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  Speaker 1: BIN News This Hour, I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up, a
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  Speaker 1: black county clerk of a major metropolitan area is being
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  Speaker 1: sued on allegations of racial discrimination and.
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  Speaker 2: And I expect even if they don't win majority control
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  Speaker 2: of the chamber, that they are going to make some gains.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that that is going to be really,
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  Speaker 2: really significant.
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  Speaker 1: How Democrats stand to gain congressional seats in tomorrow's election,
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  Speaker 1: even after a series of mid-season redistricting. But first, here's
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  Speaker 1: BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 3: New York City Mayor Zarem Mamdani is encouraging voters to
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  Speaker 3: head to the polls Tuesday. Speaking with BIN News anchor
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  Speaker 3: Vanessa Tyler, Mamdani expressed hope Democrats could take control of Congress.
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  Speaker 4: You flip your ballot, you'll find five different proposals. When
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  Speaker 4: New Yorkers ask me what are they voting on when
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  Speaker 4: they vote for those proposals or on those proposals, I
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  Speaker 4: say you're voting on faster government and a government that
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  Speaker 4: could actually keep up with the pace of life in
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  Speaker 4: our city.
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  Speaker 3: He says he voted early and plans to spend Election
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  Speaker 3: Day working at City Hall. Former President Barack Obama is
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  Speaker 3: endorsing Democrat Charles Booker in Kentucky's Senate race. Booker is
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  Speaker 3: challenging Trump-endorsed Republican Andy Barr for retiring Senator Mitch McConnell's seat.
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  Speaker 3: Obama says Booker understands the struggles of working families. And
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  Speaker 3: a black escape artist is making history in Hollywood. Houdini
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  Speaker 3: II escaped a straitjacket while hanging upside down 80 feet
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  Speaker 3: above the Magic Castle. He completed the stunt in under
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  Speaker 3: two minutes without a safety net honoring the 100th anniversary
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  Speaker 3: of Harry Houdini's death. I'm Amber Payton with BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 3: Back to you, Andrea.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. The state of Texas is suing two Harris
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  Speaker 1: County officials alleging they used some advertising tools to reach
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  Speaker 1: select racial groups while leaving other voters out. According to
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  Speaker 1: the defender Houston, the suit filed last week claims Harris
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  Speaker 1: County Clerk Tanisha Hutzpeth and Director of Communications Irene Nunez
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  Speaker 1: classified some online ads for voters by race. The suit
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  Speaker 1: says that amounts to racially discriminatory advertising in an effort
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  Speaker 1: to increase voter turnout among particular races and ethnicities, but
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  Speaker 1: not others. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running
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  Speaker 1: against James Tallarico for a U.S. Senate seat, recused himself
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  Speaker 1: from the lawsuit. The state filed it through his office. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the Secretary of State's office in Texas is reporting that
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  Speaker 1: more than 7.7 million Texans voted early in this year's midterms.
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  Speaker 1: That amounts to a turnout of more than 40 percent,
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  Speaker 1: topping the previous record for a midterm election set in 2018.
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  Speaker 1: More than 19 million Texans are registered to vote, up
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  Speaker 1: more than 2 percent since the presidential election of 2024.
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  Speaker 1: In-person early voting in Texas ended on Friday. Turnout figures
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  Speaker 1: so far are not final. Tomorrow promises to be a
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  Speaker 1: big day for Democrats looking to secure more power on
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Hill. According to USA Today, recent polls show the
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  Speaker 1: party potentially flipping congressional seats in states that President Trump
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  Speaker 1: won in the last election. Dr. Andra Gillespie, a black
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  Speaker 1: assistant political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, explains
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  Speaker 1: how redistricting could impact the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: The House side is very, very interesting. Democrats look to
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  Speaker 2: be poised to pick up seats They only need a
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  Speaker 2: handful of seats in order to take control of the chamber.
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  Speaker 2: But redistricting does play a role. And so while not
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  Speaker 2: every state was able to take advantage of Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 2: redistricting charge and maybe even the countermeasures, redistricting that happened
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  Speaker 2: in Democratic states and not every state that was affected
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  Speaker 2: by the Louisiana v. Calais decision opted to change district
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  Speaker 2: lines and draw Black legislators out of their districts in
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  Speaker 2: the cycle. Some of it did happen. And so there
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  Speaker 2: may be some buffers in places that would actually offset
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  Speaker 2: some of the gains that we expect Democrats to see.
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  Speaker 2: I'm expecting a that Democrats are going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to flip enough seats that they will be able to
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  Speaker 2: take control of the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 1: Dr. Gillespie says Democrats could flip a few Senate seats
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  Speaker 1: as well. Should Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives,
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  Speaker 1: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries could possibly become the first
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  Speaker 1: Black Speaker of the House. We'll hear more from Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Gillespie tomorrow during our special election night coverage. Black America Votes,
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  Speaker 1: the midterms 2026, starts at 7 p.m.
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  Speaker 3: Eastern.
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