The United States waiting to see if there will soon be a shift in power there and it looks like it will be that way tuesday was the most closely watched Midterm Election in modern u. S. History voters choosing a new congress with all seats in the house of representatives up for grabs and a majority of seats in the u. S. Senate up for grabs as well lets take a look at the standings right now in the house of representatives you can see right there two hundred eighteen is the number that each party trying to reach and with the seats that have been called already it looks like the democrats are going to succeed in overtaking the republicans they are lets look at how the u. S. Senate is fairing that is a different story it looks like there will be no change in control of the senate by the republicans in fact the republicans if things continue as theyre going right now. Looks like the republicans are even going to pick up a few more seats in the u. S. Senate well a big story coming out of th
Georgia. And joy reid joins us from florida with the latest in that state and beyond. Steve kornacki is moments away at the big board with the races to watch as democrats try to Flip Congress blue and Cornell Belcher and tom have been pouring through the data and historic voting. Congresswoman Maxine Waters to respond to trumps toxic closing strategy. Rebecca tracer on the mobilization of women and what were going to see tomorrow. And later Michael Moore on why nobody has an excuse not to vote, especially this year. We have quite simply never seen a Midterm Election like this one, one in which in the words of president barack obama the very character of our nation is on the ballot. The early vote data is staggering. More than 35 Million People have already voted. In some states including right here in texas, there have already been more early votes cast than were cast in the last midterms overall. That includes election day. Across the country, organizers say they have never seen level
Here now is reverend al sharpton. Good evening and welcome to this msnbc special. Im your host reverend al sharpton and i want to begin with a history lesson. Since world war ii the africanamerican and latino vote has been increasingly critical to the Democratic Party, a relationship that was realized symbolically in 2008 when barack obama was elected president largely on the historic turnout of black voters nationwide. But a decade later voters of color are seeing their gains attacked under the administration of president donald trump. I recently spoke with more than a dozen of the current democratic president ial candidates. And for the next hour youll hear from them all on criminal justice, social and economic inequality, the power of the minority vote and of course race. And add to that conversation, the news this week that former Vice President joe biden has officially joined the race. Will he be the one supported by minority voters . We are in the battle for the soul of this nati
but seeing no irregularities or inconsistency told the associated press he will not delay the proceedings. that landmark win in alabama is energizing democrat s across th country in midterm elections. they re looking at possibly a win in retaking control of congress. to win 24 races to outnumber the republicans in the senate. a total of ten seats up for grabs in states considered trump country. in five of those states, trump won double digits gut in arizona and alabama. and to what to watch, let s bring in vivian and eugene scott. let me ask you about the 1023 challenge last night. how long do you think this has been prolonged?
in the 2018 race, to see when people the party right now, the republican party keeps on assuring people that once they start seeing those tax cuts reflected in their paychecks next year, they re going to feel differently about that. but if those tax cuts don t really deliver, if people don t see massive change in the amounts of money that they take home every single month. or if money is added to other area and they re forced to pay in other respects, that is obviously going to give the democrats a boost as well. and so, there are a couple of factors that can kind of, by default, democrats can build on momentum from the republican party, just being the ruling party at the moment. they can really make a lot of gains as well. again, like you said, they only need 24 seats in the house. and two in the senate to flip to flip congress. and so, and that has typically happened in midterm elections. the president s party tends to