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Actually reduced the number of overall competitive seats or, you know, toss up seats that would normally traditionally be called those this year. but really, if you look at the potential for big republican gains tomorrow night, they're turning a lot of otherwise safe seats into very competitive battle grounds, and just to break it down, if you look at 2020, there were 51 house seats that either president biden or former president trump won by 5 points or less. this year, thanks to gerrymandering, only 34 seats fit those categories. the cook political report says that about 64 seats are either ...

We expect a record midterm turnout. 120 to 125 million when all votes are counted. republicans need -- the smallest number of seats that the out-of-power party since 1932. 35 senate seats are at stake this cycle. republicans, of course, need one democratic seat to flip control of that chamber. there are also 36 governor races, including some key 2024 presidential battle grounds like arizona, florida, georgia, michigan, nevada, pennsylvania and wisconsin. our final poll conducted over the last three days, reps do appear to have the momentum. just how big is the momentum? former barack obama onc...

Oversee the two sprawling federal investigations into first the january 6th insurrection and the mar-a-lago documents. sources tell cnn no decisions have been made but decisions are saying whether they can insulate the doj and they're using the department to target his presidential opponent. even assuming trump declares, how the race will shape up is still an open question. more on that from cnn's jeff zeleny in iowa. >> reporter: to say donald trump is coming back to the campaign trail would suggest he's ever gone away. >> make america great again. >> reporter: he's back in a new way. four ra...

We've got one person yelling and everybody's yelling. we get one tweet that's stupid and everybody's obsessed with the tweet. >> only one tweet that's stupid? there are a lot of stupid tweets. the former president has been crisscrossing the country helping democrats in key battle grounds. >> reporter: fresh off a nevada rally, former president barack obama continues on his west coast defense. he's headlining an arizona rally to boost democratic turnout for mark kelly and katie hobbs. polls show both in tight races with republicans. they want obama sparkle but not the national party's issues. >...

Michigan. a couple of trends here i think are really interesting. the early voting totals are huge. >> yes. >> also at the same time new polling for "the new york times" shows really tight races in key battle grounds for control of the senate. what are these trends telling us? >> reporter: so i think there are a couple of things at play here. there's a really interesting note in this poll about how the majority, there were a lot of people who want republicans to take over the senate but they like the democratic candidate in their state better than the republican. so perhaps you're seeing a d...