republican national committee, ronna mcdaniel next. and a pair of presidents. democrats out on the trail trying to defend their record on the economy. this ain t your father s republican party. midterms are no joke. have they made their case? i ll speak to a senator traveling the country to try to keep her party in power, democratic senator amy klobuchar ahead. plus, on their mind, as democrats and republicans try to appeal to the undecided, i caught up with voters in five states to see what s driving them to the polls this tuesday. why is the price of gasoline where it is today. it s abortion rights i think for me. some of it might surprise you. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is hours away from counting the votes. we are two days from finishing a marathon of a campaign that s twisted and turned and is now coming to a close. saturday we saw three presidents in pennsylvania, biden, trump and obama, trying to give a final boost t
now officials fear a d.c. resurgence. plus with a month to the midterms, actress america ferrera and what it will take a battle that in a vote. this is american voices. we begin this hour with new allegations of the republican georgia senate candidate, herschel walker. the new york times spoke with a woman that claimed that walker paid for her abortion in 2009. she thought the time that walker it so to have another abortion two years later. she says she refused, and that resulted in them and in their relationship. she also says, quote, as a father, he has done nothing. he does exactly what the court says, and that is it. he has to be held responsible just like the rest of us. if you are going to run for office, you need to only life, the daily beast first reported that walker allegedly paid for his extra friends abortion in 2009. nbc news has not independently confirmed that reporting. walker has denied the allegations. let s make something crystal clear, the issue is not whe
announced by his predecessor, kwasi kwarteng, in last month s mini budgetjust three weeks ago. in an emergency statement this morning, he abandoned indefinitely the planned ip cut in the basic income tax that was due to come next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april. instead of for two years, and then that will be reviewed. today, jeremy hunt claimed all of those announcements will save £32 billion a year, but he also warned that there are going to be more difficult decisions ahead on tax and spending to cut government debt. he will be addressing mps in the commons later this afternoon, some time after lipm. before then, there will be an urgent question in there will be an urgent question in the commons asked by sir keir starmer. it will not be liz truss responding to that, it will instead be penny mordaunt. so plenty ahead in the commons. in terms of the market reaction, jeremy hunt said that he had sought to reassure the markets this morning and
me. thank you, as always. and thanks to you at home, for joining us this hour. this week, bloomberg news publishes story about the documents donald trump had sent down to mar-a-lago at the end of his presidency. the story went to some detail about who packed the boxes containing those documents. i m going to spoil the ending here by telling you that it was the white house not the general services administration the gsa, that pack those boxes, which is counter to what donald trump has insisted for several months now. but it is maybe not surprising, given the other wild claims he has made in the course of this whole mar-a-lago saga. but a complaining that bloomberg story was a picture of the document boxes that were sent down to trump s beach club. this is it right here. look at that. i don t know about you wet the first thing i thought when i saw that photo was, wow. that is a lot of documents. i mean, we have seen some of the documents that were found in the fbi search of
that i m fit to be serving and that s what i believe is where i m standing. democrats are seizing on dr. oz already on defense for criticism of discredited theories he promoted on television saying this when asked whether aside from exceptions should abortion be banned in america. i ve been in the room when there s some difficult conversations happening. i don t want the federal government involved with that at all. i want women, doctors, local political leaders leading the democracy that s allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. we ll get reaction here as well as reports from other key contests across the nation. and we ll take a closer look at threats to election workers undermining access to the vote and election security in georgia, two years after former president trump tried to change the 2020 results. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell here in pittsburgh and the big question in pennsylvania this morning