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right now, the stage is set for what could be an historic election if democrats can defy trends. >> if you ignore the fear mongering, if you ignore the cynicism, if you vote, then we will keep this country moving forward. >> and you look at all the polling data. if y'all show up and vote, democracy's sustained. not a joke. >> as donald trump uses his campaign rallies to road test a likely run in 2024 and ron desantis. >> let's see.

there it is. trump at 71. ron disanctimonious at 10%. >> this hour, we'll have reports from five states. pennsylvania, georgia, wisconsin, nevada, and arizona. and check in on critical governors races across the country. we'll also take a closer look at fears over intimidation tactics at polling places and concerns over online misinformation already spiking after mass firings at twitter. good day. i'm andrea mitchell at msnbc election headquarters in new york. president biden is spending his final days of the campaign defending normally safe democratic strongholds. on sunday in a wealthy enclave of suburban westchester county, new york, trying to rescue democratic governor kathy hochul

from being termed out of office by lee zeldin in a solidly blue state. today, the president will be outside d.c. in maryland, campaigning for wes moore, who is highly favored to win on tuesday. meanwhile across the country, today democratic senate candidates in the toughest contests are making their final pitches without the party's leader. covering the three biggest senate contests, nbc's dasha burns in pittsburgh. eliassen barber in atlanta and jacob sob rof in las vegas. fetterman and oz, how are the candidates trying to use that momentum in the last few hours? >> reporter: well, andrea, right now, we are at the democratic headquarters for a last minute get out the vote effort and our final nbc news poll showed that about two-thirds of voters had made up their mind about who they're going to vote for before labor day, which means the last couple of months it's been about

one-third of voters and you can imagine at this point that number of persuadables is even smaller. but every single vote is going to count because of how tight this race is. and perhaps the most important persuadable voters are the voters that you can potentially persuade to go vote and that is what the folks behind me here are set to do today. a last minute, all-out effort to get people to the polls. they're going to be canvassing for fetterman and shapiro today. while they're going on, the candidates themselves are putting out their final closing arguments today. both the senate candidates released a final ad. dr. oz publishing an ad where he's trying to once again cast himself as the moderate in this race. fetterman putting out an ad leaning into his brand as an outsider, an underdog, that has had millions of dollars spent against him in this race. so both really trying to reach those final voters that could sway the election and get their party to show up for them,

andrea. >> and moving on to georgia. there's so much attention on the georgia senate race. the governors race, the republican governor, brian kemp, is somewhat comfortably ahead of stacey abrams. it's warnock's big hope there will be enough ticket splitters to help him defeat walker. >> reporter: so warnock's campaign, they will tell you their focus is just on turnout in general. i had the chance a couple of days ago to ask warnock specifically about split ticket voters and what his message is to them in the final days. at that time, he said i think we have run a campaign that has been focused on all georgians from the beginning. that being said, they have a new attack ad that came out just in the last 24 hours where within that ad, you have a warnock approved message featuring two fairly prominent republicans here in georgia raising questions and concerns about herschel walker as a candidate. so there seems to be a subtle

shift in the final days where the campaign is aware that they do need to try to make a bit of a stronger push perhaps for those split ticket voters. the thing to remember about georgia and it's kind of quirky because a candidate doesn't just have to win on election day in this state. they have to win with a majority of the vote and if neither candidate or none of the candidates rather in the senate race pass the 50% threshold, then the top two head to a december runoff. you look at recent polling in this state, they're in a statistical tie. on top of that, neither has crossed that 50% threshold so you have to wonder and think okay, split ticket voters could have a big impact. you look at a recent poll, there were about 10% of republican leaning voters in that poll who said they were going vote for brian kemp then split in the senate race and cast their ballot for warnock or the libertarian candidate, chase oliver. >> and jacob in nevada.

here you've got a tight race against the incumbent senator. what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, i think particularly, andrea, in light of what i saw happen here two years ago exactly, laxalt stood up there and challenged the results of the 2020 election, alleging thousands of illegal, illegitimate ballots. of course, that turned out to be a completely bogus claim. since then, he has continued to question the election integrity and 60,000 strong, has been pounding the pavement. i've been going out with him over the last couple of days, keenly aware of that. that they need to get people out to vote, going door to door, talking to people about not just democracy, but issues that

matter close to them. we continue to hear about affordability here nevada. a state with one of the highest employment rates here and the canvassers are motivated to get out and vote. two of them, brian and rosio, rosio, is a legal resident, but non-citizen. she said the people whose doors i go to are ultimately going to be my voice in this election and they say they have hit up 100, excuse me, 900,000 different houses and 165,000 conversations. they've talked to half of the black and latin population eligible voters in the state so it's really a ground game at this point as it always is. >> in nevada as chuck todd like to say when the rest of the country catches an economic cold, nevada gets pneumonia. it's got to be a really tough issue. thanks to all of you.

