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good evening, the first time since might easily have been a deadly attack on her husband paul house speaker nancy pelosi is talking about the ordeal. she was not at their san francisco home the early-morning hours of october 28th when is when paul was awakened by an intruder asking to talk with his wife. according to federal prosecutors the suspect told he intended to hold nancy pelosi captive, interrogate her and possibly break her kneecap if her answers did not satisfy him. paul pelosi managed to call 911. police arrived just in time to see a suspect hit him with a hammer fracturing his skull. tonight mr. pelosi is out of the hospital. speaker pelosi is telling her story. ised. >> i'm so sorry for all that has happened. how is your husband doing and what does his recovery look like? >> well, thank you. it's a long haul but he knows he has to pace himself.

he's just as gentleman that he's not complaining about he's also knowing that it's a long haul. he's so concerned about the trawmentic effect on our children and our grandchildren. and we're concerned about the traumatic effect on him. but, again, he's on a good path with excellent care from san francisco general and his healthcare providers. >> has he been able to talk to you about what he was thinking when he woke up and found this person in the room? >> we haven't quite had that conversation because any revisiting of it is really traumatizing. it was hard, and one of the hardest things all week was to go back into the house for him, and the entrance, which is of course where -- >> where the attack took place. >> and of course upstairs in the bedroom where that person made his entrance, shall we say. but so we haven't -- and the doctors have said, you know, we don't want them to watch the

news, we don't want him to be revisiting a lot of this at least not now, and the operation was a success but it's only one part of the recovery. a drastic head injury, it takes some time. >> have you been able to listen to the 911 call? >> no. i haven't been able to listen to that or the body cam, any of that, no. i imagine once it's in the public domain is when i will have a chance to see it, but even then -- >> do you want to hear it? >> i don't think so. i don't think so. but i don't know if i'll have to. i just don't know if that's all a matter the legal side of things. >> there are obviously -- a lot of details in the affidavit. had your husband not had the presence of mind to call 911 and be able to call 911, there's no telling what would have happened. >> well, he was cool. paul is cool.

he called and -- with enough information, but not too much information because the guy was very threatening. he was very big. i don't know if you can see that. he's very big. 6'4, 260. >> the assailant? >> the assailant. and he was right there, you know, just like a few feet away from paul hearing all this. and he saved his life, paul saved his own life with that call. because that really gave enough information to go -- >> had the 911 prater not been --ed op prater not have figured it out. >> god bless her, yeah, for that and it took from one person to another and then the police came. >> where were you when you got the news? >> well, i was sleeping in washington d.c. i had just gotten in the night before.

from san francisco. and the -- i hear the doorbell ring and it's 5-something. i think it must be the wrong apartment. it rings again and then bang, bang, bang on the door. so i run to the door. and i'm very scared. i see the capitol police and they said we have to come in to talk to you. i'm thinking my children, my grandchildren. i never thought it would be paul because, you know, i knew he wouldn't be out and about, shall we say. and so they came in at that time, we didn't even know where he was or what his condition was. we just knew there was an assault on him in our home, and now they were taking him to a hospital, which turned out to be san francisco general, which is the -- we have hospitals two

blocks away. it wasn't the closest, but it was the right place to go for that. >> he was actually struck in the head with the hammer. >> on the top in two places. and that's pretty awful. that's pretty awful. but the good news was when he came -- when he had the operation and we were blessed by them -- the healthcare professionals at san francisco general, they told us it had not pierced his brain, which was -- could be deadly or worse. >> so the hammer had not actually cracked -- >> it had cracked. what they have to do is take off the skull, reshape it and put it back so it isn't scratched or pierce the brain. so it's pretty serious operation. >> there's always concern about swelling also in the brain. >> there's always concern of hematomas, all the rest of that. but my son paul told me that when -- i got on the plane right

away to come to california, but he was now out of the operation. and paul said mommy's on her way here. and paul said -- the first thing he said, oh, your mother's gonna be very happy because the rains won last night. >> that's what your husband said, the ravens won last night. >> yeah, my baltimore connection. so we thought, well, okay, he'ss with it. you know, he remembers the game, and obviously knows my -- after the 49ers -- by dedication to the ravens. >> you were the intended target. the assailant has told police, it's in a sworn affidavit, that he wanted to take you hostage and interrogate you, break your kneecaps with a hammer if you didn't give him the answers that he wanted. >> for me, this is really the hard part because paul was not the target, and he's the one who paying the price. i mean, we all are, but he's the

