High economic dissatisfaction among U.S. voters could mean problems for Democrats - CNBC

Former President Donald Trump said helium volition marque a "big announcement" connected Nov. 15 astatine his Mar-a-Lago resort, wherever helium is wide expected to motorboat his 2024 statesmanlike campaign.

"I'm going to beryllium making a precise large announcement connected Tuesday, Nov. 15 astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Florida," Trump said astatine a Save America rally successful Vandalia, Ohio connected the eve of the midterm elections.

Trump is anxious to jumpstart his 3rd tally for president, and staffing conversations person ramped up importantly successful caller weeks. An aboriginal database of potential apical aides has already trickled out.

Trump's enactment astir Nov. 15 came adjacent the extremity of a much than 90 infinitesimal speech, during which helium railed against Democrats, judges who person ruled unfavorably successful cases against his family, tally down U.S. airports and supra all, President Joe Biden.

A Trump spokesperson did not respond to a petition from CNBC to corroborate that his Nov. 15 lawsuit volition beryllium a run launch.

As Trump inches person to formally kicking disconnected the 2024 statesmanlike race, polls amusement helium enjoys unparalleled enactment among Republican voters.

Trump would besides participate the contention with much than $60 cardinal successful currency held by his enactment PAC, Save America, and a prodigious tiny dollar fundraising cognition that vacuums up online donations from the Republican base.

— Christina Wilkie

Officials from Arizona's astir populous county, which volition assistance to determine immoderate of the astir intimately watched midterm predetermination races successful the state connected Tuesday, aimed to dispel heightened concerns astir misinformation and Election Day security.

The region present has the country's eyes connected it arsenic it faces accrued threats to predetermination workers, elector intimidation astatine drop boxes and heightened concerns astir misleading accusation surrounding the midterms. Maricopa volition assistance to determine power of the U.S. Senate, arsenic Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly tries to support his spot against Republican challenger Blake Masters successful the enclosure divided evenly by party.

The federation has besides watched Arizona's contention for governor, wherever Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs faces Republican Kari Lake, a starring proponent of Trump's mendacious predetermination fraud claims.

— Rocio Fabbro

On a time that volition person monolithic repercussions for President Joe Biden's legislative docket and his presidency, the president, for now, is going to beryllium laying low.

An archetypal White House docket shows that Biden volition not marque immoderate nationalist appearances connected Tuesday. There is thing connected his calendar but a regular nationalist information briefing astatine 9:30 a.m. ET.

Presidents typically bash not clasp events connected Election Day, truthful arsenic not to gully attraction oregon crowds distant from candidates.

But connected the time of erstwhile President Barack Obama's archetypal midterm predetermination connected Nov. 2, 2010, the president's public docket included 4 vigor interviews and a gathering with the caput of Defense astatine the White House, successful summation to his regular economical and nationalist information briefings.

The White House said Monday that Biden would apt hold until Wednesday to remark connected immoderate results from the election. Democrats are expected to suffer the House majority, portion the contention for Senate power is simply a toss-up, based connected the latest polling.

-- Christina Wilkie

Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the U.S. system astatine levels not seen up of a midterm predetermination since 2010, according to a caller NBC News canvass released implicit the weekend.

The latest survey recovered that 81% of respondents were either somewhat dissatisfied oregon precise dissatisfied with the authorities of the economy, portion lone 19% were satisfied.

The gloomy economical outlook could person large repercussions for Democrats connected Election Day. The past clip Americans were this unhappy with the system up of an predetermination was 2010, erstwhile 84% of voters told pollsters they were dissatisfied with the U.S. economy.

That year, Republicans picked up 63 seats successful the House, the biggest azygous enactment flip since the precocious 1940s.

Going into Election Day, the nonpartisan Cook Political study has rated 36 House seats arsenic flip ups, 26 of them held by Democrats and lone 10 by Republicans. Another 15 seats held by Democrats successful the House are rated arsenic competitive, but leaning towards the Democrat.

— Christina Wilkie

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican who is not up for reelection this year, was pegged with a tin of brew portion participating successful a World Series triumph parade for the Houston Astros, constabulary said.

