it will be the last such eclipse until 2025. it happens when the moon, earth and the son are aligned and the moon passes into earth's shadow. total lunar eclipses are known as blood moons because of the red coloring caused by the earth's atmosphere. it will last from just after 5:00 a.m. to almost 7:00 a.m. eastern. if you get a chance to see it, see it because it won't happen until 2025. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart reporting from new york. thank you for the privilege of your time. yasmin vossoughian picks up with more news right now. good morning, everybody. we're here. we have made it. one day out.

i'm yasmin vossoughian here in new york city. you hear the music. you have seen the ads. you maybe have gotten one of those text messages, campaign text messages. it means we're almost there. one day away from the midterm elections. this morning with just hours left to make the final pitches, candidates, they are hitting the trail across the country. 42 million americans have already early voted. but it is election day turnout that could make all of the difference. and in a topsy-turvy election year, the issues driving folks run the gamut. >> the main thing is we vote for people who are willing to accept the results at the ballots. >> abortion, firearms. >> inflation. just all the policies and the changes. just cutthroat. >> try to vote for the lesser of two evils is my way of thinking about it. >> that last point there, the lesser of two evils, that mind-set can make all the difference. our final round of nbc news

polling showing that democrats and republicans are now neck and neck in terms of enthusiasm and it is evenly split in terms of which party voters want to control congress. our reporters are with us covering every angle and that is big board here at msnbc headquarters. we have steve kornacki standing by. we have ellison barber in georgia for us. shaq brewster in wisconsin and maura barrett is in pennsylvania. we want to start here with kornacki in studio. you've been drinking your coffee. you're ready. you've been training for this. we're finally there. talk us through it. give us the 30,000 foot above look. and then also, this new nbc polling. good news it seems for democrats 24 hours. >> yeah, i think it's conflicting signals in this polling. our final nbc news poll. if you're a democrat, you're pleased to see this. this is the generic ballot, who do you want running congress and

they've got this in a tie right here. so for democrats, the last time we took this, republicans had a very slight edge. other polls have put republicans ahead a little bit too. to see democrats in a tie here, certainly if you're a democrat, you're encouraged by that. what you're not encouraged by is the climate, the overall climate, it continues to be extremely hostile politically to democrats, starting with this. joe biden's approval rating, 44%. a majority disapprove of his job performance as president. what that has traditionally signaled in a midterm election is something very bad for the white house party. take a look at this. these are recent presidents, our final polling in their first midterm and you see that biden number of 44%. it's right in line with where trump was in 2018. in 2018, republicans lost the house. it's right in line with obama in 2010. in 2010, democrats lost the house. what it takes for an incumbent

president to have a good midterm is something like this, george w. bush in 2002, his approval rating was 63%. this is a year after 9/11. there was still a lot of unity behind bush. the biden numbers are nowhere near those bush numbers. they're in the ballpark of his recent predecessors who had rough midterm elections. the other part of the climate that the troublesome for democrats is this. you ask what's the most important issue, the economy, inflation. you put those two together, by far, that's number one. and you ask people about their attitude towards the economy, 81% dissatisfied. we haven't seen numbers this high since 2009, 2010. for the incumbent party, to be dealing with attitudes toward the economy like this and at the toward the president like we just showed you, typically that is not added up to good news for that party in the midterm election. why is our generic ballot still showing 47/47? a big reason might have to do

with this. it's the question of enthusiasm. the last time we took a poll here, republicans had a nine-point edge on enthusiasm. in a new poll, it's dead even. and i think that's the variable, i think that's the wild card. we're talking about potentially 120, 130 million people voting tomorrow. do democrats get folks that are that enthusiastic about biden, did they get them to vote anyway. when you're talking about turnout levels that high, it raises possibilities of some unusual outcomes. >> that's fascinating. that's why we talk about how this thing is going to come down to turnout. steve kornacki, thank you. we have a long couple of days ahead. ellison, i want to start with you in georgia. herschel walker canceled a campaign event there. nonetheless, both warnock, walker, they're storming this race just a couple of hours out. what is the closing message?

