and welcome back to our special weekend edition of out outfront. i m erin burnet. we re two days from election day. already, this is shaping up to be a midterm unlike none other. as of today 40 million americans voted and both sides are trying to get their base to the polls on election day. all day we ve seen rallies in georgia, pennsylvania, florida, arizona all of them and the biggest names for each party on the trail tonight. trump and biden headlining events this morning this evening. they know what is at stake because control of congress is on the line, house and senate. in the senate nevada pennsylvania are tossups and republicans only need to pick up one net seat to win the majority. just one. we have a team of reporters out tonight. obviously in the final hours, the race where you are could be the most important between dr. oz and john fetterman. reporter: it certainly could be. you laid it out so perfectly there. the other key thing to remember is this i
this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
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hillary clinton at 66%. you say that s great. 66% is great. let s come forward to 2020. joe biden gets 69%. joe biden gets 20,000 votes and change more than hillary clinton did in 2016. joe biden wins the state by 20,000 votes. turnout, math, matters. turnout and math and 20,000 talking about an entire state and every vote mattering. what about pennsylvania? jessica talking about what she s seeing there tonight. this senate race, obviously, as she s saying is an open seat so what are you going to be watching for? obviously, you ve had an early vote, people can vote absentee or by mail. they can t start counting that until the polls close on election night. what will you look at to see how that senate race will go? you got the smartest guy in the commonwealth behind me. he s coming on in a minute. the big statewide races will be decided in the suburbs and this is fascinating to me in the sense i was out at this part of the state, the pittsburgh
that s the interesting thing to watch, john. do democrats in these tough races, the big statewide races for senate, most of the democratic money is going into abortion rights. they haven t figured out how to litigate this issue. a lot of these problems predate president biden but they have not improved under president biden. many would argue at least in some cases some have gotten worse. do democrats find a spot here? not the policy but do they say this is not the compassionate thing to do to women and families, to move to shuttle them around. look at ron desantis in florida, a republican governor up to reelection, who believes he s going to win. he s using his campaign essentially as a testing laboratory as a presidential run in 2024. he thinks this is the majority opinion. he thinks this helps him. the suburbs decide close