election by crime and bill: polls are open in 40 states. voters wasting no time making their voices heard. states in three of the country s high stakes races, pennsylvania, georgia and florida in the south. dana: the president has remained bullish on democrat chances. last night there appeared to be a crack in that facade. watch here. president biden: i m optimistic. i m always optimistic. will democrats win the house? president biden: i think it will be tough and i think we ll win the senate. the house is tougher. bill: kellyanne conway, brit hume, shannon bream, martha maccallum and mike rowe with analysis coming up shortly. dana: look at this here. we have karl rove, lucas tomlinson and kelly o grady. let s get to pennsylvania right away. more than a million people have already voted. bryan llenas is outside of philadelphia. all eyes on pennsylvania tonight. no doubt about it. happy election day. good morning. dr. mehmet oz voted just after 8:00 a.m. in h
right now. my opponent is the most extreme nominee for the u.s. senate in modern history. i could ask how are you going to fix the economy? the exact opposite of joe biden and maggie hassan. by january i ll be even better. but dr. oz will be a fraud. we have 40-year high inflation. he s recklessly spending our children s money. fetterman thought that was important. my opponent says he wants to punish the doctors. i think that mark kelly is the very worst united states senator. i ve had an opponent that is driving around in a bus that says deport them all. dreamers should be here. she had the opportunity to stand with nevada, to tell joe biden that she wasn t going to spend more money. she cast that vote. i have faith in the people of georgia. whether it s tonight or a few nights from now, you mark my word, the people of georgia are going to get this right. you listen to our president. he said the biggest threat to democracy is voting for republicans. no. t
hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with a new update on the devastating toll hurricane ian has taken on florida. at least 64 people were killed across the state. as recovery efforts continue, the number is expected to rise. governor ron desantis at this hour giving a briefing on the storm response and recovery. hurricane ian slamming into florida as a category 4 storm, leveling entire communities. and today severe flooding is complicating rescue and recovery efforts. let s go back to boris sanchez anchoring from ft. myers, florida, for us. reporter: hey, fred. as you reported just a moment ago, the tragic news that the death toll has again climbed earlier today. it was sitting at 45 fatalities. now cnn has confirmed from state officials that it has reached 64 people killed as a result of hurricane ian. and those devastating, nearly category 5, storm force winds. obviously, this is a difficult time for so many across the stat
president obama campaigning together in pennsylvania to help push fetterman across the finish line. bill: that seat is democrats best hope for a senate pickup as it stands now. it a win there would make it harder for republicans to take control of the senate. dana: both sides are calling in big surrogates. the stakes could not be higher for this election. the most important election in our lifetimes to take shape in this country. biden are waging war on your job, safety, values and freedom. if you help democrats keep the house and get more seats in the senate you can guarantee he will make more progress on the issues you care about. america is the best country in the world and we aren t going to stop fighting for her until we get her back and we make her strong again. bill: we roll now team fox coverage. marc thiessen with analysis. mark meredith in ohio where former president trump holds a valley for j.d. vance. we begin with riched son in the pennsylvania race
they ve hurt. character matters. herschel walker is not only not ready to be in the senate, he s not fit. i m going to stand before you and say his a marxist. he believes in abolishing the police and the court system. we have an extremist on one side and an ohioan on the other side. tim ryan is running a campaign that his own record shows that he doesn t believe. this is possibly the lost election in our lifetime if we don t elect the right people, if we don t stop the election deniers. they close our businesses, defunds the police. it s not just about protecting a woman s right to choose. it s making sure everybody has a right to vote. the democrats have tried to blame other people for their policy failures over the last few years. guess what? there s no one else to blame. martha: so that was adam laxalt. he s looking to flip the nevada seat red. that would be a pickup for republicans. he s up against katherine cortez masto who has been closing strong accor