oregon. dan. reporter: yeah. hey, rich. as you know, very few democrats have chosen to campaign with president biden this year, but when he asked if he could come out to oregon and help with the run for governor, tina said come on out. biden s three-state western spring began in colorado where he appeared with senator michael bennett who looks to be pretty safe there. he attended fundraisers in california and now he finishes up in portland. he gives a speech on lowering cost for american families. cotech is locked in a three-person race, and it s been locked up for months. betsy thompson, most believe is taking more support from the democrat than from the republican. she attacks cotech relentlessly over the dual crises of homelessness and crime. in a statement she said, quote, i hope biden comes more often so that portland will clean up more of the trash and tendencies that tina s created between the airport and downtown portland. kotek has been pretty much in lockstep with
thoughts on georgia, and do you think this could be a situation where candidate selection may cost a seat here? i really think that herschel walker did exactly what he needed to do last night, and that was do no harm. and i actually think he showed the american people that he could become a u.s. senator and did connect that senator warnock is a part of the biden world. and biden s approval rating in georgia right now is less than 40%. and so herschel walker s job, he had $40 million spent against him mt. primary and this election in the primary and this election, and there s nothing else that can be thrown against the wall against herschel walker. when you have issues such as crime, inflation, abortion, gas prices and the border being the biggest issues that people are voting on, 4 out of 5 of those issues are republican issues that they win by well over 50-60% on. abortion, i just don t know how much that s going to be an issue at the end of day in in and every other state. rich:
the gas station is going up. it s just, like [inaudible] reporter: it remains to be seen if biden can fire up democratic base today. if he could, it would be a major victory potentially for republicans in this very blue state and also would give hem their first elected leader statewide on the whole west coast. rich? rich: dan springer live in portland, oregon, thank you. georgia senate candidates republican herschel walker and democrat senator raphael warnock going head to head in their first and most likely their last debate before midterm day. jonathan serrie is live from atlanta with the latest developments. hey, jonathan. reporter: hi there, cacqu jackie. one of the issues to come up related to the economy, student loan forgiveness. take a listen. how can you transfer someone s debt who owe it to
someone that don t owe it? and also senator warnock brags about making $400 billion that now the taxpayer, all of you s, gotta pay for. it s interesting to me that folks who have been crying about the student debt can relief haven t said anything about multibillionaire corporate entities who have gotten ppp loans. reporter: senator warnock dodged a question on whether he d support president biden if he ran for a second term in 2024. herschel walker was similarly asked whether he d support a second term for former president trump. yes, i would. and let me tell you, president trump is my friend. it has nothing to do with, has nothing to do he s my friend. i won t leave my allies, which is what senator warnock and joe biden did in afghanistan. reporter: now, walker acknowledged that president biden was the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election, and both candidates
and avoid a runoff? he absolutely can. and any candidate that clears 50% avoids that runoff. this is a critical race. i actually watched the debate, i thought it was a pretty good debate. herr herschel walker did what he actually add had to do aside from posing as a fake police officer in that debate. the interesting thing now i see in georgia is the gender split in terms of early ballot requests. early voting starts in georgia on monday. there s about a 20% gender gap between women and men-requested early vote ballots. favoring women. so that s, obviously, going to be senate. i think we ve seen that trending after dobbs, as you rightly point out, rich, some of the troubles that warnock has had personally with the abortion question. so it s certainly going to be an interesting race less than 24 days out. rich: ashley, what are your