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the drama and conflict of the trump era. can that call, combined with the show of force in d.c., push undecided voters off the fence? plus, joe biden's garbage gaffe, will an off the cuff remark causing so much drama now undermine his veep's unity message? and a scare at the polls. the teenager busted for threatening kamala harris supporters in florida, smiling as he waved an eight-inch machete in the air. so much to get to, but we start with a choice unlike any other in history. today, with six days left of voting and impact spanning not just four years but well beyond, kamala harris is drawing the most vivid contrast yet, unwavering in her vision for a harris presidency, based on the dreams of the founding fathers, and unsparing in her warnings about donald trump. >> nearly 250 years ago, america was born when we wrested freedom

from a petty tyrant. across the generations americans have preserved that freedom, expanded it, and in so doing proved to the world that a government of, by and for the people is strong and can endure. [ cheers and applause ] and those who came before us, the patriots at normandy and selma, seneca falls and stonewall, on farm lands and factory floors, they did not struggle, sacrifice and lay down their lives only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms. [ cheers and applause ] they didn't do that only to see

us submit to the will of another petty tyrant. [ cheers and applause ] >> on the exact spot that triggered one of the darkest days in u.s. history, harris laying out a plan for a brighter, stronger, calmer future. and today she is taking that message on the road, barnstorming the battleground states from north carolina to pennsylvania and wisconsin, a stop that includes a big outdoor concert. all of it aimed at moving from message to mobilization. the decisive and dual goal of convincing that small sliver of undecideds to go her way and to the already convinced, get to the polls. i want to bring in nbc's monica alba at the white house, eddie glaude, msnbc political analyst, jesse o'connell was ceo of the dnc and executive director of emily's list. so, what of her closing argument do you think will work best in these closing six days as she hits those battleground states? what resonates?

>> well, i think a number of things stood out last night. first of all, when you're within a week to election day, to this big moment that we have all been sort of lurching forward to, i think it matters how we feel. and i think what happened last night and what kamala harris and her team pulled together last night in washington, d.c. on the ellipse in such an important place that takes us back to where donald trump was on january 6th, what they did was the style and substance of that speech, the way she looked, the way it was framed, and what she talked about, her journey into this, her journey to this moment, the work she intends to do and how the difference is so stark. i think really it is about the feels right now. you know, we're really about inspiring and turning out the people that she needs to turn out, and going after, as you said, a few persuadables, people that are still figuring out how they feel about this whole thing. believe it or not, there still are some and last night did nothing but help.

>> so she is on the stage right now. we have a picture of that in raleigh, north carolina, and she just said make no mistake, eddie, we will win. she didn't say eddie, she said, make no mistake, we will win. but, eddie, this, i think was bigger than a vision for policy, right? it was a vision for america at large, a kind of cultural shift. and i want to play specifically something she said that made me think about that. >> america, for too long we have been consumed with too much division, chaos, and mutual distrust. and it can be easy then to forget a simple truth, it doesn't have to be this way. it doesn't have to be this way. >> and i also thought she kind of redefined what it means to be a patriot, we're used to thinking of people who fought in wars. she mentioned normandy as patriots. but then she mentioned selma and seneca falls and stonewall. do you think that this kind of

broader more cultural message can move people, who are so worried about the economy or immigration? >> i think both and. first of all, great to see you, chris. she also said that and then she transitioned to policy issues that will address those economic questions, right? child care credit, right? the way in which she talked about the opportunity economy and broke it down in very detailed form. but i think it is really important for us to understand that you -- that she is offering us a way of imagining ourselves differently. apart from the ugliness of the last decade or so. and that is up to us, you know, the freedom is not only freedom to choose, the freedom of the right over our own bodies, but freedom comes with it a responsibility. that's why we said over and over again, following john dew and others, democracy must be reimagined every generation. she put that choice, that burden, that responsibility on

us. but she did it with a kind of joy that was, shall we say, compelling. >> she put her foot to the pedal and is keeping it there, monica. three battleground states today. tell us about that. >> reporter: i think you can expect to hear the same message that was so carefully crafted for last night amplified today to these specific audiences. and so you see her there, speaking and later when she heads to pennsylvania and wisconsin. she's going to be repeating some of the lines and these key ideas that emerge from those remarks last night, like turning the page on what she said and called and framed as donald trump's divisiveness and his division, trying to argue that she views donald trump as somebody who is obsessed with revenge, and with seeking unchecked power, and she is going to say that that is not who she is, and certainly not who in her words and her beliefs what she thinks should be reflected in an american leader

