here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, october 24th. i m christine romans. we begin with the midterm elections now just 15 days away. early voting already under way with more than 5.8 million ballots cast in 39 states. right now polls and political spending suggests republicans are surging and stand a good chance of retaking the house of representatives with a solid majority. recent surveys show the reason for that surge, the economy. inflation and to a lesser degree crime. early this summer looked like the anger at the supreme court ruling overturning roe versus wade would give democrats a chance to hold back the red tide and keep control of the house. now it looks like that abortion-fueled momentum may have peaked too soon. they have to split their messaging between abortion and the economy are the democrats. nobody said we re doing abortion rather than economy. but it s about both. i can tell you that that issue is ver
that the fascists were gonna try to take over. there are gonna try to mount a physical fascist coup. to defend against that, you wanted to call it the military to defend rome. to stop the coup. but the king at the time wouldn t agree to that. so the military wasn t called to defend the capital. and instead, what the king did is he caved to the fascists. he invited the leader of the fascists to form a government. to become the new prime minister. and the head of the fascists, enthusiastically, he agreed. the tens of thousands of his supporters who he had threatened would march on rome to seize power in a coup, they didn t march on rome to seize power. instead, they marched on rome in a victory parade. because just the threat of them have made it so that he was handed power blood blissfully. that is how the fascists took power in italy 100 years ago next month. they threatened to take power by force, didn t have to, because they intimidated everybody into giving them far ahead
fascists to form a government, to become the new prime minister and head of the fascists enthusiastically agreed and the tens of thousands of his supporters who he had threatened would march on rome to seize power in a coup. they didn t march on rome to seize power. instead, they marched on rome in a victory parade because just the threat of them had made it so that he was handed power bloodlessly. that is how the fascists took power in italy 100 years ago next month. they threatened to take power by force, didn t have to, because they intimidated everybody into giving them power ahead of their march be on rome. that s the famous march on rome, october 1922. the centennial of that event next month. what happened in 1922, things in italy changed pretty quickly. within three years, by 1925, italy was a one-party state. within three years after that, by 1928, mussolini abolished elections all together. it was a full on fascist dictatorship. not to spoil the plot or anything, but
this morning. i m boris sanchez. merry christmas. i hope it s been a magical christmas morning so far, i m amara walker. just ahead this hour, it started as one family s idea and it grew into a global brand. the inside story behind elf on a shelf and what s next for one of the world s biggest christmas traditions? and the holidays are a big source of joy for so many but they can also bring up sad feels are or painful memories. we have tips to help you deal with the holidays blues coming up. first let s get you caught up on the morning s headlines with whit n whitney wilde. good morning. we begin with the brutal weather storm keeping its grip on most of the country. at least 22 deaths are blamed on the storm. the weather is causing severe travel headaches. more than 3,400 flights were cancelled yesterday and another 1,200 cancelled so far today. governor hochul says she will declare of the federal government a declaration of emergency. paolo has more. reporter: here a
the united states and around the world. welcome to cnn newsroom. the final stretch. 16 days to go until the u.s. elections, the candidates are pulling out the stops and pulling in high-profile support. xi jinping secures an unprecedented third term, cementing his iron grip over china s future. we re live in beijing and taipei with the latest. and ukraine s power grid under attack with frigid winter just around the corner. russia takes aim at critical infrastructure. a live report from kyiv is just ahead. the u.s. is just over two weeks away from the tightly contested and deeply consequential midterm elections. at stake this november, control of congress. and by extension, the president s political agenda. joe biden s democratic party currently holds 220 seats in the house, and to keep its majority, it must hold on to 218 of them. right now, though, republicans have a slight lead in the polls with 18 seats still up for grabs. in the senate, 35 seats are in play. cnn