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greetings, you are watching simone. this is, it y'all. we are in the home stretch. only three days away from the 2022 midterm elections. candidates, they are making their final pitch to the voters. the heavy hitters are tearing up the trail. we're gonna take you to pennsylvania where president biden and former president barack obama's stumping for democratic candidates this evening. plus, i spent 48 hours in the state that is gonna prove crucial this election. i am talking about wisconsin. and i caught up with the incumbent democratic governor tony ebert. we are on his campaign bus tour across the state. and we talked about why his is one of the most consequential races in this country. and i also hit the home of the 2021 nba champions, the waukee bucks. this election season, the forum is also an early voting site. i spoke to the bucks president about that, and to start -- wesley matthews about his efforts to clinch young people

that their votes matter. i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. ♪ ♪ ♪ we are just three days away from the 2022 midterm elections, y'all. do you hear that music? yes, that is how you know we are closing in on election day. nearly 39 million people have cast early ballots, more than 16 billion dollars has been spent this cycle. that is a new record. you are also now looking at a live picture from temple university in philadelphia, pennsylvania. we're in about an hour, president joe biden and former president barack obama will take the stage at a campaign rally to support democratic notorious candidate josh shapiro is running against election denying republican josh mastriano -- john fetterman who is locked in

a razor thin race against republican tv dr. mehmet oz. i want to bring in nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli. he is in philadelphia right now waiting for the democrats heavy hitters to take the stage. mike, i am sure this is bringing back memories, okay? what are you hearing from the people gathered there, set the scene for us? >> well, symone, you have been talking to democratic strategists, i've been talking to a lot of candidates, democratic strategist as well. democrats are stressing right now. it is three days until the election. they know how close this is. but they also know that seeing barack obama, the former president, and joe biden, the current president, onstage together. it brings back some good memories. brings back some nostalgia. that's part of the goal tonight. you can hear, it's a little bit of a party atmosphere here as well. but this is also a really important opportunity to have this political reunion. to have this once and only appearance by these two men on behalf of this democratic ticket that once probably the most important race in terms of

the battle for the senate. you will see president moment playing out what is at stake, what is at risk if the republicans take control. you will have president biden talking about accomplishments, talking about why democrats should be given two more years in control of the senate. in control of congress. what more they can do. and it is really interesting because simone, you know, it's not until a referendum, it's a choice. that choice is crystal clear. all you have these two presidents here. there is that other former president, donald trump, who is appearing elsewhere in pennsylvania today. and that is helping to highlight what is at stake for this election, as well. >> all right, nbc's mike memoli. thank you very very much. pennsylvania is not the only state's voters may shape the future course of our democracy. i want to talk wisconsin. because i spent some time this there this week. and you see, in statewide elections, wisconsin is a blue-leaning swing state. but democrats have won eight out of the past ten presidential elections in the state of wisconsin. but the state legislator? where the local laws are made?

where america's policy is made? that is a different story. wisconsin is actually one of the most gerrymandered states in the entire country. that is just a fact. radical redistricting has allowed republicans to build a dominant majority in the state legislature, marginalizing many voters, particularly democrats. and severely reducing the authority of the duly elected democratic governor. now, republicans want to consolidate their power even more by winning enough seats for a veto proof majority. that is because of this man right here. democratic governor tony evers. he has vetoed a record 146 bills passed by the republican legislature in the past two years. from everything off in 29 -- covid-19, election policy, education. but there is one power play left. republicans are also campaigning heavily for governor evers opponent, tim michaels. we recently had this to say. >> republicans will never lose another election in wisconsin after i'm elected governor.