>> one is to tell georgia voters to get out and vote and to tell every single person they know that they should vote as well. the other, both candidates are arguing their opponent is ill-equipped for the job. walker, he argues that warnock is a vote -- a vote for warnock is a vote for president biden. he's saying, look at the economy, look at your grocery bill, look at the cost of gas, they're not doing their job, they're not doing what is right for you or your pocketbook. warnock is arguing that this is bigger than left or right, republican or democrat. he says, hey, herschel walker was great at running the football for georgia, but he says he has no interest in serving georgians. warnock is out with a new ad trying to make that point, calling walker's character into question with some help from local georgia republicans. watch. >> i'm raphael warnock and i approve this message. >> the first time he held the

gun to my head -- >> republicans are speaking out about herschel walker's history of violence. >> herschel walker hasn't earned my respect or vote. i'm like hundreds of thousands of other georgia voters right now. >> you held a gun to your wife's head and threatened to blow it off, you're a bad man. and that -- georgians deserve better. >> reporter: herschel walker has acknowledged having violent tendencies in the past. he says it was a result of his struggles with dissociative identity disorder, something he says he no longer struggles with now. in response to this particular campaign ad, one of his spokespeople, his communications director told us this, quote, warnock has wasted millions of dollars smearing herschel walker and it is not working. this race has got personal and

ugly. it's also very costly. it's the most expensive race in the nation. when you look at the numbers, warnock has outspent herschel walker by $78 million. it is very possible that come election night, we might not know who has won this race and these two candidates could be facing off in a december runoff. >> not unexpected as to what this race has become, considering what is currently at stake here within the senate overall. i want to go to shaq if we can. i know mandela barnes wrapped up an event there. 700,000 early votes already in. as i just talked about with steve kornacki, it's all going to come down to turnout on election day there. >> absolutely. that's exactly the case and i'll tell you here on the ground, there's definitely tension. there's anxiety, especially among democratic voters. they're looking at the polls, they see that in every single poll. nearly every public poll,

mandela barnes has been trailing narrowly but within the margin of error. he's going out to knock on doors on this final day before election day, he's hoping that people turn that anxiety into action and specifically into voting. i want you to listen to some of that closing message to his supporters who are going to boost turnout in this election. >> people are eager, i would say, to be a part of that conversation, to be a part of moving the state forward. that's just not been the case for ron johnson as a u.s. senator. he lives in oblivion. it's a handful of votes. he can literally win this election just by the doors you knock on today. i want you to keep in mind doing that. you can be the difference. >> reporter: that is the message that you're not just hearing from democrats in this state, but you're hearing from republicans. they know it is all about

turnout in the state with routinely competitive elections. we know that senator ron johnson is out on the stump today. he'll be joined by governor nikki haley. again, the message is turnout. because they know things are going to be close, no matter who wins this election. >> we're talking a lot about what is at stake here, right? and nothing was more evident than what happened in pennsylvania. you would barack obama, president biden on the same stage together. across the state you had former president donald trump as well. all eyes, of course, on the senate race in pennsylvania in these final closing hours. >> yeah, and absolutely star-studded weekend here in pennsylvania. and that really shows the dead heat that we're seeing between democratic candidate john fetterman and republican mehmet oz. this has been a tight race over the past months and this is something that's very much resonating with voters as something they're facing a lot of pressure on voters.

i spoke with both republicans and democrats over the weekend. feeling a lot of anxiety because they know how important this race is. they know that this could decide who controls congress at the end of it and results may not come for several days because of the way pennsylvania counts their ballots. in terms of looking ahead to these next 24 hours, both senate candidates out with their closing arguments today. fetterman leading into his underdog outsider status who was put down by big money and oz has been leaning into his moderate stance over the last few months, since former president trump endorsed him. but i want you to see some of -- a sneak peek of the ads that just dropped this morning. watch. >> i believe in the american dream. because it's alive. u i believe in all of you. when you save the soul of pennsylvania, you save the soul of america. >> one candidate stands with appeal, john fetterman, building a different kind of movement for

pennsylvania, for us. >> reporter: now, in addition to those star-studded appearances from presidents over the weekend, we saw last-minute endorsements, oprah choosing to endorse fetterman over dr. oz. what was interesting to see yesterday in the suburban counties of philadelphia is that shapiro was campaigning with fetterman. he has a healthy lead over his opponent. so it appears that democrats were trying to latch onto that moderate democratic support in order to get fetterman over that finish line. it will come down to turnout in pennsylvania. >> across the country really for every race. we're almost there, guys. keep doing what you're doing. join rachel maddow as they break down issues this year. that's tonight on msnbc.

