pretty cool. because that's in -- i like the culture of it, it is part of paris with so much history and then you have a sport that is so new. those kind of contrasts are really fun. but, you know, ana, really the most pleasurable thing about this olympics is the way that it is happening in the city, the beach volleyball underneath the eiffel tower, they're really bringing home this idea of an olympics in the city itself. >> keir simmons, i didn't expect the break dancing to be top of mind for you. i'll save you from showing us your own moves since we're close to the top of the hour. but, thank you. that was great reporting from paris. and that's going to do it for us today. see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. don't forget, you can always catch our show online, around the clock, on youtube and other platforms. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now.

good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. breaking overnight, a top hamas leader was killed in a strike in iran, adding new tension to an already volatile region. he was the political leader and negotiator for hamas. the group behind the october 7th massacre in israel. and was killed in tehran after he attended the inauguration ceremony for iran's new president. no one has as of right now claimed responsibility for the attack, but iran's supreme leader is accusing israel of the strike. and said israel had, quote, set the stage for severe punishment for itself. it comes just a day after israel says it killed senior hezbollah commander in beirut. joining us now, nbc's raf sanchez from tel aviv, retired four star general barry mccaffrey, nbc news military analyst hagar schmali.

what do we know about this latest strike, the one in iran? >> reporter: well, jose, the israeli government is refusing to comment one way or another. so what we know is coming largely from iranian state media and from the iranian government. they are saying around 1:45 a.m. local time there was a missile strike on ismail haniyeh's residence in tehran, the capital of iran. they say that missile strike killed both the hamas political chief and one of his bodyguards and what is really striking, jose, is this strike came just a few hours after haniyeh met with iran's supreme leader, so this is a major embarrassment for the iranian government, that they weren't able to keep such a high profile figure safe. ismail haniyeh, the political leader of hamas, more of a politician than he was a

fighter, he has been outside of gaza for the last five years, living frankly relatively comfortably in qatar while his people were suffering inside of doha, inside of gaza, rather. he has been traveling the world, he's been rallying support for hamas and, jose, i will say in the days after the october 7th attack, israel vowed it would hunt down the top leaders of hamas. they have now killed ismail haniyeh, the political leader, they have killed his deputy, they appear to have killed the military chief inside of gaza and so it is just sinwar, the gaza chief, the mastermind of october 7th who remains at large. jose? >> so what could this mean for the talks, for any potential cease-fire or hostage deal? this guy was intricately involved in those discussions. >> reporter: it is a really, really important question, jose. and it is one that the prime

minister of qatar, who has been the main mediator throughout the negotiations, was asking earlier. he said how can we expected to mediate when one side of the negotiating table is killing the other? we just spoke, jose, with daniel, his 84-year-old grandfather is still being held in gaza, 299 days of captivity. he told us he's the only great grandfather anywhere in the world being held hostage and he says he's deeply concerned that this killing could potentially derail these cease-fire negotiations and he's appealing to the united states, to qatar and to egypt to try to keep the talks on track. jose? >> raf sanchez in tel aviv, thank you very much. so, general, this top hamas figure being taken out in iran is quite a statement. how do you see it? >> well, look, i think both these targets were legitimate. certainly knocking out the

hezbollah senior leader responsible for the strike in the golan heights murdered 12 young children as well as the hamas leader in tehran. however, the timing, the place, the consequences seem to argue against both these operations in a manner undoubtedly it stopped the peace negotiations for the time being at a minimum. the israelis aren't going to get back the 40 or 50 hostages that may remain alive in gaza. and then in addition one would hope that the principle goal of the israeli political system right now is to avoid a regional war and certainly avoid war with 100,000 plus hezbollah fighters. so, the outcome of this is unknown. but undoubtedly will be

extremely complex and dangerous in the coming weeks. this was not a good move by israel and you back off the strategic import of it. >> and, just thinking of our -- of these two people that were taken out, this hezbollah leader that the general says, you know, was in some way related to the attack on those 12 mostly kids. he was also someone who was intricately involved in the killing of american marines in beirut, so many years ago. just, hagar, the timing as the general says what do you think that the timing does for any possible movement on negotiations with hamas and as the general says, the possibility of hezbollah getting involved? >> sure, so on the timing you have clearly the -- it is almost as if the two attacks were not actually coordinated because the

