hello and welcome to our viewer here is in the united states and all around the world. i m michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up this hour on the program, the home stretch. candidates making their final pitch to voters ahead of the u.s. midterms. we re following all the key races that could tip the balance of power in washington. but the shadow of 2020 still hanging over the ballot box in some parts of the u.s. why there are growing fears some candidates might not accept the election results. plus, ukraine bracing for a bitter winter as russian strikes hammer the power grid, leaving millions in the cold and the dark. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we are now just one day from the critical midterm elections in the united states, and the stakes couldn t be higher. the candidates now making their final pitches ahead of election day. up for grabs, all 435 house seats and 35 of the 100 senate seats. the outcome of this elec
quite strong, jobs still going up. wages up again too. but inflation is going up faster. it s a complicated picture and we know it is issue one as we close this midterm campaign. plus, big shifts toward republicans in house races. democrats though still in play to hold the senate and oprah wants to help. the tv mogul who made dr. oz a star says she would vote for his democratic opponent in pennsylvania. if i lived in pennsylvania, i would have already cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. and big political news that connects to important planning at the justice department. aides say donald trump could announce a 2024 presidential run just ten days from now. that won t stop the investigations but it could change how they are managed. now in order to make our country successful and sa safe glorious, i will probably do it again. get ready. that s all i m telling you, very soon. get ready. back to that story a bit later. up first new data on your number one is
ours. virginia seven, half the vote in, and vega is keeping her lead with more than half the vote in. and same in two, i m looking a at we have 31%. i m looking at 38 there. it s the same, 58-42. what i m hearing, they were winning in the early vote in virginia too. i m saying the republican is winning by the same margin with i m looking at about 40% of the vote now. okay. back on seven, you want that. go ahead, kellyanne. she has her spanish speaking father in the ad, thrown everything at her, calling the sexist and racist, the usual january 6th. they don t talk about inflation, crime. i think she s going to prevail,
so democrats are on their heels, defending much more territory in a tough year. that s one way to look at it. now the big question is who can get to 218, right? and in our rankings right now, we already have republicans favored in 216 seats. you see the lighter red on the map. republicans have a huge advantage going into election day. if you look down, the toss-up races go coast-to-coast. and one of them you focused on in the show, if you bring it up here, i show it to you here, virginia too. and as you see the incumbent democrat, she told me when we travelled there and did sort of a look at this race that she considers herself in this race to a team. it will be the clincher, the decider. if that s the case given you re in the eastern time zone. this is what we ll look at election night. there are three competitive districts in the commonwealth of virginia. can she hold on? if she is losing, that gives a big sign. she right about how important
hochul. it will be tough. here are presidential results two years ago biden ticked off more than 60% of the vote in new york. republicans think they are playing in that area. so far in in election. if you are watching on election night however, just give you a couple, trey, you can ask any of the progprognot of you will hear a lot. of overcoming week about virginia too. this is down here in chesapeake area. elaine lurey is democratic she won election in 2018, jen is the republican side. they have a military background, lines have been redrawn that gives republican a bit more of an edge in 2018 and 2020.