clearly had an issue he thinks works. kept talk about immigration. polling showed black men don't like the situation with immigration. but you can't walk back all of those other things he just did and said there. if this is what he's like press and questions and when race is front and center in this kman like it apparently will be based on their own choice, a lot of backfire and black votes will go away quickly. >> the reason we saw kamala harris delightedly challenged him once again tore a debate just last night. thank you all very much. that does it for us this hour. our coverage continues with yasmin vossoughian in for katy tur right after this. hey, everybody. in for katy tur.

yasmin vossoughian. donald trump just was onstage in chicago. here is just some of what he had to say. >> i've known her a long time indirectly. not directly very much and she was always of indian heritage and she was only promoting indian heritage. i didn't know she was black. until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black, and now she wants to be known at black. so i don't know. is she indian or is she black. she has always identified as a black. went to a historical black college. >> i respect either one. she doesn't. she was indian all the way and all of a sudden became a black person. >> just to be clear -- >> coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen tos taking black jobs. you have the best. >> what exactly is a black job, sir? >> a black job is anybody that has a job. that's what it is. anybody that has a job.

and they're taking. >> mr. president -- >> taking employment away for black people. >> by the way, just the first five minutes or so of the q&a. competition, vice president kamala harris called the appearance a total disaster for the former president. we have got a whole lot to get to, to put it lightly. get started. joining us, politics correspondent john allen, mark leibovich nbc analyst and msnbc contributor and editor at large at the 1th, errin haines. you're headed to nabj watching this. weren't there live, though. played some of the sound. by the way, the first five to seven minutes of that q&a. a lot more after that as well. give me kind are your first gut reaction to what you heard from the former president. >> yeah. i mean, look, jasmin, basically every question was a new, answer

a new headline. supposed to go for an hour. could have gotten more from this interview. journalists interview newsmakers and the former president definite made news in this conversation. combative, evasive, defensive, attacking vice president kamala harris at times was attacking some of the black women journalists that were on the stage. look, he was answering questions that on top of -- in a way that he normally is not asked on the outlets that he prefers to go to. topics like immigration, police reform. on january 6th. on his running mate j.d. vance. asked what a black job i think maybe the first time since he uttered that statement. really, so much to dig into and unpack here, and you know, the harris campaign already reacting to this interview that just ended. >> we'll read that in a little bit. i want to go around the horn here and get everybody's

reaction and then dig into more why he was there and what came out of the last 40 minutes. mark, reaction what you just heard? >> i need to watch the whole thing. just watched snippets. barn burners makes a lot of news quickly. i wonder. initial reaction to people, what a disaster. combative. he lost the crowd. but i mine, what is donald trump looking to do here and more importantly, how do his people or how do the people he thinks he needs to reach respond to this? is this just him getting just kind exhilarated, center of attention, getting attention, making controversy, all of which he likes a lot? the kind of thing where it looks like there's a lot of material there that the harris campaign i assume will make a lot of hay with over the next several days. >> jonathan from an analysis

perspective or an analyst perspective, why did the former president decide to go there in the first place? the leadup, court the black vote. we know is not a monolith. not voting down the same line nonetheless wanting to go to nabj to field thee questions, not necessarily doing it successfully, though. is that why you believe the former president and his team decided to have him go to nabj today? >> i wouldn't presume to know how every person reacts to his interview today, but what i would say is that sometimes things are billed as one thing, intended as another. he walked into that audience and that room ind t intending to th combative, calling the first questioner rude. he wanted headlines to be about the combative nature of the interview. i think he believed that helps

him with his maga base to have a combative interview with the national association of black journalists. you saw some things he said. certainly headline grabbing and will get him back in the news where he has not been for some amount of time dating back to the switch of democratic presidential candidates. even before that at the republican convention. there was a j.d. vance sort of bump of news. so i think that he may have had many goals here and i don't think we should assume what he said was accidental. >> i want to play more sound, erin, then like your reaction to. talking about kamala harris and taking the bar examination, and also a cognitive test. let's listen to that. then i'll have you react on the other side. >> would you consider taking a cognitive test? >> mr. president -- >> i would love. >> and make it public. i've already taken two but i'll do it again. >> mr. president how do you intend.