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welcome back, everybody. tonight former president trump continuing his blitz campaigning for republicans, he's going to be in ohio. a state that he carried twice, actually. the crucial senate race between time ryan and jd vance. it's especially neck and neck, not unlike other races. it's one of the races that could determine control of the senate. trump rallied in florida last night, stumping for marco rubio. the state's republican governor ron desantis also up for re-election held his own separate rally the night before in pennsylvania and trump took a swipe at desantis who is widely believed to be gearing up for a 2024 presidential run. trump debuted a new nickname for the florida governor. >> we're winning big, big, big in the republican party for the nomination like nobody's ever seen before. there it is, trump at 71.

ron at 10%. >> joining me now, jesse kirsch, ali vitali, and mark caputo. as we look ahead, of course, to the trump rally, campaigning there for jd vance, you also spoke with tim ryan as well over the weekend. also feeling optimistic ahead of tomorrow's election. what did they both say? >> reporter: they brushed aside what they're seeing in the polls. they're campaigning hard. it's going to be interesting to see what plays out tonight. the last time former president trump rallied in ohio earlier this year in september with jd vance, it gave tim ryan one of his favorite punch lines to push back on vance, trying to tie him directly to former president

trump and as someone who will do everything that former president trump wants. that's the same way that advance wants ryan to be perceived in terms of how he deals with president biden and speaker of the house nancy pelosi. they're trying to paint each other as a lackey of both of their leaders. we asked people what they want to see tonight, here's what both candidates told us. >> i've been able to take on my own party, i think a firm position on china and making sure we do trade deals like president trump did. >> he endorsed me very early on, yeah, i think the president's support helps us in ohio. >> reporter: and you can see there the democrat tim ryan being complimentary of former president donald trump and that has been one of the signature pieces of his campaign is trying

to reach across the aisle and frankly not getting upset if people confuse him for the republican nominee and that's been one of the things that jd vance has been pushing back on in person and advertisements is this idea that tim ryan is portraying himself as something that doesn't line up with his long record in congress. but, again, that speaks to what tim ryan is trying to do here, peel away moderate republicans and people who might be not over conservative ideas, but might be over former president trump. >> it's a strategy tim ryan has been consistent with. we'll wait and see if it works in the state of ohio after tomorrow's votes are actually in. ali vitali, you and i spoke yesterday. quite a split-screen moment. i know you were at the rally yesterday. you had former president donald trump, ron desantis, separate rallies. you have desantis with another rally this evening. it seems a heck of a lot more like a possible 2024 pitch versus a midterm pitch.

>> and the split screen that we talked about and saw yesterday is one we could be seeing a lot more of in the coming months if desantis uses his re-election bid here as a springboard to 2024 and if or rather win, as many of my sources expect, trump actually announces his own bid. what it does is, in the heart of florida, where desantis and trump both will likely launch their campaign from, it puts these voters at the center of this choice, one that most voters told me yesterday they didn't want to have to make if it came down to trump versus desantis. be people said, if they had to choose, they might go with desantis. here's one explaining why to me. >> ron desantis would have my vote? >> why? >> because ron desantis is more in touch with reality with the people and he's more -- >> what's reality? what's the reality he's more in touch with? >> he's better spoken. he understands what voters are going through. he understands.

