A check, a badge, and a candidate who doesn't want to commit, believe starts right now.

With just over three weeks to go and the countdown to the midterms early voting begins in a

key state that the entire country is watching, Herschel walk over the major new admission

today, and the Republican who wants to be Arizona's next governor indicates she might

not be interested in the actual results.

Plus, Kamikaze terror, key, comes under deadly attack from drones that Ukraine says Russia

is getting from Iran, a pregnant woman among those killed.

Could this change how the U.S. give support to Ukraine?

And stopped on a, quote, mission to kill a serial killer suspect in California arrested

what we're learning today about his past and how the police finally got it.

Hello and welcome to the lead, I'm John Berman, in for Jake Tapper, and we begin this

hour with our politics lead, just 22 days from election day, CNN's latest poll of polls

shows Democrats and Republicans in a dead heat for control of the House of Representatives.

Early voting kicked off today in the critical swing state of Georgia, Democratic Senator

and Reverend Raphael Warnock hit the polls this morning to cast his ballot.

Warnock is attempting to fend off a challenge from a battle Republican nominee and football

legend, Herschel Walker, Walker today acknowledged for the first time that he did indeed send

a $700 check to a woman who alleges the money was provided to reimburse her for an abortion.

Walker denies he sent the check for that purpose.

Walker is also defending his use of an honorary sheriff's badge which he flashed at her

bait on Friday night with Warnock.

voters won't get another chance to see the candidates face off again before election day.

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