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pivotal midterm elections. in a little over 24 hours results will begin pouring in, with huge implications for the direction of the country and the future of the biden agenda. >> also tonight, two election exclusives. cnn sits down with republican leader kevin mccarthy to preview his plans if the gop wins the house. and speaker nancy pelosi opens up to anderson cooper in her first interview since the brutal hammer attack on her husband paul. >> cnn reporters and kr correspondents are on the campaign trail covering key races, the house and senate and governor's mansions across the cou...

Who want to have that job, come nancy pelosi's retirement, but she is going to have, and i expect from the people i talked to and her operation, she is going to let hakeem jeffries be the leader. i think he might call on her for advice, just like they might do with steny hoyer, remember, this is going to be the most tight and intense governing climate in a long time. it mirrors what democrats had this congress if they get to 222 but republicans are much more ul over the chase, they will need hakeem jeffries. one more point, there is no relationship between jeffries and kevin mccarthy and we wi...

Moderate on these positions, they're going to moderate on gay rights, they're going to moderate on immigration, they're going to start dialing back some stuff that was so alienating during the general election. and we're seeing all sorts of ex-elected officials do that and all sorts of talking heads and columnists and things do that, but elected republicans are not shifting on that subject even in an odd-numbered year. what's holding them back? >> because many of them run in venues that are homogenous in terms of the party participation and the only thing they ever fear -- they never face a ge...

It smartly. how did they respond to that, that criticism? >> well, mii mean, the criticis is the white house -- the most recurring is this is an impossible messaging environment. the message in the campaign which was brilliantly effective, change you can believe in is different and challenging in a governing environment. they're very different. david axelrod oversees the message, which is how you disstill for the american people what a president is going to do, what his vision is and so forth. obviously, it's been a very reactive administration in that they have to react to events, as any admi...