three days, 19 hours, 59 minutes 55 seconds and counting until the first polls close on election night. i m steve kornacki coming to you from, well, not three in rockefeller center, our usual location instead i m at the historic, royal famous in lexington, kentucky. heart of the sixth congressional district tomorrow it s gonna be the biggest day in horse racing. the breeders cup championship races, featuring some of the best forces from all around the world. but tonight, we re here to talk about the election. the midterms. now just days away. the final by candidates all across the country here building towards tuesday night already. tens of millions of votes when all is said and done, we re anticipating the turnout level for this midterm election is going to shatter all existing records. we could be north of 120 million people who cast votes. the interest level is extremely high. the stakes are high. let s take you through what that looks like again. if you need a r
angeles. congresswoman karen bass running against rick caruso. a life time republican businessman turned democrat. in a special recall election in san francisco, bodine lost his job as the district attorney of that city earlier this evening. in south dakota, nbc news projects that incumbent republican governor christie gnome won. in iowa, senate race michael franken excuse me, different screen i believe from what we re seeing. defeated former congresswoman abby. franken will now look to unseat chuck grassley come november. in montana, ryan zinke is leading in the campaign for congress. a close race we re watching. steve kornacki is at the big board to break it all down. steve, what do you got? it s a waiting game in los angeles. we have been showing you these numbers for a while here. rick caruso leading karen bass. certainly seems like these two are headed towards a runoff if nobody gets 50% tonight the top two finishers face off in november. settle things then. what we
it is the friday night and the last weekend before the midterms and i m going to leave you on an up no. there may be four days to go before official election day, but americans have already been voting in massive numbers. right now 36 million americans have cast a ballot in these midterm races. which is on track to be a record breaking number. they ve been casting those ballots through early, in person voting or by returning ballots to drop boxes. or through the mail. as worried as people are about the country, people are out there doing the right thing, voting. that s great for democracy. undeniably. that s the only way this process works. and stays working. so keep doing it. if you haven t already, go cast that ballot. we ll see you on the other side. now it s time for the kornacki countdown with steve kornacki. e kornacki countdown with steve kornacki.
waiting for to see whether or not he makes that decision? well, i reported earlier this week. there s a divide among trump s advisers whether to wait until after the midterms, the traditional period for announcing for president or perhaps do so as early as this summer. people i talked to described him as bored and frustrated, not really liking playing king maker so much as liking being a candidate. and the possibility in fact, one of the advisers told me they thought he should go after the midterms said he is likely to make an announcement sooner than later. of course the final decision hasn t been made. so it s hard to announce he s running until he makes that decision. but all signs seem to point to him running. all right. i want to thank all of our panelists for joining us this evening. christina, david, jonathan and jonathan. when we come back, we ll get one last update on the primary election results from steve kornacki at the big board. that s next. e kornacki at the big
kyiv. it was really scary. they were bombing us, and i was i didn t belong to myself. i was going crazy. reporter: and every hour, more tearful scenes like this. families being separated, facing uncertain futures. it s terrible, because, because it s so unexpected. and nobody was prepared to do this situation. and we believe that we will see them soon. reporter: the u.n. is out with a new estimate, they say, of the amount of refugees they expect to leave ukraine. they re saying it s going to be somewhere around 4 million. having covered this already for nearly a week, i would not be surprised if that number is even higher. reporting from lviv in western ukraine, chris, back you. tom llamas, thank you for that and for all you ve been doing there. coming up, the results are in for the texas primary. steve kornacki will be here to break it all down. e kornacki wio break it all down.