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. hello again. i'm laura kyle: welcome to our continued coverage of the us: mid term elections. 2022. we'll get to those. all the latest in just a moment. but 1st, let's take a look at some of the days of main news stories. a rescue ship carrying $244.00 migrants is headed to france after italy refused to allow them to disembark. the ocean by king is the 4th vessel to the bomb permission to dock in the country this week. some of my grants, who are deemed vulnerable have been allowed on to the shore. the rejection of the rescue vessel is seen as part of a crackdown by italy's new fall, right? government funds has broken out during demonstrations and sedans. capital people are protesting against losses, military coups and of course for the restoration of civilian rule, had been frequent demonstrations for months of security forces cracking down on protesters more in a 1000 people have been indicted in iran as nationwide anti government protest continue to rock the country 100 desiree has vowed to crack down on those rioting

authorities appeared to have deployed mounted police in the capital as they tried to stifle demonstrations. despite the crackdown student said to her, i'm sorry, university have been seen singing in protest demonstrations response by the death of martha emilia, who died and police cassidy. you and hike may serve human rights as, as egypt to release jailed egyptian british political activists, ala abdul fatter. he's been on a 7 month hunger strike in prison and stop drinking water 2 days ago when the cob $27.00 summit began in egypt that has been held in jail for several years with no charge back his own says, a journalist who was killed last month and kenya was targeted, our shot sharif was shot dead in nairobi nearly 2 months after you left pakistan. a police report said officers open fire on the vehicle sharif was traveling in when it drove through a road block. they said they'd been looking for car thieves. officials,

the democratic republic of congo, save thousands of recruits, have joined the fight against arm group to m. 23. meanwhile, romando as accusing to our congo provocation, after a fighter jet, entered its air space. collins plains have been fighting the m. 23 congress as any infringement of rwanda's as space was a mistake. and the french catholic church has been hit by a new scandal cardinal john pierre record has confessed to assaulting a 14 year old girl in the late 19 eighties. of on in sports news, ecuador will keep that spot at the 2022 foot world cup. a court of arbitration for sport has rejected charities that claim that the team used an illegible ineligible player or an castillo played in 8 qualifying matches. the court ruled is ecuadorian passport was genuine, but it's greed, retrace claim that he was born in columbia, and that his passport was issued on the basis of false information. ah.

okay, let's get to the u. s. now where one of the most consequential mid term elections is entering it's final hours. voters have been streaming to the poles by the millions, with control of congress. and the feature of president jo biden's agenda hanging in the balance polling stations have closed across much of the country, including the swing state of nevada. just a few moments ago. at stake are all 435 seats in the house of representatives. and 35 of the 100 seats in the senate. republicans are predicted to take the house while the senate is on of razor's edge. full suggest the u. s. economy is a top concern, but some say what is really at stake is democracy bottle and jordan reports the u. s. mid term elections have arrived. the turning point for control of

congress and president jo biden's agenda for the next 2 years. voters say the country is in serious trouble. oh, there they go. nora rash, inflation and crime. you know, it's huge. she says, you're only going to get worse for that. make a change. her whole voting system is going to be on the line here. if we don't win the governorship, for instance, and if we don't have the least summit majority and lose in the senate, i'm in it. so this is critical. after republican spent months suggesting democrats would try to steal the election. the justice department deployed lawyers to more than 60 cities to insure there weren't any problems counting the vote. some republican candidates continued their fear mongering outside the poles. they may be trying to slow read soon. army but it's coming and we're going to take back arizona . meantime, joe biden campaigned for democrats, hoping they can help him boost his economic policies and his likely reelection

campaign to day rephrase the inflection point. one of those moments comes on every 3 or 4 generations. we know in our bones or mockers is at risk, and we know that this is your moment to defend it. it's likely election officials will need days to confirm results in several key states such as georgia, pennsylvania, nevada, and ohio. rosalind jordan al jazeera, well, i got several senate seats being cold and has how the senate race is shaping up. i've got democrats there at 40. 1 sees republicans are at $4935.00 seats up for grabs. them got started at $36.00 and we can started at 29th and i've actually taken more in these early hours of voting. let's take a closer look. now at the georgia senate race that's really getting tight, raphael will not be incumbent,

