really happy to have you here. we are less than 30 days out now from the elections. we are going to be joined in just a moment by the man who was in charge of the democratic party s efforts to hold the united states senate. and that is quite a job this year. the polling averages right now show that the prospects for both parties in the senate are equal as of today. literally, if the polling says today ends up matching the vote on election day, it will be 50/50 in the senate. so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip
so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip out on. this election will be very tight and very, very interesting. and very consequential. again, if the polling bears out. and election day looks anything like the polls say it will lookh today. we ll be talking with the man in charge of the democratic party s efforts in the senate in just a moment. obviously, a super high stakes job. a super difficult job. still though, who would you rather be? would you rather be the senate guy for the democrats right now? or would you r
If you remember almost eight months ago when the war started, the real request was for javelin missiles. they needed to get the armored vehicles stopped. will s. then it was about stingers. more short-range air defense. as putin decided in the spring that he would focus on the donbas. it is a lot like kansas. small villages and towns. we knew it would be long range fires, the ability to hit on the ground. so we provided dozens and dozens of howitzers as well as literally tens of thousands pieces of ammunition for them as well as the vaned rocket systems that are highly visible. that s what that means. they have almost 20 of those on the ground. so we ll keep evolving as the war changes. and you will see as president zelenskyy said today, a stronger need for air defense. so we ll have that conversation with him.
Previously given them, but what can you explain about the parameters in which the u.s. government feels like it has to operate to help but not go too far totentially create a conflict? these are conversations we re having with them almost every day. if you remember almost eight months ago when the war started, the real request was for javelin missiles. they needed to get the armored vehicles stopped. then it was about stingers. more short-range air defense. as putin decided in the spring that he would focus on the donbas. it is a lot like kansas. small villages and towns. we knew it would be long range fires, the ability to hit on the ground. so we provided dozens and dozens of howitzers as well as literally tens of thousands
Confident there will be a majority. julie: are you confident there will be a majority. is he realistic? i think the realistic thing we should be paying tweangs to the votes across the nation. i sent out in my district, 700,000 pieces of mail and i have received tens of thousands pieces back in e-mails. i had 225 town hall meetings. my district, which is majority of democrats, is opposed by over two to one margin. people are deeply concerned with all the number games in this, it s still an increase by borrowing by this phony fund, taking money out of social security. $500 billion from medicare. we re talking $600 billion of debts we re going to have to incur here. they are concerned that the president s campaign promises, to attacking hillary clinton for