[applause] >> so basically whatever the people vote for won't matter. the will of the people will never be respected in wisconsin. kim michaels is elected governor. one of the states most prominent newspapers and -- waukee journal, well, they endorsed abrams to, quote, defend our democracy. the endorsement went on to say that the most important reason to vote for everson? his veto pen. the milwaukee journal sent -- does not regularly endorsed candidate, y'all. that's very important to know. i have the opportunity to speak with governor hubris at a campaign stop and sheboygan wisconsin earlier this week where he responded to the endorsement. take a listen. >> well, it's certainly welcome. they're right, they don't endorse regularly. so it is an honor to be endorsed. but when it comes to democracy, what ron johnson is doing and frankly what my opponent tim michaels is doing as it relates to, you, know still complaining about and wondering about the last election.

whether it was fraudulent. that just sends the wrong message to the people of wisconsin about what democracy is all about. and it is making sure that we have a great system. every court in the land that has weighed in this issue has made that clear. so to be consistently bringing that up, challenging results that are not challenge-able. it is just wrong for wisconsin. rong for wisconsin if you are successful in your bid for reelection of governor, but republicans in the state legislator are successful in getting enough seats for veto proof majority, what is your strategy? >> first of all, we have to make sure that doesn't happen. and we are working very hard to make all of the down ballots democrats are running, get them across the finish line. but if we ended up in that position, it is kind of hand to hand combat. you are fighting moderate republicans, not override every veto. or, you know, making the pitch

richer the people of the state of wisconsin. you need to contact your legislators and make them understand how important democracy is. but that, is we have to avoid this at all costs. >> you said that if we speak to enough people, if we talk to people, we can convince them to vote for us. is that your take on this to the right thing bus tour? . in the lead up to election day? do you think that if you can talk to enough people that they will be persuaded by your message? >> absolutely, i just got an email from a friend this morning who happened to me in a different part of the state. she happened to come across someone who just moved here a couple of months ago. and started talking. all of a sudden realized that the woman wasn't going to vote. she talked her into voting, actually took her to be registered. so that is the stuff that has to happen. we have to reach out to people that we don't usually talk to or, frankly, if we do, i know i have friends in the past that

we never talk politics because we want to have a good friendship. >> [laughs] >> it is time to move beyond that. if you lose a friendship to save democracy, i guess that is worth it. >> i've been looking at a number of -- criticism from the republican party apparatus. they say you are just gonna raise taxes by billions of dollars, middle class americans. but as we know, that is not true, that was not your proposal. what is your pitch to voters on the economic front here? and how do you really combat these what are just frankly lies from republicans about not just your record but literally what you have said you would do and what your plans are. >> yeah, so my plan is quite simple. reduce the middle class income taxes in the state of wisconsin. we did 15% to the last four years. we want to do another 10% now. that will save people some money. also, making sure we can lower gas prices almost immediately by taking away an archaic tax

that we have there, saving about 30 cents a gallon on that. and also, put some more money into childcare tax credits. that helps people that may not be in the workforce because of childcare costs. maybe get them into the workforce. but also allowing them to keep some more money. so that is the only plan out there. my opponent hasn't come up with one, the legislature hasn't been in session since last march. so we can do this, a wave to do is get legislators to do some work. >> all right, governor, i know you have a room full of folks in their, so i will let you get in there. >> thanks, thanks so much, appreciated. thank you. >> we reached out to governor evers republican opponent tim michaels, but he did not get back to us. but still time, still time. but who did get back to us is the next guest that i want to bring in, the chair of the wisconsin state democratic party. ben we color, welcome to you, then. ben, you are in a car. i saw you on that bus tour with governor everson, you got off the bus with him. and in the course of the

conversation that we had, he told me that he could just talk to as many people as possible, he believed that he could convince them to vote for him. we are now three days away from election day. how is that strategy working out for him and other democrats on the ticket? >> simone, it's so great to see be with you. it's so great to have you in wisconsin. i was on that bus tour with them all through northern wisconsin in very red areas, purple areas. i'm -- right now, i was knocking on doors that steve doyle, who represents a republican-leaning assembly district. he is a democrat if you go to mr. bipartisan.com you can find's website. he has one of those democrats who is gonna stop republicans from getting a supermajority under gerrymandering districts. and it is because democrats have been showing up people stores in their communities year-round for the last two years, that we have every hope that a 50/50 state, we might be able to fend off the republican attacks over the next three

days. >> so, then, is that then the wisconsin democratic parties down ballot strategy? you say you all started early. so that is how you are going to prevent this veto proof majority? >>, well the main strategy is to do everything and lots of it. we have more yard signs up. people say yard signs don't vote, but the people who put them up certainly vote. we have been knocking on doors, steve boyle and his team have been knocking out $1,000 a week in a state legislative district where you can win a race with 16,000 votes. we have ads on rural radio, tv, on every screen you can find. on digital. we've got mailers. we've got just about every way to communicate with someone that we are doing. representative gwen moore's economy going around waukegan a soundtrack in his last couple of days to make sure everyone turns out to vote for governor ever's and bella barnes. it is all on the table strategy. and that is what you have to do in a state like wisconsin, where it is so close for the last six presidential races came down to less than one

