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biggest early voting numbers we've ever seen. brand-new records in two big battlegrounds as the candidates converge on a third one, michigan later today. how they're trying to channel all of that energy and enthusiasm into the final stretch. plus, yahya sinwar desperate final act. one of the world's most wanted terrorists filmed appearing weak trying to distract a drone monuments before he was killed an the new statements from hamas and what it means for trying to end the war. and a stunning new report from house democrats alleged donald trump overcharged secret service when they stayed in his hotel. and we start with vice president harris and donald trump are holding a combined five events today. both of them trying to amp up voter enthusiasm less than 24 hours before early voting is set to begin in detroit. and harris will try to keep the momentum going for her in that

state when she brings in two of the party's most popular figures. former president obama, to campaign in detroit next thursday, and next tuesday i should say, and michelle obama next saturday. that is the same day that early voting kicks off in michigan statewide. in other states, early voting is off the charts. in north carolina, the first day broke records with some 350,000 ballots cast yesterday alone. and in georgia, where early voting started on tuesday, they've already hit almost a million. i want to bring in peter alexander in grand rapids where the vice president will hold a rally if about 90 minutes from now. and also with us, mark mckinnon, former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain and the creator of the circus. and here with me in new york, democratic strategist and co-founder of lift our voices, julie rickenski. nbc has some new reporting, we've obtained a campaign memo from the harris team that said

her path to victory relies on the suburbs and cutting into trump's margins in rural areas. what else do we know? >> reporter: well with a hat tip to cher playing behind me as they get ready to welcome vice president harris. they voted for trump in 2016 and biden in 2020 and harris folks are hoping to win again this go around. this new memo shows the critical nature of the suburbs in michigan. the harris campaign convinced according to this memo there is weaknesses among trump in those places due to january 6 and the fallout from that as well as the dobbs decision, the over turned of roe v. wade where women and college educated white voters are increasingly supporting kamala harris going forward. so that is a place they're looking to capitalize. harris trying to take advantage that in part early voting begins here tomorrow. she has three separate stops today after here in grand rapids, she'll head to lansing where she will meet with union

workers and wind up in a key suburb in oakland county outside of detroit. we have learned from a campaign official who tells me she will be joined tomorrow in detroit by lizzo to help get out the vote and then she heads out to atlanta for a separate rally where she will be joined by usher there. >> and the obamas will be going to michigan, both of them, next week to campaign for the vice president. the former president just dropped a new video. let's watch. >> you have on one side, somebody who really just cares about himself. everything is about him. 2:00 a.m. tweets and tirades and kamala is somebody who comes from modest beginnings and who had to fight for what she had and that is the kind of person that i want to vote for because

when push comes to shove she's fighting for me and that is the kind of president that we need. >> that message focused on kamala harris. i wonder in the final few weeks, less than three weeks now, in fact, does the harris campaign focus more on what she's about, her plans, her vision, or should they be more focused on donald trump and what he's about? >> well she's got to do both. on the one hand she has to continue to introduce herself to voters and on the other hand she needs to scare the base for coming out for her and that is to scare people about donald trump. you've been here. you know what it was like for four years when he was president and he's becoming increasingly more unhinged and leaning into rhetoric that underscores his mental condition and that, if nothing else, motivated people to come out and vote. they want to vote store somebody, why she's continuing to introduce herself.

and donald trump is a great motivate kwor for the democratic base to come out and vote for anybody whose name is not donald trump. >> as far as strategy, mark, you wrote that it is harris's race to lose and you say one of the big reasons is the campaign's ground game. is that what matters most at this point, you think? >> yes, i think that this is a race where there is no undecided voters. this is about the base and about new voters and the one thing that polling is not picking up, one is early voting. and those were astronomical numbers and there is also a gender gap and a new voter registration gap of about 10 points as well. so we -- and an enthusiasm gap of about 10 points. so those are things that polling is picking up. because polling using a mirror looking at past selections like

2020 where nobody was excited and should be using a para scope to look ahead and everything that i see, all of many spidey sense and my experience tells me that harris has a lot going on under the radar that should be very encouraging for democrats. >> what else is encouraging under the radar? >> well, you have turnout, you have enthusiasm, you have a gender gap, and then you have, i call it hrc ptsd. i think welcome are going to save democracy for us. i think at the end of the day, the number of women that are crawling over broken glass to shatter the glass ceiling is just going to be historic and i think that is the story of this election. that when you net it all out, it is all about getting the base vote out, but this is an election because of hrc ptsd and roe, women are not going to go to sleep on this one and when we wake up we'll see that the women

have really made the difference in this election, i believe. >> if she has that going for her, julie, there is one area of vulnerability and that is what happening in is the middle east and what we saw there in michigan during the primaries, when biden was still the candidate. our colleague jasmine went there to sat down with a group of lebanese americans. here is what they had to say. >> who is voting for kamala harris here? >> absolutely no. >> no. >> not possible. >> there is nothing that she could do or say to change our mind. >> why are you voting for donald trump. >> because i want to get someone that is funding a genocide out of office. >> not one person said they would vote for vice president harris. one did say she was planning to vote for donald trump. your thoughts on that and i wonder if the recent developments with sinwar's death there in the middle east changes