An alleged video of the incidental shows Cruz, lasting successful the motortruck furniture of a subject vehicle, rise his limb and effort to duck retired of the mode arsenic a tin sails toward him from disconnected screen. The tin appears to bounce disconnected the senator's body, astatine which constituent different antheral successful the motortruck appears to constituent instrumentality enforcement successful the absorption from which the tin was thrown.

Before the incident, videos amusement Cruz being loudly booed by crowds lining the thoroughfare for the Astros' triumph parade — an echo from weeks earlier, erstwhile Cruz was heckled and booed by shot fans astatine Yankee Stadium.

Houston Police said Monday day that they arrested a 33-year-old antheral who "threw a brew tin astatine U.S. Senator Ted Cruz arsenic the Senator was connected a interval successful the 2400 artifact of Smith St."

"The brew tin struck the Senator successful the chest/neck area. The Senator did not necessitate aesculapian attention," the constabulary said connected Twitter.

The alleged can-thrower was taken to jailhouse and is charged with assault, according to the department's tweets.

— Kevin Breuninger

Oregon voters volition find Tuesday whether to walk stricter weapon laws — the lone ballot measurement nationwide that addresses weapon violence. 

The gun-control initiative, which critics accidental is the nation's "most extreme," requires radical to get permits and implicit information grooming to get a firearm. It besides bans high-capacity magazines and calls for State Police to make and support a searchable database of weapon ownership.

Supporters, including shooting survivors successful the authorities and crossed the country, say Oregon Measure 114 is indispensable to trim weapon injuries and deaths.

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— NBC News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned that her hubby Paul Pelosi had been brutally attacked past week erstwhile Capitol Police officers banged connected her doorway astatine 5 a.m., she revealed successful a caller interrogation with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

"I look up, I spot it's 5, they indispensable beryllium astatine the incorrect apartment," Pelosi recalled thinking. But the knocks continued, "bang, bang, bang, bang, bang connected the door," she said.

"So I tally to the door, and I'm precise scared. I spot the Capitol Police and they say, 'We person to travel successful to speech to you,'" Pelosi recounted.

"And I'm reasoning my children, my grandchildren. I ne'er thought it would beryllium Paul because, you know, I knew helium wouldn't beryllium retired and about, shall we say. And truthful they came in. At that time, we didn't adjacent cognize wherever helium was," she said.

Paul Pelosi was attacked connected Oct. 28 by an intruder wielding a hammer who had breached into the couple's San Francisco home. Police arrived astatine 2:31 a.m., and Paul Pelosi was transported to a infirmary and underwent exigency country to repair a skull fracture.

U.S. Capitol Police archetypal learned of the onslaught erstwhile they noticed squad cars and sirens connected a unrecorded provender of Pelosi's location connected monitors successful their Washington headquarters.

-- Christina Wilkie

Some of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's apical donors are privately panicking astir Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin's caller surge successful the polls up of Tuesday's midterms, according to radical acquainted with the matter.

The Republican, endorsed by erstwhile President Donald Trump, has trailed Hochul by lone azygous digits successful immoderate caller polls — prompting the governor's firm backers to propulsion her to alteration tactics, according to these people.

At the commencement of October, Hochul led Zeldin by an mean of 14 percent points, according to information from FiveThirtyEight, which aggregates information from respective polls. RealClearPolitics, which looked astatine respective polls taken during the 2nd fractional of October, showed Zeldin closing successful connected Hochul, who was up by an mean of 6 percent points. A Quinnipiac poll from mid-October showed an adjacent smaller pb for Hochul, who was up of Zeldin by conscionable 4 percent points astatine the time.

Business leaders person encouraged Hochul successful backstage meetings, including 1 with apical existent property executives successful precocious October successful New York City, to pivot distant from focusing connected the effects of the Supreme Court's determination to overturn Roe v. Wade and different societal issues. They, instead, person advised her to amusement however she's going to combat ostentation and a caller emergence successful transgression successful the city, those acquainted with the conversations explained.

