good morning. it is sunday, july 26th. i'm ali velshi at the site of the old bethlehem steel plant. it its heyday it employed more than 3,500 people. nine years ago it was re-opened at the steel stacks. it's an arts and entertainment district. it holds festivals. it holds hundreds of free concerts every year. today we're marking another milestone. 100 days until the election in november. pennsylvania luka sabbis a batt state. president trump won this state

in 2016. much like this state that i'm in times have changed. new polling shows joe biden ahead of donald trump in pennsylvania by double digits. in an effort to turn the tide amid the collapsing polling numbers which have dropped in every category, donald trump announced he's sending vice president pence to pennsylvania this week for a cops for trump event. also yesterday trump played golf on the tax payers' dime. this time not with a law maker, but this time with former nfl quarterback brett farve. as i said we're 100 days away from election day. who better to talk about the state of affairs with me than the one and only rachel maddow. rachel, good morning to you. before we start i want to give you five words and see if you can remember them in 15 minutes.

i'm not going to do that actually. >> camera, tv, man -- >> i want to talk about -- there you go. i want to talk to you about new polls out right now. this morning we got polls from arizona. it shows joe biden with a 5-point lead over donald trump. back in march biden had a 1-point advantage in arizona which is within the margin of error. this isn't. trump won arizona in 2016 by about 3 points. this new nbc poll shows former astronaut mark kelly running ahead of march think mcsally by double digits. the number for trump in arizona is one more example of the president's struggles in a swing state. couple days ago we saw biden up in minnesota, michigan and in this state of pennsylvania. the issue here is a whole bunch of people who believed that donald trump was going to --

whatever you think -- make america great again. he was going to improve their lot in life. they're somehow coming to the conclusion that he couldn't do it when times were okay. he's definitely not doing it in the last 100 days. >> the thing that's interesting to me looking at the swing state polls is that every time a new one comes out, i say that's got to be an outlier. i should look at the sample more closely. i go to the decision desk and say how do we feel about that poll. i'm so scarred from what we experienced in 2016 that all of these polls showing the democrat 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 points ahead in states that trump won in 2016, i feel like -- my brain gets it, but my soul can't because of what we had previously been through. eventually we see this so

consistently from so many different states though. what you get comfortably and without being naive is a sense that joe biden is beating trump. that said we don't hold the election in late july. we hold it in november. this election is set up to be a weird election for a lot of different reasons. i think the fact that biden is clearly, clearly ahead almost everywhere right now is of interest in terms of how that's driving the president's behavior. this president doesn't like losing. he doesn't like to be seen as weak, and behind and wrong. that's what the polls say now. i think that's driving his extreme behavior, at least that's how it feels. >> this is a weird election for a few reasons. there are protests around the country. we have a pandemic and some people will be frightened of going to polling places and touching machines. three, we're going to have to increase our rate of vote by

mail from 23% into something far greater than that. donald trump is setting up for the fact it's fraudulent and dangerous. four, we have the foreign interference we had the last time around. it's all setting up for donald trump, as he said to chris wallace last sunday on fox news, to not accept the results of the lu election if they're not in his favor. when we talk about constitutional crises, we could be heading for that. >> yeah, it's a term we overuse a bit. the most basic idea of a constitutional crisis is that you have a conflict on which the constitution is silent, or you have a conflict on which the constitution speaks loudly and people with power defy it in a way there's no constitutional fix for. that latter is scenario is what we'll be looking at if the

president doesn't accept the results of an election. when you do that, it creates the prospect -- it created the pr prospect in 2016 of some sort of insurgency. when you create that scenario as president, you have to think about the powers that might cause him to use force. it's basic fundamental stuff. he knows it creates outrage and anxiety and threatens these things which is why he likes to do it. we have to plan for the prospect of him trying to cling to power, defy the results of the election, call off the election or refuse to acknowledge that the election results are legal and to call for a redo. the voting by mail thing has a lot of different elements to it. there are less than a dozen states not planning major vote

