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for vp kamala harris. nbc news has learned she's been in intensive speech writing and practice sessions over the past two weeks, traveling to her alma mater, traveling university, her workshop. the pressure must be immense, just imagine it. this will be the biggest moment of her political career. a night that could either propel her forward or pull her back. sources familiar tell us her goal is to strike a balance between going after her opponent, donald trump, and presenting the american public with a message of hope for the future, joy, if you will. it's about telling a story of who we are as a nation, part of that is who she is. she'll talk about her career and credentials as a prosecutor and a lawmaker, along with a lot about her upbringing and her mom, an indian immigrant and cancer researcher who told her she may be the first but to make sure she was never the last.

will she be the first woman to take the white house? new polling suggests she does have a real shot. but there are also new speed bumps ahead, including a potentially meaningful endorsement for the other guy. we'll explain. we'll start with tonight. joining us now, nbc news who's correspondent monica alba. tell us all we know about the speech. >> you know, this had been in the works for weeks, she thought she would be delivering the speech for the vice presidential nomination. that takes on new meaning when you're the top of the ticket. they're trying to give it the weight, the gravitas, but there was a framework they at least had to build upon, and they want to hit a couple of different things, the vice president wants to remind americans of her record, what she has been able to do, why she feels she's qualified to be president of the united states, but she also wants to be sure to praise the person who put her in this

position just about a month ago, and that's president biden. she's going to nod to his leadership because they feel that's an effective way to make the argument that, look at all the things we were able to do in the biden/harris administration. but now she has to take that and advance it, and say, here's what i would do if i'm elected the first female president. though we should note, she's not necessarily going to make gender or race a huge part of her address. there will be nods to that, but it's not going to be her central focus. she's going to take aim at donald trump. we're told specifically at project 2025, that has been a theme every single night at the dnc, and she's going to really close it out with that message, what they view as the biggest threats in terms of what a donald trump second term could pose. she's going to talk about the personal, her late mother and the influence she had on her life, her upbringing, and then she's really going to turn to this moment and put it in the

context of what voters and americans could do right now with this historic moment. trying to tie all of that together is a huge task, and they know that, and they also don't want the speech to be so long and so lately that people tune out. they want to try to get to the message early, and she's been practicing all week long. this is a person who does teleprompter speeches all the time. she's used to that. she's been in the hall. she did a walk through. she did a speech earlier in the week. so in terms of that, we believe, according to people close to her, the weight of this moment is certainly for her new that she will feel and that she's ready to take on. a lot of the bones of the speech are things she has said before, katy. >> i hope it means we're going to get to the speech before 11:30 tonight. just for my own personal reasons. it's hard to stay up that late. monica alba, thank you very much. joining us now, national action network president and host of msnbc's politics nation, reverend al sharpton, and former deputy assistant to president biden and domestic policy adviser to vice president

harris, rahini cosalu. this is an interesting convention. it feels like the party is looking ahead going forward in time, but at the same time, looking back, not to joe biden's presidency but instead to the obama era. it feels like a reset in that way. >> well, i think that in many ways it is, in many ways you can't get to the present and the future without dealing with the past. that's what it's built on. and i think what president obama was able to put together and what president biden was able to make happen, one of the most consequential presidents in history is the base and foundation of what kamala harris is running on. and standing up against donald trump and those that would try to bring us back in pre-1950s america. in many ways, it's a perfect connection to the past.