they're against herschel walker. sixty's extends the votes counted, and it's looking neck net. remember they have to one of those kansas have to pass 50 percent to prevent a run off in december. there we might not get any results from that for quite a while. now some very early results are coming from another key battleground state that's of pennsylvania. only. 38 percent of votes counted, but we are seeing john fassman for the democrats pulling slightly ahead of murmured odds, but only 38 percent of the votes counted. so that's far too early to call their let's get her texas the governor raised there in texas. better a rogue he's trying to unseat greg. absolutely. very republican, anti abortion. anti gun control governor over anti immigration governor. he's pulling ahead with 53.69 percent, but again, early days they're only for 3 percent of the vote counted too early to call. well,

let's take a look at the races in the house of representatives there. we've got 435 seats up for grabs, and this has been lower chamber of congress is the legislative body. and this is where the republicans are predicted to pull ahead and take control from the democrats, who had a very slim lead before the magic number. that to reach is 218. we've got republicans sitting on 18 6th democrats on 47, not indicative of tall of what's going to happen there later in the nights. let's go to alam facial because he's keeping much more across the house races than i am able to hear. and i'm sure you've got um some updates for us the alan some really interesting results coming. you remember at the start of the evening we said there were a number of seats you need to keep an eye on. if the democrats lose them, then there's every possibility that this red waves, the republican red wave,

is going to materialize. well, bad news for the republicans, jennifer wexler and logan county, just say washington, d. c. she has one seat, abigail spawn burger down again in virginia. don't in culpepper county and her own that she is almost certainly going to win the seat. they are not officially confirmed but is ahead of her republican challenge of yesterday. vega and maggie, her son who was at risk of losing her senate seat in new hampshire is doing much better than anyone expected winning places. the last time roamed when she she ran for the senate. she and she lost. so she's con, that right around. so she's doing very well. also here's the name that you'll know . alexandra keisha, cortez of one of the leaders of the so called squad of people who are considered to be radical democrats in the house. she is on target to win her seat in new york

that was expected. and what is interesting to when a lot of people are talking about, have abortion play the key part in many of the votes and, and how they were reviewing whether or not they would vote for the democrats in vermont this evening. they have enshrined the right term barshan in the states constitution that has passed on a vote that was on the ballot in vermont. so that will now go into the the states constitution. so few interesting reasons. one other one to point out in north carolina, the senate race was considered to be the open. senate c richard bar retired. he was a republican. that was expected to be a safe republican seat. and certainly early on new, we're seeing it looked as if ted, but the republican was going to win that seat. that has no been moved into too close to call. so that suggests that the democrats are doing much better. there's an expect and over all that, we'll give the democrats some hope that perhaps the polls were really wrong and they are going to do much better than they were than expected. they're just talking

about how she's very briefly before we go to remember when brock obama was in his 1st term. in the mid terms, he lost 63 host seats. donald trump last 41. both of them were considering quite a hammering the polls were predicting job i might lose around 25, but he's doing better than expected winning seats. that the, the republicans really needed to win, to make sure that this red wave wasn't just something they talked about. but was actually a thing. okay, alan, thanks very much for bringing the view there on the house of representatives. republicans have been dominating florida to night with rhonda santas were elected as governor and mark i really i getting another turn in the senate. they've been reacting over the past hour and are expecting donald trump to react. now he's just about speak for mar, logo, 80 l, florida. we have some races that are hot and heavy and we're all watching them here . and some of you liked the music so much if you'd rather hear the music and i

understand that very well. so we're doing combinations of both. i would like to welcome the fake news media, which is better as a lot of people back there. that's incredible. that's a big group. they must be expecting something big tonight. actually, they were hoping for big losses, but that's not happening. so up, the numbers have been amazing so far. now, this is just up until this point. but as of this moment on endorsements with the nominations, we had a total of $330.00 endorsements on nominations. this is only a nominations isn't for tonight. and of the 330, we won 200. we won 324. so if you think to 24 and some of those were long shot, 0 very as they were down in 5th place. we lot of people in 5th place. it went to

