Page 6 - First Midterm News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Ballots in the high-stakes midterm elections taking place just a day from now. all 435 house seats, 35 of the senate seats, and 36 governors' offices are all up for grabs. control of congress at stake, of course. and so is president joe biden's agenda. cnn's john king and dana bash take a closer look at what to expect on tuesday. >> let's start in the house. >> 435 races in all under new lines because of the census two years ago, the redistricting process. as you know better than anybody, they're not all competitive. what we've done, we've identified working with our partners at inside electio...

Elections, 82 competitive seats heading into election day. as you can see, they are coast to coast. another way to look at it, look at this just to understand, democrats are on defense. it's a democratic president's first midterm. it's a tough climate. look at the key of the seats. 57 have democratic incumbents, almost three times as many republicans. there are three new seats here, too. democrats are on their heels defending much more territory in a tough year. that's one way to look at it. now let's bring it up. the big question is who can get to 218, right? in our rankings right now, we hav...

Country are not going well is that automatically hurt democrats? i would push back on that i don't feel good about the way things are in the country not because of the way that of what's happening in congress and what democrats have been able to do with the president but because of misinformation and division and negative campaigning from the other side and lies and the fact that people are, you know, trying to promote chaos and doubt the election results. those kinds of things i think are causing a lot of people to feel unhappy. >> you mentioned the republican trepidation when dobbs was risin...

I'm going try. >> i'm glad we're focusing on these races. these are the three democratic candidates who helped democrats take back the house post 2018 -- >> all wanted the blue wave. they understand the president's first midterm. >> absolutely. it also underscores the importance of -- in most elections, in this one, too, suburban voters in some of these key districts and what these republicans obviously are trying to do is paint these democrats as outside those more moderate educated voters who are going to be essential here in determining the election. so if things don't go democrats' way, we...

Term and won 63 seats in the house. breakable most recent term, it's not where it was for democrats four years ago, when democrats had that blue wave, took back the house and trump's first midterm. but that 3.1 lead, it's pretty comparable to where things were at this point in 2020 -- that was barack obama's second term as president, know it's a late building, late forming wave. it took a lot of people by surprise, really up until election day, but republicans took back the senate in 2014, and they got to their highest level of house seats since 1928. you start to see that movement this week, ...