>> it's been a treat. the breaking news coverages that i get a chance to be with you are highlights. >> back at you. >> i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," a star performance, kamala harris putting her stamp on the democratic party and kick starting her sprint to november with a high voltage convention finale. >> on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, i accept your nomination to be president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] introduction the largest audience of her campaign to her blended family, while reaching out to interests and swing voters with a hawkish foreign policy.

>> it is now our turn to do what generations before us have done, to uphold the awesome responsibility that comes with the greatest privilege on earth, the privilege and pride of being an american! [ cheers and applause ] taking the fight to donald trump. >> donald trump is an unserious man. the consequences of putting donald trump back in the white house are extremely serious. just imagine donald trump with no guardrails. and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency.

>> trump lashing out on social media in real time and discounting all evidence that his new opponent has galvanized the democrats. >> she's not having success. i'm having success. i'm doing great with the hispanic voters. i'm doing great with black men. i'm doing great with women. ♪♪ good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. just back from the democratic convention in chicago this morning where kamala harris told her personal story, including the fact that she has an indian mother, a jamaican father, a blended family, a reflection of america today. >> my mother was a brilliant 5 foot tall brown woman with an accent. she taught us to never complain about injustice, but do something about it.

[ cheers and applause ] do something about it. she also taught us -- never do anything half-assed. that is a direct quote. when i was in high school, i started to notice something about my best friend. she confided she was being sexually abused by her stepfather. this is one of the reasons i became a prosecutor. to be clear, my entire career, i have only had one client, the people. i will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations. we will create what i call an opportunity economy, an opportunity economy where everyone has the chance to compete and a chance to succeed. we can create anarned pathway to citizenship and secure our

border. >> most striking, her most detailed description yet of a hawkish foreign policy. this a deliberate appeal to independent and swing voters, not the democratic base. >> as commander in chief, i will ensure america always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world. and i will always honor and never disparage their service and their sacrifice. as president, i will stand strong with ukraine and our nato allies. i will not cozy up to tie ran -- tyrants and dictators. i know where i stand and i know where the united states belongs. let's get out there, let's fight for it, let's get out there, let's vote for it, and together, let us write the next great

chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told! thank you. >> the reimagined party convention energizing the crowd by bringing in hundreds of influencers, djs, country stars like the chicks. ending it all with an epic balloon drop. we begin back in chicago the day after with yamiche alcindor and tyler pager. thanks to both of you. yamiche, your reporting throughout, extraordinary. talk about all these moments. there was a moment last night when harris' great nieces taught the audience with a deliberate dig at donald trump mispronouncing her name, how to pronounce her first name. one of the girls later watching harris speak in this new viral video -- or photo, rather.

harris is the first woman of color to accept a major party nomination. unlike hillary clinton eight years, harris did not mention that history should she be elected. she's making this a campaign about the voters. yamiche? >> that's right. she did not lean into the history in terms of explicitly talking about the fact that she would be the first black woman, first south asian woman to be president. what she did do was say her mother, of course, someone who came from india, her mother said, don't let people tell you who you are, show them who you are. over and over again in that speech, she talked about the fact that her family is a family that's going to be making history. the idea her mother was not just someone who came from india but who saved for decades to buy a home. her father came from jamaica and tout her she should run, run, run. even in her talking about her

life and how it brought her to being interested in being a prosecutor, and how it brought her to be interested to being a president, she was showing her story. it's a blended familiar with different races, different genders. i am someone who will embody being a president for all people. in talking to people, sources familiar with the speech, they told me they wanted to make sure that they told americans that she earned this nomination, that she was qualified to be president, and that she is a black woman but she didn't get the nomination because of that. just leaning into the fact, if you look at her great nieces who were telling people, teaching the crowd how to say kamala. her first name. there was all of that in there. all of the conversation was around that. she didn't lean into it because she didn't have to. you can see she's making history. >> yamiche, she dug in on reproductive rights. an important issue for the democrats, certainly post-dobbs.

slamming donald trump. look at this. >> he is not done. as a part of his agenda, he is and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without congress. get this. get this. he plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator. and force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions. simply put, they are out of their minds. [ cheers and applause ] >> yamiche, how much of this campaign is going to be focused on protecting abortion rights, reproductive rights?