like the president of the united states. and you also have seen her really lean into something that she started to talk about a few days ago and now she's really boiled down to this closing message and argument which is that she says if donald trump were to win, he will be going down as so-called enemy's list and that she is saying she has a to do list for all the things she wants to do, and last night you really did see these bipartisan overtures where she was trying to say that if donald trump is making that list of people that he views as his biggest critics and detractors, she is saying that even if there are people who disagree with her, she wants to invite them to her table, to be a part of giving her real time feedback and ideas and to maybe be a part of her administration by appointing a republican in the cabinet and to have this bipartisan council of advisers. she's going to take what she tried to project last night and now repeat it again in these different stops in the battlegrounds. and then, of course, chris, as you know, there is a major

message about just getting out the vote, making a plan to vote, taking advantage of early voting where it is possible and where it may be wrapping up soon and that's the other main aim and you see in trying to build these crowds, last night she had tens and tens of thousands of people here in washington, they're still trying to make that a big priority in these battleground states in the closing days to have big crowds, big turnout, and then, again, try to translate that into voters and supporters that they hope show up for her in terms of the campaign's ideal scenario on tuesday. >> monica, thank you for that. they always talk about maga as a movement and trump was thrilled on sunday at madison square garden, packed to the rafters, but then when you saw the size of harris' crowd last night, larger than the crowd that trump threw on january 6th and it seemed like her campaign was messaging, this say movement too. i want to read what one woman

told "usa today." i couldn't just sit on my couch. i am a black woman attorney, i'm a descendant of enslaved people, i'm a history buff who knows my family's history. there is so many reasons why i came today to support her. i felt like i couldn't sit at home. and i wonder as people watch this, can that be motivating itself in these final days, as if to say, to them, you can be a part of this? >> for sure. 100%. that is the message that she is closing with, that all of her surrogates are closing with that the door is open, the table is here and set and she is inviting people who agree with her, who disagree with her, she's galvanized more republicans than anyone i've ever seen in my lifetime that is running for president. people who are not just supporting, but are out there campaigning for her, people like liz cheney and others, she's giving people a home that they felt they have not had, people who do not agree with donald trump's racism and the hate that

he's been spewing for this past decade, they're looking for a home and she is saying, this can be it. and so she is engaging the traditional democratic base, she's building a winning coalition, but she is inviting others who have been looking for a place for common sense, a place that can turn the page, and i think the thing that she said in that speech that really landed is this promise of america. and we saw it visually in the crowd. we see it in the crowds around the country which are coming for her, which i'm sure is getting under donald trump's skin, but we see it in the substance. these are issues people have been talking about for a long time and she's saying, together, we can solve them, we have to do this together. i think we're going to keep hearing that. and i think as we get down to the wire and people are, again, going on feels, this sort of, like, game time decision at the end if they're not early voting, it is going to be about how they feel. and the more momentum this campaign shows toward the end, people want to be part of this and i think they will be. >> it is almost like there is a shift, because her campaign and kamala harris herself didn't want to say for a long time

anything but that we cannot take anything for granted, this is going to be an incredibly tight race, we're not going to say what the outcome is going to be and now, today, saying we will win and that sign that has the message she had from the beginning, when we vote, we win, it does feel when you hear the chants of the crowd, when you see the signs and the message repeated that it does feel a bit more like a movement and a successful one that seems to be her message. >> you know, it might not be a movement, but it is certainly a historical moment, a moment that calls each of us to take responsibility for democracy. she did -- what she did yesterday was so powerful, as a prosecutor, she didn't have a poster board with a timeline. she took the entire american public to the crime scene. and reminded us that donald trump was an insurrectionist who

threatened the very foundations of democracy. she told us very clearly the danger he presents, the dangers we face and so the moment that calls us, the historical moment calls us. so what we saw was a tentativeness. you can't be too confident. she understands what happened in 2016. as we move to november 5th, let's get that enthusiasm stoked, let's get the feels right, and let's do what history calls us to do and that is take responsibility for democracy, and turn the page as she says. turn the page. >> yeah, and the other thing, eddie, she was not afraid to say i don't know everything, i'm not perfect, i'm going to bring in other people, i'm going to talk to people who don't agree with me, which in and of itself is a huge contrast, right to the way donald trump has been, but also you recently wrote about your decision to vote for her. not because you see her as a cure for all of america's problems, but as a way, as you wrote it, buying time. is it important to set

expectations for voters as well as giving them hope? >> right, and so i was really writing that piece for myself and for my leftist and progressive friends. you don't have to do kamala harris as a savior. that's wrong. we don't have to see her or your vote for her as settling about the incourseral state. the context for our voting has to be understood strategically. and part of the time, most of the time when we vote, we're voting to buy ourselves some time. as you put it. to watch, so that the tide can turn, so that the tide may turn. in this moment, we know what a donald trump presidency will look like. what would it mean to organize and struggle for a more just world under donald trump, and what would it mean to organize and struggle for a more just world under kamala harris? i think the latter would be more conducive than the former. >> jess o'connell, thank you, eddie glaude, you're staying with me. in 90 seconds, what politico

