atlanta. reporter: hi, anita, 2 and a half million georgia voters have cast ballots in early voting setting new midterm election record. high turnout comes despite democrat gubernatorial candidates claims voter suppression. during the pandemic emergency rules introduced absentee ballot drop boxes but after democrats won georgia s elections for president and both u.s. senate seats in 2020, the republican controlled legislature passed a new election law requiring each county to have at least one drop box but also requiring the drop box be kept indoors and only accessible during voting hours. democrats are also opposed to new requirements for voters to provide the number of a driver s license or state id card in order to obtain or submit an absentee ballot. but georgia s republican secretary of state says the new id requirement solves an old problem. we have been sued by the democrat party and republican party over signature matches saying it s subjective. what did i say back
archaeologists are still unlocking the secrets of king tut s tomb. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone we re heading into the final weekend of campaign 2022. now four days before the election that will decide which party will control the levers of power in washington down the stretch, democrats who have faced headwinds over a fragile economy got a brief reprieve in the form of strong jobs numbers. 261,000 jobs added last month while the drama builds in those key georgia races. warnock versus walker. and pennsylvania, fetterman versus oz. oprah winfrey offering a late endorsement in that contest today the importance of that state to both parties made clear as presidents biden, trump and obama hit the ground in pa over the weekend on behalf of their candidates. peter alexander is there tonight. reporter: tonight the political power players, presidents past and present prepared to converge on pennsylvania. as republicans blame democrats for
are in pennsylvania, aishah hasnie in georgia and alexis mcadams is following the new york governor s race. first to rich edson live for us in pittsburgh. rich. reporter: good evening, jon. well, i guess western pennsylvania s going to have to be big enough for two former prime ministers. first it was former president obama, now 40 miles away and about an hour from now you re going to get former president trump. he will be campaigning in latrobe, pennsylvania, for a number of republican candidates including dr. mehmet oz who s running for senate and doug mastriano who s running for governor here. he has supported oz since the republican primary. he was the one, the former president, babbed in that backed in that primary in mayment. oz has trained his campaign on crime and inflation. mortgage rates are through the roof. couples all over the commonwealth, new families are worried about crime in their communities, and they re worried about fentanyl in their mailboxes. it d
shows the candidates separated by a point. john fetterman struggled to communicate and did not commit to releasing full medical records after suffering a stroke this spring. dr. oz did not focus on his opponent s health and hit him on the issues. let s also talk about the elephant in the room, i had a stroke, he s never let me forget that. and i might miss some words during this debate, put two words together, it knocked me down, i will keep coming up. this campaign is about fighting for everyone in pennsylvania that ever got knocked down. john fetterman during this crime wave has been trying to get murderers convicted and sentenced to life in prison out of jail in possible. one thing to legalize drugs and open the border, to raising taxes, i want washington to be civil again and less radical. john fetterman will bring that. todd: brooke singman has major moments from the debate. brooke: john fetterman and mehmet oz s debate was not short on drama. john fetterman was
more to combat crime telling the new york post everybody is talking the talk but nobody is walking the walk. falsely labeled a covid denier. levi s management gave her a choice, shut up or leave. and that made me all kind of things they deemed unemployable. favorite sports team, right? yeah. what team is that? the rams. i m going to take to you a ram s game. oh my god. we are going to go see them. oh my god. we are going to take you in the stadium for the experience of a lifetime. lawrence: 13 days out until the big midterm election. good morning, welcome to fox & friends. there s a lot going on. a lot of spirited debates last night. in new york. we got pennsylvania,. ainsley: and got michigan. you no he what s interesting. we might not know the results the day after the election because some of these are so close. lawrence: they are expecting a runoff in georgia. if you are just tuning in this morning i m in for brian kilmeade along with ain