i think we're set up by michelle and barack obama, a couple of nights ago, and i think that she builds on that and brings us out of despair to hope again. i think this is agenda for the day. >> how do you strike the balance between going after your opponent, and projecting the path forward for yourself, rev. i have asked that, it's been nine years since donald trump has been on the political scene, and he has gained support. it just so happens that more democrats voted and independents, and some republicans voted for joe biden. he's not losing, according to the polling we've seen least right now, mass amounts of support. so how do you convince folks that doing his version of things again is not a great idea. >> i think that you've got to give the record as it is. if you compare where we were in

the economy, under biden and harris to where we were with trump, if you compare where we were in terms of crime under biden and harris and where we were under trump, if you carry people coming across the border with now, and compared to trump, i think the record speaks for itself. if they articulate the record, some that voted for trump would have to say they were disappointed in the results. when you get past the bomb ambassador and thee at -- bombast and theatrics, there's nothing there, compared to what biden and harris have done. she will continue to a new level. >> you understand the policies of vice president harris and president biden, we have seen her get into policy little bit, certainly more so on the economic agenda, the speech that she had last week. there were some touch points on immigration yesterday at the convention. in terms of policy, what should

we expect out of tonight? >> thanks, katy. you have heard the vice president out on the trail talking about taking on the big banks, taking on big pharma. taking on big oil, and tonight you're going to hear how she got to some of those huge touch points in her career, what her upbringing looks like. what it looked like as someone that grew up in the middle class, that wants to make sure there's more opportunity for americans today now more than ever, and where she wants to take people in the future. so i think you're going to hear a number of these things. you know, as a long time adviser to the vice president on policy, she is the same person in front of america as she is behind doors. she's thinking about how can we do more for americans, giving them more opportunities, not less. you hear areas in terms of freedoms and rights and how to turn the page to really make

sure that we are touching upon the promise of america, and i think it's going to be an uplifting message you're going to hear tonight. >> how much policy do you think matters or how much does policy matter for the next three months? does she need to get into detail on these issues or do you believe it should just be broad strokes? >> of course there's going to be plans. there was already one last week, last friday, but really tonight and moving forward is going to be making sure that the american people understand her values, where she wants to take this country, and what those plans look like. first we want to lay the ground work in terms of really helping america understand this is a person that comes from the middle class, fighting for the middle class and what the values she's going to be bringing with her as we move a new way forward. >> i want to play a moment from last night. this is tim walz talking about how he started a family. >> it took gwen and i years, but

we had access to fertility treatments. and when our daughter was born, we named her hope. [ cheers and applause ] >> hope, gus and gwen, you are my entire world, and i love you. i'm letting you in on how we started a family because this is a big part about what this election is about. freedom. >> you know, i love that moment from his son, especially. getting up, standing up with tears in his eyes, saying that's my dad. you know, rev, what's been striking about this convention is the warmth between families here, the main families at play, the obamas, kamala harris, and doug. i frankly think doug's speech was one of the best of the entire convention. i love a good meet cute story.

and the family dimension with governor walz. it's a striking difference than what we saw at the rnc. >> and i think it's what most americans want to see. not only in their own families but to bring the american family back together. we may be of different colors and different stripes, but we want one family with equality for all, for women, for people of color, for all kind of people, and i think when you project family, you also show people that you're about bringing people together that will be unique in their own way but they all are collectively in the same family. >> you know, donald trump did have a lot of family around him at the rnc, certainly it was a scary moment or, you know, in the after math of a very scary moment after the attempted assassination, but the absence of melania trump was significant in itself. she was there for the last night, but she didn't speak. she just wasn't playing the same sort of role we're seeing from

the other spouses, certainly at the dnc. reverend al sharpton, appreciate it. rahini, thank you so much as well. what the fight could mean in the house and senate. and sources say rfk jr. will end his campaign. an endorsement for donald trump could come next. steve kornacki joins us with what his poll numbers might mean for donald trump's poll numbers. plus, the vibe has been high energy, some would even say electrifying. is the dnc saying swing voters, the lieutenant governor of michigan, such an important state joins us to tell us about what he's seeing out there. we're back in 90 seconds. eingute we're back in 90 seconds ing for that nice catch. we're still going for that perfect pizza. and with higher stroke risk from afib not caused by a heart valve problem,... ...we're going for a better treatment than warfarin. eliquis. eliquis reduces stroke risk. and has less major bleeding. over 97% of eliquis patients did not experience a stroke.

