that's what he was actually worried about, and judge asked for discovery about foreign influence, and judge chutkan dismissed that out of hand. it doesn't match up with what he was publicly expressing at the time. that's not really the reason that he was making these false claims about election fraud, so this case is continuing to chug on, even as we are less than three weeks out from the election going forward. there's going to be a deadline just after the election for the trump team, and then there will be another ruling from judge chutkan down the line about whether this case continues, ultimately might go for the supreme court. all of that depends if donald trump wins the 2024 election. >> that's going to do it for us this hour. our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" right now. ♪♪ good to be with you. i'm katy tur. 20 days until the election, and voters have a bevy of revealing interviews to chew over as both donald trump and vp kamala

harris get out of their comfort zone. for donald trump, it was actually speaking to voters, answering questions from women at a town hall in georgia, including on the issue of abortion and ivf. >> really, the courage of six supreme court justices we were able to do this after years and years of turmoil. now it's back in the states. we have the states are voting for it. if you take ohio and kansas, it was a much more liberal vote than you would have thought. i think it was 20 weeks, et cetera, et cetera, a much more liberal vote. now it's where everybody has wanted it for years. ivf, you mentioned before, ivf. >> let's get this question. i believe that's what we want to get to. >> i want to talk about ivf. i'm the father of ivf. we are the party for ivf. we want fertilization, and it's all the way, and the democrats tried to attack us on it, and

we're out there on ivf even more than them. we're totally in favor to have. >> yesterday it was an unrelenting interview with bloomberg's editor in chief on the economy, the peaceful transfers of power and the reported conversations with vladimir putin from bob woodward's new book. >> you mentioned putin, this controversy the past week, can you say yes or no, whether you have talked to vladimir putin since you stopped being president? >> i don't comment on that, but i will tell you that, if i did, it's a smart thing. if i'm friendly with people. if i have a relationship with people. that's a good thing. not a bad thing. in terms of a country. he's got 2,000 nuclear weapons, and so do we. china has a lot less, but they'll catch us within five years. i don't talk about that. >> okay. so he's not in his comfort zone there. he's also not speaking to the echo chamber, so how will that refusal to deny conversations

with a foreign authoritarian factor into voters' minds, and what about the claim that he' the quote, father of ivf. it was charlamagne tha god's radio show where she chose to take her criticism of donald trump, that he's a threat to democracy, a step further. >> by voting in this election, you have two choices or you don't vote. but you have two choices if you do. and it's two very different visions for our nation. one mind that is about taking us forward and progress and investing in the american people. investing in their ambitions. dealing with their challenges, and the other, donald trump, is about taking us backward. >> donald trump is about fascism, why can't we just say that? >> we can say that. >> she too will go to fox news,

speaking with bret, day may be open to it, may not be, in this neck-in-neck race, finding a single new voter can be the difference between standing at the podium on inauguration day and watching at home. joining us in washington, crossing pennsylvania, nbc news who's correspondent, monica alba, and "new york times" chief white house correspondent and msnbc political analyst, peter baker. welcome to both of you. monica, what is the motivation behind the interviews and mu places. is there polling that shows she's got weak spots she needs to address? >> reporter: the harris campaign is entering into this narrow stretch where people are tuning in more acutely. this is the moment to try to appear to a really broad swath of the audience on a lot of different kinds of platforms. that's why you're seeing her

doing more podcasts. a media blitz on all sorts of kinds of reach, and opportunity like fox news. and we're told that they do believe there's a sliver of the electorate that watches and tunes in to fox news, that they claim is undecided, that could still be making up their mind, maybe some of them are people like those who are going to be appearing alongside her today, shortly just minutes from now, who are a part of those antitrump republicans who might still watch fox news, but aren't necessarily enthralled with what he represents as the leader of the gop right now. they're hoping to appeal to those people with an interview like the one we're going to see today with bret baier. even after nikki haley left the race, there was some support for her that wasn't completely

