there are winter storms and then there s this, an historic co coast-to-coast arctic blast packing the power of a category 2 hurricane and whether it s blinding snow or subzero temperatures just about everyone out there is feeling it. more than 200 million americans right now under winter warnings or advisories and looking at that map, the more purple you see, the colder it is. and the timing of this is simply terrible. holiday travel where it s even possible is a mess as you would guess. thousands of flights are canceled right now and you can forget about driving in a lot of parts of the country. in new york the snow and flooding are so bad all n nonessential travel is banned right now and in rhode island, massive waves hammering the coast. street flooding there a big concern. and blizzard conditions are also making for some white knuckle driving in ohio and cleveland. it s going to feel like minus 27 all day. and in the south, well, that s where you ll find a lot of ice and
chris eight and is now 9 pm on the east coast. with course are continuing our election the cupboard with eye on several key prior races across country. we have results and kentucky, already, where republican senator rand paul projected winner of his party s primary. november, he will face off against democratic charles booker. who is not a projected winner in the democratic primary race. polls have also closed and north carolina, where the current congressman ted but is the projected winner of the senate republican primary. he defeated the former north carolina governor pat mccrory. all eyes are on the 11th congressional district in that state, madison cawthorn has come under sustained attack from his own party in the wake of multiple scandals. in the last hour, polls also close and pennsylvania, one of the most important swing states this year with some big marquee races. democratic lieutenant governor, john fetterman, is now the projected winner in the democratic senate pri
here is what s interesting, i would say. there is a theme. we have seen several races in which the conservative media, the republican establishment, others folks, even donald trump, have come in and tried to take out a candidate or persuade their voters not to go down a certain road. we saw it with certain attacks on kathy barnette who had a late surge in that race and pennsylvania. she still in it but not ahead as of now. we saw a bit with mastriano. it has followed on deaf ears. donald trump endorsed him over the weekend and, he now appears to be the winner. there s no real, i don t think there s a theory here yet about what does and doesn t work when you re trying to get manga era republican voters to turn against a candidate. but that is a thing that a lot of paid professional politicos are trying to do and it s used for powerful power to have if you re working for mitch mcconnell and want to steer things in your direction. the thing i m looking forward to that i don t
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