1st, but it was 224 out of 330 in the that's a pretty good number and, and tonight, because they kept saying, well, he's good on ammunitions, but is he good on the general election? so as of this moment and we have some out there, we are. 80 wins and 3 losses. the 2nd will not be funny if we were better on the general election than the nominations observed. so that's good. now north carolina, just out ted bud is now leading. going great is leading 50. 147 in missouri, very good guy. eric schmidt is now up 55 to 43, and he's he's against the bush, but a different bush. it's gold and an houser bush. that's a different bush. you tell me, which is the real bush in ohio j. d. vance is now leading 5247.

and we had an incredible rally last night in ohio. and you saw that in florida, marco ruby, we had an unbelievable rally. tomato, the night before with the heaviest rain i've ever been involved was. i was up there, it was beautiful every day. this is the tropics, right, florida. it was so beautiful his most beautiful night and all of a sudden it turned deadly dark. and it was like you had massive pails of water that just fell on top of me. we went through the worst to him, but we got it out. i had no teleprompters, we had 45000 people out there. we had no teleprompter. and i said, i wonder what button would do right now, but we, we got it out. and it was amazing, but marco had a fantastic evening at 508241. that's really, that's really tremendous that says at this moment katie bridget, i want to congratulate katie brit indoors. katie and she did fantastically 68 to 30

that mean she has a future. yeah. and just a fantastic woman with a husband who's grady was east baby, the largest human being, i've ever seen. it was a offensive lineman and the nfl for a long time. and a great football player actually played for alabama. but katie, congratulations you and we have a lot of other good ones going out there. her shells leading right now. so we have a lot of a lot of big races going on right now. so enjoy that, enjoy the food and enjoy everything. and really in all fair, it is a great honor to have the media with us. and we hope you enjoy yourself and we're going to leave a group home our president, donald trump, banking at mar logo in florida. let's bring in john henry and he's live in atlanta in. busy georgia, i made a little gas and cooling him, president of course, well expecting him to announce a run for the 2020 full presidential election. not done. it gets adequate to nights

. nice is not really about president child ex president trump any way he and he is thinking about his success is about the republican success is but is other publicans doing as well as he says they are outside of florida. well, it does seem like you're not having a bad night. so far. herschel walker was endorsed by from the republican running in this race here in georgia, endorsed by trophies that a good friend of drop the folks trump's name often, and he's neck and neck with this sitting sen, rafael. we're not the democrat who won here in a special election just a little over a year ago in january 2021. so don't jump endorsement. you heard him bragging about them. they do seem to matter, among republican voters. he hasn't put herschel walker over the top yet in georgia . that's for voters to decide. but he seems to that are relatively good night. york

trump bragging that he was in his count, 80 versus 3. we had 80 endorsements where they succeeded tonight in 3 where they have it, but we'll see what happens with this big senate election here. there are others that he did not. you'll notice congratulate ron de santis that we're winning the governorship of florida. one good reason for that is that your stance is, is already not promised city. we're going to serve out his entire term because he is considered a leading candidate for the presidency, for the republican nomination for the presidency in 2024. and that would mean if trump announces a he will run his main rival at this point. anyway, what seemed to be rhonda santa so hard to say, what will happen with that? but it's notable that drum didn't be roger later. i have good news and you've got samantha in the on lead on them because it's pretty noisy, isn't it? that marcy is determined. they keep going even though we haven't got a clear when

a yet in the senate rate does little bit about the governor's race. so we both, thanks the a bins attempt to get a we match against brian camp who's coming up on top that hi, bryan cam has really out performed even the polls ahead of john stage abrams is actually running behind where she ran last time around. this is a re match rate. well, so it's not terribly surprising that this race might be close here. the warner walker raised, the abrams raised and against brian camp seems to be going about as we expected. so what we're seeing in georgia is different than what we've seen in florida in florida. we've seen blow out margin larger than the poll ahead of the electron. and here what we're seeing so far is about what we expected when you look

