it is election day in america. hello everyone i m anderson cooper welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are looking at live pictures of voters lining up to cast their ballots. polls are open in a majority of states. at this hour six more states are opening their doors to voters. the big question who will control congress. dozens of house races are considered toss ups, republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to win the majority. in the senate the race is likely to determine control are very tight. republicans need a net gain of one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. more than 40 million americans have cast their ballots in early voting ahead of today. it all comes down to turnout today and the issues. the only certainty is that voters will decide who they elect and who controls congress. we have this consequential midterm election covered for you from coast to coast. i want to begin with our coverage with cnn s jason carroll li
Take control, she won t be speaker any more. do you think there are, when you look at the democrats in congress, who could fill nancy pelosi s shoes one day? well i think the fact that we have to pause and think about it, think about how deep the bench isn t, reflects a problem with the democratic party. right. and i think that voters feel that too. you look at polls and you think about the fact that joe biden s approval ratings are so low. there is so much enthusiasm for seeing a new nominee and yet every time we look at headlines, we re debating whether joe biden is coming back to face off against donald trump. why is that why is it that he s our only option despite everything that we ve seen concerns about his age, concerns about whether he s actually able to be that bipartisan leader and get things done. so i do worry about that. whatever happens to her. i think that democrats in the
Peaceful election police but last night former president donald trump continued his rhetoric against nancy pelosi even after the violent attack on paul which she spoke excusively to anderson. she said please don t call them animals, they re human beings. but i think she s an animal too, you want to know the truth. for me this is the hard part because paul was not the target and he s the one who is paying the price. i mean we all are. but he s the one that is really paying the price. but it really it is really sad because it is a flame that was fueled by misinformation and all of the rest of that. which is most unfortunate that has no place in our democracy. our democracy, there is one party that is doubting the outcome of the election feeding
Five to maintain control. let s start in arizona. we ll go in alphabetical here. mark kelly but blake master has come on strong. he s a big fan of donald trump and an election denier. it is an interesting race because the ballots to take a long time. it is a tossup. democrats had been confident about kelly for a long time, but it is a ticght race. they ve been closer and closer. what about georgia. so let s go to georgia. and here in georgia you notice we have three names on the screen instead of two. which is quite unusual. because we have a libertarian chase oliver. because georgia is unique and this is something that we ll emphasize because the leader on election day or for the election in november has to receive a majority of the vote in order to win. if the leader gets 49.99%, that is not a majority. then there is runoff between
That flame and mocking any violence that happens. that has to stop. s.e., donald trump dehumanizes people he doesn t like. and i guess at this point we have to assume he doesn t care that it leads to violence. you know, and he does it especially with women. there is a trigger for him, women would don t like him or disagree with him, he gets vicious about their looks or their humanity or their dignity. i think the rhetoric is partly to blame. but to me the most dangerous part, nancy pelosi alluded to it just there, are these conspiracy theories. they re garbage and they are a mind altering drug. and they have infiltrated politics. qanon is in congress. anti-semitism is in congress. because republicans didn t have the courage to disavow these voters. they didn t have the courage to say, we don t want you qanon. if you believe there is a pedophile ring in the democratic party, we don t want you.