seems like you re making a fashion statement. it says vote, doesn t say who. if you get me that item i ll find a civic way to rock it. nobody rocks it like. you see you tonight. nicole and i will be out there with the rest of the team. it is election eve here on the beat as well. campaign guru james carville kicking off the show. we have the music. you hear that. we have the legend. always dressed for television. see you in a second. and we have the final numbers heading into the election day. democrats are catching up with republicans in enthusiasm. that s from the nbc poll. the fact is, 2 22 midterms now have surging turnout. in the last midterms the energized 2018 on trump there was a record turnout of 38 million votes. that is now topped by this final re-election set of numbers. over 42 million people already voting. 38 million was the record work 4 million more. the new record is 42 million. that is more m s, to quote the new drake album. candidates are hop
Doing. we talked about voter participation in general, talked about the labor part, and everybody using their voice. so fran and antoine, i hope you take this show on the road, do your thing, next time in person. thanks for being on the beat on election eve. thank you so much. thanks for having us. and everybody, get out there and vote. there it is. appreciate you both. let me remind folks because it is election eve, we have special coverage tonight. we have who you see on the screen, rachel leading the coverage, kornacki at the big board, we have joy, nicolle, myself. i ll be with them at the 9:00 hour. streaming on peacock. check out the special coverage and keep it locked because the reidout with joy reid is up next. whenever heartburn strikes get fast relief with tums. it s time to love food back. tum tum tum tum tums the holidays were lonely for the yeti. but after saving big
Very important that first of all, we support the administration that s been the most supportive of labor in many decades. and i think that depending on what your personal preference is, for me, you know, i feel like it s really important that it s anybody that thinks that it s okay to legislate a woman s body, denies global warming or voter rights, all of these things are very basic rights in this country. and you know, i m personally very, you know, concerned about this. now, i m not telling you how to vote or what to do. get out there and vote and vote your voice. that s just my personal opinion. i hear that. i appreciate that. and antoine, i wanted to get your view on sort of the younger generation that s coming up in these times, these huge clashes
Forth among republicans, but do you view, among other things, tomorrow as a vote that could determine the future of social security and medicare, something you recently wrote about? yeah, i mean, this is not hypothetical. let s remember that we came within a whisker of seeing the age of medicare eligibility raised by two years as part of a bargain obama himself reached with republicans in return for them not crashing the world financial system by refusing to raise the u.s. government debt limit. that didn t happen because republicans were unwilling to accept any tax increase as part of their part of the deal. so this has been a consistent thing. you now say it s a back and forth. i think that we have to say that this is deep in the dna of the modern republican party. they want to cut social security and medicare. it s strange they re so determined, but that always comes up at every opportunity. so you have to assume that if they have enough leverage, they win enough seats they ll try
I m here to tell you, pittsburgh, that tuning out s not an option. sulking and moping, that s not an option. the good news is, you have the power in your hands to steer this country in a better direction. but it only happens if you vote. it only happens if you participate. only happens if you vote. barack obama trying to get people excited. seven key senate races are deadlocked. candidates in both parties say it will come down to that participation. we re going to need every one of you to vote. tell ten of your friends to get out and vote. if you ain t got no friends, make some friends. we want people to stay in