insignificant, and so the harris exam pain is trying to go after some of those types of people, attending this event here, which isn't a rally. it's a couple hundred of those so-called republicans for harris, and you're going to hear a little bit more of that message, which is meant to be this country over party. they're just at this phase, katy, they're trying everything, and they want her to be as really as viewable and as available to some of these interviews that she certainly wasn't doing some weeks ago when they said this will come at some point. we're now in that window, and that's why they say they're really trying to lean into it a bit more aggressively. we'll see if that pays off at all. and some of these, again, really key counties where they're hoping just a tiny, tiny, tiny margin, victory, could make all the difference. >> she's also been saying she wants people to pay attention to donald trump more. she says on the campaign trail, you should go to one of his rallies, or watch one of his rallies. she's starting to play donald

trump at her own rallies. who does she thinks she's getting when she does that? >> that was the very first time we saw that in this same commonwealth. it was in erie, pennsylvania, on monday, and the fact that she's back here on wednesday tells you where the campaign is viewing the strategy, where they want to spend their time. she did play that montage, specifically that language about donald trump saying there's a, quote, enemy from within, and threatening to use potentially the national guard or aspects of the military against his critics and detractors. that is something that they do have, internal campaign polling on that i have reported, katy, that does show them when they lean into and try to tell people what donald trump has said, what he has specifically threatened, what he was like when he was in office, and what he could be like if he returns there, they do see a bit of an opportunity of voters that do want to hear more about that and are a little

bit more receptive to that. that's why you're seeing her do more of it. that will only continue and ramp up in the final days. >> i wonder if you take the opposite approach. is it a good idea for her to be out there with liz cheney, and other republicans doing all of these events and swing states to try to convince that sliver of republican voters who are uncomfortable with donald trump to vote for her or is it a better idea to double down on the democrats, double down on the base of the democratic party, the traditional base and the coalition that president obama put together. why not see him with her on the campaign trail in some of the swing places. i know he's been going out on his own. have you gotten an explanation from the campaign about that? maybe they think they can do both. >> reporter: yeah, there is clearly what the campaign would say, which is that yesterday, for instance, she focused almost entirely on reaching out and trying to earn the support of black men, and that is, as you point out, what former president

obama has been trying to do as well. they can do that day-to-day, they know that window and the runway is limited but they can dedicate an entire couple of days to that key message, and then dedicate a day like today to trying to continue that outreach to republicans, and you do talk about what is the balance of that, that's certainly for any campaign, something they need to evaluate, but they feel right now like they're trying to at least lean into where they do see some opportunity, which is a reflection, they're going to argue today, of the dozens and dozens of antitrump republicans who have already endorsed her, that there could be a few more out there in the next few weeks who could have influence. people who work with donald trump or for donald trump, and they believe that specifically that can create a permission structure for others, independents, perhaps, which they will need if they want to win in some of these places. >> there's an argument out there that perhaps maybe there's a risk there as well, that what you're telling democratic voters

is ones who want change, there might not be as much change if you're bringing in some republican figures or extremely conservative republican figures to your cause, like liz cheney. obviously, who knows. i'm just telling you what's out there. monica alba, thank you very much. by the way, so kamala harris is in bucks county today. i'm going to note and flag this. nikki haley won that county, won 12,000 votes in that county. if they all went to donald trump, that would be 19% -- all it won't kamala harris, that would be 19% of the vote there. joining us now from the republicans for harris rally just the topic we were talking about, former rnc executive committee member and cofounder of the lincoln project, jennifer horn. we lost peter baker. we had audio issues. do you see risks for the democrats bringing in folks like you? >> i don't at all, frankly.