>> i suggested to vice president harris, let's take one. joe and i will go and take a cognitive test. now, i'd do it with her too. i would do it with her also. know what? she failed her law exam. didn't pass other law exam maybe wouldn't pass the cognitive test. >> erin? >> yeah. listen, this is part of the familiar trump playbook. particularly when he attacks women. trying to disqualify them, attacking their intelligence. right? he said he's already referred to the sitting vice president as dumb. as unqualified. as somebody who's not very accomplished and now today onstage at national association of black journalists convention referring to -- inclined that she maybe couldn't pass a cognitive test and bringing up her bar is exam. this is somebody who obviously passed the bar she went on to become a district attorney and an attorney general running

against him currently, touting her prosecutorialial credentials against his criminal legal challenges. you know, i don't know how well this is going to play, but, again, this is a playbook he is familiar with, used to, has used against other black women in politics for sure. and other women that he has faced in, you know, in running for the presidency. so i think it's kind of par for the course and we're just seeing the latest example here today on that stage in chicago. >> i thought interesting. what you said earlier, john, which is to not discount that donald trump mean what's he says and says what he means essentially and that he didn't say also of these things purposefully on the stage. taking a listen to the last 40 minutes or so of that q&a i thought to myself i felt as if he was speaking to a maga crowd versus speaking to the crowd of black journalists and

potentially black voters? >> not necessarily the one in front of you. clearly, didn't come up with this false concept of kamala harris identifying as indian at one point in her life and as black now. obviously she's identified both for her entire life. it should not be hard for him to understand this concept. grandparents of german, other of scottish, but clearly believes there is a group of voters that want to hear that. hear she's somehow been deceptive about her background. i don't know exactly what value that has for him but a good feeling he does. >> mark, what is most interesting or one of the more interesting things that came out of this. so much reporting backs this up. which is the trump/j.d. vance ticket doesn't necessarily know how to attack kamala harris as

of yet. build a campaign for joe biden and kamala harris as his running mate but not built one for kamala harris top of the ticket. seemed he was lobbing attacks at vice president harris and answering questions, not landing them. doesn't seem they have a plan as of yet. >> yeah. they seem strangely ill prepared by this. especially give didn't wasn't a surprise. a lot of people saw this coming for a long time. even mentioning biden as much as kamala harris in the appearance. so that was kind of strange. i do think, i mean to jonathan's point. clearly looking for fireworks. i think he expected and welcoming this to be a ruckus environment, but i don't know if he had really planned out what his intent was here. i think just, again, sort of gravitates to anything that makes him center of attention and let chips fall where they may. no. it speakses to how they're ill

prepared to talk about the running mate question and vance doesn't seem to be getting much traction early on. >> to be clear here as well. not everybody in the audience, by the way, was in fact a journalist. many folks that attend this also were not journalists as well. folks in the crowd often times cheered some of what the former president was saying, amidst all said over the last 40 minutes or so. thank you guys all for jumping on. appreciate it. bring in an msnbc political professor at columbia university, former executive director at the new york democratic party and charlie dent, senior advisor of our republican leg sis. read for you some of what we're getting in from the harris camp reacting to what we just heard in that room, nabj. one source familiar with the campaign thinking he is completely unhinged. this is also trump. he cannot help himself. also reacting to the claims that up until recently kamala harris

proclaimed herself as being black. they said completely insulting and repulsive. exactly what kjp, pierre said from the podium. another source from kamala harris saying, "simply a lie and easily disproved." she went to howard, for christal sake and is an a/k/a. which is a legacy sorority at howard university, by the way. this is just painful, they added. your reaction as you were watching that? >> i had quite few on kamala harris. absolutely right. went to howard university. i'm an alpha. sister sorority, if you will. understand what she's gone through and i understand her rooting herself in the black community through the fraternity, through the school itself and through the things done in her life. her blackness, if you will, does not need to be questioned here. what i found in the speech or

