midterms. and in georgia 1 million preelection ballots have been cast. let s bring in cnn s eva mckend live in a polling place in georgia. eva, what are you seeing? reporter: well, a common answer from voters when you ask them why they are turning out early is because they want to take advantage of the opportunity. they don t want work to maybe get in the way on election day. so they are exercising their right early. been record turnout daily since early voting began lasweek. secretary of state brad raffensperger says that this illustrates that georgia has among the best election systems in the country but this democratic opponent still says that voter suppression is alive and well in georgia staking issue with the state s voting law, take a listen. i would put our election system, i would put our georgia election system and our voters up against any other state in the union. we re seeing record turnout. and i anticipate we ll continue to see midterm records broken. j
Serious thing, it s a cause of disability in the u.s. what to me is quite remarkable even a few months after his stroke, while he s clearly working through some challenges with speech and language, he s actually able to hold his own in a debate and go toe to toe on a number of topics and answer some questions. and i think that s quite remarkable and shows what the brain is capable of. doctor, had you fetterman saying in that clip that dr. oz has never let him forget about the stroke. but it is understandable that pennsylvania voters, particularly after that debate last night, may want to know more. if you re a pennsylvania voter, and certainly as a doctor, what more transparency do you want, what more answers do you want from the fetterman medical team? well, i think, first of all, it s understandable that voters want to know about the health of their candidates but just to put this in broader context there have been candidates and elected officials that continue to serve their ter
Understanding that was secured from that trip to increase oil production? no. that s not a detail that i got in any readout of that time. but, let s be clear, gas prices here in delaware have come down for several weeks now. overall, they ve been coming down for months, but inflation and prices generally are still too high. the difference between, for example, fetterman and oz or the democratic party and republican party nationally is that we have taken strong actions and have clear plans for how to address the cost of living. whether it s reducing prescription drug prices, transitioning to clean energy and promoting american energy security. and dealing with the costs that your average american has to fight through, instead of simply attacking democrats for the cost of living. i do think that the decision by the saudis to align with russia and to help them pay for their par of aggression in ukraine was
Democrats and republicans urging their voters to get out and vote early. democrats, though, putting a little more urgency to this. saying that november 8th may be too late. all right, eva mckend, in atlanta, georgia, thank you for the report. pennsylvania senate candidates mehmet oz and john fetterman squaring off in their first and what will be their only debate. this is a race that s shaping up to be one of the most kwe consequential in the senate. fetterman addressing what he called, quote, the elephant in the room and letting the audience know that he might miss some words, he might mash some together with the closed captioning system that he was using. let s also talk about the elephant in the room. i had a stroke. he s never let me forget that. and i might miss some words during this debate. mush two words together but it knocked me down and i m going to keep coming back up.
Is that what republican and democrats in pennsylvania are voting for? yeah. i think it s a hugely determinative race. we know that pennsylvania is one of a handful of senate seats that can determine control of the senate in the next congress. democrats, certainly, are being motivated to a large extent by the issue of abortion rights. you know, n polling that says they re motivated by the economy as well. republicans are doubling down on crime. we saw mehmet oz go to john fetterman pretty hard on that last night. each side, for lack of a better term, has their motivating issues. and each will vote accordingly. john and julia, it will come down to voters in pennsylvania. we certainly respect you for your per perspective this morning.