joining us, welcome, it's good to see you. if you are sticking with us, thank you. it is a battle of the heavy hitters as we are down to the wire in the midterms for three days left, the current president and two former presidents all rally in the next couple hours and what has become perhaps the most closely with each of the election season. we are keeping tabs on that. all of the action on the campaign trail, we heard from joe biden a couple of minutes ago, she will be holding another event at this hour in support of arizona senator mark kelly. we have correspondents there and in battleground states across this country. take a look at that map, covering this historic election with three days left. three of them standing by to talk about the race they are covering. we are also going to be talking in a couple of minutes to democratic congresswoman mikie sherrill, the former halep -- cop to pilot knows about battles, she is a nasty one to keep in pursuit, that conversation, we want to start

things off there with the crucial base is happening right now in arizona for senate and governor as well. early voting underway in arizona. with more than 1.3 million early ballots cast so far. in the senate race, the latest one showing mark kelly holding a slightly three-point edge over republican blake masters. and the race for governor, that is neck and neck. with polls showing a narrow one point edge going to republican kari lake. and van miller is with us from phoenix, van, good to talk to you as always in the last hour. as i mentioned from the first lady, we will hear from her again, alongside mark kelly, at this hour, what is the message today going to be about? >> right, joe biden is going to be here alongside mark kelly. katie hobbs, the democratic governor for -- about two hours north of here this morning, this is a situation here in which we talk

to democrats, you look at the idea that this is a purple state, what did make the stay competitive for democrats in 2018 with pearce and sinema, and 2020 with mark kelly and joe biden, was trumpism here. the role that republicans decided to move forward with here in 2022 is the doubling down of trumpism. that's what led them to go with the idea of kari lake, blake masters, abe hamadeh. those four republican candidates will are going out on a bus tour together beginning this morning over the course of the next 48 hours. that is why you see joe biden with mark kelly this morning. i also want you to hear part of my conversation with katie hobbs. i put this question to her, if she wins on tuesday night, why will it have been so? take a listen to what you said. >> you put a lot of issues to hint that from the economy to abortion, to election denialism. for you, if you win on tuesday night, what is the reason you pulled off a win? >> because we have not taking a single vote for granted.

we are working to build a coalition -- >> this is the state with republican advantage here. when democrats have won, and they won by a narrow margin. what would be the issue that really put you over the top? >> i don't know that there is a single issue, i will say most of the republicans that are publicly crossing the aisle are doing so because of the election denialism. that has been a big focus of this race, not just for governor, but up and down the ballot. i think the real issue there is not just the danger of this election denialism and if the folks hold office and what they could do, but really, stopping progress, and focusing on this as a distraction from the fact they don't have solutions to moving forward. folks that are joining with us want leadership that is going to focus on the issues and bring people together to solve that. >> look, katie hobbs have won statewide before, she won in 2018, the same year that doug doocy what his reelection for governor before confer and touch points. that is why you see republicans, we are down on the border

yesterday, with the entire slate of candidates, they tried to hammer home on immigration, the economy, inflation, and you heard from katie hobbs, suggesting the threat to democracy is a key issue. also to what extent does that question, as well as abortion, galvanize a great number of democrats and independent voters to come out here and help change this election, if they can get a big enough slot of the independent as well as conservative voters to change the dynamic and allow her to win a potential statewide race? >> i'm happy you are talking about democracy. i asked this question to shaq and the past hour. and we heard from ron johnson yesterday who did not really accept the results of the election if of course, he lost the election. i was kind of posing the same question to you about how folks are reacting on the ground to kari lake. i know this is a couple weeks ago, but when you think about the threat to democracy, is this driving folks to the polls? how the reaction to kari lake is not committing to accepting the results of the election, especially if she were to lose.

>> look, kari lake in a primary, the day ahead of her primary suggested that there was evidence of irregularities and fraud, in other words, to this day, she has never ever provided any such evidence for a specific allegation. she ended up winning that primary. this time around, she is not making the same sort of allegations or suggestions that there is anything that could sway this election. frankly, her team feels very good about their positioning right now. at the same time, just last night, she said everybody will be attended to. and when polling is indicating her in the lead here, i don't want to play hypotheticals, but i think if folks can surmise that this is an individual who is still doubling down and calls for the decertification of the 2020 election, i think although it is fair to suggest, the quick to denounce this as a fraudulent election, if in fact she is behind or this is a tight race. we should also note, yasmin, that here in 2022, there is