and joining us now, an all-star polling and politics team. mark murray, former obama white house press secretary, robert gibbs and jeff, partner in the hart research associates and the new poll. so first to you, mark murray. the enthusiasm gap. the democrats have narrowed it in our new poll. talk to me about that takeaway and your other big takeaway. >> yeah, in october, polls showed republicans with a nine-point advantage and now democrats have closed that. we're 73% democrats have high interest versus 73% republicans. why this is important, we're talking about midterm election. this is not a presidential election where you end up seeing huge turnout. we're expecting high turnout for this midterm, but not as many people vote. so the side that's usually more motivated wins. robert knows this well in 2010 and 2014, when you don't show

up, you end up getting that midterm thumping. and democrats drawing this to even just shows the degree of polarization in our country and how people, there are a lot of numbers in this, but this explains how maybe this could be a little different. >> is this a new hope for democrats against trends and look ago t the poll, the competing issues. economy, the future of democracy, which is big, but interpreted differently by democrats and republicans. and abortion among other issues. economy, crime, immigration. biggest issues for republicans. what do you see? what is it pointing to for democrats to pull it off? >> i think it is the democrats are finishing strong here. we're concerned about this gap in interest all along and the fact it's even now going back to march, republicans had a 17-point advantage. so the fact we're even now, sort

of level playing field first year midterms again, party in power lost 40 seats and 63 seats. really shows there are signs this is not a typical midterm and a chance for democrats to do better than expected given prior history. on these issues, it really does matter that this is not, cost of living is very important for people in places like nevada, but there are other issues on the ballot. the single most important issue is threats to democracy, which in normal times, is not an issue. this is what voters are sorting out and it is sort of the alternative here, which is concerning to voters is that you know, voters are more concerned about the future of the country if republicans take control than if democrats remain in control. and given some of the challenging numbers here, i think the fact voters are leaning on the side of prefers democrat to regain control of congress is an important indication that this is not a typical midterm. >> and robert gibbs, if this

were a typical midterm with the president's polling at 44, historically when presidents have had their polling at 44, 45, mid 40s, the opposition party has taken over. you know, white house party has gotten a shellacking, but here, you have three american presidents out on the stump this weekend and by far, the best closer was barack obama. >> yeah. mark conveniently reminds me of 2014, i was hoping he was going to say 2008 or 2012. >> president obama called it a shellacking. >> i remember well. >> you remember that. >> look, i think this poll, which we talked about it. first of all, the energy on the democratic side, if equal to that of republicans, is a significant change just from a month ago. huge. that will depend on where independents break. mark and i were talking about that as we came on here, but i think you have seen the power of the closing argument. that president obama made. that president biden made and is

making as well. you know, i think there's a shot here at keeping the losses, in a normal midterm, to a minimum. i think the challenge always for the party in power, right, in 2010, 2014, 2018, is you're fighting political gravity. i think in order to defy that political gravity, you have to have the energy that the poll shows is beginning to be there for democrats. >> but president biden's approval in our new poll, independents, is at 28%. >> that's going to be the decider, right? and the challenge in these races, too, a lot of these toss up races on the house and senate side, they tend to break in one direction because independents are going to tend to break in one direction. i think that's the challenge for democrats tomorrow is you've got to get the base so excited that you can hopefully deal with what you know is going to be some of

that independent breakage on the other side. >> and jeff, what are you seeing among black voters? that could be key in philadelphia, which the turnout there is going to be key to fetterman eking out a victory over oz. certainly in georgia, there's a real issue with two black candidates, but one of whom significantly has more black support. one could argue that senator warnock is the you know, pasture of the traditional martin luther king church, has more black support than does walker. >> no, that's right. i think that's why president obama is so important and why you've seen him in so many of these swing states is he really is these days a political unicorn. the shohei ohtani of politics where he's able to both be a persuasion communicator and also talk about get out the vote in that part of the democratic base. he is positive as a politician, which is unlike any other

political figure and with black voters, he's 50-34 in our latest nbc poll. so again, he has the ability similar to what bill clinton was able to do in 2012 to be a familiar and trusted voice that americans can return to, understand, and make the case on issues like the economy, social security, and medicare, that there's a real choice here. you're seeing him in places like pennsylvania and georgia. swing states that really matter and we've seen black interest really increase because of him making the case. >> mark murray, robert gibbs, jeff, unlike donald trump who is spending his valuable campaign rally time teasing his own 2024 possibilities. an extraordinary year. thank you to all. and razor thin margins could be the deciding factor in control of the senate. we'll check in on two big races next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports."

