every single weekend for the democratic strategists say their success in the midterms hinges largely on strong voter turnout part former president barack obama in high demand in the closing stretch of the campaign. campaign this weekend to try to help avoid a potential republican red wave according to some. this despite his disappointing track record with midterms particular back in 2010 november that? republicans gained a 70 congressional seats. i am not recommending for every future president they take like i did last night. i m sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons. shellacking remember that? susan chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner joins us numbered while the former president work has to magic you think susan? or has it faded and is it too late? much younger president obama in that clip. that is a great question. it is a midterm election for president biden. so that is the governing rule
press, paul paul pelosi, nancy pelosi s husband, suffered blunt force injuries in the overnight early morning attack at his home in san francisco. that, according to the associated press. blunt force injuries suffered by paul pelosi in this overnight attack in his home in san francisco. two people now are telling the associated press that the 82-year-old did suffer that those series of injuries in the attack. nancy pelosi s office says she was not in san francisco at the time of the attack. we will, of course, continue to monitor this breaking news story. meanwhile, we can tell you that several democratic strategists are agonizing about political headwinds in the closing stretch of the campaign. some of them fear the election will be worse for the party than polls indicate. joining us to talk about this and other headlines is texas
as headwinds in the closing stretch of the campaign. what did you find out? reporter: the fear is that political gravity is setting in. that s the word a number of democrats use. democratic candidates for months have been kind of levitaing far above president biden s approval rating. that tends to be at least in past midterm elections for a president s party, a recipe for disaster. but they ve done remarkably well in the polls despite worries about the economy, and now the fear, the anxiety among many democrats is can they pull off one final act of levitation in these last 11 days before the election? president biden s approval rating with independents and our nbc news poll is 37%. that s not a great place to be, and a lot of democratic candidates have to highlight that contrast, make it a choice between the two parties they believe to ultimately pull this off. there s also somewhat of a fear that the polls might be
investigators. that call is one reason why they want to see him on the witness stand because he was also part of a december 2020 meeting and the white house promoting false election claims involving georgia. to me, most interestingly, he visited a site in suburban atlanta around the same time where an audit of georgia absentee ballots was underway. surprising officials. they want to hear from him on that visit as well. let s tie the two story lines together and talk about the role that donald trump plays in the midterm election there in georgia. we know that georgia officials, raffensperger, the governor, kemp, stood up to trump s efforts to overturn the election in 2020. we know that herschel walker is trump s hand picked candidate for the senate. trump scheduled for a bunch of rallies in the coming days. georgia is not on there yet. what s the impact the former president is going to have here in the closing stretch where you are? and that s why georgia defies the sort of easy nar
cases without exceptions. as democrats try linking oz to mastriano, the republican candidate for governor, but it was fetterman s own shaky performance. my doctors, the real doctors i believe, they believe i m ready to be serve. stirring alarm among democrat leaders from pennsylvania to washington. with the help of closed captioning, fetterman not only struggled to prosecute his case against oz, but only on fracking. in 2018, he said this. i don t support fracking at all and i never have. tuesday night, he struggled to explain how his views evolved. i do support fracking and i don t, i don t i support fracking and i stand, and i do support fracking. the debate opened a new round of discussion about fetterman s ability to serve which is thousand likely to be a central question in the closing stretch of the race.