going to be formal recounts for any race, that is including the governor's race, which it is a results that come with and a half percentage point here. we are looking at the potential this for extending to weeks and months if the race to be affected that close. >> arizona at the state we are potential for. van halen, thank you. three presidents, two former and one on the campaign trail. three days before the elections after separate events. earlier today, president biden is going to reunite with his old boss, former president of barack obama for a rally this evening in philly. on the republican side, we have former president donald trump said to stop for gop candidate in latrobe on the west side of the state, i want to bring in nbc's -- in philadelphia, pennsylvania. give us the messaging here, right? we heard them earlier today separately, they will be together on the stage this evening in philadelphia, pennsylvania. what is going to be the get to

the polls message three days out? >> jasmine, the name of the game for democrats at this point is all about trying to build energy and enthusiasm. there has been a lot of that in philadelphia this week, of course, the philadelphia phillies in the world series, i had a chance to see him with joe biden, when i went to game four with her on wednesday night. maybe it's not the same level here as there was an citizens bank park couple minutes ago. this room is rocking, we are seeing the kind of turnout for an event that is really not one we have seen across the country for democrats. that's what happens when you bring the former president back together with his former running mate, the current president. we will see that in a few hours. there really has been problems generated with the general enthusiasm, it was interesting as we saw president obama earlier in pittsburgh addressing that streak on. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> these are tough times, pennsylvania. but we have been through tougher times before.

the important thing is we don't give into the temptation to give up, to get cynical. the important thing is, we don't turn inward. the important thing is we don't see politics as a zero sum game, where anything goes, and rules are made to be broken, and the only way for us to win, people like us, as for people like them to lose. that kind of vision in our minds, we have to get out of that mindset. even in our darker moments, and there have been darker moments before, we have always had more in common than our politics suggest. >> yasmin, as the national anthem is being saying behind me, i will lower my boys a bit as they refer to the world series, in this race, as the white house issued a statement from president biden, really walking back on some comments he made yesterday, the pull plans are going to be closing from west virginia. they really responded strongly

to that calling the president for that, and it came in, i will tell you, the important -- is not happy to hear the fact that the president both did wind it back, did apologize for things that was important. [inaudible] >> i bet, that could certainly cause an issue when it comes to the campaign instead of pennsylvania. it's important about now. like natalie, good to talk to you again, thank you. with that, i want to bring in representative -- either from the campaign trail, she runs for reelection's democrat in new jersey, at the 11th congressional district. a seat she won back in 2018 blue haven. congresswoman, thank you for joining us on this, we appreciate it, we know you are quite busy. three days out, you have a lot of stumping to do, to say this race is tight is putting it lightly. how do you feel? >> i feel great, the energy on the ground is really impressive, we have over 100 people here,

we have been going to all the counties to make sure we are getting out the vote, getting everybody to the polls. this is probably my fifth or sixth event today, i have not nearly finished, but we are doing everything we can to make sure, and we hold this important district, a district that truly is so instrumental to what we are trying to build across the country. >> let's talk to some of the issues, congresswoman, if you can talking about abortion, one of the top three issues. i know that you and your challenger have had a lot of back and forth on abortion rights in general, here is the latest that we have heard from paul doug rude when it came to abortion rights, who stands by the dobbs decision, also says this. i don't want new jersey to have an alabama law, as in value, south carolina law, and valleys forced upon us, nor would i look to new jersey values and laws and enforce them upon south carolina or alabama. what do you make of this? where do you stand?

>> that is not a pro-choice position, i don't want the rights and freedoms of women to be curtailed by legislatures across the country. i want to have basic constitutional protections provided for women, and i would like these decisions, these intimate, sometimes really complicated and difficult decisions to be made between a woman and her doctor. not by a state legislature. oftentimes people who really know nothing about reproductive health of the complicated problems and choices that women often have to make. >> then we also took charge of economy here, if we can, the number one issue to voters across this country i believe in the state of new jersey, i know you consistently pointed to the legislation at the past by the biden administration along with democrats in congress over the last two years, we are talking the inflation reduction act, infrastructure law, ships act as well. is it landing with voters there

do you feel? >> so, i have a large community, a very diverse community, people acting a cognizant of the fact that so many of these issues, inflation, supply chain are global issues. gas prices. what people want to hear is what are you doing? what is the plan? how are you going to make sure that cost goes down for me? when you are talking about that, the chip zach, reassuring american manufacturing, investing in our supply chains, making sure we are opening up the strategic petroleum reserves to keep gas prices steady in new jersey, ensuring that we have a great path for people throughout the district, making sure we are investing in research and development. the economy of new jersey looking strong. that is incredibly important to people. they know that quite frankly, my opponent, the republican party really has no plan. that basically the plan seems

to be to cut social security, to cut medicare, to cut funding for ukraine, a democratic partner across the world. to not invest in the things that people in my district care about and see as incredibly important for our future. >> only a former military helicopter can catch something like that when it falls down on my television. congresswoman, let's and on this, that is the fight for maintaining the mobocracy in this country as both former president barack obama current president biden were talking consistently about on the campaign trail, and will likely touch on in philadelphia and pennsylvania. now i want to read for you amidst this talk of what congresswoman liz trainee had to say. she said this, i would much rather served with mikey cheryl, and chrissy ulah hand, alyssa slotkin, than marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert. i just mentioned but they love this country, they do their

homework, and there are people that are trying to do the right thing for the country. what do you make of this? and what do you make of that fight you have when it comes to democracy and how it resonates with new jersey voters in your campaign? >> you know, that's so interesting, i was just having this conversation at the dinner table with my 17 year old daughter and my husband's cousin. people who really cared deeply around lgbtq rights, people who care about social issues, gun safety, people who see a future that is different than wyoming and new jersey. we were talking about even though we have so many differences on these policy positions, positions that we care deeply about with liz cheney, we are so incredibly impressed that when it came down to a choice between her own personal power in washington, her own, you know, to invest in herself and what

would be best for her individually versus, what was desperately needed for the country, and to protect our democracy, she chose democracy. all of us at that table, all women, have different generations have been incredibly impressed with her. i have been proud to serve with her. >> congresswoman mikie sherrill, good luck. we will be watching. i'm sure talking in the days to come. by the way, i want to mention we reached out to the representatives opponent pulled a group to join us today, his campaign in fact did not respond. thank you, congresswoman. and that you have a busy day ahead. all right, from new jersey, we will shift to michigan, where the race for governor is underway between the incumbent democratic gretchen wigmore, and -- at the state capitol in lansing. talk to us, julie. three days out, abortion rights, obviously major in michigan on the ballot there. the governor herself, of course,

has been very outspoken about this as well. what are you hearing about how folks are feeling three days out? >> yeah, look, i spoke to governor gretchen this morning, she was wearing a november sweatshirt, she was making abortion a top priority in the final three days until election day. it's not the same down the ticket, right? i spent time this week with all this is lufkin's, as you talked about, while liz cheney was campaigning for the abortion, it really came up in the discussion, you can see michigan is really a split state in some of these areas. gretchen whitmer's opponent jenner personal story when it comes to this issue as did whitmer as well. the two women are now neck and neck. the whitmer's -- her lead over her closed in the past months, as has proposal three. that's it on the ballot on tuesday. they get to decide whether to enshrine for the first time, abortion protections into the constitution. that perhaps is why democrats are at the top of the ticket like gretchen whitmer are campaigning in that more than

some of the other republicans that continued islam them on inflation and crime, as an example. take a listen to a portion of my exclusive conversation with the presidents largest pro-choice activists -- advocacy groups in the country. watch. >> this is the most critical state for abortion access, we have the ballot initiatives, we have the governor's race, a legislature, really all roads to freedom i running through michigan. we have some of the most effective, authentic best candidates fighting this fight. >> there are people who were traditionally anti choice for voting, yes, to reserve the right. the alternative is so extreme and so cruel. >> look, all roads to abortion rights leads through michigan. you heard the president say that to me. that is exactly how they are feeling, we are joining them on more abortion rates related events. again, not all statewide candidates are focusing on this issue as republicans are pumping more and more money

into the state, blanketing the airwaves, even spreading misinformation on what proposal three actually does. yasmin? >> thank you, julie. appreciate it. had this hour, a lot more. live reports from crucial races that could determine the balance of power in washington, d.c.. one current governor trying to hold on to his seat is claiming his has endorsements of big boy -- proportions. >> and on the eight-day, god look down on his planned paradise and said, i need a protector, so god made a fighter. >> wow. up first, new twitter ceo elon musk lays off employees who work to fight misinformation, the impact that that could have just days on election day. we will be right back. n day. we will be right back.

