martha: both candidates are here to answer questions from their state. bret: this is the ohio town hall. [cheers and applause] martha: good crowd. bret: welcome to columbus, ohio. i m bret baier with a great crowd. martha: we have great crowd here tone. i m martha mccallum. bret: welcome to a special edition from special report limited commercial interruptions tunnel 2 towers. we are coming to you tonight live from the fives event venue. mash march tim ryan and j.d. vance will both join us live here in a moment. both nominees will have equal time and our audience of republicans and democrats and independents will be asking them questions throughout. bret: first, we want to give you a look at some of the other headlines today. the latest fox news power ranks shows republicans with 49 possible seats in the senate after next week s midterms. those are the projections. democrats 47. four races we call toss-ups. we have shifted two contests towards republican c
better. i think one of the things that i worry about and by the way i mentioned the big tech issue earlier, i think the big tech industry has made this worse we don t talk to one another. we assume the very worst about everybody who disagrees with us. we assume that the people we see on television are reflective of everybody else who holds that particular viewpoint. and one of the things that i hope to bring to the senate look, i m a conservative, i m pro-life, i think the inflation crisis is terrible and joe biden and tim ryan s policies have caused it, i also think that i can listen to people and have a conversation with people and that s unfortunately something we do way too little of in this country. hopefully i can make that better. martha: all right. let s get back to the audience. joe has a question for you. joe? bret: we re not going to say your town, joe. just not going to say it. j.d. vance: look like a cleveland who they beat up on the bengals last night feel prett