Welcome to the beat everyone, I'm Ari Melber and we're five days out from these midterms

and we're tracking the surging vote that I've been telling you about.

More important and predictive polls is what people are already doing.

32 million people have now voted.

This is election week like we told you it would be.

It outpaces the early vote number at the same point in that last midterms of the Trump era

President Biden delivered an address on the high stakes of this very election amidst the

magas support for what he calls semi-fascism as well as something that not all but some

Republicans have done to their great disgrace.

Minimize or joke about an attempted murder at the home of the speaker of the house.

This is the era we are living through.

This is the type of political situation where as I update you about the vote I also have

to tell you as part of the news that the husband of the speaker of the house is out of the

hospital night after the attempted murder now charged at the state and federal level.

Meanwhile more information also emerging about Republican efforts that many people warn

are mainlining violence that go beyond free speech or these zealous political advocacy

that's protected in our nation.

Take this leak from a Trump lawyer in September pushing plans to quote, be ready to do hand-to-hand

combat with the left according to a scoop from ABC News.

It comes at a time when more and more people, as I'm noting, take these kinds of calls

literally, the difference between rhetoric and unfortunate turn of phrase and a wider political

movement that is built on overthrowing elections and using the threat or reality of violence

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