pivotal midterm elections. in a little over 24 hours results will begin pouring in, with huge implications for the direction of the country and the future of the biden agenda. also tonight, two election exclusives. cnn sits down with republican leader kevin mccarthy to preview his plans if the gop wins the house. and speaker nancy pelosi opens up to anderson cooper in her first interview since the brutal hammer attack on her husband paul. cnn reporters and kr correspondents are on the campaign trail covering key races, the house and senate and governor s mansions across the country as well. all are at stake. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first let s go to cnn s kate baldwin standing by just outside of philadelphia. control of the senate could come down to pennsylvania. both mehmet oz and john fetterman are spending the final hours getting out their closing messages. what s the lat
difficult to have a problem to simply have a slogan and it gets you out of it. how challenging is all of this for president biden to get the right message out? it is a reflection of the party over which he presides. you see that democrats are actually broadly divided on the issues they care about. for a lot of people it s abortion, for other people it s immigration or it might be voting rights. it s a sign of a party that is not simply coalescing around one message. this is also an issue of real consequence for joe biden. he cares about democracy not only as a political leader but as the person history will be looking to to see how did you handle the moment when the america was on a brink of serious challenges. everybody, stand by. we ve got a lot more to discuss. coming up, as both sides make a final push for midterm votes, we have a cnn exclusive.
get him out of office. we ll find out fairly soon. thank you very much for that. omar jimenez in wisconsin for us. let s go to nevada. democrats are desperately trying right now to hold a hotly-contested u.s. senate seat. gary, the incumbent senator, catherine cortez masto, is fighting to hang on against a tough republican challenge from adam laxalt. what s the latest there? reporter: that s right, wolf. we can tell you nevada is a state known for glitz and glamour and natural beauty, and now increasingly it s known for its politics. case in point, this very close u.s. senate race, and it is matchup between the incumbent senator catherine cortez masto and adam laxalt. she s the first latina in the history of the u.s. senate. she had bill clinton campaigning for her yesterday, barack obama was here four days earlier.
he has campaigned in that one a bunch. he originated his life there. but the reality is joe biden is more unpopular than popular, and he is hovering, you know, significantly below that 50% mark in approval rating, that history provides as a guide that when a president is there it spells not good news for their party in a midterm election. and so if you are catherine cortez masto in nevada or mark kelly in arizona or maggie hassan in new hampshire, you re not pounding the white house to get the president to stand next to you. so he s going to deep blue places where he can be of more service to the party, help rally the base in contests where his appearance may not be so polarizing. abby, it s interesting because in georgia the controversial republican candidate, herschel walker is hammering and hammering the president of the united states, hammering away. in some of these races will voters look past flawed candidates like herschel walker
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