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♪ it is election day in america. hello everyone i'm anderson cooper welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are looking at live pictures of voters lining up to cast their ballots. polls are open in a majority of states. at this hour six more states are opening their doors to voters. the big question who will control congress. dozens of house races are considered toss ups, republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to win the majority. in the senate the race is likely to determine control are very tight. republicans need a net gain of one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. more than 40 million americans have cast their ballots in early voting ahead of today. it all comes down to turnout today and the issues. the only certainty is that voters will decide who they elect and who controls congress.

we have this consequential midterm election covered for you from coast to coast. i want to begin with our coverage with cnn's jason carroll live in pennsylvania where perhaps the most closely watched senate race is happening. jason, how is the morning going? >> reporter: we are in bensalem, anderson in lower bucks county. a lot of suburbs in lower bucks county, a lot of potential swing voters. just the type of voters that could be could he that will definitely be key to tonight's senate race and also the governor's race as we've been out here talking to voters we've seen a number of them coming in and out, steady clip of voters coming in, lots of excitement about what's going on here. as you can imagine when talking to them about what issues matter most, no surprise it's the economy, it's crime and it's the woman's right to choose. >> i know from previous years i've swung both ways, it really depends on what the person stands for. that's what i vote for. >> but this go around a woman's

right to choose drove you to the polls? >> absolutely. >> again, you identify as republican but this is the issue that -- >> this one stood out to me the most, yes. >> crime is big, you know, it's really big in the city of philadelphia. i would hate to see it come to the suburbs here in bucks county. the second thing is inflation. you know, there's so many people that can't afford day to day, it's sad. >> reporter: so, again, anderson, when you think about bensalem where we are, when you think about lower bucks county this is the type of area where there are a lot of potential swing voters like that woman that you heard from there a short while ago. it's densely populated with suburbs so a lot of folks are going to be paying attention to what sort of returns come out of areas like this one. again, this is going to be critical to the senate race and the governor's race. >> jason carroll, we will check back in with you. polls are open in georgia, all eyes there on the senate and

governor's races. moments from now republican governor brian kemp and his family are expected to cast their votes. cnn's chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is live at a polling place in atlanta. how is the morning there? >> reporter: anderson, for about two hours now voters have been sort of slowly trickling into this voting place just outside of atlanta in nare yet at that, georgia, in key cobb county. as jason was saying these suburban areas will tell a big part of the story of this midterm election day. talking to voters certainly the economy is driving them, inflation is driving them as well as protecting apportion rights. there's no question that that is driving at least some voters here. we should also point out this is not a typical election day, it's windy, it's warm, but also 2.5 million georgians have already cast their ballots. more than are expected to vote today. so certainly this is, you know, one more example of how americans vote is different than it was before. so there is not a line behind me here but that does not mean that

there is not enthusiasm in this race as we've seen here for the last several days. this race has been shaping up as a referendum on biden and the policies of the white house. of course, this election is basically picking up from where we left off in 2020. president biden narrowly won georgia and then the two democratic senators won the runoff, including senator rafael warnock which gave democrats their slim majority in the senate. senator warnock is up for a six-year term and facing a very tough challenge from republican herschel walker. even though president biden hasn't stepped foot in georgia for several months he is in every conversation, every television ad and a quarter of a billion dollars has been spent on tv ads here so far this election cycle. i talked to one voter a short time ago, anderson, she said she is so thankful it's finally election day so those ads are no longer on her television. anderson? >> jeff zeleny, thank you. a quarter billion dollars, amazing. now to wisconsin where the focus ask on the state's senate race.

democrat mandela barnes is attending an election day event in milwaukee, challenging republican senator ron johnson for his seat. lucy cavanaugh is live at a polling place in milwaukee. what are you seeing? >> reporter: anderson, polls in wisconsin opened about an hour ago, we're actually at a quite unique polling location, the charles alice art museum where folks can cast their ballots and get a free tour of the art, the incentive in this particular election is greater than that. this is a tight race for governor as well as senate. the outcome of which could determine the balance of power in the u.s. senate. you do have two-term republican incumbent senator ron johnson facing mandela barnes, it has been a tight bitter race, one of the most competitive races this year in a state that president biden won by less than 21,000 votes. a truly ly purple state. take a listen to voters. >> i think it's really about

saving our democracy and making sure that people have the right to vote. kind of fighting the political divisions, so, yeah, it's about maybe we can continue what we've continued to do. >> the economy is definitely a big one and to be frank with you it's just -- like there seems to be much more care about the sexuality of people and not people struggling to pay their rent or paying their mortgage. >> reporter: so you heard from the democratic voter there who was more concerned about the political divisions and the threat to democracy, the republican voter there was more concerned about the economy and this is an incredibly close race. at the beginning of the year wisconsin was considered the democrats' top chance to flip a republican seat. johnson was not particularly popular here. mandela barnes had a slight lead in the polls. we did see that slight lead

evaporate in recent weeks amid a barrage of negative television advertising. it's going to depend on the turnout, how independents vote. >> lucy cav that you have, appreciate it. voters across america will decide who controls congress. there are 35 seats on the line in the u.s. senate, a handful of them could tip control of the chamber. john berman is here to break it down for us. what's the playing field for the senate? >> 35 seats up for grabs but of these 8, cnn along with the help of inside election considers to be competitive or near competitive, toss ups or tilts in the case of ohio leans, those competitive seats are all here in yellow, new hampshire, pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia, ohio, wisconsin, arizona and nevada here. i want to give people a sense of how tight this is and how it could be tight for some time to come. i'm not saying the election will go this way but if things do begin to look like this it's going to be a long night. let's say north carolina ted budd wins there, ohio j.d. vance

wins in ohio, ron johnson in wisconsin. all of a sudden republicans are at 49, they're feeling awfully close to this. well, what if the democratic incumbents bin in in evidence da and arizona, all of a sudden democrats are at 48, new hampshire maggie hassan if she maintains dk i'm going to go back out here -- if she maintains control of her seat it's like that. and then you see these two races left tied at 49. what's the problem here? well, pennsylvania you will remember the presidential election anderson two years ago pennsylvania wasn't called until saturday. okay? georgia went to a runoff and that wasn't decided until january. so it could take some time if it were to come down to this and even, by the way, if republicans do win there, if democrats get to 50, they control because kamala harris breaks the tie. >> what are you going to be watching in the early evening? >> in the early evening, i will

put up a different map so people can see, some of the earliest poll closing states are, for instance, ohio here where tim ryan the congressman is going against j.d. vance. now, this is a state that does lean republican now. two years ago this state donald trump won by about 8.1 points, let's say 8.1 points republican, so what i'm going to be watching for early in the evening, yes, is tim ryan maybe able to keep this close, within this 8.1 margin here, 2, 3, 4 points, even if it's trailing it might mean a good night for democrats, anderson. >> anywhere else? >> florida is an interesting state. we haven't talked about florida much, it wasn't even in one of those eight races that we considered to be somewhat competitive, but i will tell you this, you know, two years ago -- or in 2018 rick scott barely won in 2018 here. florida used to be a state that was very much on a knife's edge. again, i would watch the margins

here between marco rubio and val demings. >> in polls he has been running ahead. >> if you start to see a big lead there and, again, florida counts very quickly, it might be a night that bodes well for republicans. and then georgia, the most important thing to watch here in georgia is this. right now there are no votes in, literally no votes in, but the key number in georgia is this, 50%. if no one gets to 50% plus one there is a runoff. there is a very real possibility there will be a runoff that would be in december and a very real possibility we will not know who controls the u.s. senate until that runoff is completed, anderson. >> john berman, appreciate it. president biden warning of a horrible two years if republicans take control of congress, what a shift in the flaps of power means for the president's agenda next.

