hello, everyone. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we are on the verge of a huge primary day. five states that could provide some previously unexpected opportunities for democrats. in less than 24 hours, polls will open in arizona, kansas, michigan, missouri and washington. and spread across those states, some contests that seemed to favor the republicans a few months or maybe even weeks ago, they could now be be closer than we thought. governors races are increasingly looking like a bright spot. among the questions we hope to answer tomorrow, will far right candidates be be be a able to ride trump's endorsement to victory or has the former president's influence begun to fade? for trump picks like blake masters and kari lake and tudor

dixon, all signs point to primary wins. that could be a good sign for democrats who believe far right candidates actually help them in the general election. plus we'll be watching trump's strength being tested in michigan and washington where he's trying to sink three of the house republicans who voted to impeach him after the capitol riot. for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, voters will be heard on that issue and we'll get our first real clue as to whether abortion rights will be the rallying cry democrats hope it is. the focus is kansas, where voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would clear the way for the state legislature to ban abortion outright. so far early in-person voting is up more than 200% from four years ago, but polling shows the vote itself. michael steele is with me. he's former chair of the republican national committee. at the big board, national split

political correspondent steve kornacki. good to see everybody. michael, for a lot of folks, tomorrow is an opportunity for democrats, maybe one they didn't expect if they can seize it, i think it's going to tell us a lot about former president trump's influence and power among republicans. what are you going to be watching for? >> i'm going to be looking at those races where places like arizona where trump has been playing a little bit heavy and a little hard to see exactly how that shakes out, but i'll be honest with you. i'm really less concerned about who is going to be the nominee for the republicans going into the fall. what's going to be the tell is how the democrats are able to build a strategy off of whomever their republican opponent is going to be because at the end of the day, the ball is in their court. they have to hold serve. they have to maintain the house and expand a majority against the odds. so the question is how do they then begin to pivot their

narrative around these candidates, whether they are trump endorsed or not, going into the fall election. so i think you're going to get a very interesting tell about how the democrats narrate tomorrow's events to sort of set up what they want to do going into september. >> i want to get a sense of what we're hearing about some of those key races from voters. we do have correspondents across the country. i want to start with voun hilliard in phoenix. vaughn, there's a number of those candidates there. what is it looking like? could it be a sweep for the form president? >> reporter: it could very well be. this is going to be the ultimate test here. this is going to be where voters are going to decide which of these republicans they put in as their nominees. for not only attorney general, secretary of state, governor, blake masters is the u.s. senate candidate who told me he would have objected the certification process. but the secretary of state

candidate, attorney general candidate, governor candidate, each of these individuals, who could very well win tomorrow, have called for the decertify indication of the 2020 election, despite it being 2022, sending of the trump slate of electors back to congress instead of joe biden. thaps not possible here. and i think it's important when we're talking about the general election here, kari lake, if she were to be the candidate here, she's the trump act late who called for the prosecution of 2020 elections officials, the jailing of her likely democratic gubernatorial opponent. she calls the press the right hand of the devil. all of these things are important to take into context because she's a very viable general election candidate. her republican primary opponent has spent $18 million against her in this republican primary, and despite that amount of

spending, five times what lake has put into this, lake may still win this here. that's where donald trump lost arizona by just over 10,000 votes in 2020. how? because he was able to spike the turnout and also win a sizable share of republican voters here in maricopa county. the strategists i talked to believe kari lake could very well pull off a similar turnout here in a general election against a democrat. >> so many fascinating angles there. let's go to eastern missouri. the big race is roy blunt's senate seat. to say there's lots of drama in that republican primary is an understatement. what can you tell us? >> reporter: drama is a keyword to use in this race.

this race was alreadies interesting and got more interesting in the last few hours. we're talking about two erics and a vicky being the lead candidates here. former president trump's endorsement is looming large yet. he hasn't made a decision yet. in the last few hours, he posted online on his social media site he is going to make an endorsement in this senate primary some time today. we're trying to work our sources to see who that might be, but breaking down who is in the race. you have eric smitt, he's supposed to be in washington, missouri, for a campaign event. so if he walks up, we're going to try to interview him live. he's someone who is a moderate republican who was tacked right in order to try to get the support of former president trump. he also came out in the last few days against mitch mcconnell. if republicans were to take back the senate, that echoes the language of trump who has been criticizing mitch mcconnell after january 6th, you have eric. he's someone in a battled former governor of this state. he resigned in disgrace just 18

months after being inaugurated. he's someone who has the support of donald trump jr., but he has a number of allegations against him including domestic abuse and sexual abuse. he's nated himself from the republican party. thin then you have vicky hassler. she's loyal to former president trump, but trump said he will not endorse her. he said she's not up for the job, not up for that senate seat. so all eyes right now are on former president trump and his social media account to see what might happen in this race. i also want to play some sound of a voter, a republican woman, listen to what she told me about the influence that president trump is wielding in this race. take a look. >> this man is no longer a form er president to a lot of these people. he's a god. he is something that they look up to, maybe he suspect the best person to look up to. that doesn't go to say he didn't do a lot of good things,

especially for the middle class community here, but once again, people are running a little too far with his influence. >> reporter: so she is saying that former president trump is having way too much influence. people should be thinking about community issues. i talked to a number of voter who is say they really like president trump. they believe the 2020 election was stolen and really hope he can endorse in this race. >> all right. i'm now going to go to kansas city. dasha, you were watching that key vote on abortion, which could tell us a lot about whether the supreme court decision overturning roe will motivate people. what's the feeling there on the ground ahead of tomorrow? >> reporter: behind me is one of just five abortion clinics in the entire state of kansas. recently, it's become one of the few in the entire region because since the fall of roe, many of these surrounding states very quickly enacted bans or

significant restrictions to abortion. that's why the stakes are so high here in kansas. as kansasens become the first in the nation to actually vote on this issue since that supreme court ruling. and it's been an all-out get out the vote effort on both sides here. and you're right, this is something that the entire nation is watching. on the ballot is the value amendment. in 2019, the kansas supreme court ruled that abortion rights are protected in the state's constitution. this amendment if the yes vote passes, those constitutional protections for abortion rights would be removed. and that could potentially pave the way for further restrictions or as activists fear, potentially an all-out ban. and everyone will be watching this state tomorrow because what happens here could say a lot about how engaged voters are with this issue come november. and in this conservative state, even if it's very close, even if the vote wins but it's close, that's going to say a lot.

it's been no vote wins, that would make quite a statement about the movement ahead of the midterms. >> in that conservative state, thank you all very much. so there was this article in "the washington post" over the weekend that said there's concern within republican circles that the party with some of these candidates is moving too far out of sync with popular opinion. do you think tomorrow will give us a clue? is it a test of that? >> yeah, i think a real bell weather for that will be arizona. as was just laid out, when you look at these races around the country, particularly those on tap for tomorrow, that's going to be real testament. you tee the tension between the trump and those in the party wanting to move beyond truch. you see the tension between the established order of trying to position candidates to take advantage of the opportunity to win seats they may otherwise

lose this november because the trump-backed candidate is so extreme in the views of mainstream voters. so it's going to be a real test of the push and pull within the gop the influence that the establishment has over trying to right the ship. when i was national chairman, i didn't have the same level of struggle against a tea party that was trying to take control and move the party in a particular direction. so that's changed to one where they are asserting absolute control and they have the president behind them really pushing that particular narrative forward. >> so that brings us to sort of a broader perspective. all these races, all these issues, give us a deeper understanding of what you'll be looking at tomorrow. >> tomorrow and looking ahead towards the midterms and the question of the climate, i think

you're getting an interesting bit of tension here that's presenting itself as we try analyze the playing field for november. i'm going to show you this is joe biden's approval rating. biden on average under 40%. not a popular president at this point in his presidency. if you look at his recent predecessors at the same point in election years, even george w. bush in 2006 here, biden's number on average is a little lower than where bush's was at this point in his second midterm. that second midterm did not work out well. so we know that historically, the white house party doesn't tend to do wales well in midterm elections. we know that's particularly true when the president's approval rating gets down to the range where biden's is now. you take a look here. here's the results in terms of house seats lost. all of these incumbent presidents losing seats in midterm elections. the only exception here is

george w. bush when he was popular in 2002, that's when republicans picked up seats. so republicans have the political climate nationally very much going in their favor. when you look at a president with an approval rating like this, when you look at the economic news out there and the question that's emerging is, are republicans nominating candidates, as you have been asking here, nominating in key races who simply test the limits of voters too much and end up losing races that in a climate like this, the opposition party should be able to win. and also when you talk about that question of abortion and the roe decision, does that end up being something that motivates democratic voters to get out to the polls, who otherwise in the face of numbers like that for joe biden might not have been that motivated. so it's a question here of whether there are factors that democrats can help feed into that could offset a climate that we know historically is not good for a white house party.

