so we can be the leaders nationwide drop prices because inflation is driven by energy prices but also create livelihoods in our community and protect our nation from foreign adversaries who take advantage of the fact we are not energy independent right now. earlier that day oz hosted a round table in bucks county alongside maine senator susan collins. the focus bipartisanship. for most oz has been trying to convince swing voters in philadelphia suburbs that he will bring balance to washington. senator collins warned voters fetterman is too extreme to get things done in the senate. john fetterman has said i will not work with joe manchin. he has also said i will be the 51st vote for chuck schumer. that s not what we need to solve problems. less than an hour from the event at least nine people were shot in a mass shooting in philadelphia saturday. record rising crime in philly is a focal point of oz s efforts to sway suburban voter routinely attacking his opponent being t
pennsylvania dead heat and georgia. democrats crisscrossing the state to boost john fetterman. his double digit lead evaporated. both president biden and former president obama on the trail for fetterman. they lit into republicans. on tuesday let s make sure our country doesn t get set back 50 years. are you going to vote for republicans who oppose common sense gun safety measures who want to cut social security and medicare? politicians who seem to say anything and do anything to get power, and people who see you and know you and care about you and share in your values, who want to make your lives better and move this country forward and bring people together. harris: rick scott, chairman of the national republican senatorial committee in focus. let s go to bryan llenas in pennsylvania. dr. mehmet oz s final campaign rally will be here tonight in montgomery county, important philadelphia suburb where he hopes to sway swing voters his way. we re 30 minutes away from w
let s hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin to two hundred and eighteen? we won twe won know until probay sometime tomorrow, maybe monday. if anything, it would justle ofo probably be a couple of votes short, but certainly progress. itht a is realt th tonight at ts hour, no doubt the american people are being patient, butop that patience is wearingle thin the vote totals remain as of now unchanged. three straightotals re days. we have two hundred republicans supporting mccarthy 20 supportin g somebody else. and the past twenty four hours,
432 elected congressmen or calling them congressmen-elect. he needs three more to close the deal. republicans are hoping at 10:00 p.m. time when they reconvene, he will have the three. that is a stubborn six that is left over. let s get the details from chad pergram with the very latest. chad? neil, the speakership is a game of inches. today for the first time since tuesday, kevin mccarthy finally showed he was gaining ground towards securing the votes to become speaker. i think you saw we made very good progress. we ll come back tonight and i believe tonight we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. just remind me of what my father always told me. it s not how you start, it s how you finish. we have to finish for the american public. this is now the fifth longest speaker election in house history. mccarthy lacks the votes, however 15 house republicans who oppose mccarthy are now in his camp. i know you re all wondering what changed the vote. i think i can
polls. the heavyweights are hitting the trail with closing messages as key races tighten. biden, obama, trump, all ending up in pennsylvania, a high-stakes stat race there up for grabs as the woman who made dr. oz famous endorses his rival. maybe you ve heard of her. if i lived in pennsylvania, i would have already cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. elsewhere today is the last day of early voting in some states seeing historic turnout, more than 34 million ballots already cast. plus, talk about a tease. donald trump addresses the 2024 elephant in the room. i will very, very, very probably do it again, okay? very, very, very probably. let s get out to the trail now. cnn s dianne gallagher and omar jiminez with us. it s the last day of early voting in georgia. tell us what you re seeing. reporter: you can probably see the line behind me, ana, that s completely wrapped around the building. this is typically the most robust day of early voting, the first