. >> yamiche alcindor and brendan buck. to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. i'm kristin welker in for chuck to do. election day is just 30 days away. ronald reagan worried jimmy carter would engineer a last-minute release of u.s. hostages. carter, of course, did not, but the term stuck. there's at least three stories unfolding. first the nuclear threat from russia. then there are rising gas prices, now averaging just under $4 a gallon, which democrats worry there will be a sign to voters that there is a true. >>> but the october surprise of the week, it could determine control of senate. herschel walker, who 's running an antiabortion candidate, spend the week denying allegations by a woman that he paid for her abortion in 2009. she now says he hedged her to end a pregnancy two years later. they ended the relationships when she refused. they have a copy of a check from walker reimbursing her as well as a get well card he allegedly signed. his exp

nbc's allie raffa is covering the walker campaign from atlanta and brendan buck served as top adviserot senators hitting the trail tomorrow. were these visits planned or are they a last-minute scramble in light of the recent allegations? >> reporter: well, lindsey, we did hear from the nrsc shortly after this first wave of allegations surfaced against hershel walker and they said they were still supporting him. and now we're hearing from the walker campaign saying that he plans to rally with senator rick scott as well as arkansas senator tom cotton tomorrow in carlton, georgia, and scott is saying, i'm on hershel's team. the nrsc is putting all hands on deck here. they're redirecting ad funding from another senate race in new hampshire, redirecting it here into georgia. that's because gop lawmakers are fully aware of how critical this race is to winning back control of this currently 50/50 senate. of course with vice president kamala harris having the power of that tie-breaking vote. but there seems to be a divide here among national republicans and state republicans. i had the opport