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what happens there could impact the lives of every american. >> here's what's at stake, the balance of power in the senate and the direction of key issues from the economy, to abortion rights, to rising crime rates. nbc senior washington correspondent hallie jackson has the very latest for us. good morning. >> reporter: hey, hoda. hey, savannah. you have laid out the stakes. it is crunch final for the really important, really close races, with big guns like former presidents in both parties set to hit the campaign trail in the coming days. and turning to georgia, where there is a new abortion allegation in one of the country's most he closely watched matchups. with less than two weeks to go this morning, the future of the senate could hang on two key states with neck and neck races in pennsylvania and georgia, where there is now another twist. republican herschel walker, who has campaigned on an anti-abortion platform, denying a new allegation from a second womawho said walker pressured

her to have an abortion in the early '90s. >> what i'm saying this is a lie. i've said it once, and i've moved in in my campaign. >> reporter: sharing her voice only came forward in a zoom conference arranged by attorney gloria allred. the accuser saying after becoming pregnant in 1993, walker encouraged to have to have an abortion. he encouraged her to go back, driving her to a dallas clinic where she had an abortion. the woman explaining why she is speaking up now.