welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. millions of americans will head to the polls tuesday to decide the balance of power in congress. 51% of likely voters say the biggest issue on their minds will be the state of the economy, according to a cnn poll conducted by ssrs. abortion comes in at a distant second with just 15%. voting rights, guns, and immigration round out the top five. the outcome of the midterms could be decided in any one of these six states. five of them are battleground states flipped by president joe biden in the 2020 election. here in georgia, it s a tight race between the democratic and republican candidates for the u.s. senate seat. both contestants are making an all-out push to draw black voters, like themselves, in the final week before election day.
democratic leaders of congress, i promise you, we ll do our part. i ll do my part. reporter: a calculated gamble to rally democrats, and women independents in particular to the polls. at the same moment a recent cnn/ssrs poll found 90% of voters say the economy was extremely or very important to their vote. another poll showing 26% of likely voters see the economy as the most important problem facing the country and another 18% pointing to inflation. as for abortion, just 5% register the issue as their most important problem. the biden push an effort to tap into clear voter energy in the wake of the supreme court decision to strike down roe versus wade. energy white house officials viewed at kris call to strong special election performances in new york, minnesota, and nebraska, and the rejection of an abortion ballot measure in ruby red kansas. but biden making public growing democratic concerns that
both agree. it excites the democratic base and engages the swing voters because the democrats are arguing. trump is out of control. abortion gas prices are getting better. abortion rights are not. that s what democrats are telling both swing voters. and the gun issue is such a tragedy. so, yeah, it s swung in democrats favor but it s because the very sensible need to hit the brakes may actually go down to the republicans detriment this time which almost never happens. harry, do the numbers reflect the shifting political wins against the republicans. i think they do and they reflect them in a number of ways. we see them in the senate wins in arizona, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia. but you also see it nationally. and you know there was a very interesting sort of thing that we saw in our last cnn ssrs national poll in which we asked the favorability ratings of joe biden and we asked it about the republican party. and what we saw was in fact, joe
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tell him that the law said whatever it was most convenient for him to think that the law said. tracking the lawyers is kind of a fun way of paying attention to how all these hearings are going to play out and to how the january 6th probe is unfolding. to that point, he finds that lawyer in john eastman, and john eastman is the one who s in the oval telling pence and pence s most senior advisers what to do, how to overturn the results of the election. you learn that jeffrey clark was in on the eastman plan, and i wonder in terms of whether this becomes a criminal lens through which all this conduct is examined what that portends for messrs. clark and eastman. well, it surely does and that s why mr. clark already has pleaded the fifth repeatedly some 500 times. look, eastman and clark, these folks are not as if they were some of the adults in the room and everyone dissented.