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a reminder that election date is november 8th, everyone. chris, thank you as always. thank you. thank you for joining us at home tonight. we re just two weeks away from the midterm elections, in the battle for control of congress in the state houses could really could not be closer. polls have been tightening for weeks, as republicans have edged into democratic gains that were made over the summer. tonight, debates just wrapped in races for your governor and the senate, we ll have much more on that. but before, that it s worth remembering exactly how we got, here considering how much of a rollercoaster of electioneered s been. remember a few months ago on june 7th, when the city of san francisco shocked the country, when it recalled its progressive district attorney. the campaign against him had framed his criminal justice reform platform is somehow soft on crime, provoking backlash among san franciscans. that local election in blue california, was held up as a canary in
literally not be closer. polls have been tightening for weeks, as republicans have edged into democratic gains that were made over the summer. tonight, debates just wrapped in races for new york governor and the senate, we ll have much more on that. but before, that it s worth remembering exactly how we got, here considering how much of a rollercoaster of an election year it has been. remember a few months ago on june 7th, when the city of san francisco shocked the country, when it recalled its progressive district attorney. the campaign against him had framed his criminal justice reform platform is somehow soft on crime, provoking backlash among san franciscans. that local election in blue blue california, was held up as a canary in the coal mine for democrats. the party, according to them, had a crime problem that republicans would seize on in an election year, when that already favored republicans. and here were some of those headlines. progressive backlash in california,
when it called its district attorney boudin. and that local election in blue, blue california was held up by pundits as a canary in the coal mine for democrats the party, according to them had a crime problem that republicans would seize on in an election year, one that already favored and here were some of those headlines. progressive backlash in california fuels democratic debate over crime. california voters send a stark message to democrats on crime and homelessness. democrats need to know the message that crisis september. week of recall, gas topped $5 a gallon for the first time ever and republicans began gearing up to make the election all about inflation. those were theoretically, the contours of this election, only a few months ago, as of the first week of june and then two weeks later, everything changed. the united states supreme court struck down a 50-year precedent protecting a woman s own right to control her own body which upended politicals across the country.
the january 6th investigation later this hour. but we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economic and historical trends that could she should favor public, and this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected. thanks in large part to republican extremism and states across the country. from the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade and subsequent state abortion bans, to election denialism, to a cruel political stunt using s a silent seekers, to book bans and censorship in the classrooms, republicans are executing on a radical agenda. those efforts are being led by red state governors. governors like texas greg abbott in florida is ron desantis. men who are pushing this extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to inherit trump s mantles as leaders in the next generation of republican presidential hopefuls. on the