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Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan and Republican challenger JD Vance clashed in their heated second debate ahead of the November midterm elections.

Clashes over abortion rights, jobs, and crime. >> j.d. and his extreme crew, they want to have a national abortion ban. theyre not happy with people having to go to illinois. they want people to get a passport and have to go to canada. >> as i just said, i think its totally reasonable to say you cannot abort a baby, especially for elective reasons after 15 weeks of gestation. no civilized country allows it. >> our recovery has been as good as any state in the country. we have had two record year...

Voters came out to cast their ballots early for the Georgia midterm elections. This year, there have been some changes to the election process.

Leaving his seat in that state. blayne, to you in georgia, which has notched record first day, in noirn voting for a midterm as gubernatorial candidates there brian kemp, stacey abrams sparred in their first debate last night. what are the crucial issues there? stacey abrams who has been on the cusp of a win multiple times now is facing a little bit of a deficit in recent polls. >> reporter: absolutely. she actually addressed that last night, peter. certainly a busy couple days here in georgia. ...

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>> what are you thinking as you see that? >> well, this is stacey abrams entire being, right? this is her issue, her fight, this is her entire rational as a political candidate. so this is the issue that she is going to bring to him every day for the next three weeks. you noted the polling at the top here, this -- stacey abrams is trailing a bit in the race. 2018, she got real close, and that was an overwhelmingly democratic year. this year is probably more of a republican year given that it is ...

Are you considering that? >> look, guys, let me tell all republicans and all people concerned about the election of our country and georgians concerned about the direction our state will go, anyone not focused solely on november 8th, marty and the girls and i are getting up every day to make sure stacey abrams is not going to be our governor or an ex-president and i encourage all to focus on that as well. >> rachel: governor, ill never forget that picture of stacey abrams unmasked with all of th...

Voters who have been keyed in and energized by over turning roe v. wade so that is why they want to put this front and center today. >> and this really transitions into the georgia races really, shannon, perfectly. on two fronts. one, abortion rights was a topic last night between kemp and abrams. but also kind of no time like the present to -- for any candidate to be making their final argument because i was just seeing the early voting, the day first voting numbers are in from georgia and they...

>> the inflation reduction act. >> well, and biden did list them today. you know, infrastructure and the chips act and the gun safety bill. >> bret: the messenger that he is not the best messenger. >> i dont think he is the best messenger but i also think we are about to see something historic here. we saw, you know, a wave in 94. we saw a wave in 2010. we are about to see a wave, i think the real question is going to be whether kevin mccarthy ends up getting 40 seats. this is the kind of thing ...