hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. just over two weeks until the midterm election decides who controls congress. voters are turning out in big numbers across the country to cast their ballots early. so far nearly 6 million people have already voted in the midterm elections. and in georgia, more than 660,000 voters have already cast their ballots. that number is not far off the early voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election and more than a quarter million more than the early voting turnout for the 2018 midterms. candidates are also on the campaign trail today stumping for votes and blasting the airwaves with ads hoping to sway voters. what are the candidates doing to distinguish themselves, dan? reporter: you re absolutely right. it has tightened over the few weeks. we ve seen a number of polls that show john fetterman losing the almost double-digit lead he had over the summer. dr. otz appeared on fox news this morning and talked a
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Good evening. As we begin tonight it was a day of high drama in the George Zimmerman trial, Closing Arguments and prosecutors gave it all they had, trying to convince a jury of six people that zimmerman is guilty of murder or manslaughter in the death of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman normally stoic finally showed a silent reaction. Abcs matt gutman was there. Reporter it was a Closing Argument laden with emotion. A teenager is dead. He is dead through no fault of his own. He is dead because another man made assumptions. Reporter and theatrics. Oh, hes skipping away. La, la, la. Thats what hes claiming. Reporter prosecutor bernie de la rionda had George Zimmerman credibility in the cross hairs, suggesting he lied that night. Why is he able to yell if the defendant claims the victim was how is he going to talk . Or is he lying about that . Reporter de la rionda using power points. This foam mannequin and zimmermans own words to try to convince the jury that zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin