this is it. the final big push to the first name right, because the casting of ballots is almost over. the counting of ballots, that s getting ready to start in most places. in some places, they re doing it, but you ve got control of congress, the direction of the country on the line. the five things we have to be watching for over the next hours and days, plural, with our campaign reporters live across the country. we re also live in washington with the mood inside the white house. publicly confident, privately, maybe not so much. also this hour, our team is watching the polls. lawsuits popping up. some precincts reporting issues counting. we ve got our team standing by with that. i m hallie jackson from election headquarters here in new york with our reporters out covering races including in pennsylvania. a lot of talk about there where dasha burns is. guad is in nevada. jesse in youngstown, ohio. there are some question on everybody s minds, right, as we are getting close
and right to privacy. president biden lays out the threats from maga republicans when one of several speeches in the final six days until the midterm elections. we ll look at what the white house and democrats have planned for the final days of the campaign. plus, republican congresswoman liz cheney is crossing party lines, making good on her promise to help defeat election denying members of the gop. also ahead, the man accused of trying to kill nancy pelosi s husband makes his first appearance in court as more disturbing information is coming out about that attack. we re also following alarming developments in the war with ukraine. there is new reporting this morning on high-level talks inside the russian military about using a tactical nuclear weapon. and good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, november 2nd. joe is back. along with joe, willie and me we have the host of msnbc s politics nation and president of the national action network re
Centered on what is front and center for voters, even if it doesnt seem like what is front and center in the news. It is hard to figure these things out. Campaigns are hard work. Thank you, jen. Do you remember winning . Winning. Winning. I hear and i there. Winning in what Sense Question just winning. Starting to get the concept now . Actor Charlie Sheens public breakdown in 2011. Amid struggles with Substance Abuse and public feud with his boss on his very Popular Television show, Charlie Sheen turned himself into a National Spectacle by participating in a bronze of Tv Interviews where he claimed he was a warlock and that he had tiger blood and most of all he was winning. Charlie sheen was not the only celebrity in the middle of a welldocumented crisis. Now to the latest trouble for star Lindsay Lohan. She was arrested early thursday morning in new york and she may now be facing new charges in california. It is a new low, arrested again. Seen here leaving the Manhattan Police station
Has been lowering expectations about tonight for weeks now. that s because we know that midterm elections are tough for the party in power. the president last night said he thinks it s possible that democrats could hang on to the senate, but that the house will be very, very tough. that is what we re hearing from aides. biden officials telling me that they are going to be measuring how this night goes based on potentially how many seats democrats do lose. and if that number is in a smaller average, if it s about 20 or less, they re going to view that potentially and spin that as something of a victory depending again on what we are going the see here. so another big question is how the president will answer some of these tough questions. traditionally presidents of both parties hold a press conference. this white house hasn t committed to that saying we will likely hear from the president in some form, but these results could take so long to tabulate,
Opened by rob portman. this idea of former president trump s influence goes back to the primary. vance was in a crowded primary field and he was trailing in that field until of course he got the endorsement of former president donald trump and that sent him way over the top and gave him a substantial lead in the primary and obviously he prevailed and is now the republican nominee. so the question after the results come in tonight is going to be one of is that poll that mr. trump has within the party something that carries over into the general election. you mentioned former president trump was here stumping for vance last night. we asked some voters here about this. we are in tim ryan s congressional district so obviously this is a place that knows him, is going to have democratic tendencies, but this is what some voters are saying. you think that helps him or hurts him? i think hurts him more anything. how come?