remarks is probably some of the most disgusting rhetoric i've heard at the presidential level. that donald trump believes he's a arbiter of what it means to be black in the united states. we have seen this coming from him before. he talks a lot about, or talked a lot ak tish james, alvin bragg and sort of dismissed their credentials and talked about them in other ways that were very demeaning. we saw it with barack obama. he's not from here. the sort of "othering" of black people. particularly folks in high political positions in this country. is his go-to play. because he believes that in doing so he somehow, somehow gains points from his supporters. i don't -- to similar points made earlier. i don't think he was necessarily speaking to anybody in that crowd. his audience is external to that crowd. it's his supporters. to be able to go to them and

say, look at the fact i went into that building and i was there telling them everything on your mind. >> i think that's fascinating, because everything i have read up until this point was about, this is a grab for black voters. that he feels as if he might have in-roads with. especially black men right now that seemed more open to donald trump this time around. however, correct me if i'm wrong. you're saying you think he was speaking to his base? >> absolutely. >> saying, i'm standing up for you? >> absolutely. there's been no real credible polling that has said that there is a significant movement of black voters, particularly black men to him. so all this is is trying to create this sort of platform base and a lie and then build from that. anything he did in that room. i have no -- not getting into a question whether or not she should be invited but what i would say is that he did everything that we should have expected him to do. tell lies. not really answer questions

fully. or not in the way you would expect a presidential candidate to answer questions, and to be able to take everything he's saying, put himself back in the news and go to his supporters say, look. i went into a room. i took their questions. i stood up. it so i'm the guy that's really tough here, because i bet you some of that same language if he ever debates kamala harris a lot of that same language and demeanor will come out out that debate stage. >> react to what he's saying and also jumping off the point this is not donald trump's kind of usual m.o. right? not taking live questions from journalists on a stage in which he knows he'll be fact checked opinion he knows he'll be kind of in a tete-a-tete confrontation and which he was? >> well, catastrophe is too kind a word to describe that interview for donald trump. i think he actually went in there with intention talking to black voters saying, give me a look. i have an agenda i think you

might like. >> okay. >> instead, he spoke, has no sense of propriety. offended them. kamala harris just turned back? how does that happen? this is ridiculous. i can't think of something that backfired so badly. better ways to do this than this for his base. he oh sended a lot of people. why even send him in there if they thought something like this could possibly happen? i mean, this is -- there's going to be a lot of damage from this. whatever support donald trump had from the african american community, i suspect a little less now. didn't have a lot to begin with but it's going to be less. i just see this as a disaster on all fronts. i don't think this was in any way to go in and pander the base. i think to appeal to african americans and in that effort he failed miserably. >> do you agree with what

charlie said? possibility of black men more open to a trump 2.0 presidency may have dissipated with this appearance is or may not land as big a punch as they were expecting? >> i agree in the sense what little black support he probably had. i don't think he'll lose that. >> that's the trump base. that's the trump base. in some ways whatever language he used in this, in the response to the questions, probably came from the two or three supporters that he has in that community from whoever was on the stage at the rnc. in his ear, telling them the signals of things. one thing i disagree with, i don't think, may not have been rehearsed but not unlike him to have said the things that he said. and i go back to the fact that he started birther inch. "others" barack obama. you're not from here, not part of us. that is his m.o. i can't extricate this, this

instance from this larger trend of his of finding ways to sort of other black people in this country. >> charlie, how does the harris campaign, how do they capitalize on this night? i heard reaction getting from inside the harris campaign. an absolute disaster for the former president. this is, as they put it, who he is. this is crazy. they said at one point as well. how do they capitalize on this moment and ride it? >> they simply have to roll the tape. they just have to use his own words against him. show the worst moments of, the worst moments for trump, show those segments over and over again. you know, the most damping thing a campaign can do is use the words of that candidate against himself. and donald trump just gave them plenty of fire. i don't know that harris' campaign has to say too much other than just roll the tape. put the ads up in trump's own

words and as was said, who donald trump is and speaks to the fitness question. weird seems to be the word of the week. right? everyone saying this is weird. it was absurd. and i think in this case, you know, trump really did significant damage to himself. i mean, he's trying to persuade swing voters. who is that appealing to? just like with the j.d. vance selection. basically brought somebody in who already, vance didn't bring anything to trump he didn't already have. who's he appealing to here? not broadening his base. so the harris people all they've got to do roll the tape. keep showing trump in his own words. best thing they can do. >> to the control room do were she -- waiting for one of our journalists, nbc news correspondent aaron gilchrist in the room, dialling in to give reaction from inside that room. as we talked about this, i spent time down in philly with black voters recently asking them,