one who's really paying the price. but it really -- it's really sad because it is a flame that was fueled by misinformation and all the rest of that, which is most unfortunate, it has no place in our democracy. >> president biden drew a line between what happened on january 6th and the attack on your husband. the president said, i quote, the say label -- assailant entered the home asking where's nancy, where's nancy, those are the very same words they used in the mob on january 6th. >> do you draw the same line? >> absolutely. no question. it's the same thing. copycatter, whatever it happens to be, inflamed by the same misrepresentation. but the fact is right now it's time for healing. we want the country to heal. this is not a path that we can continue on. and we want people to run for

office local in every way, and you can't say to them you're risking the safety of your families by going forward. there are no guarantees of safety. i'm very pleased that in august we were able to reach a place where the sergeant arms informed the members of the house noun they had would have $10,000 to -- have the capitol police come and evaluate what their needs were to make their homes safer, because there was the recognition, we're gone, our families are home and, you know, that's scary, or even if we are home. so we recognize that. it was figured that amount of money could do what it needed to do in homes. >> you have a lord security detail, you have great protection around you. if this can happen to someone in your family, it can that any

member of congress' family. >> that's right. >> how does -- no amount of security will stop that, how does this stop, how does this not happen again? >> well, you would think that there would be some level of responsibility, but you see what the reaction is on the other side to make a joke of it and really that is traumatizing too. but nonetheless forgetting them, but there has to be some healing process and democrats and republicans, you know, member of congress, anybody could be a target. and we can't -- there's no guarantee. but we can -- in our democracy there is one party that is doubting the outcome of the election, feeding that flame, and mocking any violence that happens. that has to stop. >> the former president of the united states donald trump, elon musk, others have spread stories

casting doubt on what happened, fomenting conspiracy theories do you have to say to them? >> it's really sad for the country. it's really sad for the country that people of that high visibility would separate themselves from the facts and the truth in such a blatant way. it's really sad, and it is traumatizing to those affected by it, they don't care about that, obviously. but it is -- it's destructive to the unity that we want to have in our country. but i don't have anything to sty that. i mean, we have nothing -- there would be no common ground to have any conversation about that. >> is there enough common ground as americans to try to bridge this divide? >> yes. >> and lower the temperature? >> yes. >> because, i mean, people on all sides would agree that it

does not seem sustainable. >> no, i completely agree with you, but i wouldn't say on all sides because in fact this is a one-sided assault on our democracy, an assault on the credibility and integrity of our elections and the rest. there has to be some adult supervision on the republican side in order to say enough. enough. we know a strong republican party in our country. i've said that over and over again. >> you want a strong republican party? >> absolutely. g.o.p., strong republican party for our country and they should take pride in that instead of yielding to a cult, to a thug, actually, the way i see it. but nonetheless, really to stay with the healing part of it, i think that prayers. i mean, we have been receiving so many prayers, thousands of well-wishers can prayers for paul's healing. and i think prayers are unifying

for us. i also think that there are enough people who while they may legitimately be republicans, and i respect that -- are not a party to feeding flaism violence and disunity in our country. let me just say that it's about time. you know, it's time for healing. as ecclesiastics says, there's a time for everything and this is a time long overdue for healing to do so in a prayerful and respectful way, to do so open to hearing each other about the future of our country. i do believe that our democracy is in danger because of what the overnights are saying about undermining elections, even now as we go forward. i think that if enough people in our country are aware of what that challenge is, it might

change, hey if you're on the other side. but i do think a great deal of the healing has to come within the republican party itself. and it's not up to me to tell them thousand shape themselves. but, again, it is to have them take pride in what they have been and what they have done for our country. >> if the former president donald trump runs again, do you think that healing is possible? >> i really am just in a place where i'm not ready to talk about what comes next. tomorrow is a very big day for our country, our democracy is on the ballot, our planet is on the ballot, our values are on the ballot. >> how concerned are you about tomorrow? >> as i said, i have heard there at least 50 of our candidates in races that are, shall we say in some view, too close to call, and i feel optimistic.

