burnett. outfront the final count down. the first polls opening just hours from now. control of congress and president biden s agenda are on the line. already 41 million people have cast their ballots in early voting. that s a remarkable number. tomorrow at this time we ll be standing by for the first results. this is one of the most consequence midterm contests ever. candidates across the country are at this late hour making their final pitch to voters in these hours before election day polls themselves open. in pennsylvania, a state where three presidents have descended over the past two days, republican senate candidate mehmet oz and democrat john fetterman are about to hold duelling rally and in ohio, former president trump is about to take the stage for his senate pick. seven are toss-ups or slightly tilt republican or democrat and flip it over, we ll show you the house, 20 races in 14 states ares to are toss ups there, across from coast to coast. jeff zeleny is live
pennsylvania dead heat and georgia. democrats crisscrossing the state to boost john fetterman. his double digit lead evaporated. both president biden and former president obama on the trail for fetterman. they lit into republicans. on tuesday let s make sure our country doesn t get set back 50 years. are you going to vote for republicans who oppose common sense gun safety measures who want to cut social security and medicare? politicians who seem to say anything and do anything to get power, and people who see you and know you and care about you and share in your values, who want to make your lives better and move this country forward and bring people together. harris: rick scott, chairman of the national republican senatorial committee in focus. let s go to bryan llenas in pennsylvania. dr. mehmet oz s final campaign rally will be here tonight in montgomery county, important philadelphia suburb where he hopes to sway swing voters his way. we re 30 minutes away from w
So poignantly and accurately warned of violence. so the reason georgia here we go again, neck in neck, in control of the senate and the state. you just heard the senator explain runoff. you gotta have 50%. someone gets 49, 44, that is no good. do you think signs on the ground are pointing to a winner tomorrow or does this go to ?rownd. lord, erin. don t put me on the spot that way. i mean, we ve got 2.5 million georgians voting in record turn-outs, showing up in the early voting and absentee voting, we expect maybe 2 million more tomorrow and it s completely up to them. i m not gonna lie, i m hoping kind of like you that we have it done one way or the other but it may not be the case. as we ve got the rules and laws in georgia, if you don t get a 50%, we go four more weeks. four more weeks. i hope everybody just heard that. that s what we could be waiting on if this comes down to georgia.
Competitive the mid-term elections are right now. 48% of likely voters, those are people who count and those are people who voted early or will go to the polls, those likely voters saying they prefer a democratic controlled congress while 47% prefer a republican controlled congress. the opposite of last month congressional preference. i want to get your reaction to that, senator. well, here is what i m seeing and what the candidates are seeing. energy on our side is unbelievable. i m traveling around the country whether it s bolduc in new hampshire, oz or walker. or arizona, big turn-outs across the country. 500 people at oz s rally there. we saw it with marco rubio yesterday. we have big turn-outs. so i think the energy is on our side and if you look at the early voting, we are heading in the right direction. i m optimistic and think we get
We go to pennsylvania in less than two weeks now and you will come back with the turnout number again and it will tell us a lot. is ohio the exception or is ohio the rule for these primaries? thanks for suggesting a column topic. i m monitoring this. i ought to write about it at some point. thank you, bill. bill: i was serious. i m serious, too. look, you put your finger on it. we have polls that show the generic ballot and polls that show enthusiasm but those things get proven out in respective primary turn-outs. we saw it in texas, the first primary. republicans more than doubled the turnout the democrats had and we had a contested statewide race for governor but the and the democrats didn t. nonetheless it is still a sign of something when the gap in turnout is so significant as it was in texas and as we now see in ohio. let s keep watching. dana: it is really