>> the campaign is built on the idea that they are pushing her and vice president harris as well as governor tim walz, are pushing for american freedoms and abortion access is top among those freedoms they want to restore for women across the country. long before she was the top of the democratic ticket, she was the most prominent voice in the biden administration on this issue. she traveled, had speaking engagements, multiple times, she was the first vice president to visit an abortion clinic. it was very big news. she feels comfortable on this topic. democrats see this as an animating topic. this will motivate people to go to the polls. we have seen over and over again when abortion is on the ballot, the people who are in favor of abortion access and abortion rights, they won every time. if you look at the midterms, democrats were able to stave off the red wave because women came out and men, too, came out and said they wanted to vote to make sure the state that had that on the ballot, they could restore

their access and enshrine their access to abortion in their state constitution. this is a topic that's a priority for this campaign. i should say, i interviewed the second gentleman. he said men have a role in advocating. it's also the men on the ticket talking about that. of course, her spouse who would be the first gentleman if he were -- if she were elected. it's a big topic. it's interesting to see former president trump saying he would be a remarkable president for women's reproductive rights. >> putting up that social tweet, my administration will be great for women and reproductive rights. he was watching last night. clearly, seeing where the vulnerabilities are. tyler, talk to us about the enthusiasm of the last four

days. it was off the charts. i have never been to a convention quite like this. certainly, the modernizing of it in terms of the music, the whole hip hop introduction, the dj, all of that. the production values were incredible. >> yeah, absolutely. this has been a change from what we saw over a month ago when there was panic and anxiety about president biden staying in the race and what that would mean for democratic chances come november. we saw jubilation, excitement. a huge groundswell of support behind this ticket. a lot of excitement about tim walz, someone who didn't have much of a national profile before kamala harris elevated him in recent weeks. the crowd, the energy around chicago was electric. i also think there is an undercurrent of some anxiety.

we saw that in some of the speeches over the course of the last few nights. former first lady michelle obama telling delegates, telling voters, look, we have to get to work. we can't just ride this enthusiasm and this excitement. there's work to be done. we saw that threaded throughout a lot of the speakers and in conversations i had with people on the campaign and other democratic strategists. there's concern about getting too confident. there are signs with fund-raising and polling that she made up ground, that biden had lost, trailing donald trump. but this is a close race that will be decided in a handful of battleground states likely by tens of thousands of votes. with all this enthusiasm and jubilation we see in chicago, they are trying to make clear to democrats and voters around the country that it's not enough to be excited, there's work to be done to ensure harris is elected

in november. >> it was no accident that the term limited north carolina governor, who was briefly on the short list for vice president, was the final introducer just before the video they brought in kamala harris last night. he had a very prominent role. >> yeah. i think we saw a lot of the key governors having primetime speaking spots. josh shapiro and gretchen whitmer. shouting out to delegations in the crowd, trying to get them energized. we saw a wide diversity of speakers. a heavy influence of those states where this election is going to be decided. one of the things that democrats are excited about is that kamala harris they believe has opened up an alternative path to

securing 270 electoral votes. biden, his path to returning to the white house, ran through pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin with little room for error there. now some of the polling, some of the data shows that kamala harris is a more competitive candidate in north carolina, in georgia and arizona. some of the sunbelt states. they see alternative pathways. they think the best path is through the blue wall states, in the midwest. very much alternative options, which democrats a little breathing room in a close election. >> it's going to be a tight race. thanks so much, tyler, yamiche. president biden watching the final night of the convention while on vacation in southern california. posting this photo of himself at the first lady. the president writing he spoke with harris before her speech.