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extreme, but they did it lay off 15% of people who work in trust and safety according to that manager who had that twitter thread last night. 15% is certainly much less than 50%, which was roughly the company wide average, but if you said two weeks ago that the trust and safety team of's twitter would lose one seventh of its staff, that would be alarming to a lot of users and experts. moreover, entire teams were wiped out within this area of twitter. the team that handles curation for trending topics and provides context and facts to topics that are trending, that team is gone. you know, i think he is right, the core function is still there, but that might not be reassuring to a lot of people. >> okay, paint a picture for us. i think a lot of folks have confusion about this. let's say on election day, right? not only do we have this content moderation team, which has kind of been broken apart,

some has been laid off, but you also have the issue of folks that are ultimately going to be verified by paying for it, right? that will be causing a bit of an issue when it comes to sourcing. what could this look like? what are some of the pitfalls that you see coming into the pipeline come tuesday? >> yeah, we are in uncharted territory here. elon musk is running with basically a nationwide experiment in realtime on how they slightly, or different moderation system is going to affect the election on tuesday. the bigger fear is how this new system of verification will be abused. anyone who is a subscriber to twitters system can now get this verified a badge that used to mean that you were a reliable for a source of information [inaudible] people are just speculating.

[inaudible] the danger here goes back to cross line harm. the harassment and other [inaudible] you see on social media, that can result in assaults or real world problems that harm people. >> the story really beginning, and we are going to watch it all play out. david ingraham, as always, we thank you. let's pivot, if we can, from arizona to the campaign trail mark kelly speaking behind him as you see first lady -- >> to allow medicare to negotiate with big pharmaceutical companies, to bring down costs 14 years in arizona. [applause] and we were successful, finally, after decades, medicare will now be able to negotiate. it will cap out of pocket expenses for seniors, $2,000 a year.

it is spread over the year. if you are a senior, you are a senior on insulin, $35 a month. [applause] what did blake masters say about the legislation? >> senior mark kelly on the campaign trail, something three days out, first lady jill biden behind him. also, the uptake governor's race as well. it's happening across the country. the senator they're talking about the health care, specifically when it comes to arizona, ahead of election day. all the way, by the day we will be watching this to see if it makes any news, of course, in the next hour or so. coming back to everybody, we are live from, we will go from arizona to wisconsin on the senate see that remains a toss-up as well. despite incumbent republican ron johnson's efforts. plus, a look at the last-ditch strategy of both sides of the aisle before election day. we will be right back. election day. we will be right back. from santa claus, indiana to snowflake, arizona.

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we want to get back out on the campaign trail. we had to wisconsin, and the race between incumbent senator ron johnson and his democratic challenger, mandela barnes. we are in milwaukee, shaq, good to talk to you once again. three days out. give us an update, where are things at? >> well, things are closed, things are tight, it's all about turnout. you are hearing that on both sides of the aisle, both sides of the campaign, they are hoping people come to early voting locations like the one behind me. you know, this is the last day of early voting in wisconsin. by the way, at the center, the last 30 minutes have been -- i want you to be able to take a look, sorry about that, take a look at what you were seeing inside. they have been saying there is a steady flow of voters here going to cast their ballot in the last hour or so. this is the tight race, you see this in the polls, you see it in the money and fundraising here, and the television ads, that's something we heard from the candidates as they try to

get volunteers for his supporters out to the polls. i want you to listen to what we heard from him in the past hour or so. >> none of us wants to wake up on november 9th and think about what else could we have done. who else could we have talked to? we have been on 54 minutes, if i have one extra door, how can the interaction change the outcome of the election? the last election will be decided and 30,000 votes or fewer. there is a handful of votes or more. you can literally make a difference in this race today. i want to thank you all so much for coming out here. i have my start as a field organizer. >> that was lieutenant governor mandela barnes talking at a canvas kickoff, sorry, i'm a little bit hungry. talking at a canvas kickoff to get some of the volunteers to go out and knock on doors so people can turn up to the polls, not just here to vote early, but also on election day. >> sometimes kick off can be

cook offs, shaq. go get yourself a sandwich, will you? shaq rooster for us in milwaukee, misconceived. thank you, jack. it's democrats putting their start front and center in pennsylvania today. >> the only way to make this economy if there is if we, all of us, fight for it. the only way we save democracy is if we, together, fight for it. it starts with electing people who know you. who see you. who care about you. who stood in your shoes. >> jesse more serves as a speech writer and associate director of public engagement in the obama white house, he is the founder of common thread strategies. jesse, thank you for joining us. how much did you actually had to write for the former president? i have to say, when you watch him on the campaign trail, you can feel the excitement that he has. he is really a superstar on behalf of the democrats, just three days out.