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donald trump is in arizona, hoping a visit to the border can pull attention to the dnc. immigration is his safe space. last night, democrats tried to eat away at his polling lead on the border by pointing to the bipartisan immigration bill he helped kill earlier this year. the bill was co-crafted by one of the most conservative republicans in the senate. but at the time, donald trump made it abundantly clear he wanted republicans to reject it. even telling a rally in las vegas the legislation was a betrayal of america saying, quote, blame it on me, please. but this morning, on fox, the former president no longer wanted any of that blame.

>> i didn't do anything on the bill. people would ask my opinion. i didn't do anything on the bill. i think they respect my opinion. it was a terrible bill, but more importantly, if they want to fix the border, they don't need a bill. the president of the united states, which is what i did, i didn't have a bill to close the border. i closed the border. i had the safest border. >> joining us now, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, any sense, vaughn, that this double speak on what he did or did not do for the border bill is going to hurt him? >> i think to the extent to which kamala harris in a presidential debate brings it up and hammers home the points and who was associated with it, we heard in one of the speeches last night, a reference to an oklahoma senator, james langford who was one of the authors of that bill that ultimately donald trump, you heard him say, blame me, he was the one who began making phone calls to congressional republicans to try to quash the measure from being passed.

it should be made clear that that border security measure, right, for decades, we have talked about immigration reform, usually democrats demanded either a pathway to citizenship or legal status was tethered to border security funding measures, and that's not what played out in this measure here. so for donald trump, it's no coincidence on the same day kamala harris is set to make her acceptance address to the nation in chicago that he's down here on the border. we have seen historically, the issue of immigration favor republicans. not only at a national level but also arizona, where i saw republicans thrive off of using what is very, i think, difficult circumstances when you talk about immigration. there are safety concerns about some of the individuals who come across. by and large, we know that there are a vast majority coming and looking for a better life and to work inside of the united states, and yet, so often,

whether it be sheriff joe arpaio or when january brewer signed sb 70. those were measures that were harkening among a majority of electorate, more towards deportation, undocumented immigrants. donald trump understands and he's calling for mass deportation because he still views this is a key political tool and one that can galvanize a great base of support to help him win this election. >> at the convention, the sign said deport them. i asked eric trump about whether they wanted to separate families, and i talked about immigration with him, and he kind of dodged that question. all right. the other news around the trump campaign, this is the anticipation that rfk is going to drop out tomorrow, and throw his weight behind donald trump. >> robert f. kennedy jr., his polling numbers are down. he's anywhere from 5% nationally, depends on what battleground state, it's not an

insignificant number of folks that suggest they will be voting for kennedy in november. nicole shanahan earlier this week publicly suggested that their own internal numbers were showing they were polling a greater number of voters away from donald trump, and that is where there is discussion. she's the one he even floated the potential of him being interested in having a cabinet position, potentially as health and human services secretary, and a trump administration, and while donald trump and just yesterday, j.d. vance, they have not gotten as far as to commit for providing a cabinet position. at least from our public knowledge of the conversations that have happened between kennedy and the trump campaign. two sources tell us here that on friday when mr. kennedy is in arizona, he intends to announce that he is ending his third party presidential bid, and at this point in time, plans to endorse donald trump, and we saw over the last months, katy, it was democrats by and large as

well as the kennedy family who were quite forceful in their endorsement of joe biden's reelection bid. it was democrats who were the most vocal opponents to kennedy bid, concerned there were going to be democrats who were disenchanted with a second joe biden administration and were concerned that mr. kennedy was going to pull off a swath of voters, and mr. kennedy, i know from conversations was not naive to the frustrations that democrats, the party that he once associated with up until last year was extremely frustrated by what he believed to be alienation from the party that he had long considered himself to be a part of. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you. and joining us now, nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, talk to me about the poll numbers. what might rfks dropping out and endorsing trump do? >> small but potentially significant. that's the story in a close election. take a look at it this way. here's the polling before kamala harris became the democratic candidate, the three-way polling. kennedy on average had been

