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it is the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." good afternoon, everyone. >> it's good to have you. election day, it's tomorrow, and the biggest names in both politics -- both political parties i should say are crisscrossing the kucountry in frenetic pitch to get out the vote. >> republicans believe they'll have what it takes to regain the house. all 435 house seats are up for grabs. 35 senate seats also on the ballot. control of that chamber is anyone's guess at this point, plus three dozen governor seats will be decided, and scores of other state and local positions. >> let's start in wisconsin and cnn's lucy kavanaugh. republican senator ron johnson

fighting to hold onto his seat from mandela barnes, the lieutenant governor there. how are they making these final pitches to voters? >> reporter: that's right, victor. there is a close race for the governor as well, but all eyes on the senate race. the outcome of which could determine the balance of power in congress. we have two-term republican senator ron johnson facing the lieutenant governor mandela barnes in one of the year's most competitive races. a state where biden won by less than 21,000 votes. both candidates crisscrossing the state making their final campaign stops. barnes was boosted by obama over the weekend. he's got several rallies this weekend including later this afternoon. johnson is a close ally of former president donald trump. he has a history of controversial statements including spreading misinformation about covid-19 as well as conspiracy theories about the january 6th capitol attack. more recently he has raised concerns about the integrity of the vote before it even takes

place, refusing to commit to accepting the outcome of tuesday's elections. more recently though, he has pushed the issue of racial divisions. let's take a listen. >> he's talking about racism in wisconsin, says it's actually scarier than down south because institutionalize it here in wisconsin. we figure it out how to conceal it. he called it conceal carry racism. >> come on. >> that's what he thinks of you. kind of makes you scratch your head. i mean, why would he want to represent people who institutionalize racism? >> he has run a completely negative campaign because he has no record to run on. he's been serving himself. >> reporter: so you heard barnes at the end there, a 35-year-old progressive. again, wisconsin's lieutenant governor. he would be wisconsin's first black senator if he wins the election on tuesday. he has pushed back against johnson accusing him of being a danger to the state as well as

the stability of the country, but it's interesting. at the beginning of the year, wisconsin was considered to be among the top democratic opportunities to flip a republican-controlled senate seat. johnson was not particularly popular here, but the slight lead that barnes had enjoyed in the beginning of the race has sort of evaporated in recent weeks fueled in part, by a barrage of negative advertisements against him, and it is a truly close race. a lot will depend on turnout, how independents vote in a state where elections really do come down to the wire. >> one of many close races we are watching. thank you. let's go to cnn's sara sidner in arizona right now. a lot of eyes there right now. you're at the election center. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: i just wanted to give you an example of what people are going to see on election day. they're going to come and put their i.d. here. it'll be checked and printed

out. they have 12,000 different ballots linked to whoever checks in. they'll get their ballot and fill it out. if they have issues with being able to see or hear, there's braille, and they can just put their ballot here, and that will count. this is where you would fill your ballot out, and then this is the machine that are in all the different vote centers here. there are 233 of them in the largest, most populous county in the state. they will put their ballots in here and that will actually eventually end up here. now i want to let you know that whe when -- the count is happening right now. this is a machine right here. she is now cleaning it, but she is about to start putting those ballots into the machine, and they will be counted. you should know that many maricopa county, about 85% of voters vote early. they vote by mail, ballot box, drop off, or they come in person

early. a huge number of the votes in this most populous county in the entire state are already in, and they have been counting them already throughout the day. now this count here will stop tomorrow, and they will be waiting for each precinct to send in those voters who come and vote that day, and so a large number of people have already voted. we're talking almost 1 million people have already voted in this county. guys? >> a fascinating look at what's happening at this election center. hopefully giving voters there at least some comfort in showing transparency in what's going on. sara sidner, thank you. scott jennings is a cnn political commentator and former special assistant to george b. bush, and we have our senior political analyst who launched "things that matter." welcome, both of you. scott, let me begin with you and just given the conversations that you have with republican leaders and insiders, they must be feeling good ahead of

tomorrow, but what are they most focused on right now, and what, if any, are the weak spots? >> most focused on pennsylvania and georgia. if you look at the big three senate races, nevada, most republicans feel pretty good that that one 's going to go towards the republicans, but georgia, the possibility of a runoff hangs out there. most republicans feel like walker has a really good chance to end the night with more votes, but whether he gets to 50% -- there's a libertarian on the ballot there, watching that candidate's percentage, and then in pennsylvania again, the macro political wins appear to be blowing in the republicans' direction. everybody feels good about that, but the polling has been persistently close. dr. oz has had image issues, although he's moved that race into a dead heat. so there's cautious optimism on the senate, on the house. it's a lot of exuberance and people feel good about the house and most republicans think if the republicans in north of 20 that would be a great night when