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arizona has emerged as ground zero for election denialism. and in wisconsin, ron johnson has refused to say if he would accept the outcome of the election. joining us now, vaughn hillyard in phoenix and shack brewster in glendale, wisconsin. vaughn, republicans are feeling more bullish about taking on democratic senator, mark kelly. what's happening out there? >> reporter: the folks connected to mark kelly's campaign will tell you they never expected to run away with this race. that this is still a long time conservative state with the republican voters advantage here. i had several conversations over the last 24 hours about what kind of numbers we're seeing in terms of the early ballots that are returning here and so far, what we're seeing is about 40%

of ballots having been returned here in arizona. that's the same number we saw in 2018, but this is notable because in 2020, there's the expectation that even more voters than 2018 are going to be voting tomorrow on election day. so we have seen a great number of ballots from pima county, the district, the county where mark kelly and blake masters are actually from. it leans heavily democratic. the big question comes into what sort of surge republicans are able to turn out. i was talking to somebody working with masters' campaign, what has changed with these polling numbers. because they started focusing on the economy and immigration. the big question is is mark kelly able to win over about three percentage point advantage over masters among those independents and secure a full

term in the u.s. senate. >> and in wisconsin, senator ron johnson, shaq, has not yet committed to accepting the results of the election. >> reporter: that's exactly right, andrea. we're hearing democratic candidates bring that up repeatedly as they're out on the campaign trail. and among democratic voters i've been talking to, you hear a lot of anxiety. a lot of tension. they see the strength in ron johnson as a candidate in terms of the polling coming into election day, but lieutenant governor barnes, as he was out with volunteers getting them to knock on door, turn anxiety into action and action into votes and that's what you're seeing. in a couple of minutes, you'll see the governor at another field office in milwaukee hoping he can turn that anxiety into people storming the polls. across wisconsin, you have more than 700,000 people already casting a ballot, already voting early and something you hear from both campaigns in the

state, they know it will be close. the margin in the midterms in 2020 was about one percentage toint. about 30,000 votes. they know things will be neck and neck and they're banging on what they can do tomorrow, election day for democrats or republicans that they're able to keep that seat. >> thanks to you in two critical states. former president obama campaigned in another in pennsylvania alongside joe biden in the battleground of pennsylvania over the weekend, making the final push for democrat senate candidate, john fetterman over mehmet oz. in philadelphia saturday, biden took a swipe at republican oz for only recently moving from new jersey. >> and oz in pennsylvania? look. i lived in pennsylvania longer than oz has lived in pennsylvania. and i moved away when i was 10 years old.

>> joining me now, pennsylvania democratic congressman lam who ran in the senate primary. it's good to see you again, congressman. >> you, too. >> what are you seeing in the indications from philadelphia and counties? we're hearing indications that could be a weak turnout so far. what is the latest from your perspective? >> i'm worried about that in the city of philadelphia as well. that's a problem that goes back a few election cycles and when you talk to the people who are really connected to those neighborhoods and worked on the ground level for years they've been saying they don't believe our party has invested quite enough in helping them turn out the vote on election day. that was something i aspired to help change and i think we're going to find out tomorrow for good or ill if we've changed it. in general though, i think democratic enthusiasm is high across the state. even if there are some weak spots. i was out all weekend

campaigning for state house candidates here in western pennsylvania and i think it was the same time your nbc news poll came out and showed we had evened up enthusiasm with republicans. it really feels like that. we had a lot of people knocking on doors yesterday in beautiful fall weather when they could have been doing other things with their families. when i started this four years ago, it was hard to get democrats out like that in a midterm election. >> and you had three american presidents in the state over the weekend so who's a better closer? obama or trump? >> obviously obama. your previous person cited some objective statistics behind that, but really the difference is i think obama's talking about something that can appeal to every american no matter what party they are. just the basic foundation of the country itself. democracy of whoever gets the most votes should win. that we should respect each person enough to count their vote and trump just continues with the obsession with himself.