anything here for voters? >> i don't know who those voters are. but i will say this, this is a man, donald trump who wants to have a muslim ban. if they don't like what is happening now, wait until trump gets in and gives netanyahu everything he wants which is why he's counting on it because you haven't had a cease-fire yet. and that is an area of vulnerability of her. potentially latino voters are something to keep an eye on as well. there has been some polling about black men. some of them not coming home as much as they have in the past. i will agree with everything mark said but black women are going to save democracy and you have black women who are really crawling over glass, the way mark described to vote for her. college educated women in the suburbs and if philadelphia, which used to be back and forth like bucks county and north hampton county and montgomery county where people, republican

women are saying enough is enough. you saw charlie dent, the very well respected former congressman from allentown, north hampton county, he's coming out for kamala harris yesterday. so you've seen this kind of momentum shifting. and that is something that i think has to do just as much with her as it does with donald trump. but trump is the motivating force for people who are saying we've lived it. and we know what he could do. if you're a woman, you don't have to imagine. you have three supreme court justices who could show you but god only knows what happens if he gets in for four more years. it is not like you have to scare voters with theal abolition of roast which they have been doing for years and it is happening and it is here and voters understand it and the stakes are real because they're living in them. this is not some imaginary crisis. we've lived the crisis already. >> mark, former trump was on fox

news this morning and i want to play part of what he said about migrants because it was almost verbatim what he said in his first speech as a presidential candidate, 3,413 days ago. watch. >> the u.s. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. they're sending people that have lots of problems. and they're bringing those problems with us. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crimes. they're rapists. when a country sends people out, they're not saying let's take our best people to the u.s. they're sending -- they're sending their rapists, they're sending their murderers. >> mark, that last clip was just this morning. i assume most candidates would not offend candidates, and

latino voters were a soft spot for the democrats right now. but here you have donald trump sticking to a very divisive and offensive message, a consistent message. what do you make of it? >> well, that is his core message and as julie said, you don't have to imagine what a trump presidency is like. you have to remember what it is like. and that is his primary motivating factor, fear of immigrants coming across the border an that is the basis of make america great again. we goent want to embrace the future, we want to go back to another time when we didn't have immigrants in our community. it works for him in 2016. but the one thing i've learned in campaigns, if you're looking in the mirror and running the last campaign, you're running a losing campaign. >> julie, this morning the dnc just rolled out for the new came effort appealing to young voters

and it coincides with taylor swift concerts but coming back to the u.s. and miami this week and it includes billboards and taylor swift snapchat available to voters in key battle ground states. it is one thing engage but how do you make sure they vote. >> i think young women are motivated to vote and in places like florida and texas and alabama and they understand that it is their reproductive rights. >> it is not just young women. >> no question about it. i don't mean to distract from the gen z voters and you have women especially out there who understand what is at stake here. they understand because they're not so far removed from the bans in school like ron desantis and donald trump bout. they are not so far removed from the lgbtq rhetoric in schools that donald trump espouse.

and now removed from the fact, if they get pregnant and they don't want to be pregnant or have a bad pregnancy, they may die. they understand that. because that affects them directly. and so for that reason, i don't know that young people need to be motivated as much as they are running in early voting specially to come out and vote. and you see that from all of the numbers. >> and we'll be learning more about the early voting numbers. thank you for joining us. and this sunday vice president harris sits down with reverend al sharpton in atlanta for a exclusive interview with early voting in georgia underway. they're discuss the importance of reaching black voters and what is at stake in this election. watch "politics nation" sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern. in 90 seconds. stunning new footage showing the leader of hamas throwing debris at a drone just moments before he is killed. more on that and what ma'amas is now saying after his death, next.

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a piece of debris, what looks like a stick. in a final act of defiance, now israel said that he was killed shortly after that moment. nbc's matt bradley is reporting for us from bray route. and with us edward drugeon and senior fellow at the harvard center. hamas confirmed sinwar's death today. what are they and the other players in the region saying about where this war goes from here. >> we heard from hamas and israelis saying despite what looks like a paradigm shift in this region wide conflict, the death of yahya sinwar is not going to change the fact that all of them are determined in their statements today to continue this war. they will all continue fighting and we even got some comments and this is been public for a lot of statements from hamas, saying, to nbc news from a senior official, it seems that

israel believe that's killing our leaders means the end of our movement and the struggle of the palestinian people. hamas is a liberation movement lead by people looking for freedom and dignity and cannot be eliminated. that is true. in the long history of the palestinian liberation movement, there have been many movements, almost none of them have amounted to a cult of personality. but they're not distinguished with the death of one leader but we have to look at this in its totality. we've seen hamas as an organization badly degraded by a year of war and tens of fighters have been killed in the gaza strip and the same thing here in lebanon where we saw the leader of hezbollah killed by a bomb and his potential successor killed then. many of hezbollah leaders including hamas leaders have also been assassinated in this chilling methodical way in which the israelis have gone through and hit leader after leader of