you add it to what they did in 2020. >> all right. let's start on the other side of that with you, what you are focused on. specifically in the senate, the races you think will be most crucial. >> well, i'm just going to say up front that i'm not placing a lot of stock in the polling, and so -- and that's partly because of what happened in 2016, but also because we even have pollsters coming out and saying we don't even know if we can trust our polls. so we don't know what's going to happen, and so looking at it historically, if we didn't know anything, we would expect that the party in power which is, you know, joe biden and the democrats would not do well and often even get a real rubgrubbi in their first midterm election, and that is the backdrop of what is happening. we have to wait and see what happens. is how things pan out because their some candidates that were, you know, like mitch mcconnell

spoke about, quality control was not that great, and could that make a difference? could that be something that could help save the democrats, but we don't really know. you know, we have generic ballots that have democrats and republicans neck and neck. if that's right -- and that's a big if. if that's accurate, that would suggest the democrats are in a bar better position than they should be historically. we don't know if it's true, and we won't know until votes start getting counted. >> scott, we know millions of americans have already voted, but we're expecting millions to turn out tomorrow. on this news that we may or may not hear the former president announce that he is running again in 2024 within the next 24 hours, who does that benefit more at this point, republicans? or could this engage some democrats to come out that were sitting this out tomorrow? >> people already assume he's running anyway.

people in both parties think he's going to make the run, so i think it's pretty late for something like that to make a huge difference. i think clearly he's disappointed that this midterm has not been about him. i think the republicans have run a disciplined campaign on issues. it's not been about trump. the democrats wanted it to be about trump and republicans didn't take the bait. this has been disappointing for donald trump who is used to being in the center of our national political conversation. i'm not surprised he's trying to come in at this hour, but i'm not sure if it's going to be an advantage or disadvantage just given the assumption he's already in for all intents and purposes. >> let me ask you about this tweet that came out from elon musk when he tweeted out today, to independent voters, the worst successes of both parties. i recommend voting for republican congress given that the presidency is democratic. you have been critical of elon

musk. what do you see here? what do you think? >> well, you know, he's really been playing the victim since he's taken over acting like he's been persecuted, he's been losing advertisers and blaming that on, you know, woke-ism and all those other things, but i think advertisers are concerned about this kind of behavior and, you know, basically that he behaves more like a troll than a ceo, and so it's, you know, there is some pressure from groups on the left, though it's not about woke-ism unless it's woke to believe in election integrity which is what they're concerned about, and i think to have the person who's in charge of this huge platform where all these conversations about the election are going on and where we know people go to try and interfere with the elections in terms of, you know, all sorts of dissent -- not dissent, but

create kind of chaos and things like that. i don't think it's super reassuring to have somebody running the platform who has stated what he would like to happen in the election. >> he's been tweeting nonstop ever since buying the company. scott, let me ask you about the question of voter suppression. a judge rejected throwing out absentee ballots in detroit. "the washington post" is reporting that republican officials and candidates in at least three of these battleground states are pushing to disqualify thousands of mail-in ballots. what do you say to the accusation from the left and even some down the middle that say this all points to voter suppression? >> i disagree. i think all legal ballots should be counted and i think each state should follow the rules they have on the books and that's what any political party should be for. i think the democrats have been arguing about voter suppression for the better part of this cycle as a distraction when, in fact, we're going to have a massive turnout. look at what's happening in

georgia which has been the ac epicenter of the voter suppression conversation. we're going to have a lot of folks in both parties turning out, many of whom never voted in a midterm before. i don't believe in this. i think it's largely made up as a political cajole by the democrats and i'm glad people are voting. i'm for a higher turnout, and that's what you're going to see. >> this lawsuit focused only on detroit voters. the blackest city in michigan, one of the blackest large cities in the country. if there's a new rule that needs to be imposed, why not for the entire state of michigan instd of what would likely to be an advantage for democrats? >> you have me on the legal standpoint. if you cast a legal ballot, i ought to be counted. >> thank you both. stay with cnn for all the election coverage all day long. it begins at 4:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. we turn now to a cnn exclusive. house speaker nancy pelosi is

revealing new information about the violent attack on her husband, paul pelosi in their san francisco home. >> she says his recovery will be a long haul. those are her words, but he will be well. our anderson cooper sat down with the speaker to ask if this incident has impacted her future political plans. >> there's obviously been a lot of discussion about whether you would retire if democrats lose the house. i know you're not going to answer that question so i'm not even going to ask that question. >> i'm glad. >> but i will ask, can you confirm that you have made a decision about what you would do? >> well, that's, like, asking the question, isn't it? >> i'm not asking what the decision is. i'm just asking, have you looked ahead, and i mean, have you made the decision in your mind, whatever that decision might be? >> well, i have to say my decision would be affected about what happened in the last week or two. >> will your decision be

