eric ericson was putting a voice to what many republican officials are saying privately.r out. he's survived other scandals so far. he's survived a number of issues that would have ended campaigns for so many other candidates from georgia. even starting with lying about graduating from the university of georgia. which he never did but said on the campaign trail, or lying about serving in law enforcement. all those issues might have brought down any other candidate. they are not counting him out. he needs a very strong defense. it's unlikely we're going to see're statewide candidates rally with herschel walker standby him. they might not say anything directly about the candidacy right now. >> reporter for the atlanta journal constitution, greg, thank you for calling us at the last minute as we're dealing with this breaking political news. we'll have much more on this tomorrow. we'll see how this plays out. again, the son of herschel walker releasing a damning video about his father's campaign all being based on lies. that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks

eric son are considered a toss up now. joining me now are the two candidates, john duarte and mike ericson, and mike, i'll start with you. the democrat and why is 2022 so different. >> there's no republican governor in 40 areas and we have a brand new congressional seat outside part land down to the state -- portland to the state capitol and oregonens are tired of the rapid rising crime in the city you see in the news and over and over from everybody in the district, enough is enough. voters want their state book and they're fed up with the democratic policies and liberal antipolice policies and people of the state had enough and that's what you're seeing in the polls and all of what's going on in the state. >> laura: john, your opponent adam gray speaking of democrat policies responded when he was asked about newsom's future ban of gas powered cars. check this out. >> we ought to be a lot more focused on are the near term steps to have additional new energy and electric cars in the market and how do we get more 234 the market and more with tax credits and other decisions and that's the better way to do it. >> laura: joh

eric son. you know how much crime is a part of that story for last two years. if the story that we're hearing out of p port land have an affect ericson have a shot, that will be something that concluding deep into the night come election night. one more? just, give you a quick thing. i'm watching where obama is going over week, and obama went to georgia. there is a reason you go to fulton county whole state of georgia was determined by 7 thousand votes, you have to go where the voters, you know that. this would be our senate what if. what we have done here, we tried to form a baseline for where we think that race stands in the beginning of the night, republicans at 49, democrats at 4 certain, 47. on the map 4 that are in yellow, we believe toss ups into election night, it could change, maybe wisconsin is an outlier or ohio or north carolina, i understand the argument you can make why they should be considered to be yellow, but, if republicans win all 4 of those states -- sorry, excuse me, trey, if democrats were to win all 4 of those states they would maintain the majority, for the sake of this argument say republicans have a good ni