hezbollah one is very clearly a response to that attack against the soccer field where we're told kids were killed. and if that was israel, i can't confirm for them obviously, it would have taken much longer to plan that than the attack it pursued in southern beirut against the hezbollah leader. they may not have been coordinated, though clearly yesterday was a bad day to be a terrorist. the fact is that whatever slip you've had, whatever major event you had, along the last nine months of this conflict, you've had the cease-fire talks be touch and go as it is. i understand this is a bigger one you're talking about killing the leader, which israel had said from the beginning this is something they would do, this is something we expected. and i would expect sinwar to be next, by the way. so, you're going to see it stalled, but the fact is that israel is taking a strategic gamble, trying to undermine these terrorist groups by lopping their leaders off, even if they get replaced and they'll be replaced in five minutes, it

is a significant debt to these terrorist groups. they're trying to achieve that, undermine the -- make them more weak and establish deterrence for them. and by increasing pressure this way, they're hoping to parlay that in cease-fire talks. cease-fire talks are not going to be suspended indefinitely. they're going to be paused for the moment and pick up again because at the end of the day, this conflict goes on and there is pressure on both sides to reach a deal. >> and, general, just thinking, the fact that iran for first time just sometime ago actually launched attacks, missiles, from iran to israel there is a new phase coming and, general, i mean, this morning, secretary of defense austin said he didn't think warinevitable in the region. how do you see this new phase? >> well, both secretary blinken who invested enormous amounts of energy and personal contact to try to prevent escalation and

secretary austin are in a real pickle right now. it is hard to imagine the iranians will not respond with a significant, even major attack that is likely to go after tel aviv. that's bad news for the region. i think the more consequential danger, though, remains a war with hezbollah. 100,000 fighters, 150,000 some odd rockets and missiles, the potential for a year long conflict that brings into the target arena all the israeli cities, israel needs to avoid that war. and so nailing a hamas military commander over an incident in the golan heights, which i might add is almost undoubtedly an errant missile, it wasn't a planned murder of 12 children. i think the hezbollah rockets were being aimed at idf

observation points up on mount hernan. one way or another, they're taking this provocation and turned it into a major attack in downtown beirut. the israeli war cabinet needs to sit down and think through what their strategic aims are because these two attacks in concert put them in greater danger in my view. >> and, hagar, hezbollah is a far different fighting force than is hamas. >> sure, well, since the last israel/hezbollah war in 2006, we have been saying both sides are preparing for the next showdown. and they really have been. both have been beefing up their missiles and defense systems and as the general noted, a war would be catastrophic. you're talking about a much stronger force than hamas. 100,000 strong, much more well funded and armed. that said, both sides also genuinely don't want to enter a

full scale war, otherwise they would have by now. that doesn't mean miscalculations or certain steps and events can't lead to that war, we are at -- the risk of that is more heightened than ever than we have seen over the last nine months. the way out of this, for this scenario, if you see a barrage of missiles, like you had a couple of months ago from iran, that the u.s. and israel intercept by -- from both iran and hezbollah and intercept them, the matter can be concluded and everybody can kind of retreat. however, if those missile attacks and as the general noted hezbollah and iran are going to respond, if those missile attacks are much more devastating in nature, it could really spark a devastating war between israel and hezbollah that won't be easy to rein back. >> thank you, both, so very much for being with us this morning. still ahead, the latest on the desperate effort to contain out of control wildfires rapidly spreading out west.

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13 past the hour. today, new battleground polling shows a competitive race between former president trump and vice president harris. harris is now leading trump in four of seven states, but most of those advantages are within the margin of error. and in one of the states where they are tied, georgia, harris made her first stop as the de facto democratic nominee, and she had this message for trump. >> i do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. because as the saying goes, if you got something to say -- >> say it to my face. >> today, the former president is set to return to pennsylvania for the first time since his assassination attempt. he'll be holding a rally in harrisburg where the campaign says he plans to focus on the vice president's immigration

record. joining us now, nbc news campaign and henry gomez. the vice president addressed the attacks trump has been launching against her on the humanitarian crisis at the border and immigration. what did she have to say? >> she seemed well prepared for some of those attacks, almost as if the campaign anticipated some of them. and what we saw from her yesterday was a really interesting approach. she leaned in to her experience as the attorney general of california, saying during that time, she prosecuted drug cartels and often won in those cases. and talking big game on immigration, but not actually putting that into action. and, of course, referenced something for a lot of democrats, played a large role in the failure of the bipartisan border security vote that republicans and democrats alike worked on. played a role in blocking that from passing.

