midterms. and in georgia 1 million preelection ballots have been cast. let s bring in cnn s eva mckend live in a polling place in georgia. eva, what are you seeing? reporter: well, a common answer from voters when you ask them why they are turning out early is because they want to take advantage of the opportunity. they don t want work to maybe get in the way on election day. so they are exercising their right early. been record turnout daily since early voting began lasweek. secretary of state brad raffensperger says that this illustrates that georgia has among the best election systems in the country but this democratic opponent still says that voter suppression is alive and well in georgia staking issue with the state s voting law, take a listen. i would put our election system, i would put our georgia election system and our voters up against any other state in the union. we re seeing record turnout. and i anticipate we ll continue to see midterm records broken. j
senate because washington keeps getting it wrong with extreme positions. john fetterman takes everything to an extreme. and those extreme positions hurt us all. all eyes on pennsylvania on a debate in that race that could determine the balance of power in the senate. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. it s great to have you. thank you for having me. john berman is off today. and democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz who you saw there, arguing the issues, also attacking each other in their first and only debate. fetterman addressed his recovery from a recent strokes. he used a closed captioning device for help. the candidates went toe to toe on key issues, like inflation and the economy. i can make the difficult decisions as you do in the operating room as a surgeon. i ll do them cutting our budget as well. he has never met an oil company that he doesn t swipe right about. he has never been able to stand up for working families across pen
issue of pennsylvania democrat john fetterman s recovery from a stroke earlier this year? fetterman suffered the stroke on may 13, the friday before the tuesday may 17 primary election did not reveal it until two days after it occurred. when he did so he didn t share an underlying heart condition that required the implanting of a defibrillator, and we wish him god speed and he s worked hard to win the nomination and it s a shame that his health has become an issue. the polls suggest that fetterman s senate race over dr. mehmet oz has narrowed as the pennsylvania gubernatorial race has widened and while oz won multiple debates, fetterman agreed to only one. it will be october 25th after pennsylvanians have voted and it will last 60 minutes. fetterman was looking to run out the clock, a strategy in the 2020 election when biden stayed in delaware when trump barnstormed the nation and he counted on early balloting, but as oz continues to close the gap, fetterman may regret not ag
marquardt this morning. john berman is off. and democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz facing off in the first and only debate. fetterman insisting he s fit to serve. addressing his stroke right at the beginning, there was concern it would impact his debate performance and it clearly did. used the closed caption device throughout it. but the two candidates were hitting each other on abortion and fracking both of which are major issues in pennsylvania. and then in new york, governor kathy hochul and her republican challenger lee zeldin sparred on crime on their only debate. hochul once led zeldin by double digits in the polls and the race has tightened in the final weeks of the campaign. even before the debates millions of people across the country had already cast their ballots for the midterm elections. early voting now under way in 40 states. turnout set to be on pace for the record set in the 2018
fighting for and they held two congressional seats in bucks county and cumberland county. good point. we split our tickets in this state. salena zito. get back to the qcar and on the road. social media reaction what do we have from the world of twitter, i believe. how is using a closed caption device any different from people not being able to see and using reading glasses. msn parodying fitness is doing a service to all auditory disorder sufferers, kim, i think i was cliftal clear in saying senator pat toomey disagrees. i don t think it s an issue. i don t think it s an issue at all. if it s a cognitive issue then i think it s different and therein lies the distinction that i m drawing as you heard me respond to the person that says what if