ryan: yeah, here we are in ohio.ne of the great days, at least once a year we try to get out and do some hunting with our oldest, mason. he's a much better shot than i am and he would gladly admit that publicly, but it's one of the great days. you go up, you watch some football on sunday, get up early, go out hunting on monday. we have to preserve that culture here in ohio. it is really important for us to do that. but you can't watch the school shootings, you can't watch the level of violence that we have here, and not think we need background checks, right? we need to close the gun show loophole. we need to make sure these weapons of war are not readily available, like what happened in the one community where an 18-year-old, just a few days after his 18th birthday, he's able to, like, stumble into a gun shop and get a semi-automatic rifle and 1600 rounds of ammunition. if we train a soldier and they go out, they get 300 rounds. this is not right, and kids are scared to go to school. they're climbing under their des

in ohio.orgia tonight, we have a senate race that has been hit with something we've never seen before. and i wasn't planning to ask about this, but it's been breaking news of the night that the republican candidate herschel walker has been denying that he knows who the woman's, who emerged this week, saying that he paid for her abortion. she has revealed tonight that she is actually the mother of one of his children. and herschel walker has not yet responded to that. but what we are seeing here is a republican candidate who is involved in a story like this, while at the very same time, saying that all abortions in georgia and america, all of them should be banned. >> so think of it this way again -- this is about who the two candidates are in georgia. this is about the two parties are, right now, all across this country. republicans have made clear that if they can get enough power, they will ban abortions all across this country. democrats have made clear that government should not be making

does he haveredibility among the gop base there in ohio?en: there was a lot of frustration, i think, among republicans when trump endorsed vance. itas a bit of a surprise because there have been kind of this as a political put it a hunger games competition among republican candidas to try to get that coveted trump endorsement. and so when trump did endorse vance, he did have a rally not too long after that, and you saw republican candidates come out to that rally and show their support for trump's endorsement of vance. but there were still some far right conservatives in ohio who really didn't like those comments that vance made and really didn't feel that vance was the right candidate for trump to endorse. didn't matter. vance ended up winning. he actually beat the one candidate who had not sought donald trump's endorsement, state senator matt dolan, by only a small margin and then beat the rest of the very trump aligned field. but there are still i think some conservatives who are concerned but have certainly fully embraced the trump endo

and you know, reverend sharpton, you've been to ohio. ohio is a common sense state.a pro-choice state. 82% of all high winds believe we should have some sort of access to abortion. this is an economic issue for our state, it's a freedom issue for women, and it must stop if we want ohio to be a place that people want to come and go, and be a part of. >> let's turn to another issue, the issue of guns. you are the mayor of dayton when a gunman killed nine people within seconds at a bar in a popular entertainment district there. and earlier this year, governor dewine signed a bill allowing ohio winds to carry a concealed handgun without a permit or training. this is a personal issue for you. how would you address gun violence in ohio, if elected? in contrast to your opponent. >> you are right, reverend sharpton. this is a personal issue for me. i stood with the people of dayton the day after that shooting, where nine people were killed and 27 more injured, and 32 seconds. and watch thousands of daytonians come together, and mike dewine. and when mike dewine got up to spe

f >> who is most ohio? i think that ohio is going to wholly reject j. d. vance.n ohio guy. he came in from california, he once -- he's not working hard. even his own staff says he likes to give a light schedule. we have had conservative radio hosts say, they cannot find j. d. vance with a search warrant. ohio have great determination. if there is one value that we have, it's work hard. you may not be the smartest, but if you are out there and you are working hard, you are contributing. and j.d. vance's lazy. he does not work hard. i'm not even sure he wants the job. he just wants to be called senator. i am the most ohio guy here, lawrence. i grew up outside of youngstown, ohio, in the old steel valley. i know what is going on along the ohio river in marietta and portsmouth and limon and ohio. -- my committee has been through it as well. my campaign once earned their vote. we have been traveling throughout there. we have been through all 88 counties. we have small dollar donations from all 88 counties as well. and people understand that i know the best and i'm goi