>> our administration worked on the most significant border security bill in decades. some of the most conservative republicans in washington, d.c. supported the bill. even the border patrol endorsed it. it was all set to pass. but at the last minute, trump directed his allies in the senate to vote it down. right. he tanked, tanked the bipartisan deal because he thought it would help him win an election. as president, i will bring back the border security bill that donald trump killed and i will sign it into law. >> yes, so that's the sharpest we have seen vice president harris on the issue of immigration. you can expect her to continue making the message next week

when she and her running mate who will be announced by then plan to go out on a battleground state that will take them from pennsylvania to georgia to michigan and las vegas, nevada. this race, the ticket will be crystallized in a couple of days. >> and, henry, the other side, you spoke exclusively with senator jd vance about his turbulent rollout as trump's running mate. what stood out to you? >> well, what stood out to me is that he obviously realizes it was a tough week. there was a ton of dredging up of his past remarks, particularly the one about childless cat ladies which has been everywhere for the last week plus. i spoke to senator vance yesterday on the plane, he said he knew it would be a tough rollout. he knew that the other side, the democrats, the harris team, would roll out the things that he had said in the past and try to make hay of them. and that's what they have done. i don't no if he anticipated it would be this tough for him, the

relentless attacks on him and his comments which, you know, definitely struck a nerve. he's talking about women who don't have children, and questioning their value to society, and he is standing by that particular comment. he's been saying that, you know, the comment about childless cat ladies was a joke, was sarcasm, but that the substance of his point stands. but what i took away from it, he really did feel like he would have a tough rollout, trying to weather it and trying to pivot pretty hard into his role as policy attack dog on vice president harris and emphasizing the border as you can see. >> yeah, he also said he would love to be given influence over border policy if he becomes vice president? >> yeah, that's correct. and in the clip we saw earlier of vice president's speech yesterday, they loved that she's leaning into that. because the republican ticket feels like that's where they can really press the point against harris, her leadership at the

border, with the migrant issue, and vance is hitting her hard yesterday in his speeches in las vegas and reno, talking about -- accusing her of weak leadership when president biden tasked her with the issue. and so, vance says he would like to have a say on border policy. he said he would be helpful, however, trump would want her to be if they're sent to the white house by voters this fall. but that the border in particular is a focus that he would like to have. >> thank you, both, so very much. appreciate it. i want to bring in zerlina maxwell. vice president harris discussed immigration yesterday. senator jd vance will visit the border tomorrow. what does this tell you about the role of this issue for both sides? >> well, look, i think that the

vice president is -- has been smart. there is a new video out, her campaign out this week, that tackles the issue of immigration and talks about her work on the core causes of the border -- the so-called border crisis. and i think this is the issue republicans think that they can campaign and win on, but i think that they're wrong because the facts are actually on the vice president's side. she is correct to point out that it was donald trump who helped to kill the bipartisan border bill that was before the congress. and she is right to point out that donald trump wanted to kill the bill so he could have something to campaign on. that's what you see jd vance doing as he travels around the battleground states because it is really all they have got. >> and, michael, this morning we heard from one of the vice president harris' potential running mates, mark kelly. here's what he had to say about the issue of immigration. listen to this. >> we're a country of immigrants. and we need comprehensive immigration reform. dreamers, dreamers are as

american as my own two kids. and deserve a pathway to citizenship. so, where this is a complicated issue, one thing is pretty basic, and that's that we had an agreement, we had the votes. and donald trump wakes up one morning and sees that he does not want this problem solved. so he told senate republicans that they were not allowed to vote for it. >> michael, you know, we had so many discussions about this over the years. just thinking, you know, your thoughts on this issue. it is very interesting to see how the border bill is in and of itself being mentioned as -- on some sides as a magical pill to deal with all of the humanitarian issues that we have been seeing, and on the other side, that, you know, how does this issue possibly become something that both sides could agree on? it is not possible, is it? >> it is possible, because they