cycle after cycle after cycle we hear voters talk about how they're sick of the partisanship and division and how ugly and nasty it has become under donald trump in particular. i think that vice president harris is doing something really smart and really effective. she's not embracing the farthest right. she's not making efforts to make sense out of maga. she's talking to people like myself who have always believed both sides need to meet at the aisle to solve problems. it's something that's going to be effective for her, especially in states like pennsylvania. >> who's the voter out there that believes that? who's the voter that says i don't like donald trump, i'm not a democrat, i don't like democratic policies but i'm nervous about donald trump, i'm going to vote for kamala harris? >> i know the work that i have been doing with women for us, there are thousands and thousands of republican women in the swing states who have

already decided that they're willing to vote outside their party. because of the issue of choice. because of the issue of women's rights, being able to be in control of their own bodies, not having the government inserted into their doctor appointments and between themselves, and the most intimate decisions that women sometimes have to make. that's just for starters. you look at details like their economic plan. we know that the "wall street journal" did a survey of economists across the country, and 68% of them said that donald trump's economic plan is going to cause greater deficit, higher taxes, you know, higher interest rates. so it's not skrus just the one issue. this is an issue that reasonable republicans have cared about. >> nikki haley, during the primaries, she got 12,000 votes in bucks county. that would be 19% of the vote there if they all went to one

side or the other. do you think those nikki haley voters are gettable? do you think there's a big enough swath of those nikki haley voters that puts bucks county in play? >> i think that they're absolutely gettable. and i'll tell you why, first of all we know that during the primary when they voted for nikki haley, many of them on the exit polls said they would never vote for donald trump. they showed up for nikki haley as a protest vote to make it clear that's how they feel. i don't think they're all going to come over for vice president harris, but i think that as a part of the coalition she's building, they could be very effective. >> jennifer horn, really good to have you. thank you so much for joining us from the event out there. appreciate it. and it is the arizona county that could make or break donald trump in that state. what voters in ultra maga mojave county say they will do come election day. plus, what man who was jailed for participating in the

capital election says he has planned for january 6th 2025. and we are watching the funeral of ethel kennedy where president biden is scheduled to speak in just a few minutes. we're going to bring that to you as that happens. we are back in 90 seconds. ens. were a back in 90 seconds.

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won, in state of 7 million people, that is almost nothing. four years later, donald trump is trying to take arizona back, and he's focusing on one narrow county in particular. joining us now, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard who is in kingman, arizona. why is this district so important? >> reporter: let's just say this way, katy, if you're looking for maga county out west, the potential capital of maga land, mojave county, kingman, arizona, voted 75 for trump. they feel like there are untapped registered republicans who they have been able to identify, didn't come out in 2020, who they feel they can convince from being trump supporters to trump voters in 2024, and make up the difference that would have put donald trump over the top in arizona in 2020. i want to let you listen to a few of folks we talked to.

unlike in 2020, we are seeing trump republicans come out to early vote. right now, they are out pacing arizona democrats. take a listen. >> reporter: what are you seeing from early voting? >> we have had a nonstop steady stream of voters. >> most republicans are devout, day of the election, paper ballots, stand in line for however many hours you have to and vote. but, you know, with all the things that happened in 2020, the consensus was maybe we would be better off voting early. >> reporter: how would you compare the energy for trump in 2024 compared to 2020? >> pretty much equal, yeah. this town was irate about the lost election in 2020. >> reporter: do you get a sense that that has galvanized more people? >> i think so, yes, in this community, yes. >> reporter: katy, again, this

is maga country here. that last voter you heard from was the only compares voter we found out here. he was campaigning as a democrat for the local school board position, and yet, what you saw, i referenced the increase in early vote turnout here, the volunteers, they told me they are 600 strong, grass roots organization in mojave county, and they told us the advantage for them being able to look at who has and who has not turned in their ballots already by mail and by early vote, and arizonians have had a week to do, so and they say they are looking at the folks who have not turned in their ballots yet, knocking on their doors, sending text messages, calling them. they said the way they are framing their volunteer operation here, if they are able to get 10% more of registered republicans to turn out than they did in 2020, to juice that maga support for donald trump, they would be able to make up