at their herschel walker versus rock failed. we're not right. that is neck and neck, which is what we expected. and if it can, if it were to, because at this point with over 70 percent of the vote counted, they'd have to do a rematch in december. interestingly, in that phrase, there is an independent libertarian who is getting about 2 percent of the vote. one would normally expect that the libertarian vote would come at the expense of the republican. so it is possible, the republicans here are even out reforming. but so far, we're not really seeing that in florida. we certainly are quite, it's yet to be determined here, and it could be a long night. could be another couple of weeks if there is a re match here. indeed it does. okay, john, thanks very much for the my joining is that from george danica back now to washington dc that patty calhane is hosting her panel of guess for more lively discussion packet. thanks so much,

laura. there is so much to talk to about it. it's just, we're just in the middle of it. so on the interior, my guess joining me now is jennifer victor, professor of political science at george mason university. i shot hassan a demo credits, democratic strategist, and jocilan josslyn castillo. she's of republican strategist. so we just heard the voice of donald trump doing what we all expected donald trump, to do is take, can pretty much credit for this. this election. i want to talk 1st about some of the trump back candidates. so in a normal universe, herschel walker, who is a football player who didn't live in that state necessarily, goes to georgia, has one of the worst debates, can't really even seem to speak. then it comes out that he's got domestic violence allegations, very credible ones. then it comes out that he's allegedly paid for not one, but 2 abortions and he might win against he. but when van

jelic coals against raphael warnock who's an actual preacher. so i showed to you what, what i really, what i mean, this is an indication that this is, in addition to, to, you know, to, to can, is running for senate. this is a national election. so the issues that the democratic party, the ruling party are talking about a really sort of the issues we will talk about. generally americans will talk a lot of the median particular will talk a lot about character issues. but when it comes time to vote at the polls, americans think about, okay, which direction to i want to take this country. and george is going to be an excellent example of 2 very different visions for who this country is, who we are and what it is we value and cherish. so. sure, a walker is certainly a non traditional candidate, not by any measure, a particularly strong candidate non traditional is the euro. that said that's one

word for it, but he is running in a very republican state. remember, we just turned ga blue. this last cycle before that it was, it was republican for decades. so sure there's going to be plenty of republicans who are going to vote just as they have been voting for a very long time. and that is going to have not much to do with the fact that walker isn't particularly competing on a debate stage, or that walker has a lot of skeletons in his closet, is going to have more to do with the anxieties that voters have. and the way that republicans have been able to capitalize on those less about walker josslyn, your republican g, look at her sha walker. go. that's my god. well, you know, i think you made a good point. republicans have had that stayed in the bag and you know, in the last election that was an anomaly. and so when you look at a growing population in atlanta, that is becoming obviously more of

a blue state these days. how much is the latino vote, the independent vote going to go for walker? not necessarily because of the, of the candidate themself at the issues that he is presenting. we talked about inflation and your last segment. i think that it's front of mind for a lot of voters, we're talking about the rice and climb. and i think people want to change or paying more, getting less, and who is the candidate at the end of the day? that is going to vote for the right policies in form the coalitions in congress to get the majority is that we need to pursue the policies that voters want to see. and i think some voters may be able to see walker as a vehicle for that. but as a republican, are you proud that he's your candidate? i think i'm proud of anybody that will pursue the right policies. obviously, you know, i think primaries have been very tough um, in, in certain republican since you look at missouri for eric smith was able to pull it off. ok. but you know, oftentimes there, there is that desire to pull a little bit more to the right. and i think when you're looking at national contest and state wide conscious, you do want a candidate that is able to win

a statewide race. do i wish that, you know, we were in a position where that sake would be called within the 1st 10 minutes, obviously. but ultimately i think that what we want is the majorities in congress to be able to pursue the policies that we need, which is the stop spending at the stop the bleeding and to be able to get back on a fiscal st ability path. and i think walker can be that candidate when once he gets here, if that's what, that's what happens tonight. jennifer, what does this say to you about the future? the organ party? well, so i think what we're seeing is that for a lot of americans, your party id, your partisanship is an increasingly important part of your identity. you know, 20 years ago. if you ask people to describe the most important characteristics that describe who they are, they might talk about their gender, their religion, maybe their occupation or where they're from region or something like that. but these days increasingly, it partisanship is right up there. and because partisanship is such an important

critical part about how people see themselves about who they identify as being on their team or in their safe space and who is dangerous to them. and it makes it a lot easier to make a lot of excuses for maybe people that you wouldn't have made excuses for before in that sense. is this the post post shame period of american politics have been made maybe gave. okay. i mentioned earlier that covered the bill clinton rally one of my 1st reza young cub reporter. yes, i'm very old. i know you're all doing the math. he was almost down by the fact that he said he inhaled a joy or you smoked a joy, but he didn't in hell it. so how do you go from that to the tape from donald trump, to now these candidates who are like, yes, there's credible allegations that he beat his wife and paid for abortions, and he still gets the republican vote at so what is that?