just depends on turn-out. and i'm a former party chair and i'm always about owning the ground and getting out the vote and i feel confident that we're in that position. the races are close. some could go one way or the other. we could split it. we'll see. but it's up to the people and whatever happens we will respect the results of the election. >> when we come back, i asked speaker pelosi about how this experience has affected her, thinking about whether she would retire. republicans take control of the house. also tonight as with we look at campaign rallies in pennsylvania, ohio and georgia, the state of the race in the final hours before election day. we have correspondents all over the map, john king at the magic wall. more ahead.

ed. house speaker nancy pelosi talked about what it was like to learn in the middle of the night that her husband on the other side of the country had been attacked targeted for her in her home. with the assault of the capitol

so fresh in memory and spined that with the politics that signify the possibility of republicans retaking the house tomorrow, it's hard not to ask the question that begins part 2 of our conversation. >> i know there's obviously been a lot of discussion about whether you'd retire if democrats lose the house. i know you're not gonna answer that question, so i'm not even going to ask that question. >> oh, good. >> but i will ask, can you confirm that you've made a decision about what you would do? >> well, that's like asking the question, isn't it. >> no. i'm not asking what the decision is, i'm just asking have you looked ahead? have you made the decision in your mind? whatever the decision might be. >> well, i have to say my decision would be effective in the last week or two. >> will your decision be impacted by the attack in any way? >> yes. >> it will. >> uh-huh. yes. and it will be impacted by --

let me just say this, i have been blessed by my colleagues, with first the leader and speaker of the house for four terms. that's a great honor. greatest honor i have though is to represent the people of san francisco to walk on the floor of the house every time i walk on, i think they chose me to be the one to speak for them. >> they've chosen you for a long time. >> they have. 35 years. imagine, i only thought i was going for 10 years at the most, if that. and here we are. i never expected to run. i never expected to run for leadership. but people encouraged knee run and then people encouraged me to run for leadership, and here i am. but this institution is a great institution. my father served here, and i had great reverence for it. i was taught that as a little girl, and then when he was mayor, of course, he always referenced his service in the

congress. it's a place where great things have happened for our country, to see the assault on january 6th on this capitol was something that was so devastating, and traumatic for many of us. some of my members who are calling me about the races now and understanding trauma we're experiencing again with paul revisiting the trauma they felt that day on january 6th, having the same disinformation and the rest. so i think it's really important for us to find a way to restore unity in the congress of the united states, and to do so by showing who's meeting the needs of the american people and hopefully pulling some folks to that point of view. >> do you think if the rhetoric doesn't change, if the vitriol

doesn't heal to some degree, that there will be more attacks on people's families, on people in public -- >> well, i certainly hope not. i mean with when somebody is assaulted in your family box office you -- he was not looking for paul. he was looking for me. members, i think, have to weigh that among the equities as to whether they will run. and we want -- democrats, republicans -- everyone to see the community to run and make their contribution to our country, whether it's at the state or local level or at the federal level. as they weigh the equities, it has to be one that is made with confidence and not with fear that something could happen to their families. >> do you worry that something like this will disswayed younger

people who are thinking about a life of service, a life of public service. and as you said, your dad served, you looked up to him. you served. do you worry that the tenor of everything it just makes good people not want to serve? >> running for office is really a family decision. and that will have to be up to the families to decide whether it's we're -- if there aren't -- most of the people that we want to run have options. they have options to be academic world, in the military, in all law enforcement, in all kinds of fields where they can thrive. they're not people without options. and so they have to weigh the -- what it means to their families that they would run. i don't that i this will become a he democratic violence. but i do think -- an epidemic of

violence but i do think that there has to be some message to frowns stop, to stop the disinformation because that without any country is a source of what happened on january 6th and the denial of that and then the source of what happens to me now. i've been a target for a long time. because i'm very effective. i'm great, she says, master of the legislation. i love doing that. that is what i love to do, is to write legislation, and -- on the policy side. on the political side, i'm an outstanding, shall we say, a master of the resources necessary, intellectual, financial, political to win elections. so they have to put a stop to me, right, because they know that i'm about having our members succeed.