the 11,000 vote difference and put donald trump over the top, if all of the numbers across the rest of the state held and that is why donald trump, he may lose maricopa county, the suburbs, may not win over women voters or independent voters, if they're able to turn out that strong base of maga faithful, that's all donald trump needs. >> early voting is not cheating, it seems. vaughn, i'm going to throw you a curve ball. we lost peter baker and i had a question for him on donald trump. i'm throwing it to you instead. donald trump did a big sit-down with bloomberg yesterday. kamala harris's team has been saying if you just listen to donald trump, if you're paying attention to him and you're not in the echo chamber, you're going to get turned off by him if you're a regular voter. you're going to be reminded of the chaos. yesterday he sat down with bloomberg, an interview that would go out broadly on the subject of the economy, struggled with answers on

tariffs. struggled with answers on small businesses or at least got combative. talked about vladimir putin but wouldn't say whether he had spoken to them while he was out of office and wouldn't commit to a peaceful transfer of power. do answers hike that have an effect in the real world when you're talking to voters maybe in places beyond trump count trump country where you are right now? >> reporter: there are voters who voted for the likes of trump in 2016, and voted for joe biden. you hear from voters who were one-time trump voters or biden voters and their hesitancy around kamala harris is around policy. what does she stand for. what yesterday's interview with bloomberg was asked questions about policies, which he usually doesn't get. they're quick over the course of 10, 15 minutes. what you saw from bloomberg

yesterday was over the course of an hour being pushed to explain his position on tariffs. if you take a look at him being asked about what he thought about antitrust laws to the extent in which google should be broken up. he completely pivoted that question, and started talking about the doj going after virginia voter rolls. and for donald trump, his criticism of kamala harris is around policy. the vulnerabilities shown here is a difficulty so often in being able to concretely answer or substantively answer legitimate policy questions. and i think for especially those conservative voters who would like to vote for a republican, especially off of fiscal principles and policies, they see somebody here who has waffled, wavered or frankly is unaware of the basics of some very key economic positions, and i think that that is what is a big vulnerability in why you have seen him steer away from 60 minutes, nbc news, cnbc, all

within the last week. this is, i think, for donald trump, a vulnerability, and one that has led him to continually go back to friendly interviews, friendly podcasts, because bloomberg, i think, opened up a lot of eyes yesterday, as well as anybody who listens to rallies, he usually doesn't focus on specific policy in a way that i think americans are seeing largely for the first time, the donald trump that has existed over the last three years, largely in political isolation or through maga media outlets at mar-a-lago. >> not talking about policy when you're doing a nearly 40 minute swing along and sway session either. vaughn hillyard, thank you very much. coming up, the polls are virtually tied, could the election itself end up in a tie? steve kornacki will show you how it could happen. it is a possibility. >> and then what happened to january 6th rioters in prison. the ones that weren't violet. how do they come out? we've got an eye opening story for you coming up next.

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if donald trump loses this november, what might happen on january 6th 2025? the atlantic's hannah rosen has been trying to figure that out in the latest episode of "we live here now" her podcast on the january 6th sympathizers who moved next door. she speaks with brandon fellows, a mischievous goof ball who went

to the capital on january 6th and ultimately climbed through a window and into senator jeff americaly's office where he put his feet on the desk and smoked a joint. he was tried and convicted for obstruction of an official proceeding, and various other misdemeanor offenses. he was sentenced to 42 months in a d.c. prison, joining the patriots pod. when he got out, he was no longer a quote, mischievous goof ball, but something harder and more resolved. like how long are you going to stay in d.c., i guess, do you have a plan here? >> yeah, i plan to stay until like january 7th. >> wow. >> yeah, that was my kind of plan. >> that feels vaguely threatening. >> i could see why you would say that. especially considering, you know, my feelings. >> about violence. >> well, about how, man, i wish

