unpredictable, consequential events and passionate issues that caused the political football to bounce, the one big question remains. who s going to win? history would suggest that the incumbent president and his party will lose their majority in the house, especially with president biden s overall job approval number among likely voters at just 39%. when you look at strong approval and strong disapproval, signs of passion, you see the real trouble for democrats. 18% strongly approve of the job joe biden is doing. two and a half times that number, 45% strongly disapprove. yet the numbers are still too close to say it s a done deal. cnn s latest projection map of the house races has 18 labeled toss-up, which means it s still possible for democrats to control the house of representatives. the conventional wisdom is that republicans will take control. and in the senate, according to cnn, it s 49 republican, 48 democrat with three toss-up. according to real clear politics, the mo
the democrats have it now, but that could all change come november 8th. president biden says he s not going anywhere, at least he doesn t intend to. the reason i m not making a judgment about formally running or not running, once i make that judgment, a whole series of regulations kick in, and i have to be i have to treat myself as a candidate from that moment on. i have not made that formal decision, but it s my intention. my intention to run again, and we have time to make that decision. cnn s joe johns is joining me now from delaware. joe, that statement is coming less than three weeks ahead of the midterms where the president seems to be carefully crafting a midterm strategy in those very tight races. what is that strategy at the moment, joe? well, you know, you might also call it a practical approach, quite frankly, because what we re seeing from the president is he s going to a lot of fundraisers, sara. he s going to some closed receptions, but he hasn t been to
does she feel like she owes an apology? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. as riveting as the stories were, it was who was telling them that gave way to chilling testimony before the january 6th committee today about donald trump s pressure campaign on his vice president, mike pence, to stage an illegal one-man attempt to overturn the presidential election results one pence adviser calling it constitutional mischief another warning it risked the election being settled in the streets. members of pence s inner circle testifying about the presidential tweets, public taunts, and angry phone calls any they say pence was subjected to the panel releasing never-before-seen photos of vice president pence sheltering during the capitol riot reading a trump tweet as rioters roamed the grounds above him. pence praised by the committee for refusing to go along with the plan to reject the electoral votes. garrett haake is at the capitol with details. [
from the outskirts of the city. tonight with the context, in london daily mail columnist sarah vine, and from washington, stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. zeneta everhart is the mother of a 21 year shop worker who survived the mass shooting in east buffalo. his name is zaire, and each day for the past three weeks, she has been dressing his wounds. he has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back another on his left leg, and when she cleans his back, she says she can feel pieces of the bullet that was fired at him from an ar15. the gunman was 18 years old. today, zeneta gave evidence to to a congressional committee ahead today, zeneta gave evidence toa congressional committee ahead of a house vote on gun reform. we continuously hear after every mass shooting that this is not who we are as americans and as a nation. hear me clearly this i
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