had an agreement. and that's the point. i think zerlina nailed it that the evidence on this issue of immigration is -- stands on the side of the vice president right now. why? because she can just -- she can, you know, trot out the republicans who were supportive of the bill. she can trot out the video of the author of the bill. the conservative senator lankford who is on record saying, yeah, donald trump blew this up. bsent this, though, if we did not have this bill in place, you're absolutely right, this issue would be a very difficult one for the vice president to navigate. but she has a safe harbor, because the administration, working with very conservative member of the united states senate crafted a bill, orchestrated the ground game

behind it to get the votes, not just in the senate, but in the house. and donald trump killed it. so, to trot out this now to say, hey, you know, they're weak on immigration, we had a bill, you killed it, tell us why you killed the bill. that would be my question to donald trump on the stage. >> the answer, he already gave, right? he said i told them to kill that bill. interesting, because that bill was as you very keenly remind us was in -- it was created in conjunction with the white house, yes, and the senators, but that are extremely conservative in so many ways, but like even senators like padilla and others were against that bill. >> exactly. exactly. >> it is just so odd. >> it is washington politics, my friend. and at the end of the day, it says a lot about the biden administration's ability to

navigate through that. even given all the other political issues around joe biden, he was able to get some pretty big things done and what i think the vice president will rightly lean into is that bipartisan nature that their administration was one that was willing to sit down and negotiate, republicans were not willing to do that when they had the house and the white house. and so he or she can make a case, not just on this issue of immigration, but on climate, on infrastructure, on a whole host of other things that i think will put the administration in good stead, and put her campaign in a better position to make a case that voters will go, at least we see the effort. what have you done, donald trump? >> zerlina, what do you think the vice president needs from a running mate here?

>> look, i think that she has a lot of good options on the table. and it is really somebody who is ready to be president on day one as they say. also, somebody that she likes working with. i think that is probably an underappreciated aspect of this. you want to make sure you don't make the same mistake that donald trump made, picking somebody that is going to be a drag on your side of the ticket. she needs to make sure to pick somebody that doesn't dampen this enthusiasm we have seen over the course of the past week with the democratic base. so i think all of the options are strong. i have my favorite. but i don't think governor gretchen whitmer is going to be the pick. governor gretchen whitmer is my favorite. all female ticket. let's take the all female ticket up against the people who think that childless cat lady sociopaths are horrible for america. >> zerlina maxwell and michael steele, thank you, both. >> zerlina is always running

hard. always running hard. i love it. >> thank you, both. really appreciate it. now to new developments in the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. the 5th circuit court of appeals in new orleans says a floating buoy barrier texas put up in the rio grande river to deter illegal border crossings can stay in place while legal efforts to remove it go forward. it is a win for the governor of texas, the decision reverses rulings by a lower court and three judge panel that said it needed to be removed. the biden administration sued texas over the barrier, arguing it obstructed water ways in violation of federal environmental law. a body was found in the barrier, near the barrier, last august, but authorities believe the person drowned upstream and floated into the barrier. up next, we'll go live to california, hundreds of thousands of acres still on fire. we'll take a look at why this year's fire activity there is up by almost 3,000%.

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31 past the hour now. out west, extreme heat is fueling historic wildfires in california. thousands of firefighters are battling 19 active blazes that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres with the park fire growing to the fifth largest in state history. and it comes as cal fire says this year's wildfire activity is nearly 2900% higher than last year. nbc's steve patterson joins us from cohasset, california. what are you seeing there today? >> reporter: it depends on where you are, jose. that speaks to how big and how vast this fire zone has come, fifth largest california fire ever, larger than the size of the city of los angeles. where i'm standing in this town that was really just decimated by this fire, there is destruction really as far as the eye can see. the forests are all ashen or blackened, the fire came through this area. the good news is the fire is

mostly in areas where there aren't population centers. firefighters are really working to contain as much of this as they can. they got 18% containment at this point. you can't really stop it, you to slow it down. officials are saying, they're telling us that they likely will not be for months until this fire is out. so the best thing they can do is to push it further and further and further into the wilderness. so far they have been successful at that because the weather has been cooperating and that's why everybody is so worried about the forecast, we're expecting triple digit temperatures if not today, then maybe tomorrow, that means hotter weather, dryer weather, windier weather, that is fire weather that could further even expand this fire, larger than it already is, which is just unfathomable to people here. there are air quality warnings in nevada, telling people to stay inside because of the smoke of the fire, speaks to how huge it is. the firefighters are doing all they can before it heats up again to help make as much

progress before that happens. >> steve patterson, thank you so much. coming up, protests turn deadly in venezuela over what many are calling a stolen presidential election. we're going to speak to a veteran pollster who carried out the exit polling in venezuela on sunday. what he found next. plus, we have the results of arizona's primary now setting up a critical senate race. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. and special offers. don't miss out. get started today. ok limu! you set it, and as i spike it, i'll tell them how liberty mutual customizes car insurance, so they only pay for what they need. got it? [squawks]

