Heres the bottom line, dvr this show, stick around for special report coming from new york city. Thats next. This is the fox news alert, im bret baier, coming to you from fox news World Headquarters from new york, with extensive coverage of the final day before the 2014 midterm election, thanks to our single sponsor, the first half hour of this show, well have limited special breaks, wednesday the day after election day, the entire show will be sponsored by norfolk southern, giving us a full hour with very limited breaks. And thats good, because thats a lot cocover. We begin tonight early voting data indicates around 17 Million People in 31 states have already voted. 435, all the seats in the house of representatives, up for a vote. 36, the number of senate seats on the line. And six, the net gain needed bring republicans to take control of the u. S. Senate for the next two years. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight with correspondents key states. We begin with carl cameron, live tonight
Its may 9th, 2014. The president devoted his entire day raising money from the country as largest atm machine, the state of california. Hes been at events in los angeles and silicon valley. He warned democrats shouldnt be sitting out the mid terms. Democrats have a congenital defect when it comes to our politics and that is we like voting during president ial years and during the mid terms we dont vote. Our future is bright if people shake off whatevers holding them back and they go to the polls. The president does finally, by the way, have a public, nonpolitical event today in california. Hes planning on giving a speech on Energy Efficiency at a walmart in silicon valley. Some labor groups actually arent too happy with that appearance saying, quote, it sends a terrible message to workers across america. The president s aggressive fundraising is the latest move of whats been a busy week in the 2014 battle for the senate. In North Carolina, the democratic aligned Senate Majority super p
A point where we are governing by crisis. Whether in syria we squandered an opportunity to arm Syrian Rebels before they were infiltrated to al qaeda. And whether we created the very vacuum known as isis where we withdrew all american troops in iraq over the recommendations of our generals. Then theres benghazi where secretary panetta says the muchdisputed talking points on exactly what happened that night were not on point and to make his point, this respected leader who worked for two democratic administrations has engaged in a nonstop series of eye opening sitdowns. Here is a brief sample. In retrospect now was not arming the rebels at that time a mistake . I think that would have helped. And i think in part we paid a price for not doing that in what we see happening with isis. How big a threat should americans view it as being . I think its a significant threat. Now, president obama has ruled out boots on the ground. Whether or not that turns out to be necessary, do you think its u
Create chaos in large part because of the short time frame to implement the new guidelines. Then in texas, a federal judge struck down that states version of the law, dismissing it as unconstitutional and a poll tax. The judge in that case was an obama appointee and according to the huffington post, where there were no smoking guns showing intentional racism, the law would have heavy impact on minority voters. Attorney general eric holder held the rulings in spite of recent setbacks to the Voting Rights act. Meanwhile, a report from the Government Accountability office found states that enacted similar laws saw drops in election turnout. Kansas and tennessee added laws and they each saw reductions by about 2 . A dallas deputy is waking up at home this morning after being hospitalized over ebola concerns. State Health Officials say that Michael Monig tested negative for the deadly virus, he was put in isolation after falling ill and visiting an urgent care center. The hospital who treat
To be moving away from challenger Allison Lundergren Grimes. In louisianas three way race, the numbers show democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu with 40 of the vote, over republican challenger bill cassidy. This brirm race will go to a runoff if no one goes to the rights now the current makeup is 45 republicans, 53 democrats and two independents who caucus with the democrats effectively giving the president s party a 5545 advantage. But democrats have a tougher hill to climb on tuesday night with more seats of theirs that are up for grabs. We have got team fox coverage for you. Correspondent john roberts whos live in new orleans 69 but we begin with our chief political continue carl cameron live in kentucky. Reporter we are here at an Allison Lundergren Grimes event here in kentucky where shes going to have to scramble to fry to get back in this race. The latest polls show that Mitch Mcconnell may have turned the corner and won the election. He will be the Senate Majority leader, he has