wall street journal poll shows republicans gaining support among latino voters and women as president biden s economy deals democrats a decisive blow putting the gop two points ahead of the left on congressional ballot. carley: brooke singman is breaking down the critical races we re following across the country, brooke. brooke: new polling data from the nation s crucial races showing razor-thin margins with just a week until election day. in pennsylvania, new poll shows democrat john fetterman leading dr. oz by single percentage point. fetterman publishing op ed that reads, whether rise in crime or cost, we need leaders who understand problems we re going through in pennsylvania and have the experience and ideas to do something about it. dr. oz pointing out john fetterman s true position on crime to tucker carlsson last night. watch this. taken a strong chance to protect criminals over the innocent and want to release one-third of all prisoners. if he could wave a ma
anywhere in the country right now. todd: i think you are right, he could be least liable there. deem in florida worry about losing miami dade count. republicans gain ground on congressional ballot, up two points over democrats, thanks to creasing support from women and latino voters. miami-dade is latino county, is that clear indication republicans know their goose is cooked because they are losing the latino vote? yeah, if you look at history of miami-dade, republicans haven t won in that county since jeb bush was governor. trump lost miami-dade by 30 against hillary, narrowed to eight points where he ran
1.8 million, 1.9 million people in these counties, big counties. bexar county is in san antonio, tarrant county is in ft. worth. these counties are similar in lots of ways, except tarrant county is mostly white, bexar county is mostly latino. but the i.d. law is going to affect voting in these counties in a way that is really perfectly suited to republicans, because the number of people who are legal voters but who are going to be turned away from voting because they don t have the right documentation? look at it, it s 2-1. it s 2-1. in the white county, it s only going to affect like 3% of voters, but in the latino county, it s going to be more than double that. overall, this new ap analysis of voter lists from every texas county finds that counties with higher poverty rates or a higher proportion of minorities had higher rates of voters without i.d.s. so, tomorrow is election day in texas, just as it is all over the country, but thanks to the new voting laws republicans have
the associated press has done a new study of the republicans changes to the voting laws in texas. they have found that the draconian new i.d. law that republicans passed in that state is essentially a prescription calibrated precisely to solve republicans problems in texas. look at how this works in texas counties. take williamson county and hidalgo county. both of them have less than a million people. but williamson county is pretty well off and it s pretty white, 65% white, which is pretty white for texas. hidalgo county is a really poor county and the population there is 92% minority. the ap today goes through the records from both counties and they found that, hmm in the mostly white county, less than 3% of the voters in that county are going to have any trouble with the new i.d. law. people in that county have the i.d. that you need to be able to vote. but in hidalgo county, the percentage of voters, legal voters, who will no longer be allowed to vote because they don t have