most democrats respecting the courage of biden's historic decision to hand over power, unprecedented. relieved at the seamless transition to the vice president. saying that the surge of enthusiasm now gives them new hope of winning. on the convention floor last night, i spoke with two top democrats, senators chris coons and amy klobuchar, about the president's decision and how it has transformed the election landscape. >> i know he is proud of her work. i know he is excited for her candidacy. you can see behind us and around us the excitement here. i have lost my voice shouting in the last two nights here in this convention. of course, it's hard. accepting that reality and recognizing the greatest gift he could give our nation is a good shot at protecting our democracy, it's one of the most selfless things joe bide con -- biden could have done. i'm proud of him. >> do you think kamala can turn

this into votes? >> yes, absolutely. i have been to conventions since 1988. i have never seen a conviction this united, this energize and this positive. there's a lot of excitemenjust country. >> it has been a complete momentum shift. joe biden made a courageous decision. a decision that was very difficult to make, but he did it. we are where we are now. part is attributed to her leadership, she was able to stitch this together. and pick a vice president who is a great guy and did a wonderful job last night. >> how big a difference can tim walz make in the rustbelt, in red states? >> i found it interesting that in states like wisconsin, is where they have gone ahead, michigan, just those blue wall states, they can relate to him. i was noticing last night when i introduced him as the dad in plaid and talked about his

midwestern common sense, it's not the most exciting line, cheering. it was an unorthodox choice. a lot of people didn't moe who tim was, partly because he was doing his job. that's what he does. he is a governor, been doing his job. he is a gem, clearly. >> the harris-walz campaign hasn't said what their first post-convention stop is going to be. harris is heading back to washington later today. tim walz is back home in minnesota with his family. back to the battle grounds. the impact the democratic convention could have in wisconsin after an action-packed convention, which ended with 100,000 balloons. they were a lot of fun but also impossible to steer clear of. if you were trying to get off the floor. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." are watching a mitchell reports."

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wisconsin is a key swing state in the democratic playbook. kamala harris and tim walz even left the chicago convention this week to hold a rally in milwaukee. the same arena where the republicans held their convention last month. the margin for victory in wisconsin has been less than 1% for biden and trump in 2020 and 2016. this week, the wisconsin delegation danced in their cheese heads during the dnc roll

call. i ran over to talk to the state's democratic party chair about the momentum the party is riding right now. >> there is unbelievable energy and enthusiasm in every corner of wisconsin. this is a moment when democrats are going to shoot not only to send harris and walz to the white house, but to flip house seats, to flip our state assembly, which was gerrymandered. >> you sound fired up and ready to go. >> fired up and ready to go. >> everyone was hoarse. they were handing out cough drops. joining me is cavalier johnson. mayor, thanks for being with us. you spoke at the convention. your reaction to the whole production values and the way people were pumped up. tell me about it. >> my gosh, it was an incredible

experience to be at the democratic national convention, to have the opportunity to see americans coming together around kamala harris' vision for inclusivity for everybody in the country. i was in chicago for the convention all week, except tuesday when i went to milwaukee for the outstanding rally, the largest gathering of the campaign thus far. the enthusiasm, the hope is palpable across wisconsin. >> is that going to be translated? we have been talking about, is it a sugar high? what are you seeing grass-roots in terms of volunteers? i know the money is big. $500 million since -- the amount of money that they have done in the last month. talk about what you are seeing in terms of volunteers, the organizing, and especially young people.