by mail access. all states need to be planning major vote by mail access. the president continues to insist this is some sort of fraud. there's also more subtle stuff including him installing a new post master general and his attacks on the postal service. if he's going to try to dismantle the infrastructure by which we're going to vote, literally the way we put the ballot in the post office box and it gets to people who need to count it, that's a type of vigilance we never had to exert in this way. >> you talk to the yale professor who has been warning us about authority tar i didn't

mean. laws start to get bent and laws become irrelevant and you start to lose those things the constitution protects, including the first amendment, which is the right to protest which is what we're seeing in portland and states across the country. we're seeing a federal response that looks like we're criminalizing the voice of the voiceless. >> the thing i found quite disturbing in this, beyond just the presence of those federal officers in places where local officials don't want them and they don't appear to be doing anythi anything, i mean stepping back from the larger thing he's doing in terms of trying to marshal a military presence in his name

against unarmed civilian americans. to hear the acting homeland security secretary talk about the justification for those officers, what he talks about the ideology of americans, for him to say this is justified because those americans are marxist or they're some other be scared ism he's assigning to them, it doesn't matter. we don't show force on americans, particularly unarmed americans on the basis of anything they believe. you use law enforcement to enforce laws. the protection of courthouses doesn't explain what these

federal officers are doing in portland. to see the crowds grow and the crowds become more diverse and people identifying themselves more sort of forcefully, to see the wall of vets, to see the nurses and doctors turning out, to see the moms and dads out there and the crowds getting bigger and more widespread in response to the president's actions is heartening and also what he wants. he wants it to look like he's war in the streets and he's a war time president. he's waging war on the american people. if it's a fight he's going to pick, it's a fight the american people will fight back and he'll lose. >> there are protests in the street of america. america is not on fire. i want to ask you about a back and forth between ted yoho of

florida and alexandria ocasio-cortez. he purportedly called her disgusting and then muttered two names at her i can't say on tv. senator ocasio-cortez is garnering response on the floor. she said while she was not hurt or offended, she's taking offense for other women. let's listen. >> having been married for 45 years with two daughters i'm cognizant of my language. >> what i have issue with is using women, our wives, our daughters as shields as excuses for poor behavior. he mentioned he has a wife and

two daughters. i'm two years younger than mr. yoho's youngest daughter. i'm someone's daughter too. having a daughter does not make a man decent. having a wife does not make a decent man. >> i thought it was an important message that we haven't hit enough. that is that what you do is not reflective of where you're from. you can have daughters, wives, sisters, mothers and behave in a way that doesn't create a fair environment for women. >> when she said she wanted to thank senator yoho for showing that a man with power can accost women, a man with a wife, a man who has daughters, a man who represents himself as a family values man, it was an incredibly effective argument dismantling

what yoho tried to get away with. i was watching live on the day that alexandria ocasio-cortez made these remarks. i saw the passion with which you responded to them. i so identified with where you were. i was watching that with my family the day she made those comments. when she made that remark and said i am here, i need to show -- i am a daughter. i need to show my parents they did not raise me to accept abuse from men. my heart leapt into my throat. she's making an incredibly effective argument. she's also honestly the most talented politician of her generation by about five miles. she's such an effective

communicator. she's so smart. she makes such great arguments and she drives her opponents crazy. she's so good and it's so good for the country that she's in the job she's in with the profile she has. it's a privilege to be able to cover politics at that level. i feel like a lot of times we look at prime minister question time in britain. we're like why don't we have politicians who can speak like that. >> we do. >> our equivalent is alexandria ocasio-cortez smacking down ted yoho. >> rachel, i'm grateful for you joining me this morning. you can watch rachel's show every night at 9:00 p.m. thank you. >> thank you. the two-man battle for the

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until election day. according to the polls it's anyone's race.