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while reacting to a racist joke that a comic made during donald trump's madison square garden rally. let me tell you something, i don't -- i don't know the puerto rican that i know or puerto rico where i'm -- in my home state of delaware. they're good, decent, honorable people. the only garbage i see floating out there is his supporters, his demonization is unconscionable and it is un-american. it is totally contrary to everything we have done, everything we have been. >> the white house updated the transcript to clarify that when he used the word supporters, it wasn't plural, it was supporters, apostrophe s, meaning just the comedian who made the racist remarks, not all trump supporters, which is why politico called it the apostrophe catastrophe. but kamala harris said just this

morning, listen, he clarified it and then this. >> let me be clear, i strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for. the president of the united states, i will be a president for all americans, whether you vote for me or not. that is my responsibility and that's the kind of work i've done my entire career and i take it very seriously. >> nbc's dasha burns reports from rocky mountain, north carolina, where donald trump is set to speak this hour. eddie glaude is back with us. i want to bring in former republican congressman from florida david jolly. dasha, donald trump already is fund-raising off of president biden's comments. he's comparing it to hillary clinton's basket of deplorables remark. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, we already have seen fund-raising emails, his allies, his campaign staff, his running mate, they are all over this. look, the campaign really sees this as a gift, given that for about 48 hours there, they were in major cleanup mode after that

comic's racist jokes at the madison square garden rally. in fact, the comments from president biden came during an event in allentown, pennsylvania, where the trump campaign invited puerto rican supporters, they invited florida senator marco rubio to try to rally latino support, puerto rican support. this is a demographic they have been targeting for quite some time, so this comic's comments were terrible timing and is not what the campaign wanted. and then they got this gift from president biden and he tried to clean up those comments, but the trump campaign has been pouncing on them. in fact, in the middle of that event, in allentown, marco rubio got back up on stage and told the former president in real time about what we heard from president biden and then former president trump reacted. listen. >> remember hillary, she said deplorable. and then she said irredeemable, right? but she said deplorable. that didn't work out. garbage i think is worse, right?

he doesn't know. you have to please forgive him, please forgive him for he not knoweth what he said. >> reporter: now, remember, the former president, of course, himself has insulted democrats, supporters of vice president kamala harris, had said whether it is jewish people or black people who vote for harris should have their head examined. but the harris campaign and harris herself has been very, very careful not to lob insults at trump supporters. so this is a tough one for the harris campaign and certainly something the trump campaign is hoping can pivot the news cycle and the headlines away from him and toward the harris campaign. chris? >> thank you so much for that, dasha. congressman, politico put the moment like this, quote i if you're harris, you don't want the tenor of your final days on the campaign trail to be distracted by a fateful apostrophe, no matter where you put that apostrophe, it is a distraction for harris going into the final six days.

do you think that's the net effect? does it undermine or distract from her closing argument? >> i don't think so. for a very simple reason. joe biden is not on the ballot. and i understand the connection between biden and harris, but, look, i think the president's explanation is incredibly plausible. we know his age, we saw him in atlanta, we know the stamina he struggles with. i believe that particularly when he issued the statement later he didn't mean what he said and what's being reported. secondly if you're offended by it, don't vote for joe biden. don't vote for joe biden. that's not hard because the two candidates next week are vice president harris and donald trump and in that contrast, we know vice president harris last night said i want everybody at my table this morning said i would never insult supporters of donald trump or any other political candidate, and on the other side, donald trump who hosted the rally in madison square garden where the original racist comments were made. i think is a bigger issue than

the puerto rican community. i think the last persuadable voters are republicans. it is republicans who don't like the tenor of donald trump, they don't like the racist comments, the flirtation with racism. perhaps joe biden's comments give them reason for pause. but i think this whole issue shines a light on the culture of donald trump and his campaign and i think it reminds those disaffected republican voters why they just don't want to go back to donald trump. >> jd vance called biden's comment, quote, disgusting. but it was just on monday, when vance said this about not just the comedian's racist remarks, but there are a lot of other offensive remarks at the rally. listen to what he said. >> i think that we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the united states of america. i'm so over it. >> eddie, it doesn't seem like he's taken his own advice.

