seems like you re making a fashion statement. it says vote, doesn t say who. if you get me that item i ll find a civic way to rock it. nobody rocks it like. you see you tonight. nicole and i will be out there with the rest of the team. it is election eve here on the beat as well. campaign guru james carville kicking off the show. we have the music. you hear that. we have the legend. always dressed for television. see you in a second. and we have the final numbers heading into the election day. democrats are catching up with republicans in enthusiasm. that s from the nbc poll. the fact is, 2 22 midterms now have surging turnout. in the last midterms the energized 2018 on trump there was a record turnout of 38 million votes. that is now topped by this final re-election set of numbers. over 42 million people already voting. 38 million was the record work 4 million more. the new record is 42 million. that is more m s, to quote the new drake album. candidates are hop
that campaigns for equal representation in american politics. hello welcome to the programme. so here we are, election day 2022. post pandemic, postjanuary 6, the first real test of american democracy since that bitterly disputed election two years ago. the polls on the east coast start closing in two hours time. i hope you willjoin katty and i for our special programme through the night as we try and make sense of it all. these mid terms don t always attract the same attention as a presidential election, but early voting broke all records and it does feel more important. there are election deniers on the ballot, candidates refusing to say whether they will accept the results. this will set the stage for 202a. and if democrats lose control of the house or the senate tonight, joe bidens agenda will stall. in the end it will come down to turnout, it always does, and last night the two sides made their last appeal. today we face an inflection point, one of those moments that co
this is it. the final big push to the first name right, because the casting of ballots is almost over. the counting of ballots, that s getting ready to start in most places. in some places, they re doing it, but you ve got control of congress, the direction of the country on the line. the five things we have to be watching for over the next hours and days, plural, with our campaign reporters live across the country. we re also live in washington with the mood inside the white house. publicly confident, privately, maybe not so much. also this hour, our team is watching the polls. lawsuits popping up. some precincts reporting issues counting. we ve got our team standing by with that. i m hallie jackson from election headquarters here in new york with our reporters out covering races including in pennsylvania. a lot of talk about there where dasha burns is. guad is in nevada. jesse in youngstown, ohio. there are some question on everybody s minds, right, as we are getting close
and kitchen table issues. let s take a look at the facts. when i took office, this economy is in ruins. the economy is up, price inflation is down. real incomes are up, gas prices are down and need to come down for exports are also up, which means the simple thing we re making a lot of money in america because of that. you think that s crazy? biden has friends in the media, are taking things to the next level by claiming republicans made up the term inflation to help them. when the only people i ever heard here use the word inflation are journalists and economists. right. so that is not part of the normal lexicon of the way people talk. so it s interesting that republicans are doing something they don t normally do. right, which is not use the common hung right. not use just common english to sort of use do on their campaigns like they do with prime. but what they ve done is they ve taught people the word inflation right. most people who have never used that word ever in
effectively cuts off any democratic path to victory. bill: for democrats to hold onto power not chamber they would need to win all 26 toss-up races and pick up another six districts republicans have the advantage. an extremely tall order. dana: the house may be slipping away but the senate is still anyone s game. it is expected to be decided by four key races, all of those in a dead heat with one week to go. bill: democrats separate to try to keep the upper chamber banking on former president obama to do this. he is going to nevada and arizona and later make a joint appearance in pennsylvania as they look to prevent republicans from flipping that senate seat. dana: the former president making it a point to address inflation and crime. two issues his party has shied away from. we have a plan. that s why democrats actually have plans. they pick up a few more seats in both chambers they can force through extreme unpopular laws from education, to abortion. who will figh