>> he's still got it. that is fun to watch. the team that rates for him, the team that root for him in the white house, that is hard work, but i think they know, you know, they are lobbying up softball for somebody that will knock it out of the park. he is telling a story that needs to be told that is kind of difficult, republicans have an easy story to tell, times are hard, blame the guys who are in charge of this exact moment. democrats have a little bit tougher story to tell, which is basically, you know, we are in charge at this moment, we are working to get things back where they need to be. trust us, don't give the keys back to the people who dug us in this ditch. >> it's a harder argument to make in that you have to be patient, but you also have to trust this as you said, as the former president put it yesterday, it was, we will set

our clocks back tonight, don't set the country back 50 years come tuesday. three days out, we talk about former president barack obama on stage with current president joe biden, right? putting a lot of energy, a lot of money to the state of pennsylvania and the senate race. we saw of course, some money put in major blue areas, normally blue area, as you look at the governor race in new york, pretty close as well between new zealand and kathy o'connell. do you think democrats are focusing their energy where they should be? >> they are. the reality is, midterms are tough on incumbent parties. that's the reality everyone knows, it's a gravity. voters are gucci, but they are not stupid. midterms are tough, but the president and the democrats know what their job is, they basically have two jobs. one is to win the elections based on what is resonating with voters at our local level. you know, when we are in media,

when we are trying to break down races from a broad level, it's easy to paint these big narratives, but a lot of these are going to be decided at a local level. number one, it is to win a locally, and to really focus on that. number q, to keep governing. to do it well, that's what democrats do. for me, it's a party that cares about public service, liberty, even when it's not politically expedient, we will fight election denialism and direct threats to the democracy, even if it is not the exact message that voters need because it's our job. that's what i see. >> let me ask you this, we heard republicans talk about hack about crime, especially in suburban areas, as we see in times and manufacturing the story, but there has been an uptick in crime in certain parts of the country, notably, much of the uptick we have been seeing has been in republican renda states. more conservative-leaning states. all that being said, when you

think about it, do you think democrats are doing enough to kind of combat that message on crime? >> well, short answer is no, actually, it's not that we are denying the premise ball enough. for the beginning of time, at least the beginning of the country, we have weaponized fear to political purposes. the reality is, democrats, progressives, and a lot of conservatives and independents care about how you solve the root of the problems that lead to greater crime. how do you solve the problems with buying into this culture of you are either hard on crime or easy on crime. the reality is they're human beings, wives tied up in his battle, democrats are the one we are talking about actual solutions, including the economy, education and try to give people pathways that don't

lead them down a bad road. >> it's a good point, jesse. the point is, politically, you know better than anybody, that's a hard element to pitch, right? it's an easier easier elevator pitch to go out there and say we will combat crime because we will put police on the streets. we will get guns in the hands of folks that know how to use these guns, we will help you protect yourselves, we will not take away your second amendment right. that is an easier pitch when you are stuck versus what you are explaining and the argument of the democrats should be making. >> i will never argue that democrats have an easy pitch to make, it's just a necessary one. there is a party that is focused on winning the vote by any means necessary, they are focused on winning by any means necessary, even if it means denying reality, and there is a party that is actually focused on solutions. it may be more complicated to tell that story, but it's one

we have to tell. it's our job. it's literally what the democracy depends on. leaders like you did in the eye and tell you what needs to happen to make your life, to make your community better. >> jesse more, we thank you, thank you for joining us. all right, let's turn from there to the gop's closing message. we touched on that a little bit. battleground state specifically around the country. republicans are focusing on two issues. i mentioned one of them, crime. the other one which we have been consistently talking about, the economy especially the job numbers are dropped yesterday. with us now, rick wilson is back, cofounder of the lincoln project. it is great to talk to you three days out. let's pick up on where jessie left off. i want to talk specifically about crime, right? i had the conversation yesterday, i don't remember who it was with, talked about this manufacturing in the rise of crime. yes, crime is up across the

country, people can't necessarily understand why, but it is more so in conservative states than anywhere else, yet voters are looking to, for some reason or another, republicans to right side that issue. by the way republicans don't necessarily have a solution. are they waiting for the ways to come back in their favor? >> of course not. look, let's be clear, this is also a party that is perfectly fine with personality, if it's people storming the capital, if it's perfectly fine with poor personality with donald trump stealing classified documents. it's good with terminology if it's their side doing it. i will give my -- they impart gave the republicans this ability to go out on crime. they did not stop out every democrat talking about defunding the police and tell them, shut your mouth. it was a deadly issue, mark democrats understood how bad it was for them, they hoped it would not happen, and never base a campaign on hope. that's not a strategy.