vance ohio republican senate candidate. good to see. thank you. we will get to the extremist weirdo aspect in a second but i put up polling averages that have you at 47.3 percent, challenger tim ryan 45.3. it's about where other polls have the race tied. how do you think you could make the difference in the next 13 days and pull off victory november 8? well john i feel good about where. we have to remember maris thought joe biden would win ohio in 2020 an polls have us out further than rpc average. we are in a good spot but can't let off the gas. the fundamental issue in this last we have to get back to common sense policies bring down the cost of energy, food and get back to border security and unfortunately tim ryan though he retends to be a moderates has voted with joe biden and nancy pelosi 14u7b percent and put over $60 million in ohio trying to run from his record. that's why i encourage go to j.d. vance.com and help correct that record because as ryan runs away from the carnage and attacks me in a dishonest way we are trying to talk about t

, the ohio party, saying is there are democrats and republican >> but ohio state >> he is the ohio state university. he references george, rob portman who republicans who did very well in ohio but sharon brown a democrat who's done well and he's trying to put himself as ohio first and he needs to do that. why because donald trump won ohio by eight points in 2020 he's going into this knowing -- this is a state that bleeding red, more than bleeding red, heavily red at this point right now, he's got to do soming is different. >> we're seeing this every time, in pennsylvania, too, the notion of an outsider now it's who's pennsylvania between federer man and oz, whole comment today about who looks the part, who plays the part, who is relatable >> you own a mansion in new jersey and a home in florida, and you try to run for office in pennsylvania, nobody really buys that in terms of your authenticity. the same way i don't -- even though the herschal walker i hate to go back, he went to the university of georgia, he was a football star there, he's been living in texas the past how many years an

to folks in ohio, bill. is the way the fentanyl coming into the state of ohio kills a lot of our citizens. we're the third state when it comes to fentanyl deaths. people also want their communities to be safe and want children to be safe from this poison that the cartels are bringing in. we're hammering both those issues. unfortunately joe biden and my democratic opponent tim ryan who votes with biden 100% of the time have been big failures on the border issue and especially when it comes to inflation, economy and jobs. >> dana: i was just reading a new column. she was in ohio talking to voters there and to police departments. it was interesting about to hear if you think that the issue of drugs and fentanyl is directly in the voters' minds connected to the immigration and border crisis. one of the sheriffs she interviewed said there are cartels on the corner and that they are helping try to figure out what the supply need is there and the demand. >> yeah it's crazy if you talk to some of our local sheriffs

no, we had it next year, ohio jam. and the key was senator is between democrat, tim ryan for right republican james event j. d is the conservative outside who will continue. trump's fight to secure our border dance. his opponent, tim ryan, is a congressman and democratic populace. that's why all take on china to bring jobs back, ohio, and fight for a tax cut with more money in your pocket. you want culture wars. i'm not your guy. are these the only one if you win, but i think it to be a close election. stanley greenberg is one of america's leading democratic posters . he argues that the only way to counter authoritarian trends in the country is for democrats to start delivering for working class voters. i mean, it's probably 3 quarters of the population, or people who do not have a 4 year degree. and they have watch decade after decade with declining last, well, last power the same time. and they think the big corporations have been using their money to control government, the rig, the system and they're not wrong. the

do you think, ohio, senate candidate, j. d. vance is trying to win votes by playing to the fears and policy preferences of white christian nationalists. so judy vance is actually unleashed the rhetoric of, of white christian nationalism and, and populist authoritarianism. and is found it quite effective on the one hand, the leads to the ruling class of his country or robbing of wine. and on the other hand, if you dare complain about it, you are a bad person when he was stoke fear and anger and perceptions that good people like us. white christian, ohio republican voters are under attack, were being called races. were being called xena folks because we want to build a wall to keep those people who are trying to replace us out at a bar known for having a mural of trump on the wall. the medic technician at a local chemical plant and asked him who he supported in ohio's race for the us senate, which is now a virtual tie. j diva. why do you like j. d, been the america 1st falsely ended, won't p. as im woke isms got the discovery.

