Netflix facing backlash after supporting Kamala Harris. Senate Republicans pour millions of dollars into blue state Senate races. Verizon outage leaves millions of users without cell service nationwide and the company has yet to issue a formal statement on the problem.
00:00:00.000Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, September 30th.
00:00:05.660Senate Republicans pouring millions of dollars into deep blue state Senate races
00:00:10.040where Republicans are looking to pull ahead or even.
00:00:14.220Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC closely aligned with Mitch McConnell,
00:00:17.900announcing they will pour almost $68 million into three Senate races against Democrat incumbents.
00:00:24.560The group will reportedly spend $28 million in Pennsylvania, $17 million in Wisconsin,
00:00:28.900and just over $22 million in Michigan, three states also prioritized by Donald Trump's campaign.
00:00:35.360Over in Pennsylvania, Republican Dave McCormick and Senator Bob Casey, the incumbent Democrat,
00:00:40.420are in a virtual tie. In Wisconsin, where Trump and Harris are virtually tied,
00:00:44.600Republican Eric Hudvey has pulled within four points of Senator Tammy Baldwin, the Democrat incumbent.
00:00:50.740And over in Michigan, former Congressman Mike Rogers continues to close the gap
00:00:55.160with Congresswoman Elise Slotkin, who's running for that seat, that Senate seat, over in Michigan.
00:01:01.160Trump is tied or leading in all three battleground states.
00:01:04.240He won the trio in 2016 before Biden allegedly captured them in 2020.
00:01:09.720Netflix facing backlash after supporting Kamala Harris.
00:01:13.620Netflix cancellations have reportedly spiked after the streaming platform CEO,
00:01:17.500Reed Hastings, announced he'll donate millions of dollars to Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.
00:01:22.960Netflix's rate of cancellations has nearly tripled in the United States after the CEO decided to make that decision.
00:01:30.760And a massive Verizon outage is leaving millions of users without service nationwide.
00:01:35.760Verizon customers were left without cell service on Monday as one of the nation's largest telecom networks went dark.
00:01:41.700Verizon Communications experienced a massive outage causing significant disruptions in major cities across the country.
00:01:47.080According to DownDetector, a platform that tracks outages throughout user-submitted reports,
00:01:52.960over 100,000 incidents of service disruptions were reported.
00:01:57.240Outage has affected major cities such as Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Indianapolis, Seattle, Omaha, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Los Angeles.
00:02:08.420Verizon's failure to quickly address the issue has only added to the frustration.
00:02:12.160Despite the nationwide chaos, the company has yet to release a formal public statement.