>> you know, chris, you know, it just -- just annoys the hell out of me. i understand the politics. david is absolutely right. i get it. but these are folks who can think -- who think they can say anything. they can behave in the most horrifying ways. they can degrade and demean communities, they can scapegoat patients in springfield, they can call entire communities, right, murderers and the like, and then when someone calls them on what they're saying, they clutch their pearls. as part of this ongoing grievance that somehow the rest of the country looks down on them, and so it feeds into that logic. i understand the politics. i understand what vice president harris has to say. but these folks think they can say and do anything and be as insulting and as mean spirited

as they want to be, and when they're called out about it, they clutch their pearls. it is a kind of hypocrisy that is mind numbing. and it is -- it handcuffs us. we don't need to call people deplorables or despicable or garbage, but we need to call them out on their nonsense and hatred. >> having been at that rally and talked to lots and lots and lots of voters, at least the people i spoke to and from what i saw and heard on that stage for five and a half hours, they actually believe that that is what will help them win. >> you're absolutely right. it has been a long-standing strategy, chris, that is to say that donald trump's campaign believes they're more nonwhite voting people in the country than on the other side. his whole idea, his whole strategy since 2016 is to turn out low propensity white voters and the strategy has always been to turn them out by turning up

grievance, by turning up fear, by turning up hatred, and so the madison square garden rally harkening back to 1939 had a political purpose in terms of firing up his base. it just backfired in some ways. but i think, again, we have to understand what he's doing, what the folks he's around -- what the folks around him are doing and call it out for what it is. >> this topic of alienating supporters, nikki haley actually talked about this on fox and she warned the trump campaign, which she supports, by the way. take a listen. >> i mean, this bromance and this masculinity stuff, i mean, it borders on edgy to the point that it is going to make women uncomfortable. you got affiliated pacs doing commercials about calling kamala the "c" word or speakers referring to her and her pimps.

that's not the way to win women. that's not the way to win people who are concerned about trump's style. >> where is that message landing or is it? >> i don't know anybody believes anything nikki haley says. as a woman, she's supporting this movement. it is just absurd that nikki haley somehow publicly has it both ways every time she has an opportunity. you can condemn it, say i'm not supporting the movement, i'm not supporting donald trump. and part of joe biden's comments that weren't in the clip is he also was bringing up this idea that you drive through parts of the country and there are signs that say eff joe biden, i have children, there are pictures of people holding up the middle finger toward joe biden, joe biden is saying who are we as a people where this is acceptable? i think the contrast is very clear and i think you saw it last night from vice president harris and all of this as eddie said, pearl clutching from

republicans now, just doing republican things, but people see through it, they see through nikki haley, they see through jd vance and they certainly see through donald trump. >> we just saw the sign as donald trump takes the stage in rocky mount event center, north carolina. trump will fix it. that's their message. eddie glaude, great to have you on the program. former congressman david jolly, thank you so much as well. and coming up, a legal battle over virginia's voter roll ends with a decision from the u.s. supreme court. the impact it could have right after this. s. supreme court the impact it could have right after this ed you do. sponsored jobs on indeed are two and a half times faster to first hire. visit indeed.com/hire ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term

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the supreme court today has given its state of virginia permission to purge 1600 alleged noncitizens from its voter rolls ahead of the election. msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin is here in studio with me. there was a real fight over this because doj argued it was unlawful to do this close to an election. but give us the ground and tell us what happened here. >> so, chris, a federal statute called the national voter registration act that prohibits running these voter purge programs, voter role maintenance programs within 90 days of a primary or general election. here virginia governor glenn youngkin implemented his program, exactly 90 days before the general election. and it was on that basis, plus the fact that they had examples of citizens who were unlawfully purged from the voting rolls

that cause the department of justice to seek a preliminary injunction of that program. they won in the lower court, they won in an intermediate appeals court. that's when glenn youngkin went to the supreme court and sought a stay of that decision and basically he does not -- he no longer has to restore the 1600 people to voting status. >> and the trump campaign is now suing bucks county, saying that they have -- this is in pennsylvania, suburban philadelphia, arguing the board of elections is turning voters away? >> that's their argument. they argue that the board of elections is required to allow people who were in line as of 5:00 p.m. yesterday to both apply for, receive, vote and turn in a mail-in ballot. this is not about early voting in person. they have declarations from three voters who say this happened to them. in two of those cases, however, i have the court papers in front of me, the people don't identify which of three bucks county offices they were at. this definitely looks like somewhat of a last minute filing and maybe more of a mobilization

