circumstance of a significant at the moment in the polls third-party spoiler. then, you know, no surprise that biden s popularity is not always a draw, has dipped, you know, and i guess the question is does he still have sort of a power of the pulpit to campaign? well, there are a couple things. first, democratic candidates are levitating above biden s difficulties to a degree that is unprecedented in recent political history, and the key question is whether they can continue to do so in the remaining weeks through election day. if you look at these key senate races, polls that have come out in the last ten days or so, everywhere from new hampshire and pennsylvania to georgia, arizona, nevada, in all of those states, even in colorado, more democratic than the others i ve mentioned, all of those states, biden s approval rating is stuck around 40%. we don t have many examples in
an fbi agent, but for some reason he continues to sort of toy with this stream this line of debate for some reason. yeah. all right. eva mckend, we ll leave it there for now. thank you so much. while political sparks flew in georgia, president joe biden is trying to gain sttraction fo democratic candidates out west, hitting the campaign trail in the final stretch of the midterm elections. arlette saenz is covering the president, who is in portland, oregon, right now. arlette, biden is skipping some key democratic states, but he instead is focusing on some other places out west. what s the strategy? reporter: well, fred, president biden has spent the past four days traveling to democratic strongholds, essentially going to places where he thinks he and his policies will be helpful to democratic candidates. he is wrapping up that four-day western swing here in portland,
security and the destrinflation reduction act as he hopes those resonate with voters in the midterms three weeks away. arlette saenz, thank you so much, on the trail with the president. for more on this, i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein. good to see you. so, help us understand, why is portland, oregon, a focal point for the president right now? you know, in any election year, there are quirky elections and this is a state the democrats have dominated for decades. as arlette said, you have a third-party former democrat who is running an independent candidacy, splitting some liberal votes, and thus you have the potential of an anti-abortion republican nominee in a state where that clearly would not be majority proposition possibly winning with as little as around 40% of the votes. so, it is both a reflection of, you know, the dissatisfaction the democrats are facing, the direction of the country, but here magnified by this unusual
republican, and democratic lieutenant governor governor john fetterman. georgia s candidates met in a live debate last night. raphael warnock faced off against republican herschel walker after weeks of bombshell allegations leveled at the former football star. cnn s eva mckend has more. reporter: democratic senator yell war knock and republican challenger herschel walker are in a contentious georgia senate race with u.s. senate controlling. it is time to get under way. reporter: they debated friday night. walker, running on a family values platform currently involved in a scandal over allegedly pressuring the mother of one of his children to get an abortion. a week before this debate a former girlfriend said you paid for an abortion and encouraged her to have another. in an abc news interview this week, you said that the accusations are, quote, all lies. for the voters watching tonight, can you explain the circumstances surrounding these claims. you have 60 seconds. well, as