percentage point. >> you know, gwen moore, i know she has a new radio ad out. send me the other day. i'm sure it's getting around. ben, you were elected chair of the state party in 2019. and the wisconsin democratic party today to has received about one point $3 million from the democratic national committee this cycle. that is important, because it is up more than $450,000 from the 2018 midterms spending in the state. that is also more than double of 2014. so the money here is pouring in. do you think that the democratic party apparatus has recognized that wisconsin democrats need resources, and are these your sources gonna translate into actual votes for you? >> we are so grateful for the support from our national committee partners and the democratic national committee, the dnc. also, from individuals in wisconsin and across the country who chipped in. we have raised at this point about $28 million, which is way beyond anything we have ever had in the midterm election.

we are putting every one of those dollars to work. and we are seeing the results. we are seeing among young voters, women voters, black voters in the state. almost a 50% increase in the number of votes cast by this time of the election cycle, relative to 2018. so this energy and enthusiasm on the ground is palpable. and we are gonna need every one of these votes for what could be a nice edge election that could go either way. >> well, my friend, it's good to see you. ben winkler, chair of the democratic party of wisconsin. thank you and be safe out there on the road. >> thanks a lot. >> coming up, i had a very candid conversation with some young professionals in wisconsin about what is important in this election, including the need for representation. better voter outreach efforts in their communities, and much much more. we will be right back with that. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ if an oral treatment is right for you. oral treatments can be taken at home and must be taken within 5 days from when symptoms first appear.

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you are looking at live pictures of the campaign rally at temple university in philadelphia, pennsylvania. for president biden is expected to arrive momentarily. he and president obama are expected to speak in the next hour. ♪ ♪ ♪ now, the race to win the battleground state of wisconsin, it is far from over. and doing my recent vicious to milwaukee, something became very clear to me. like most cities in america, there is a bit of a divide in milwaukee. so i sat down for a conversation with a group of young professionals. they were entrepreneurs, ceos, and executives, take a listen. >> there are a lot of business people in this room, you talk about the potential tech hubs here in milwaukee. it just, it kind of feels, i literally feel like i was in two different places today. i feel like i was in two different places today. and the story of more rocky is not much different than the story i am from, north --

nebraska. omaha, you can cut it up in four. black people in north omaha. latinos in south omaha. white people out west. okay, it's not much different than chicago. it is not much different then, i, mean naming any major city in america. it seems like a pervasive issue that every single election we are having a similar conversation. not that things haven't changed. but the conversation seems to be quite familiar. >> milwaukee is one of the most segregated cities in the country. and so i think that when you look at the fact that wisconsin is 17% african american. more than 40% of us are in milwaukee county. i think that when you talk about the narrative that is created, that narrative has been created so that people can leave their power on the table. so when you create a narrative, there is nobody thinking about you, nobody cares. then a lot of people, especially people that are just

trying to pay their rent, just trying to keep food on the table, just trying to make sure that they can survive through the night. definitely they will turn away. >> the reality, as my organization, we have gone canvassing. we have heard from the community. and i have unfortunately interfaced with individuals who were either not aware that the midterm elections were happening, did not feel connected. we're aware, i didn't feel connected enough with whomever is running. or doesn't feel like their vote can count. so what you just said about how there is a kind of tale of two cities. one of the reasons why i launched look you a tech hub to focus in on black and brown individuals is because i noticed that there were far too many narratives that did not focus in black and brown communities, uplifting these communities and reaching them. and so i think that in order for us to stop having the same conversations, we have to do something different. >> they know how important our votes are.