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the polls are now open in a

majority of states across america, voters will decide who controls congress, the fate of president biden agenda for the next two years. moments ago john fetterman voted in braddock, his senate race with dr. mehmet oz one of the most closely watched in the country could decide control of the senate. joining me now natasha alford, vice president of digital content and senior correspondent for the grillo, ron brownstein and jenna goldberg. jonah, let's start with you, what races are you particularly interested in? >> i'm interested in both pennsylvania and georgia for all the obvious reasons, but in part because they're sort of mirror images of each other. georgia is supposed to be a republican state but it's moving democratic, pennsylvania is supposed to be a democratic state and it's moving republican. you have flawed candidates in the form of herschel walker and in a different way i said fetterman because it's not his fault he had a stroke or anything like that, but you see the need -- the compulsion to

vote party line because of the way we live -- the way we live now, we think we live in a parliamentary system and it's voting for a party rather than an individual. there's a lot of trends going on that i think are interesting. >> a lot of people say they vote based on the individual, yet clearly, i mean -- >> a lot of people lie. >> look, attitudes towards the president have become a defining characteristic of how senate races turn out. it's become so much harder for either side to win senate races in states that usually vote the other way for president. right now we are 25 states voted for biden in 2020, 25 states voted for trump. democrats have 47 of the 50 state seats in the states that voted for biden, republicans have 47 of the 50 in the states that voted for trump. this is a relatively more favorable map, it is being fought out almost entirely in states that voted for biden. if they have a bad night tonight it really puts them in a hole going forward because 2024 the map is much more tilted toward those trump states. to me the critical voters, the

double negative voters in almost all of these states that will decide the senate -- in fact, all of these states that will decide the senate a majority of voters disapprove of biden's performance but there's also a substantial number unfavorable toward the specific republican candidates that review them as extreme and unqualified. somewhere between 10 and 15% of the electorate in key states are negative on biden, negative on the republican. how do they sort out in the end? >> that's why i'm fascinated with georgia. i want to know whether this tactic of picking a black candidate who is completely unqualified and sort of throwing him into the mix to see how that impacted black voters, whether it will work, based on what we've seen at the grillo in our polling black candidates -- black voters are dedicated to democratic ideals and the democratic party, but they're feeling disillusioned and are being tired of being taken for fwrapted and told just come out and we will promise that we will get to your priorities.

i'm interested to see where voters fall when it comes to georgia. >> republicans have made inroads in the last few years with hispanic voters and also black voters. >> yeah, they have. they have. and it's this question of what you think people really value. with a lot of hispanic voters, quote, unquote, which hispanic voters can be black as well. a lot of them value faith, value religion and this idea of the sanctity of life, all of these things that you can't really take for granted. think about how are democrats speaking to those issues. sometimes it's not getting through. >> i remember the days of the republicans talking about a big tent and i remember one of the conventions people walk around with buttons saying big tent. people wanted to reach out to -- because of those very reasons, that the -- knowing that hispanic voters would have their strong faith and strong faith communities in the african american community as well. >> i do think that republicans

are very late to going after the hispanic vote, but they're standing to do it now, they have outreach efforts and all that. but i do think that to the degree we're seeing a shift towards republicans with hispanic which is still in urban centers, the hispanic community is wildly diverse, the idea of lumping all of these people into one label is bad, but i think the way that democrats talk to hispanics is one of the reasons why they're driving them into the republican party. there was some fantastic polling on the phrase latinx, no hispanics use it. a lot find it insulting and condes condescending, they prefer things like mexican american or cuban american or just american or hispanic or latino or whatever, but it's very much sort of -- there is a very online sort of bubble that the democratic party listens to way

too much that affects all of its messaging on everything from transgender and crime and identity politics that i think turns off a lot of rural noncollege educated voters. >> there's certainly going to be a lot of looking inward for the democratic party depending -- certainly depending on how they do today. >> look, i mean, it's not clear to me that there are a lot of tactical adjustments that could have really prevented a bad midterm election. in the nbc poll on sunday 80% of americans said they were very or somewhat dissatisfied with the economy. that was roughly the number in 2008 when the incumbent republican party got whacked. it was roughly the number in 2010 when the incumbent democratic party had the worst midterm since 1938. i mean, the question always has been in this election really since afghanistan when biden's approval started to fall was whether democrats could levitate above the traditional political gravity which is that attitudes about the president in this

parliamentary world that jonah was talking about are increasingly determinative of what happens. you have democratic candidates now who have been polling close or even ahead in senate races where biden's approval in states like georgia or arizona is -- and nevada is down around 40%. anderson, there are almost no examples in the 21st century of candidates winning a statewide rate in a state where their president was that low. that is the core issue, can they defy gravity? at times it looks like they can, now you see the weight of gravity pulling on them as they reach the finish line. >> i wonder if they could have played offense when it comes to crime. it's history repeating itself. why wasn't there a stronger answer to that? >> we will be right back with n more. we will all be returning in a moment. a legal fight over thousands of mail-in ballots is already brewing this election day. that story next. two new ihop lunch and dinner menu items for twice the goodness, twice the flavor,

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anderson cooper, you are watching cnn's special coverage of election day in america. voters are heading to the polls in consequential midterm elections that will determine which party will control congress. republicans need to win 30 seats to take the majority in the house, over in the house republicans need a net gain of

one seat to clinch the majority from raths. we are watching serious competitive governor's races it will have major consequences on abortion, voting rights and guns. pennsylvania's senate race could play a key role in determining the balance of power in the senate, one of the most closely watched race this is year. jason carroll is at a polling site in philadelphia. jason, how busy is it? >> reporter: well, i can tell you, anderson, we've seen a steady clip of people coming in and out of here, we're here in bensalem in lower bucks county, a lot of suburbs in lower bucks county, a lot of potential voters who could end up making the difference in the senate race and the governor's race. we've been talking to voters all morning about what the issues that matter most to them. i want to bring in two of them. i want to intrsbintroduce you t joseph and susan o'rourke. the key issues to you were what first? >> the economy and the border, those are two of the key issues for me. >> and crime also.

>> crime as well. and in terms of which candidates spoke to the issues, you feel as though in the best way. >> which candidate? senate? >> let's start with the senate. >> the senate i would say oz if you listen to his words i think he spoke very well to all of those -- that we want. >> yeah. >> that we are interested in. >> and in the governors race? >> well, i don't think we have a good selection. >> yeah. >> on the governor's race on both sides, but if you listen to mastriano he is all law enforcement and everything, but then josh shapiro was the attorney general so, you know, it's a difficult choice to make. i mean, i voted for mastriano, but, you know -- >> you know, for those -- >> it will be a tough race there. >> for those who are outside pennsylvania when they think about bucks county they think about a lot of potential swing voters, voters who at one point went for obama and then went for trump and went back for biden. do you think that's true? >> oh, yeah. >> oh, definitely.

>> i'm one of them. i did all of what you just said. yeah. >> and so this time around are you willing to make any predictions how things will go based on swing voters such as yourself? >> with this one i think oz will get in, but the governor's race is a toss-up. >> you think so? >> yeah. >> i think that it's going to be oz, but i also think that josh shapiro will be in. >> you do? >> yes. >> all right. thanks very much. really appreciate it. best of luck to you. >> thank you. >> we'll see what happens. if not tonight early tomorrow morning or the next day with how votes are counted here. anderson, we will send it back to you. >> jason carroll, thanks so much. the democratic candidate in pennsylvania's hotly contested race is suing to have mail-in ballot votes count you had. >> more than 1.1 million ballots were already cast in pennsylvania before election day and now there's a fight happening about whether some of these ballots should be counted. at issue here are undated or

misdated ballots. so this is a ballot that was actually cured this election cycle, just yesterday the voter went in and fixed the date. others may not be cured in time. so now democratic senate candidate john fetterman has joined a lawsuit asking a federal court to super keyed a previous decision by the pennsylvania supreme court and allow misdated or undated votes to count, arguing the date on a mailed ballot envelope has no bearing on a voter's qualifications and serves no purpose other than to erect barriers. so how many votes are we talking about? we know at least 3,400 in philadelphia county, we know of at least 1,000 in allegheny contee, though, that's the pittsburgh area, a couple hundreds other undate odder misdated in monroe county. all three of the counties voted for biden in 2020. anderson, as you know, thousands of votes could make a difference

in a very tight race. >> and it is expected to be very tight. how long might we be waiting for races to be called in pennsylvania? could take a while. >> anderson, it could be a while. pennsylvania didn't even start processing its mail-in ballots, meaning taking them out of the envelope and having to put them through those tabulation machines until 7:00 this morning. historically democrats prefer to vote by mail or vote early. the numbers this year do fit that pattern if you take a look at the pie chart. 69% of pre-election ballots in pennsylvania were cast by democrats. remember, republicans historically favor voting in-person on election day. so those votes will be among the first results we will get tonight and that's why the early map might fill in red and we may then see a blue shift as those mail ballots are counted. this year, by the 63 counties, the majority of this state including philadelphia will do a marathon count going around the clock until every

single mail ballot is counted. so no rest. just so set the expectations one election official in philadelphia tells us they could still be counting votes until at least wednesday evening, again, in philadelphia area alone, anderson. >> all right. we will be here with them. thanks so much. now to wisconsin republican senator ron johnson is hoping to keep his seat as he faces a challenge from democrat mandela barnes. lucy cav that you have live in milwaukee. what's it been like to far? >> reporter: folks still coming in here to cast their ballots at this particular polling location. inside there are crowds even though it doesn't look like it on the outside but it's early morning, people are trying to get here before they go to work or do whatever it is that they have to do to vote. it has been an incredibly closely contested election, both for the governor's seat as well as for senate. we've been talking to voters here, you know, i can't really quite tell you that there is enthusiasm, it almost feels like the issues are too heavy for that. we spoke to some of the democratic vote, voters voting

for the democrats, they feel that democracy is at stake. they are tired of the divisions that they're seeing in the country and they want to cast their ballots to shift that. as far as some of the republicans we have spoken to, for them it's been bread and butter issues, the economy, they are tired of the social division issues that have been coming up. they want to see change on inflation and the economy and they don't feel that the democrats could deliver that for them. we've also sort of seen a bit of a climate of fear here, at least one voter that i talked to pointed to election observers, he wasn't quite sure who they were, he felt intimidated, again, that's just one person's experience but it speaks to the broader climate of fear with voting irregularities coming up as a topic in this election. we have seen a barrage of negative ads on both sides, again, the outcome will depend on how many independents surn o turn out to vote and who they cast their ballots for. >> and what we can expect