— Brian Schwartz

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the brutal location penetration and onslaught connected her hubby Paul Pelosi by a conspiracy theorist volition impact her determination connected whether to retire.

The formidable California Democrat has led the Democratic Party successful the House for astir 20 years. But with Republicans expected to triumph a bulk of seats connected Tuesday, determination had been wide speculation adjacent earlier the onslaught that Pelosi, 82, would determine to discontinue earlier handing implicit the gavel to the existent Republican Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy.

In her archetypal large interrogation since the Oct. 28 attack, Pelosi would not corroborate whether she's made a determination connected her imaginable retirement. But she told CNN's Anderson Cooper that her "decision volition beryllium affected astir what happened the past week oregon two."

"Will your determination beryllium impacted by the onslaught successful immoderate way?" Cooper asked.

"Yes," Pelosi replied.

"It will?" Cooper reiterated.

"Yes," Pelosi repeated.

— Christina Wilkie

The Justice Department announced it volition monitor polls crossed the country to guarantee compliance with national voting rights laws — lone a time earlier the midterm elections that could realign the bulk enactment successful Congress.

The department's Civil Rights Division selected 64 jurisdictions successful 24 states, including Alaska, Florida, Georgia and Nevada, for oversight successful some the wide predetermination and aboriginal voting. The part has routinely monitored elections successful the field, starting with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Personnel from the U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Office of Personnel Management volition assistance the DOJ Civil Rights Division successful monitoring efforts and maintaining interaction with authorities and section predetermination officials.

Poll monitoring is portion of the division's ngo to support the civilian close to ballot nether the Voting Rights Act, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, the Civil Rights Acts and the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to the DOJ. 

— Chelsey Cox

The White House ensured the information of voters connected Election Day, saying it hasn't heard of immoderate "specific credible threats."

"Law enforcement has briefed america that determination are nary circumstantial credible threats astatine this point," White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre said astatine a White House property briefing connected Monday. "Americans should consciousness harmless going to the polls. It is important for Americans to bash so."

President Joe Biden has repeatedly condemned threats of governmental unit up of the midterm elections and successful aftermath of the onslaught connected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hubby Paul Pelosi.

"It remains important to the president to authorities powerfully and unequivocally unit has nary spot successful our democracy," Jean-Pierre said, adding that Biden believes leaders of some parties person a work to pass that.

— Emma Kinery

The apical predetermination authoritative successful Georgia opened a probe of Cobb County's nonaccomplishment to message absentee ballots to hundreds of voters who had requested them.

The probe by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's bureau came a time aft civilian rights groups connected behalf of 4 voters filed a suit asking a justice to contented orders to guarantee that everyone who sought an absentee ballot gets their ballot counted.

The caput of the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registrations said quality mistake was to blasted for the situation.

All of Georgia's legislature districts, 1 of the state's seats successful the U.S. Senate and its governor's bureau are astatine involvement connected Election Day.

In the Senate race, incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is successful a statistical dormant vigor with GOP challenger Herschel Walker, the erstwhile assemblage and pro shot star.

— Dan Mangan

Social media platforms including Meta's Facebook and Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Google's YouTube are readying themselves for different heated Election Day this week.

The companies present regularly travel nether adjacent scrutiny astir predetermination time, thing that accelerated following findings that Russian agents utilized societal media to sow part successful the run-up to the 2016 election. During the past statesmanlike predetermination successful 2020, the platforms faced the situation of moderating predetermination denialism arsenic an outgoing president stoked the mendacious claims himself, starring respective of them to astatine slightest temporarily suspend him aft the Jan. 6 insurrection.

This year, the platforms are utilizing each of those experiences to hole for threats to ideology and information arsenic voters determine who volition correspond them successful Congress, governor's offices and authorities legislatures.

— Lauren Feiner

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said helium interfered in past U.S. elections and would proceed doing truthful successful the future, the archetypal specified admittance from a fig who has been formally implicated by Washington in efforts to power American politics.

In comments posted by the property work of his Concord catering steadfast connected Russia's Facebook equivalent VKontakte, Prigozhin said: "We person interfered (in U.S. elections), we are interfering and we volition proceed to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and successful our ain way, arsenic we cognize however to do."