running over 9%. you see trump had been leading biden. biden gets out of the race. harris replaces him. here's what you've got. basically an average of a month's worth of polls now. you've got harris taking the lead over trump, improving over biden. kennedy was just saying, dropping in the polls from an average over 9 to barely five points. almost cut in half, his support there. here's the interesting part. harris in the three-way polls right now, leading trump. you can see that difference between harris and trump is .7 points. what if you take kennedy out of the equation. harris continues to lead, but the margin is reduced. again, it's 2.7 points for harris on average in three-way polls. it is 1.6 for harris on average in national two-way polls. a difference of one point. so when we say small but potentially significant. think of 2020, georgia, 12,000

votes, arizona, 10,000 votes. wisconsin, 20,000 votes. a one-point difference in places like that could potentially be enormous in a close race like that. what's particularly interesting, is again, we see harris's support rising since she got in. kennedy is falling. seems to be a pretty clear relationship there in some cases. two groups that kennedy has fallen the most with. two groups of voters are the two groups that harris has risen the most with. kennedy had been polling well since biden was the democratic candidate. in the same stretch of time, harris has gained 12 points over where joe biden was running. young voters, those under 30. again, kennedy had been polling strongly here, fallen 8 points since kamala harris became the democratic candidate. voters under 30, harris is doing 17 points better than biden. when you see kennedy's support dropping, there was a democratic friendly share of the kennedy vote. it wasn't there for biden that is now there for harris.

that's reduced the kennedy vote to what you're seeing, and what's left of the kennedy vote maybe is a little bit more trump friendly. if kennedy leaves, the potential certainly seems to be there for trump to benefit. it's politics. it's all potential. all possibility. we'll see how it plays out. >> the last few elections, coming down to a few thousand volts in a handful of places could be significant. coming up what bill clinton said about the economy, seems so unbelievable. he had to check it three times. we're checking it as well. what swing voters are waiting for from the convention as it heads into the final night. the lieutenant governor of the battleground state of michigan joins us next. don't go anywhere. anywhere. cta, just without the lactose. delicious too. just ask my old friend, kevin. nothing like enjoying a cold one while watching the game. who's winning?

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but we're on offense and we've got the ball. we're driving down the field. and boy do we have the right team. kamala harris is tough. kamala harris is experienced. and kamala harris is ready. our job, our job, our job, our job for everyone watching is to get in the trenches and do the blocking and tackling. 1 inch at a time. one yard at a time. one phone call at a time. one door knock at a time. $15 donation at a time. we got 76 days. that's nothing. there will be time to sleep when you're dead. we're going to leave it on the field. >> governor walz finished off his acceptance speech last night with what he called a pep talk for the party. so how do democrats plan on getting swing state voters to

play. joining us now, the democratic lieutenant governor of michigan, garlin gilchrist, thank you so much for joining us. if you were to give advice to the harris campaign about how to win michigan, what would you say? >> presence, presence, presence. the vice president has been to michigan more than any vice president in 50 years, and she needs to continue that at the lead of our ticket when she becomes the democratic nominee tonight. when they show up in michigan and different parts of michigan, and listen first and respond with the policies that are going to give access to health and wealth, lower costs, put families first, make health care more affordable. they have been leading and delivering on the policies for economic opportunity, and they need to continue to have that conversation and let people know they are part of this future. >> you say presence, presence, presence, i can't help but thinking about the infamous decision by hillary clinton not to go to michigan in 2016, when