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going to look like this year? >> patience is a virtue, that will what is we will have to take in and hold to be true. let's go to arizona, took days to project the 2020 presidential winner. the later counted ballots in arizona were god for the gop, sometimes the later counted ballots are good for the republicans, some states good for the democrats. a state where it's good for the democrats, georgia the 2021 senate runoff winners weren't projected until the wednesday after the election. here the later counted ballots were good for the democrats in 2021 as well as the 2020 presidential race. nevada again it took place dais to project the 2020 presidential winner, you might be noticing it is a theme, it takes days oftentimes at least back in 2020. here the later counted ballots were good for the gop in 2020, but according to my colleague and our colleague marshall cohen it's unclear if that will hold this year. we will have to wait and see in a lot of these states if these past pattern hold. let's go back here to the east and let's go to pennsylvania

where, again, it took until the saturday to project -- the saturday after the election to project the 2020 presidential winner. later counted ballots, though, here were good for the democrats, mail ballots were counted later in the process, don't be shocked if let's say the senate race with oz jumping out to a huge lead and fetterman climbing back and back. if you're looking perhaps for a clue early on in the evening to understand what's going on, here are some important house races with poll closings before 8:00 p.m. where historically the ballots have been counted fairly quickly. north carolina's 13th, ohio's 13th, virginia 2nd and virginia's 7th. these will give us early clues but the thing we will keep saying over and over again is patience is a virtue, it's better to get the vote count correct than to get it fast and inaccurately. >> harry, thanks so much. let's go to alisyn camerota. you just heard harry, everybody settle in, get comfortable. i do think we need to always

remind me that it's not necessarily election day, it's election week or it's even election month. however, that's not what some right wing frankly trump allies are already doing. christina bob one of his former lawyers yesterday said on a right wing network there should be absolutely a result no later than the middle of the night, meaning tonight, or early wednesday morning. i think those areas that don't have a result it's going to look very suspicious. in other words, already planting the seed of doubt. >> that's absolutely right. i'm from michigan and we know that in detroit they count votes a little later, you have a higher density of people. so fewer election officials counting more votes will take more time. this is a way of trying to set the table around the fact that really only the rural voters or the suburban voters are the ones that you should be paying attention to. so it really is worrying because this is a structural reality of what it takes to count votes. >> this is why -- i mean, all the races are important and i know we're all watching, you

know, senate, pennsylvania, senate georgia, but the three races that i think are most important are kristina karamo in michigan, mark finchem in arizona and jim marr shand in arizona. they are all election deniers. they have all suggested in some way that they might not certify elections, that they might refuse. >> unless they win. >> unless they like the results. and they've tried -- they've tried in the past, they want to try again. i think those might be the most important elections. you might not feel them, i understand pocketbook issues and crime, i get that, but that's the future of future elections and democracy. >> but what i would say s remember, we've seen this movie before. this is very trumpian and actually let's remember that some of the members of the legal team that were behind trump's legal strategy in 2020 are working in these very states. they are trying to set up a narrative that says if it's not a red wave, something went wrong.

>> yeah. >> and so that's part of why what we're doing is so important to remind people it's going to take time. we've got to be patient. and the thing about that is that means the system is working. >> right. >> that means votes are getting counted, that means we're working out whatever questions there might be about provisional ballots or what have you. that's how it should be to make sure that evan auto the votes that are cast later today in california get counted with the same veracity as those that get counted earlier tonight. >> except i worry that the people most susceptible to the suspicion are not watching right now and so all of these seeds that are being planted then what, charlie? >> look, in pennsylvania there are 1.1 million absentee ballots. none of them could be processed until this morning. >> yeah, by law, right? >> by law. now. the legislature they could have changed this and allowed the processing of these things maybe a week in advance but they chose not to do it so we will probably not have an outcome tonight. it took us to saturday to do 3.5 million in 2020 so maybe it will take a couple days to get there. >> let's talk about some of the

issues that are on people's minds as they tell us when they come out of these voting booths. these are a couple of voters in wisconsin who are just sharing their differing philosophies basically. >> i think it's really about saving our democracy and making sure that people have the right to vote. kind of fighting the political divisions. so, yeah, it's about maybe we can continue what we've continued to do. >> the economy is definitely a big one and to be frank with you, it's just -- like there seems to be much more care about the sexuality of people and not people struggling to pay their rent or paying their mortgage. >> and there it is, abdul, they capture it perfectly. >> yeah. one of the really interesting outcomes of a poll that came out just about a week before the election was that 70% of

americans agreed that democracy was in crisis but only 17% of them attributed that to authoritarianism, the rest talked about corruption and the ways in which a lot of democracy feels like it is -- it's had the talons of big corporations put into it. and i think that as we think about what comes out of this election, it's going to be really critical for us to be asking how do we make sure that beyond saving the ability to actually vote for your representatives we're also asking how do we make sure we remove the obstacles that a lot of folks feel like are getting in the way between their political will and the outcomes of our actual public policy. >> i mean, i've been covering lots of races over -- we all have and to me it feels like republicans talk a lot more about gender and pronouns and, quote, unquote, groomers than democrats have on the campaign trail, but republicans are also talking about crime and inflation in which is that i think just get right to voter fears. fears that are real in many

cases. i don't think democrats were wrong to talk about democracy. i think it's one of the most important issues. but you can't go out there and say the economy is great. you can't be joe biden and say the economy is strong as hell. you can't be ron klain and say everything is fine we're not planning for a recession. you just can't tell voters they're wrong to have fears about the economy and crime. i think they could have done it all, they really chose to sort of marginalize those issues. >> first of all, with he never want to tell voters they're wrong because they surely do not like to hear that, let me tell you. look, i think what you're seeing with candidates, theres not a single candidate on the democratic side that has only run on a single issue because i think as we saw in that tape voters are carrying a number of different issues. >> absolutely. >> the economy is important. they are worried about crime. they are worried about democracy. so most of the ads i've seen -- and, remember, there's a lot that's going on under the surface, grassroots organizing, canvassing that isn't as much

what we're talking about on television but that is going directly to some of those deep concerns. >> republicans overstate voter fraud, democrats overstate voter suppression. it's easy to vote, we run good elections the problem is what's happening after the elections and people who have a predetermined outcome in mind. >> absolutely. all right. meanwhile, speaking of winners, we just got the winning numbers from last night's powerball drawing, guys. we may be billionaires and not even know it right now. it caused a lot of confusion overnight. we will show you the numbers and explain what went wrong there. that's next. power e*trade's easy-to-use tools like dynamic charting and risk-reward analysis help make trading feel effortless and itits customizable scans with social sentiment help you find and unlock opportunitieies in the market with powererful, easy-to-use tools power e*trade makes complex trading easier react to fast-moving markets with dynamic charting and a futures ladder that lets you place, flatten, or reverse orders so you won't miss an opportunity

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and election day in america well underway. i'm anderson cooper, thank you for joining us. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you're looking at live pictures of voters lined up to cast ballots. three more states just opened doors to voters. california, idaho and nevada. at stake who will control the congress. dozens of house races are considered tossups. p republicans need to win 30 seats to win the majority.