both men trying to convince voters here in ohio that they will be more ohio than the other as much anything else. >> the abortion bite, we played part of it. there was also another part that got really personal where vance looked at ryan and said she only got raped because of policies that tim ryan supports. so trying to blame it all on tim ryan and the democrats for rape when he was answering that question. the debates in ohio, what's the viewership like? do we have an indication and have you talked to people out there who said they were watching and ready to change their vote or still undecided? >> yeah. and by the way, not only was he making it personal with congressman ryan, he was making it about immigration. so you can see that's another hot button issue. specifically for republicans and so he was threading the abortion issue into the immigration debate as well when he brought that up last night. we've talked with voters including man we met yesterday who was undecided and said he recently became a u.s. citizen and was planning on voting based off of how the debate went. we just met a

he goes to ohio.rom your reporting that ohioans are thinking that he's a transplant who's not even particularly going to stay in this state. if he loses does he even stay in ohio? is this all about his political career being there? >> that's certainly the case that democrats like congressman ryan are making. it's so interesting, i watched a lot of video from j.d. vance from back then, from 2017. obviously this is a guy who put the word elegy in the title of his work. he wasn't aiming at the working class. he was aiming at liberals on the coast. even then you see a guy saying i'm not really a republican, i'm not really a democrat. both sides are wrong. i want to find solutions on my own. and it's amazing to watch that transition to now vance says donald trump has all the solutions. the solutions are not complicated. he is this really sort of hard right very, doctrinaire view of the world that's so different than the man he was a few years ago. he seems to have just adopted this persona that with the ai

still, younger voters in ohio told us it is on their minds.unger ohio democrats feelys like abortion rights are on the ballot this fall? >> yeah, definitely. i think that the majority of americans believe that abortion care should be a choice left tot individuals. >> reporter: ryan and vance had sharp exchanges over the issue individuals. >> reporter: ryan and in a debate last night. >> j.d. and his extreme crew, they want to have a national abortion ban. he called rape "inconvenient."iw like, this is not a guy who's ready to protect the rights of women. calle >> as much as you call me an extremist, you're the extremist on this issue. i think it's totally reasonable to say you cannot abort a baby, especially for elective reasons, after 15 weeks of gestation. >> reporter: tomorrow, top trump allies will campaign withp trump vance, illustrating how vance wants the former president's supporters to show up. but n tryel congressman tim ryan m anngretea cb president biden to stump for him, and instead will run his own race. norah. >> o'donnell: robe

the ohio republicans are.nued to pass legislation to make it a little bit harder to register and vote, a little bit harder to cast ballots in ohio. even though they are winning too many times. but that is the importance of man whaley for governor, the importance of tim ryan and a number of these house races. sites, wanes, men kept, or they are contested in ohio because we are here 12 to 4 republican house delegation in ohio because they gamed the system, because they rigged the election systems in the sense of redistricting. we know, that there's no question about that. we fight back but, statewide, we can win this year because voters are catching on to this trump rigged election system, climate deniers, election deniers. >> you ran for president, and a lot of people -- or you've been involved in the presidential race, and a lot of people like you for your moderate views. the senate race in your state is unique. your colleague, senator rob portman, is stepping down. in a statement of january of last year, port

sluggish mail-in returns in ohio are worrying some democrats who fear disappointing turnout in ohio'slarly among black voters who form a core par could sink the campaign of tim ryan and other state democrats. you live this because you live in that kind of community, right, where you are looking to get the urban voter out. you're a cleveland guy. are you worried? >> chris, let me say this. i think what we are seeing is a voter that wants to get out on election day. and the african american community election day is like a holiday. it's where we really see a lot of energy. even sunday before the election. you are going to see a surge. >> what makes you say that? the numbers don't support it. >> right now people have voter fatigue. i'm hearing there is a lot of voter fatigue. and people want to get out. then you have a lot more persuadable voters. right now we see an opportunity to get a lot of the persuadable voters. it shows me we still have an opportunity to go after the persuadable voters in areas that haven't voted traditional democratic before. >> the panel said i'm worried about t

