climate is affecting your wallet. economy and abortion, those are the issues that democrats are focusing on this morning, trying to rally voters with less than three weeks to go before election day. president biden will address u.s. concerns about rising gas prices. today s expected to announce the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. republicans are driving hard on inflation. there s good news there. millions of americans could see a bump in their paycheck next year. early voting numbers suggesting turn-out could be on pace to match 2018, a year that had high participation for a midterm. control of congress hangs in the balance. right now the senate is split 50/50. democrats hold only a nine-seat advantage in the house. cnn s senior data reporter with us now on this. take us through this. take a look where we are on this generic ballot. this gives us a good indication of where things have been going and where they are r
and welcome to cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. president biden a short time ago laying out his plan to keep energy prices down for americans which includes another push for oil companies to boost production and it comes, that push to lower gas prices as early voting gets under way in some states. we are now officially less than three weeks to go. who is counting? yeah. the president just announced he will release another 15 million barrels from the nation s oil stockpile beginning in december. this is in addition to the 165 million barrels of crude oil that s been put under contract since this past spring. the reserves are at a 30-year low. with my you a nounsment today we are going to continue to stabilize markets and decrease the prices at a time when the actions of other countries have caused such volatility, and i ve told my team behind me here to be prepared to look further look for further releases in the months ahead if needed. we re calling it a ready and
the democrats are desperate to turn the tide and win over last minute voters. but president biden just screwed up big time with another out of touch remark. no more drilling. there is no more drilling! i haven t formed any new drilling. that was before i was president. we re trying to work on that. get that done. jeanine: that comes just two days after the president says he wants to shut down every coal plant in america. the white house still trying to spin that one away. but the democrats are not done with foolish comments. their solution to americans struggling with 40-year high inflation is to eat chef boyarde. what do you plan to do to help solve our inflation problem? yeah, i grew up in a family where if the gas price went up, the food budget went down. so by this time of week, we d be eating chef boyarde if that budget wasn t going to change. that s what families have to do. jeanine: and with comments like that, it s no wonder democrats strategists are making
on her instagram page. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the writer and broadcaster, mihir bose, and kieran andrews, who s political editor at the times scotland. tomorrow s front pages, starting with, the i sugests liz truss is facing fresh peril after backbenchers hinted tonight they won t support an end to the pension triple lock. the telegraph also leads on the threat to pensions. the guardian strikes a similartone quoting one mp who branded the proposed budget cuts as toxic . while the express is more forthright on behalf of its readers issuing a warning to truss not to touch the triple lock. the times meanwhile says that the new chancellor is also planning to delay the introduce of the cap on social care costs. the metro leads on new polling which suggests the pm s approval rating has sunk to a record low of minus 70 per cent. the mirror focuses on the tale of a veteran who faced a 26 hour wait on a t