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Watching "cnn newsroom." the midterm elections are looming large in the u.s. with just one day to go until voters across the country cast their ballots. the vote will determine who will control congress and who will lead more than two dozen states. while all 435 house seats and 35 of the 100 senate seats are up for grabs. while democrats currently hold a slim majority, it remains unclear if they'll be able to hang on to power. in addition, 36 states will be electing governors. candidates in crucial contests have wrapped up their campaigning in the lead-up to tuesday's election in an effort to ...

Than a bad record and i think voters are going to have a choice on this, but it's -- you know, not something that any of us are fooled about when kevin mccarthy talks about his big ambition. >> if you can answer the question specifically related to the debt ceiling, did the president -- does this administration give republicans ammunition when the president says that he supports raising the debt ceiling and having a debt ceiling when his own treasury secretary and other economists and other democrats say they support doing away with it? >> it's a good question and i think, you know, the treasu...

8:00 p.m. right here on cnn. meantime, tomorrow will be americans' last chance to vote. in the first national election day since major inflation took hold and the first since the siege of the u.s. capitol. the political stakes could not be any higher as the world waits to see who will control congress. republicans feel they have the momentum right now to take back the house, but the senate continues to be anyone's guess. 35 seats in the senate are on the ballot, along with all 435 seats in the house. three dozen governor seats also up for grabs. >> there are 27 races for secretaries of state...

Speech, i had three things i was going to push. this would be here, but i would start with the fact that -- >> so do it. >> if i was talking to seniors, i would start with the fact that republicans keep talking about social security and medicare. they keep talking about wanting to mess with your social security and medicare. the guy that runs the senate campaign says he wants to deep six it every five years, and then let congress go back and vote on it. i would start there. i would talk about that and say joe biden understands, it's hard to pay bills but you're going to get the biggest cost of...

Depends on it. my fellow americans, we're facing a defining moment, an inflection point. we must with one overwhelming unified voice speak as a country and say there's no place, no place for voter intimidation or political violence in america. whether it's directed at democrats or republicans. no place period, no place ever. this is also the first election since the events of january 6th when the armed angry mob stormed the u.s. capitol. i wish i could say the assault on our democracy had ended that day, but i cannot. as i stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of offic...