President Biden is expected to slam election deniers in a surprise speech tonight.

The lead starts right now.

Six days from the midterms, President Biden has something to say adding a primetime speech

to his calendar, taking on the heightened political climate.

As the election closes in, candidates are rolling out their closing messages.

Plus, the plan to rope in Supreme Court Justice clearance Thomas into an effort to overturn

the 2020 election.

Why a Trump lawyer called Thomas to vote only chance to delay the process?

And North Korea's sinister moves firing off its largest number of short-range missiles

ever in one day.

As CNN also learns, the rogue nation is secretly supplying Russia with weapons.

Hello and welcome to the lead.

I'm Brianna Keeler in for Jake Tapper.

The countdown is on in our politics lead.

Just six days left until the votes are counted and the congressional balance of power decided.

A brand new CNN poll suggests Republican candidates have the momentum.

51% of likely voters say they'll vote for the Republican candidate for Congress.

That's higher than just a couple months ago.

47% say they'll vote for the Democrat, though the spread here is just outside the margin

of error.

Our CNN polling also showed Republican voters are far more motivated than Democrats.

38% of registered Republicans say they're extremely enthusiastic to go vote in this midterm

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