biden and the far left lunatics are waging war on pennsylvania energy, crushing pennsylvania jobs, gutting pennsylvania communities >> two years ago used that power to make donald trump not only a former president, but you made him a defeated president >> we are just one day to the midterm elections as both sides deliver their closing arguments. a record number of americans have already voted. new drama on the twitter front as elon musk's $8 a month subscription is met with swift pushback and new rules for

imitators. doctors raising even more warnings of the dangers of rsv after the death of a 6-year-old as cold and flu season ramps up. a few major upsets and a few records in week 9 of the nfl >> and tonight the powerball jackpot has ballooned to a figure never seen before the history of lotteries almost $2 billion. and our jose diaz-balart on an amazing way one family's chance find is bringing them all together "early today" starts right now good morning i'm erin o'hearn >> glad you're starting your week with us i'm frances rivera we are less than 24 hours away from crucial election day in america. the latest national polling from nbc news shows deep dissatisfaction about the state of the economy 19% say they are at least somewhat satisfied the economy tops the list of issues voters are most concerned about. 23% said threats to democracy. that is the issue president

biden and former president obama had been focused on in this final stretch. >> i understand that democracy might not seem like a top priority right now, especially when you're worrying about paying the bills but when true democracy goes away, we've seen throughout history, we've seen around the world. when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real consequences >> if y'all show up and vote, democracy is sustained this is not a joke this is not hyperbole. the second time, not a joke. it matters it's in your hands >> and former president trump spent sunday campaigning for marco rubio in florida he says the nation is in decline and called for a, quote, red wave to take over on election day. >> this tuesday, you must go out and vote republican in this

giant red wave, uncle sam. giant red wave that they're all talking about. they're all talking about a red wave let's hope that materializes, and i think it will. look at this crowd look at the enthusiasm >> and the new nbc news polling shows democrats have actually pulled even with republicans over the last month when it comes to voter enthusiasm. >> so we will see if that voter enthusiasm will translate to turnout at the polls tomorrow. let's bring in richard lui to take a look at early voting. richard, always great to see you. we're seeing you now with the latest numbers and how some of them set records >> good morning to you, frances and erin boy, you talk about poll closing. 20 hours and 56 minutes to go. talking about the 2020 election, setting records for early voting at around 70% that is two years ago. here's where we are as of this year as of november 6th. that was yesterday look at the numbers here we're at 41 million.

that sets a record for mailed in or done early voting the previous record was 39 that 39 million was in 2018. but this may not translate to a higher total turnout come tuesday. based on nbc news new survey, the total votes this midterm could land below 2018's by as much as 30 million we'll have to wait and see on that here is who is voting early. 45% are democrats. 35% are republicans. and this number, this republican number is low, driven by the trump era of pushing away early voting so now many republicans vote day of as opposed to their early traditional voting habits. so it is switched in recent years. what this means, last-minute stumps, as we were just looking at by republicans may be more effective to get these voters out, these republicans to polling places in the next 20 hours. okay let's look at gender now for

you. women outperforming men in early voting as of today this was a good sign in the past 53 to 45% women ahead at the moment what we mean here is it was a plus in past elections for democrats, this is related to donald trump's unfavorability with women, given he is not on this year's ballot, does that shift and now this is a plus for rs. we'll have to wait and see also, with higher prices and inflation and the economy, could those pocketbook places mean women lean more right this time around let's turn to early vote by age group. almost half are what you might expect here, 65 or older younger voters remain lower when we look at gen y and z it's typical griffin mid interprets' low youth vote why wasn't this higher given the convenience we've experienced in the last several years of mail-in options that they might

find more convenient we'll see. >> maybe they just want the whole experience given they're new voters maybe they want to go there. we'll find out soon enough richard lui, always great to have you thank you. and elon musk announcing in a series of tweets sunday that any twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying parody will be permanently suspended. he added there will no longer be a warning before suspension and it will be a condition of signing up for twitter blue. this came the same day comedian kathy griffin's account was suspended after she choosed her user name to elon musk she tweeted under his name, mocking musk and urging americans to vote for democrats tuesday in order to preserve abortion rights. >> hours later, griffin appeared to be using her mother, maggie griffin's account, firing off a series of tweets at musk, including one saying "i'm back from the grave to say #free

kathy. after laying off half the company in the wake of musk's acquisition, bloomberg is reporting that musk is reaching out to dozens of those employees and asking them to return. the sources said that some of the workers were laid off by mistake, and others were let go