after seeing all the chaos that's happened in the world and to the country, how i wish people did more on january 6th instead of like me taking, like selfies and smiling, i think it would have been better off if people actually would have actually been there for, like more people would have been there for an insurrection. >> joining us now, senior editor at the atlantic, and host of radio atlantic, hannah rosen. this episode was really tough. this kid, he's 30 years old now, so she's not is much a kid, but he went into prison as just a guy who happened on the capitol, didn't fully understand the extent of what he was getting himself into, but he came out different. explain the change. explain what happened inside a d.c. prison. >> you have to understand what the patriot pod is. for various reasons, all of the january 6th who were being detained were detained in a segregated unit. think about that for a moment, they were detained together,

people who were members of militias, people who did actual violence that day, people who came to the capitol with a gun, and people like brandon fellows who were there to be curious, goof balls, whatever reason they showed up there that day, and all of a sudden the hierarchies started to develop where brandon, for example, started to think, those guys, the guys who, as he put it, did something on january 6th, as the real heroes. and himself as lacking. he essentially started to look up to them, and that's a dynamic that i think we have been more or less unaware of but that's been building and building in the d.c. jail. >> so he was radicalized. >> radicalized, that's the simple word for what i just said. >> so when he tells you he's ready to stay until january 6th or january 7th, the day after january 6th, why do you take that as vaguely threatening? >> because he's already explained to me what he

believes, and donald trump says it too, if donald trump is not elected president, the only reason can be because democrats cheat like hell. democrats has said it himself. so they are essentially ready, a lot of the former january 6thers for another cheat and if donald trump loses, they'll just assume, okay, we can't take it anymore. we have to do for real what we didn't accomplish the first time. that's the thinking of a lot of people. it's not as if in the four years they've come to see the light, they were wrong, i misunderstood what happened in the election, the big lie is not a big lie. you hear it how donald trump talks of this election, he has doubled down, and therefore a lot of people who believe in him have doubled down, and it's become what you said earlier in the show, an echo chamber, and that's how it's rolled out. >> when you were talking to him, you said what if president biden does legitimately or in this

case, kamala harris does legitimately win as president biden legitimately won in 2020, and he says -- he seems to kind of disregard that, doesn't matter. i'm going to play a little bit more of him talking about trump getting in and calling it a nice band-aid. let's listen. >> i hope that it doesn't come to this. you know. it would be nice if trump just got in, and if he just does what he did before, that would be a nice band-aid. we need something a little bit more intense. >> there's a possibility that he will legitimately lose this election, like at the ballot box? >> yeah, i think at that point, you know, people might have to do something. >> people might have to do something. what is that something? >> i mean, i go further into it, and i note that there is -- he has a fight at some point, this brandon fellows does in d.c., and i note the thin line between

words and violence. it's always hard to predict what's going to happen, and nobody ever says, oh, i'm going to commit a felony on the capitol on january 6th, 2025, but a lot of people imply that that's what they're going to do if donald trump is not elected president. and like i said, i think donald trump, once again, encourages them. i can't tell you exactly what do something means, but i can tell you that he says things like, if it's my time to die, it's my time to die. so you have to read between the lines there. >> it's a wild thing for a 30-year-old to say. if it's my time to die. what could you be talking about as a 30-year-old and dying. what cause could you be taking up? we can all kind of guess. >> i mean, he talks about the span of history, and why sometimes you need to shed blood for the good of america. he does talk in those terms. we needed a civil war. we needed to shed blood. >> yeah, civil war was better in the long run, even though it shed a lot of blood in the

immediate. i wonder, do these folks like him, do they believe in the constitution? if donald trump legitimately loses and he says people need to do something, how do you square that with believing in this democracy and believing in this country? >> an excellent question that my editors had. i called him up and said, hey, do you believe in democracy, do you believe in elections? like do you believe in the things that are in the american constitution, and what he said to me was remember how there were protesters at the republican national convention who held up a sign that said dictator on day one, i would be okay with that. i think there's just this belief that whatever the problem, donald trump is the savior, and i've heard donald trump say things like that. you're smiling because i think there's just some frustration, like no matter how you try and penetrate, hey, we all live in this country, we have a constitution. this is a democracy.

