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Commonwealth of pennsylvania. >> of course the democrats are desperate to hold on to the senate given all the indications theyre likely to lose control of the house. pennsylvania is the partys biggest opportunity to pick up a senate seat. retiring senator from the gop, pat toomey, has left an open seat. you have oz vs. fetterman. this has become one of the most important and expensive senate races in the country and is also a seat where weve seen a lot of president joe biden. he was born in scra...

Allentown, pennsylvania. she joins me now. good to see you, athena. now one of those crucial races where you are, john fetterman, he was well ahead. he then had a stroke. dr. oz scored up. he has his own baggage. what are the trend lines youre seeing? >> hi, michael, good to see you too. this is a race that has seen a lot of ups and downs and really interesting developments in the last several months and days. pennsylvania is of course democrats biggest opportunity to pick up a senate seat. sena...

Character. character�*s on the ballot. i think of character, i think ofjohn fetterman. and its endorsement of him, the philadelphia inquirer said, john knows what his values are. i have been saying for a long time, im a pennsylvania boy, born and raised in scranton, but for the longest time, delaware, like many other small places, it did not have a television station, so philadelphia tv how covered the weights had all of pennsylvanias centres. i was known as pennsylvanias third senate. my poin...

Make john fetterman your next united states senator! and josh shapiro your next governor. look, folks, i want to be very cleerk clear, and i mean this sincerely this year. your right to choose is on the ballot. your right to vote is on the ballot. social security and medicare is on the ballot. theres something else on the ballot. character. character is on the ballot. when i think of character i think of john fetterman. you know, in its endorsement of him, "the philadelphia enquirer" said john k...

And really why biden has come back to pennsylvania time time again, this will be the 18th trip to pennsylvania, that is more than every other state if you take out delaware course, maryland where he spends a lot of his weekends. it really is the capstone of what they see as the biden coalition. black voters here in the city of philadelphia, suburban women in the suburbs, where president boma was earlier today. labor, union workers, the joe biden democrats officially prided himself on. and then h...

Here? >> i think we all know why for the president is unpopular. hes not an asset to democrats almost anywhere. they beat new york and maryland. think its a bit of a risk bringing him to pennsylvania. there is still feeling that hes got the hardscrabble blue-collar thing going from scranton. i guess i fetterman will take all the helping get this point in a very, very close race there. most democrats like we really do not want any part of president biden at the moment. and i think we can see what...

Assumptions in polling data that throws everything into question. this reminds me of a conversation i had with a taxi driver in scranton. >> but the place you really feel it is people you talk to. in the fall, people talking about gas prices again. >> marc caputo, lets talk about florida. senator rubio has a lead there. we talked about demings. and governor desantis running for re-election. what do those races look like five days out? >> tough for democrats. where i am right now, miami-dade co...

People get mad at political analysts for relying too much on polls and the answer to that is what would you prefer, anecdotal evidence, like the taxicab driver we talked to in scranton? >> right. >> we want to be empirical and look at the numbers and do a mix of things. we meet voters, read poll, try to present a clear picture. but i dont think anybody who covers to polls these races, the people who tried to fix it, theyre embarrassed by 2016 and 2020, they want to get it right, but the complexi...

0 a great moviemaker. legend is a guy who had no connections to hollywood and he did none at all. who is kevin costner? dreaming? >> only on fox nation. theres a fox news alert. joe from scranton started wil speaking southern today.speaking >> the senator from florida going after medicare and socialm security. i tell you what i know. as i said, something i dont know where yall been? annam? >> yeah. speaking. dont know where hes been. now, sean hannitys right now. oh, yeah. thats a real southern ...

With james since he was eight. translation: i was such a shy kid. i only had one friend butjames helped me become more extroverted and make friends. the pain reverberates out, because of a sense these deaths were avoidable. after days of questioning, police have admitted they failed to notice how quickly the deadly crowd had grown. jean mackenzie, bbc news, seoul. its just over a week to go until the us midterm elections, and all eyes are on pennsylvania. control of the us senate could come down...