beginning to look like we're going to have a nail-biter here because polls have the race tightening

as Republicans gain momentum. But in what could be a good sign for Democrats, early voting

turnout is breaking records, possibly because of those signs outside of polling stations,

democracy closing, everything must go.

The midterms now less than two weeks away.

It was a huge debate night in key races across several states last night, including

Pennsylvania, where Democratic Senate candidate John Federman struggled as he recovers from a stroke

suffered five months ago.

We'll have the highlights from that debate and others.

Plus, concern for House

Democrats in several races, they should have, they believe, locked up by now, including the seat

of their campaign chief will have that new reporting. Good morning. Welcome to morning, Joe.

It is Wednesday, October 26, along with Joe and me. We have former aide to the George W. Bush White House

and State Department's, Elise Jordan, the host of way too early, White House Bureau Chief

at Politico, and author of the bestseller, The Big Lie, Jonathan Lemire, Professor at Princeton

University, Eddie Glaude Jr. and co-founder of Punch Bowl News, Jake Sherman. He's an MSNBC

political contributor. Mika is

under the weather this morning. We hope to see her tomorrow. Joe, so we'll start in Pennsylvania,

just your first impressions of what you saw there from John Federman and Dr. Oz.

Yeah, first of all, Mika being under the weather. Weather actually means she's going to probably

only run seven miles this morning instead of nine.

So her definition of under the weather is a little bit different than ours.

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