>> yeah, absolutely. i can tell you this. as mayor of milwaukee -- we are the city of festivals. there are plenty of opportunities to talk to people. i continue to go out and knock on doors. folks are paying attention. they know what's going on. they are asking questions. they want to know what the candidates are going to do for them. when you show them the contrast between kamala harris' vision for america and donald trump's vision for america, it's a no brainer. they are voting for kamala harris. they need to continue to be engaged. in terms of the outreach on the ground, there are a ton reaching out to individuals. there's an organization called souls to the polls. they go out every day mobilizing voters in milwaukee. kamala harris' campaign and the democrats have made investment on the ground in neighborhood

across wisconsin. moved the state headquarters to milwaukee. >> ben was pointing out that the numbers of people who were in that arena are larger than the margin that biden won by in 2020. in terms of the vote. let's talk about how you can sustain this and keep that enthusiasm going. you know what to expect. it's going to be a very tough, gritty campaign. >> yeah. you are absolutely right. there were nearly 20,000 people in the forum. there were over 30,000 people that rsvped. there were 10,000 that couldn't get in. in terms of keeping up the enthusiasm here, certainly there will be a bump.

democrats are energized after our convention. there are some republicans and independents who also will be energized. i think we will carry this energy on with other rallies and leather large gatherings across the country. the debate will show the truth. she's perfectly positioned to prosecute the case against donald trump. she will do that in september. that will give us extra momentum as we head into the election this fall. >> thanks so much, mr. mayor. appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up, exactly what we are talking about. former president trump lashing out at vice president harris. that's next. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. with fastsigns, create factory grade visual solutions to perfect your process. ♪♪

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former president trump was watching vice president kamala harris' speech last night, giving real time commentary on his social media platform. he was writing seemingly incoherent false jabs like, where is hunter? the biden family left monday. they weren't in town. accusing kamala harris of causing the hamas attack on israel. today, donald trump continuing his swing through the west, stopping in las vegas to promote his no tax on tips policy. then he holds a rally in arizona where his campaign says he will

be joined by a special guest. joining us now from las vegas, nbc news correspondent david noriega. it seems it's not beyonce and taylor swift. it's likely that it could be rfk junior since he was expected to make a big announcement out there today, not far from where donald trump is expected to be. >> reporter: nobody knows exactly who the special guest will be at the event later today in arizona. there's a lot of speculation that it will be rfk junior. the trump campaign is being very cagey about this. trump said he would be honored by an endorsement from rfk junior. he is not saying whether he knows there will be such an endorsement or whether he would offer rfk any kind of position in his cabinet or anything like that.

however, the question is whether rfk endorsing trump will make a difference in the election. rfk is around 4%. it's less than what he was polling when biden was in the race. the margins are so, so very narrow that that could make the difference at the end of the day in november. >> third-party candidates made a big difference in 2016. garrett haake was speaking to donald trump yesterday asking him about rfk junior. >> reporter: we have been reporting rfk junior is getting ready to endorse you. what role would he have with your campaign or in your administration? >> i don't want to get too much into it. you are telling me something i don't know other than i have always been friendly with him. if he were going to endorse me, i would consider it a great honor. >> david, rfk junior is slated to speak this afternoon in phoenix about his path forward. we don't know if he will be in glendale for the trump campaign as well. right?

>> reporter: that's right. they will be 20 minutes away from each other. it would be easy for rfk to pop over to the location in arizona where trump is going to be speaking. that's why a lot of people are speculating that's what's going to happen. we don't know. we have not gotten any official confirmation. >> donald trump did also call into fox news as soon as kamala harris' speech wraps up last night. >> it was a lot of complaining. she didn't talk about china. she didn't talk about fracking. she didn't talk about crime. she didn't talk about 70% of our people are living in poverty. she didn't talk about housing, really. the trade deficit. >> that's not exactly the way i would describe the speech. it seems to a lot of trump watchers that he is a little bit unnerved by what he is seeing, david, on the other side. this is an all new opponent and

a very different democratic party. >> reporter: yeah. look, i think the other evidence is the fact that this week on the campaign trail has been arguably the busiest for the trump campaign this cycle. a lot of that was counter programming for the dnc. the event in las vegas, happening at this restaurant behind me, trump is expected to talk to workers about his propoal to eliminate taxes on income from tips. we expect him to hammer home talking points on the economy. i have been coming to las vegas all year. top of mind in the state is the economy. people feel that the economy was better in the trump years than biden years. that has more to do with the pandemic than the policies of either party. >> david, thank you very much. the state of the race, next. steve kornacki joining us to

