130 million people turning out. does that include a larger number of democratic friendly voters. do you see that possibly? when you look at a generic ballot, it s not a blowout for republicans right now, do you see that potentially happening? there s no doubt dobbs benefitted democrats, it turned on their voters which is really important, turnout, obviously, is really important. i think it has faded. i think it s a secondary issue compared to the economy and inflation and also a lot of republicans actually finally found their footing on this issue and staked out some compromised ground they found was defensible and started taking shots at democrats as extremists for favoring basically no restrictions on abortion. so it s it s the best era the democrats have had in their quiver. i think they ve played it for all it s worth. there s no way it s going to change the overall environment which is so hostile to
who that advantages. to jen s points, candidates matter in the senate than the house. it s just that s just really hard for democrats. but the senate, you know, you could have 150,000 votes decide between republicans, pick up a seat or two or democrats pick up a seat or two. i would keep an eye on washington state. that s getting a little tighter. there s a sleeper one there too potentially. rich, when we talk about this issue of turnout here, you know, democrats will say and we ll show this a little bit later too particularly the issue of abortion in the wake of the supreme court decision has motivated and will motivate democratic voters to turn out, perhaps voters who wouldn t ordinarily turn out in a midterm election and that it will neutralize republican advantages on other issues. it will create a little bit more of a level playing field. gets to that question of 120,
that s why pediatricians urge you to vote yes on prop 31. it stops the sale of dangerous flavored tobacco and helps protect kids from nicotine addiction. please vote yes on 31. vote yes on prop 31. we keep talking about that potential for record-shattering turnout in next week s midterm election. what are the issues that would drive voters to come to the polls and potentially historic numbers. a new readout from gallop, let s take a look here at what voters are saying are the most important issues on their mind heading into this election next week. these are issues that voters rate as extremely important, again, the top of the list, the economy. you see abortion, again, months after that supreme court ruling, second most important, crime, gun policy, immigration now.
and a columnist at the washington post. thank you for joining us. donna, let me start with you. i don t know if you can still see it, when i look at that, four of the top five issues, republicans, it seems, have an advantage on, when you ask voters how they re going to vote. there s a lot that democrats are putting on abortion in this election. do you think it will be enough? it is. i think it s a question of turnout and which voters are going to drive that turnout, and i think democrats calculate that abortion is going to drive turnout of young people in particular and women and especially independent and suburban women. and so i think that s why the focus on abortion look, you can t ignore this chart right here. when i look at it, i see the reverse of 2016 and then 2020 where immigration was at the top of these of these lists. so, you know, i m looking for democrats to, you know, really hone in on the voters there, trying to turn out on november 8th.
voters. and i think the voters that we re talking about, we re not talking about democratic voters. we re talking about suburb women who may be republicans who are concerned about abortion and the tone of elections, what they want their children to see. donald trump is a complete turnoff to those voters. we saw that in 2020 and i think that same effect is going to be true in 2022. you can imagine, mehmet oz and donald trump on the same stage, it s going to be a reminder to those voters about how much they dislike donald trump and they attribute that to mehmet oz. the saturday before the election, this coming saturday, you re going to have obama and biden in philadelphia and trump out west in pennsylvania and then tuesday, we re going to find out who wins. donna edwards, john, thank you both for joining us. why is the new york democratic governor in a potentially close race there? what is happening in the empire state and some other significant