you say presence, presence, presence, and being in a number of different parts of the state, do each parts of the state have different issues that they want to focus on? >> yeah, i mean, michigan has the diversity of america, urban and suburban and rural places. i look forward to welcoming the vice president back to detroit. i look forward to welcoming governor walz to the suburbs and grand rapids and understanding what our farmers and agricultural workers are talking about. they will not make the mistake. they have been to michigan, and they're going to be there time and time again. i'll be standing tall alongside them. >> a lot has changed since kamala harris looked over the ticket. is there a metric you're watching in michigan for how things might be going? >> we have registered more than 75,000 new voters since vice president harris ascended to the top of our ticket. that is game changing energy, and we're going to make sure that those voters get contacted by a volunteer, the record number of volunteers that have signed up, she ascended to the top of the ticket so those folks know what's at stake, and what

their role is in this democracy. our future is big enough to include them. the republican division that's about racism, and exclusion. donald trump does not want them to be successful. kamala harris does. >> 75,000 is a big number. do you know how it breaks down? >> the majority of the people, i think they're signing up to vote for vice president harris and governor walz, given that they just came on since they joined the ticket. what i do know best is that these are younger voters coming into the process because they are excited to play their role in this decision and exercise their stake for the future. they are not coming here to vote to go back. they are not coming here to vote for a president not only who shows how much he hates people, but shows that he only cares about his economic security, and instead, they're voting for a vice president and a president in tim walz and vice president harris that are ready to welcome them into that future. >> lieutenant governor of michigan, garlin gilchrist, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me.

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the energy is electric. there's a flood of fundraising and the polls are getting better by the day. how far down the ballot does that momentum go, especially since a lot of the most competitive races are in places the presidential candidates and their ad buys won't touch. joining us now, at "punchbowl news" cofounder, and political contributor, jake sherman, fighting a noisy hall to speak to us. good to have you. i know you're a bit on the skeptical side about the down ballot races, especially in the senate. talk to me. >> i'm not skeptical. that is a bruno mars rendition. here's why i'm a little bit skeptical. i'm not skeptical that democrats will do well. i think the stars are aligning for them to do well. we're still 74, 75 days from election day, but a few dynamics that are worth considering, number one, the political dynamics can change very quickly. number two, everyone talks about the money. democrats are raising more money

than republicans, but the super pacs really even things out. but i want to say a few other things. this morning, i heard hakeem jeffries effectively tell california democrats, we're in the end zone, we're on the goal line. we're going to take back the majority. that's further than i have heard him go in the past, and i think that's a real sign of his confidence, number one. number two, the two states, katy, that are going to be key in democrats taking back the house are california and new york. these are states that, you know, the districts are difficult. these are states that are not going to benefit from presidential spending but they are states where kamala harris is broadly popular. they're not hugely conservative seats, so, i mean, listen, a lot of things could change. if you're a democrat, you're betting a lot of money on taking back the house today. >> we got new polling, which i think is interesting, if not a little bit of a deja vu. this comes out of texas.

senator ted cruz at 47%. representative colin allred who wants his job, 45%. we have kamala harris within the margin of error against donald trump, and i say deja vu because we talk about texas, it feels like every year. democrats are within striking distance. only for ted cruz to hold his challenger back. >> ted cruz is probably one of the more, if you look at the scale of senators, probably one of the more unpopular senators, but texas is still a red sate. but here's what i would say. i do think that colin allred will bring it closer than other candidates in the pass. i think it will be a 2, 3 point race. colin allred is spending a lot of money on the air waves of texas, a lot, a lot of money. early. we're 75 days out. the last number i saw was $20 million on television, compared to a single digit number from ted cruz.

he's trying to make it a race. texas democrats who say the state is going to turn blue all the time are going to be disappointed this year. i think it will eventually happen. we had an event with lizzie fletcher, texas democrats are again falling in love with their candidate and the fact that they think they're going to make this a contest. >> they have a legislature out there that is deeply unpopular with a lot of folks on abortion, not just democrats. so if there's a moment, maybe this is the one. jake, i got to let you go. i'm being told i'm out of time. i love your shirt, tell irene if she picked it out, i love it. >> i did it all by myself, katy. >> i'm so proud of you, jake. thank you very much. what bill clinton said last night that is raising new questions about which party is better for the economy. >> and in a speech, governor tim walz zeroed in on project 2025. what he said that donald trump