before, of course, kamala harris was kind of the pore february february -- potentially top of the ticket. i asked if they were excited. many of them were going to sit it out honestly. as i reached out after the decision was made by president to step aside they still were reticent saying which they that he were committing. whether support would dissipate any black supporters that would support him? would this turn them? that's what it comes down democrats. >> sure. and this is why. joe biden top of the ticket in many ways folks supportive of joe and other ways anti-trump. right now in a pro-kamala harris environment, and what i think voters are looking at are ways to move from undecided to be able to vote for kamala harris, because when we were spending that 25 days, democrats saying

that joe biden shouldn't run for re-election. we started to see slippage in polls. i don't think those voters went to donald trump. they just went to a "let me wait and see" column. the momentum, the money, speeches, rallies, i think are kamala harris' way of taking another look at us. come over here. what we have for you both anti-trump but pro-a future younger generation and a stronger agenda for the country. and to take charlie's point about independent voters it matters so much with them, right? for those voters who again might have been in that category of "wait and see" that energy and not that sort of chaos, not that combative attitude i think is what's going to win them over end of the day. >> as promised, bring in on the phone from nabj in chicago nbc white house correspondent aaron gilchrist in the room. taking some questions. reaction from inside that room and what you saw and heard?

>> reporter: well, jasmin, start saying i am a member of the national association of black journalists. most in the room this afternoon are also members. working journalists from all levels, local, national. a lot of professioning and fellow students in the room as well. some independent journalists and people not journalists that are personally connected to what we do professionally, and i think what you all have been talking about was very much what we saw in the room. there was an effort at the very beginning to get people to sort of remember that we are working journalists, most of us, and to be respectful in the moment, but there were reactions almost out of the gate of -- surprise, of, i think, disdain to some of the responses people were hearing from the former president. talked about the fact this was a contentious and the former president was combative almost

immediately in his responses. we saw abc news ask the first question where she laid out some of, what she sort of described the impacts that the trump presidency or things that former president trump had said as relates to the black community, and asked him why he thought the black community should support him and he immediately described her question as nasty, went after her, after abc news and that set the tone, i think, for this shortened conversation. we heard people in the room gasp in surprise with the line of response that the former president gave, and that sort of continued as the questions continued. we did hear him talk, say a lot of things he typically says on the campaign trail. talked about the vice president is now competitor in the race for the white house. and her work, he knew in terms of the borders. describes work she's done as

relates to central american countries. obviously, she wasn't specifically a border czar, in the sense that i think he was describing her. he tried to defend j.d. vance, his running plait. the senator from ohio. responses as well. there was a question about vice president harris' race, where he went on to describe her as a person formerly identifying as indian and now identifying as black, and that grew surprise in the room as well. you know, didn't sort of hear booing, but certainly -- moments throughout the conversation where people in the room were upset by his responses and were not holding back in making him aware of that. i should note that we, the conversation we understood it, those attending this conference, we understood this to be an

hour-long conversation. it happened late. the former president said audio issues contributed to starting late. we know he had trouble hearing a panelist and they had trouble hearing him as well. the trump campaign said najb couldn't solve the audio interviews. waited over 40 minutes. this was supposed to be an hour. i think about 30 minutes and bankruptly stopped. one of the panel moderators said that the trump campaign was pending the conversation at this point. >> got it. they're saying they're ending the conversation because of audio issues but we know the conversation was supposed to go on for an hour. is that correct, aaron? so i hear you right. >> reporter: what we understood it to be. we understand it attending supposed to be an hour. it was supposed to start at noon. we were told that going in, and it started closer to 1:00 if not at 1:00. >> super appreciate fiv you would jump on the phone and give