in ohio, in amsterdam, good morning. caller: i have a bone to pick with ohio people. they seem to be that they cannot get out of their own way. they are going to vote for j.d. vance after they heard from stand of -- stand up there and say the only reason i like this guys because he kisses my but. and the republicans are going to reverse everything joe biden did. all the hospitalization, the 35 dollar insulin, they will reverse it. they have also said they will try to impeach joe biden. that will be their whole agenda if they get back into office so i do not know why these poor people in ohio are streaming to run out there and vote for republicans. host: what do you think the likelihood is of tim ryan winning? caller: i think tim ryan is going to win because j.d. vance is nothing but a charlatan that ran off and won his money and now is trying to weasel back in two ohio voters. host: evelyn in fort worth, texas. independent line. good morning. caller: good morning craig how are you? host: i am well. thank you. caller: i just want to say that i am independent and i am l

. >> o'donnell: cbs's robert costa is in the battleground of ohio. russia targets ukraine's power grid. cbs's holly williams reports tonight on the warning of a long winter ahead as a third of ukraine is without power. protecting your family -- the dangers tonight for kids riding the school bus. cbs's meg oliver shows us what one district is doing to prevent close calls like this. and gruesome grizzly attack, how these two college wrestlers broke free from the jaws of a bear while out antler hunting. >> tackled me and chewed me up a little bit. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening and thank you for joining us on this tuesday might. tonight, winter has come early for a majority of the country with more than 235 million americans experiencing below norm temperatures from the upper midwest to the gulf of mexico. october snow has fallen across the midwest including wisconsin, michigan, indiana and dipped as far south as kentucky with some areas seeing as much as a foot and a

>> he's lying to the people of ohio, sean.ou would think that this guy is a conservative republican based on his tv ads. he act like he's tough on china even though he's trying to destroy the american energy sector which is a critical point of fighting against china. he says he supports tough on border policy. he's never seen a piece of legislation, sean. he's just -- it's a crazy campaign strategy to effectively lie about every position you've ever had in order to win a senate seat. and it came out today, sean, that he's helping -- he's being funded -- if you're in ohio, you see a tv commercial. it's being funded by some of the companies that help caused the opioid problem. this is the kind of guy that tim ryan is. and if we want to stop him from getting into the senate, people have got to support me jdvance.com. >> are there going to be debate? >> we're going to have debates. actually, our first debate is on monday n cleveland. he ran away from the debates a little bit. it looks like we finally got some agreement on some deb

ohio senate nominees, j.d. vance and democratic congressman tim ryan went head-to-head last night in their first debate. the two clashed out on everything from the insurrection to abortion rights where vance was questioned about what he has called his 100% pro-life position. >> i've always believed in reasonable exceptions. this is a misrepresentation. let's hear it from me, not from congressman ryan. i absolutely think that 10-year-old girl, the case we heard about, a tragic situation. i have a 9-year-old baby girl at home. i can't understand what that is like for that family. god forbid something like that happen. i said repeatedly on the record that i think that girl should be able to get an abortion if she and her family so choose to do so. >> i am not going to take a backseat to j.d. vance on law enforcement or anything else for that matter. the fact that on january 6th, we had 140 cops, united states capitol police get injured during the insurrection when they tried to overthrow the government. beat them

race and rallied with him. >> i want people in ohio to understand. this is the crowd j.d. is running around with. the election deniers. the extremists. he's running with an extreme -- very, very dangerous. >> i find it interesting how pre-occupied you are with this at a time people can't afford grocery, can't afford to walk down the street safely. let's focus on the significant issues right now, tim. >> reporter: this is a state president trump carried twice by about eight points and polls know shue no clear leader. significant when you look at the amount of money republicans spent on ads. over $90 million to this point and democrats around $30 million. only surpassed in total spending by races in wisconsin, pennsylvania, arizona and georgia. all places where turns out things are going to be close. >> look, tim ryan and allies saying the democrats, look at us. we're here. really close. come help us out. don't make it a money thing if that's what we lose here for in ohio. thank you for showing us what happened last night. >>> this morning the seditiou

