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Ahead of #ElectionDay, analysts and reporters predicted a phenomenon of "ticket splitting."
But in one Senate race, an unexpected theme is emerging: Ticket skippers.
Good Sunday morning —
With just two days until #ElectionDay, more than 40 million people have already voted. At stake:
- All 435 House seats
- 35 Senate seats
- 36 governor races
NBC NEWS POLL: In the final poll before the midterm elections, Democrats catch up to GOP on enthusiasm in final NBC News poll before midterms.
But voters remain sour on Biden, the economy and the nation’s direction.
Good Sunday morning —
Targeted violence is not new in American politics: 11 U.S. presidents have been direct targets of assassins.
But since the 2016 election, the number of recorded threats against members of Congress has increased more than ten-fold, to 9,625 last year.
interviews college students across the country to understand what, if anything, they think of Me Too — and how social media has made the fight over feminism so much worse for Gen Z.
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WATCH: Pennsylvania’s Senate debate proves that tight races are “not won or lost on the debate stage."
@chucktodd: “In this political environment, party identity may matter more to voters than anything else. … [They will] back their party's preferred candidate, no matter what.”
(R-Wyo.) addresses Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) political aspirations and comments about slowing aid to Ukraine.
“The notion that Kevin McCarthy is going to make himself the leader of the pro-Putin wing of my party is just a stunning thing.”
ICYMI: Jill Biden talked to NBC News about whether Joe Biden should run again. Mike Memoli reports on the Biden family’s tradition of gathering for a meeting ahead of big decisions.
says the best way for NATO allies to respond to Russia’s annexation of territory is to “support Ukraine.”
“That’s the best way to ensure that [Ukraine can liberate] these territories — they are part of Ukraine.”
ICYMI: Corey Winfield of Safe Streets says the only way to change the mindset around guns and self-defense is to “not to have the guns.”
“I don’t care about any stats … because we’re still dying. Right now, someone is being shot. Right now.”
And he recommended me to Doug Bailey to start healthline, The hotline of healthcare. He thought this cancer with everything that he had. An incredible loss… Both of them and their memories are a blessing as were the roles that they played in my life
... Here's Bob and Doug Bailey (Hotline founder, who we also mourn) appearing on C-SPAN together, November 8, 1995 ... May both of their memories be blessings
EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris calls domestic threats "dangerous" and "harmful."
The VP tells #MTP anti-democratic forces have made the nation weaker at home and undermined our legitimacy overseas.
: “We had an established right for almost half a century. … This court took that constitutional right away. And we are suffering as a nation because of it.”
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Trump helps take the focus away from Biden, particularly when midterms are traditionally a referendum on the sitting president.
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hopes Democrats keep control of Congress come November.
"Whatever the voters choose ... I've always taken the approach, whomever you send me, that's your representative and I respect them. ... I don't play the politics that way."
says the reconciliation deal wasn't abrupt.
"We've been working and negotiating off and on very quietly because I didn't know if it would ever come to fruition. I didn't want to go through the drama."
: "Whatever the voters choose ... I've always taken the approach, whomever you send me, that's your representative and I respect them. ... I don't play the politics that way."
WATCH: Al Gore compares climate inaction to "failing to walk through the door" in Uvalde. #MTP
“Climate deniers are really in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers ... waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred."
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