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JASON: CONTROL OF CONGRESS IS ON THE LINE THIS MIDTERM. A DECISION THAT COULD COME DOWN TO RACES IN SEVERAL BATTLEGROUND STATES. IN GEORGIA, BOATERS ARE HEADING TO THE POLLS IN RECORD NUMBERS. >> GEORGIA IS BECOMING MORE OF A SWING STATE. IT’S NICE TO SEE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MOVED HERE REALLY BRING THE STATE OF GEORGIA TO THE FOREFRONT. JASON: IN ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION POLL SHOWS U.S. REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE HERSCHEL WALKER AND DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT SENATOR RAPHAEL WARNOCK IN A DEADLOCK. IT’S NOT THE ONLY TIGHT SENATE RACE. THE RACES IN THESE STATES COULD CHANGE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE SENATE. CURRENTLY, THE SENATE IS SPLIT 50/50 BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES, WITH VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS HAVING THE TIE BREAKING VOTE. THIS MEANS REPUBLICANS ONLY NEED TO GAIN ONE SEAT IN THE CHAMBER TO WIN THE MAJORITY. JOINING US NOW TO BREAK DOWN SOME OF THE MIDTERM ELECTION MADNESS IS MARC SANDALOW GOOD TO SEE YOU, SIR. >> GOOD MORNING, JASON. JASON: FOR A LONG TIME WE THOUGHT ABORTION RIGHTS WOULD BE THE BAROMETER HERE, THAT WOULD GAUGE WHAT PEOPLE ARE LEANING. NOW IT SEEMS OVERWHELMINGLY INFLATION IS WHAT IS ON HIS MINDS. >> AND THAT IS BECAUSE INFLATION IS EVER PRESENT, EVERY DAY FOR EVERYBODY. YOU DRIVE PAST THE GAS PRICES AND A BILLBOARD REMINDS EVERYBODY OF HOW BAD IT IS EVERY DAY. WE SIMPLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THESE ISSUES ARE GOING TO DO WE ASK VOTERS IN ECONOMY AND INFLATION ARE THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE. CRIME IS ALSO A HUGE ISSUE. IT FAVORS REPUBLICANS. ABORTION RIGHTS IS HUGE AND AS WE SAW IN A SPECIAL ELECTION IN KANSAS A FEW MONTHS AGO EVEN IN A CONSERVATIVE STATE ABORTION RIGHTS IS A VERY POINTED ISSUE THAT FAVORS DEMOCRATS. JASON: IT SEEMS EVERY RACE HAS SOMETHING GOING ON RON JOHNSON, IS THERE ONE IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT COULD BE A SIGNAL TO YOU OF HOW THINGS COULD GO ELECTION DAY? >> YOU FORGOT ABOUT THE HEISMAN TROPHY WINNING AND WHAT HAPPENS IN GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE CAN HAVE AN IMPACT. PEOPLE FEEL THAT BULLDOG FEVER AND IS VERY POSSIBLE THEY SHOW UP FOR THAT REASON. PEOPLE GET DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENS AND MAYBE THEY DON’T SHOW UP. THAT FEEL THAT — THAT FEELS LIKE A VERY CRASS WAY TO LOOK AT IT BUT IS NOT TO SEE THE FUTURE OF THE U.S. SENATE IN SOME WAY DEPENDS ON HOW LOYAL BULLDOG FANS ARE FEELING THIS MORNING. JASON: I’M CURIOUS HOW DO YOU THINK FACE TIME MATTERS WHEN YOU HAVE THE PRESIDENT SHOW UP OR FORMER PRESIDENT’S OBAMA AND TRUMP OR LIZ CHENEY DO YOU THINK THAT DOES ANYTHING? IT SEEMS THE FOLKS WE ARE TALKING >> TO ARE ALREADY ENERGIZED. VERY LITTLE, VERY LITTLE. THAT’S TRADITIONALLY BEEN TRUE. WE HAVE HAD THESE RACES WHERE FIVE, 10,000 VOTES OUT OF