host: akron, ohio. good morning. caller: we've got two issues on the bill in ohio to vote on this coming election. one is required course to consider factors like public safety when setting the amount of bail. that is common sense to me. i do not know why, where that went wrong. like you just bail everybody out no matter what. you have got to consider that. you've got to consider, are they going to endanger the public or not. issue number two, prohibit local government from allowing non-electors to vote. that means that american citizens are legal to vote. if they are registered. that is another, sense thing. why would we let just anybody vote? the democrats first bill when they first got into office was hr one, to nationalize voting without any integrity at all. i do not know why somebody would think that it is prejudiced or bigoted or whatever they think it is to require somebody to sell a legal ballot to vote. you've got a identities vote, that do not make sense to me. host: you bring up a couple of issues. guest:

>> it's really interesting, because i think this is a very salient point in ohio.erpiece of his campaign, even putting out ads that angered some people in the asian american community, because of some of the rhetoric he used, saying point-blankly, it's us versus china in some of his advertising. so i think because of the job losses and because of the challenges that the rust belt has felt over the past two decades, longer than that, that's one of the reasons why trade and jobs is such a big issue, particularly in ohio. >> and i think people hopefully are smart enough to realize that the chinese -- going after the chinese government is not going after the chinese people the chinese people have nothing to do with it. it's the chinese government that makes all of the decisions there. so big difference there. ylan mui, thank you very much. >>> all right. so, while the two ohio candidates vance and ryan battle it out over china, your next guest says the election is going to come down to, quote, gas and groceries. joining us now is libby cantrell, head of public policy a

dream land in portsmouth, ohio. and what should they know about new mexico? guest: yes, i -- part of my book deals with the guys who first figured out, the heroin traffickers that figured out this aggressive push to promote a pain pill describing among doctors and doctors buying into that idea. would lead to a vast new heroin market and the guys that i write about in my book figure that had out and saw that first emerging in columbus, ohio, when the areas around there cities around there in cincinnati, wheeling, virginia, and places like that . these guys developed a system by then. they developed in the west coast where all the markets that they broke into eventually had a static number of addicts. so they they're all from the same town and all this one town in particular that play add very important role in this. the town is jalisco and these guys figured out a retail model of selling. near where you live and these guys with the model on the western side of the states and number of addicts were static and they're from the same town and know where each other

but they don't have any plans to campaign for tim ryan in ohio.say about that state or that race? >> well, if you ask tim ryan, it says that democrats are making a mistake by not focusing on a race that tim ryan says is very winnable. and the polls, as you said, tim ryan is within striking distance of scoring a big upset for democrats in a state leaning towards republicans the past few years. it shows that democrats are playing defense and are focusing on other races in areas such as -- states such as arizona, wisconsin, nevada, et cetera. but if you ask democrats here, they think that they have an outside chance of, again, scoring an upset in a state that has been pro trump for a few years now. >> in fact, on the gop side, former president trump will hold a rally in ohio one day before the election. how potentially impactful might that be? >> well, if you look at past races here for both this cycle and last cycle, it has made a big impact. in fact, if you look at j.d. vance, how he won the nomination earlier this year it was because of president

