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
ten years before she died. i haven t talked about her publicly much before, but she raised me and was like a mom to me. again, you can point your cellphone at the qr code on your screen right now for a link to it or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. the news continues. cnn tonight with jake tapper starts now. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. 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 very well decide which party will control the u.s. senate for the next two years. so, yes, 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 on an anti-abortion platform. here s how herschel walker addressed his ex-girlfriend s accusation just a few minutes ago. that s a lie
again. i look around the country. there is parts of iowa that have been hollowed out, particularly in the eastern part. i talked to folks and seen what that did for the community. we were sold a bill of goods by elites in the country putting china on the wto was going to lead to our manufacturing exporting a bunch of stuff there. instead, they gobbled up so much more manufacturing. i don t think you can be a first rate power unless you have a strong industrial base. we are going to do that here. we will work on work force education. not everyone needs to do a four year brick and ivy university. that s not the best way or only way for people to succeed. we will do skilled trades, vocational. we have done that in florida. it s going to be a really, really big thing. but i just think the middle of the country has to have those good paying jobs and we can t put the interests of some of the people on wall street over the interests of americans on main street. let s move on to social secur
i ll tell you, ron continues to sit there and talk about china. he has done expansions in china. his biggest donor that is backed by china gave them $340,000. so don t go and talk about donors and money. go to desantis lies.com look, i know governer desantis your record hurts. you are talking the opposite of what you did. you were made a big effort to bring them to the state, land near a military base, you were in front of the chinese flag saying you worked for then, wrote a love letter to the ambassador. that s documented. you were the number one republican governor in the country. even people on the media hostile to me can t find me as governor recruiting a chinese company. i haven t done it. desantis lies.com. so here is the thing. she is backed by companies like black rock, backed by major companies on wall street. they make a lot of money in china. there is a reason why you re in the mes
thought donald trump was. we are going to charge fees on remittances that workers sent to foreign countries. billions of dollars, we will build the wall. he also promised record deportations. donald trump deported fewer people than barack obama did when he was president. biden has let in 8 million people just in four years. they all have to go back. we have to enforce the rule of law in this country. think about what s happening to our country. just this week, we saw the news that a school in brooklyn, new york had the kids stay home, they were not able to go to school, told you can t go get an in-person education. why? because the city is commandeering the school to a house illegal aliens in it. talk about putting america s last. you are putting these kids out of an education because you can t control the border? biden has failed in this endeavor. he has not taken care that the laws of this country be faithfully executed. do not trust nikki haley with illegal immigration. that s like