every election, they figure out a way to make it hard for black and brown people to vote in wisconsin. every year, right. >> underline and build this point, because we can't have this conversation without talking about what a special. >> yes, yes. so every election is all about something new. you think about 2020, during the pandemic where people had to stand in long lines and they made it hard for them. they took away the ballot boxes and all of those different things, right? so making folks have to figure out how to have an i.d. and all of these different barriers that we just talked about. and why they may not know or feel power that their vote counts. you go to this year, you can't even take your ballot to a ballot box for this election. that is coming up. right? so we have to think about how important that is to educate people on why they need to fight those things to go out and vote. >> what happens if governor ever's and miguel are not successful? i hear the optimism about the success, which is, you know, the formal organizer, the former strategist and me is like, yes, because that is how

you get to a win. but what happens if they are not successful? and let me throw another wrench in their. we ain't even got to talking about the state legislator just yet. but they are the worst! wisconsin making north carolina state legislator looked like child's play! >> i would -- >> my socialist brother, what you got? >> [laughs] when you have a state legislator in a voting populace which is traditionally 50%, 56% liberal and 46%, you know, republican. and the margins, right, of leadership looks like the way in which the state legislator is gerrymandered right now. we are five seats away from, right, from a supermajority in the assembly. >> a veto proof majority. >> right,, right. [inaudible] luckily, once he read from the senate away from republican supermajority there.

right? it creates so many more narratives in this race about -- >> it goes back to -- keyword is pray. >> but people in the city and state have fallen for so many things. have won some amazing victories throughout history. that legacy doesn't stop, right? there is a whole another wave of generations, and it will be a future wave of generations that will continue that and continue to uplift the values that we collectively care about. and that will happen when mandela it winds. and it will continue to happen. >> such a spirited conversation, many thanks again to all of the young professionals who made the time to chat with me while in milwaukee. we had such a long conversation, i'm gonna find it a way that we can bring you all the fullness on the inter web's. but next, as we continue to watch for president biden and former president obama to rally voters in philadelphia, we are going to get into the latest on

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assuming the democrats keep all the seats they currently have. and in a kind of just one seat to take control, but it's currently an evenly divided senate. let's bring in my political panel. camilla jehovah's is a congressional reporter for the washington post. -- governor affairs consultant at jim jordan strategy. and this woman is a former deputy assistant to president biden and formally the domestic policy adviser to vice president kamala harris. welcome, welcome to you all. i want to start in pennsylvania. pennsylvania, you've got former president obama, current president joe biden, any minute they are gonna come out. hopefully they don't come out in a -- we can get to chatting. they are rallying there. now, before fairly, president obama was in pittsburgh earlier. i want to play a little bit of what he had to say. take a listen. >> the good news is, you have the power in your hands to steer this country any better direction. but it only happens if you vote.

it only happens if you participate. >> it's a turnout message, okay? so camilla, you know both president biden and president obama won more than 50% of the vote in pennsylvania. what do you think these appearances today are going to do for turnout three days before election day? >> well, obama is known for really galvanizing and moving voters to go out and really vote. and so you see all of these democratic candidates really using the star power of obama and other big, big people. to really just send the message home. and that is democracy. there is, like, democracy is at stake. there is a lot to lose voters don't come out and support the democratic candidates. >> i mean, we have got polling that talks about this, right? there is a recent poll, it was released just yesterday. want to put it up on the screen. it shows that john fetterman is leading mehmet oz at 51% to 41% among definite voters. people that are definitely going to the polls. that is just outside the polls, four point margin of error. but the gender gap in this poll is astonishing ...!

55% of women polled support fetterman. only 37 supported us. oz leads with men at 51% to 44%. what does that say to you about the state of this race and what could it say to you about the national trends? women are important, right? >> women are important, and they will be making the case to millions of people, these candidates around the country where they are saying, let us contrast with the candidate. and say, who is going to be the person that is going to protect lowering prescription drug costs. who is going to protect medicare and social security? who is going to protect health care between the doctor and the patient, including reproductive health care with women around the country. and so people will be tuning in. as they will see today, people will be talking about how to present this contrast. and that there is a choice that voters have this november. >> raheem is talking about the contrast, the change election. some people heard referendums. you know, there's a lot of conventional ways that are