i have great confidence in our members, and every compliment i receive about being a great legislator or a great political force i can say that's gratitude to my members for their courage, for their astuteness, for their excellence, and so i take great pride in what we all do working to. >> tomorrow, election day, what is your message to voters? >> to vote. i think the -- vote tomorrow is a vote to defend our democracy. but i want people to vote, and then we will respect the outcome of the election. and i would hope that the other side would do that as well. i've sanity message to my colleagues that -- that it's -- we have to own the ground tomorrow, and we want to -- protect the sanctity of the vote as well as the safety of our precinct and our poll workers.

>> when you hear some candidates say that they will -- they'll have to see what happens. they'll have to let the process play out before they'll say whether or not they'll accept the results, what do you think? >> what do i think? what do i i think? that they have to see how an election will work. is that dependent on how the election turns out? what i see is across the country legislation that says if they don't liking the results of the election, they will establish new standards for what wins an election and determine for themselves what that is. that is not what a democracy is. a democracy is freedom to vote, 42 he and fair elections. a standard that we apply to other countries, should certainly apply to us here whether it's a democratic victory or a republican victory. it isn't about -- unless it turns out my way, i don't accept

it. that's not a democracy. that's what i -- why i say defending our democracy is on the ballot in so many ways. and we're just being very prayerful about it. now, when i was growing up, we were taught in our very democratic italian-american catholic family you don't pray to win an election. you that god's will will be done. not about saying god, make us win, but just that god's will will be done. but we do pray, we pray for that. and as president kennedy said, god's work must truly be our own. and that's how we go forward. so it is -- i've done very well. i've come close to tears a number of times in this conversation. i've done very well in containing that but, you know, i'm sad because of my husband. but i'm also sad because -- for

our country, unless we can get over this and have enough people out there say, well, i may not agree with everything the democrats are for or the republicans are for, i do agree that our democracy is important, and that we must -- we must protect it. it is a model to the world. what we do now, we see as our charge from our founders. imagine the courage and the vision that they had, the vision to honor. the visiting our founders. the sacrifice of our men and women in uniforms and their families to protect our future and aspirations of our children as they go forward and into the future. babies born now will live into the next century. we want to make sure that our democracy is strong, our planet is safe and our values are intact, and that we have healed as we go forward.

>> speaker pelosi, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. next, we'll have reaction of what you just heard from two of our best political reporters we know and the latest on the races and election tomorrow.

specifically we talked about the attack on nancy pelosi's husband that targeted her and would not reveal whether or not she would remember if the republicans took over the house. >> have you made a decision in

your mind, whatever that decision might be? >> well, i have to say my decision will be affected by what happened in last week or two. >> will your decision be impacted by the attack in any way? >> yes. >> it will. >> yes. and it will be impacted by -- but, let me just say this, i have been blessed by my colleagues, with first the leader and the speaker of the house for four terms. that's a great honor. the great honor i have though is to represent the people of san francisco, to walk on the floor of the house every time i walk on, i think they chose me to be the one to speak for them. >> they've chosen you for a long time. >> they have. 35 years. imagine, i only thought i was coming for 10 years at the most, if that, and here we have -- i never expected to run. i never expected to run for leadership, but people encouraged me to run, and then people encouraged me to run for leadership, and here i am.

>> joining me now is our chief political analysts. i'm wondering what your reaction -- do you think she's going to retire based on what she said? >> well, it's hard to know, but when she said that this had affected her decision, you know, immediately i thought, oh, she's gonna retire, but then she -- because her husband has a long haul, as she put it, in his recovery, but then when she -- she seemed so energized when she was talking about her career and what she's done, and the future of of to democracy, you kind of wonder, does she want to find out. >> if speaker pelosi does decide to retire, how does it affect democrats who she's led with, the minority and speaker for the past years. >> it is almost hard to quantify the impact it would have. but i want to go back to what gloria said because i had the