in the senate republicans need to flip one democratic seat to clinch the majority and it is most likely to be tight. before the polls even opened today, some states setting earlier voting records. we have this covered from coast to coast today. want to begin with our coverage with cnn jason carroll live in pennsylvania where control of the senate could be decided. how are things in bucks county? >> reporter: and anderson, a lot of people are wondering if things could be decided right here in ben salem in lower bucks county because there are a lot of suburbs in lower buck's county highly populate and a lot of key voters that could end up making a -- a real decision in terms of who ends up winning the senate seat or the governor's race. as you could see here, we've seen a number of folks coming out this morning. we've been talking to voters about what matters most to them

and i want to introduce you to rose an an jack payson. they've lived here for 45 years. you have strong opinions about why you came out today. >> yes. i don't like donald trump. voting for a republican like mastre an yo means that we're going to have more trouble not voting for trump. >> and how about you, in terms of the issues, though the issues that mattered most to you? >> well, i think the roe issue bothers me. i think women should be able to choose. i don't like the fact that in -- when women are sick, there is an issue that they're being -- could be treated properly when their pregnant and it is not simply that they don't want the child and they want an abortion, there is other issues involved and it puts the doctors and the hospitals not knowing what to do that if they do the wrong thing, i'll get sued. >> and rose an, when we're

talking and folks are watching from around country and you think about buck's county, we explained this is the type of area where you have a lot of swing voters. can you explain why that is? >> no, i can't. i have no idea why that is. >> but you've heard about it. >> yeah you've heard about it. i'm not sure. i don't know it is the environment we're living in or what, or maybe -- i really believe the cnns -- >> oh, no here we go. >> you put out the news and we hear it a lot and people are more and more informed. >> okay. and when people are more informed, they make better judgments and so people who may have voted for a candidate before, may change their mind because of that. >> very good. >> i really think that it is good that people are flexible. that they should take into

account all of the issues and that they thud have the right to change their mind. >> very good. thank you very much, jack and roseanne. thank you very much for your vote. again, anderson, a lot of various opinions out here and in bucks county. again the turnout is expected to be very high. candidates on both sides arek looing for the returns to see what happens here. anderson, back to you. >> jason, great to hear from voters. two major races underway in georgia including a rematch between brian kemp and democrat stacey abrams. and raphael warnock is expected in atlanta. he's facing herschel walker. and nick valencia is in a polls place in atlanta. what is it looking like this morning? a lot of early voting. >> reporter: a lot of early voting. in fact historic numbers. 2.2 million votes cast throughout the state of georgia. that is was a record and it

seems like there are long line this is morning. not right now, though. this is the polling location in the city of atlanta, this morning for the pre-work rush there was about 20 people lined up outside. it is in and out. the secretary of state reporting no major outages but a few hiccups to get things started across the state. right now the average wait time is about two or three minutes. it takes a less than a minute to get checked in. and this is andy hill. andy, you actually voted in 2020 here. good morning. >> i did. >> you waited four hours to early vote. >> yeah, in 2020 we waited four hours and i will heard in 2020 that if you go the day of and it was much better so we waited until the day of this year. >> so we're asking what issues are really important to you. what was it so important and why is it so important to stroet and what are the issues that are important to you in your life. >> well i work in ministry and i'm a seminary student so what is important is basic human

rights and how the government is protecting them or not protecting them. i saw what the supreme court did to women's right in the last term and it made me really concerned as a gay han that they're not going to be standing up for more rights in the next debate. so i want to make sure the people at the state and federal level have my rights in mind and our interested in protecting my rights. >> really powerful stuff, andy. do you feel any added significance with this being called a battleground state. >> absolutely. i see the population growth in the last three years being here. i'm port of the population growth apparently. >> you're the reason why it is a battleground now. >> i lived in new york previously and it never seemed urgent to vote for my rights in new york. but it seems right here. >> thank you for participating in this democracy. andy hill one of the voters that cast their ballots today. you could see more and more people starting to show up. a steady stream all morning

long. >> nice to see. thank you so much. moments ago ron johnson cast his vote at a polling place in milwaukee. he's facing a challenge from the democrat mandela barnes. lucy kafanov is live in milwaukee. what else is going on, lucy? >> reporter: well, anderson, we know that ron johnson has just voted, casting his own ballot. he is the two-term incumbent senator, republican senator who is facing against a democrat mandela barnes. the lieutenant governor here in wisconsin. it has been a bitter, closely contested race. a lot of political advertising, millions spent on political advertising these two candidates. but from the voters we've been talking to here in milwaukee outside of this polling location, this is not about the individual candidates, it is bigger issues that they represent. take a listen. >> this is the fullest i've seen

in the parking lot but quite a few of you guys are here. so anyway, i want to encourage every republican to get out and vote. assume this is a dead even race. i would like to see obviously would like to win. i would like to win by a wide margin. not for partisan purposes but so literally so it will send a strong signal to our democrat colleagues that their policies aren't working and they're work with us to reduce deficit spending, and their war on fossil fuel, get tough on crime and secure the border. we do need this and those of you traveling with me in the bus, my message has been we have to unify and heal this nation and so the best way to do it is to get back on the course. >> and that was senator ron johnson speaking there after voting. so what we've been hearing from voters themselves is issues like the economy, some of the republicans we've spoken to said

inflation and the economy. that is what they're coming out here to cast their ballots for. they want to see a change in that. for some of the democratic voters who are voting for mandela barnes or the democratic governor, they want threats to democracy is something they are concerned about, the divisions in this country are something they are concerned about so it is a close race. it is a very purple state. a lot of times the votes here do come down to the wire. so it remains to be seen which direction wisconsin will go. anderson. >> lucy, thank you very much. we'll check back with you. all 35 house seats are on the the ballot. john berman is here. what is the playing field on the house? >> so this is what america looks like right now. all 435 districts, they are up. you can vote for your member of congress today. if you haven't already. 188 of these seats are considered solid republican. 165 solid democrats and then there are 82. let me come over here and write

that number down so people could see it. 82 that are considered competitive. and these are numbers put together by the cnn election desk with the help of inside elections. 82 competitive seats. now of the 82, we think that republicans need to win 30. they have a shorter path to the majority. they only need to win 30 of the 82 competitive seats or wh democrats have to win 53 of the 82 if they want to maintain control. because a lot more of those competitive seats at this point are in democratic turf. >> so where are you looking at particularly? >> let me get out of this. so people could see what i'm talking about here. in -- let me remove this one last filter. the competitive seats here, you're looking at now are in gray. all of the competitive seats are in gray. some the early closing election states are virginia. virginia we think has three competitive seats there. you could see them here in gray.

if we look back two years ago within these borders, democrats carried all three of these competitive seats. democrats need to hold all three of these really if they want to have a good night. one of those seats is here. this is virginia's second congressional district. and elaine luria who was on the january 6 committee, she's in a tight race. this is a seat that joe biden won by but only about a point and a half. so this is sort of a knife's edge seat. if you're look for a bellwether here, 1.8% for joe biden. elaine luria is going to need to dho do that well, win by 1.8% or better to maintain it. if it goes republican early in the evening, this is a sign that the night will be going republican. one other state i could point out is indiana. polls close there, they start closing at 6:00. they all close by 7:00. there is one competitive

district that is gary, the first congressional district in gary, indiana, this is a seat that joe biden carried. and this is a seat right now that incumbent frank irvin wants to hold on to. and joe biden won it by over 8%. so the democratic margin there is fairly comfortable. if early in the evening, and we'll start seeing numbers from indiana fairly early on, if frank marvin is having trouble holding this seat or it is closer than 8.3%, that could spell a tough or tougher night for the democrats. >> some of the competitive seats. john, thank you so much. if the republicans win the majority in the house, it is big implications on the president's agenda. we'll take a look at that next.

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millions of americans are casting votes at polls today to decide the balance of power in washington and the future of president biden's agenda. join with me, senior correspondent for the agreo, ron brown brownstein. and general goldberg from the dispatch. turnout today, obviously critical. there has been so many number of states early voting has been in very high numbers. >> when we've had decisive midterms and they are decisive against the party if power there are two ingredients to produce the result. one is that independent voters who are more likely voting against the party in power. every midterm back to 1986, the

party in power has lost by double-digits. that is one thing to look at tonight. but the bigger factor is who shows up. deferential turnout. if you look at 2008 to 2010, or 2012 to 2014, few voters showed up and they were disproportionately democrats based on the analysis by catalyst which is a frm that could study down to the vid voter. that is the risk for democrats. that discussion of individual races. if you have -- the out party is always motivated to vote in a midterm. it is true going back to the civil war. we were talking about that before. if you have a wide deferential in the number of democrats who fall off, versus the number of republicans who fall off from 2020, that is when you get the kind of the wave and people don't expect to lose, lose and that is center on young voters. part of the reason they did better there 2018 is because young voters fell off less than

they usually do. young voters showed up there 2018. there is a big risk they will not show up in the numbers in 2022. and if that happens, that is when you could see surprises and a real series of dominos following. >> what do you think -- i talked to nancy pelosi yesterday. there has been a lot of speculation about if republicans take the house, whether she will retire from the house altogether. i just want to play what she said about her plans. >> i knew there is 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 going to ask that question. >> i'm glad. >> you could confirm that you've made a decision? about what you would do? >> well, that is like asking the question, isn't it. >> no, i'm not asking what the decision is. i'm asking have you looked ahead

and have you made a decision in your mind whatever that decision might be? >> well, i have to say my decision will be effected by what happened in the last week or two. >> will your decision be impacted by the attack in any way? >> yes. >> it will? >> yes. >> what do you think the likelihood of her retiring is? >> look, i mean, hammer blow to the head, an 82-year-old man is a serious thing. and she may want to be, that is a perfectly legitimate thing for a wife wanting to be with her long-term husband when he's injured like that. i also could understand why nancy pelosi wouldn't want to be around in a republican congress controlled by kevin mccarthy where kevin mccarthy, his days may be numbered as speaker. i don't think it is a obvious thing that he is -- >> you think he might not become speaker or might not last as speaker. >> i don't think it is obviously that he becomes speaker and i don't think it is obvious that