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with the democratic national convention, only 74 days until the election, the real test begins.

there's no one better to ask than steve kornacki, who joins us from the big board. steve, so much has happened in such a short amount of time. the math has changed. she's got different paths according to early polling. >> yeah. i think that's the story. it's a very tight race, but it has changed in the last month. we will show you how. big picture is this. as joe biden was getting out of the race, this is what the polling was showing. he was down three points against donald trump. about a month of kamala harris as the new democratic candidate, on average harris up two. what is behind that move forward for harris in the polling, three groups in particular where she's performed exceptionally better than biden. they are voters who democrats have in the past relied on that

biden had been lagging with. black voters. harris is better than biden. hispanic voters. ten points better than biden. young voters, under 30. these were all -- we talked with biden about there being potential slack in the democratic coalition. that's less the case the polling is telling us with harris. what would that translate into in terms of this road to 270 map we will return to so much between now and november? a couple things here. in gray, you have the core battleground states. you may notice, most of this year, we were talking about six. now there are seven. north carolina, democrats have been talking all year about trying to make this a battleground. they were talking about that when biden was the candidate. with harris as the candidate, partly due to the improvement in black support that you see in the polls there, north carolina, there's been a couple polls showing a dead even race, maybe

even harris ahead very slightly in the polling there. suddenly, you could put north carolina in that battleground. the improvement harris has with hispanic voters. arizona, state like nevada, these are states where trump had been polling very well against joe biden. harris showing improvements here. essentially, what it comes down to is this. for democrats when joe biden was the candidate, it was a real narrow path that they had been left with. biden was going to have to win. democrats were going to have to win wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. you can see with those three, it would get hem to 270 exactly. not an inch to spare. they would have to win all three. with harris in those improvements we have seen demographically, to have a nevada, to have arizona, to have north carolina potentially, potentially in play, it could relieve some of the pressure on

harris and and democrats to go the great lakes and open up a sunbelt path. it means a month into harris as the democratic candidate, there's more pathways potentially for democrats. we will see as the general election takes off, how does that evolve from here? does that remain the case? does trump make gains? >> the other factor that was being discussed on the floor last night, steve, is the impact that she's having on down ballot races. some of the so-called safe senate seats were really in dangered because joe biden was stuck so low in the polls. she narrowing that gap, some of the senators were leading the top of the ticket, now it's narrower and they are in better shape, the senators. that's what they were saying. >> yeah. look at a state like arizona and

nevada. states with battleground senate races. democrats have been performing well in the senate polls. the fear has been as well as the senate candidates are polling, if you get to the presidential election, if trump carries the state, does have it have the riding tide lifts all boats on the other republicans running? if harris is able to win this nevada, the possibility seems to ex exist. that would help. >> the fact that they couldn't overcome it if biden was stuck as the top of the ticket, stuck in the mid 30s. that's not the gap you can overcome. thank you, steve kornacki. we look forward as both campaigns race to the finish. an exclusive moment in the basement as the vice president and her husband were leaving the stage. she paused to chat with nbc's

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so bottom line, the democrats are riding high coming off of this week's energized convention. the harris-walz campaign faces a

challenge of doing the hard work. 74 days to go until election day. joining us now, former republican national communications director doug heye and donna edwards. you know how this works, especially in a 50/50 country. donna, there's so much enthusiasm for the campaign, the excitement. it's significant. here is what justin douglas -- i was talking to him last night. he is a county commissioner in pennsylvania. here is what he told me last night. >> i think about this particular election and i think about election night and my daughter at 15 being able to say madam president and the impact that will have for her life and the

