it s tight for sure. and today some signs that the momentum is shifting toward republican voters pushing lee zeldin closer to the line. maybe even over it. the hot issue here crime. and democrat governor kathy hochul appears to be in trouble. fox power rankings show houck hochul s lead is shrinking mightily. as that is happening, the race projection has moved from a solid win for democrats to a likely win. you don t get any bluer than the blue state of new york. republicans and democrats across america are both paying attention to this race. and the u.s. house of representatives republicans are projected to win 233 seats. a 16-seat majority. that actually is a pickup of a seat from just a week ago with four races in the northeast moving closer to favoring republicans. karl rove says the president is not helping his party. since we created american political parties between the years of 1818 and 1824 two first mid-term elections which the white house party gained seats in
john: we are going to talk to the first term assemblyman looking to unseat one of the most powerful democrats in congress and in a district that president biden won by double digits. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. boy, sandra, getting exciting. sandra: here we go, two weeks from election day. sandra smith in new york, crime is the talk of many here in this city, but it s happening in american cities and towns all across the country. we begin with covid at this hour. president biden and his party accused of exploiting it and what critics called the consequences of their refusal to move on from it. it s a fox news alert. john: kicking things off, more than a month since president biden told the american people the pandemic is over. the damage done from how the president and other democratic leaders handle the pandemic may last forever. sandra: the worst drop in children s test scores in decades, after the most
governor s race. kathy hochul is in a bit of trouble here as lee zeldin nudges this race now from what was a solid dem in that column, now it is just likely dem. so these are moves that we watch closely. hochul is now trying to recalibrate, scrambling to say that everyone deserves a subway ride that is without fear after this horrific scene that we watched over the past several days. so many other beatings that have frightened new yorkers. these two races are also shifting. sean patrick malone, head of the democrat campaign committee, a very important influential democrat is now in danger of losing his seat to mike lawler of the gop who you may have seen on with sandra. then you have john katko s seat a republican leaving office. looks like it could stay in gop control in what is considered to be a part of new york stay that could easily go to the democrats. these are places that joe biden won by double digits. so republican congresswoman nicole malliotakis is running again
headlines. the new york supreme court has reinstated all employees who were fired after refusing to be vaccinated for covid-19. justices say the workers rights were violated. they are ordering back pay for those employees. a pennsylvania house committee heavily criticizing philadelphia district attorney larry krasner for policies it believes have contributed to rising crime. the panel is not yet saying whether he should be impeached. workers in arizona are continuing to install shipping containers along another section of the southern border to fill gaps not covered by a wall. last week we told you the governor, doug ducey is refusing to comply with the biden administration order to stop such actions. and russian president vladimir putin is urging his government to cut through red tape and produce enough weapons and supplies for the war effort in ukraine. putin s regime is facing military production delays and mounting losses there and with that we are back to our top story
it s barack obama to the rescue. the dynamic duo are expected to get back together and bail out democrats in pennsylvania. obama is sure to be a welcome sight because back in d.c., joe biden has all but checked out. instead of barnstorming the country with a flood of midterm rallies, biden was getting his updated covid booster shot and yamerring on about the pandemic he said was over. he s just no use to his party who are struggling hard to deliver a coherent message. but top democrats strategist james carville thinks his party can be saved. but there s a catch. if we keep this kind of npr foundation strategy of left politics, we re going to lose. i m telling the same elite coastal people, forget everything. we are going to advertise and push the fact that they want to throw people off of medicare and social security. and they want to shut the government down to do it. and that s how you win. jeanine: you know, dana, it was, i believe, in november of 2021 that james carvi