The polls have just opened in hawaii meaning voters in all 50 states are making their voices heard. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. And im erin burnett and this is cnns continuing coverage of election day in america. Take a look. Weve got live pictures. This is a Polling Location were showing you just outside the philadelphia. So far only minor glitches with officials reporting no major Voting Issues so far, wolf. Heres whats at stake today, erin. All 435 seats are up for grabs, republicans need to turn five seats red to take it back. Over in the democratic controlled senate, 35 of the 100 seats are also in play today. All republicans need there is a net gain of one seat to change the Balance Of Power in the u. S. Congress and here in washington. As always we have our correspondents all over the map covering all the key races along with our entire cnn election team. Lets get straight to pennsylvania where there is an issue
dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the prime minister making the announcement moments ago outside 10 downing street. this after she failed to overcome a flurry of criticism from her own party. alex hogan is following all of this from london. hi. good morning. this has been a very contentious day here in london after a contentious two months of british prime minister liz truss time in office. she announced her resignation earlier this morning. speaking for a minute 30 seconds. very brief. take a listen. we set out a vision for a low tax, high grade economy that take advantage of the freedoms of brexit. this comes after a shaky day yesterday at downing street. another member of her government left the job. home secretary resigned. she was a popular figure in the conservative party. she has been replaced by grant sha p. he is a supporter of the former p.m. candidate who lost to truss. he quickly addressed the need to get to work. truss had only serve
biggest mid-term election issue is chaos. full coverage on fox. dana: rich edson is diving into some key races we re watching and playing close attention to the next 19 days. conservative supreme court eliminating the right to abortion and proposals from republicans in congress to enact abortion restriction democrats focused their campaigns on protecting abortion. voters are more concerned about inflation and gas prices than abortion. some democrats are making the case the issues are all tied together. abortion is an economic issue. it has been reduced to this idea of a culture war. for women in georgia this is very much a question of whether they will end up in poverty in the next five years. having children is why you are worried about your price for gas and why you are concerned how much food costs. democrats are calling republican abortion extremists. republicans painting democrats on the extremists as well. in pennsylvania democrat john fetterman says he is aga
president. 19 days to go to election day. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith in new york, and i point that out, because he does not typically wear a suit. john: i bet it s a hoodie suit. i m john roberts in washington. 19 days until americans decide whether the democratic agenda in washington is working, 19 days for closing arguments and one from the white house chief of staff. first of all, we have done things to bring prices down. passed the inflation reduction act and when you look at where the economy was when we got here, 8% unemployment. we brought that down to the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. we are putting americans back to work. businesses are open that were closed two years ago, schools are open that were closed two years ago. the president is fighting to bring down prices of everyday things like prescription drugs, gasoline, and i think that s our message to voters at this very tough time. sandra: at this ver
the polls have just opened in hawaii meaning voters in all 50 states are making their voices heard. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. and i m erin burnett and this is cnn s continuing coverage of election day in america. take a look. we ve got live pictures. this is a polling location we re showing you just outside the philadelphia. so far only minor glitches with officials reporting no major voting issues so far, wolf. here s what s at stake today, erin. all 435 seats are up for grabs, republicans need to turn five seats red to take it back. over in the democratic controlled senate, 35 of the 100 seats are also in play today. all republicans need there is a net gain of one seat to change the balance of power in the u.s. congress and here in washington. as always we have our correspondents all over the map covering all the key races along with our entire cnn election team. let s get straight to pennsylvani