i mean, it was, the parts of his speech i saw on saturday were so unbelievely selfish and self-absorbed, even for him. he's not campaigning for anyone else. he's campaigning for himself and i think people are going to punish him for that if he makes the mistake of trying to run for president again. >> and republicans are working to disqualify thousands of those mail-in ballots because of some irregularities on the outer envelope. what is likely to happen? the state supreme court upheld those efforts to disqualify. >> well, basically, the state supreme court kind of froze the whole thing in place. it ordered the counties to set aside ballots that don't have a date or sometimes people put their birth date or mess up something with the date. we still don't know if those will be counted or not. i hope this gets into federal court where they can analyze

whether that's a material requirement. i think the date should not be considered material because the rule is it has to be there when the polls close on election day. so let's take allegheny county where i live. if you know all the ballots went on out a certain day in october and you have them by the close on election day, who cares what's written on the envelope. you also have the postmark. that's typically the way federal courts will look at something like this and if it's a large number, we're going the fight hard to make sure every vote gets counted. >> congressman, thank you very much. and what will tomorrow's election results mean for joe biden's agenda? congresswoman dean will join us from michigan. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. watchinl reports" only on msnbc more of.

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power has needed in 90 years. in past when presidents' popularity were in the mid 40s as they are now, the parties always lost big in the midterms. in 2018, the president had an approval rating like president biden's. in 2010, when president obama was down, democrats lost 63 seats. what he called a shellacking. an out liar was after the 9/11 attacks when bush and the republicans held the chamber, but before that, democrats lost 54 house seats under clinton. democrats are looking to break that streak. and with us now, debbie dingle in michigan. it's good to see you. let's talk about your colleague. she is one of the two most vulnerable democrats in this cycle according to all reports. what do you see in her race? >> good afternoon, andrea. always good to be with you.

i was canvassing with her on saturday. there is for me, a noticeable difference on the ground in the last 24, 48 hours. enthusiasm is going up. i think she's going to win her race. i think we're going to win three of the closely contested races in this state. i think we're reflective of the country. it's razor thin in races across the country, but i don't think you're going to see, about what's going to happen in the house and i think many people are deciding right now. >> abortion is also literally on the ballot in michigan with that constitutional referendum. support seems to have shrunk recently among democrats. was it a miscalculation to focus so much on abortion early in the cycle nationally, not only in michigan, rather than the economy sooner? >> andrea, it's two different issues. i've been one of the people that

have said we could, we have to focus on the economy. i think both issues are driving people to the polls. but i also think that there's been a great deal of confusion about the ballot proposal in michigan. there's a ton of flat out bad misinformation. children are not going to be able to be sterilized. parent of consent is still going to be there. and it is tighter, quite frankly, than it should be and people who really care about this issue are going to need to vote and i'm not sure what's going to happen on that ballot proposal. >> the political board has moved michigan governor's race from likely democrat to leaning democrat. which is a downgrade for the democratic hopes of governor whitmer. so running against dixon as you know. who is an election denier. also election deniers on the state ballot, the state ticket

for attorney general, secretary of state. and we saw the foiled kidnapping plot against your governor. so how concerned are you about these threats if democrats win all these key races? >> i'm going to be very blunt. i have been campaigning with the governor every day for the last couple of weeks. couple of weeks ago, i was worried on this race. i've again seen enthusiasm shift. i think it's going to be a very close race but what i'm really worried about in michigan is what we've seen in other states where there's already an effort to challenge votes, and i think we will have serious efforts made the day after the election to challenge the results of many of these votes. people are deliberately trying to undermine people's confidence in this election and to discourage people from voting and to make votes not really count. we saw the secretary of state candidate on the republican side

trying to challenge any vote that had already been passed. was challenged in the court, but i expect michigan's going to be a state that's going to have a lot of attention on it the day after the election. >> quick question about the black turnout. what are you seeing there? >> i think it is improving. i think you're starting to see more people going to the polls was strong yesterday. i think democrat matters, but i think a lot of other communities around the state matter as well. >> thank you. stay safe out there. >> you, too. outside the belt way, control of state capitals could have a major impact. stay with us. you're watching msnbc. major im. stay with us you're watching msnbc. shop legendary deals at amazon. it's nice to unwind after a long week of telling people how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need!

