one the supreme court is about to hear a case you might not have heard of, that concerns a benign sounding theory about state legislatures. this case could quite literally and democracy as we know it. there is not been nearly enough conversation about this case, and we are gonna change that this morning. then every politico in the bell when trying to figure out how the republican overreach that landed us in this dystopian row post row reality is going to effect next month s elections. one louisiana candidate is literally embodying the shifting landscape. we re gonna tell you her remarkable story and we will meet her in the next hour. velshi begins right now. good morning, feel it is an effort in the ninth. i am a label. she just must election. they were officially in of the 2020 midterms. is the first major election since the 2020 presidential election, and the insurrection of the. capital as well into these last weeks of the election cycle, the former president s grip on t
new cnn reporting spotlights the momentum and the maneuvering inside the house gop effort to impeach the homeland security chief. and a revenge plot stoked by delusions of a rigged election. police arrest a former republican candidate in new mexico. they say he paid cash, gave gunmen address, even pulled the trigger in a scheme targeting the homes of elected democrats. up first for us this hour, the president of the united states unable to escape the gravity of a self-inflicted crisis. just moments ago president biden at the white house, you hear it there, appearing with the dutch prime minister. you can hear the president getting shouted questions. he gave no answers about the documents story that simply will not go away. the president s public posture sticking to the confines of what his lawyers have already said or avoiding questions altogether belies private angst inside the west wing. sources telling cnn the west wing mood where aides waiting along with everyone else to
i could have not said that better myself. i m alicia men menez, alex has the night off. here s a thing that has happened every day like clock work, as long as we can remember. every day the white house sends out from the white house the daily guidance. at the top, there s a few paragraphs describing what the president s day will entail. and below that, there s a schedule of the major events planned. with the daily intelligence briefing, any major meetings, the timing of any travel that the president is doing. the white house puts out the daily guidance that so the press can plan and that you can make out every day. it s something done every day every white house under every president. just a couple of weeks at the end of donald trump s presidency, something weird happened. the white house issued daily guidance that said president trump will work from early in the morning to late in the evening. he will make many calls and have many meetings and then mention about a campaign r
we begin this hour with breaking news, the final nbc news poll of the midterms is out now, just two days before the election. it shows a highly competitive landscape and what could be one of the most consequential elections in u.s. history. among all registered voters, congressional preference is tied at among likely voters, 58% say they prefer a democratic-controlled congress compared to 47% for republican controlled. our poll also finds democrats have no pulled even with republicans in enthusiasm, and identical 73% from both parties say they are highly interested. registering either a nine or ten on a ten-point scale. and when it comes to the most important issue, 23% of registered voters say it is threats to democracy. 20% say jobs in the economy, and 17% say the cost of living. earlier today on nbc news, leading members of both parties say both issues will propel them to victory. we have great candidates, people are showing up to vote. there is no this election is a
before they head to the polls. trying times. and with control of the senate and the house both up for grabs, both parties are barnstorming the critical battleground states. let s check in with cnn s senior data reporter, harry enten. where are we on the battle for the senate? hey, alisyn. let s start off with an idea of what s at stake in this election. how close the balance of power in the united states senate was going into election night. look at this. we got a 50-50 senate right now between democrats and republicans with vice president kamala harris breaking that tie. so any one seat, any one seat shift could make all the difference in the world. so what are some key states that we re watching? here are some key senate races that we re watching. look, we ve got wisconsin. we ve got georgia. we ve got pennsylvania. we ve got nevada. we ve got arizona. not on here, also my favorite state, the place where i went to college, new hampshire is another state that we re watch