it is election day in america. hello everyone i m anderson cooper welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are looking at live pictures of voters lining up to cast their ballots. polls are open in a majority of states. at this hour six more states are opening their doors to voters. the big question who will control congress. dozens of house races are considered toss ups, republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to win the majority. in the senate the race is likely to determine control are very tight. republicans need a net gain of one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. more than 40 million americans have cast their ballots in early voting ahead of today. it all comes down to turnout today and the issues. the only certainty is that voters will decide who they elect and who controls congress. we have this consequential midterm election covered for you from coast to coast. i want to begin with our coverage with cnn s jason carroll li
To take the majority in the house and in the senate republicans need a net gain of just one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. the big questions will republicans see gain as mong latino voters. self house races in texas and in nevada right now hinging on latino vote. joining me now is cnn commentator sochi hinojosa from the democratic national committee and also with us is la tasha brown, the co-founder of the black voters matter fund. so sochi, according to this research, this midterm are projected to account for 14.3% of all eligible voters which a new election high and there is a piece in the wall street journal, a poll finding that the republican party is gaining support among black and latino voters. why do you think we re seeing that trend? well i think that republicans woke up the day after that trump lost the presidency and they realized that if they were to try to make end roads with black and latino voters this could
Administration, like president obama and others, and there are others ways to deal with the surge in migration. one of the challenges for the biden administration right now is that they are trying to put together an asylum system and trying to fix it while the plane is in the air. so right now, you have an administration who is trying to ask for more funding, and trying to ensure that they re doing everything that they can, so they don t have a del rio again, but at the same time, that they are helping people. yeah. and the del rio, in a sense, is being carried out on a small measure, every single day. in the border. sochi hinojosa, always a pleasure to see you. thank you for being with us this morning. thank you for having me. up next, florida s governor escalating his fight with disney. how he s planning to make the company pay for its opposition to the state s don t say gay law. you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. jose diaz-balart reports. tech: when you have auto
Nicholas woo and democratic strategist sochi hinojosa. rick, this is your side of the aisle. all these republican primary ads are very low on substance pre trump era and sort of, nothing else than it doesn t say what they re going to do, it just says what they re against? there s a lot of tough talk. that s a reflection of the precedent that probably donald trump set when he ran, a lot of tough talk. look, i think biden is very vulnerable obviously he is very vulnerable. his poll numbers are not very good. i think the issue is an economic issue in large part. it surrounds competence, the accusation of trump when he was leaving office said he wasn t competent, that we were going to get this somewhat boring administration. it hasn t been. inflation is at a record high.
Katherine lucy, white house reporter. daniel strauss, senior little correspondent and democratic strategist sochi hinojosa. i wish i could have seen your face when i was reading that quote from senator sinema. your response? i think that democrats understand they have to pass the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation, the larger budget bill. what s happening with progressives is they re increasingly frustrated by these two senators who have held up democrats agenda time after time and i m proud of pramila jayapal and other progressive members of congress who are fighting back because this is what democrats ran on. they know they need to deliver this ahead of 2022, and they are finally taking control of the party and of the agenda to finally deliver for the american people. katherine, i want to talk about the president s role in all this because you have politico reporting that senior democrats thought president biden went to the hill last night to support pelosi s push to uni