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michigan where voters could amend the constitution to protect women's reproductive rights. governor whitmer has stressed the issue with tudor dixon and in florida, one appears to be ahead. joining us now, yamiche in springfield, michigan. blaine alexander in atlanta and ali in dell ray beach. talk to me about the abortion measure and how it's playing in the governor's race. >> reporter: all eyes are on michigan and proposal three is going to possibly enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution. now governor whitmer, a democrat running for re-election here, she's been centering her campaign and her closing argument on pushing for abortion rights saying she's there to protect women's rights.

she's also been campaigning alongside pro-abortion advocacy groups, also saying not november, but rovember and saying inflation should be the thing that's top of mind. her message, dixon, the republican who's going to be here in a few hours, she's been saying while abortion rights are important, she's saying this is really a conversation about the economy. about businesses. this should be a conversation of ending covid restrictions. all this being said, the voters here have abortion top of mind because even though it's been said that abortion is on the ballot in a lot of states quite literally here, it is on the ballot. as abortion is a top issue, so the democracy. there are a number of republican candidates here who are voting, who have questioned the 2020 election. >> thanks to you. and blaine alexander in georgia, there's record breaking early voting we're told. the aclu is there. they're seeing over mail-in

ballots. what's going on? >> reporter: yeah, this is something that really is coming on election eve, andrea. when you talk about last minute challenges. i just spoke with the executive director of the aclu here in georgia and she says right now, they have attorneys in court in cobb county arguing that more than 1,000 voters never got their absentee ballots so they're arguing this should be an extension. georgia law says absentee ballots have to be received by the time polls close. they're arguing it should be extended for the monday after for military ballots. they're pointing to georgia's controversial new voting law. they say the reason that this delay happened is because that new law essentially slashed the amount of time that counties can mail out ballots and slashed the amount of time that people can request ballots before election day. here's what she told me. >> in 2020, a million and a half

people in georgia voted. we voted by mail. we took our ballot to a drop box. this process worked flawlessly. people, the ballots were audited. we had numerous recounts in georgia. there was no reason to change the process. but the legislature and governor came in, slashed the days to process mail-in ballots and as a result, we see that a million fewer mail-in ballots have been cast in this election. >> reporter: we should say the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, has vigorously defended this law. he said what it does is makes it easier for people to have access to the ballot and that's something he's said all along with brian kemp. >> governor ron desantis, he's been popular down there against

his challenger, another former governor, charlie crist. how is trump's slam on him over the weekend playing among republicans? >> reporter: well, andrea, you've got a florida governor who's popular, seemingly on a glide path to re-election then a popular former president who calls florida home now. both seemed like they were on a collision course. for those of us who look at presidential election cycles well before people should be, it has always seemed like we were heading towards a donald trump versus ron desantis potential moment in the republican primary for 2024. for many people on the ground here in florida, they look at desantis' bid as a possible spring board to something larger. clearly, that's something trump is keeping his eye on as well because we heard him in pennsylvania giving desantis a nickname. what it does is put out in the open the feud that had been simmering behind closed doors for months that many of us had been hearing about for months

from our sources. now that it's out in the open, doesn't detract necessarily from what's going to happen on election night in florida. but what it does is it starts the clock early on 2024 as people are already looking ahead and voters that i talked to on the ground yesterday as trump was here rallying with marco rubio, desantis was having his own event and voters were aware of the fact there seems to be a schism forming here. some telling me if they were to make a choice, they would go with desantis, at least in florida. high arrival ratings and on a glide path to re-election. >> pretty extraordinary. thanks so much to you and to yamiche and blaine as well. and anxiety levels. they are high as distressed and disinformation are running rampant in the run up to the first major election since january 6th. we'll talk about that next. this is "andrea mitchell

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threat to democracy, but democrats and republicans tend to have sharply different views about what they see as the danger and how they define democracy. what is not deniable though is that our men in tactical gear at ballot drops showed up in arizona. election workers are being intimidated in a number of states and since elon musk took over twitter, there's been a rise in hate speech on the flat form. so joining us now, nbc news senior reporter, ben collins, denell harmon, former d.c. chief of homeland security and david jolly, a former republican congressman from florida. as well as joyce vance joining us. former u.s. attorney, of course. so, ben, let's talk to you. elon musk fired roughly a third of his twitter employees including the people who do election monitoring for bad behavior online. so what are we see ng the last couple of days? >> he's begging for some of those people back,

