Transcript of The Final Polls Before the Midterms, and a $6 Billion Crypto Heist

From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today is Monday, November 2. Here's what we're covering.

You must go out, you have to go out, and you have to vote Republican. Just vote Republican.

Last night wrapped up a chaotic final weekend of campaigning for the midterms.

You know, when God made vocal chords, He didn't make them to do 30 rallies in a short period of time.

For Republicans, President Trump was in Kansas, closing out his last big event before Election Day. In all, he held nearly 30 rallies this campaign season, urging voters to turn out as if he personally was on the ballot. Some of the other things Trump said on the trail, though, have left people scratching their heads.

I could say the stupidest things and you'd laugh, you know, "I love you so." That's true.

And a Times review of the president's speeches found that he's been more profane, longer-winded, and less coherent than he was a decade ago.

Michael Dukakis, years ago, let out one murderer, Willie Horton.

That's meant repeating the same story he told 30 minutes before, as he did at a rally in North Carolina.

And he was running, and he released a man named Willie Horton.

Or commenting on men's looks.

I started examining his body.

Sometimes with vulgar language, as he did at multiple rallies.

And I watched up and down, and I looked at his ass, and I looked at the whole— and then I looked at his hands. Look at his hands, he's got these—

In response to questions from The Times, a White House spokesman dismissed concerns about Trump's comments and said, quote, "The American people love how authentic, transparent, and effective the president is." And for Democrats, a rift within the party burst open this weekend in a key Senate race in Michigan.

My vote for Senate is going to be with Mike Rogers, and I will tell you why: because we have to stand with country.

There, the Democrat who lost to Abdul El-Sayed in the primary came out and endorsed his Republican opponent. Haley Stevens caught many in her party off guard with the move. She's now backing the candidate who she previously criticized as a, quote, "rubber stamp" for Donald Trump's dangerous agenda. Her last-minute flip came after months of animosity with El-Sayed and bitter disagreements between the two over Israel, which she strongly supports.

One thing that we ask in every poll is what issue is most important to voters, what issue is motivating their vote. And across the seven states, we saw very clearly that the economy is the single most important issue to voters.

Ruth Aghelnick conducts and analyzes polls for The Times. She says they show that dissatisfaction with President Trump and frustration over how he's handled the economy are dragging down Republicans. If the polls are accurate and these trends hold, Democrats would win control of the Senate. But polls are imperfect. Six years ago, the last time Senator Susan Collins was up for reelection in Maine, she trailed in every survey before the election and still won comfortably.

Since Idaho's ban on abortion went into effect four years ago, they have lost about 35% of their practicing obstetricians, and about half of Idaho's 44 counties don't have any practicing OB-GYN.

Anna Griffin covers Idaho for The Times. She says the sharp drop in doctors there has been a big part of the conversation ahead of Election Day, when Idaho voters will decide whether or not to restore some abortion rights.

I've been talking to a lot of people in Idaho over the last few months, and what they say is the state of health care has fundamentally changed. Longer wait times, higher costs, even if you're not seeking women's reproductive health, because there is a ripple effect. When doctors leave, it affects everybody in the system. What conservative activists will say is, A, that's overblown, and B, that is worth it to end abortion in the state. But the people trying to repeal the ban say the abortion law has pushed health care to the brink in Idaho.

The Times will have live coverage on the results of ballot measures and congressional races as they start to come in tomorrow evening. The world of cryptocurrency was shaken last week by the largest crypto heist ever recorded. In all, more than $6 Billion was stolen. Now the race is on to figure out how it happened and to try to claw back as much of that crypto as possible.

Now we're in Autopia, about a mile of superhighway adventure with all the kids lined up in.

Back in the 1950s, when Disneyland unveiled the "Autopia ride," auto like automobile, America was really falling in love with cars. It was the dawn of the interstate, and people were moving out to the suburbs with a garage for every house.

These are gasoline.

I'm a super sensitive.

Yeah.

With their parents.

If I bang my shoes in, my hips.

But modern America's more complicated relationship with cars is now coming for Autopia. After 70-plus years of kids scooting around on the ride, putting the pedal to the metal with real gas in the engines of those mini cars, Autopia is going electric. The change is coming after the California Air Resources Board told Disney it failed to get the proper emissions certification for Autopia's cars, meaning the ride is in violation of state regulations.