>> every day until the midterms our show is going to profile a specific race every day. today we want to drill into a match up in michigan that actually pits two democratic incumbents against each other because of redistricting. tell us about that. >> let's take a trip here to the newly created michigan's 11th district. andy levin, hailey stevens, these are two incumbent democrats. michigan had a dramatic redrawing of its congressional districts so they have been thrown together. it is based here in oakland county. that's just north of detroit. a lot of bedroom communities there. it's an area there that used to be pretty strongly republican. it has trended pretty dramatically away from the republicans toward the democrats. strongly negative reaction to donald trump during his presidency. so you have levin and stevens squaring off in oakland county here.

now stevens actually has represented more of this district as it's currently configured. levin hs a piece of it. there was one piece of polling out there that showed stevens with an advantage over levin heading into this thing. if you want to look at it ideologically, levin has tried to stake out the most progressive territory this this campaign. he has elizabeth warren endorsing him, bernie sanders endorsing him. stevens had to run to get this seat back in 2018. set had to run in what was then a very competitive district in oakland county. she won by about 5 points against a republican. so i would put her voting record and posture pretty liberal voting record, but she's not staked out as progressive as levin. so there's a difference there in how they present themselves. but this is one of those you get these redistricting years, two incumbents get thrown in the same district. one of these will be on their way to being a former member of

congress tomorrow night. >> steve kornacki, michael steele, thank you both. with so much at stake as kansas and missouri voters head to the polls, i'm heading there to host "chris jansing reports" live from kansas city tomorrow and wednesday at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. and because steve doesn't have anything else to do, he returns to the big board tonight to break down all the key house, senate and governor's races this midterm season. there's so many of them that are so good. 10:00 p.m. eastern only on msnbc. and as you decide who or what to vote for in the midterm primaries, our plan your vote tour was here to help you cast your ballot. head to nbcnews.com/planyourvote. what more needs to be done as covid and monkeypox cases continue to spike? and it is judgment day for the first january 6th rioter to

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to be tried and convicted in the attack on the capitol is being

sentenced right now. guy reffitt is facing the longest sentence so far. 15 years after being found guilty in march on all 5 counts related to the attack. doj arguing this is a case of domestic terrorism and deserves the harsher sentence. the judge today denied that addition and another of possession of a gun. in another big development, more on the ongoing case of the missing secret service text messages. a blockbuster story from "the washington post" over the weekend revealed that the government watchdog investigating the matter initially planned to have data specialists try to retrieve messages from their phones, but then the story says dhs inspector general, a trump appointee, made a different decision. >> at the 12th hour, the inspector general and his front office team halted the plan and squashed it and said we're not taking their phones. we're not going to try to recover their texts. >> for more, let's bring in ken

at the courthouse where the sentencing is happening. and paul butler, a former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. so you have a senior dhs official in the george w. bush administration telling "the washington post" this, quote, it's like we have a 9/11 attack and air traffic control wipes its records. is that a fair analogy? what do you make of this revelation that evidence was turned down apparently? >> experts have said it's unusual for a government agency to do a migration without having a backup and plan to restore data if something goes wrong. if text messages or e-mails pertain to government business, they don't belong to the employee, they belong to the government. they are required to be preserved. destroying those records violates the federal records act. it's a crime. every government employee learns this on day one.

>> so on friday the chair of the senate judiciary committee asked the justice department to investigate those missing secret service text messages as well as those from trump's homeland security leadership. how significant could it be to have a doj investigation of an inspector general? >> this is huge. i think doj is looking at possible violation of the federal records act and depending on what the evidence reveals, concealment of government property or even obstruction of justice. i think the department needs to investigate why the inspector general didn't do more to try to recover the lost texts and why he waited miss months and months to report to congress once they were lost. >> is there a logical explanation that you can think of? >> my experience as a public corruption prosecutor, you can never count out negligence or ineptitude at a big government agency, but certainly, with all of these new developments, it's