impacted by the attack in any way? >> yes. >> it will? >> mm-hmm. yes. >> with us now cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and manu raju. what do you think there? >> i think she was honest and traumatized and i think her husband of 59 years has been bludgeoned, and i think it would be dishonest in any way to say that wouldn't affect you and it wouldn't affect the choices you make in your future, and, you know, it's clear just from looking at her that, you know, this is something that was so horrific. it's affected their entire family, and of course, it's going to affect whatever she does in the future that she might feel some need to be out in california. >> manu, what do you make of the speaker's comments about her future leadership? i mean, she has been in office for so many years, has withstood heat from both sides, from republicans and even her own

party. what is it about this moment that you think stands out? >> well, it was revealing that she reflected -- she answered the question and says this has an impact on her decision-making process. when you asked her about the decision of her future which i've asked her several times she swats it down and dismisses it, but here revealing that this horrific attack on her husband will have an impact on her decision. now she didn't lean one way or the other about what that decision may be, but there has been some expectation for some time that this is going to be her last term as speaker, the top of the house, and the top of the democratic caucus. she did give assurances to democratic members that the end of 2022 would be her last congress. she said that several years ago as she turned in supports for the speakership, but she never fully shut the door that that would be the case, and if she steps aside, this would be significant impact on democrats

at large. she has been the dominant figure within her party. she has a significant legacy. both sides will argue about what that legacy means, but nevertheless, it is significant. her stepping aside would lead to a leadership shuffle within the house democratic ranks, expectation hakeem jeffries of new york, expected to be the lin likely successor. others are interested. adam schiff as well. all profound when that comes down the line. she did not say one way or the other what her decision would be. significant that what happened in her home will have an impact on what she decides to do. >> the attack was on her husband, but we should remember that this man according to the documents released from their interview was looking for her. >> yeah. >> right? he was looking for her. >> she's been under attack for more than a decade. i mean, this is, you know, in january of 2021, their house was

attacked. somebody left a pig's head -- a fake pig's head and blood on their house, and the former president continued to call her crazy nancy as he does, and yet she has soldiered on being one of the most prolific fundraisers for the democratic party. she, you know, she's indefatigable if that is a spoken word. she is. she's tireless. that's the way to say, and just the fact that now she is saying this would impact her decision really leads you to understand how intensely -- not political. everything's political, but not political, but personal this is because she talked about her husband's long recovery. they have been married 59 years. where do you want to be? >> the personal side of her. >> absolutely. >> which is understandable. >> absolutely. >> gloria, thank you. manu, thank you. well, you can watch more of

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my next guest is hoping that could be him. joe oday is hoping to unseat michael bennett in colorado. thank you so much for joining us. this is a close race in a purple state. you say you are not a politician. you're a businessman. you're a contractor and i know you employ around 300 workers. they tell me the economy is the number one issue on their minds. i'm looking at the numbers. the state's gdp grew at a faster rate than the national average year after year. job growth and income growth have outperformed the national average. inflation falls somewhere in the middle there. so how to you justify saying that your opponent is bad for the economy? >> yeah, thanks for having me on here, and what i'm hearing as i go across this great state talking to working americans, small business owners, middle class, retirees, single parents that are working two jobs, this inflation is eating their lunch. right now they've seen 10%

decline in their buying power over the course of just the last nine, ten months here. colorado's number two i believe in inflation. we're up as high as 15.6, so it's having a dramatic effect on working americans here. price of gas, price of groceries. we're getting our heating bills here. it's a cold state and they're up by 30% more than they were last month, and this is all because of the policies that joe biden has put in place and michael bennett has blessed. 98% of the time. people are feeling that pinch, and that's why there's so much energy behind this campaign. we've built a huge coalition and we're looking for victory tomorrow night. >> what is your plan to tackle that? do you support what kevin mccarthy has said repeatedly now that he is open to cutting into social security and medicare? >> look. we're going to protect social security.

we're going to protect medicare. that's -- these people have paid in. i couldn't look at my mother-in-law and go to dinner here for thanksgiving if i was going to cut that. so i just won't. what we need to focus on is the amount of growth that we have had in our government over the course of the last 22 months, and then when you look at the inflation reduction act, you want to grow the irs here again, that's going to be on the backs of working americans. we need to focus on cutting government back. people don't need more help. what they need is government out of the way. we've also got to end this war on energy that the biden administration has put in place. until we get the price of diesel to come down and flood the market with a good supply here in america, inflation's not going to go away. it's key to everything. everything that we buy is on truck, and so we've got to end this war on energy. >> so just to confirm, you support cutting federal spending, but not cutting into medicare and social security? >> no.

