Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melburgh, 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 than predictive

polls is what people are already doing. Thirty-two 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

maggis 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

our mainlining violence that go beyond free speech or the 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 kind of calls literally the difference between rhetoric and an unfortunate

turn of phrase and a wider political movement

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

it so you don't live in a democracy anymore. Meanwhile, Trump aides are awaiting news on whether

federal or Georgia prosecutors. Just because looking at one bit of Rudy Giuliani there that ran a little early.

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