>> reporter: so, yasmin, voters here recognizing that they may have a choice in front of them a few years from now or months from now. but they've got a choice in front of them right now. the reality is that in both the governor's race and the senate contest, the republican incumbents in each of those races have been polling consistently ahead. republicans that i've talked to feel good about where they are in florida at this point. but it's going to be fascinating come election night and once these results shake out, florida and ohio have been talked about for a long time as states that were once swingy, that are getting redder. what's fascinating is the fact that tim ryan is in a lockstep contest there versus val demings here challenging marco rubio for senate. she's trailing consistently. we'll see just how red they ultimately shake out to be these midterms. >> we certainly will. mark, there's two things i want to dig into while i have you.

let's touch on this rift that we're seeing between ron desantis and former president donald trump. after the endorsement from the former president to ron desantis back in 2018, and let me read for you some reporting from the "new york times," or some analysis, i should say. mr. trump's generosity carries a price and she's expressed bewilderment that ron desantis has not displayed a satisfactory amount of loyalty according to people close to the former president. what do you make of this? >> that's true, i've heard the same thing. trump's line is i made desantis, he should not be positioning himself to run against me. it's a possibility, not a probability, but a possibility that tonight trump at his rally in ohio might announce his bid for president. he doesn't want to have a mitch mcconnell getting any credit for flipping the senate. that happens and he's been itching to do this for quite some time. there's a variety of factors. not only is this federal

investigation into him, but also he's looking at guys like ron desantis. he wants to make sure that if a ron desantis runs against him, he's running against trump. that is, this person is being disloyal. that will be part of his argument. what you saw in the pennsylvania rally where he unveiled the nickname, trump is detraying his annoyance and interest in getting in the ring and throwing punches. he's letting people know, if you step in that ring, you're going to get hit. >> let's talk about this trending to red in the state of florida specifically. at one point, purple. if you're looking at miami-dade, there's a lot of talk that miami-dade could go red, first time in a decade. what does that say about the ground game for democrats if that happens? >> there's no ground game for democrats. if you look at the early and absentee vote which is interesting, people show up early and vote in person or vote

by absentee ballot, statewide at this point, a day before the election, in 2018, democrats had cast a combined 1 percentage point more ballots than republicans. this year, a day before election day, republicans are up by 7 percentage points. also, in 2018, the democratic registration advantage statewide, they had 208 or 10,000 more voters. now republicans have 300,000 more voters. and that shift on and on and on. you have ron desantis who raised $196 million and spent more than $130 million since he got elected and took office in 2019. almost all of that spent this year on the election. it's just looking like a bloodbath. >> it's all going to come to election day. thank you. all right, coming up, trump isn't the only president who has hit the stump in the last couple of days.

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welcome back, everybody. a crucial factor heading into tomorrow's midterms is going to be voter enthusiasm and the turnout. both parties, that depends on how much they can rely on key groups that have backed their candidates. one of those voting blocs for

democrats has been latino voters. a recent "wall street journal" found the gop is gaining support amongst latinos. democrats held a lead of five percentage points over republicans in the choice of a congressional candidate in the journal's october survey. a narrower advantage than the democrats 11-point lead back in august. underscoring that urgency. any minute former president bill clinton is scheduled to appear in texas, an area once reliably favorable to democrats to rally for a congressman there. while nevada, the senate race could become a huge test of whether democrats still have the edge with latino voters as senator catherine cortez masto is neck and neck with republican adam laxalt. on set with me, anchor and executive producer of latino usa. welcome to you guys. thanks for joining us.

i know you were speaking to latino voters on the ground. much of their concern came down to the economy, the number one issue for many voters across this country. on top of that, you also touched on the possibility of republican leadership and the expectations there. what did you learn? >> reporter: i think it's important to mention that when we speak to latino voters here in nevada, the issues that affect them are the same issues that are affecting everyone else. it's not unique for them to say that they're upset at the economy, the price of gas, how expensive it is to live in the state of nevada. one of the unique issues that latinos bring up is immigration. yet, that's after they talk about the economy. so when it comes to the latinos in nevada, you've got a growing demographic much more relevant than the past of election. you have latinos turning 18, others who are now becoming citizens who are excited to vote. as you mentioned, traditionally, latinos have supported the democrats. the question is, will latinos