starting to look less like bureaucratic ineptitude and more like a coverup. >> ken, behind you prosecutors have asked for the 15-year sentence for guy reffitt. what's the argument on both sides that they are making for longer and shorter term in prison? >> the judges ruled that the guidelines called for a 7 to 9-year sentence and notably she ruled against the prosecution's attempt to add domestic terrorism enhancement. that's the first time they tried to do that in these cases. it's a significant feat that they didn't get it. they were arguing that guy reffitt is a different breed. because he came to the capitol that day with a handgun not just to delay the count of electoral votes, but to actually go in and seize members of congress. he wanted to drag nancy pelosi out of the capitol by her

ankles. he later was convicted of threatening thiz children if they informed to the fbi and one of his sons testified against him. he showed no remorse after january 6th, prosecutors say, and only now is he crying in the courtroom while his daughter testifies. is he showing regret for actions? the defense said, wait a minute, he didn't assault any police officers or make it in the capitol is he deserves a sentence no more than two years. the this judge has essentially said to the prosecution i don't think this person is as different a case as you seem to be suggesting. she thinks he's more in line with the other violent capitol defendants. >> so do we have a sense of why this was a first case brought by doj? is there some sort of message they were trying to send with this in particular? >> reporter: it's not entirely clear. it's a complicated issue. there's no domestic terrorism crime. so this is only a sentencing

enhancement. it only applies to certain crimes, not the crime of assault ing a police officer, which many of these january 6th defendants have been convicted of. so there's some complexities and technicalities, but kriltices say the justice department should have been trying to bring this enhancement more. in denying it today, the judge said that because you haven't done this in the past and you're doing this now, it could create an unwarranted disparity. it seems like the justice department's reluctance to use this is coming back to bite the department. >> thank you both. appreciate it. california's newest wildfire is now the state's largest of the year. the mckinney fire burned 50,000 acres near california's northern border and prompted mass evacuations. they declared a state of emergency on saturday with the fire 0% contained. two people have been killed in that blaze. and the death toll from those devastating kentucky floods now stands at 30. officials warn the number is expected to rise even more in

coming days. for more on that, let's bring in george at lost creek, kentucky. i know we heard from the governor this morning. he said rescue workers are searching for potentially hundreds of people who are still missing. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. the search now expands for more people, hundreds still presumed missing after these devastating bloods floods. you can see the river still gushing into some of that debris. 30 dead, including some children. unfortunately, that number is expected to go up. behind me the neighborhoods are starting to clean up in their neighborhood. people are all hands on deck, members of the national guard, volunteers from around states helping people here who have been displaced, hundreds at this point. we know that people are dealing with rampant outages of utilities. more than 12,000 at this point

still without water. some 12,000 out of power. 25,000 out of water. 44,000 under boil water advisories at this point. some subtle investigator lining in this, we're starting to get cell phone service back in the region which adds to people being able to communicate, which officials hope will lead to some reunions, some good news in this devastating tragedy here for many families. the governor also announcing today that for people that want to help out people in this region, they don't need clothes at this point. they need food and water. those are some of the resources being asked for at this time. and of course, if you are going to come out here, be safe. some of these waters are still moving very fast. even though they are starting to recede. some concern about weather moving into the region at this point, but it looks like heat is going to be the major factor as the water begins to dry up. so a lot of moving parts out here. unfortunately that death toll expected to climb.

still hundreds displaced and even more hard to hear that hundreds are still missing in this devastating flood. that's the latest here. >> let's hope with the cell phone service getting restored they are able to find some of those folks missing are actually okay. i know you'll keep us posted. thank you for that. the democrats closing in a big win in congress. can senator schumer get the $740 billion reconciliation package to the floor for a vote? will senator sinema support it? you're watching "chris jansing reports," only on msnbc. watchig reports," only on msnbc.

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>> reporter: are you having legislative day view deja vu. nevertheless the outstanding question here is where the senator from arizona will come down on it. sinema's office reit mated to us last night that they don't have a comment. before the weekend i spoke with chuck schumer asking him if he had spoken to sinema and all he would say is he's giving his members the time to read the 700 pages of documents and they hoped they would be able to pass this. senator manchin back after a covid diagnosis basically said the exact same thing to our reporters outside of his office also adding he intended to talk to sinema today, but making mention of things in the bill and thot in the bill they both voiced concerns. listen. >> she has a lot in this bill. she's the one that negotiated and no one changed the medicare