all of the different military organizations throughout the region. now we're seeing israel attempting or preparing to launch a retaliation attack against the iranians after that missile salvo they fired this month. so when you look at this all in its whole, yes sinwar's death is not going to change the calculus for any of the major players but when you look at the iran backed groups there you -- throughout the region and when it is iran's imprint on hezbollah, hamas, the houthis, this is a major change, all of the deaths of these leaders and the degradation of the groups and their capabilities. it is no way that the face of the middle east does not change because of what happened in the middle east in last month. >> mad bradley, thank you very much. ambassador, today in berlin, president biden spoke about sinwar's death and the conversation he had with prime

minister netanyahu about what comes next. let's take a listen, the death of the leader of hamas represents a moment of justice. the blood of americans and israelis and palestinians an germans and so many others on his hands. and i told the prime minister of israel yesterday, let's also make this moment an opportunity, to seek a path to peace, a better future in gaza without hamas. >> president biden sending secretary of state blinken to the middle east once again to soon restart the cease-fire and the hostage talks with israel and egypt and qatar. how could diplomats seize this moment? >> well, this is a continuation in the aftermath of sinwar's death now of the biden administration's if you will two-prong policy. one to get a cease-fire in gaza to release the israeli hostages and then to stabilize gaza in the long-term and then on the

lebanese front, to enact u.n. security council resolution 1701 which could require hezbollah to withdraw, et cetera. but the problem is that neither hamas, as your correspondent very accurately reported from, is that they're sticking in the aftermath of sinwar's death to the hard-line positions across the board. the withdrawal of all israeli forces from gaza, the release of all palestinian prisoners, no hostage release unless a comment is made, et cetera, et cetera. on the northern front, hezbollah is also digging in on its hard-line positions despite the very effective israeli decapitation of leaders on both fronts in hezbollah and hamas. the israelis and netanyahu's policies is basically to

re-establish deterrence after the horrible failure of security establishment on october 7th. so what he's doing now, i think he is absolutely going to continue the war, continuing fighting, establishing what his military seems to want, is some presence in the corridor to keep northern gaza free of hamas terrorists to secure the southern border of israel and hezbollah to draw hezbollah back in its military operations, israel's military operations certainly north of the border with israel. >> right. >> he's going to continue. and your earlier coverage of the american elections, the u.s. elections, i think is very telling. everybody is looking over the shoulders of the biden administration to see who the next president of the united

states will be. until we know who the next president is, and i think netanyahu is hoping for a trump victory because he thinks he probably could get more of a green light from trump than he could from kamala harris. so, all of this means is that we're in for continued volatile situation in the near term. >> yeah. >> without anyone talking about anyone looking at a strategy for the longer term. >> former ambassador edward, thank you very much for taking the time. we appreciate your insights and expertise. up next, donald trump uses a charity dinner to roast his critics. but there is one person he wouldn't joke about. >> tradition holds that i'm supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes this evening. so here it goes. nope. i've got nothing. got nothing

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san francisco's leadership is failing us. that's why mark farrell is endorsing prop d. because we need to tackle our drug and homelessness crisis just like mark did as our interim mayor. mark farrell endorsing prop d, to bring the changes we need for the city we love. welcome back. after cancelling a series of media appearances, donald trump took the microphone at last night's annual charity dinner delivering a few choice gingers about his new york prosecution with letitia jams in earshot and he let it rip with personal attacks on his political rivals. >> these days, it is really a pleasure. anywhere in new york, without a subpoena for my appearance.

>> we have someone in the white house who could barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences. but enough about kamala harris. i was shocked when i heard that kamala was skipping the al smith dinner. i hoped that she would come because we can't get enough of hearing her beautiful laugh. she laughs like crazy. she's vicious. she wants to deport people and start by deporting brett bear of fox. there is a group called white dudes for harris. but i'm not worried about them because they're wives and their wives lovers are all voting for me. >> i used to think the democrats are crazy for saying that men had periods. but then i met tim walz. >> well mark mccannon is back with us and now joining me in the studio vaughn hillyard. mark, i saw you shaking your head there but vaughn, let me start with you. trump used this dinner, a moment that could have had some levity

to go to him same old, same old playbook. >> it is not sure whether he knows how to joke without it being crass or insulting and mean and last night was just an example of that, taking shots aat the harris family and that is why she did not attend. she didn't want to be -- she wanted to be in battleground wisconsin. and between hillary clinton and donald trump just mere feet away from each other as they took cracks from each other just weeks out from the 2016 election and listen to what donald trump said last night. >> my opponent feels like she does not have to be here. which is deeply disrespectful. catholics, you have to vote for me. just remember. you better remember i'm here. and she's not. i could have done that too. i'm surprised that bill de blasio was able to make it tonight. he was a terrible mayor. i don't give