he stays speaker. i think that the republican congress -- well, cards on the table, think republicans will win and take back the house. that is what i believe. i think it is a normal midterm, first year historic trend kind of thing. i think republicans will overread their mandate because every party after an election for the last 20 years has over red their mandate and swung for the moon and made huge mistakes. and the idea that nancy pelosi wants to be around in all of that, and the chaos that is going to follow with the republican party, maybe she's bring popcorn and enjoy it but i think she would rather be with hur family. >> i don't know if it would drive her out. that is the way i think it would be viewed i think. and i think we're suggesting in the question. she might have been more likely to step aside if this has not happened. but i think the idea that the right would interpret this as driving her out would make her less likely to go myself. >> for her to get to be speaker again, she had said she would retire as speaker. obviously if the republicans

take control, she won't be speaker any more. do you think there are, when you look at the democrats in congress, who could fill nancy pelosi's shoes one day? >> well i think the fact that we have to pause and think about it, think about how deep the bench isn't, reflects a problem with the democratic party. right. and i think that voters feel that too. you look at polls and you think about the fact that joe biden's approval ratings are so low. there is so much enthusiasm for seeing a new nominee and yet every time we look at headlines, we're debating whether joe biden is coming back to face off against donald trump. why is that -- why is it that he's our only option despite everything that we've seen concerns about his age, concerns about whether he's actually able to be that bipartisan leader and get things done. so i do worry about that. >> whatever happens to her. i think that democrats in the

house will have too look at the structural issue here. in seven of the last eight elections, no party has done since the formation of the mod earp party system in 1828. but republicans have controlled the house for 20 of the 28 years and if they lose tonight and each time that democrats have won it back, they've lost it in four years. they lost it in 2010 and will probably loose it in '22 after 2018. and i think the message is even though they have this big coalition that wins presidential elections they're not competing on a broad enough playing field. there is too much of the country that is a no-go zone and it leaves them with such a tight margin if people are dissatisfied about crime or inflation, the suburb numbers have to win so much because they've seeded so much of the country, i think that is an issue after tonight. >> we have to take a break. coverage begins at 4:00 p.m. eastern. democrats and republicans

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and welcome back. you're watching cnn special coverage of election day in america. polls are now open in nearly every state with voters deciding which party will control congress. and americans will elect 36 governors across country. republicans need to win 30 seats

to take the majority in the house and in the senate republicans need a net gain of just one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. the big questions will republicans see gain as mong latino voters. self house races in texas and in nevada right now hinging on latino vote. joining me now is cnn commentator sochi hinojosa from the democratic national committee and also with us is la tasha brown, the co-founder of the black voters matter fund. so sochi, according to this research, this midterm are projected to account for 14.3% of all eligible voters which a new election high and there is a piece in the "wall street journal," a poll finding that the republican party is gaining support among black and latino voters. why do you think we're seeing that trend? >> well i think that republicans woke up the day after that trump lost the presidency and they realized that if they were to try to make end roads with black and latino voters this could

potentially win the midterm election and the election in 2024. i do give them credit because they have recruited latino candidates across the country but the reality is they're behind. estimates show that democrats are spending $40 million to reach latino voter this is cycle in both english and spanish and you have the on the other health cares are spending about $10 million. there is a race that you mentioned in south texas, myra flores that flipped from blue to red in a special election. but we have to remember that was 7% turnout. so that wasn't because latinos were leaving the democratic party in droves. it is that they didn't turn out. so what i'm looking for tonight is will latinos turn out and i think that they will. they will turn out for democrats in a two to one margin. >> la tasha, how about you, why do you think we're seeing republicans and a trend among greater support among black and latino voters. >> agree with that analysis.

think after the 2020 election and in 2021 there was a recognition that voters of color are the future of american politics. we also know there are over 80 black candidates that are running on the republican ticket across the country. i think there has been a concerted effort to recruit black candidates to run for office just like we see in georgia and the u.s. senate race. to support an agenda that many feel is a racist agenda but put a face of color to that particular gender. what we're seeing is a run across the country, we're seeing that. and i think there is a concerted effort by both yparties to appel to those voters. think the gop has gone at it of trying to tap into the discontent that may be in the african american community about wanting to have more happen. and think that we're seeing democrats speak to if we're -- if the democrats have power, we could actually do more. and so it is very interesting to see the distinction and the

appeals that i think to african american voters and other voters. >> do you think they did enough this election cycle to appeal to voters of color on issues that matter most? >> i think that they could always do more to appeal to voters of color. i think when it comes to the latino community in particular, there is more that could have been done in order to mobilize and turn them out. i'm worried that the way that the trends in texas show that we have not nearly invested enough to turn out our voters but in nevada and arizona the hope is that democrats invested number to turn them out. but time will tell. latino voters will decide elections in nevada and arizona and if we don't win those states, think the party needs to take a hard look at what the strategy was and how we need to invest more in order to turn latinos out. >> la tasha, axios is reporting that republicans are growing

bullish that they'll make what they call significant end roads with working class hispanic voters. if that proves true, what do you think the lesson that democrats should walk away with is? >> you me, i think that the democrats should walk away with a lesson that the work is done on the ground. this is not an air war. can you not take millions of dollars and throw them in tr television ads and people feel they're issues are not being addressed and those are voters that would be in alignment with a democratic agenda. the democratic party agenda but you have to reach them. but if you want vote shz you have to get them and the way to get them is you have to make sure that you're going work, that is not just an air war but a ground war, and invest on the ground to reach the voters on the margins, those voters who have not seen themselves as part of the process. >> la tasha brown and sochi,

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from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive. welcome back. as you know the, the battle for the party to control the u.s. senate could hinge on five race and i'm with harriy enten to lok at those. >> we need to win four of the

five to maintain control. let's start in arizona. we'll go in alphabetical here. mark kelly but blake master has come on strong. he's a big fan of donald trump and an election denier. it is an interesting race because the ballots to take a long time. it is a tossup. >> democrats had been confident about kelly for a long time, but it is a ticght race. >> they've been closer and closer. >> what about georgia. >> so let's go to georgia. and here in georgia you notice we have three names on the screen instead of two. which is quite unusual. because we have a libertarian chase oliver. because georgia is unique and this is something that we'll emphasize because the leader on election day or for the election in november has to receive a majority of the vote in order to win. if the leader gets 49.99%, that is not a majority. then there is runoff between

warnock or herschel walker come december and that could be the battle for the united states senate takes until december to know who controls it. >> they've spent so much money on the race, the idea there could be a runoff is exhaust. >> the truth is i'm exhausted already and we're going to continue to be exhausted. we need more coffee as we continue. >> all right. nevada. >> let's go back out west. we have catherine cortez masto taking on adam wax alt. a very big name. it used to be a united states senator named paul waxalt. and she's seen her lead diminish and this may be the race more endangered democratic incumbent. yes they have won the presidential race in nevada since 2008. but in 2016 and improved upon

his own performance in 2020 so nevada a tight race in a purple state. >> the new hampshire senate race is interesting. >> senator maggie hassan taking on don boldic after groups during the primary, i think a lot of people left this on the side lines but this race is close considerably in the final days. remember, even though joe biden won the state, hillary clinton won it by a small margin in 2016 so this is a state in new england that could be very interesting. one last race i'll point out, the pennsylvania senate race. we all know about this. john fetterman and mehmet oz. the two candidates in there, not necessarily beloved by the voters. >> har a enten, thank you very much. thank you. let's bring back our cnn political commentators. and we have s.e. cupp and charlie dent and carolyn finney. and we have praying for a

peaceful election police but last night former president donald trump continued his rhetoric against nancy pelosi even after the violent attack on paul which she spoke excusively to anderson. >> she said please don't call them animals, they're human beings. but i think she's an animal too, you want to know the truth. >> for me this is the hard part because paul was not the target and he's the one who is paying the price. i mean we all are. but he's the one that is really paying the price. but it really -- it is really sad because it is a flame that was fueled by misinformation and all of the rest of that. which is most unfortunate that has no place in our democracy. 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. >> s.e., donald trump dehumanizes people he doesn't like. and i guess at this point we have to assume he doesn't care that it leads to violence. >> you know, and he does it especially with women. there is a trigger for him, women would don't like him or disagree with him, he gets vicious about their looks or their humanity or their dignity. i think the rhetoric is partly to blame. but to me the most dangerous part, nancy pelosi alluded to it just there, are these conspiracy theories. they're garbage and they are a mind altering drug. and they have infiltrated politics. qanon is in congress. anti-semitism is in congress. because republicans didn't have the courage to disavow these voters. they didn't have the courage to say, we don't want you qanon. if you believe there is a pedophile ring in the democratic party, we don't want you.

