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Georgians go to the polls in todays decisive final chapter of the 2022 midterms. im wolf blitzer. >> im erin burnett. this is the cnn special coverage of the election night in america continued. >> just three hours of voting left for most of the state. warnock is defending the seat against herschel walker. the stakes for democrats enormous. full control of committees and more power to conduct investigations. >> the challenge for republicans is getting voters to the polls overcoming a traditional...

Democrats the majority. >> it would take away the leverage of some moderate democrats like joe manchin, kyrsten sinema in fights of legislation. cnn has reporters, diane gallagher is atlanta in, amara walker is in cobb county. diane, well start with you, the final messages were hearing from the candidates, what are they? >> reporter: you know, victor, both campaigns in the final-final hour have the exact same message, and that is, get out and vote and do it now. theyve spent the past couple days...

Million georgians voted earlier by mail. 1.9 million you see the numbers here. thats incredible numbers. record-breaking numbers for a midterm runoff and both parties poured an incredible amount of money and resources into the race. while democrats will control the senate regardless of the outcome, a warnock win gives more leverage. kyrsten sinema, joe manchin, that whole thing changes and includes then that they can get nominees confirmed faster and the party a one-seat advantage in the congres...

Its the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. im alisyn camerota. >> im victor black wellington arch. this is their last chance to vote. as of one hour ago more than 800,000 people voted. so far thats from the secretary of states office. republican herschel walker is challenging incumbent raphael warnock and democrats are hoping that warnock can hold on to the seat and give them a two-seat majority in the senate. >> even one extra seat would give them significant governing advantaging and also take...

Well, it can make a difference if, for example, if its done in a timely way. catherine gunn in england. actually... weve interviewed her on hardtalk. really? she took a decision to leak one crucial piece of information about the run up to the invasion of iraq. she revealed secret information that there were diplomatic efforts to put leverage on un diplomats to support the war. i dont know if you call it diplomatic information to tap their home phones. thats what she revealed. and tapped their of...

When they re—elected him. well. do you know what it was? well, yeah, but the point is, it doesnt really matter. the point is, nixon, despite four years of vietnam policy, which was failed, he got re—elected. thats my point. so i guess what im saying is, as a whistle—blower and as somebody who latter day whistle—blowers like assange and chelsea manning and edward snowden always refer to what you did as a great example of why whistle—blowing matters. but you could actually conclude that ...

Virginia. yes, west virginia. and its all up to the voters of georgia. yes, georgia. you can see where im going with this. for the past two years, anything the democrats have wanted to do has needed the bye-in of west virginia -- buy-in of west virginia senator joe plan chin, -- manchin, it made big democratic promises like the child tax credit, paid family leave were stripped out of bills and efforts to to address climate change were adjusted allowing for concession for the fossil fuel industry...

Humiliating things in the service of their addiction. >> john, i want to move on to the fight that kevin mccarthy is having but give you an opportunity to respond. >> look, nobody criticized joe biden in the democratic party when he was fighting for the crime bill that many considered racist. as far as hunter biden -- >> hes come out and talked about the mistakes he made and his new thoughts on that. >> no one on the republican side hears about unhunter biden but >> do you care about the constit...

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