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savagely attacked by an assailant who intended to hold and harm her, house speaker nancy pelosi has spoken on camera about the ordeal. paul came home yesterday, that enables me to be at home with all of you. thank you, thank you, thank you for your kind words, your prayers, and your good wishes for paul. it s going to be a long haul, but he will be well, and it s just so tragic how it happened, but nonetheless, we have to be optimist you can. he s surrounded by family, so that s a wonderful thing. she sent out the video in a tweet which reads in part with a grateful heart i thank all who sent kind words and prayers for paul. it s a long road but he will be well. our security, our democracy, our planet, our values are on the ballot. we re in something of a unique moment in american history it seems. there s much that is familiar and normal in a midterm election, and at the same time there is so much that is not normal. normal is candidates criss-crossing their stauts ....
a man who attended the rally that led to the capitol insurrection and also now the man who won the republican nomination for the governor s race there. he will now face pennsylvania s attorney general josh shapiro in the general election. a lot going on in pennsylvania. so let s go there. cnn s athena jones is starting us off live in lancaster, pennsylvania, with more on this deadlocked senate race. what s the latest that you re picking up? reporter: you mentioned, we re talking about the two leading candidates trading the lead back and forth. in the wee hours of last night. a lot to be determined. could be very close causing a recount. there s a problem though because a lot of votes still need to come in counties across the state. this is one of those counties. lancaster county where we learned early yesterday that about 22,000 mail-in ballots were misprinted with the wrong code, so they could not be scanned by the machines. here you see a room full of county staffer ....
A question. are you sure about that? look it up, sure. can we google it? i wouldn t it s wherever. so the first result is from the a.p. a.p. s assessment, false, in the weeks before the november 2020 election, more than 3 million pennsylvania voters requested vote by mail. reporter: we met john at a poll watcher training put on by delaware county conservatives. the organizer wouldn t let us in but john agreed to an interview s he brought training materials. my head was spinning at the end of it. it s a rabbit hole. so tell me about i liked it better when i didn t know any of this, honestly. what s so mind blowing about this? the whole chain of custody thing. the documents go through many technical and procedural details of how votes are counted after polls closed and question whether each is an avenue for che cheating. it casts an enormous amount of suspicion over the vote. it s part of a real nationwide mooufrmt led by ma ga influences ....
Abby, counter to maybe, possibly potentially what charlie is laying out. is mastriano really a liability? because you remember, donald trump was also seen as unelectable in many places all the way up until he was elected. i mean, democrats seem to want this match-up between mastriano and josh shapiro. could this be a case of be careful what you wish for? look, i think you re right on all of those fronts. look, democrats really do think this is the best-case scenario. i talk to a white house official yesterday who described mastriano as the founder of the ultra ma ga, and remember, president biden has been launching this campaign to label republicans as ultra maga because what the democrats data is saying is that that is a negative for voters, for the gettable voters in a swing state like pennsylvania. but one thing that is potentially working in mastriano s favor is look at what happened in the republican ....
Party if maga i can never tell how it s pronounced, mag-a or ma-ga. but if it loses in florida this year, what republicans look at and say, this is far left if it loses, what will that do to the republican party? it will probably further radicalize them. further convince them of the existential terror that they face from the democratic side. and the need to get more aggressive in their approach to politics, which is not persuasion politics, it is about polarizing and radicalizing the base. caitlin, i m curious, too, it does seem to me, one way of looking at this florida race is if you re a republican, you see now in the democratic nominee, in the coalition, this is what we think the democratic party is. and if you re a democrat and you look at ron desantis lining up with donald trump, you say, this is what we think each base can see in the other side exactly the thing that may be motivates them. i think we re seeing that in florida, certainly, and in some of these other rac ....