there are rules. people will shrink around that. >> it reminds me of a conversation i had in the lead up to the election in pennsylvania. donald trump was going around saying the only way he could lose if there's fraud, same thing he's saying now, and i asked a guy what he would do if he thought democracy was being stolen from him as donald trump was telling him to believe if he lost, and the guy said he would take up arms. i don't know if he went to the capitol that day. he wouldn't give me his name, so i couldn't track him but, you know, people did go to the capitol on january 6th. sometimes you have to take people at their word. i got to go, thank you very much for joining us. it's a great listen. we live here now on the atlantic. still ahead, the road to winning back the house. what democrats are doing to get there, and we have been talking about the road to 270 as well. what if the election ends this in a tie, 269-269, it genuinely could happen. steve kornacki is showing us how. how.

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in 48 states, electoral votes are winner take all but two states do it differently, maine and nebraska. they both allocate their votes by congressional district, meaning whichever presidential candidate wins the district wins the electoral vote. in maine, there are four electoral votes and in nebraska, there are five. in reality, there is only one district in the state of nebraska up for grabs. that is the second congressional district, which is dubbed by the democrats as the blue dot and it

could be oh so important this time around. joining us now, nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. does the blue dot potentially get us to a tie? >> we always talk about it every four years, what if it ends up 269-269. the gray states are the core battleground. you see there's nebraska. it's got the stripe pattern. that reflects exactly what you're talking about there. the state itself, a red state, but the one district around omaha, democrats are favored. maine, statewide, that's harris's favorite. there's the one district trump now has won handily both times. those are the two states. those are the expectations. where it gets a little bit funky, and why there's so much money going into that district in nebraska would be this. this is all for the sake of argument but this is how campaigns think and why the money and resources go in. the northern tier of the

battleground wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. the polling is tight everywhere but polling has been better for harris in the northern tier of the battlegrounds than the southern tier. sake of argument, if harris were to get wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. look at that, you see what that does to our number 270. you go to the southern tier, and trump won carolina both times. if trump were to get north carolina, make that red, if he were to getting georgia, state he lost by only about 12,000 votes last time, arizona, if he were to get that, polling has been somewhat encouraging for him there. more so than for harris, and then nevada. you could just see 270, 268, and that is where that district in omaha would come in. again, right now, the expectations are democratic. it is blue right now. but, let's call it up here. i've got to lose this move in case we need it on election night. let me try this one more time. that should be where we're -- i'm making note to self.

fixed map for election night. this should be calling up the districts in the state, and what i should be doing is saying what if the second district went red. if it did, you could do the map at home. harris would go down to 269. trump would go up to 269. and in the tie, what do they do? the election goes to the house of representatives, the key thing to know if the election goes to the house, each congressman doesn't get a vote, each state gets a vote. the delegation in each state. they vote within the state. whoever has the most volts in the state gets one vote. california gets one. north dakota gets one. even if the democrats control the house, the overwhelming likelihood is republicans would control more delegations. the expectation is if this ever landed at 269-269, trump would win the white house. in baseball, the tie goes to the runner, in electoral college, tie would go to trump. this is the best polling data we have on the second district.

omaha, suburbs, fixed the area where democrats have been doing better. "new york times," harris up 29 points over trump. democrats are counting on this one, and certainly the expectations are that they're favored there. if trump were able to flip this one, that could, you know, harris wins only the northern tier, you saw what happened. >> you got me thinking about baseball. the cubs won the world series before trump won the white house. i'm thinking if there's a year the mets win the world series is that going to be coinciding with the year there's a tie in the electoral college. strange things happening. steve kornacki, thank you very much. >> you bet. coming up, price hikes and angry allies, what donald trump's tariffs would really do to the economy. we have more of that interview from bloomberg. first, though, inside democrats' fight for the house. what party leader hakeem jeffries is doing behind the scenes to get control of the gavel. he