us an inside look what was happening in the room. thank you. get back to it there. thank you. if you would, react to what we just heard from aaron inside that room? what stood out to you? >> what stands out to me these are professionals that have a job to do and they did it to the best of their ability. i will add a comment in response to the question about black male voters. a pastor, forget his name and where he was from. he said that he as a black man could not stand idly by and let roh black woman, meaning kamala harris be disrespected the way she is, particularly from donald trump. any response to black male voters to this candidacy it is through that. is sort of the shared fate we have in the community. something that donald trump does not know, will never know and never understand and will

clearly sort of mock, but, you know, you may get to understand it on election day. >> to be clear here, by the way, the conversation was, in fact, ended by the trump campaign. despite the fact they were supposed to go on an hour. thank you all for joining me. next hour, transportation secretary pete buttigieg will join my colleague nicolle wallace. one of the people considered as potential running mate for vice president kamala harris. don't miss that on "deadline: white house" at 4:00. overnight, a top hamas leader killed in iran. what this could mean for a region already on the brink. and reaction coming in from capitol hill. speak with new mexico senate intel committee member martin heinrich about the latest in the middle east as well as the race to keep his seat. we'll be right back. ♪ i am, said i ♪

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welcome back. a new reaction after top hamas leader and key negotiator in cease-fire talks was assassinated this morning in tehran. he was based in qatar had been in iran attending the new president's inauguration. killed hours after meeting with the country's supreme leader. they blame israel for the assassination. saying israel faces challenging days ahead.

israel did, however, take responsibility for yesterday's strike on a senior hezbollah commander in beirut in retaliation for killing a dozen israeli children and teens on saturday. the white house saying it is too soon to tell how this impacts cease-fire deal negotiations discussions. bring in nbc news chief foreign cornered richard engel. good to talk to you. talk about the targeted attacks in iran and the senior hamas commander. >> reporter: so they're related in that hezbollah is backed by iran, and the two groups are in an alliance. the iranian government and the hezbollah, but other than that, they are very, very different kinds of targeted strikes. start with the one against the military leader from the hezbollah in south beirut, a commander named hassmosin.

a secretive leader, one of the top military advisers to the overall leader of hezbollah. someone whose identity was not known. somebody wanted by the u.s. going back all wait to 1983 for suspected involvement in the marine barracks attack that killed more than 200 americans in lebanon. so a secretive leader whose movements were not well known, an operation that would have required a tremendous amount of intelligence gathering, a targeted strike. israel says in retaliation for that weekend attack in which a number of children were killed inside, in the golan heights. against ismail haniyeh, completely different. a political leader of hamas, not hard to find. operating in qatar. i've met him. lots of journalists have met him

before. a part of the negotiating team, and killing him in tehran is a much more bold decision. you're killing someone who you're trying to negotiate with. it has been condemned by the negotiators. it was condemned by the prime minister in a prime minister of qatar asking openly how can this happen? one negotiating party killing the other negotiating party? of course it is -- he didn't say this part, but, of course it is going to set back negotiations, because one side is killing the other. seems this is a -- during the negotiating process. so it seems like this was a message to the negotiators themselves. a message to hamas, that israel, that the netanyahu government wasn't satisfied with the way negotiations are going, that it wants more. maybe it wants a complete surrender. it is also sending the message

directly to iran that israel, the netanyahu government is not shy about carrying out an attack during the negotiation process to a leader who was visiting the country as a guest of the supreme leader. so it was an insult to iran, and it is something that most likely both groups could respond to. tomorrow, going back to hezbollah, the leader of hezbollah, hasan, his top military advisor, secret military advisor, he is expected to speak tomorrow and is likely to announce what hezbollah plans to do, or generally what happens with these kind of speeches, the moment he finishes, the rockets tend to fly. so i think it's quite likely you're going to see a military response from hezbollah tomorrow or very soon. i think that's what netanyahu was referring to. he said, there will be difficult

days ahead. what iran will do by this -- this attack in tehran on a guest of the state who had just been the supreme leader i think is more difficult to assess. >> richard engel. thank you. appreciate it. bring in david roth goff columnist with the daily beast and host of a radio podcast and former israeli consul general. pick up on what richard talked about. ambassador, you first. timing of all of this. we knew netanyahu teased he would retaliate for the bombing on saturday. in fact, he did, on the suburbs of beirut just yesterday killing a top hezbollah leader, but then the timing of his targeted assassination inside iran of a top hamas leader, what do you make of it. two ways of looking at it,