negotiation. they thought that wasn't. she got involved and that was great. she's been clear on no tax increases. i take that seriously. i feel the same way. so i'm hoping when she has time to do, that we'll see where she is. >> we know that sinema is someone that likes to be able to make her own announcements when she's ready to on this type of legislation. she's not given us any signals, which is not exactly surprising given she doesn't always talk to press or rarely does so. but manchin making note of the things that she helped to negotiate that are actually in this package. the idea that medicare can negotiate directly for prescription drug pricing is something sinema was key negotiating several months ago with other democratic senators as part of a different piece of legislation that has now ended up in this reconciliation package. i think the only red line that we are looking at at this point is when it comes to the carried interest loophole, it's

something that's closed in this negotiation negotiated package. something sinema was opposed to, but manchin is saying he's not being to take ta out of the bill if it means keeping sinema on board. so something has to give. we're watching this balancing act in realtime. >> ali vitali, as always, thank you so much. that controversial golf tournament fund by the saudis and hosted by donald trump drew an underwhelming crowd this weekend. "the wall street journal" reported light crowds were spread across much of the vast krounds call pers were selling tickets for $1. it teed off amid protest of families from 9/11 vvictims. two major health problems. coronavirus cases are up and long covid is affecting millions. plus why is it so hard to get a monkeypox vaccine in this country president bush why appoint pointments are gone the

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right now, the u.s. is dealing with dualing health challenges. covid and monkeypox. it's nearly impossible to get a monkeypox vaccine right now. demand is through the roof. dekalb county, georgia, hosted a mass vaccine clinic on friday. and all 200 appointments were booked within 4 minutes. it's happening at the same time covid cases are up in 21 states. minnesota's case total is up more than 250%. while across the country, there are more ask more cases of long covid. and right now, president biden is back in isolation after another positive covid test. his doctors say it's a rebound infection from taking the antiviral. to dig into this, lindsey rooiz er is live at a vaccine site in new york.

and dr. gupta, with joe biden suffering this rebound, what do we need to know about pax lo visit and is there a side effect of taking it? >> there are several potential contradictions to taking it. the biggest is what other medications would you be on right now. so it's important to have a conversation if you test positive to identify as medically higher risk buzz of age or underlying conditions. make sure the current medications you may be on do not interact because that's where we might have to have decision on whether or not an alternative might be needed. or if you have severe liver or kidney injury. the president's case, i'm glad well. but it's not unexpected that rebound can happen. this is shedding a light an an important issue. should there be varying dosing,

maybe it's seven days, maybe it's ten days, and we do this all the time with antibiotics. some people need longer or shorter courses depending on the condition. so we need dosing as we move into the winter. it should be updated. >> i want to does you about long covid. npr did a fascinating report that millions of americans have it. the brookings institution surveyed a data found that conservative estimates, 4 million full-time equivalent workers are out of work because of long covid. do we even know what the threat is. if i get a mild case, is long covid still possible? in other words, does the severity of the case i might have impact the chances that covid symptoms will linger? >> we're still learning about

this. it's complicated. we talked about this. having said that, i think 4 million is conservative. to your point, supporting these patients is a team effort. it's rehab physicians, it's specialists across pull monthnology. those specialties are being stressed as it is. here we are now wanting thoem provide care. so we don't have the infrastructure in place. number two, there's still outstanding questions. this vaccination and treatment maybe with that does that help derisk or mitigate the risk of developing long covid symptoms. dus it hasten time to resolution if you get treated or trying to answer that question as we speak. but those are the open questions here. can we treat this with an antiviral. those clinical trials are happening as we speak. demand for services and supply of them. >> without a doubt. let's move on to monkeypox. the cdc now says there are

monkeypox cases in 47 states. new york state declared a state of emergency, san francisco. vaccine appointments are incrediby difficult to get. they are gone in minutes. so what are you hearing from folks there who have been in line? >> they are frustrated. some people are just showing up here without appointments trying to see if they can get one. no surprise, they can't unless something else opens up. let's talk about current numbers. 1,472 confirmed cases in new york city. it appears to be an undercount. health officials believe the case load is actually higher. this has since first emerged in june and right now the daily case count just hit 90 when a month ago it was less than 30. so we know that right now it's mostly happening in manhattan among men between the ages of 30 and 39. anyone can get mokeypox.