being thought around. here i was just in wisconsin, i have to tell, you it made me feel it a lot of the conventional wisdom is not accurately matching up with what is happening on the ground. you've got a lot of candidates this cycle on the ballot, what about you, what do the republican say? are you nervous? are you purple nervous about the races? what do you got? >> -- i would say that the house is probably in hand. i would say 20 to 25 seats. >> 20, 25, that's what you think? >> that's what the republicans will pick, up in my position. senate is completely up for grabs, i think. we were talking earlier, 5:38 has four races, senate races within the margin of error, less than the margin where, they are tied. so, obama will turn out the vote, absolutely i. think he will turn out maybe more than trump does. the problem is that this is what happens when you don't let the voters choose who our candidates are. oz was not our strongest candidate in that primary. and we have the same problem in arizona. we have the same problem in new hampshire. we have a similar issue in

georgia. >> >> georgia, as, well absolutely, 100%. so it is disappointing. but these are the cards that we were dealt. so we have to do it >> midterms are always turn out. it is all the turnout, as you will know. so, you know what, it is sounds cliché. but it's gonna be whoever turns out their vote. >> whoever turns out their vote, i, mean millions of votes. 36 million votes have already been cast. some people would say, oh, that definitely favors democrats. but we just don't know. that is in person voting, that is also mail-in ballots. i want to go to florida. i want what sunshine state. because you talked about president -- he is getting ready to rally for the incumbent senator, marco rubio against democratic congresswoman val demings in that state. trump and rubio are gonna be on the stage and joined by florida's other senator rick scott. but he won't be there is ron desantis, honey. look, we don't know what is going on there. it all comes as trump has reportedly plans to announce another run for president on

november 14th. it is too much for me. camilla, i just really feel like, you, know donald trump just always finds a way to make it about him and i cannot. but i want to talk about florida. how could this be helpful. could it be hurtful? i mean, should donald trump be summary himself in the final days of. this he is not necessarily, he's like a foil for democrats, right? what is it? >> i think republicans are still banking on how much trump supporters are still going out and supporting him. i, mean you go to some of his campaign rallies where he still hasn't announced whether he's gonna run or not. but there is a lot of support. so i think what is really important to see is that marco rubio understands that there is a lot of conservative voters, they are still supporting trump. and they see this as a way to just galvanized more people to the polls. >> will he be supporting the twice impeached former president? >> no. >> i like, it very clear. it's a no for jim, honey. speaking of election deniers, okay, donald trump endorsed arizona gubernatorial candidate kari lake. she is leading the democrats in

that race, katie hobbs. who is the current secretary of state by three points. 51% to 48%. that is a fox ten phoenix poll. it is within the margin of error. i cannot say it enough. where he needs, do you think that katie hobbs, first of, all it's a within the margin of error, okay, so it could be a little closer. do you think that the polls are right? and how does katie hobbs make up ground in these last few days? >> while there is no question that polls matter to the context of people understanding what is going on, who has momentum and who doesn't. but i have been off of these midterm campaigns to know that china does everything. the question is going to be, what is going to make people that may weigh in on a poll and say i like this person, i don't like this person? but what is gonna make this person get up off of their couch, answer the door, someone is knocking on the door. actually go vote. so let that ballot. obviously, we are seeing record turnout in terms of the number of people filling out their ballots. but we also have to think about

going into this final swing, that is where the candidates are saying, we have got a look at what is the ground game? and that is what we don't have a good sense of. everybody is saying that we have to focus on the ground game. but we just don't know. and that is why the momentum going into this weekend, it is also gonna reflect who is really got the best ground game. >> i mean, jim was over here, saying, right the ground game is actually key. i had the chairman of the wisconsin democratic party on. he talked about how he was out in a rural part of wisconsin, knocking doors with the candidate who was in a republican district. i knock some doors with some canvassers. i filed with them when i was in wisconsin. just the three young ladies that i was so, if they had 100 doors in about an hour and a half. and they are not dropping, they are talking to people. i don't think it is everyone doing that everywhere, though. >> no, no. and, you know, if you listen to ron mcdaniel, she will tell you that there are republicans out there doing that in some of these states. but i don't get a sense of the ground game either.