i'm in bethlehem, pennsylvania. an average of recent polls shows joe biden up by a considerable margin, beating president trump by nearly 7 points. this morning we have brand new polling numbers courtesy of nbc news which shows how things are shaping out in arizona. i want to get to our polling wizard steve kornacki at the big board. steve? >> here we go. brand new nbc news poll looking at the state of arizona. i'm standing in the way of the numbers. for context here, in 2016 donald trump won this state by 3.5 points. no democrat has carried these state since bill clinton. joe biden right now in our poll leading donald trump in arizona 50% to 45%. this is a state democrats have been optimistic about flipping

in 2020. it's one where they think there are demographic trends in phoenix. our poll puts biden ahead by 5 points. we can show you what goes into that lead in arizona. break it down by race. among white voters biden is trailing trump, but only by 3 points. that's good for a democrat in a presidential race in arizona to be down 3 points among white voters. big latino population in arizona. biden a two to one advantage there. the white vote has moved in polling, significantly in some cases from 2016. when you break it down in arizona, you usually see a big divider. white voters without a college degree, 9-point advantage for trump. white voters with a college degree there's that biden

advantage. this phoenix metro area in particular, huge part of the state, that's where democrats think the big advantage is. the bottom line for democrats -- i'll show you the significance of this on the electoral map. 5-point lead, that can change. this was the electoral map in 2016. democrats talked about in 2020 they think can they take back pennsylvania and michigan? wisconsin was the third midwest state that trump flipped in 2016. let's say democrats were not able to get wisconsin back. arizona for them, could they get arizona? that would give them pennsylvania, michigan, arizona. that would be enough to put joe biden over the top. that's significant. arizona, if the democrats flip that, that will change the electoral map. a 5-point lead in our poll.

we'll see where it goes. >> steve, you're not talking about the fact that the new poll puts joe biden ahead in wisconsin and joe biden ahead in florida as well. we'll see steve kornacki so much he'll appear in your dreams. thank you, my friend. turning to the senator where the democrats have the wind in their sails. the races in arizona, minnesota and new mexico also seem to be trending more blue. democrats need four seats in the senate to take control of the chamber. while there are no senators in pennsylvania up for re-election, joe biden's home state will be a key electoral puzzle piece for winning the 2020 race. i want to bring in senator bob casey of pennsylvania. he's a native of scranton.

he was among the first to endorse joe biden's presidential campaign. senator, thank you for being here. i want to talk to you about this state of pennsylvania. so close in the last election. i'm hearing one of three counties that donald trump flipped. the margin here was 44,000 votes out of more than 5 million votes. give me a sense of pennsylvania as you see it in the 2020 election. >> ali, first of all, other than the virus and covid-19, the number one issue in this campaign for the presidential election, and i think in congressional elections, will be the economy and jobs. just like we're seeing no leadership by the president, frankly or his party in the senate, on responding to the virus, having an action plan with regard to testing and ppe, we're seeing no leadership in creating jobs and turning the economy around. those two failures, the failures

on both the virus and jobs are going to be significant in a state like ours in this race. >> senator, i'm hear in bethlehem. it's a place where 40, 50, 100, 150 years ago was the heart beat of industrial america, of manufacturing. you see the plant fixtures behind me. donald trump spoke to these people. he spoke to people here and in kentucky and west virginia and indiana and across the -- what we used to call the rust belt about making america great again meaning bringing manufacturing jobs back. what does biden's advantage of being from a place like this give him in terms of understanding what parts of this country need? >> the people of our state know joe biden. they trust him. they know who he is. they also know he's got a plan. he's got a build back better

plan that speaks to those concerns. how do we continue to create in big numbers manufacturing jobs? the president talks a good game. really all he did -- his big accomplishment is an obscene corporate tax cut for the largest corporations in the world, not much help for middle class families in pennsylvania. joe biden is about to enter his fourth week of laying out a very specific and detailed economic plan. that's what people are looking for. they're asking for leadership and compassion when it comes to dealing with the virus and they want an economic plan. joe biden has one. the president doesn't. >> let's talk about the economics and the virus. in washington the heros act is stalled in the senate. the senate has gone home for the weekend. what does it look like? right now we're facing evictions. millions of americans are facing

the lifting of a mortatorium of foreclosures. >> the majority leader mitch mcconnell is not living in the real world. people are worried. they're worried there's no action plan or strategy dealing with covid-19 and no strategy on jobs and economic growth. so they watch the senate. when you look at the month of may, then june and then most of july, mostly all we did in the senate were nominations with rare exceptions. this past week we had to get the defense bill down. the reason everything is rushed is because republicans in the senate and the president have shown no leadership on these issues. they don't even have a bill yet. they told us a week ago there would be a bill.

