Brooks and Capehart on the fight for Senate control in battleground states

Three Senate contests in battleground states produced heated debates on Thursday night, with the candidates repeatedly turning to personal jabs against one another. The clashes put a spotlight on the struggle over which party will hold power in Congress, and PBS NewsHour used them as the starting point for its weekly political analysis.

Amna Nawaz, co-anchor and co-managing editor of the program, spoke with two commentators: David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW. They reviewed the week's developments in politics, with the competition for control of Congress at the center of the talk.

Other items on the NewsHour page point to a busy political stretch ahead of the midterms. Coverage includes a Trump rally with Bruce Blakeman, New York's Republican candidate for governor; a reported agreement between Trump and Putin on Russian diesel that reverses earlier U.S. policy; a committee Trump set up to investigate Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook as part of his push to remove her; and a South Carolina Senate debate pitting Graham against challengers Andrews and Whitener.

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