continue supporting democrats here in the state of nevada? especially when you have a latina democrat incumbent who relies on that latino vote. very important to point out that republicans do not need to win all of the latino vote here in nevada which is expected, it's going to be about 160,000 latinos turning out to vote in this midterm. they only need a chunk of that in order to make a difference because things are so close. here's part of the conversation that we had with latino voters yesterday. >> do you feel as a latina, any of the candidates representative you? >> to be honest, no. >> he feels like he became a senator so he can support the governor because he feels they will support the latino community and that's why he's excited to vote. >> now, it's important to note how diverse latinos are not just in nevada but in the whole of the united states. we heard from two voters, the first one, michelle, she's a

member of the lgbtq community, she said she cannot support a republican because of very, very deep issues. although she feels that democrats aren't representing her. she told me she will vote democrat. and then we spoke to a man who you saw who is very excited to vote for the democrats and what i've heard from people who become u.s. citizens like this man, immigrants who have been in this country for years, they're very excited to support democrats. that man did continue onto tell me that it feels like discrimination still exists within the republican party. this is something that i've also heard from other latinos who support the democrats. within all of that said, yasmin, this is from reporting this election and in the past presidential election, latinos who traditionally support republicans are a little less vocal about it and that's what i have seen in nevada. it's hard to say how they will vote in this election. >> from nevada, i want to go to texas. i know president bill clinton is speaking there in texas. you have that on the democratic side. republicans are looking for three key seats that are in

traditionally democratic areas in border towns in texas. talk us through this last push in these final hours. >> reporter: that's right, yasmin. folks are still trickling in here to hear bill clinton speak and i expect that a large part of his message is going to be vote. get out and vote. and that is because voter enthusiasm here in texas for the midterms right now is nowhere near what it was in 2018 when beto o'rourke was looking to unseat senator ted cruz. we're seeing 31% -- sorry, i want to get this number right. in 2018, we were at 40% in terms of early voting right now. and at this point, that number is at 31%. so much lower than what it was in 2018. and i want to take that a step further and break it down in terms of who is voting. we're seeing that 43% of registered republicans have turned out so far and only around 41% of registered

democrats. and so that doesn't seem like a major discrepancy there, but what we know is that more republicans tend to turn out on election day and more democrats tend to vote early. democrats certainly have some ground to make up here. yasmin? >> could we bring up the numbers again that priscilla just cited. maria, you had a bit of a reaction to that. we're seeing a lag now. what does that suggest to you? >> i was just in houston twice over the past couple of weeks and this is exactly the number that we were talking about with an historian based in austin. we were going over this and she said people, what i'm hearing specifically about texas and latino, latina voters, hard to generalize, the lack of action regarding uvalde is having an

impact on voters. >> in what way? >> it's on people's minds. the fact that they feel like the only answer right now in texas is more police, more guns and it's like we already did that. i didn't work. so it's on people's minds. is that going to be enough to counteract essentially voter suppression. what am i talking about? well, that's -- this is the number, the turnout is lower, it's more difficult to vote in texas now. it's because of voter suppression, she said, this kind of blue wave -- i'm sorry, the red wave, it's kind of over. it's another way of suppressing the vote because people are like i have to drive this far, i don't know once i get there if they're going to let me vote there or if they're going to move me to another place or i'll have the right idea. they're going to win anyway. >> let me be clear, you're saying, folks feel as if republicans are going to win anyway and/or nothing is getting

done, nothing has gotten done after uvalde. all of these children were killed. no legislation has changed when it comes to guns in the state, why should i vote when it doesn't seem like it matters? >> there's that. on the other hand, there are people who are voting on uvalde and they are going to the polls. younger people. many of the families around the area, the houston area, where some of the kids have been relocated if they don't want to stay in uvalde. so, yeah, they are -- and they said, we're going to vote against abbott because of this. which is what caught my attention. but is it going to be enough to counteract every else? as we were saying with monica, in a generation, the median age of latinos in the united states is 11. >> wow. >> 11. >> 11. >> so in less than a decade, you're going to have all of these kids who have lived through something like uvalde in a state like texas and that could be -- >> the reaction may not be now, but it may be in a decade from now.