they were happy to take them. and so, yeah, trump's rhetoric and other republicans rhetoric is a problem. the conspiracy theory that leads people like pelosi's attacker to act on these crazed ideas are the deeper issue. >> and i think you could draw a straight line from charlottesville to january 6, to the attack on paul pelosi in that political violence, there was not good people on both sides. >> no. >> the violence has been normalized, mainstreamed, and to what you were saying, s.e., it is okay, it is okay if we laugh and call her an animal. and that is -- i agree with you. the republican party and i think it is largely to blame for not standing up to it sooner. but i also think we all have to acknowledge something. we like to say, well this is not who we are. it is. that is who we are. and we have to decide that we don't want to be that and then make it change. but it is got to be the republican party doing it with it. >> and by the way, when you

light that spark, you don't know who is listening. so in other words, the republicans it is demonstrable to have list that spark with their incendiary rhetoric. but last night ted cruz was at a houston astros victory parade and someone threw a beer can at him. so here is that moment. because you know, once you dehumanize people, you don't know what will happen. so we should mention that the person that did that has now been charged are aggravated assault. charlie. >> i think republicans need to get back to small c conservatism. and incrementalism, and discipline and order and stability. these are good traits and characters -- >> they are so far from that right now. >> and the conspiracy theories and the hateful rhetoric, that is not what they should be and they have to cleanse themselves and start exacting discipline on some people who are out of

control. when i was in, we spent a lot of time getting members to leave congress who became distractions or embarrassments. we didn't -- we didn't embrace them. >> i want you to ask you, one of the things that i find frustrating is we had a moment in our politics where we could disagree or we could disagree agreeably. and i don't mean to call the civilityp out but the question that i have for a lot of friends of mine that continue to vote for this form of politics and they could put aside the dehaum -- dehumanization or the attacks but when you are going into the ballot bork and push on a name that is doing that, you are choosing that kind of politics for america and my question is why is it that other wise good people are willing to disregard this kind of thing even as we've watching real people getting injured and hurt by it. >> i spoke to some republican voters, they're not maga, but

they're new england republicans and said exactly that. why do you want more of this. the election denialism, and violent rhetoric and that said that is all bad. but so are gas prices. so are grocery prices. that is not a legitimate to me, i made a different calculation and i will continue to. those aren't illegitimate reasons to vote for someone. but they are able to compartmentalize that. >> and it is so you're on a team and before i get to you play want more example of this last night. kari lake who is running in arizona, she also engaged in nasty name calling. >> now these bastards back there don't want us talk about stolen elections. well, it doesn't matter what they attempt tomorrow, because we're going to show up like our lives depend on it. >> i mean, just awful. obviously calling the press a

profanity there. and i don't want to talk about stolen elections. no we just want to present the facts. >> it is shameful and she's frightening in many ways because she is a version of trump but she said it a little more nicely so it doesn't sound quite as harsh. we're talking about teams. i think about how to think about the fact that a young man is suspended from the nba for anti-semitism. but you could be in congress and be an anti-semite and be there congress and call for political violence. when do we say it makes you unqualified to serve our country and our constitution if that is what you engage in. that is really the standard that i think we have to re-set. there has to be some level of qualification that said, no, if you're going to incite violence, you can't serve in congress. >> but caharacter went out the

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election day in america. i'm anderson cooper, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world.

polls are now open in nearly every state. the doors opening now for voters in alaska. control of the congress is at stake. dozens of house races are considered tossups. republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to win the majority in the senate. the race is likely to determine control of very tight -- republicans need a net gain of just one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. there are also 36 governors races across country and the outcome which will have major impacts on everything from state elections to reproduct rights. we have in covers from coast to coast. we want to begin with jason carroll live in pennsylvania where we're monitoring the very tight senate race between john fot -- john fetterman and memez oz. >> reporter: we're in a low you are buck's county in a place called ben salem. a lot of voters all morning long.

we've seen them coming in to vote. a steady clip of voters coming in and out. talking about the issue that's matter most to them. and as you could imagine, at the top of the list. a woman's right to choose and the crime and the economy. >> i know from previous years i've swung both ways texas really depends on what the person stands for. that is what i vote for. >> but this go around, a woman's right to choose drove you to the polls? >> absolutely. >> and again you identify as republican but this is the issue that -- >> this one stood out to me the most, yes. >> crime is a big -- it is really big in the city of philadelphia. i would hate to see it come to the suburbs here in bucks county. the second thing is inflation. you know, there are so many people that can't afford day-to-day. it is sad. >> reporter: so, anderson, as you could see, a lot of diversity in terms of opinions. a lot of people willing to share opinions on camera but i have to point out, just a short while ago i spoke to one woman, a

woman of color, a teacher here and she told me that she was afraid to come on camera. she felt intimidated and in this climate about sharing her opinion and so that is the climate for some voters here as well in bucks county. anderson. >> jason carroll, appreciate it. there are two races in georgia, stacy abrams is again trying to defeat brian kemp and while rafael warnock faced a challenge from her shell walker. how big has it been this morning? >> reporter: it is been consistent. we've seen the steady stream of voters just like what jason is witnessing. in the last 30 minutes things have slowed down. it is expected to pick back up with the lunch hour rush. this morning we saw about 20 people lined up outside of the this polling location in dekalb county. you might remember dekalb county because it was decisive in handing democrats a victory during the 2020 general

electio election. and both republicans and democrats have indicated that they believe control of the senate runs right through the state of georgia. it is something that the incumbent senator raphael warnock mentioned yesterday during his closing rally in columbus, georgia. and herschel walker believe he will be the right full winner on tuesday night. there is however, this possible of a runoff floating around there, anderson. in the state of georgia, if you don't get 50% the vote or more as a candidate, that triggers an automatic runoff. that would happen on december 6th. already 2.2 million votes early votes cast in the 17 days of early voting. behind me people are in and out and in a matter of minutes. about two to three minutes on average according to the secretary of state. and no major outages that -- there were a few issues starting up in a few polling places across state, but overall here things are smooth and they're already about four hours into

the votes. anderson. >> nick, appreciate it. this hour wisconsin governor tony evers will face a challenge from republican tim nichelle. and we're also keeping an eye on the race there. lucy kafanov live at a polling place in milwaukee. what is it like there this hour? >> reporter: well, anderson, both of those races are extremely tight. the governor's race as well as the senate race. the senate race of course the outcome of which could determine the balance of power in the u.s. senate. this is an incredibly purple closely contested state where president biden won by less than 21,000 votes. so it is really anyone's guess which way things will go. but for the voters here on the ground, at this polling location in milwaukee, it is not so much about the balance of power, it is about the local issues, the issues that are important to them. we spoke to a democrat, a first-time voter and a republican, take a listen. >> i don't know.

i'm at work and my friends are like did you vote and did you vote? and i'm going, i'm going. i just feel a lot of pressure. >> so the issues for you are? >> women's rights and i don't want to -- legalizing marijuana and guns and violence, that is not how america should be, right. >> but i think about taxes, for mep a religious freedom is a big deal and that goes hand in hand with abortion because to me that is tied from my personal beliefs. and i believe inflation is a big topic of conversation and how we could combat that. >> reporter: and it is not so much enthusiasm that we've seen but rather the pressure that that young voter was talking about. it feels they say that the issues facing the country are quite serious right now. and so they have here to cast their ballots and for the democrats to win it is really going to depend on turnout in

the largely liberal cities like here in milwaukee. for republicans the turnout in the conservative suburbs is going to be key. and it is also going to depend on how independents cast their ballots. there has been a lot of early voting. nearly 719,000 early ballots cast. they are already being counted but the polls close here at 9:00 p.m. again, anderson, an incredibly close race. that has national implications. >> lucy, appreciate it. check in with you shortly. to michigan now where gretchen whitmer is fighting to keep her seat. miguel marquez is live in a polling place in detroit. how is it, miguel? >> reporter: it is busy here. we've driven across many polls places in detroit and it is busy at them as well. they've had a ton of absentee votes. over 2 million absentee votes requested across the state. about 1.7 million returned. they expect that will go up and that is the real issue for

detroit and across state, counting the absentee votes because they can't start processing them and counting them until today. so all of that process is happening at different boards around the state. we're here with one voter who has just voted. shanika courtney. you just voted. er you vote every election. did you feel more motivated this time to vote? >> i did feel more vmotivated because i knew who i was voting for and what i was voting for. >> there has been a concern about sort of a lack of attention, a lack of concern, a lack of sort of motivation in detroit. what are your friends telling you, what are your family, do you sense that people are engaged in this election. >> i think more people are coming out to vote now within the last few years. i think that also they are getting more engaged in what we all are standing for. >> you told me, you don't have