there's no bill. they can't work out the differences among themselves as republicans while people are about to lose their unemployment insurance. this is a total failure of leadership by the republican party in two branches of government. now they're rushing to get something done. they had all of may, all of june, most of july to get something done. they just wanted to do nominations. >> senator casey, good to see you. thank you for joining us. senator bob casey from the great state of pennsylvania. with 100 days until the election, the biden campaign is out in full force, ramping up spending on advertisement. what does team trump have planned? my next guess should have a good idea. hogan gidley standing by next. [theresa] shingles? oh dios mio. so much pain. maria had to do everything for me. [maria] she had these awful blisters on her back.

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we're back in bethlehem, pennsylvania coming from the steel stacks here. we're 100 days away from the 2020 presidential election. we're joined by trump campaign press secretary hogan gidley who joins us from d.c. hogan, good to see you. thank you for joining me. as coronavirus cases and deaths increase in this country, president trump's approval ratings are decreasing. it almost seems like they're related. his opponent at this point seems to be the virus more than joe biden. what do you do? if this virus continues to carry on unchecked going into the fall? >> first things first, thank you for having me on. i want to offer severe condolences to the family of congressman lewis, a true icon.

his strength and courage is to be revered. i would like to offer my condolences. as far as your question as to where it relates to the state of this race, we can talk about polls all day long. they're skewed towards democrats. they seem to come out heavily weighted to the democrats. that makes a sense because of the people asking the questions. there's a desire to have a suppression poll to depress the -- >> you think that happens at fox too? >> it's absolutely at fox. they're one of the worst offenders. i got into it with them the other day. there was a 10% swing in just one poll. obviously shows a skew to the left. that's fine. we understand that's what's occurring. what you notice tucked away in the numbers is only 14% of the democrats are excited about joe biden. who could blame him?

you compared our opponent -- you said it seems to be the virus more than joe biden. that makes sense because the virus has a lot more life across this country than joe biden. he pops up out of his hiding hole to make a few comments. the fact is the president has taken extreme leadership, bold decisive action to stop the virus. a long time ago he talked about wearing masks. it was in march and the cdc issued guidelines to wear march. it was a full month later where the press corps wore masks in the briefing room. the science has changed on this topic. you saw the president come out and stress the importance of wearing masks when you can't socially distance. we've seen numbers -- >> but there was a lot of time,

hogan, where he dnidn't. he said it was optional. people should have the right to make a decision. the president hasn't been ahead of the country on masks. he's sort of late to the game. >> with all due respect, in the beginning of march there were a lot of doctors or msnbc saying masks didn't stop the spread of particles. everyone who got this early on understands the science has changed. let's be clear. that's what happens when you face an unforeseen virus from china. no one knows its properties. this president had to develop tests early on. this administration moved heaven and earth to protect the american people. he's been doing that from day one, including talking about wearing masks from the white house briefing room. everyone around the president

has been wearing masks for a long time. >> let me ask you about this -- go back to the polling and the suppression of republican, conservative votes. tell me how you think that works. we have a whole bunch of polls. they seem to be consistent indicating drops in the president's popularity, approval rating, trust on coronavirus and those things. tell me how you think that unfolds. do you think pollsters take the results and don't call respects or they take the results and weight them? is that going on across all polling? >> well, yes, absolutely. look, while all the polls show similar numbers, all the polls also have flawed methodology. let's be clear, the poll from cnn that came out this morning had 26% republicans sampled. exit polling in 2016 it was 33%.