MILLIONS MAKE A DIFFERENCE. SO IT ONLY TAKES A LITTLE BIT ON THE MARGIN. DON’T FORGET SOMETHING LIKE A QUARTER OF THE POPULATION HAS ALREADY VOTED. THE LAST I SAW, THE END OF OCTOBER WE ALREADY HAD ABOUT 28 MILLION AMERICANS WHO HAVE VOTED IN THIS ELECTION. SO NO AMOUNT OF RALLYING OR LOVE OR HATRED FOR ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE IS GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR THOSE VOTERS AT THIS POINT. JASON: WE ARE STILL KIND OF SPLIT ON ELECTION DENY YEARS AND THOSE WHO ARE FULL BELIEVERS. AND THOSE WHO SAY YOU’RE GOING TO STAND IN LINE ALL DAY AND MAKE THE LINES LONG DO YOU THINK WE ARE AT THE POINT WHERE WE CAN EXCEPT NUMBERS COME THE DAY AFTER ELECTION? >> MAYBE NOT THE DAY AFTER BECAUSE THEY’RE GOING TO STAY — STILL BE COUNTING. THE LAW IN PENNSYLVANIA SAYS YOU CANNOT START COUNTING THE BALANCE THE ABSENTEE BALLOTS UNTIL THE POLLS CLOSE ON ELECTION DAY SO THAT MEANS COME THE END OF, 8:00 OR WHATEVER IT IS TUESDAY NIGHT THEY ARE STILL GOING TO BE MILLIONS OF VOTES TO COUNT IN PENNSYLVANIA SO MAYBE WEDNESDAY, MAYBE THURSDAY. CAN WE TRUST THE NUMBERS? WHAT WE KNOW IS WHEN DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENT FOLKS, ELECTED OFFICIALS ON THE COUNTY AND STATE LEVEL ALL LOOK TO WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST ELECTION THERE IS NO DOUBT TO DOUBT THE ACCURACY WHEN YOU HAVE 150 MILLION PEOPLE VOTING THERE WILL BE MISTAKES BUT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A REASON TO BELIEVE THE MISTAKES ARE WORSE NOW THAN THEY WERE BEFORE OR THAT THE RESULTS, THE RESULTS WILL BE CHANGED. THIS IS SORT OF THE DOMAIN IN MANY WAYS OF SORE LOSERS. THERE HAVE BEEN STOLEN ELECTIONS IN HISTORY BUT THOSE ARE EXTRAORDINARILY RARE. JASON: COMING OFF OF JANUARY 6 AND WE HAVE THE BREAK IN AT NANCY PELOSI’S HOUSE, ON BOTH SIDES THE EXTREMES HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE AND CAN THIS CHANGE? CAN IT GO BACK TO QUOTE UNQUOTE NORMAL? >> THERE IS A SORT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. I DROVE FROM MARYLAND TO DENVER A COUPLE OF WEEKENDS AGO AND DRIVING ON I HIGHS — I-70 ON MY WAY TO KANSAS THERE WERE PEOPLE WAVING AMERICAN FLAGS SAYING JOE BIDEN FOR JAIL. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MOTIVATES PEOPLE TO GET OUT I HAVE A FEELING IT WAS GIVING A SIGNAL TO FOLKS LIKE ON THE EAST AND WEST COAST CUTTING THROUGH THEIR STATE BUT HE WILL ARE EXTRAORDINARILY FIRED UP AND THEY ARE FIRED UP IN WAYS THAT DON’T NECESSARILY MAKE SENSE. A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT. A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH UNI IN THE NEWS VIA ALWAYS TO MAKE IT AS EXTREME AS POSSIBLE AND POLITICIANS CAN SAY THIS, I CAN. THERE ARE A LOT OF GULLIBLE FOLKS OUT THERE AND WHAT YOU SEE ON TWITTER, WHAT YOU SEE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, FACEBOOK AND ALL IS VERY OFTEN NOT FACTUAL BUT PEOPLE ASSUME IT IS. JASO

Balance of Power: 2022 U.S. Senate midterm election results

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