The polls have just opened in hawaii meaning voters in all 50 states are making their voices heard. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. And im erin burnett and this is cnns continuing coverage of election day in america. Take a look. Weve got live pictures. This is a Polling Location were showing you just outside the philadelphia. So far only minor glitches with officials reporting no major Voting Issues so far, wolf. Heres whats at stake today, erin. All 435 seats are up for grabs, republicans need to turn five seats red to take it back. Over in the democratic controlled senate, 35 of the 100 seats are also in play today. All republicans need there is a net gain of one seat to change the Balance Of Power in the u. S. Congress and here in washington. As always we have our correspondents all over the map covering all the key races along with our entire cnn election team. Lets get straight to pennsylvania where there is an issue
on stage tonight, what might be the most important debate of this entire midterm election cycle, democratic senator raphael warnock versus republican candidate herschel walker in savannah, georgia. a race that could control the party for the next two years. the stakes would already be insanely high even if the republican candidate wasn t facing a major scandal about whether or not he paid for an ex-girlfriend s abortion despite running oen an antiabortion platform. here s how herschel walker addressed his ex-girlfriend s accusation just a few minutes ago. that s a lie. and on abortion, you know, oi ma christian. i believe in life. i tell people this. georgia is a state that respects life. and i ll be a senator, it protects life. i say that was a lie, and i m not backing down. we ll get back to that scandal in georgia in just a moment. but to understand exactly what s happening there, regarding scandals requires a little context because the term scandal took on a whole new
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Wasserman, Cook Political Report editor. Lets start the news of the foxhole that came out yesterday finding that 41 of respondents to this poll said they would vote for a republican on the generic ballot. 41 sensing they would vote for a democrat in election 2022. Do you want to put 41 saying they would vote for a democrat in the election in 2022. Guest we typically see democrats do a little better on this generic ballot holes than they end up doing at the ballot box but we have seen some narrowing in the past few months. This is a complicated election cycle because ordinarily you would look at a president with 39 approval and high inflation would say they are headed for historic losses. Democrats have gotten a boost in the last couple of months. The Enthusiasm Gap has closed significantly as a result of dobbs. The longer exists when you look at special elections we have seen in races in nebraska and minnesota last week, or democrats actually did better than the 2020 president ial marg