same kind of vibe from her. i mean, we'll see what happens. but as she was talking to you, which it was a terrific, terrific interview, anderson, and she was talking about the fact that she's really good at her job, i was remembering going with her to bought, where she grew up, four years ago. she was on the brink of becoming speaker again, and there were lots of questions about whether she should do that job or she should retire then. and she said no, i'm the best person for the job. and i said, you know, not a lot of people, nevermind women, can say that. and she said, you know why i say that? because i want other women to hear me and to follow my lead. i don't think women do that enough. and then she said, i want women to know and people to know that you stay and you don't shrink away from the fight. that is what she said to me four years ago. now, they're very different circumstances, the most important of which is the fa ct that her husband is still very

much trying to recover and she used the word trauma or traumatized so many times in your interview, that it was really, really -- i was almost taken aback by how many times she stayed. >> you know, it seemed to me, and she said this a couple of times, that for me the hard part is that paul is paying the price for this. and that she's clearly traumatized by that, that the attacker wanted to attack her, hold her hostage, break her kneecaps, and that he was the one who was attacked. and i think she's probably having a very difficult time, as we all would, trying deal with that, that he was home in bed, asleep, and this person was looking for nancy. and that's hard. when you've been married for, what, 59 years? >> also, there's the rough and tumble of politics, but, you know, the mockery of -- by kari lake and elon musk forwarding

you know made-up articles and former president -- i mean, it clearly has deeply offended her, and understandably so. >> and understandably so. i mean, it offends people who have just an ounce of humanity as it should. and, regardless of your political persuasion. i mean, this is somebody who happens to be married to somebody who is second in line to president and who is and has been for decades sort of the chief boogie woman, if you will, for republicans, and has been made in way for a long time. so it is absolutely understandable. but even then, i mean, also what she said, anderson, about the need for a strong republican party, this is a very, very loyal very proud democrat, the need for a strong vibrant republican party, that was -- >> with a leader who can stand

up and say no. >> with a leader to isn't in her words a thug, that was also very telling about how she sees the situation right now. >> it was also fascinating to me that when you kind of talked about donald trump, she got emotional. she didn't want to talk about donald trump. it was sort of an unexpected moment for me, that she would get emotional about donald trump. it's very clear to me she blames him for a lot of this, and of course he was out on stage calling her crazy nancy after the attack, right. and i was sort of stunned because you don't see nancy pelosi get emotional a lot. you can understand why she would be after this event but about trump -- >> let's talk about the election tomorrow. if republicans take back the house as many, you know -- when we look at a lot of the races, there's a high probability of that. is any substantive new legislation likely to be passed and signed into law over the next two years? certainly, i mean, by the democrats, and what -- i mean,

can -- go ahead. >> it's the key question. we know based on what kevin mccarthy, he told our colleague melanie today, what they're going to try to push, they've been saying it on the campaign trail from immigration to other issues, that likely won't -- the way that they're going to frame it -- likely won't see the light of day, no matter who's in charge of the senate because of the thresh hold that's needed there. the unknown, the big unknown is if there is any genuine bi partisan business to do. it has happened in so many instances, even in modern history when a president loses the majority in the congress and their first term they are forced to work across the aisle but you need a partner. and it is not clear whether that will happen on both sides, especially when you have donald trump out there saying i'm gonna run and he wouldn't even support the idea of the bipartisan

infrastructure bill. he supported challengers to republican members because they dare to support something that was very, very widely backed in a bipartisan way to help build the country's roads and bridges. >> in terms of races tomorrow, what do you -- >> the ones we've been talking about, ohio, pennsylvania, georgia, arizona. look, these are senate races that are gonna be really close. it's gonna determine control of the senate down to -- we were just talking about this. that's very important because if republicans were in control of the house, what's the senate gonna look like. and we just don't know the answer to that, and these races are so close, and we may not know for a couple of days, anderson. so we'll be sitting here for hours. >> thank you very much. more on midterms and big rally tonight. but shaun king joins us all next. vicki.

