Of americans see election day tomorrow. Its according to a new brand new cnn poll. 70 of those surveyed say that their vote for congress is to send a message about this president. If you break that down even further, 28 say their vote is to show their support of trump. 42 say their vote is to show opposition to him. And 28 say their vote for congress is not about the president at all. But one big number is arguably the best indicator of how americans feel about how they value tomorrows vote. 31 million. That is at least how many ballots have been cast so far this election. And in some states, like West Virginia and new jersey, more votes are in at this point than at the same time in 2016, which was a president ial election year. And moments ago, the president talked about how these midterms could be different. Theres a great electricity in the air, like we havent seen, in my opinion, since the 16 election. So somethings happening. Well see, but i think were going to do very well. You l
Them, none are going to show up. It looks like there will be more stonewalling as the week goes on. The president and his top allies are demanding to hear also from the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry. That flouts the law. They want his or her identity revealed. The whistleblowers lawyer says his client is willing to answer written questions from republican lawmakers. And this comes as republicans have been teeing up what is their lastditch argument ahead of public hearings that there was a quid pro quo, but its not impeachable. Lets get the breaking news, though, on these new battleground state polls. Cnn senior Political Writer and analyst, harry entin joins us with that. Sir . Sir, how are you . Okeydokey. Lets take a look. I want to set the stage here. Remember 2016, right . What we saw was Hillary Clinton winning that popular vote, 4846. But the key thing was those six closest states that trump won. Arizona, florida, michigan, North Carolina, pennsylvania and w
President s action was not illegal and does not rise to an impeachable offense. President trump, though, is not changing his defense. The exchange there was, no quid pro quo, tweeting, false stories. Are being reported and a few republican senators are saying that President Trump they have done a quid pro quo. There is nothing wrong with that. Perhaps so, but read the transcript. There is no quid pro quo. Three new National Polls putting joe biden on top, with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on top less than 100 days until the iowa caucuses. Biden leads by ten points in the latest fox news poll of democratic and democraticleaning voters. The former Vice President tops sanders by 12 points. Bidens lead over warren in the Washington Post abc news poll, sanders has five points. Joe biden and Bernie Sanders are panning Elizabeth Warrens medicare for all plan. Warren released her 20. 5 trillion proposal next week. It puts big burden on the wealthiest americans, drawing criticism from he
Just hours ago. What do you think . Can the celebrity and senator put politics aside and find any Common Ground . Its a turbulent tuesday. Lets go after it. All right. The voters in North Carolinas 9th district have just had their say at the polls. Again, the gop should win the seat. Trump won it by a dozen points. So did romney, but doubts about this president gave democrats, if you look at the numbers, about a 12point swing in midterm races in some red districts. Will we see more slippage tonight . This is important enough that the president was down there last night rallying the maga troops. So to campaign for dan bishop, he is the republican running. But lets be honest. Its not about him. This is about a proxy for the president , dan mccready, as you see on your screen, is the democrat. It is very close. It is getting closer. It should not be a surprise if the republican wins but we want to see by how much. What could happen here in light of what happened in that 2018 earlier midte
He joins us on capitol hill with more. Good morning, manu. Theres that and then there is all that is ahead. Walk us through what is in store this week. Its a very significant week of public hearings, potentially the last phase of public hearings before we start moving into those articles of impeachment that could start happening, moving in the house as early as next month. Now, what were expecting for tomorrow is to hear from three witnesses who actually were on that july phone call. Eight total this week, three tomorrow who were on that july phone call between President Trump and president zelensky, in which trump, of course, urged zelensky to open up investigations including into the bidens. Now, in those witnesses who are coming forward tomorrow, all of them had concerns, Different Levels of concerns, and well hear about exactly how they responded and dealt with it. Alexander vindman, for one, reported those concerns up the food chain to the National Security Council Attorney who di