FiveThirtyEight's polling forecast suggests Republicans are now favored to take full control of Congress, though the Senate remains a toss-up.
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Political analyst and author Lincoln Mitchell joins us to dig into the details.
Here are the other headlines from Wednesday's show:
Newark police shooting
After a massive manhunt, the man suspected of shooting two Newark police officers was finally captured in the very same building the SWAT team surrounded the day before.
It appears 30-year-old Kendall Howard was hiding inside since the shooting Tuesday. These types of manhunts and standoffs appear to be some of the highest-stress situations police officers can be put through, but what's it like to actually be a part of it?
To help us answer that, we are joined live by John Jay professor and former chief of the Bergen County Police Department Brian Higgins.
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Digging into deep space
NASA has has touted the recent DART mission - which deflected an asteroid - as a huge success, but the details are a bit too "science-y."
To help the rest of us understand why this was such a big deal, we spoke with a professor at George Mason University and president of the National Society of Black Physicists Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi.
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