still, younger voters in ohio told us it is on their minds. >> do younger ohio democrats feel like abortiont this fall? >> yeah, definitely. it's -- i think that the majority of americans believe that abortion care should be a choice left to individuals. >> reporter: ryan and vance had sharp exchanges over the issue in a debate last night. >> j.d. and his extreme crew, they want to have a national abortion ban. he called rape "inconvenient." like this is not a guy who's ready to protect the rights of women. >> as much as you call me an extremist, you're the extremist on this issue. i think it's totally reasonable to say you cannot abort a baby, especially for elective reasons, after 15 weeks of gestation. >> reporter: tomorrow, top trump allies will campaign with vance, illustrating how vance wants the former president's supporters to show up. but congressman tim ryan tells cbs news he doesn't want president biden to stump for him and instead will run his own race. norah. >> robert costa, thank you very much. >>> two people were killed today when their twin-engine plane crashed into a car d

i'm for ohio. i don't kiss anyone's ass like him. ohio needs apass kicker, not an ass kisser. you run around with lindsey graham who wants a national abortion ban, you're running around with marjorie taylor greene. this is dangerous group, and we do need to confront it. that's why i'm running to represent the exhausted majority. democrats, republican, and independents. against the extremists. >> while vance was busy kissing up to trump, ryan has been crisscrossing the state selling himself as an average joe willing to work with anyone. >> some people think that they have to agree with their politicians 100% of the time. and i ask these people, are any of you married. we have to stop the stupid fight. >> find some common ground. >> and be americans first. >> now that i can agree with. >> and joining me now is the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from ohio, congressman tim ryan. i'm surprised you're not under arrest for that killing you put on poor jd vance. i actually started to -- you evoked pity at a certain point. i want to ask you about the way you're running. have this t

of ohio, and j.d.ce, his republican challenger, squaring off. we will be airing that debate today on the c-span networks. there have been debates all season long, as we always do in election season. we ask do they matter to you? have they ever changed your mind when it comes to a debate? (202) 748-8000 if you say bates still matter. -- if you say debates still matter. (202) 748-8001 if you think they do not matter. we mentioned the ohio debate. here is one of the exchanges between tim ryan and j.d. vance. [video clip] >> people are tired of this stuff, democrats, republicans, independents -- >> this is -- >> hold on -- >> this is what happens when people accuse me of the great replacement theory. what happens is my own children, my biracial children, get attacked by scumbags online and in person because you are so desperate for political power that you will accuse me, the father of three beautiful biracial babies of engaging in racism. we are sick of it. you can believe in a border without being racist

the "dreamland" title come from a swimming pool in the town of portsmouth, ohio,, southern ohio on the ohio river that once was the kind of thing that help the topic of the everyone saw each other. that's where you grew up. there was his plays were evelyn came together and form community really. obviously it was sustained by jobs, sitting by a good downtown, a main street. but ones that went away, once all that went away and was like this savaging of the societal immune system. look, let's place is very vulnerable. that took place in a rust belt area, this distraction of community, but in wealthier areas, in suburban areas of you on his isolated or suburban community architecture is almost designed for that. technology while it connects us superficially really does a lot to separate us. so these are some of the ares i thought writing about heroin is like to write about who we become as a country, as people come up as that this conversation went ask refused to join in. if you been affected by opioid addiction want to hear your story this morning. please do call in or send us a tweet as

. >> and you are joining us this morning from akron ohio as part of your bus tour. explain what that is paired guest: -- what that is. guest: day three of a 12 day 40 stop bus tour going into key battleground states encouraging christian women to turn out and vote. we are definitely leaning into the key states of ohio, pennsylvania, arizona, nevada and some others along the way. it's been great to talk to people in ohio, very excited about this election and i've heard a lot of support for j.d. vance coming out of the local sphere in ohio. host: what role our christian women playing in 2022? world they play in the last election? guest: christian women are women who love their families, love god, love their country. i don't know for dissimilar from other women. you've probably seen the new york times poll in which we are seeing independent women lean to the right and i think what i would say conservative women are concerned about is the same thing all women are concerned about. right now we are concerned about the issue of inflation, supporting our families. the numbe

