battleground georgia. and cnn senior data reporter harry hinton is here with us. he is awake. he is alive. he is at the magic wall. he is fired up and ready to go, as we can see. harry, we love having you here. tell us what is happening in the georgia senate race. look. look how close this is. herschel walker with 49%. raphael warnock with 49%. normally went we don t include libertarian candidates. but i have chase oliver at 2%. why? because the rules in georgia basically stipulate that if the leading candidate does not get a majority of the vote on election day in november, there in fact will be a runoff come december. and right now the forecast suggests that neither herschel walker nor raphael warnock will reach that majority of the vote. but i just want to point out how important georgia is in terms of winning control of the united states senate. if herschel walker wins the democrats chance of controlling the senate 26%. if raphael warnock wins, it jumps up to 6%. whoeve
welcome to 10:00 a.m. eastern hour, my friends. i m erica hill. voters will decide who will control congress. president biden announced he ll give a major speech tonight. a lot of big names hitting the campaign trail. former president obama is in arizona today. former president trump stumping for republicans in iowa and both expect to be it s liz cheney making waves in michigan with her endorsement of a democratic candidate, elizabeth slot kin. if we want to ensure the survival of our republic, we need to walk away from politics as usual. we are americans above all else. we re told the president s speech will be about protecting democracy. mj lee is joining us with details, all of this coming on heels of what prosecutors have said was a politically motivated attack of speaker pelosi s home and her husband paul was the one who was ultimately attacked. what do we know? president biden s schedule has been officially updated to reflect the speech he is going to be giving
president biden is expected to slam election deniers into a surprise speech tonight. the lead starts right now, six days from the midterms president biden has something to say, adding a prime time speech to his calendar taking on the heightened political climate. as the election rolls in candidates are rolling out their closing message. plus, the plan to rope supreme court clarence thomas into the 2020 election. why a trump lawyer called thomas the only chance to delay the process. and north korea is firing off its longest short-range missiles in one day as cnn also learned the rogue nation is secretly supplying russia with weapons. hello and welcome to the lead. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. the countdown is on in our politics lead. just six days left until the votes are counted in the congressional balance of power decided. a brand-new cnn poll suggests republican candidates have the momentum. 51% of likely voters say they ll vote for the republican can
above and then escaped on a neighboring rooftop. police in tactical gear tonight searching on top of buildings. the concern over children in the hospital in this country. in part of california tonight, they have now declared a health emergency over the surge of children hospitalized with respiratory illnesses. and pfizer tonight with news on a potential vaccine for rsv in the future. the abc news exclusive tonight. a woman who accused georgia republican senate candidate herschel walker of pressuring her to have an abortion, sitting down on camera for an interview for the first time with our juju chang. why she s now come forward. saying, this isn t about political parties, that she voted for president trump. and what she brought with her to the interview. tonight, herschel walker s response. tonight, we are one week to the midterms. georgia, of course, and several other key state races all so close. any one of them could determine who controls the senate. so, rachel sco
he specifically saw at their home. he saw the speaker. in turn, when he could not locate her at the home, he turned his violence towards her husband. the horrific attack on paul pelosi and the horrific response from the right. it s weird things going on in the household in the last couple of weeks. tonight, the mainstream maga attempt to false flag the attack by a suspect who told the fbi that he wanted to kneecap the speaker of the house. then the simplest way to stop crimes like this is to get tough on crime. the republican midterm messaging on crime versus the reality in red states. do you believe we have higher crime than new york or california? that s what she just set. plus the justice department chimes in on voter intimidation in arizona, and lindsey graham s attempt to wriggle out of election interference subpoena, denied by the supreme court. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. just days after the husband of spea