hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in watershington. we are two weeks out and tonight a one-night only event in a pivotal senate race, john fetterman versus mehmet oz on the debate stage sgl. plus, progressives push president biden to push russia to end the ukraine war. and diary excerpt. a broken promise from a supreme court justice. a new book digs into the life of senator ted kennedy. up first, the midterms. we count your votes two weeks from today. already upwards of 9 million ballots cast across 40 states. big debates tonight remind us the consequences are enormous and many of the key races are remarkably close. 36 governors races. always important but all the more so because of the new politics of abortion rights. all 435 house seats up. republicans now confident they will seize the speaker s gavel from nancy pelosi. and 35 senate contests including a race that s absolutely crucial. john fetterman and mehmet oz square off. it is their one and only
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her brand at all. there s an interesting new pro-clinton ad that s out that includes various powerful women, kind of like girl power. let s watch. so is michelle obama fast becoming a voice for women in america? does she want to be the new feminist on the scene? i think she s talking about the themes that have long animated her. she cares about gender, she s talked about work/life balance. she certainly talked about the importance of women power. i think that she sees in clinton someone who is carrying that mantle forward, someone to believe in.
leading that movement forward. i think someone like mike pence will probably carry the mantle forward. you don t think he ll become a sarah palin and just go off and continue being a celebrity? i don t think he ll run for office again, but i think he ll be on the outside, being a voice for that movement. and i hope to come back the amanda s point. i hope the republican party never gets to a point, where we say, voters, 1,500 of you showed up to vote, but we re going to stand on the moral high ground and we overturn these decisions. it s interesting, there was an autopsy done after 2012 and it was all about reaching out to women, reaching out to minority groups, having a bigger tent. is a do you see a similar autopsy being done after this. or is there just there should be, but it should be done by the same people, because they i think they misdiagnosed a lot of problems when it came to immigration, right? they said that the republican party needs to pass comprehensive immi