i want to bring in symone sanders townsend, cohost of "the weekend", and elise jordan, former aide to bush white house and state department and also an msnbc political analyst. i don't know, is mind your own damn business the bumper sticker message we're going to see on the harris web site? what do you make of this tim walz, including, by the way, clapping for himself. he gets so into the crowd, he collapse for himself. >> governor walz is actually originally from nebraska. and as a native nebraskan myself, a north omahan, that is nebraska nice of him, clapping for one's self. it's endearing, i believe. the bumper sticker it made me think of governor gretchen whitmer, when she ran her gubernatorial race, her tag line was fix the damn roads. it spoke to something everyone could identify with, the roads, your city roads or driving on the highway, she wants to fix the damn roads, and it was endearing, it was straightforward. i think mind your own dag gone business is right along that line, and it doesn't just speak to what is happening in the reproductive front, not just in some of the b

a reporter for the atlantic journal constitution and msnbc contributor, and elise jordan was an aide to george bush's white house and also an nbc political analyst. thank you all. your article reminded me for the bubbas for bill tour. tell us more about why so many people you talked to think this is such a big deal. >> i love how you say it's a high risk strategy. that's what this is. typically democratic candidates for president don't really come to georgia, really, until 2020. they usually bypassed atlanta and georgia, and they wouldn't campaign in georgia. that's obviously changed as the state's demographics changed. what we see when they do come, they come to metro atlanta. this is a warnock strategy in 2022 when he also focused on the outer lying areas away from metro atlanta. metro is still the key and it's more than half of the state's population, and there's plenty of votes to be had even in deep red georgia counties. if you can cut those margins, you can accumulate enough to put a candidate over the top. >> i understand we just recently got more specifics about where the can

elise jordan, sam stein still with us.e conversation, we have the co-host of msnbc's "the weekend," symone sanders townsend. special correspondent at "vanity fair" and host of "the fast politics" podcast, molly jong-fast. and the aforementioned msnbc contributor and author of the book "how the right lost its mind," charlie sykes. great group. thank you, all, for being with us this morning. >>> let's dive into some new polling to begin this hour. vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump are essentially tied in every sunbelt swing state. according to the latest fox news polling, harris leads trump by one point among registered voters in arizona and by two points in both georgia and nevada. trump, meanwhile, leads by a single point in north carolina. all of those results, we should make clear, are within the margin of error. there are some trend lines here. in previous fox polls conducted before president joe biden exited the race, trump led by five points in arizona, nevada, and north carolina, and by s

and jonathan lemire, elise jordan, reverend al sharpton are all back with us.ggest decision of her two-week-old presidential campaign, as she chooses a running mate, and prepares to introduce the new democratic ticket to voters in several key battleground states this week. nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander has the latest. >> reporter: with a self-imposed deadline to announce her pick by running mate by tomorrow night, vice president kamala harris hosted at least three contenders at her washington residence sunday. arizona senator mark kelly, minnesota governor tim walz, and pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, who returned home late sunday, a day after playing coy with reporters. >> i'm just taking my dog for a walk. >> reporter: in a sign of the heightened scrutiny, kelly deleting a tweet sunday that read in part, "i spent my life serving in the navy and at nasa, where the mission always comes first. now my mission is serving arizonians." his staff later saying it was just a standard post. his account later tweeting out, when your country