senator maggie hassan facing off against john. baltic who, of course, when that premier with a slew of money. with the democrat supporting his campaign. or these third-party supporting his campaign. this is a late breaking race. this is a state that joe biden won. easily eclipsing hillary clinton. but that was a state that went into that 2016 as well by very small margin. we will go back there where we have a very tight margin? we ll see what happens. finally, the state of wisconsin. for mandela barnes of taking on senator rob johnson. and republican incumbent. perhaps most endangered republican will compete. there s also gubernatorial race there that is very tight. those to vote together it will default separately? it would have to wait and see. of course the commitments wednesday. thank you, harry back to talk was about all this we have john berman, david jones. let s start with how race has been injected into that race. in a variety of ways. let s start with the attack ads.
live pictures right now to pittsburgh, pennsylvania. you are looking at the state s second lady, gisele, fetterman. she is speaking now, stumping for her husband in a very tightly watched race right now. much later you will also see and hear from the former president barack obama who will be stumping for fetterman in pittsburgh. we ll keep an eye on the races there in that state. so it is the final weekend before midterm elections and candidates are hitting the trails hard to get their last messages out to voters. one of the most closely divided states, biden flipped wisconsin blue in 2020 by less than a point after trump marnarrowly w the state in 2016 and now the pressure is on for republican senator ron johnson and democratic governor tony evers,
line. one thing in addition to the house and senate, the white house has been focusing on these democratic governor seats across the country as those governors would be key to enacting so much of the president s agenda. all right. we ll keep tabs with you as you travel with the president there. thank you. don t forget on election night join cnn for special coverage starting tuesday at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. we will have up-to-the-minute results on what s happening all across the country, particularly in the key races, in your state and around the country. still ahead, we re live in georgia where the race for u.s. senate could determine the balance of power in washington. republican herschel walker and democrat raphael warnock holding rallies this hour. we ll take you there straight ahead. plus, search and rescue efforts underway after multiple tornados swept across three states overnight. the latest on the severe storms we re watching next. new dove body wash withth microbiome
both running competitive re-election campaigns. cnn s omar jimenez is joining me live from the campaign trail in wisconsin. so, omar, what are you seeing out there today? reporter: well, one, we have been just about all over this state, and there is a constant joke that elections here in wisconsin are close. i have a feeling come three days from now that joke is going to become a reality here in wisconsin. both of these candidates at the senate level, ron johnson and lieutenant governor mandela barnes have been hitting the streets to try to secure as many last-minute votes or at least as many last-minute commitments to votes as they can because the margins are likely going to be that close. we just finished up a canvassing event here for lieutenant governor mandela barnes where supporters along with volunteers launched out into the neighborhoods to knock on some of those doors. i mentioned they are on the final stretch bus tours. earlier this week senator ron johnson, we caught up wi
in a town called cronin, wisconsin, we are learning about a lot of places here in the state of wisconsin, while we were there he was asked point blank if he would accept the result of tuesday s elections an didn t say yes. instead, he said i sure hope i can. i don t know what the democrats will have planned. he didn t elaborate what he meant by that in particular. part of what he alluded to in that answer was a case out of nearby milwaukee here where a now former election official was criminally charged after she allegedly obtained military ballots for fake voters and sent them to a republican state lawmaker allegedly because she wanted to prove a point. now, many people jumped on that say, look, here s fraud, it s happening, while the wisconsin election commission, which is the state election body here, said, holt on a second. the system worked as should have. it caught an attempt like this and, of course, they emphasize that the november 8th election was affected in no way.