>> definitely. >> really fascinating stuff. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> great to see you on set. as we end every conversation ahead of elections, we'll wait and see. thank you, guys. a new generation is eligible to vote in this midterm election and serve in office as well. two gen z candidates who meet the minimum 25-year-old age requirement are hoping to join the house of representatives. hallie jackson spoke with both of them as they head into election day. >> reporter: 25 years ago, titanic debuted in theaters, aol launched instant messenger, and the very first time members of gen z were born in 1997 now finally eligible to serve in congress. like maxwell who's 25th birthday was in january. he's the front to win his district in central florida and head to the house of representatives where the average age of his potential congressional colleagues is 58.

>> did you ever come across anybody who said, wait your turn, you're too young? >> 100%, yeah. many people who said that. >> reporter: during his campaign, frost took midnight shifts to help pay rent after leaving his job at the march for our lives campaign created after the 2018 school shooting in parkland, florida, the pulse nightclub attack in 2016 almost in his own backyard. >> gun violence has been my leading charge in my life ever since sandy hook and just -- it hitting home. it was a lot for everyone in our community. >> reporter: i imagine this is part of that big impetus to you to decide to make this run to congress. >> it's a part of it. >> reporter: gun reform ranks at the top along with climate change, threats to democracy, abortion access and the economy. it's more liberal than any other with exceptions, of course.

a 25-year-old former trump white house staffer running in her home state of new hampshire. >> i live amongst generation z, they are my friends, they're my former colleagues and the truth is, they are believing in liberal ideologies that have sent this country into the crises we're facing right now. >> reporter: she was attacked during her primary for her age. >> woke, immature and irresponsible. >> i laughed. >> she would be the youngest member of congress, the youngest woman and the youngest election-denying republican in evidence, even though there's no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020. >> will you accept the results of your own election. >> absolutely. >> reporter: even if you lose? >> yeah. i think we have to move forward. >> reporter: younger people have not turned out to vote in big numbers, but this year could be different. with a new poll showing more than a third of gen zers saying they'll cast a ballot. >> i don't know if we're going to see a red wave. i'm not sure if we're going to

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contentious cross-examination from prosecutors. what new have we learned so far from the testimony so far today? >> reporter: essentially we've had stewart rhodes throwing a lot of his co-defendants and other members of the oath keepers under the bus saying that they went off mission so to speak and when they -- when they entered the u.s. capitol. he said he thought it was stupid. he referred to what was happening at the capitol at charlie fox trot. and he was saying especially that he was not -- this wasn't what the oath keepers mission was about. they were about protecting individuals who were trying to speak on january 6th. i also had to reference these recordings that the government played previously where he talked about wanting to hang nancy pelosi from a lamp post and talked about wishing they had guns and he said i was drunk

when that was recorded and it wasn't really reality about what i was seeking here. trying to downplay his behavior and try to make a connection with the jury. he's a little -- he's somewhat charming on the stand here. i think what's really going to be more difficult for him is once he's pressed by prosecutors this afternoon on a lot of the comments that he has made on tape and on signal messaging. >> we'll watch for news coming out of that which i'm sure you'll bring to us. thank you. everybody, let's talk twitter. elon musk is directly weighing in on the midterm election this morning amidst his takeover of twitter. he tweeted this, shared power curbs the worst extensive of both parties. therefore, i recommend voting for a republican congress given that the presidency is democratic. concerns about misinformation on the platform continue to mount ahead of election day. i want to bring in senior reporter ben collins for us. so much has happened over the

last 24, 48, 72 hours with this thing. you cannot keep up. i want to touch on impersonation. here's what musk tweeted about that, going forward, any twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying parody will be permanently suspended. we know cathy griffin was suspended for impersonating elon musk. how many handles have been suspended that were not impersonating? >> we don't know. because twitter isn't talking to any reporter, really. you just have to determine it based on leaks. they're about to roll out verification to everybody. it means you have $8 now. when that happens, anybody can have a checkmark that says, you know, they are -- >> literally anybody. >> they're running the board of

