midterms. and in georgia 1 million preelection ballots have been cast. let s bring in cnn s eva mckend live in a polling place in georgia. eva, what are you seeing? reporter: well, a common answer from voters when you ask them why they are turning out early is because they want to take advantage of the opportunity. they don t want work to maybe get in the way on election day. so they are exercising their right early. been record turnout daily since early voting began lasweek. secretary of state brad raffensperger says that this illustrates that georgia has among the best election systems in the country but this democratic opponent still says that voter suppression is alive and well in georgia staking issue with the state s voting law, take a listen. i would put our election system, i would put our georgia election system and our voters up against any other state in the union. we re seeing record turnout. and i anticipate we ll continue to see midterm records broken. j
senate because washington keeps getting it wrong with extreme positions. john fetterman takes everything to an extreme. and those extreme positions hurt us all. all eyes on pennsylvania on a debate in that race that could determine the balance of power in the senate. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. it s great to have you. thank you for having me. john berman is off today. and democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz who you saw there, arguing the issues, also attacking each other in their first and only debate. fetterman addressed his recovery from a recent strokes. he used a closed captioning device for help. the candidates went toe to toe on key issues, like inflation and the economy. i can make the difficult decisions as you do in the operating room as a surgeon. i ll do them cutting our budget as well. he has never met an oil company that he doesn t swipe right about. he has never been able to stand up for working families across pen
marquardt this morning. john berman is off. and democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz facing off in the first and only debate. fetterman insisting he s fit to serve. addressing his stroke right at the beginning, there was concern it would impact his debate performance and it clearly did. used the closed caption device throughout it. but the two candidates were hitting each other on abortion and fracking both of which are major issues in pennsylvania. and then in new york, governor kathy hochul and her republican challenger lee zeldin sparred on crime on their only debate. hochul once led zeldin by double digits in the polls and the race has tightened in the final weeks of the campaign. even before the debates millions of people across the country had already cast their ballots for the midterm elections. early voting now under way in 40 states. turnout set to be on pace for the record set in the 2018