and higher prices 89%, crime 79%. yet you had the governor of new york kathy hochul suggest it was a conspiracy that people thought crime was real. that s right. that will cost her, i think it s a blunder of proportion we saw from terry mccauliffe a year ago when he said i won t make the parents tell the teachers what to teach the kids. people remember that. lee zeldin crime is centerpiece and people see folks being pushed in the subway tracks and
divest themselves of those swap desk. not a done deal yet. the senator will talk about it at their policy lunch, but that could be what is developing and could be the solution that wall street is looking for to that particular thorny issue, sue. john, thank you very much. let s get an update on the market. a double-digit advance. bob pisani kicks it off at the new york stock exchange. you heard from john harwood and testifying on what they heard about the big market drop. eric knoll of nasdaq testifying. let me highlight what they re saying about the causes of what happened last week. he talked about aggressive nervous selling of s&p futures and everyone seems to agree that definitely happened just prior to 2:40 eastern time. then they also talked about the fact or the allegation at the nyse arca data communication issues with other exchanges and that the nyse liquidity replenishment points or lrps impacted trading. we knew there was a lot less liquidity at those exchange