they needed to punch back on this earlier and harder. they needed them to own -- republicans are fine with cops getting beat up if it's a bunch of qanon mopping terrorists. there are ways to do this, it has become a central issue in the campaign. one that democrats often have a difficult time peeling back to later on, and accusing republicans on what it's really about. every crime campaigns is since nixon has put been about scaring the heck out of suburban white voters by saying scary black people are coming to kill you. not to put too fine a point, that's the baseline strategy you see iterating right now. they are using it to a great extent and that campaigns. >> former president donald trump looked into this as well. both in 2016 and 2022, did not necessarily work for him in 2020. i wanted to play some comments against former new jersey governor to get your reaction, rick. let's listen. >> i see it going to be an ugly

election as far as i am concerned, that kind of people i like to see take office, it will be a rough two years until we can do something about it again. in that timeframe, you know, there's a part of me that says i hope all the crazies do win and everybody has to live with that for a while and see how much there like it. but then i realize, no, i don't want to have to live in that room, i don't want to live leave that for my grandkids. >> what do you make of that? >> our friendly governor is correct. you don't want to live in that world. the idea of teaching republicans a lesson by having a governor of chaos and confidence for tour for years is not something that you want to teach them. that is what they want. they understand, when they were given power, they are not going to do anything about inflation, or crime, or gas prices at all. they will impeach joe biden,

they will have nonstop investigations of hunter biden laptop in all the other weird fantasies they have. the bottom line is, they will do as much damage to this country, they will do damage to this country in a fundamental level where they continue to produce the belief in the faith in the american elections. they produce continue to produce the belief in a faith that we live in a country where there are two major parties that have competing ideologies, not warring factions. it will be an extraordinary dangerous time for the country. because they are setting themselves up to, again, to do everything under the sun except face the issues that they currently face. >> rick, i have two things i want you to weigh in on the folded go. the first is the ad, the new ad from florida governor ron desantis. let's watch it, and then i will hear from you. >> i'm on the eight-day, god locked down on his plan paradise and said, i need to --

need a protector, so god meet a fighter. god said i need someone willing to get up before dawn, kisses family could, via travel thousands of miles for other reasons than to serve the people, to save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, their happiness. god made a fighter. >> if you just trolling us at this point? i mean, what is happening? >> here's my question. on the one hand, you look at that ad and think, this is superior trolling. on the resume, people go crazy. on the other hand, that ad is going to live in infamy forever. because, the real takeaway from that is not god made a fighter, a champion, or whatever, it's god made a d bag, an ass. this guy comes across unbelievably presumptuous. it is really a bit too much

walking on water. i am just a [interpreter] -- -- the lofton took to vanity, i seem to recall that the blessings of the war was not directly -- and ron desantis. >> rick wilson, i'm not southwest i can, point promised me if in fact former president donald trump announces he will run for president yet again in two and a half, we're through big time as is being reported, you will come back on with me so we can talk about that. rick wilson. good luck. we are going to be tuned in the next couple days and see what happens. thank you for joining us ahead of the elections. up next, everybody, we are live from georgia, where one of the most closely watched senate races is deadlocked. really voting there is breaking records. ally voting there is breakin records. records. sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. ♪ hit it!♪ ♪it takes two to make a thing go right♪ ♪it takes two to make it outta sight♪

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we are in atlanta georgia for us with more, talk to, us three days out, right? tight senate race. if you have a governor's release as well, where do things stand? >> yasmin, it is a neck and neck race for the u.s. senate between democrat incumbent raphael warnock and the republican track challenger herschel walker, let's put the polling average on the screen, it's been two tenths of a percentage point with walker down to the final stretch, closing the gap quite dramatically, early voting in the state and yesterday and it has broken records, two and a half million cast their ballot early, that is gordon, the secretary of state's office. it broke down with an advantage of 49% democrats, 42% republicans, 47% are 50 and up, most of them are women, 56% to 44% men. now there are a few things down the stretch looking to election day that will decide which of these candidates ultimately prevails. the first is turn out. how are the red rural areas gone to turn out? republicans needed that. democrats, are they going to be

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