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that's because election officials were barred from counting ballots without a date on the return envelope. battleground states like pennsylvania could pave the way for disputes over tomorrow's election results. we have a republican election lawyer and cnn contributor. we also have the executive director of vote beat, a nonprofit news organization that focuses on elections issues. welcome to you both. let me start with you, and i want to first play what we're hearing from the philadelphia city commission about the threat of rejecting these 3,400 or so ballots. >> pennsylvania's voters should have confidence that when they cast their vote, they won't be denied their right for that vote to be counted based on clerical errors or issues that have no real relevance to their ballot. above all that, they should have clarity. these decisions that come down this late in the game, they really upset voters, and they do

reinforce mistrust in the process. >> a county judge rejected a gop effort to reach out to -- the gop tried to block the county from reaching out to the people who made these mistakes. a judge rejected that republican effort. again, i said you typically represent republicans in this effort. where do you land on this? >> i have some problems with this. look, the principle behind the country is that every valid voter should be able to vote, and what's at issue with these pennsylvania ballots is the date they put on the envelope which is not meaningful if the ballot's received by election day because then you know it's a valid ballot. so this seems to be the sort of procedural ballot -- the procedural fight with the aim of knocking out voters who don't happen to agree with republicans and i think that's a bad principle. >> jessica, as we look at the --

the spaight of lawsuits across the country, there are always lawsuits in elections, but what do you make of the election lawsuits that we're seeing before the vote, and some of them i should say are brought by these groups that kind of carried the water for the big lie in 2020? >> you know, i think that it is really them setting the groundwork for what they'll be doing after the election if they are already filing lawsuits like this. who can imagine what they'll be doing after the election now that they are more organized and they have systems in place to collect information and also to fund-raise to do this legal work. so i think we're in for quite a ride over the next few weeks. >> ben, do you think that there is some impact, some residual impact even if the lawsuits are thrown out that questions the validity of the votes in some of these really crucial races?

>> it's certainly possible. i mean, number one there may be a deterrent effect on people who just think the whole voting process is messed up. so they don't go out to vote. number two, it can be used -- it's kind of a credibility concern about the final results that come, and number three, jessica's absolutely right. these suits that are filed now can be the part in the basis for post-election litlitigation. >> let me go up to wayne county, michigan. we mentioned earlier in the show the rejection of a lawsuit from the republican running for the secretary of state there to throw out ballots from detroit. the judge wrote here, the idea that the court would single out one community in the state to be treated adversely when plaintiffs have provided no evidence in support of their allegation simply cannot be allowed to occur.

jessica, when you look at this, republicans say and scott jennings was just here making the case, this is about preventipre prevpre preventing fraud. this is about protecting the legal votes. when you see a lawsuit like this that focuses only on detroit, you see what? >> i see a heck of a pattern that does not support anything that these folks are really talking about in detroit. they are absolutely correct that the lawsuit only focuses on detroit. it doesn't seem to have any specific evidence that things in detroit are particularly bad or significantly worse than anywhere else in the state, and i'll remind you that in 2020 and early 2021, a lot of the same issues revolved around the same communities in michigan and wayne county. there were accusations of racism made then. the accusations of racism being made now are simply consistent

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in restitution to the family of her alleged rapist. now her sentence, we should say, she received a deferred judgment and that was from the judge david porter. now, because she has escaped from this facility, there's a probation report that was issued, and they are asking, corrections officials with the department of corrections, are asking for her probation to be revoked and the original sentence to be reinstated. initially she was charged with first-degree murder. she's now 18 and a warrant is out for her arrest. >> every detail of this story is just so unsettling. adrienne broaddus, thank you. well, it's the final night of campaigning for the midterm election. and sources say president trump may leverage the moment to make

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before we go, we need to give a shoutout for you crushing it at the new york city marathon yesterday. [ applause ] applause in the studio. here she is smiling, showing off the hardware.

>> my friend jackie helped as i was training along the way. this one was brutal. this was my third marathon. my second new york. it was hot out there. i stopped at every water station. i cursed myself in russian and in english as i was running, to be totally honest, crossing that finish line i had a face only a mother could love, but it was worth it. i will say this 24 hours later and so inspired to see all these people running for causes, charities, wounded veterans, amputees, people guiding blind runners, and, of course, all of the forkers, the benefit of having warmer weather is people were really out there in droves. >> you finished, though. >> i finished. you're going to wheel me out today, carry me off set. it was great. other cnn-ers did it, ana cabrera finished an hour ahead of me, laura. >> well done. well done. "the lead" starts right now.