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All right. voting is under way this morning in texas. ted cruz and democratic challenger beto o'rourke squaring off in an extraordinarily competitive senate race. >> it is one that could prove pivotal when it comes to deciding who takes control of the senate. here is o'rourke in el paso after casting his vote a short time ago this morning. >> are you expecting to win? >> yes. >> what do you base that on? >> i don't have a poll. don't have a pollster. just traveled to every single county in texas. listened to everybody. have so many amazing volunteers we're working with. knocking on millions of...

Focused on in texas, conservative republican ted cruz squaring off against beto o'rourke testing the electorate in texas. in the house we are watching a race that should it go against the incumbent would foretell a bad night, in the congressional district, pete sessions is fighting a challenge from democrat calling already, it is called a tossup. the latest poll has sessions in the lead 48-47 well within the margin of error. the district was won by mitt romney in 2012, clinton won by two points, a bit of a bellwether nationally but back to the texas race the political fundamentals in texas rem...

Economy? the federal reserve. in the "wall street journal" interview, he says fed chair jerome powell is raising interest rates too quickly and he is unhappy because president obama had zero interest rates. the governor of georgia covered a range of topics during the debate last night sparring over criminal justice reform, education, medicaid, and voter suppression. democrat stacy abrams, republican brian kemp, and libertarian ted metts squaring off. they discussed a flag-burning protest when it still had the confederate symbol. we have more. >> reporter: for the first time in this hotly con...

In a "wall street journal" interview he said fed chair jerome powell is raising interest rates too quickly and he is unhappy because president obama had zero interest rates. he said powell, who he chose, looks happy while doing it. raising interest rates. >> he needs a boogieman, and even if it's the fed chairman heading into the midterms, that's what he's going to do. >> i don't think anybody wants the economy obama had when he came in. he had zero interest rates because the economy was off a cliff. >> no one wants to inherit that. >> that's why the interest rate were zero. the candidates f...

Libertarian tedm metz squaring off. they spoke about the burning of the confederate symbol. >> reporter: for the first time in this hotly contested race, georgia's candidates for governor faced off in a debate. and right out of the gate, democrat stacy abrams was asked about the news of the day. her admission that in 1992 she participated in a protest where the old georgia state flag was burned. >> 26 years ago as a college freshman, i along with many georgians including the governor of georgia, were deeply disturbed by the racial divisiveness embedded in the state flag with that symbol. i too...