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51 million new jobs. [ applause ] i swear i checked this three times. even i couldn't believe it. what's the score? democrats 50, republicans 1. >> if you heard that line from president clinton last night, odds are you did the same thing i did, you googled it to see if he was right. he was, largely. according to the data guy at "the washington post," there is an avalanche of caveats, including the dot-com bubble, covid-19 pandemic, and even with that taken into account, the difference is striking. and even more so if you go back even further to the end of world war ii, for example. 14 presidents, 7 from each party, the total, 88 million jobs added under democrats, and 32 million under republicans. joining us now, the nation's national affairs correspondent, john nichols. so republicans are the ones that get credit for the economy. how do you explain that when you

see that jobs number divide? >> well, it comes down to the basic reality that democrats don't always message as well as they should. that's one of the reasons why bill clinton shows up at every convention. this is now -- i can't even count the number. it's probably like 14 or so. he shows up at every convention, and he's the stats guy. he does this. remember, back in 2012, he came to the convention at a point when barack obama was struggling a little bit politically. there was some concerns. especially on some of the economic issues, and clinton delivered a barn burner speech in which he basically, you know, flooded the zone with economic data, generally presented in a pretty strong way, and did such a good job that that obama referred to clinton as the explainer in chief. i think that's what clinton was trying to do last night. >> i want to give a shout out to the job that our audio guys are doing out there.

the audio team, because i can hear you perfectly clear even though there is literally a drum circle with symbols behind you. which is amazing, john, the audio is incredible. good on the nbc folks. >> to be honest, it feels very exciting. as long as i can hear you and you can hear me, we're doing fine. >> so tell me, this divide we're seeing, you're talking about it being a messaging issue for the democrats. do you see that messaging changing? is this version of the democratic party, have we seen enough of it to anticipate that they're going to have a better handle on it going into the future? >> sure, i think there's a couple of things we have seen at this convention. for one thing, they have embraced the word union. they haven't been uncomfortable with it. and truthfully, not that many decades back or even years back, democrats war little bit more cautious going all in for their union base. not at this convention. union members, leaders have been

front and center. many of the speakers have talked about it. they're taking a side there. that's important. the other thing that i think is significant. if you listen to tim walz speech last night, just as some people refer to clinton as the explainer in chief, walz is emerging as an explainer in chief. he's very very good at boiling down some of these discussions and making them very human. i think he had one of the more remarkable lines at the convention when he said that in minnesota when they started their morning programs and midday programs for breakfast and lunch in the schools, walz said other states banished books, we banished hunger. and while that's not a wall street economic stat, that is getting to the heart and soul of economics, getting to the heart and soul of what government can do in people's lives. and so as walz builds that out, maybe then blends in a little of

that economic data, i think he might prove to be an effective campaigner on the ticket on this issue. >> what i found interesting about that data point in particular was the context that we were given earlier in the evening. this is when one of his neighbors, a 7th grader that he coached basketball for came on stage and explained that governor walz when he was a football coach for the high school was coaching 7th grade basketball because he was trying to raise some extra money because he had paid off the lunch debt from one of his students, one kid who couldn't afford it, racked up a pretty big debt, according to this former student, and walz was paying it off. when we're talking about ending hungers at schools, you can understand the origin story of the tale told by the former student. john nichols, thank you very much. and despite his insistence that he has nothing to do with it. former president donald trump cannot shake project 2025. take donald trump and j.d.