it's spread through close physical contact with people. but based on the current outbreak, we know mostly the populations being affected are men who have sex with men. we also know that 800,000 vaccines are going to be released from the federal stockpile. 10% of those will come to new york city, but it's not fast enough for people who believe they are high risk and want to get one. let's listen to two gentlemen i spoke with today. >> were you successful? >> i wasn't. they offered me to come in the evening. if there's any cancellations, they will provide it for me. >> why it can't with be available like the covid vaccine. that's what say should be doing. >> reporter: so that gentleman was told to call 311 because he doesn't have a computer. there are no vaccination appointments to go around, but again, the city's website does say you can try if there's a cancellation or something like that, but just to put a pin this

that point that he just said, just to say stay alive, fatalities are rare. the w.h.o. lists it at 3 to 6%. . we have sooen fatalities in africa, spain and brazil. >> i have to say in my friend group in new york city, i have heard concerns about the availability of the vaccine. it's easy to say come and see if there's a cancellation, but not everybody can spend a couple hours hanging out see figure they could possibly get in. the former fda commissioner wrote an op-ed predicting that monkeypox could become the next public health failure. my question for you is are we failing? what needs to be done right now? >> there's crisis response happening now as we speak. there was a delay. i think that was art ticlated. this terms of what we can do moving forward, more testing options. what we know is you can swab your -- if you can expose infected, swabbing your mouth, oral saliva has the same level

of virus as the skin lesions that frankly testing the skin lesions that can be painful. so thinking about different sample collection sites, make ing it easier to test. and then frankly the reality here is that we're not going to have enough vaccines. we'll maybe have 800,000 by the fall. 7 million by mid-2023. treatment needs to become more available. we have 2 million doses. expanded access is going to make that more easy to obtain, but treatment is going to be the saufty net here for a lot of folks that can't get their hands on the vaccine. >> thank you both. coming up, what is driving young black voters to the polls? and do college students trust joe biden as well as the democratic party? we spoke to a group of students to find out. that's next on "chris jansing reports." make you want to stop, it's dr. scholl's time. our custom fit orthotics use foot mapping technology to give you personalized support, for all-day pain relief.

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black voters about the issues that matter most to them. i've been looking for to this. we hear every couple of years, oh, the youth vote, it's so important, they're going to vote this year. i'm very curious what you've learned so far about the issues that might drive these young black voters to the polls. >> chris, i tell you what, we hear a lot about this perceived disconnect, even though there in the super coveted group. this group i talked with are laser focused on issues that affect them like access to reproductive health care, the assault on voting rights and these are issues that will drive these young people to the polls or keeping some back. let's take a listen to some of my conversations with these guys. >> we're 100 days away from the mid terms. when y'all walk into that voting booth, what issues are you voting on? >> housing insecurity, who is

taking gun control seriously and immigration issues. >> reproductive issues as well as mass incarceration and stood insecurity. >> issues i'm voting on is how is health care going to be subsidized, what is the program going forward, what's the plan with health care going forward? state sponsored, third party, what benefit can i get from my employer? >> reporter: have the democrats in congress and president biden done enough to address your concerns around these issues? >> it's hard to say that, yes, democrats are doing everything they can when you're not seeing that change firsthand. >> they ran on these platforms so they need to really be acting on them. if not they will see what happens in november. >> reporter: where do you all think the party should be going, to that middle space or further to the left? >> the middle is comfortable. it's like your comfort spot. like you stay there, this is my

comfort buddy, i'm going to stay here because i like it but it's not helping. it's been the same for too long. >> we need to be pushing left, trying different solutions, trying to figure out how to best advance this country for a country that's changing every day. >> if the party goes further left, you will have more support and more push but you might lose some of the middle voters. then maybe those weren't voters you needed the whole time. if people are willing to leave your voting base because you want to give people free health care, they may not have been as loyal as you thought. >> do you feel better into a america two years in a joe biden administration compared to for years ago? >> am i over the moon, no. but we're making progress. >> it's almost common sense like but i am looking forward to what will happen in the next two years and how this country can

continue to progress because a lot of joe biden's term has been reversing what the past president did. >> it's not on joe biden to fix everything because we have to vote at every step. so i think i definitely feel a lot better but it's definitely all is not well. >> chris, these young people believe in the political process. they also want aggressive, substantive change. we'll see if at least the democratic party are listening to this group of voters. >> it's nice to hear they at least believe in the process. check out trymaine's podcast into america wherever you got your podcast. and i'm heading to kansas city for the vote on abortion in kansas. tune in tomorrow and wednesday, 1 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. that's going to do it for me this hour. yasmin vossoughian will pick up our coverage next.

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