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These added. bear in mind what happened two years ago when there were two runoffs here that gavejoe biden a 50 50 senate with a casting vote by the president and the opportunity to do his inflation reduction act, his microchip to act, all of the big bills and those big legislative wins, it is decide how joe biden can do and what he can get donein joe biden can do and what he can get done in the next two years. so a lot of close races to be keeping an eye on, let s now go to christian fraser with a breakdown of what issues are driving voters this election. in recent weeks, republicans say they ve regained momentum as inflation becomes the priority issue. now, the economy grew by 2.6% in the last quarter, but voters aren t feeling it their weekly shop is getting more expensive. despite the fed raising interest rates five times this year, headline inflation is currently at 8.2% in september down from a high of 9.1% injune. ....
Throwing trump into the mix. we re not doing anything. this is the judge. this is the gazillion number of investigations that are going on around trump s illegality. that is not of our doing. that is of trump s doing. that s number one. the second thing is, if you go out on the campaign trail and you look at what the democratic candidates are talking about, they are not talking about trump. they are talking about these issues. but what i do think after this does and, frankly, i think it is baked into both sides of whether you re a trump supporter, none of this is going to matter. but where i do think it matters is there were several polls in the last month that said threats to democracy were a priority issue for these voters. so the more that trump is in the headlines, the more that we see he s being deposed, the more that we see a judge talking about how he knew this was fraud, we all know he knew it was fraud, but the fact that a judge says it is going to bring to mind and have top o ....
Throwing trump into the mix. we re not doing anything. this is the judge. this is the gazillion number of investigations that are going on around trump s illegality. that is not our doing. that s trump s doing. that s number one. the second thing is if you go out on the campaign trail you look at the democratic candidates are talking about are not talking about trump. they re trying about these issues. but what i do think all of this does, and frankly i think it s baked into both sides of whether you re a trump supporter, none of this is gonna matter but where i do think this matters is will there are several polls that say threats to democracy were a priority issue for these voters. so the more trump is in the headlines, the more we see he is being deposed, the more we see a judge talking about how he knew this was, fraud we all knew he knew it was, fraud but the fact that the judge says it is going to bring to mind and ....
Georgia, arizona, phoenix suburbs. they re saying there s a lot of johnson counties around the country that used to be republican and have trended and accelerated in the trump era against the democratic party. they re going to say i m going to vote for the democrats because of this. i m not voting for the republicans because of the issue. i think what we see in kansas is this issuist itself, which abortion is on the ballot, the results speak for themselves about where the politics of that are now. what the democrats are trying to pull in november, it s a little more complicated. it s a bank shot. taking the issue of abortion and getting voters to see it as a democrat/republican issue and try to make it their top priority issue. you know, the economy with any other concerns voters might ....
And if we can t, why not just put it up for a vote and show americans which side you are on. reporter: the shooting came one day after the president urged local officials to spend $10 billion of that american rescue plan money on public safety. taking action today is going to save lives tomorrow. reporter: a recent cbs news poll found 59% of americans say crime should be a higher priority issue and 61% disapprove of how the president is handling it. now the brady campaign against gun violence issued a statement urging all leaders from local to federal government to use this tragedy as an opportunity to act. jericka. duncan: all right, christina ruffini for us at the white house, thank you. now to the cbs news broadcast center in new york and lilia luciano with more on today s news, lilia. luciano: jericka, thank you for your work on the ground. tonight russia is confronting the prospect of a significant expansion of nato on its borders ....