a lot of anticipation building up around the ohio rally going on right now near dayton featuring the former president and his hand picked candidate for an open senate seat, the fore president had been toying with the idea of possibly announcing a run for the presidency tonight. that has not happened. we want to folks on another rally in pennsylvania mark met oz outside of philadelphia soon to wrap up his final pitch to voter. oz is in a close race against john fetterman which could control the party's state senate. obviously a pivotal race. what's the closing argument from

oz tonight? this is his final moment for voters. it's been a message of unity and in his words rejecting extremes on both sides. and it's been a balancing act in striking that for mahmet oz. he appeared on the stage with former president donald trump this weekend. but also tonight on stage right now is former ambassador former south carolina governor nikki haley who will be introducing him and he appeared with moderate senator susan collins over the weekend. two people who very much kept there distance from donald trump in a very clear way. the focus on unity and bringing balance to washington is another way that he puts this, is aimed at the swing voters, that both candidates need in order to get over the finish line. these are the independent voters all along we're -- they could be

who wins and lose inside a race that is so tight tonight. >> there's also been an issue with mail-in balances according an election official in philadelphia. mail-in ballots. >> the latest development on that actually is that john fetterman's campaign has joined a lawsuit with other democrats to try to get a federal judge to overrule the state supreme court in their decision. and what the state supreme court decision basically lays out is it is ordered that mail-in ballots that are missing a handwritten date that voters are required to provide by dait state law or have incorrectly signed the date on their mail-in ballot, they cannot count the votes. the fetterman campaign in this lawsuit argue that it's a technicality and does nothing to qualify whether or not this ballot is actually being cast illegally or legally. they say because it's a technicality they're imploring the federal judge to overrule it

so the ballots can be countied. and we're talking about thousands of ballots. 35,000 votes in philadelphia, another more than 1,000 in alagany county swishing pittsburgh. so when you put it all together, you're looking at 4600 ballots that could be rejected and not counted. democrats very concerned that that means in the end that could be thousands of ballots for john fetterman that could be rejected, clearly not what they need right now. >> all right, thank you. >> and now we talked about mahmet oz closing out his campaign in pennsylvania. talk about the importance of where he is in the state tonight. >> we're going to be spending a lot of time tomorrow in pennsylvania and croo the country at these big senate and governors races in county. let me stretch out the map and show where you we are. you go to allentown, you go south, route 29, you cross the line, and this is what you find. just across the lehigh county line in montgomery county.

just a short drive from buck county. that is the suburban collar around phil nail decides close elections. he let's go back in time. that's the suburban collar philadelphia. pat toomey is remembering. in 2020 he got beat, right, look at margin. look at the margin for pat toomey, he lost in montgomery county but it was about 11 points. donald trump, the same here in montgomery county. he got smoked more than 20 point by hillary clinton. donald trump is not welcome in this more upscale more moderate, yes, formerly a lot of republicans there but they don't like donald trump. let's go back to the senate race in 2016 do you notice about this, this is bucks county. pat toomey carried bucks county. if you come to the presidential race in 2016 and 2020 hillary clinton and joe biden carried bucks county. so if mahmet oz -- if bucks county is red tomorrow night and if mahmet oz is within 8, 10 points, 11 points, he's got a

shot to win and that's why he's there tonight and why he's there without donald trump. >> what if the republicans take control of the house. >> the suburbs will decide the key senate races. let's come out to the map here and take a look at it from a different perspective. come out nationally, bring up the house campaigns for you, we're in 2022, and let's take a look at the competitive races. we have 82 competitive races. this is partnering with our partners at inside locations. 82 across the country. and they are from coast to coast, from the northern corner of maine all the way to southern california. could take a while to count in some of these races but of these 82 rays, 57 -- 57 have democratic incumbents, they're defending almost three times as many seats as the joe biden won 60 of these 82 races. the democrats are on defense. we're going to get early clues. again, we may not know the final house number for days, possibly even weeks, and there's nothing wrong with that.