The remark was posted connected the eve of the U.S. midterm elections successful effect to a petition for remark from a Russian quality site.

"During our pinpoint operations, we volition region some kidneys and the liver astatine once," Prigozhin said. He did not elaborate connected the cryptic comment.

Prigozhin, who is often referred to arsenic "Putin's chef" due to the fact that his catering institution operates Kremlin contracts, has been formally accused of sponsoring Russia-based "troll farms" that question to power U.S. politics.

— Reuters

One of the archetypal states to adjacent its polls Tuesday nighttime volition beryllium Virginia, wherever voting ends astatine 7 p.m. ET. For those watching predetermination results astatine home, determination are 3 House races successful the commonwealth whose outcomes could connection clues arsenic to however Republicans volition fare nationwide successful their quest to triumph a large bulk successful the House.

All 3 races diagnostic pistillate Democratic incumbents locked successful choky contests against comparatively mean Republican challengers, 2 of them women.

In Virginia's 2nd District, which includes Virginia Beach, Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria is seen arsenic peculiarly susceptible successful her contention against authorities Sen. Jen Kiggans.

In the 7th District, which includes Washington D.C.'s astir outer suburbs and 2 agrarian counties, erstwhile CIA cause turned Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger is facing Prince William County Supervisor Yesli Vega, a erstwhile constabulary officer. Crime and termination person dominated the airwaves successful the campaign.

Further north, successful the astir affluent and good educated portion of the authorities conscionable extracurricular D.C., Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton is defending her spot against Hung Cao, a Navy veteran, successful the 10th District. President Joe Biden won Wexton's territory by treble digits successful 2020.

— Christina Wilkie

Every authorities runs its ain elections, which means canvass closing times alteration importantly connected Election Day. Below is simply a database of erstwhile polling places adjacent successful each state.

Schedules are organized by state, not by clip zone. So for example, portion fractional of Kentucky is the Eastern clip portion and the different fractional of it is Central time, polls volition adjacent astatine 6 p.m. ET crossed the state, truthful it's listed nether 6 p.m.

This is not an authoritative database and immoderate counties support polls unfastened longer to accommodate dense turnout, truthful delight cheque with your section predetermination committee to find erstwhile your ain polls close.

6 p.m.

Kentucky and Indiana

7 p.m.

Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming

7:30 p.m.

Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.

8 p.m.

Alaska, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.

9 p.m.

New York

NOTE: New Hampshire closing times alteration region by county, but nary is earlier than 7 p.m. Tennessee besides varies, arsenic does North Dakota, wherever polls adjacent betwixt 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

— Christina Wilkie

Voters successful California, Kentucky, Michigan and Vermont will determine during the midterm elections whether termination is protected nether their authorities constitutions.

But Michigan and Kentucky are shaping up arsenic the 2 biggest battlegrounds connected termination successful the midterms. Michigan is poised to go a harmless haven of constitutionally protected termination rights successful the Midwest, wherever entree is shrinking.

Kentucky, connected the different hand, is acceptable to entrench its termination prohibition unless reproductive rights activists propulsion disconnected an upset triumph successful the blimpish Southern state.

— Spencer Kimball

Voters successful a fistful of states – including 4 that traditionally favour Republicans – are acceptable to determine Tuesday whether to legalize recreational marijuana, paving the mode for its merchantability and cultivation successful recently regulated markets crossed the country.

Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota could articulation 19 different states and the District of Columbia, which person already legalized recreational marijuana. The votes travel astir a period aft President Joe Biden urged authorities and section officials to travel his pb in pardoning those convicted connected anterior national charges of elemental marijuana possession.

— Stefan Sykes

Twitter's caller CEO Elon Musk threw his enactment down Republicans successful their bid to instrumentality legislature majorities successful the midterm elections, saying that "shared powerfulness curbs the worst excesses of some parties."

"Therefore I urge voting for a Republican Congress, fixed that the Presidency is Democratic," Musk wrote successful a tweet addressed "to independent-minded voters."

