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and we are exactly ten, days 19, hours 59 minutes, and 41 seconds, and counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night, right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be everybody tonight, between now and the midterms. and that is after tonight, only one more friday night. between now and the midterms, it s getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go. and not only is it getting closer on the calendar but voting is underway! and all sorts of states, early voting net now nearly 20 million, 18 million votes already been cast in this midterm election. in the 2018 midterm election, also it s a records were shattered when i came to turn out. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be over 120 million when this one is over. numbers that would have been unthinkable years ago. but that is of course where politics are right no ....
republicans need a win in just two of these states to take control of the senate. so democrats are bringing out some of the biggest names on the left to get their voters to the polls. president biden actually is coming back from the sidelines, he s been in and out of the game. he s going join his former boss in pennsylvania or he did yesterday arguably barack obama is still the democrats only star player and later today he will be once true blue state of new york campaigning for governor kathy hochul who you know her big sticking point has been crime should she help solve it, get rid of liberal da or standby on the sidelines much like a biden and jumping in hasn t been with the plan. it s been a hot mess sandwich and in the window of hot mess sandwich. the race is becoming purple. a red hot republican lee zeldin is pulling ahead. president biden mocking hecklers calling them idiots. give me a break. what idiots? socialist. no one ever doubts what i say, sometimes i sa ....
amounts of money time and star power to pennsylvania where republican mehmet oz and democrat john fetterman have been running neck and neck. sandra: former president obama and president biden appearing with fetterman in philadelphia this weekend while former president trump rallied with oz just outside of pittsburgh. we have you covered over the next two with hours with political analysis you will not want to to and cannot miss. john: plus, our team of reporters on the campaign trail following all of the closest races. we re going to start with bryan llenas in bucks county, pennsylvania. what s dr. oz s message to voters there today, bryan? reporter: hey, john, good afternoon. well, dr. oz s message to philadelphia s suburban message here is simple, elect him and and you ll get bipartisanship and balance in washington d.c. elect his opponent, john petterman, and you ll get a radical. bipartisanship was a focus of a round table discussion here in bucks county featuring ....
there s too much political violence. there s too much intimidation. there are more than 300 election deniers on the republican tickets this year for state, federal, and local government. [ boos ] this is really serious stuff. if a republican nominee for governor in the state of wisconsin wins, here s what he said. he said, if i win, my party will never lose another election in wisconsin. he s either a prophet or he plans on doing something about election law. that s president joe biden in california last night. his latest stop in a jam-packed campaign schedule before the final days of the campaign. willie, you ve got these republican candidates that believe in american democracy only if they win. yeah. we ve played the laundry list of them. senator ron johnson was on yesterday talking to our own shaquille brewster inside the state of wisconsin. shaquille asked him simply if you lose will you honor the results? we ll have to see what happens. his words, i don t know ....
life and legacy of the home run king. terrance moore, thank you very much for being on today. that wraps us up for this hour. jose diaz balart picks up msnbc s live coverage right now. and good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz balart. we have breaking news. we got word president biden will be delivering a speech tonight in washington d.c. nbc news chief white house correspondent kristen welker joins me with that. what do we know about this? jose, according to sources familiar with the president s plans tonight, he is going to deliver those remarks at 7:00 p.m. eastern at union station here in the nation s capitol and the focus is going to be democracy. we have heard him say this. he was at a campaign event in florida yesterday where he said democracy is on the ballot. now, in a release from the dnc, they previewed this by saying the president will address the threat of election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and ....