it takes time to count votes. there's a lot of skeptics after 2020. in 2018, it took a long time to get the final number for speaker pelosi, who you talked about earlier. you see these in the 8:00 time zone, the 9:00 time zone, there are dozens of competitive districts here, most of them blue, as you see, in new hampshire, in new york, not far from where you are, there's four competitive democratic races in pennsylvania. we'll be watching the fetterman-oz race but also the key senate races. yes, it will take us a long time to have the final numbers, anderson, four more races in virginia. this state will tell us a lot. you've an embattled congresswoman down here, a more democratic district just outside of washington. if the republicans are winning those three seats in virginia or two out of the three or three out of the four in pennsylvania, then we'll know it's a big red

night. if they're competitive, then we'll be counting for a long time. >> john king, great to see you. thanks. john will be with us tomorrow as we kick off election night in america. our special coverage starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern. coming up next, a look at the governor and senate races in georgia, and georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger on how the early voting went there. what's being done to keep the election safe and secure tomorrow. ♪ i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan om sofi. and boow up to $100k. sofi. get your money right. i'd like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go!

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taking a look at lieutenant -- pennsylvania lieutenant governor john fetterman campaigning tonight in pittsburgh, carrying a slight polling edge just outside the margin of error over republican mehmet oz in their key race. we're watching the governor and senate battles in georgia. brian kemp campaigned in the atlanta area in his re-election fight against stacey abrams. we're following the senate race between raphael warnock and republican herschel walker. walker campaigning tonight with republican senator lindsey graham and carson. no leader going into tomorrow. joining us now is brad raffensperger. he dismissed pressure from the former president to find votes to overturn the 2020 election. secretary raffensperger, over 2 million early votes cast in early voting in georgia. what are you hearing from election workers for how things

are going? >> over 2.2 million early votes plus the absentees. we're before 2.5 million, and that's before we hit tuesday tomorrow. we've told the counties since day one to prepare for big numbers tomorrow, and we think that they will be. >> we've seen images out of other parts of the country, out of arizona, for example, over armed individuals watching over drop boxes. have you taken measures to protect voters or election workers from intimidation and threats. >> yes, we have. we introduced a texting tool. we offered that to all counties. about 85 took us up on the free offer. when someone comes in and you have the texting tool, as soon as you press a button, if you see something that makes you nervous or concerned, that goes to our state election director, and then you can loop in law enforcement. we want to make sure all our poll workers are safe and feel comfortable tomorrow. that's why with senate bill 202 we introduced that and passed

that and signed it into law. all lines tomorrow are supposed to be one hour or less. that would be tremendous to have that kind of throughput so everyone has smiles on their faces. >> despite there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election and the many lawsuits filed by the former president's allies ultimately unsuccessful in court, there is a large segment of the population believes things were stolen, rigged. do you think that faith in america's democratic process has been permanently damaged. >> well, i think that people know in georgia i'm going to make sure we have honest and fair elections for everyone. that's why the election integrity act we have photo id for all forms of voting. wi we have photo id for absentee voting. we moved to photo id. so, we've taken things off so that people could somehow complain and used objective criteria wherever possible. we have a verifiable paper ballot. we are pre-scanning the absentee

ballots that have come in so we can get those results quicker. and most voters have gone back to their traditional way of voting in person. we totally expect 6% to 7% voters will vote absentee. >> how prepared are you for any disputes that may arise from voting tomorrow? >> we'll be ready. we'll look at it on a case-by-case basis. i know our accountants have been working really hard to make sure they're ready. sometimes at 7:00 in the morning. hopefully no one forgot a power cord, forgot to bring the key so you can get in for the polling location. but, you know, we have those minor hiccups, but at the end of the day, the counties should be prepared. we told them to expect big numbers for tomorrow. it's always easier to adjust down than adjust up. we think we're in good shape. >> a judge, as you know, has extended the deadline by more than 1,000 absentee ballots can be -- are you satisfied with the

resolution. are you worried that relatively small errors like that could undermine voter confidence? >> that was an isolated condition in one county where in two days they did not send out the absentee ballots. they identified the issue, apologized profusely, and took proactive countermeasures. they said we are going to send out next-day to people affected. and they also included a return envelope. the judge sent out a consent order giving these potentially up to 800 voters the ability to get that back by november 14th, which is by the time we have to receive our overseas military ballots. >> brad raffensperger, i appreciate your time tonight. good luck tomorrow. the news continues. let's hand it over to jake tapper and "cnn tonight." welcome to "cnn tonight." i'm jack tapper in washington. tonight we're on the eve of american voters'