well. we have our team here to help us figure it out and how voters might interpret all of these numbers. we have four days left and fresh polling underscoring the edge republicans have on enthusiasm ahead of the final messaging blitz from democrats. hitting the airwaves this morning with four days left until election day. thank goodness that the republicans are finally at the table wanting to talk about crime. it s not something that we should only talk about during political season. they want a common purpose, a common mission and that s what we re doing. we have a stark choice between somebody is here with a career who served pennsylvania, compared to somebody who is here to use pennsylvania. we ll get to all of that coming up. and it s the looming political earthquake many have been waiting for, anticipating. 2022 is not even over yet, but the former president s inner circle is eyeing a 2024 announcement in the coming days, more on that reporting in moments. m
Whether republicans have been able to seize on it and make it a bigger issue, certainly, that s politics. but i don t think you should say that crime isn t an issue and i think that s actually what has gotten democrats like kathy hochul in trouble. people are concerned. if you say you re not, that shows you don t get it. there s maybe i wasn t clear on my question. i was saying that crime is not necessarily an issue. it s a matter of how big of an issue is is your number one issue, are you making it the first thing that you re leading with in your campaign? and lee zeldin is doing just that. he s doing it because it s working. we re playing politics here, right? republicans have seen this work. in all the time i ve been doing politics, i ve never seen a more devastating attack than republicans talking about democrats wanting to defund the police. i know that s maybe not exactly the frame that we re talking about at this point. but that hits so hard. this whole campaign has come
Down to an issue where, this is new york, you should not be in this era having a republican having a viable chance and you do because this is a real issue and it s passionate and people care about it. and people vote on the economy and they vote if they re feeling scared. fear is a powerful motivator in politics. thank you. house speaker nancy pelosi s husband, paul, is spending his first morning back at home since he was brutally attacked by an intruder. he was released from the hospital yesterday. as we re learning more details, including what police saw when they first arrived here. and we could learn even more today when another court hearing will be held for the suspect, david depape. what are we hearing from the pelosi family and what might we expect from the hearing later today? reporter: well, this time
Specifically and historically, voters have looked more towards republican party in solving issues on crime versus democrats wanting to instill fear in voters ahead of the elections. he s some anecdotes from the new york times that i want to read for you. a 49-year-old nurse has been pleading with her parents to move out of philadelphia especially after a delivery driver was shot and killed a few blocks from their home. in wisconsin, a 66-year-old woman already knows what she wants for christmas this year, a ring doorbell camera which she hopes will assuage her gnawing fears of break-ins near milwaukee. how do you see the issue on crime playing out here? well, first of all, the biggest last-minute boost for john fetterman is not oprah s endorsement, it s dr. oz campaigning alongside donald trump and doug mastriano, appearing in a rally there. it fires up democratic voters
Breaking records when it comes to the number of early votes so far. what are folks there on the ground there telling you today four days out from the election? reporter: yeah, yasmin, quickly i want to touch on something that kristen said. she talked about the former president s appearance in iowa even as he s going back and holding these rallies. he s still continuing to repeat the lie that he won in 2020 and perhaps nowhere is that more targeted than right here in georgia and it s something to a degree that still lingers over the election today. when you talk about early voting turnout numbers, yes, they have certainly been record-breaking. we re talking about more than 2 million ballots cast. that s higher than what we saw in the entire early voting period back in 2018 and we still have this last day to do. i ve talked to voters in a suburb of atlanta, every one of the people i talked to this morning tells me a different issue that s top of mind. some talk about inflation, others