jasmin. one is that it's been israel's stated goal to target and kill, assassinate, hamas leaders wherever they are, whenever the intelligence enables us to do so. and so that was an opportunity that presented itself, and in tehran and israel did what israel said it would do. okay. that's the, you know -- that's the israeli foreign policy for idiots 101. there is a much more complicated, much more sinister, if you would, explanation. >> right. >> that the assassination of hamid was done callously without any -- i'm purposely presenting the countertutive analysis here. that it was done callously. it was done without a serious cost effective calculation, or

thinking process, and it was meant to illicit iran to escalate in order for the u.s. to be dragged into this. it looks farfetched. it looks right out of left field, but look at -- connect the dots. you see that there was no -- this is not a coincidence. why would you kill him at this point? not that he doesn't deserve to be killed, by the way. he does. morally, ethically, any way you look at it. >> by the way, ambassador -- not to jump in here, but some would argue this is the very tactic the israeli military and intelligence services should have taken early on after october 7th instead of the extended war we are seeing. targeted attack. these assassinations that musaud is carry out. >> i don't want to take too much time from my friend david, but

what you said is the gist of an article i'm writing for tomorrow. what israel did, not talking about timing or the venue, the location. this is exactly what israel should have done at the outset of the war instead of dropping 2,000-pound bombs and decimating entire neighborhoods in gaza. this makes more sense. it's moral, ethical, this is justifiable. everything else -- subject to interpretation. which is why waiting ten months, doing it in the midst of hostages and cease-fire negotiations, that were already stalling because the mr. netanyahu tactics smacks like something that was deliberated and done untensionally. >> david, i want to read for you what the iranian mission to the u.n. is writing. the response to an assassination indeed special operations hashered and instill deep regret

in the perpetrperpetrator. innerhas intelligence services on the ground in israel. not to the expected in tehran. yes, considering this happened inside border of iran. but it wasn't iranian personnel. we said this. hadn't necessarily been looking for confrontation the last ten months. do it to proxies but not directly? >> yeah. i think that the -- the iranian response is likely to be both. visible, but limited. i think they worked hard over the course of the past ten months to communicate there is, but also at the same time to try to avoid a big regional escalation. i think they're more concerned with that, frankly, with regard to hezbollah, which is critically important, a piece of their apparatus in the middle east. much more important even than

hamas, and so a war in the north of israel into lebanon worried them a great deeg. deal. i think going back to the good int about the complexity of this. the thing we need to see is what the impact of this haniyeh assassination will be on the cease-fire talks. and it's clearly time to delay them and to push that off further in the future. this is somebody who's visible publicly. could have been attacked many times before. the question right now is why now? iran is absolutely right. this is a man who deserves what came to him, but you've got to ask, why did netanyahu okay an attack as the cease-fire was moving closer to turning into something that might have

worked. and, you know, i think the only answer you can conclude there is that now as many times before, netanyahu doesn't want a cease-fire. >> david, thank you. ambassador, thank you as well. coming up, guys, congressional reaction to the tensions in the middle east. i'll speak with new mexico democratic senator. up next. we'll be right back. that's why you choose glucerna to help manage blood sugar response. uniquely designed with carbsteady. glucerna. bring on the day. we planned well for retirement, but i wish we had more cash. you think those two

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his true colors. this is who he is. and he, i don't think anybody who lived through the previous four years when he was president should be surprised by this kind of behavior now, but i don't think he endeared himself with black voters. >> while i have you, i want to pivot to a couple differ things because a lot is going on. amid j.d. vance, reacting to overseas and ongoing conflict between israel and gaza. a targeted assassination of a hop hamas leader in iran, bombing and killing of children on saturday in northern israel. you have the killing of a hezbollah leader in the suburbs of beirut as well. one of the issues for the biden camp before he stepped aside was his stance on israel. and his continued support of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. how does kamala harris now top

of the ticket distinguish herself from president biden and his policies along with those still riding the line and supporting the president as his vice president? >> well, i think the empathy that she has shown for civilians who bear no responsibility in any of this is incredibly important, and a good first step. but i think the most valuable thing we could do here and it's not a political thing. it's just what is right to do, is to secure that cease-fire. and unfortunately these latest two attacks on the leader of hezbollah, the political leader in hamas, that makes it harder to accomplish a cease-fire. that's what we should political in hamas, that makes it harder to accomplish a cease-fire and that's what we should be focused on is getting those hostages released, making it safe for those civilians again. that should be our north star in all of this.