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38 past the hour. in venezuela, at least 11 people have been killed in clashes while protesting what so many see as a stolen election, according to a venezuelan human rights organization. there are reports of an opposition leader being detained in the aftermath of sunday's election. one woman telling telemundo the chavez/maduro regime forced all of her family to flee. >> she says she doesn't want to leave, but now may be forced to leave her homeland. meantime, overnight, secretary-general of the organization of american states put out a statement saying, throughout the entire electoral process we saw the application by the venezuelan regime of its repressive scheme complemented by actions aimed at completely

distorting the electoral result. while the carter center, invited and allowed by the regime to observe the vote, said it was unable to verify the results, blaming venezuelan authorities for, quote, complete lack of transparency. joining us now, from caracas, a reporter for "the washington post." thank you so much for being with us again this morning. what is caracas like today? >> well, it is definitely different from the day after the elections. we see less people in the streets, yet we don't see any commerce open. we don't see the same fluency as you would expect in or after a normal day of election. so, it is -- let's say, it is an intense calm right now. it is -- it doesn't seem peaceful at all since the repression on monday. and on tuesday was so intense that people are deciding to protest in different ways.

they're trying to jump the roadblocks that the national guard and police are putting in front of them to avoid any kind of protest. >> ana, among the things that show lack of transparency to, quote, the carter center, the maduro election council has yet to publish the results of the elections, so, by law, i understand, that 48 hours after an election to publish the results of it they haven't done that. what is this about? >> well, we really don't know what is going on. the government did say that the electoral system was hacked from another country. and yet they haven't given us or the country any other information on this. so, it is the first time, and this is very important for everyone to know, this is the first time that something like this happens in venezuela. we don't understand what is going on. and the government is not giving a lot of information on this. this is getting tension, putting

a lot of tension on what are already complicated days. this is something that people on the streets are yelling or shouting. they want to see the votes. and in the meantime, the opposition says they have proof and they uploaded all the proof they have, the vote tallies, to another website, an independent website that shows edmundo gonzalez with over 3 million votes ahead of maduro. this is a very complicated point right now for the government, not to say anything and not to publish the results that they announced on sunday. >> yeah, and, ana, just to give perspective for folks who maybe don't know about venezuela and chavez/maduro's 25-year plus reign, we're seeing a report that maduro announced he created an app so people could go in and snitch on those who are protesting? >> yes.

well, let me give you a little bit of context to this. this app was created on 2022, the app was supposed to help people, mostly people from working class neighborhoods to look for medicines or to create a community, this was supposed to be a helpful app. but yet at that point, at that time, experts were worried about the real purpose of this. but yesterday nicolas maduro relaunched the app with another purpose and this purpose, as you said, to snitch just to call out all of those in their working class neighborhoods, mostly, who are protesting or who, for example, were witnesses for the opposition. so that they could be identified. even going as far as asking people to put the names and addresses of this alleged opposition supporters, with the purpose, of course, of tracking them down and now we have a

situation with over 700 people arrested for protesting. and about 11 dead. around 11 yesterday. today, we're hearing that 13 people are dead during the two days of protests. so, it is a very complicated situation that the government definitely is not making any less tense. >> ana, take good care of yourself in caracas. thank you very much for being with us this morning. i want to bring in rob farman, executive vice president of edison research, an american polling company, which conducted an exit poll in venezuela during the presidential elections. rob, thank you for being with us. tell us about doing an exit poll on a day, sunday, where there are presidential elections in a very complicated political system. what did you find in that exit poll? >> well, as far as fielding the exit poll, the planning and logistics were difficult. but the actual fielding of the

poll on election day went fairly smoothly. we did not have a lot of interference from police or military until late in the day. but as far as projecting the winner of the race, it was an exit pollster's dream, a landslide. at 65/31 was what our poll showed. so, it was a blowout election and as far as we were concerned, it went very well until we saw the actual results released by the government. >> 65/31 isn't a nail biter. it seems as though it is a blowout. that exit poll shows pretty similar numbers to the percentages that the opposition says maduro was defeated by. is there any possibility that maduro's claim that he won by 51% could have any truth to it? >> there is no possibility.

