19 hours, 59 minutes, and 41 seconds in counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be every friday night between now and the midterms. that is after tonight, only one more friday night between now and the midterms. it is getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go, and not only is it getting closer on the calendar, but voting is underway in all sorts of states, early voting nearly 20 million, they have already been cast in this midterm election, in the 2018 midterm election, all sorts of records were shattered when it came to turnout. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be over 120 million when this one is over. numbers that would have been unthinkable years ago, that is of course where politics are right now. so, the biggest campaign news tonight, the democrats, they are bri
and we are exactly ten, days 19, hours 59 minutes, and 41 seconds, and counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night, right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be everybody tonight, between now and the midterms. and that is after tonight, only one more friday night. between now and the midterms, it s getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go. and not only is it getting closer on the calendar but voting is underway! and all sorts of states, early voting net now nearly 20 million, 18 million votes already been cast in this midterm election. in the 2018 midterm election, also it s a records were shattered when i came to turn out. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be over 120 million when this one is over. numbers that would have been unthinkable years ago. but that is of course where politics are right now. so,
and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
attendee, the far-right election denier was in the capital on election day, he got a push from some less radical concerns about his viability in the general, where he faces the relatively popular pennsylvania attorney general josh bureau. a democrat who could benefit from mastriano s extremism. here at midnight on the east coast, we can also tell you the state s republican senate primary remains too close to call, mehmet oz is basically tied with dave mccormick, while the super mega candidate is trailing in third kathy barnette. the number two official in that state john fetterman defeating connor, lamb fetterman is not giving a traditional victory speech tonight, we won t have that for you, because he s currently recovering from a stroke in the hospital, he s expected to make a full recovery. then there is a call on a giant upset, allows for republican madison cawthorn, now you may have, heard as you see right here on your screen, officially a one term or. losing his sea
heard. trump is never going to acknowledge anything is wrong. and those around him insisting yesterday nothing bad happened. something bad happened. what s he saying behind the scenes? he s posting he personally believes he was successful but republicans were not. for some people it was disappointing but i did well was his tweet. that s not true. he did well in some places. privately, according to multiple people i talked to. he was very angry. the focal point of the anger was the oz race in particular, that was not a natural fit for him, he was convinced to do it. he never takes responsibility for his actions it was some staffer tricked him. this is complaining i heard from people around him. his aides in his world, paid aides are insisting nothing is wrong, status quo. other people are going to say how many years are we going to spend blaming it on staff.