>> so we also want to talk about your race. you have got a tough race ahead of you. and i know you were one of the first senators to come out asking for president biden to step aside at the top of the ticket. you got what you wanted, kamala harris at the top of the ticket. how is that going to affect your down ballot race? >> i think there has been a shift in enthusiasm. i mean, these are two people who represent the same policies. but who project in different ways. and the shift in enthusiasm on the ground that i have witnessed in new mexico, in the last week plus, has been nothing short of remarkable. and i'm hearing it from many of my colleagues, this feels like 2008 all over again. there is so much excitement on the ground and it is starting to translate into numbers in the polls. >> your state is now a toss up. do you think that? >> i think it may have been a

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special attention to this battleground state where there is a growing latino voting block that could determine the outcome of the election. nationwide, the number of latinos eligible to vote grew by 4 million from 32 million to a projected 36 million in 2024. according to pew research. and in pennsylvania, there are more than 600,000 eligible latino voters. that is more than seven times the margin of around 82,000 votes that if biden won the state in the last election. george solis traveled to pennsylvania. >> reporter: reading, pennsylvania, the talk of the town is politics. >> been exciting, it has been such an unexpected change. >> reporter: do you care more about the election now? >> i do. i do. >> reporter: we first met the duo, both dominican descent, before former president trump survived an assassination attempt and picked jd vance as his running mate and harris rose

to the top of the ticket. both remained firmly undecided but newly energized. >> she has direction. and i think it evens the playing field for the two candidates. >> is she going to advance the country? is it possible she takes it maybe in reverse? we don't know yet. >> reporter: 18-year-old jamil garcia, a student at the brothers' barbershop, says he'll vote for the first time. how are you feeling about possibly voting for either one of these candidates? >> in my opinion, kind of nervous. >> reporter: one out of every five hispanics will vote in their first presidential election this year, cities and small towns, once democratic strongholds, nestled in northeastern pennsylvania. in this region, latino communities make up 9% of the state's overall population. does it feel like both campaigns are trying to earn your vote? >> definitely. >> reporter: biden won pennsylvania by around 80,000 votes in 2020.

that year, more than 610,000 latinos were eligible to vote in the state. and while mr. biden won reading by about 46 points in 2020, the city shifted 15 points to the right since 2016. limited recent polling shows harris performing better than biden versus trump among latino voters. in 2020, who did you vote for and why? >> biden. >> reporter: this paralegal explained last month she's switching to trump in 2024, frustrated by the rising cost of living and running a business in reading. biden's endorsement of harris only pushing her further away. she now volunteers at the recently opened trump campaign office. >> i just don't trust her. >> reporter: why? >> because her background. i don't trust her. >> reporter: tonya thinks putting pennsylvania governor josh shapiro on the democratic ticket this year would make a difference. does she need josh shapiro to secure the white house? >> i think she does. people who are not very invested

in the election will tend to follow somebody they trust. >> reporter: she will vote harris in november. the vp's visit here leaving a lasting impact. >> she came down in the middle of the city to talk to the people at the community college for me was the most positive thing. >> reporter: this reading restaurant owner recalls harris' trip but hasn't been swayed yet. >> everybody is waiting for the next debate. >> reporter: with less than 100 days to the election, reading's residents are paying attention and feel the weight of the decision ahead. >> think about what you want for your country, what you want for the kids. >> i want them to be able to say, wow, things are different now than they were for mom and dad. and i'm so happy that we're in this country. >> and thank you to george solis for that report. that does it for me, everybody. thank you for watching. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for katy tur. "deadline: white house" starts right now.