Really? what will they do differently? republicans particularly run on inflation and the economy a lot. not on specifics. yes. politically, in strong position, but a problem, election ends and governing begins. they re going to have to come up with an agenda to tame inflation. not just sloganeering, and i have a lot of republican friends and tell you what they re saying. the deserty secret, running on inflation, borders and investigg hunter biden tormenting anthony fauci and impeaching president biden. a lot of people on both sides care about these things, but nobody out there is saying, gee, hope my country ties itself in knots over impeaching biden and fauci and hunter biden. stronger messages by sd democrats? absolutely.
that s why these elections are so important. especially taking on such an extreme group of people who are trying to hijack it and jam their ideology down the throats of everybody else in the country. cnn has all the battleground states covered with a team of reporters. we begin with the one and only mel li zanona live in columbus, ohio. a very breezy columbus. sun s not up yet. good morning to you. what s the mood like there. reporter: good morning. you really hit the name on the head here. it is competitive and also contentious. this race is a lot closer than a lot of people expected it to be. especially considering this is a state, a red state, that went for donald trump in 2020, and, yes. j.d. vance is still seeing having the edge but tim ryan kept it really competitive and views himself as the underdog in this race and has done that by having a consistent economic and jobs message from the beginning. he s didn t a very prolific fund-raiser and also tried to
Most important right. also argue in their papers that this will disproportionately disenfranchise minority voters. the 14th amendment argument. exactly. how strong is that argument? depends who your court is and when we re talking about it. historically those arguments had success in the federal courts, but that s changed over the last couple years as the supreme court changed. where does this go? now fetterman has gone to the federal district court. the trilevel federal court saying you need to stop what the pennsylvania state supreme court has done. surely, whoever loses at federal district court will try to take it up to federal court of appeals, called the third circuit court of appeals. you bet whoever loses there will ask the u.s. supreme court to get involved. going all the way. whether the supreme court takes it or not, who knows. this is another one of those emergency orders we see from the supreme court so commonly now. always say that, look, when people talk abou
As those mail-in votes and votes from atlantic county and other county counted later. don t be surprised if republicans jump out and raphael warnock closing and closing and closing in as i am on don right now. go to nevada. there goes don. see ya later. go to nevada. took days to project a 2020 rin are winner. like in arizona good for gop, but my buddy, a great colleague here in cnn says unclear if that holds this year. unclear where exactly all the votes will get counted in nevada, but at least in the 20920, it was a lot like arizona with a later counted ballots good for trump compared to biden. okay. how long? oh. days. days. days. but how long? days. days could be 365 days? depends how close the race ultimately ends up. all we re going to say is patience. patience is a virtue in life when dating.
Now. republicans only need to flip five seats to take over the house, and republicans only need a net gain of just one seat to seize control of the senate. there s a lot at stake and a very big day. happening now, though, polls are opening in battleground pennsylvania. voters there play a key role in choosing a new governor, senator and really the future of the country. kate bolduan is in my old stomping ground of pennsylvania in ben salem with more. good morning to you. the sun, when last we met, a few hours ago, the sun was not coming up. it is coming up. people are heading to the polls now. kate? reporter: absolutely are. welcome to election day, everyone. the excitement, after all the stump speeches and ads, a lot in pennsylvania. punditry and polls, exciting stuff. voters heading to polls and votes starting to be count the.