commissioners office or something like that or you're a cvs whistle-blower or something. they could be whatever they say they want to be. that's why he banned impersonation, but he only banned impersonation of people criticizing or pretending to be elon musk to start. so so far, this has been a large ego exercise for elon musk. >> what are you most concerned about when it comes to the midterms. he laid off a large portion of his workforce and brought a bunch of them back. and now you see this morning what he put out there. >> yeah, by the way, i don't think he brought back people who were monitoring misinformation stuff. he brought back people who can keep the wheels turning on his website which is a very difficult website to keep up infrastructurally. remember a few years ago he used to refresh twitter and it would be the fail whale? there's a lot of reasons why that doesn't exist anymore. it can come back very easily.

those are the people he brought back. misinformation, that's not what he's focused on. he posted a homophobic conspiracy theory about paul pelosi hours after he was attacked in his own home. i wouldn't say that's the priority tomorrow. i think the priority is chaos and if you talk to people internally, people who are in the room with him, which i've been doing, that's the point. the point is the chaos. >> that's the point. >> yeah. >> is this the end of the end of twitter? >> unless something turns out quickly, yes. >> wow. ben collins, thank you. appreciate it. >> sure. >> really good stuff, or not. who knows? up next, everybody, higher prices at the gas station and the grocery store and a wild housing market. everything is thinking about the economy this fall. but will it influence the way that they vote? that conversation is coming up next. hey dad, i'm almost out. i got you. any questions, chris? all good, thanks maura!

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you for quite some time. >> it has been nagging me. you said the abc news poll. the nbc news poll says 81% of the economy is going in the wrong direction. you drive down the street and are confronted over and over with high gas prices. you go to the store and get an outrageous grocery bill. people take out their frustration from the voting booth, but if you're going to go vote on the economy, how do you do it smartly? make the best choice possible? the one thing you should consider, there's a lot of things and i'll get to them, too, but for now, is that there is a lag in policies. it takes time for things to take effect. we have two past presidents, just served one term because of that lag. so i want to take you down a down memory lane with me and steve kornacki and the nbc news archives. watch. >> george h.w. bush.

>> george bush sr. was president at a time when we were going through a turbulent period economically. >> the unemployment rate, 7.1%. almost 9 million americans out of work tonight. >> job market, very tight. we'd apply and someone would tell you, well, there are 30, 40 applicants. >> there was concern there was going to be serious ramifications if the deficit and national debt didn't get brought under control so bush campaigned for president in 1988 saying -- >> read my lips. no new taxes. >> probably the most famous promise made in political history but he went back on it because he said this was the only way, in his view, the deficit could be attacked. >> and it helped. just not in time for the next election. >> and god bless america. >> same thing happened to jimmy

carter, who got dealt the arab oil embargo plus a wage increase. >> it is the second highest deficit in american history. >> 96 cents. 87 cents last time. really went up a lot. >> to fix it, he appointed paul volcker to the fed, who raised rates up and up. it was painful, but the hikes eventually worked. again though, not in time for the election. >> a recession is when your neighbor loses his job. a depression is when you lose yours. and when jimmy carter loses his. >> make an analogy, the economy and politics to you know, coaching sports and the winning and losing reality have little to do with the manager but you get credit for the success and you get the blame for the failure. >> so there's a lag.

>> good point. >> and george bush and jimmy carter both suffered the fate of it. we talked about the history. that incredible nbc news, those glasses that the woman in the store was wearing. we get all that history there. i talked to steve who we know well around here, who's thought about this a long time and asked him how best i should vote on the economy. he has all of that advice coming up at 2:00 p.m. >> it's fascinating because we talk to democrats, why aren't folks explaining more on the campaign trial. why it is we are where we are economically because it does not resonate. people want to know how you're going to solve it. >> people think if you go vote, it's going to change the next day. it's somewhat emotional. people think if their party makes it back in, they feel great. you vote with how you feel. but the expectation if you just

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