it seems like this is so poll -centric, this particular election. because there is so much at stake, it's when the two houses, you know, i think it will determine whether or not president biden runs again if he does poorly, i think he probably doesn't. if he does well, i think he probably does. >> all of this white house love, a couple of weeks ago. the people are like, believe joe biden, don't believe the polls. look, i think that we have talked a lot about the polls on this show and this network. everyone has been talking about the polls. i think it leaves out people who are not. like, a pollsters never called me. has a poster -- never pick up the phone and called. what about the folks that are not being affected in the polls? >> that is a really great point, because if you are not picking up the phone then you don't know who the person is voting for. i think canvassing at this point, especially this midterm election, especially in races where it is really tight and competitive. it really is essential to go out and canvas. i went to connecticut all the way to oregon on their races. and you saw that canvassing is

effective when you are knocking on the door, getting people to come to the door. and you are really informing them about the candidate on where they stand. and so i think that polling only shows one portion or one part of the -- what people are voting for. but doesn't really reflect everything that is going. on so it is very careful to not just rely on the polling to really say who is going to win. for certain reasons, who is not. >> the people have the power, if you have not voted out there, go and vote. camilla, jim, rahimi, thank you. congratulations on your new job. i am sure the -- excited to have you. >> all right, y'all, after the break, we are getting into the milwaukee bucks, honey. and how they are engaging in this election season. yes, i am talking about the milwaukee bucks. they are helping with get out the vote access. and i also have my conversation with the bucks president and power forward wesley matthews. that is next. and we expect to see president biden take the stage soon, right there, right there on that stage in philadelphia at temple university, we are gonna bring that to you live. don't you go anywhere.

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when it comes to the future of our democracy, the nba has let fans know the ball is in their court. earlier this year, nbc news was the first to report that the nba would not hold games on election day, november 8th. a game three days from now, y'all. encouraging fans to vote in the midterms instead. some teams are even opening up their arenas for early voting. this week, i stopped by pfizer forum, home of the milwaukee bucks. and i spoke with box player wesley matthews, and bucks president peter fagan, about the team's decision to open the arena for early voting. here is what they had to say about the bucks efforts to engage the community. >> i would say we work very hard to be great citizens, great community members. we built this higher district -- >> in 2020, i think a lot of people remember, i certainly do,

when the bucks refused to take the court in the playoff game. this was august 23rd after the shooting of jacob blake. in the aftermath of that, the arena, this arena the fiserv forum was gonna become a polling place, but the state election folks got damaged, for a lack of a better term, because they were concerned that people would challenge the votes that were cast here. so in 2020, this was not a polling place. in 2022, though, -- within the community. >> well, when all that took place, initial thing was that we wanted to make sure that access to voting was easy. access to voters was accessible. access to voters would be due through the nba. and part of that was wanting to have nba arenas open as voting places because we know that there are a congregation of people that love and support the committee, same lake here

at pfizer. >> being from wisconsin, being a local as folks like to say. what is the reception from the community. especially as you talk about such an important election. >> it has been love. more love than i ever would've imagined, never would've thought, you know, i played, this is my forte -- coming back, some with them rocky box. it's the excitement from my hometown, the excitement from waukee. i felt that energy. and this is a special place. it is an undervalued place. and there is a lot of good that is happening here. but a lot of better. there is more to be done. >> how has been getting into the community, really letting people know about the work you are doing here. >> we have this incredibly strong platform of the nba. so all of a sudden, we have this acceptance, you can't even imagine it. i think when our owners bought this team, you know, several years ago, they were stewards of the brandon the team.

needed to be a part of the community and part of our success as really being like a proven member of the community and living here, you know, west could tell you what that is like and how we are part of the fabric. >> i mean, like peter just said, when you put together a, team you put together a good group that can function. winds on the court. you also want to recognize -- team as a whole. you talk about community. we are all really in it, like, we are all at parents pick up lines at school. we are all going to dance classes and being seen. we are at the grocery stores. we are at home goods working out. the love and the respect is mutual. >> how do you continue to connect the needs of the community with the organization. are you all doing any voter education work, for example. how do you really bridge that gap? >> yeah, i think we started 30,000 feats and talk about