i do want to talk about ohio. in person voting begins tomorrow in ohio and you hear leslie is excited to talk. i want to show you this before we get to that. polls there show a tight race for the senate seat. it is up for grabs in a key battleground state. what you hear leslie saying, you need to know how tight this race is. it makes everybody come out fierce. fox power rankings predict this race leaning in favor of republican j.d. vance. he and tim ryan went at it in the debate. one word sums it up that we can use on debate. heated. they hurled insults at each other. >> i won't take lectures on dignity and self-respect kissing up to chuck schumer and begging for a promotion. >> donald trump said to vance all you do is kiss my bleep. >> we're getting close to halloween. tim ryan pretends to be a reasonable moderate. you sought to be ashamed of yourself. >> you went off to california drinking wine and eating cheese. >> harris: mark. >> i get it in the debates when there will be one or a small number of debates in t

tim ryan in ohio has been really successful in making himself mr. ohio, and j.d. vance is, like, silicon valley fraud. i'm quoting donald trump, not, you know -- >> right. right. >> and too close to call. >> yeah. >> look at that. >> a state that donald trump won by eight points. >> jonathan, i will say that ron klain is doing the best with a bad hand because seniors -- i was a representative from florida -- they care about cost of living increases and they want to know about that social security. if they see that going up 8.7%, that's what they're focused on today. >> no question. j.d. vance looking very positive with alex jones. >> wait, wait, wait. >> so did kanye west. >> j.d. vance has been talking possibly about a guy -- >> an interview. >> -- who actually caused people to urinate on the graves of children who were slaughtered at sandy hook, that guy? >> said he was more trustworthy than other news sources. >> that guy. unbelievable. >> those are real things they can point to, but speaking of ron klain, he has said that every morning, will check price of a g

that is not ohio. that is not rob portman, that is not george floyd of itch, that is not share and round. that is not for us. he is running with an extreme element here that is very very dangerous. >> first of all, robert endorsed me of course. i find this interesting how preoccupied you are with us at a time when people can't afford groceries, people can't afford to walk down the street safely. let us focus on the significant issues right now tim. >> people can't afford to walk down the street safely. people can't afford to go to the capitol and be safe in this country. because people are actually attacking them. j.d. vance, not only encourage this in some sense but he actually raise money for the insurrectionist. i think tim ryan made that point today. so i think the idea that the republicans are just hammering away at the crime issue is that democrats like paul begat and has said that democrats have to be more responsive and responded to that. how can you say that you are a party that is against cri

that debate just happening in ohio. that race could determine which of the two parties controls the u.s. senate after this november's election. frankly, that's true of every other senate race this year. the fight for control of the senate appears to be so, so close with only 29 days left to go. 29 days until election day, and this weekend, politico noted, if you just look at the pure math of the polling averages for every senate race right now, the polling averages show democrats and republicans are each poised to end up with 50 seats in the senate. and polling isn't the same as voting, i know. but as far as the polling is concerned, this could not be closer. you can tell how close the two parties think this election will be by looking at how they are choosing to spend their noninfinite resources in these races. democrats, for example, are now racing to put new money into the race for north carolina's open senate seat. the democratic candidate there, sherry beasley, is performing unexpectedly well against her republican

i talk to people in ohio who say, look, the polling is real close there but you know how ohio. the polling results that shows you john already ahead, do you think you're missing some voters? do you think you've done a better job of getting those trump voters? how do you read that? >> you worry about that, mostly. but the real thing is, with johnson, in 2016, we showed him behind early in the year. but we showed him steadily closing the gap until it was just a pure toss-up in the last poll before the election. so there are campaign affects. this, year we saw johnson behind in august. but then tied in september and now ahead. there have been other polls, at four points and five points johnson leads. but there's also been a couple of times right now. people should look at the range of results. >> all right. the movement does sound like it's important. charles franklin, market law poll, we appreciate you taking a few minutes. we will be right back. a few minutes. we will be right back. ♪ it's the most wonderful time of the year ♪ claritin provides non-drowsy symptom relief from ove