as we move forward into the election, the polls will eb and flow and shift. elections are about choices. when you take a look at what we have to decide in november, it's a big decision. no question about it. you don't have to guess what would happen to our economy if joe biden were president. we saw it for eight years. 3.5 million jobs going to china. 65,000 manufacturing plants close. with donald trump we saw a record hike in the stock market, we saw tax cuts -- >> you know why the stock market is up. hogan, there's no interest rates. there's nowhere else to put your money. you and i can save the economic conversation for another time. i know you like having it. let's move on to protests. i bet you, hogan, i bet you and

i degragree there's nothing mor american than protesting. the president has referred to himself as an ally of peaceful protests. in portland the overwhelming majority of protesters are peaceful including a navy veteran being beaten with batons, a mom who was teargassed, the mayor of portland who was teargassed. no violence there. are you alarmed these people who are exercising their first amendment rights are being targeted by federal agents? >> let's discuss two different segments. first, is we agree protests are uniquely american. that's something outlined by the constitution and protected. the word you left out was peaceful. peaceful protests are protected. the question here should not be why is president trump doing everything within his power, his legal authority under the federal government, to protect

the american people, protect their property, protect their lives. >> i gave you three examples -- >> why aren't the governors doing that? >> you federal gassteargassed t. the federal agents teargassed a mom. they beat a navy veteran. those were three examples of people not violent. i got shot by a rubber bullet in minneapolis. i never promoted violence in my life. >> there are large amounts of video pointing out the fact the protesters devolved into criminal behavior. $400 million worth of damage in the 20 largest metropolitan areas in just a few days. that's devastating. when the federal government is pumping out trillions of dollars

to help americans make ends meet, keep businesses open, you can't allow city streets to devolve into criminality, churches to be burned, federal offices to be burned with employees inside. >> i'll say this to you, hogan. >> that is not what america is. that's not peaceful. >> i'll tell you what. i was there in minneapolis. if you and i will work it out, will you go with me to one of these places where these protest protesters are? i'll go with you. if you commit to go with me, i'll talk to my bosses right. you and i will take a trip. >> absolutely. you and i degree that protesters are uniquely special to this country. i'll stand with you any time

anywhere to protect people's rights to peacefully protest. it's rich the left wants a government take over of health care, voting systems, but when it comes to keeping our streets safe, the one thing the federal governments are supposed to do, they don't want any part of that whatsoever. >> the federal government is not, according to the constitution, meant to be interfering with people's rights to seek grievance with their government in peaceful protests. >> they're not arresting people singing kumbaya -- >> they beat the guy from the navy. they gassed the mom. they gassed the mayor. i want to get to a different question. at the end of march, i think march 30th, the president said on fox news when he was talking about mail-in voting, he said

they, democrats, had levels of voting if you ever agreed to you would never have a republican elected in this country again. what did he mean by that? >> there are documented cases, 100,000 votes, don't know if they'll be counted in the state of california. we don't know who won districts in new york. democrats are pushing for a mail-in voting system that all experts will tell you is rife with fraud, cheating. if you can't get to the polls, there absentee maballots you ca send in. mail-in universally, that's idiotic. it will prolong the results for months at a time. these attorneys are chomping at the bit to file lawsuits after an election. they'll make themselves rich,

buy a third and fourth home, off of what is going to happen. >> put that aside for a second. a man walked -- you're a young man. a man walked in the moon on 1969. you don't think in 2020 we can figure out a way to have mail-in ballots that are safe? >> we can't right now. the democrats who want to control the system -- do we know who won the iowa caucus side yet? >> don't you want everybody to vote? >> absolutely. there you hit. everyone who is qualified to vote should vote. we want free and fair elections. if we have one, donald trump will be elected for another four years. >> what if i'm qualified to vote and i'm scared of coronavirus and i want to mail in a ballot? >> there are means and mechan m

