it s election night across america. 50 states, millions of votes, and an outcome that will be felt here and around the globe. the control of congress is up for grabs, with republicans looking to retake the house and senate from the democrats. hundreds of seats in congress are about to be decided. across the states, voters have lined up to choose governors, and a host of local officials. people who could decide how future elections are fought. i mjohn sudworth in philadelphia. this race could have a significant bearing on whetherjoe biden becomes a lame duck president. you can tell just how tight the contest is because the legal wrangling has begun over which votes to count.
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the senate. in a moment we ll talk to our north america editor sarah smith in washington but first our correspondent john sudworth is in philadelphia in the state of pennsylvania. pennsylvania is such an important battleground? it pennsylvania is such an important battleground? battleground? it is. i m in an old ale house battleground? it is. i m in an old ale house in battleground? it is. i m in an old ale house in downtown - battleground? it is. i m in an old i ale house in downtown philadelphia and people will be turning up here and people will be turning up here and they can watch the results unfolding on the big screens and they will be watching from a pub that dates back to 1860, the eve of the american civil war and an event that some people see dark echoes of intraday s to divided political landscape. it has been in evidence in this state throughout this campaign is specially in a key senate race that pits dr oz, a republican, against his democratic opponentjohn fetterma
as the education secretary under borisjohnson and now he has gone for a third time defence secretary for leaks and sacked again as the education secretary. if you are the story, you re distracting from everything else. so well done, gavin. rishi sunak has got my number if he wants to know who to appoint next. last week rishi sunak faced attacks in parliament for his appointment of suella braverman as home secretary and tomorrow he is back in the chamber and facing no doubt more criticism of his choices. americans have been casting their ballots in the final hours of mid term elections that will determine which party controls congress. the democrats currently hold sway in both chambers, but polls have suggested the republicans will regain the house of representatives and could take the senate. if they succeed, they will be able to stifle president biden s legislative agenda for the next two years. our correspondentjohn sudworth has been following the action from philadelphia, in the
decades and love new york city. in fact, but moving to new york, being surrounded, living in the lion s den and surrounded by all the new york fans is only deepened my distaste for them. i m sorry to say. oh, wow. ooh, wow. you need to work on that. but richard, i also will say, you look, lack of the beard, disappointing this morning. you look great, but jon s hatred for giants, and now cheating astros. and now goep phillies. found a common thread. all rooting for philadelphia. america s team. back to the news here. a new report in the new york times offering in-depth account of what went on behind the scenes between the biden administration and the kingdom of saudi arabia over the summer as the u.s. secured what it thought was a deal to boost oil production. instead earlier this month saudi