infrastructure people, because he didn't understand who he was firing. >> that happens when you buy a $44 billion company. >> all the time. so it is a mess there right now in terms of misinformation. starts at the top. elon musk in the last two hours has agreed with a nazi meme, overt capital end nazi meme. then he tweeted another picture of nazi carrier pigeons on the back of an actual nazi wearing -- this is a trap. i've lived through this sort of like meme warfare thing long enough to know he's trying to get attention by doing this. but the issue is the reliability of this site for useful information is going to evaporate quickly. they are going to push this thing where everyone gets a verified check mark then you can see whatever you want in your bio and if you want to be an election commissioner or something, you can do that if you have eight bucks. that's going to be an enormous

problem for people trying to verify the news and people just on twitter doing stuff because the lie goes further and faster than the truth. >> we've certainly seen that. so you know, what's the effect of this? we've seen not just january 6th, obviously the most egregious in american history, but we've seen what's happened in michigan. we've seen other threats around the country and we've seen paul pelosi and a political attack. >> we're in a space in this country right u now, we're normalizing political violence through omission and lack of action on the political spectrum. nancy pelosi to dough did he announce that. and politicians seeking re-election, doing so, videos, them shooting guns. so there is a lot of interplay between violence and policy.

and policy disputes on the trail. it is something we are concerned about and bakes into the conspiracies that we are talking about that you see online. and people getting lies fed to them in a way they can't escape. >> republicans are suing to disqualify mail-in ballots. when does this get adjudicated? in pennsylvania, they will set aside the ballots. how is this all going to work? >> so, we got a little preamble to how this works in 2020. these are matters of state law and any litigation primarily will happen in state courts. there is also the possibility of

lawsuits being filed in federal courts under certain circumstances. but primarily we're holding, you know, 50 different state elections, not really one national election. that's how it plays out. it's important for people to understand that they should not expect to see the justice department stepping into these sorts of situations. doj's marching orders are to lay low. how the manual typically reads is that doj does not pick winners in elections. largely it will involve priority parties, civil rights groups, litigating to protect against interference. in other cases, we will likely see litigation, for instance, some of what we are seeing in nevada where republicans are trying to get names of poll workers and religious affiliation of poll workers. we'll see litigation from both

sides in that regard. >> with close records, that could mean we will not know something. if there is litigation in georgia or pennsylvania, we may not know who is controlling the senate for weeks and weeks. plus, the runoff. >> it's probably a function of a well-marking administration of elections. we make sure to take our time so every vote gets counted. most of the litigation would appear in state court unless it rises to an intervention of a federal right. what you are seeing in pennsylvania, for instance, talking to the congressman from western pennsylvania about whether or not the date on his signature is a material ballot component, those are fair matters to litigate. hopefully they would be litigated quickly. tuesday's results could hang in the balance until we get answers to those questions. >> and what about donald trump?

>> he will disrupt the rapid acceleration. you will do so. ron desantis believes he can beat donald trump in the primary that. rivalry is real, it's on, and get ready for it. >> and you think he may be announcing tomorrow. >> look, i have said donald trump will call into fox news on election night and say, hey, i'm running because it will disrupt the entire national story tuesday, into wednesday. and we know he does like attention. ben collins, with when you see the misinformation, the misinformation about pelosi is extraordinary. quantify it. >> it is the prevailing narrative on the right. there is something shady about this. even though the man who attacked paul pelosi said what he did and why he did it, thought he was doing the revolution in paul pelosi's house. >> and it's in the affidavit. >> every single party said exactly what is going on. but they are still alleging a cover-up because that is the way they win politically in this space. the pro-trump side of this wins

only if the reality is distorted. now elon musk with the levers of information power right now, the guy running the largest basically news aggregator on the internet, they can win the -- when they have almost complete control over our information landscape. >> and, general nell, what about threats to election workers. how do we protect election workers? there is a shortage of election volunteers because they don't want to do these thankless jobs. >> a lot of volunteers are not signing up. the seasonal election workers are not interested. but dhs put out a video to deescalate violence. when have you heard that before? i don't want to be too doom and gloom. i think people should go out. it's the most marvelous day of

the year for our society, and vote. but i think they need to keep their head on a swivel, report anything they hear around this time. a lot of lone actors have leakage. they do so yeon line. if you hear something out of order, notify police. law enforcement and the counties that are conducting these elections need to make sure they are safe when they're in line. >> david and donelle, thank you. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports". join us on facebook and twitter. 8:00 p.m., joy reid, rachel maddow and steve kornacki look at the most critical issues on the ballot. tomorrow, join msnbc for live primetime coverage and analysis of the midterms breaking down the results as votes are counted. up next, chris jansing sings

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