any specific concerns or specific issues that you are voting on this year. but you come out to vote any way. why? what is it -- what is that drive and why is it so important to come out here and cast that vote? >> well it was something that i saw my grandmother and my mom do so i knew this was important and i also i wanted to bring the young with me to see that this is something that we need to do every single year. >> well, you have made the point. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and have a lovely day. >> thank you, have a good day. >> there have been some issues in precincts in detroit, report of computers to check in not working initially. but now they are able to get people checked in without computers. so just everybody is on edge across state. state government saying that they have all of the resources available if there are massive challenges across the state. anderson. >> miguel, thank you. the key tonight is patience and time to know who will

control the house and senate. it all may come down to the battleground state of pennsylvania. john berman is here with a look at the map. >> the reason we went to jason carroll first in pennsylvania because we think that pennsylvania could be decisive in terms of who controls. senate, john fetterman and memez oz in a tight race. it will be slow. we we know that it takes them some tienl to count, and they don't start processing until today and we saw what happened two years ago in the presidential election. in the presidential race, joe biden won by some 80,000 voters ultimately but how did we get there. i'm going to walk you down memory lane. this is a cool zedemonstration here. the polls close at 9:00. when they close at 9:00, joe biden had a lead of some 360,000 vote as mong the votes that were in and counted. but one hour later, 10:00, on tuesday night, donald trump all of a sudden ahead by 33,000

votes in the votes that were counts. by the next day, wednesday at noon, donald trump was ahead by some 500,000 votes in the votes that were counted. but where were these votes? and more importantly, where were the votes remaining? so i'll take this down to about 75%. and you could see the areas that had less than 75% counted included allegheny county, where pittsburgh is. and most importantly of it, philadelphia county which is the home to philadelphia which is an extremely democratic area, you could see at noon on wednesday, only 60% or so of the vote had been counted. still an enormous amount to count and joe biden was way ahead there. so there was reason to believe that wednesday that he could make up some of that ground and of course he did. let's look, by thursday at noon, i'll show you the whole state here. joe biden had cut into the lead which had been 500,000 votes by

donald trump and thursday he only leads by 120,000. friday at 10:00 a.m., joe biden takes the lead in the votes that were counted by by 5,000 votes and then saturday, at 11:24 a.m., cnn projects that joe biden will win pennsylvania and the presidency. by the way, when this was projected it was only 96% and the margin was 28,000 and that grew to 80,000. >> and this is what partially fueled a lost conspiracy theories. falsely that suddenly things were flipped, the votes were just counted. >> the votes were just counted. it is a matter of counting the votes when they came in all of the counties have different proses. if you want a cheat on how to see where the night is headed. i'm taking back to north hampton county, they are one of two counties in pennsylvania that voted for donald trump in 2016

and joe biden in 2020. one of two counties that flipped. now north hampton county, joe biden way ahead. a little bit later, he's still way ahead. but 26% in. actually, wednesday at noon, right, you have 95% of the vote in. so you have most of the vote in and joe biden is ahead here in a county that donald trump had won four years ago. so they count fairly quickly there. so tonight, or really this morning, tomorrow morning when i'm in between 2:00 a.m. and noon tomorrow, i'm looking at north hampton county. because whoever is ahead here, it may show you where pennsylvania is going to go. >> john berman, thank you so much. democrats and republicans offering starkly different closing arguments to voters on this election day. which party will em ernl the big winner? we'll take a look at some of the states in play. bubut at the end of the day, you know you have a team b behid you that can help you.

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americans across the country casting their votes in this consequential midterm election control of congress at stake. there are dozens of governors races being decided today. joining me, jessica al ford and ron brown steen and jenna goldberg, the co-founder and editor in chief of the dispatch. ron, i know governor's races you've been looking at in particular. >> all of the states that flipped from 16 to 20, that made joe biden president, if i'm doing my math right, they're all picking governors, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona and georgia as well as nevada. another closely contested state and new hampshire. seven of the eight swing states in country are picking

governors. and it matters partially because red and blue states are moving further apart on every conceivable issue from lgbtq rights to guns to votes to abortion. but it really matters because. questions whether you'll see a 2024 election certified in the states that are at the absolute tipping point of american politics and there is a strong possibility that at least in arizona and wisconsin and maybe even michigan and certainly jae georgia is different, you'll have election deniers elected as governor. and the amount of chaos and crisis that that could bring to the american political system, i don't think we're fully internalizing what 2024 might look like. if you have secretary of state and governor candidates who have sent a clear signal they are not in the tradition of free and fair elections, if they are in charge, what does 2024 look like. >> and they do it under the

guise of election integrity. and the majority of democrats have more confidence in our systems, republicans overwhelmingly questioning our systems. and so i do worry about that because election integrity has roots in post reconstruction era, trying to dismantle the power of the black vote and so all of these new rules and legislation which will be presented to save our vote, to protect our vote, really will effect the most disenfranchised communities, black and beyond. >> how do you see it? >> well, first of all, as the resident curmudgeon, i want to point out. >> is that a title. >> yes. i self declare. >> change the chyron. >> we've been hearing about how low voter turnout is a bad sign for democracy. well we have very high voter turnout right now. does anybody think it is a great sign for democracy. there is something to be said for the placency of the old days

when people who were engaged in politicals voted and those who weren't didn't vote. and one of the things that we talking about governors, and i draw some comfort from is the return of even at the margins, split ticket voting. and it turns out that, like, for the senate, people are voting sort of info tainment partisan passions and for governor their voting much more about the pocketbook issues. and i think that is a good sign. anything that breaks up the monolithic way of thinking about politics as a zero sum existential crisis is good. and but they're going to have real problems with some of these guys. >> and even from the 2024 problems, separately i think you can argue that we're seeing the widest divergence between the states since the civil war. if you look at breadth of issues that red and blue states are

hurdling, on abortion, on transgender kids and voting and whether teachers could talk about sexual orientation in the classroom and whether you need a permit to carry a gun. the space between how blue and red america is living, i think it is as wide as we have seen on this range of issues. really as i said, since before the civil war. and what is striking, i think, is if the republicans win the house or senate or both, there are proposals from republican members of congress to nationalize all of the red state initiatives and impose them on the blue states. now with joe biden as president, they can't do that. but proposals to ban abonationw and a ban on transgender girls playing high school sports or how teachers talk about race nati nationwide, that is a real issue of debate. whether this roll back of rights and liberties and this reordering of the social agenda that occurred in the red states

over last two years, are we going to see a serious attempt to impose that on the blue states and think you'll begin to see that in the next two years. >> how much control does governors have over the elections in their states. >> it varies from state to state. in some states like pennsylvania, they appoint the secretary of state. in other states the secretary of state controls the mechanism. but the governors are certifying the election. they're the ones who is under the electorate count act of the 1880s, it defers to the slate koez chosen by the governors. with a kari lake certify a joe biden victory in arizona in 2024? under any circumstance. is there a circumstance under which that would happen. >> georgia county is extendinged deadline for funds of voters who did not receive an absentee ballot. we'll have details on what happened next. because it's our first systemem that detects snoring, and automatically adjujusts to help reduce it.

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i'm anderson cooper. when you are watching cnn special coverage of election day in america. this hour polls are open in nearly every state. the fate of congress hanging in the balance.

republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to take the majority in the house. in the senate, republicans need a net gain of just one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. moments ago we learned that more man 45 million americans in 47 states have already cast ballots in early voting. multiple states recording report high numbers. to georgia now where 1,000 voters have been given a few days to make sure their absentee ballot is counted. what happened. >> their blaming human error. let me take to you cobb county. about a thousand voters didn't receive their absentee because a mistake. the ballots were never packed up and sent. so now the state has extended the deadline for just those impacted ballots to be received until november 14th. that is the same day as georgia's military and overseas ballots are due. but they still need to be post

marked by today. election day, in order to count, anderson. >> georgia could keep us waiting possibly until next month to know the winner of that senate race. >> that is right, anderson. if it comes down to georgia, it could be early december before we know which party controls the senate. state has a rule that if no candidate gets over 50% of the vote, the top two vote getters advance to a runoff election. so that would be held four weeks from today on december 6th. and we're seeing a lot of voters enthusiasm in the peach state. in fact, this is the early vote, this is all before today. 2.5 million pre-election ballots were cast a jump of 21% from 2018. this morning they are giving us updates on the wait times andp they continue to fall. he said they have an average of two-minute wait times right now statewide. he said poll workers are doing a great job. so far so good, anderson.

