charlie crist, the republican turned democrat, former governor. you see desantis enjoying a comfortable lead. would he run? would he challenge trump? trump who backed him aggressively does not seem as enthusiastic about desantis. would he parlay a campaign into 2024? this might be teeing up a story line we ll be following after the election. from florida, we take a look at the next one. pennsylvania. we mentioned this. doug mastriano here who s leaned hard into donald trump and his claims about the 2020 election. pennsylvania very central to that. running against democrat, josh shapiro, the state attorney general. mastriano, not in a close race according to the polling. a senate race much closer. could shapiro do so well he pulls john fetterman over the top in that senate race? a possibility.
he s talking about transgender athletes in sports, immigration. brian kemp is aiming for more of the middle. thank you for that update. now from the peach state, let s head up to the keystone state. you see right now, that is a republican-held seat. the republican incumbent not running for re-election here. this one is especially important for democrats because all year it s been the only one of those red states that democrats have had the lead in the polling. it s a potential pickup for democrats. again, we got new numbers from that new york times poll out of pennsylvania today, fetterman, the democrat, continuing to lead mehmet oz the republican. we did mention this in the last segment now, most of this poll was conducted before that debate last week between fetterman and oz and in the final day of that polling, oz was doing a little bit better in the polling than he had in the other days. a bit of an open question there about do we know the full measure of what that debate did
democratic side. when you look at the poll numbers for the governor s race, but also the senate race with mark kelly. the secretary of state race. the attorney general s race. you are seeing tight, tight margins here. we are on the border of phoenix and scottsdale. where you have seen a willingness among voters, especially those typical conservative mccain voters who showed a willingness to vote democrat in the pass. go back to 2018. remember these are the very voters that picked doug deucey by 14 points. at the same time, they voted for democrat kirsten sinema, but also picked hobbs to be secretary of state. they picked a republican to be attorney general. they picked a democratic to be superindent of public instruction so we may be looking at voters picking republican on one hand, democrats on the other. i want to let everybody hear from the attorney general last
from the nation s capital and from just down the road from the u.s. capitol, i m steve kornacki, and we re eight days away from the midterm election that will decide who controls that building right behind me. the margins, they could not be tighter. democrats clinging to a senate majority thanks only to the tie-breaking vote of the vice president and republicans needing a gain of just five seats to win back the house. as for the polling, well, it s sending decidedly mixed signals. adding only to the uncertainty and the suspense before the election. brand-new numbers from four senate battlegrounds, georgia, arizona, nevada, pennsylvania, numbers that if you re a democrat should encourage you. of course, we ve also seen the polls lead us astray more than once in recent years as well. on this halloween, there are also plenty of numbers that
above. if they don t, it gets much diceyer and the new york times times policy today had fetterman up by three. most of that poll was taken prior to the debate. i m not sure it s the best pressure. but that one whoever is ahead, it s really narrow and it s going to be really close on election night and perhaps beyond. we might not have a result on election night. but that s the real one to watch. it s not a great republicans don t have a great candidate there, mehmet oz, not a natural fit for pennsylvania, but fetterman has had his problems too. from a democrat standpoint, what is a good night for democrats next week? does it involve actually holding the house or is a good night, they hold the senate and they keep the republican victories in the house to a minimum, but they still lose the house. a good night is holding at least one house of congress. an amazing night would be holding the senate and the