i mean, this is as transparent a cheating effort as you could possibly see. they clearly chose a number, just over 50%, even if you divide the actual vote by the percentages, it comes out to an even decimal, which makes no sense statistically exactly 51.2%. it is just kind of sloppy cheating that i suspect they had to do on the fly when they saw what a wide margin they had lost by. >> rob, why are you so clear and so confident on the numbers that your organization found on sunday? >> well, first of all, they were pre-election polls by reputable pollsters, a lot of phony polls, obviously, with the strange numbers, but several prominent pollsters did pre-election polls and they showed the same results pretty much we ended up with,

25, 30 points. and we have been doing, edison does polling for nbc among others, we have been doing polling for 20 years for nbc and other networks, and we have errors, of course, but nothing like this, 35 points just does not happen. we did a poll there in 2012, so we had experience doing it. and in that case, chavez won the election. and our exit poll showed that. and the government put out the correct results that time. >> rob, thank you so very much. i want to put this up, high tech, i don't know if you can see this, but the number 65 to 31%. seems like that's not -- well, it is a blowout to use your terms. thank you, rob, for being with us. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. up next, we'll go to one of the largest cities in pennsylvania with how latino voters could be crucial in deciding who will be our next president. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. president.

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both campaigns are trying to win over voters in the state's latino belt. george, what are you learning? >> reporter: for context, last month the trump campaign opened up a latino americans for trump office here in reading, pennsylvania. officials tell us that's no coincidence. they bill this as a campaign office for all. the harris campaign has 24 campaign offices throughout the commonwealth. latino voters telling me at a very important election and very important vote, they know in this battle for the state and the presidency, their vote can make a difference. in majority latino reading, pennsylvania, samuel and david say the talk of the town is politics. >> been exciting. it's such an unexpected change. >> reporter: do you care more about the election now? >> i do. i do.

>> reporter: we first met them before former president trump survived an assassination attempt and picked j.d. vance as his running mate and harris rose to the top of the ticket. both are undecided but newly energized. >> she has direction. i think it evens the playing field for the two candidates. >> is she going to advance the country? is it possible she takes it in reverse? we don't know yet. >> reporter: this 18-year-old, a student at the brothers barber shop, says he will vote for the first time. how are you feeling about voting for either one of the candidates? >> in my opinion, kind of nervous. >> reporter: one out of every five hispanics will vote in their first presidential election this year. reading sits in pennsylvania's so-called latino belt. cities and small towns once democratic strongholds in northeastern pennsylvania. in this region, latino

communities make up 9% of the state's population. does it feel like both campaigns are trying to earn your vote? >> definitely. >> reporter: biden won pennsylvania in 2020. that year, more than 610,000 latinos were eligible to vote in the state. while biden won reading in 2020, the city shifted 15 points to the right since 2016. limited recent polling shows harris doing better. in 2020, who did you vote for and why? >> biden. >> reporter: this woman explained last month when we visited, she's switching to trump in 2024, frustrating by the rising cost of living and running a business. biden's endorsement of harris pushing her further away. she volunteers at a trump campaign office. >> i don't trust her. >> reporter: why? >> because her background. i don't trust her. >> reporter: this woman thinks

putting josh shapiro on the democratic ticket this year would make a difference. does she need josh shapiro to secure the white house? >> i think she does. people who are not invested in the election will follow somebody they trust. >> reporter: she moved from puerto rico to pennsylvania when she was a child. >> she came down in the middle of the city to talk to people at the community college for me was the most positive thing. >> reporter: this restaurant owner also recalls harris' trip but hasn't been swayed yet. >> everybody is waiting for the next debate. let's see what happens. >> reporter: with less than 100 days to the election, reading's residents feel the weight of the decision ahead. >> think about what you want for your country, what you want for kids. >> i want them to say, wow, things are different now than they were for mom and dad. i'm so happy that we are in this country.

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