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flip at least four races. joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, you sat down with the leader. what did he tell you? >> reporter: sat down with the leader, katy, in alburquerque, new mexico, which gives you a sense of just how many districts there are that are in competition right now, and how disparate they are, especially when you consider that the national conversation is so focused on places like pennsylvania, georgia, michigan, the house seats that they are focusing on are actually in completely different places, laces that are decided at the presidential level but are very much in flux when you get down into these districts. that's why we're seeing jeffries in places not just new mexico, california, oregon, new york state, pennsylvania, these are all places are all places where can flip seats and at the end of the day, jefferies only needs to flip four, at least, in order to flip control of the house. that's something he told me democrats have been governing as if they have the majority. now he wants the gavel to go

with it. >> we are certainly worried about maintaining any of these seats. any worries? any specific races in particular that they're concerned about? >> there is a reason he was in new mexico's 2nd district. albuquerque gave vasquez, the lawmaker who is the incumbent there and he was in one of the closest races in 2022, but you also look at other places on the map. you and i were talking when i was in new york at the start of this week because i was in town with the balance of power going through new york state and there were really tight races there. i do think the one throughline from the democrats' perspective is they want to focus on project 2025 and that's why part of the $3 million ad buy they are focused on that topic. they are seeing it as something that polls negatively, and now they're using them to mobilize them that presidential states do, but that very much still need voters to get out and stay

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vp kamala harris is speaking now in washington crossing, pennsylvania, bucks county. remember, nikki haley won 12,000 votes there in the primaries. quite a lot of voters that harris could help her pick up pennsylvania. let's listen. >> and these principles and traditions have sustained our nation for over two centuries. sustained because generations of americans from all backgrounds, from all beliefs have cherished them, upheld them and defended

them, and now the baton is in our hands. so i am joined today by over 1 00 republican leaders from across pennsylvania and across our country who are supporting -- [ cheers and applause ] >> my candidacy for president of the united states.[ cheers and ] >> my candidacy for president of the united states. and i am deeply honored to have their support. some served in statehouses, some in the united states congress, some worked for other republican presidents and presidential nominees including mitt romney, john mccain, george w. bush, george h.w. bush and ronald reagan, and some today served in donald trump's own administration. we also have with us republican voters from here in pennsylvania and beyond who have been active

in their republican parties for years, who have supported republican candidates up and down the ticket. now i say all that to make an obvious point. in a typical election year, you all being here with me -- [ laughter ] might be a bit surprising, dare i say, unusual, but not in this election. not in this election because at stake in this race are the democratic ideals that our founders and generations of americans before us have fought for. at stake in this election is the constitution of the united states' very self. we are here today because we share a core belief that we must

put country before party. [ cheers and applause ] [ audience chants "usa" ] >> indeed, because -- and we chant that with such great pride because we all know, we all have so much more in common than what separates us, and at some point in the career of the folks who join me on stage, one of the other things that we have in common is in our careers we have each sworn an oath to uphold the constitution of the united states. [ applause ] and so we know that sacred oath must always be honored and never violated, and that we should

expect anyone who seeks the highest office in our land would meet that standard. we here know the constitution is not a relic from our past, but determines whether we are a country where the people can speak freely and even kret size the president without fear of being thrown in jail or targeted by the military. [ applause ]president without f thrown in jail or targeted by the military. [ applause ]the president witho being thrown in jail or targeted by the military. [ applause ]president without f thrown in jail or targeted by the military. [ applause ]the president witho being thrown in jail or targeted by the military. [ applause ] >> where the people can choose without the government interfering. [ applause ] where you can vote without fear that your vote will be thrown away. [ applause ]