good tuesday to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we have our eye on several key races, georgia, alabama and beyond. 2022 election lies are key in several of those matchups around the country. some running on those lies, brian kemp, endorsed, however, by former vice president mike pence. he is facing a battle against senator pe rdue backed by forme president trump. kemp resisted his ideas in 2020. president biden on a trip to asia, his first since becoming president. he said his issue on taiwan has not changed despite his comment that our military would help defend taiwan if there was an invasion. let s begin this hour with primary races in georgia and alabama. diane gallagher is in huntsville, kristin is in georgia. walk us through what folks are watching out for today. good morning, erica and jim. it is a big day here in georgia and the biggest race we re watching is that gubernatorial republican primary which has become a proxy war between trump and the e
here, this is mo brooks, who was a driving force behind donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. he gave that fiery speech at the stop the steal rally just before people, you know, went and successfully stormed the capitol on january 6. but he was out campaigning this week with ted cruz. he had his campaign that was kind of really in the tank, and then we watched his opponents katie britt and mike durant essentially take that moment for those two months and attack each other, millions of dollars in superpac money, and that appears to be where mo brooks may have found his lane. his campaign has surged in the past couple of weeks here. dianne gallagher and kristen hoe holmes on the ground for us. our special coverage,
for the wealthiest households. if you make a million dollars, you will get a $50,000 tax cut. and then $800 billion in medicaid cuts. when people look at that no. you keep doing. this it is not a cut in medicaid. there is a reduction in the growth of medicaid. but it is still going to grow faster than the population of the united states. we re actually implementing a policy bill clinton wanted in 1997. going back to paul ryan s college days, this was bill clinton s plan in 1997. he said give states the ability to put a cap on federal spending and don t make they will come crawling to the federal government to get permission. that was a per capita cap that bill clinton proposed. the new york times extolled the version of clinton s plan in 1997. congressman, i didn t extol it. whoever and stoled it in 1997, the point is the money has to
tof. the race turning out a successful effort so far for the gop to keep the house even as the president posts a 36% approval rating. attempted to tie ossoff to comedienne kathy griffin to nancy pelosi. second, superpac money poured in. new york times estimates handel benefited from $18.2 million of spending by outside groups. and third, old-fashioned gerrymandering. its boundaries clearly were crafted to benefit republican candidates. joining me now to pick over this, michelle goldberg, who is in georgia, whose slate is titled more liberal tears. and author of audacity, and a title that this might be the worst freakout ever. you were basically like, hey,
and i think it is a cut because a lot less people will be getting medicaid benefits. one of the key numbers from the last cbo report is that 14 million americans will no long he have medicaid. if you want to know about the cut, who is covered under the program. with the big changes being proposed in the house bill, it sounds like it will be quite similar in the senate bill, you can t cover the same number of people. it is true that clinton did endorse a per capita method like representative burgess was talking about, but one of the things is how quickly you growal of money for each person. and under the republican bill, it is a very small amount that states would be getting for each medicaid enrollee. the politics of this are in flux. what is your sense of how this will play out? it seems it is the riskiest part of whole process. we definitely have senate republican in addition position