fairness and equality. -- pillars of what we care about. whether that is education, whether that is health care. whether that is social justice. we have got these projects that we really care about. then, how do we feed those like hundred 60 degrees. it is not just -- most importantly, how do we bond with the community? comes from the community, not just the bucks. >> do you feel a sense of responsibility, especially being from here, especially given everything that's happening in the country right now, to encourage young people in the community to get out and make their voices heard the ballot box. >> yeah, i do. and i do be for a number of reasons. one, i think being a parent, one of the biggest lessons my mom told me was that she was my hero. i would always want to be like her, she would always say, you know, don't be like me, and be better than me. and that kind of mentality is what i am trying to pass on in my daughter. be greater than what we. our be greater than what i am. don't just level yourself up to

where i am. you know, for when i say, yes, it's part of being a role model in a responsibility. i wish i had that more. you know, i wish that was there for when i was younger. and it wasn't so much about, oh, your vote doesn't matter, you know, your vote does matter. because this is gonna be your society, your community for a long time. in, you know, you have the right. you have the opportunity to make it how you want it. and what is best for you for this society. for the community and for your brothers for your sisters, for your family. for your community. we all need each other. you know, my responsibility is to not only talk about it, but be about it. >> preach, wesley, preach. i want to again thank wesley matthews and peter fagan for speaking with me, y'all, get out and vote now. next, we have the final interview in my series on the divine nine in the midterm elections. the president of alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated will talk with me about efforts to combat voter suppression and

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a live look at the rally in philadelphia, for democratic candidates, or president biden is expected to start speaking minutes from now. we are gonna bring that to you when it starts live right here on msnbc. but first, three days, folks. that is all that is left before midterm elections. and voters across the country, black voters especially, they are still concerned about suppression, intimidation. i'm talking about the polls, and quite honestly, the country's democracy as a whole. today, the last in our series of conversations with the presidents of the divine nine historically black led greek organizations starts with alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated. alpha kappa alpha has more than 325 initiated members at the graduate and undergraduate chapters in 12 countries.

alpha kappa alpha's mission is service to all mankind. and with that we, welcome the international president also kappa our facility incorporated, danette anthony reed. welcome to you, madam president. i want to start with the national pan held a council garden at the university of florida being vandalized. this is what is understood to be the for third incident like this? they were university's president says that letters were removed from four of nine monuments honoring black sororities and fraternities that were treated at the university of florida. he would go on to say that we condemn the acts against it, and will work for the perpetrators to be found and swiftly brought to justice. i have to say, it really just feels like incidents like this are happening all too often nowadays. are you concerned? >> i am very concerned. but first, let me thank you for having me on your show. and also, thank you for bringing together the divine nine to let us share platforms. yes, i condemn, we condemn

vandalism of any of our monuments. but let me tell you this, you can penalize any of our monuments, but you are not gonna diminish our experience or take away or distract us from the problems of things that hands. we're gonna go to vote. >> president, talk to me about your sort of the polls voter initiatives. folks on voter, education registration immobilization. how is that being put into action with three days left? >> you know, we are very active with this program, we have an international social action committee. that has ten members who represent the ten regions within our organization. and then, besides that, they work with representatives, state representatives, so now we have this 50 state representatives -- thousand 60 chapters across the country. so now we have got a team that is out there. soared to the polls started with voters education --

how do you go to vote. are you sure that you are active in can get to the polls like you need to get to the polls. and that you could know that there are different ways that you can vote. you can either vote by mail. you can vote by pledged. but make sure you get there for the -- >> president read, my last question to you is what, all of the organizations, all of you at the divine nine, you really came together and mobilized. i would like to say that that is not the end but the beginning. what is next for you all after november 8th? >> after november 8th, we cannot stop. we have to still continue with the other two areas that we have. we will continue to work on voter registration. and that is to make sure that we get as many of our voter members deputize so that we can go out and help get members in our community --

also, voter squads. we have voter squads where we are trying to get members not only from our organization but in the community and in families and in your church families to make sure that we can pull folks to vote. -- take two with you. that way, you can make sure we bring folks to vote starting now and then in the future. >> now and then in the future. danette anthony reed the international president of alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> and thank you for watching simone on this saturday, i am symone sanders-townsend, tomorrow on the show we will have more special midterm election coverage. i will have interviews with wisconsin in a governor montello burns, and house majority whip jim vibrant, and that is right here on msnbc, 4 pm eastern. for more of the show, you can find us on instagram, twitter, and the ticket top. but keep it locked right here, folks, for president biden and

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