starts right now. hi. thank you so much. i am ari melber and whoop there it is. election day within three weeks. early voting has begun, including in new key states. and we begin with something special. i m not going to hide the ball. i m going to show you the two chairs. howard dean who ran the dnc. michael steele who ran the rnc. in our opinion, no two better people to walk us through and it, they are here right now. let me tell you the context. 2 million people cast ballots. when we say election day, it s like rhetoric. this is election month. early voting is showing records smashed in certain states. fluid dynamics. new polls show the house leaning slightly towards republicans, depending on what happens. democrats believe they are still in a strong position to hold the senate majority. and as we ve told you, we cannot accurately cover 400 plus races at once. we will bring you the highlights, the context, the facts and the music. but i will show you some of the deba
and their brand spanking elections today. all about my colleagues, nicole wallace, joe read, chris hayes, when so not. on tomorrow is the final day that we can all vote in this is big midterm election. of course, many, many, many, americans already cast their votes on this election day even. we can now report that over 42 million americans have already cast a ballot. that is significantly more early votes that were cast in the last midterm election in 2018. and that, overall, had record turnout. americans are turning out in record numbers. now, for folks who are pulling it off to the variant, and have not yet voted, candidates antichoice across the country, tonight, they re making a frantic final push to try to get voters after the polls. at this hour, president biden has just wrapped up a rally in maryland, in westmore, the democratic candidate for governor and four other maryland democrats. on the republican side, former president donald trump is about to take the stage in
democracy, will all be decided today. the candidates have made their final closing arguments to rally an american public that is at once anxious, angry, and exhausted. are you ready to win this election? i m sick of talking about american decline. i think it s time we started to do something about it. please send me to washington, d.c. we re winning this. we ain t talking about no runoff. we re winning this. i believe in democracy. i certainly believe in a free and fair election. this is a transformative election. it s going to send a loud message to washington. we ve always done democracy better than anywhere else. and we are not going to stop now. y all ready to close this thing out? today we stand united as one voice. and i feel thean a massive vict shocks the world. i m ready for it. are you? well, now it s up to the voters. with millions heading out to cast their ballots today, we re keeping an extraordinarily close eye on the voting process nationwid
well. it might be weeks before the tally is finalized telling us whether we see a red wave or ripple or something in between. so take a breath and be patient because a lot is already happening. we have new reporting from nbc in pennsylvania on the legal challenges already being filed regarding the number of mail-in ballots. details in a moment. from politico in arizona where christina bob, one of the trump lawyers caught up in the mar-a-lago documents investigation said in a recent interview that it will look suspicious if states fail to report electioults by early wednesday. the truth is that it s going to take time and that is normal. especially considering that turnout is expected to break records. here are just some of the lines we are seeing today. take a look. this is georgia. michigan, wisconsin, arkansas, new york, florida, and indiana. by closing time tonight, we could find 120 million people showed up to weigh in on abortion, crime, the economy, climate change, demo
i do not think americans should be embarrassed when you free enterprise that gives them god, the cubs our founding fathers carried bank exist responding to the far left demands in a way that they never saw coming. and left one member of the squad, steaming. come sir, everybody that got relief and student loans has a bank account from your bank should probably take out their account and close their account. but it is the squad that is under fire with their far left climate push gets pushed back that they did not see coming. larry kudlow and coming out the bond that. will come back as america reports rolls into a second hour, john roberts and washington. good to spend thursday with you. gillian: i have to say that was a very quick first hour, for me personally. i hope everyone at home it went by pretty quick too because that means we kept things moving along. gillian: it went by like a suzuki high musetta. gillian: it s good to be with you on jillian and for sandr