so go ahead. you were to, well, i was just, i think it, it's down to one's own partisans to do the disciplining. right. so we have seen some people taken down for scandal over the last 10 years, but they've been taken down by their own party not by the other heart, their world democrats. yes. so for example, if you have al franken, a democratic party asked him, aren't pressured him to cut it out and get out of here. you don't have the same kind of power. you don't have the same kind of pressure on the rippling inside. and that's something that many democrats sort of talk about and fred about. but for those same democrats, it is important that we stick to our values. and i think the georgians get to make that decision. now, in, in georgia, whether or not to stick to their values, if those poor personal connections are really important to them. here's one thing i do have some hope for as we're talking about like partisan id is so important as well as other identifications. i do still think that there is room for finding

common ground in common values that we all share. and i'm not saying this because i'm being, you know, pollyanna asher, super optimistic. i'm saying this because i'm actually worried about this. we do often find common ground and values. but often when divisiveness becomes a political strategy, it separates us rather than unites us. and when you have people like round de santis, running policies and running stunts that are met, meant to be divisive. then we lose track of the fact that we do all of us americans want to be in a position where we can be prosperous and provide for families. we do all as americans want to be safe in our homes and communities and schools that is true. but then when you have people like donald trump running to say that some of these americans are cheaters, some of these americans aren't even actually americans. and many of these americans are secretly conspiring against to you. then it erodes our ability to find common

ground with each other. just so let me, let me ask you this because it seems, you know, and, and i think it's important to very mapped to point out that there was a democratic move in the primaries to bolster up these trump candidates. so there's been a lot of criticism that did they said, oh, these candidates are a threat to democracy. but for example, in the democrat maryland, a governor's race, they propped up that the, the republican had spent like $21000.00 on ads and democrats at $1200000.00 being i, or 1150000 be in like he's donald trump's choice. he's too dangerous and so then he gets the nomination just ah, if, if this is the party of trump, how would you ever do what i just said? which is figure that figure our way back. i mean, you're looking at kurt schrader in oregon not coming back in you know, i think that them are the, the moderates in both parties are, are, are being filtered out. i in that is not too that's to the detriment of our

institutions. and so you pointed out, democrats in the democratic machine spending money against republicans that actually work across the i'll look at peter meyer in michigan. ah, that was a member that came here to actually talk about civility boat with them across a great percentage of the time. and they ousted him, they spent a great amount of money to do that. and so i think there's a bit of hipaa credits ism happening on, on both sides. and, you know, at the end of the day, but louder voices are starting to take hold. and i think that this election is going to show us just how tired boaters are. i think of both sides, frankly, when it comes to on catering to the more radical anal smallest margins of their b is people want solutions. they want to put food on the table, they want to be safe. they want members to work together. they sent washington with a 5050 senate majority last congress. and instead, this administration and congress pushed through with a reconciliation bill on a partisan basis to try to do it way with the filibuster to try to you know,

increase the number of supreme court justices. that's not the mandate that they had to try to increase the number. so supreme court justices there was talk of it. there was, they didn't actually do it, but i don't know if we were on a wide shot or if you could see these 2 faces over here, they were both. so ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, can we not pretend that this is both sides? because this isn't the same, the democratic party and the ruling party are not mirror images of each other. democrats, i don't have moderates, will have conservative senators like mansion and cinema, who have extraordinary se within their own party and determine the direction of policy. just as we have people like alexandria costio, cortez, the republican party is far more uniform, not just in terms of i would as ideologically, but how it is demographically, let us not underestimate the fact or sort of, let's not forget the fact that the republican party relies overwhelmingly on one type one race.