ohio.h lowry, nbc news political analyst and editor of national review, jen psaki, former press secretary in the biden white house now with msnbc and charlie cook, nbc news political contributor and the founder of the cook political report. chris jansing, i want to start with you on the ground in ohio. the senate race out there, ryan versus vance, one of those key races when you talk about senate control. ohio a state that went for donald trump twice by big margins, eight points in both elections. democrats trying to pull off a senate victory there that could scramble that map. you're on the ground. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: that eight points is key, so is the fact that there's only one person, sherrod brown, who is in an office in ohio, the only democrat that gets voted on statewide. i wanted to find out what is it in this red state that makes this a horse race, frankly, how did tim ryan get to the point where he's challenging jd vance and i guess if i had to use a word, it'

vance who donald trump said he was an ass kisser from the stage in youngstown ohio and j.d.fter he took his dignity from him, shook his hand and looked up to the crowd and said aren't we having a great time tonight? i've taken my own party and agreed on reducing tariffs on solar pans from china and relaxation of title 42 at the border, the student loan issue. i've taken on former democratic administration on trade on fast track and agreed with trump on issues. i'm here for ohio. if people want an ohioan in the senate, they can help fuel this campaign. i'm not a big money guy but they can go and chip in a few bucks to help fuel this campaign. >> is there -- do you regret any votes? you voted 100% of the time with nancy pelosi. you're saying no, you don't regret anything? >> well, what i'm saying is i get -- let me just say this, jake. running against house leadership is a very, very difficult thing, so the question is do you have the courage to take on your own party? yes. i have. i got the scars to prove it. but i will say, you know, when you are in the majority, you work is

people in ohio know that.n tens of millions, mitch mcconnell, tens of millions. trump's pac, tens of millions, evening it out helps. tim would still be on message saying who he is. he's running an amazing campaign. j.d. vance is just a terrible candidate. if you told mitch mcconnell a year ago you would have to spend tens of millions to bail out ohio, it would have been a nightmare. >> so, are you frustrated by the lack of it? >> i mean, i'll just simply say it. this is a pattern. it's been happening for years. i think it's a mistake. here's an example, though. it's not just in tim ryan's race. we have an ohio supreme court race, where if we were to defeat one republican justice, we would have a majority democratic court that could protect choice and potentially impact three or four congressional races in 24. the current legislature keeps gerrymandering illegally. some of us are begging and pleading to get anything. a national party has to compete anywhere. when you announce you are not going to certain states

>> all right, gio benitez in ohio tonight. thank you. >>> and just in tonight, two verdicts in a california case that made national news. believe it or not, it was 25 years ago college freshman kristin smart vanished, it was 1996. her body was never found. years later, a former classmate and his father faced charges. abc's mona kosar abdi don't with the verdicts both in. >> reporter: it was a case that made national headlines. college student kristin smart disappeared in 1996. her body was never found. tonight, more than 25 years later that jury finding 45-year-old paul flores guilty of her murder, but finding his father, ruben flores, not guilty of helping dispose of her body. the father and son had their cases heard simultaneously by different juries. authorities say flores killed smart in his dorm room during an attempted rape on may 25th, 1996, when the two were classmates at cal poly tech state university. smart, prosecutors said, was highly intoxicated. and flores was the last person seen with her. t trial, they sh evide

have the people of ohio figured it out yet? >> and i think they're slowly waking up to it because we've been really hammering the message. vote hviously voters are smart and tim ryan has run away fromam his record so aggressively, but he wants to let career fit in fa all dealers out of prison. he wants to in cash bail even as he runs commercials saying that he supports law enforcement. and this is one ofw the reasons soan, it's so important for folks to go to jd vance .com and help out, because the way we've been able to get thee. message out to those allcom. important undecided voters in the state of ohio is just to tell the truth. the guy'cord is record is terri, but it's actually one of con the most liberal records of any congressman. he was a rubber stamp for pelosi. he'd be a rubber stamp for chuck schumer. we have to get that message out. and that's why going to jd vance is so important. >> well, then how is it this is the same if he's pro police,s etc.. he called the criminal justice system in america racist and said he

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