impact of those behind her and the impact of those before that have made cracks in the glass ceiling that made this possible for kamala harris. >> talking to him, he brought that up. i finished my questions. he said, one more thing. he brought that up. i had not thought of asking him about reproductive rights. as a dad, he brought that up. it was interesting. he was elected just last fall. he was the first democrat to be elected in that county since the civil war. he flipped that county commission seat. that's where it all the reasonu were going to hear both governor walz and as well as the second gentleman, doug emhoff go out on the campaign trail from a man's perspective talking about issues around abortion access, around

what it means to have women in leadership and valuing that, and i think that's going to be a very powerful message, and i think what i came across attending so many different meetings, and i was on the floor last night, and it was electric, but i came away from that thinking that there were so many people who were talking about the thing that they were going to do, are going to do tomorrow and the next day and not just about having a celebration and a party, and i think democrats are going to need that going into these next 74 days. >> what do they need to do, doug, in the next, you know, 74 days to keep this thing going and to build on it? >> well, i think it starts with those voters who we didn't see this week or a few weeks ago in milwaukee, republicans are unified and excited behind donald trump. democrats are obviously unified and very excited behind kamala harris. i think they were unified by this week started. this was just sort of an organizing principle to sort of

capture some of that. now they've got to have that real conversation with those voters who wake up every day and they're not happy with the direction of the country, and they're upset because they've gone to the grocery store the day before, and they know their bills are going to be too high. maybe they don't get ice cream for the kids, they're planning to go to a restaurant, it's too expensive. they're worried about the fentanyl crisis, which is a word i didn't hear in the vice president's speech last night. they're worried about the situation at the border. if you're the trump campaign, all of those things line up with where the biden/harris administration remain under water. if i'm donald trump or j.d. vance, i'm using the word biden a whole lot to talk about why the country isn't behind these policies that come from both of them, and also to ask the question, i think we'll hear a lot of this from republicans, we learned a lot from kamala harris last night about what she wants to do over the next four years. you're going to hear j.d. vance, donald trump, and a lot of republican surrogates say what about now? you haven't done any of that now, aside from the border bill,

which i wished republicans passed and president biden had signed. that's going to come a lot from trump, and when we have the debate, one of the things we know is donald trump likes to pick up sand, and he likes to throw it in his opponent's eyes. that's something that the harris campaign has to prepare for in a million different directions. you'd never know which way of smoke donald trump's going to throw at you. >> debates, donna, are very different from the hearings where she is the prosecutor and where as a senator asking the questions, you know, you've got all kinds of control. the debate, donald trump and donald trump comes out of the debate with joe biden, of course, with real confidence in his ability to do it. >> well, we also saw kamala harris in her very brief run for president of the united states back in 2020, she was a very effective debater, and i think that she has actually gotten better over the last three and a

half years. she's more confident, and that really came through, and i would disagree. i mean, i think that, you know, that kamala harris has demonstrated that she's trying to mitigate some of the charges that republicans might make, and you could hear that in her speech last night, and i think that there was a lot of outreach to independent voters and to republican voters coming directly face to camera from a lot of the speakers who were there. i thought adam kinzinger, for example, was very effective last night in saying, you know, republicans be patriots, and we heard that from a number of speakers, and kamala harris looked directly into the camera and appealed to those independent and republican voters, and i think that's going to go a long way. >> it did see as though in social media that donald trump was really off his game in watching in realtime because

his -- his comments would just totally, you know, strange to put it mildly. how do you expect that the smart people in his campaign, suzie wiles and others can manage this going forward. >> i can't tell you what to expect to happen. susie whiles, chris las vee ta, very smart people trying to keep donald trump on message. a new group coming in saying let donald be donald. that's going to be a tug of war throughout. >> is that corey lewandowski? >> that's corey and others. you've showed numbers where the harris campaign is doing better with younger voters and african american voters, very important constituency we're not talking about hispanic voters. republicans have an opportunity there, but they've got to put resources on the ground and on the air to win those votes. >> and she still has to reach out to the older white voters who were biden people in her own party. we're going to have to leave it there for now. to come, 74 days and counting,

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