tried and tested plans in place to minimise disruption and ensure emergency services continue to operate. laura foster reports. sean only started working as a nurse at the start of this year, and is already thinking of leaving because of the pay. what would you say to a patient who, say, has had their operation postponed because of this strike action? well, first of all, i m sorry. i hope and think they would understand that, you know, if they have been waiting for that operation, they ve probably been waiting for it because there isn t enough staff. and if we don t pay nurses fairly, we re not going to attract people and we re not going to keep people. the royal college of nursing says there ll still be safe levels of staffing in emergency care, but it s likely there ll be disruption to pre planned appointments and surgeries. the strikes will last from 8am to 8pm each day. the union wants its members pay to go up by the rate of inflation plus 5%, but government say that s not afforda
inflation and they said that has had a knock on effect on things like patient safety, staffing numbers, the number of nurses leaving the profession has been falling, the number coming in, it s been harder to attract new nurses into the profession, so they say all of this is kind of wrapped up in pay, but it is kind of wrapped up in pay, but it is broader. the issue you have at the moment as the two sites on the number, for the pay rise that should be received over the last year and the year are miles apart still. remind us of the figure. they have been asking remind us of the figure. they have been asking for remind us of the figure. they have been asking for rti remind us of the figure. they have been asking for rti information - remind us of the figure. they have l been asking for rti information plus 5%. with inflation running so high at the moment, that works out at somewhere between 17 and 19% pay rise. the government says that is just not obtainable, not realistic. they say
been waiting for it because there isn t enough staff. and if we don t pay nurses fairly, we re not going to attract people and we re not going to keep people. the royal college of nursing says there ll still be safe levels of staffing in emergency care, but it s likely there ll be disruption to pre planned appointments and surgeries. the strikes will last from 8am to 8pm each day. the union wants its members pay to go up by the rate of inflation plus 5%, but government say that s not affordable. at the christmas market in birmingham, it was hard the union wants its members pay to go up by the rate of inflation plus 5%, but government say that s not affordable. at the christmas market in birmingham, it was hard to find people who didn t support the nurses. but there are worries. i ve got a child that s disabled. so, you know, if we did need to go, then obviously it is a concern in that respect because we need to get her seen as soon as possible. the queues would be even worse than the
3 points there. i want to give you a sense of where we are in the process of counting votes. mark kelly with a lead of 118,000 votes with 66% in. let s go back to the presidential race two years ago and i can give you the clock there. at 5 a.m., what time is it now? 4 a.m. at 5 a.m. they had 82% in. they had more of the vote counted at this point but joe biden led, let s do d plus 5, right? is my math there right? d plus 5 there with joe biden with 82% in. let s go back to where we are now. so joe biden was d plus 5. there was more vote counted but mark kelly is plus 7 right now. so, again, we ll see where we are with more of the vote counted. if he can stay at d plus 5 or higher, he should feel d plus 5 or 4? 5 i asked you to fact check me. not going back.
approaches these polls with different meth thodz theologies, online surveys tend to skew a little bit more in democrats favors than traditional phone surveys. we have still come up, as of october, the very end of last month with d plus 2 for the generic congressional ballot. now, you have to weight that against where we have been trending for several months. just last month in september we were looking at d plus 5. that is tightening and tightening as more people make up their mind as enter the final days of the midterm. in addition to that you also have to look at g.o.p. vs. democrat enthusiasm and the g.o.p. republican voters have maintained their edge for 12 months with people being more enthusiastic and likely to vote when push comes to shove and that matters. bret: yeah. chris, what do you think? yeah. there is no doubt that there has been a shift in the generic ballot towards republicans. i wouldn t characterize it as huge.