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this. but the beaches are gone. and now another storm system is twoing to try to pack a three to five foot storm surgeon top of the dunes and sands that are washed out to sea. this could cause significant flooding and even though it is only a category one. florida will get about two to three inches here. it is already still flooding from ian. but back up to the north, this is where the rain is going to stretch out and will do some good. the problem is by the time the storm is here, it is going to be doing 50 or 60 miles per hour. and there are still trees with leaves, not all of the leaves, but still some that could bring down power lines and trees an branches and all of the like. so so many things going on here from storm surge flooding to wind damage, all the way up into new england and of course the flooding that is already going on in some of the rivers like the st. john's river in some spots out of its bank and more rain is coming. >> really helpful, chad, to all of the warnings and to

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>> are you the king maker of the republican party. will your count win? >> i hope so. >> we have great candidates. i think they're great candidates. i really think it is been a brilliant campaign. >> what do you hope the republicans will accomplish. >> well number one is going to be crime and keeping taxes low. we gave the biggest tax cut had history and as you know the democrats won a race that all happened and we want to keep the taxes low and i think you have to close up the border and you have to do it quickly. and our country is being destroyed so that will happen, that will absolutely happen. but you have to fight crime and fight to keep our tacxes low an you have to do something about the border and it has to be done now. >> are you planning on running again. >> are you considering a run again, a big announcement you're

teasing. >> i think tuesday will be a very exciting day for a lot people and i look forward to see you in at mar-a-lago. >> why would you run? >> did you vote for governor desantis? >> it is lost its way and confidence and it has gotten very bad. thank you, all. >> he did not answer when asked if he voted for governor ron desantis, who as you'll remember he called a name, he designated with a nickname a couple of days ago. but he didn't answer that question. >> also in florida, federal election monitors are being told that they are not allowed inside polling places under state law. pushing back on the justice department's plans to monitor some of the states election. ana cabrera has details from the voting desk. what are they saying. >> they say it would be counter-productive and it could undermine confident in the election if the federal monitors were to come into polling places.

florida has not been singled out by the dodge. the justice department has planned to send monitors to 24 states including tloo he counties in florida, including broward and miami-dade and palm beach. and this practice to send federal monitors dates back decades we're told. florida officials will send their own monitors from state to these three jurisdictions to ensure no interference with the voter process, their words. and the state doesn't object to federal monitors in 2020 when then president trump's doj monitored six florida so we're going to continue to keep an eye on this developing situation. but right now those federal monitoring, we understand, are not going inside of those particular polling places. >> okay, sounds like a fluid situation. please keep us posted. thank you for that news. meanwhile, president biden gave a blunt assessment of the next two years in his closing

pitch in maryland last night. he also talked about democrats chances to hold on to congress. >> today we face an inflection point. one of those moments that comes around every three or four generations. we know in our bones that our democracy is at rick and we know this is your moment to defend it. >> i think it is going to be tough but i think we can win the senate and i think the house is -- >> now, according to new cnn reporting, president biden is preparing for a quote, horrible two years if democrats lose the house and the senate. let's bring back our cnn political commentators, we have abdul and s.e. cupp and karen finney. so that was interesting. you heard both of president biden's closing about democracy and you heard donald trump who not running at the he moment, but he gave his closing argument that was about crime, taxes and the border. and abdul, you thought that was

effective? >> it was their closing argument and he was on message. and doctors have swerved around a number of different closing arguments. we want to close on abortion and swerve to democracy and whiffed on the economy because there are so many to talk about. you have the republican party that wants to mention inflation but not address it. whereas if you look at inflation reduction act and the bipartisan infrastructure law and you look at student loan forgiveness, you've got a lot to close on there that is economic and the question is not just who will handle inflation because this is a international question, but the question is who is going to protect you from the economic insecurity of inflation and so that fight a culture war. >> well republicans were much more craven but disciplined in this cycle. in the primaries they did a bunch of nonsense and talked

about abortions bans and book bans an they then pivoted to the crime and economy and were very disciplined i think through the rest of the general electionm really hammering that. they put the crazy to bed for a little bit in hopes that people forgot about it. democrats, to your point, have really not had what seems like a plan. they wanted to ride the roe wave which i get. they wanted to throw democracy in there as looming over all of this. i get that too. they didn't diesel much with the economy and they didn't deal with crime except to say it was a republican invention. i don't think they made the most of this opportunity. and, look, we can't overstate, republicans were probably going to win. right. just historically. but i don't think democrats did the best job at closing the gap. >> i see you looking at me. i knew you would be chomping on the bit. i think our candidates on a case-by-case basis did an excellent job whether it came to

roe v. wade, galvanizing the support and the fact that that actually was such a shock to the system, it made a lost people pay attention in a way they may not have been previously. because we've been saying for a while, this could happen and i just don't think people believed it until they saw it. and then i do think our candidates have done a good job talking about the economy. i think i agree with abdul that there is more we could have talked about in terms of the content. i will say i've worked with the black congressional caucus pac and all of the ads talk about here is what you got for your vote, there is more to do. here is what we still need to get done. because we found that was a very effective formula. and the one point that i would make in a closing argument is that remember stable economies flourish in a stable democracy. and i would make the connection between a good economy, and democracy. >> and charlie aside from the messaging, what will the next two years in america look like if republicans win back the

house and senate. >> there is a lot of stalemate and gridlock. we'll see some crisis. there will be a debt ceiling battle royal. there will be all sorts of difficulties trying to keep the government funded. we'll have usual continuing resolution fights and omnibus battles and i would say the governing center the congress is diminished on both sides of the i'll. there are fewer people to enter agreements and vote for them and i think kifb mccarthy will have his hands full. i remember boner had a group of 40 guys that wanted to take the legs out from her him and in this case to have there will be a lot of firing squads going on. the senate will put the dealing together. >> there's also having lived through the clinton years, yes, i was in kindergarten back then.

you know, where republicans greatly overreached. they were champing at the bit. they got control of congress then they overreached in a way that sort of backlashed and helped president clinton. when you have jim jordan talking about investigating the fbi and when you have the list of investigations, they are champing at the bit to go after hunter biden. i just don't think the american people are going to stand for that because what it's going to reveal is something that i think we know which is for them it's going to be about power and ideology, not about delivering for the american people and i do think that's going to have -- >> to pick up on that it's about to be silly season, honestly, using impeachment as a political tool in ways that is unjustifiable, fighting cultural wars in ways that empower folks like marjorie taylor greene, that's going to be what conditions looks like if republicans take power and worry about what that means for people's trust in democracy.

their understanding of what our government looks like. i'm scared. >> there are a lot of people who are here for that that like the politics of revenge, that comes from the maga wing and the cruelty is the point and are looking forward to exacting a revenge for the perceived, you know, slights that they've suffered. >> frankly, it lights up more of your, you know, dopamine centers than policy does. >> the challenge for kevin mccarthy and the republican leadership is they're going to have to manage expectations and they're going to -- there's going to have to be an adult in the room to tell that extreme maga wing, no, you can't do this. >> why, charlie? why does someone have to tell -- i wish. why does someone have to tell the extreme maga wing no? >> if they don't then you get led by them. >> all the adults in the room have left. had is the problem. folks like you, >> we got something called the united states senate.

you need 60 votes to do a bathroom break over there and you're not going to get -- they want a wild bill out of the house, it's going nowhere. >> i don't think -- >> if it's all about messaging then go have at it. >> i think it is. that's my concern. >> guys, we have to leave it there. off camera at least off the part that we heard former president trump did say that he voted for ron desantis today so we couldn't hear that part but i'm told that's what he said. he said it quietly. thank you all very much. okay, we finally know the winning powerball numbers after a very long delay overnight. is there a winner? we have the latest next. this holiday master your kitchen with wayfair.

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the winning numbers for the record breaking $2 billion powerball drawing are in. they were drawn this morning after an hours' long delay overnight. martin savidge joins me now. is there a winner at this hour? >> let me start with the most important news which is i didn't win. >> okay. >> reporter: beyond that, no, we don't know and many people may be going, how come we don't know and the answer to that is normally when these are drawn, 10:59 eastern time, what happens is people would check their tickets before they go to bed and wake up in the morning and find out, hey, did somebody else win or not? that usually transpires over

several hours but because the drawing actually occurred at 8:57 due to the delay this morning, that's why people are on edge wondering, well, if i didn't win did somebody else win? we just don't have those numbers. as to what delayed everything, it's a security protocol. we still haven't been given the specifics as to who had this problem and what i mean by that the lottery is not a monolithic entity made up of different associations of lotteries from 45 different states plus the district of columbia and on and on, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands so somebody had a problem. was it that they were overwhelmed simply because they sold so many tickets and the interest was so high, we don't know that or was it something else, something more sinister? $2 billion on the line, by the way, the total jackpot actually came out to 2.04 becillion. i hope someone has won it and will do a world of good with it. otherwise, if they haven't we'll do this all again.

>> right, but, martin, as you and i have discussed, it has already rolled over, what, 40 times, 41 times? >> 41, yeah. so -- >> it's just getting -- it's getting frustrating for people playing. >> right, and i've often thought, oh, come on, surely every number combination must be covered now but the truth is, no. you know, they change the lottery numbers a little while ago the odds are 292 million to 1 that you're going to get the right combo, so we may not have a winner. we'll see. i'll let you know as soon as i hear. >> please do. i'm going to check my numbers, though i suspect it will be futile but thank you very much, martin. >> you're welcome. >> cnn's election day coverage continues right now with wolf blitzer and easaaron erin burne. thanks for watching.