burnett. outfront the final count down. the first polls opening just hours from now. control of congress and president biden s agenda are on the line. already 41 million people have cast their ballots in early voting. that s a remarkable number. tomorrow at this time we ll be standing by for the first results. this is one of the most consequence midterm contests ever. candidates across the country are at this late hour making their final pitch to voters in these hours before election day polls themselves open. in pennsylvania, a state where three presidents have descended over the past two days, republican senate candidate mehmet oz and democrat john fetterman are about to hold duelling rally and in ohio, former president trump is about to take the stage for his senate pick. seven are toss-ups or slightly tilt republican or democrat and flip it over, we ll show you the house, 20 races in 14 states ares to are toss ups there, across from coast to coast. jeff zeleny is live
desantis, who is now his nemesis. and high e slams desantis. there he is, trump at 71, ron des des desanctimonious at 10%. there it is, rolled out, as his name isn t on the ballot, he s hitting the incumbent governor of a state while campaigning for an incumbent senator. there s also been this undercurrent of real republican donor and support for ron desantis as the trump stopper. and there s been a chosen amnesia among the republican donor class as how destructive trump can be to anyone who challenges him. so this is actually quite a nice reminder, i think, that is ron desantis he s young, he s got
a future ahead of him. is he going to want to be the trump stopper and be destroyed by trump? if trump gets in tonight or six days or 14 days, he freezes the field in a way in a no other republican can do. it makes somebody like ron desantis think do i really want to do this? maybe he does. he can lie in wait for a little while and see what happens. ryan goodman comes on this show every day, our legal analyst, and he said that trump s announcement if he were to do it tonight could cause the department of justice to make sure it reaches a decision on indictment sooner rather than later. he could speed up the clock here. the minute he runs, you ve heard the rnc say they re going to stop paying his legal fees, you know he doesn t want to pay his own legal fees. what do you have make of his timing? it s consistent with the narcissist that he is when he wants to make it all about himself. we didn t see scott say, yeah, i