that democrat josh shapiro when the governor s race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq pennsylvania s are likely to gain new protections and police reform, gun control measures, green energy measures, could be on the table. in short, as we d like to say every time on this show, every election matters when the vote count. coming up on the second hour of ayman, breaking news, a third high altitude object has been found. this one in northern canada. plus, president biden goes on offense after a state of the union effect and republicans are running scared. undermining democracy. new conservative majority on the north carolina supreme court might overrule past decisions that protected voting rights. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. we begin this hour with our breaking coverage of a third unidentified object, shot down over north america
the other two won the races by 50 and 75 points. for months on this show, we have been covering the chaos that ensued when due to a series of unexpected issues, three seats won by democrats in the november elections were left vacant. pennsylvania republicans took that opportunity to in effect, steal their way to a majority in the state house. clearly ignoring the will of the people by pretending that they had a majority while those seats remained unfilled. but now that those special elections have been held and the winner settled, it seems like a more drama free environment will be coming into effect because democrats will now control the commonwealth s legislature for the first time in a dozen years as we mentioned earlier. and it is coupled with the fact that democrat josh shapiro won the governor s race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq
with a new majority, and who will lead them and congressman kevin mccarthy can t secure enough votes to become speaker? adding to the chaos, there are growing calls for congressman elect george santos to step aside before he s even sworn in. the freshman from new york shows no signs of doing that. will there be consequences for the lies he calls resume embellishments? we are going to ask a fellow new yorker congressman pat ryan in just a moment. case closed, folks, tory lanez was found guilty of shooting megan thee stallion. and now audio has surfaced of a phone call between tory and megan s former best friend. we are getting into all of it in the regroup. first, 2023. i m simone sanders, and i have something to say. new year, new congress in just two days. 118 congress will officially begin. and the new republican house majority will bark upon a legislative agenda divorced from the reality of what americans across our country actually care about. in a recent dear colle
morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in
Republicans including speaker mccarthy, steve kolisi and others on a host of other high-ranking officials, all voted to raise the retirement age to 70. that is a move that would cut social security benefits for tens of millions of seniors, who have paid into the system for years. biden s line of attack seems to have struck a nerve. this week mitch mcconnell made sure to distance his caucus from scott s proposal, telling a local radio show that was, quote, not a republican plan. that was the rick scott plan. ouch. but mcconnell and scott were not the only two republicans airing their grievances out in the open this week. in a battle of florida man versus florida man, donald trump shared a post on truth social, acute and governor grooming underage students during his time as, yes, i schoolteacher. as president biden continues his post state of the union victory lap, the gop continues