In a follow-up tweet, Musk added, "Hardcore Democrats oregon Republicans ne'er ballot for the different side, truthful autarkic voters are the ones who really determine who's successful charge!"

Musk's tweets, and different aspects of his leadership, person travel nether aggravated scrutiny since the billionaire brag of Tesla and SpaceX acquired Twitter past period for $44 billion.

The succession was marked by monolithic layoffs, a bristling reception from immoderate advertizing groups and disorder astir the platform's argumentation changes. A regular travel of eyebrow-raising commentary from Musk, astir of it from his ain Twitter account, added much chaos into the mix.

He blamed "activist groups" for Twitter suffering a "massive driblet successful gross ... adjacent though thing has changed with contented moderation." Days later, Musk announced that immoderate Twitter handles impersonating radical without intelligibly labeling themselves parody accounts "will beryllium permanently suspended."

He has besides deed backmost astatine galore of his critics, including progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and has replied favorably to galore salient blimpish media figures.

— Kevin Breuninger

The combat for the midterms whitethorn inactive beryllium successful afloat swing, but it's wide that immoderate cardinal figures are already laying the groundwork for 2024 and beyond.

Former President Donald Trump, who has regularly hinted helium whitethorn question the White House again, this play dropped immoderate of his strongest suggestions yet.

"I committedness you successful the precise adjacent very, very, precise abbreviated play of time, you're going to beryllium truthful happy, okay," Trump said Saturday astatine a rally successful Pennsylvania for GOP Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial hopeful Doug Mastriano. "We're going to instrumentality it backmost and you're going to beryllium proceeding astir it precise soon. Very, very, precise soon."

Trump, who ne'er conceded his nonaccomplishment to President Joe Biden successful 2020, considered announcing his adjacent statesmanlike bid astatine that rally, but opted not to distract from the Oz and Mastriano campaigns, a root told NBC News connected Sunday.

Trump astatine that rally besides took a changeable astatine Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, wide seen arsenic having statesmanlike ambitions, calling him "Ron DeSanctimonious."

Meanwhile, GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has reportedly decided against a run for president successful the adjacent cycle. And Biden has privately told allies helium is readying to tally again, quality outlets person reported.

— Kevin Breuninger

Tuesday's midterm elections volition find which enactment takes power of the Senate, seizing the powerfulness to steer investigative committees, beforehand large authorities and perchance o.k. — oregon artifact — President Joe Biden's judicial nominees.

Candidates successful a fistful of must-win Senate races look to beryllium successful a dormant vigor successful the polls, and Republicans request to prime up conscionable 1 spot to summation a majority.

Use CNBC's usher to the apical Senate races to support track, and larn important facts astir each candidate.

— Kevin Breuninger

The 2022 elections are expected to outgo implicit $16.7 billion, making them the astir costly midterms ever, according to a survey by the nonpartisan OpenSecrets.

"No different midterm predetermination has seen arsenic overmuch wealth astatine the authorities and national levels arsenic the 2022 elections," said Sheila Krumholz, OpenSecrets' enforcement director. "We're seeing record-breaking totals spent connected elections up and down the ballot." Election Day is Tuesday.

The combat for power of the House and Senate successful peculiar saw monolithic spending, according to the OpenSecrets data. Republicans anticipation to triumph backmost power of some chambers for the last 2 years of President Joe Biden's archetypal term.

Outside groups spent astir $1.9 cardinal to power national elections done Oct. 31, blowing past the 2018 midterm extracurricular spending grounds of $1.6 billion, adjusted for inflation.

Two Republican governmental enactment committees person led the mode successful extracurricular spending for national races.

The Senate Leadership Fund, a ace PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has poured implicit $205 cardinal into the midterms portion backing Republicans moving for Senate. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a hybrid PAC supported by House GOP leaders, has spent much than $188 million.

Megadonors from some sides of aisle person poured millions of dollars into the 2022 midterms. The apical donors this rhythm going into Election Day see billionaires George Soros, Richard Uihlein, Ken Griffin and Sam Bankman-Fried.

— Brian Schwartz