voting. the biggest prize the balance of powner congress. for democrats that means the ability to push forward with president biden s agenda. he will be in maryland tonight to rally for the democratic candidate for governor there. and here is a look at what is at stake. 35 spots in the senate. there for the taking and as jim just mentioned, dozens of governor votes will be cast. secretary of state and attorney general as well. voter enthusiasm is soaring into the election. more than 40 million ballots have been cast across 47 states outpacing the 2018 numbers in states where the data is available. it is still too early to know what overall turnout will be. will it reach 2018 levels could. could that be higher. we ll have to wait longer to find out. let s kick off this morning in wisconsin. hotly contested senate race there could be perhaps one of the states that is a decider for democrats in their hopes of keeping power in the chamber. luc lucy kafanov is there. ron johnson
moment, with just 13 days until midterm elections it is one of many developments that continue to shake up races in central states. we will focus on their impact tonight and in pennsylvania the debate certainly made a mark as fetterman admitted just minutes ago the aftereffects of his truck made speaking difficult at times. my doctors, the real doctors and i believe, they all believe that i am ready to be served. i didn t hear you say that you would release your full medical records, why not? you have 30 seconds. again, my doctor believes that i am fit to be serving, and that is what i believe is where i am standing. republican, mehmet oz making headlines as well with this on abortion. i want women, doctors, local, political leaders, leading the democracy that has always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. the question now, what will pennsylvania voters make of what they saw and heard? we will have real a
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. whatever the results of next tuesday s midterm elections, there is no denying that these midterm elections are taking place with the very real specter of political violence and the prevalence of disinformation as a political weapon, unmatched in modern political times. large swaths of the gop have been swallowed up completely by the disinformation about the integrity of our very election systems, and many on the right have normalized conversations around political violence to the point in which polls show it is accepted by many as a useful tool to achieving the right s political aims. now, this says all sorts of things about the weakness of our democracy right now. more importantly, it says a whole lot of things about the weakness of the gop as a governing party. now, a party interested in governing would be desperate to debate policy and have those debates and win those debates ridded in data and a shared set of facts. there s none
4095, that is how many lawsuits former president donald trump or his organization, has been involved in, according to usa today. and they cover everything from defamation, contract disputes, personal injury, and more. and they spanned three decades. donald trump has been the defendant in almost 2000 of those civil suits. but the former president has never been a defendant in a criminal trial. if that changes, the trump playbook we have grown so familiar with, the path he nears, the vengeful outbursts, the dangerous lies, they will have no power there. the former president is connected to criminal investigations on multiple fronts. there is the justice department s investigation on trump s handling of classified documents, which most recently was a federal judge says he is inclined to unseal parts of the search affidavit and has ordered the justice department to make redactions. then, there s trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. his former white hous
potential future case, plus put investigators in jeopardy or expose potential witnesses to pressure. there s also the long standing practice at the justice department to not say anything about pending cases, especially ones as politically sensitive as this. that said, as the judge in the case recognized, there s public interest involved here. cnn s jessica schneider starts us off. do we know why exactly the judge decided to release this? we don t know for sure, anderson, but it s possible that the doj may have given a little more than they originally thought they could. the judge moved really swiftly today. it was less than four hours after he received prosecutors proposed redactions that he ruled that what they proposed would in fact be sufficient and should be released to the public by noon tomorrow. the reason it s interesting that this judge came to such a quick conclusion is that when doj argued in court last week, they said that any redactions could be so extensive t