Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.

Sunday, October 30th, 2022, the Pennsylvania Midterms Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Citycastast in Washington, D.C.

I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS Prime Time with John Dickerson from John Dickerson's home

city of New York City.

Hello, John.

And I myself am with John Dickerson.

And not with John Dickerson is Emily Bazelon of New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School from New Haven, Connecticut.

But in her heart, she is in Pennsylvania.

Hello.

Today on this bonus episode of the Gab Fest, we'll talk about the critical elections in Pennsylvania and how they could determine control of the Senate.

And also how the election is, is disputed or

not disputed in 2024, the presidential election. Before we get to that, just a reminder that coming up

this Wednesday, we're going to be in Atlanta on November 2nd at 7 p.m. for a live show at Georgia

Tech's first center for the arts. You can get tickets at slate.com slash gabfest live.

We're going to have amazing discussion of what promises to be an incredible race down there,

or several races down there. So join us in Atlanta this Wednesday, November 2nd,

slate.com slash gabfest live. So to make sense of the Pennsylvania election, we are joined by

Cherry Greg. Cherry is a longtime civil rights journalist. She's an anchor at W.HYY, the amazing

Philadelphia NPR station. Cherry, welcome to the Gab Fest. Thank you so much. I'm happy to be here.

You have two races that have captured national attention. I would like you to start just by situating us where those races seem to be, as we're about less than around two weeks out. We're less than two weeks out from the vote. So we have a gubernatorial race and a

Senate race. So how do those look? What's moving in those races? Well, we'll start with the

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