mechanisms you can do that. >> mail-in voting. >> an absentee ballot. we have mechanisms in place. we have a whole government approach in protecting the sanctity of voting with this president working with the fbi, pressure testing ballot locations to make sure there's no meddling. universal mail-in, we have distancing at polling places. everyone will have a mask. there's hand sanitizer. this is a sacred thing in our country. we can't allow people to cheat, steal, to take those ballots and have multiple hands pass through them and touch them between a time that a person cast their vote and when they go to be counted. that's unacceptable. >> in the end, will the

president acknowledge the decision of the american people if he doesn't win the election? >> again, if it is done properly, absolutely he will. it's still hillary clinton going around the country talking about how she's the duly elected president of the united states. your station talks about stacy abrams being the elected governor of georgia. you're talking about the future cast here. the mail-in voting that will be ripe with fraud, i'm not going to promise you today i'll abide by the election if it was fraudulent. that would be foolish. i want to see what the future holds. if it's done the proper way and the votes are tabulated in the right manner, every vote is counted once properly, absolutely he'll stand by that. >> hogan, thank you my friend. i want you to talk to your

bosses. i'm going to talk to my bosses about the idea that we should take a trip to portland or somewhere elsewhere there's protesting. i do appreciate your time. i always do. hogan gidley, the national press secretary for president trump's re-election campaign. thank you for joining us on the show. joe biden said something out loud that many americans have likely thought about president trump for the last three and a half years. speaking at a virtual town hall the former vice president said we've had racists and they've existed. they tried to get elected president. he's the first one who has. not the craziest thing to come out of joe biden's mouth. i asked a group of pennsylvania voters whether they agreed with that statement. do you believe donald trump is a racist? >> i don't believe he's a racist. i don't believe he harbors hatred in his heart for any group of people. i think he's trying to do the

best for america. no, i would not call him a racist. >> i'm sorry. i believe donald trump is a racist. if you go all the way back to his real estate dealings, even with his father in new york, there were a lot of issues how they represented housing and under represented groups. as long as he enables folks to behave in a ways that attacking others, to me that represents a racist. >> shirley? >> no one knows for sure what's in a person's heart. only god knows. based on his actions, i do believe he's a racist. if he's not a racist, he supports racism. the reason why i believe he won the election by a narrow margin is because so many people thought, oh, a business man. maybe he'll be good for the economy. i feel like he uses people. if he's not a racist, i believe

he is using those that are racists. >> there are a lot of people that are racist that don't even realize they're racist. there are people that don't even understand the meaning of racism. when you say that trump is not a racist, i do believe that it's because you're not taking in all the meaning of what a racist really is. >> mary katherine, i want to ask you about racism. what do you think? >> you have to look at somebody's actions. i'm listening to what they have to say. i'll go back and do research on that. with that joe biden gave the eulogy at senator burg's funeral. he was a horror. he was the grand wizard of the kkk. i'm not going to say that joe biden is a racist. if you're looking at actions, you can't get worse than that. >> tom, where do you fall?

>> we love tagging people as racists or not. people love trying to prove themselves not to be. i don't know what the -- i've never sat in a room with him and had a discussion. you can do jerk things that are cruel and not do them because you're a racist. i try to abstain from labelling someone as that. i hate to bob and weave, but i got to bob and weave on it. >> spent more than an hour talking to those great people in bucks county, pennsylvania. i got to tell you, i wish you could hear the whole conversation. if my bosses are listening, i would love to do nothing else than talk to americans on the streets of america. i'm here at the bethlehem steel plant. for decades it was the economic life line to this community until it shut down. bethlehem, pennsylvania is no

anomaly. some voters don't have faith that president trump can bring jobs back. >> generally on the economy how has he done? >> terribly. it's an utter failure. to promise manufacturing jobs were coming back, we're not that far from bethlehem, pennsylvania where the industrial age took shape. think about it. the proof is in the pudding. people are unemployed. they are not seeing the jobs come back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (people talking) ♪ ♪ now is the time to support the places you love. spend 10 dollars or more at a participating small business and get 5 dollars back, up to 10 times with american express. ♪ ♪ enroll now at shopsmall.com. did you know diarrhea is often causedtry pepto diarrhea. food?

