an epic battle for control of congress is heading into the final stretch tonight. with only two weeks until election day and miles to go for the candidates out there on the campaign trail. let s get right toe hottest battlegrounds. pennsylvania. where the senate race could be decisive for democrats. cnn s chief national affairs correspondent is there for us. on the eve of a critical debate, all eyes are on pennsylvania. in the fight for control of the senate. as democratic john fetterman and republican, mehmet oz, share a stage for the first time. a new cnn poll shows fetterman with a narrow edge. 51 to 45%. just outside the surveys margin of error, as oz works to boost his campaign two weeks before election day. the race to fill the seat of retiring republican senator, pam toomey, has played out as a bitter, long distance duel with a sharp focus on fetterman s recovery from a near deadly stroke in may. it s the elephant in the room. having a stroke. at a weekend campai
day after dramatic testimony where the january 6th committee showed what went on behind the scenes at the white house after president trump was told that he lost the election but refused to believe it and instead pushed his election lies. we are watching two key races in south carolina. that s where two gop members of the house are fighting to win renomination, both facing candidates backed by the former president. representative tom rice is one of ten house republicans that voted to impeach former president trump after the insurrection at the capitol. representative nancy mace didn t vote to impeach trump but refused to join if pack of house republicans who tried to block certification of joe biden s victory and has been aligning herself with the former president ever since. and polls just closed in nevada where a trump-backed candidate is running for the republican senate nomination. and in south carolina we re seeing more results coming in. and that s why i have the best o
will be, and challenging the democratic incumbent senator who is defending a seat, a seat in a state where joe biden won by about two percentage points. a nail biter today. john king, you are following key races out of south carolina, incumbents, representative nancy mace and representative tom rice, one of the rare republicans to impeach trump after the insurrection. what is the latest there? let s move across the country and look at the house. pull up south carolina. votes coming in a little more quickly than nevada but we re several hours in now. this is very interesting here. the seventh district russell frey is donald trump s candidate here, a conservative running against the incumbent. tom rice had that seat since 2012 and won big in the tea party year. he is getting 25% of the vote right now, disappointing for a republican incumbent who represented the district for a decade. 99% of the vote in. we re still tallying the final votes. the 50% plus one you avoid a run-
thanks for watching. don lemon tonight starts right now. hey, don. hi. thank you very much, laura. i ll see you again tomorrow evening. this is don lemon tonight. results coming in right now in key primary election races across the country, and we re seeing a test of donald trump s grip on the republican party. voters going to the polls one day after dramatic testimony where the january 6th committee showed what went on behind the scenes at the white house after president trump was told that he lost the election but refused to believe it and instead pushed his election lies. we are watching two key races in south carolina. that s where two gop members of the house are fighting to win renomination, both facing candidates backed by the former president. representative tom rice is one of ten house republicans that voted to impeach former president trump after the insurrection at the capitol. representative nancy mace didn t vote to impeach trump but refused to join if pack
Situation even worse. And no apology. I have jokes. He has the launch codes. So a fair fight. Reporter steven come bert dresses his rant about the president expressing only minimal regrets. I would change a few that were cruder than they needed to be. Will that be enough to satisfy his critics. Today, thursday, may 4th, 2017. Good morning. Welcome to today. Its a thursday morning. We have matt on assignment. Craig is here. Happy for Prince Phillip. He deserves to retire. Who was hoping that announcement was going to be a wedding announcement . A lot of folks were harry. Well have to wait for that announcement. Well have more on what the news is about, but lets start with the somehowdown on capitol hill. A vote happening today on the republicans long promised health care overhaul. This is less than two months after similar bill was scrapped over fears it wouldnt pass. Now the House Majority leader says things are different. They have the votes. We have in depth coverage this morning. We