MTP NOW Nov. 7 — Election Day preview; Political violence; Biden on the trail

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On election eve, new NBC News poll numbers indicate the possibility of a red wave, but high voter interest across the board and record polarization may push the Democrats over the edge. Pat McCrory and Patrick Gaspard join the MTP NOW roundtable to discuss Biden’s political future and Trump’s potential 2024 run. Nevada may be the epicenter of an earthquake for Democrats as the economy takes center stage in the state. LA Times’s National Political Correspondent Melanie Mason on what to watch in California. Pres. Biden is on the campaign trail, but he’s only visiting “where he’s wanted.”

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0:00.0	Don't check the day of the week. It really is Monday. And I am here. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Chuck Todd. It is election eve as we prepare for one of the more consequential and perhaps unpredictable
0:22.2	midterm elections in our lifetime and an uneasy political climate. At stake is control of Congress,
0:27.8	the balance of power in state houses across America, and in a lot of ways the future course
0:32.0	are struggling democracy. So here's where we stand. Just hours away from the first polls opening tomorrow morning.
0:39.6	Democrats control the Senate right now with the upper chamber, evenly divided 50-50 with Vice President
0:44.2	Harris being the tie-breaking vote. On the House side, Democrats right now hold a very slim
0:50.5	majority, as you can see there. Single-digit seats, essentially a five-seat majority
0:55.3	when you count all the vacancies. So Republicans need to just flip one seat to win control
1:00.5	the Senate and five seats to win control the House. For context, Donald Trump lost 40 House seats
1:05.9	in the midterms after his 2016 victory. Barack Obama lost 63 house seats in his first midterm as president.
1:13.1	So the pattern here is not great if you're President Biden.
1:17.0	Democrats are bracing for a tough night. Question is how tough? There could be plenty of surprises in store.
1:21.9	But there really are two big competing forces at play in these midterms, which is why all of the
1:27.2	prognosticators and handicappers
1:29.0	are being a little cautious here. Because if you're on one team, if you're on team fundamentals,
1:34.3	which point to a huge night for Republicans, then that's why you think Republicans are going to do
1:39.6	a clean sweep. If you're on team polarization, well, in this case, it could give Democrats a fighting chance.
1:45.6	And if you look at our final NBC news poll before the midterms conducted in the final days of this campaign,
1:51.0	you can see evidence that the night could play out with the wind blowing in either team fundamentals
1:57.2	direction or team polarization. So let's start with the fundamentals here.
2:03.0	This is why so many folks think, hey, in a pre-Trump environment, this would, everybody
2:08.4	would be saying Republican way.
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