. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in the battleground state of georgia live in atlanta. the clock is ticking and the stakes are climbing. the mid-term elections are just two days away. control of congress, of course, hangs in the balance. the senate could be decided by three key toss up races right here in georgia. and in nevada and pennsylvania, other crucial states are also in play and are very tight. the importance of pennsylvania, though, came into sharp focus this weekend big time as three presidents past and present stumped for their parties nominees in that state. you re looking live right now where donald trump has been sharing the stage with florida senator marco rubio. and on the other side of your screen you can see right there, there s president biden getting off of air force one. of course he s going to be in yonkers just a short time from now. but former president of the united states donald trump, and joe biden, the current president of the
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guess is the jewish community community will support him if we do honest dialogue together so we heal. all right, jonathan greenblatt, thank you as always. jim, i appreciate you. thank you for covering it. you got it as always. still ahead with the mid-terms just two days away some democrats in new york are gearing up for big potential losses. the election hasn t happened yet but they are worried, and they already have their fall guy according to some new cnn reporting coming up next. as we go to break these are live images from new york where president biden will soon arrive for a rally with governor kathy hochul. more on all of that next. you re live in the cnn newsroom. , including the covid-19 virus, on more surfaces t than lysol disinfectant spray. lysol. what it takes to protect.
line. the polls have been all over the place. but i m confident the democrats can get back to the motivation they had after roe v. wade was overturned and get back to that level of enthusiasm. the democrats can cross the finish line with the unexpected win. but, keith, let me follow up on that. why do you suppose it s been so close in new york state with governor hochul? well, they view crime as a big issue here in new york. i m in new york right now. the issue of homelessness, inflation, those are issues republicans have been tackling. and democrats have been in this weird position because we most democrats who are in power right now essentially inherited this crisis because it all started because of covid 2020 which was when donald trump was the president. but that is something joe biden was elected to deal with. it s taken some time to get out of that crisis and crime is a direct effect of that as is inflation, homelessness, all these other issues.
cal perry has more. we ve seen a tripling of assaults on our workers. reporter: the stress of covid is bubbling over. multiple factors is contributed to the rise. overworked staff, strained resources to care for patients, covid rules over masks, and visitation limits. you ve got to tell the family members, you need to wait outside. we need to get this patient stabilized. that s really hard for the families, and it makes them update. reporter: in massachusetts, panic buttons. patients beating and spitting on workers. assaults jumped from 40 to 123 between 2019 and 2020. we have the chance to press the button, and security knows exactly where we are. if we have to chase a patient down, they know where our last location is. reporter: it comes as hospitals struggle to keep workers on the job with many facing severe nursing shortages. they re exhausted. there s fewer and fewer people that feel they can bear the risk