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back live from the steel stacks in bethlehem, pennsylvania. thousands of people across this state are looking to get back to work after coronavirus forced mass layoffs. the unemployment rate here is 13%. it's 2 percentage points higher than the national level and a sound economic plan is near and dear to the hearts of people in

pennsylvania and one slice that is prominent in this state is union workers which comprise roughly 15 million people nationwide. so how key is the union vote going to be in 2020? i want to bring in mary kay henry. the international president of the service employees international union. she's also the cochair of the california governors future of work commission. good to see you. thank you for joining us this morning. >> good to be with you, ali. >> let me ask you about unions. this has been a tough few years for unions in part because some of the things that donald trump has done have appealed to unions including the tariffs that he put on. the steel tariffs. you know, the pressure is on international trade, some of the trade war. on the other hand, he had promised people particularly in places like i am that manufacturing would come back and industry would increase in america. and that hasn't happened. so how do union members evaluate how to vote in 2020? >> they -- union members know

that 40 million of our brothers and sisters are unemployed and that this president has failed to provide personal protective equipment to every essential worker on the front lines of this pandemic. health care workers, janitors, security officers, have to make the terrible choice to go into work every day while they see their co-workers getting sick. and fear that they take that virus home to their families. so we're doubling down to reach out to union members and former union members and infrequent voters in black, brown and asian communities because we know our lives are on the line this november. >> talk to me about the things that -- how you're going to deal with this with members. how involved are you going to be

in the election? >> we are more involved than we have ever been. we have pivoted from our traditional door knocking that we would do to online outreach through text, through phones. there's a huge operation that's getting set up in the lehigh valley with labor partners and community partners because we're not going to leave any voter behind. we are going to reach out to spanish speaking voters, reach out to the chinese community in philadelphia. everybody has to understand what's at stake. and everybody has to be taught, how to apply for an absentee ballot, to vote by mail so they can be safe and free and we have got to elect people in pennsylvania's state house and senate that are going to unrig the rules for the racist gerrymandering that has been part of the history of pennsylvania's election. >> mary kay henry, i know you have got up good and early for

me, the president of the service employees international union. we'll talk again soon. i'm out of time. thank you for watching. you can catch me all this week filling in for my friend rachel maddow at 9:00 p.m. and find me on "velshi." coming up next, joy reid has the live coverage of john lewis's body being taken across the edmund pettus bridge. wis's body being taken across the edmund pettus bridge hot! hot! no no no no no, there's no space there! maybe over here? oven mitts! oven mitts!

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now that senate republicans have finally woken up to the calamity in our country, they have been so divided, so disorganized, so unprepared that they have struggled to even draft a partisan proposal within their own conference. they can't come together. even after all this time, it appears the republican legislative response to covid is ununified, unserious, unsatisfactory. >> good morning and welcome to "a.m. joy." i'm tiffany cross. as of today, we are officially 100 days away from the election that will decide donald trump's fate and ours. just moments ago, nbc news and marist college released a poll of those in arizona, a state trump won by 3 1/2 points in 2016. now not only is he trailing joe biden by five points in a

match-up, but on the senate side, democratic candidate mark kelly is leading his republican challenger martha mcsally by 12 points. as you just heard chuck schumer explain the senate republicans do not appear to have what it takes to effectively govern and now the democrats are favored to retake the senate with competitive races in previously ruby red states like georgia where i grew up and iowa. so while the presidential election tends to take up all of the oxygen, the importance of these senate races cannot be overstated. if democrats take the white house but republicans keep the senate, good luck passing meaningful legislation or confirming that black woman to the supreme court that joe biden has promised or shaping a democratic cabinet. trump wouldn't even be on the ballot if the republican controlled senate led by a self-proclaime