vance. [ crowd booing ] their project 2025 will make things much much harder for people who are just trying to live their lives. they spend a lot of time pretending they know nothing about this, but look, i coached high school football long enough to know, and trust me on this, when somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they're going to use it. >> joining us now, anchor of "chris jansing reports," chris jansing. the number of people that have been involved in project 2025 who have ties to donald trump or served in his cabinet or served alongside him in the last administration is a strikingly high number, more than a hundred. donald trump trailing him? >> reporter: because they say this is kind of, i guess, fool me once. that's what i talk to democrats about. they say remember when, and i can tell you i was there in

pennsylvania on election night three and a half yeerds ago, and i was told by a state legislator that if they didn't win, if trump department win, they were going to put forth a panel of other electors and people shook their heads and said, what, we don't understand. you cannot challenge an election. and then we saw what happened and we saw january 6th. they will say, remember when people said roe v. wade is established law? then it turned out that it wasn't. and so they see this as the strongest argument that really plays into their own playbook. and their playbook is paint the republicans as extreme and dangerous. and they are also besides putting it on the stage in the way you just heard, they are having a little fun with it. for that we credit kenan thompson. take a look. >> you ever seen a document that can kill a small animal and democracy at the same time?

here it is. >> you know when you download an app and there are hundreds of pages there that you don't read and it's just the terms and conditions and you click agree? right? well, these are the terms and conditions of a second trump presidency. you vote for him, you vote for all of this. let's take a look. >> i should point out that the actual document isn't quite that big. that's slightly exaggerated, but this has been effective, the democrats believe, to their cause. they know that it's resinating with a lot of folks, who see what has happened. things they thought could never be possible, they know are possible. and you know this very well, katy. donald trump is averse to any kind of planning for the next administration, so it's very difficult to say what exactly the plan is, but democrats say, prepare for the worst case scenario because we have seen what can already happen.

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as you well know by now, there is perhaps no more important the battleground state than the state of pennsylvania with its 19 electoral votes. so what matters to the voters who will decide there? jacob soboroff went to find out. >> at the end of all this, how many buildings are going to be demolished? >> about 150. >> reporter: he's been mayor for 12 years.

today he's presiding over a demolition bonanza funded by president biden's american rescue plan. >> this is a renaissance. we're changing the environment of our downtown. >> when you talk about what matters in this city, why does this matter? >> that's important to change what people see. >> reporter: we first met the mayor here in 2016 as aliquippa struggled to build back after the steel industry's collapse. we also met these retirees. >> how has aliquippa changed over the course of your lives here? >> aliquippa was a booming town. now the mill shut down. it's nothing. >> reporter: that shift shook up life in aliquippa. it's one of the most populous cities in the county, which vote the democratic, but since 2008 has picked a republican for president. part of the reason the state has become a battleground.

the mayor believes this election could mark another political shift. >> there's a lot more, i would say, optimism about the future. >> reporter: we went to put the mayor's theory to a test in a place that since the steel industry's dissint grags has become the heartbeat. the football community. >> we have been doing this how long? >> since about 1996. >> reporter: coach mark walker is the mayor's cousin. >> how has aliquippa changed since you were a young man? >> first and foremost, industry. jobs, this was a job destination. that in and of itself is the major change, the economy. it went down. the mills went, jobs went. >> reporter: if you asked somebody what matters in aliquippa and they said football, they are not really talking about football. >> no, it's a mind set. heart and smart. we try to teach them that mind set. >> reporter: mary jo is that mind set personified. a home health aid and a mom, she's used to help the others. >> i'm a single month mom.

i go to work five days a week. as soon as i get off work, we're here for football. >> are you going to vote? >> absolutely. >> how are you feeling? >> we're going to have the first black female president here real soon. >> reporter: mary jo introduced us to her fellow team moms. >> they are taking the right to vote seriously. it doesn't matter about the party. we need some jobs here. >> we drove around the city today. i think they knocked down over ten buildings today. >> it felt like a new beginning. >> definitely. >> reporter: hope and new beginnings in a small city that could make a big difference come election day. >> good work, guys. >> jacob soboroff reporting for us from pennsylvania. that's going to do it for me today. "deadline: white house" starts right now.