tool disguised as litigation strategy. >> there is another decision yesterday that is raising some concerns among people who have been following whether or not a third party candidate could play a role in the outcome of the election. rejecting rfk jr.'s bid to get off the ballot in some states. what is that about? >> rfk, after he qualified for the michigan and wisconsin ballots, asked to come off of those ballots and ultimately ended up suing in each of those states. the supreme court yesterday saying it won't hear his appeal of those decisions. but, for example, in wisconsin, there is a statute that says once you apply for and qualify for the ballot, you don't get to pull yourself off of it, unless there is an event of death. so the wisconsin statute is really clear. wisconsin supreme court said, sorry, no dice. and the united states supreme court decided no, we're not going to intervene either. >> lisa rubin, thank you so much. i have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of you between now and who knows when. coming up, terrifying moments outside of a florida polling station, what we know

about a machete-wielding teenager and whoa was after. cheg teenager and whoa was after.

take a look at this image. 18-year-old caleb james william wielding an 18-inch machete outside a polling station before getting arrested. officials say he was part of a group of teens holding trump flags who have been accuse chd

of intimidating democratic supporters. what do we know and what are officials saying about it? >> what we understand is that there were a group of teens, most of them 16 and 17-year-olds, that sort of got into it with people who had the harris/walz signs, so people who were near polling sites, not directly outside, that would be election nearing, but further awaying cheering on their candidate and they were cheering on trump and they got into it. one of them got into it while holding a machete and that's where it turned into aggravated assault as he's been charged with. none of the other teens have been charged. they were all detained in the parking lot of this library. and at least one official is saying looks like there may have been some herd mentality here, where this group of teens went a little too far. but the latest sign we have of how polarized, how divisive, how, you know, at times scary this election has been for people. we have ballots that have been burned. we have lots of people who are feeling so intense about this

election, that, you know, they're genuinely worried for their safety. >> you see someone with a machete, you should not make a assumption they're kidding around. you're unlikely to. he's charged as an adult, he's 18 years old. >> 18 years old, unlike the other ones. >> thank you for that. a very different form of election security is happening online. julia ainsley has an inside look at the agency whose job it is to identify and then address misinformation. >> reporter: just before election day, ballot drop boxes on fire, mountains of fake information cluttering the internet and officials sounding the alarm about foreign countries trying to sow chaos. >> there has been a fire hose of disinformation coming at voters are. >> reporter: like this video that went viral, purporting to show someone ripping up ballots in bucks county, pennsylvania, but it is fake. they said in a statement the video is part of a russian

decision information effort to, quote, raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the u.s. election. the agency leading the charge, cisa. cisa is tasked with making sure votes are counted, poll workers stay safe, and information like this gets called out for the sham that it is. >> they're looking to sow partisan discord, to pit americans against each other. >> reporter: the director says the agency is trying to set the record straight on its rumor first reality web page. they have limits to their power, like those ballot drop boxes, not their purview. and the agency practicing restraint when it comes to policing americans' free speech. like earlier this year when about 50,000 new hampshire voters received this robocall from a deepfake, pretending to be joe biden, telling them not to vote in the state's primary. >> voting this tuesday only enables the republicans. >> reporter: it wasn't cisa that jumped in, but the state. >> that messaging was clearly a

form of voter suppression. it was illegal. and simply inappropriate. >> reporter: the secretary of state telling us his office blasted out a response on social media, and in press releases. but why the feds not get involved? >> why would cisa be reluctant to step in any situation and why would they rather leave some things to state and locals? >> well, states, by the constitution, run elections. >> reporter: other constraints easterly says are social media companies, cutting their staff that handled government requests to remove disinformation. a hot button issue. >> obviously the great thing about america is you have freedoms to include freedom of speech. >> if there is bad information that comes from an american citizen, and they're protected by free speech online, do you respond differently to that than you would if you know it is coming from a foreign adversary? >> we have put out specific information about what our foreign adversaries are doing. but at the end of the day, we are just looking to put out

accurate information. >> reporter: senator mark warner, a democrat, pushing for cisa to do more. in a letter last month arguing that artificial intelligence has supercharged the threats to election. do you think cisa should be the one to tell the american people when something is fake news? >> i think that cisa hasn't been willing to lean in as much on the fake news definition because you have so many americans putting out fake news. >> come election day, if misinformation is swirling, warner thinks that cisa should be prepared to step in. >> the most important thing is to get the word out as quickly as responsible and that may require a federal response. >> reporter: but cisa may not be able to put out every fire. what should voters do if she seeing some on election day that they're not sure if it is true or not? >> the trusted source is your state and local election official. >> reporter: key for voters to keep in mind as they head to the polls and wait for the results.

julia ainsley, nbc news. up next what we're now learning about kamala harris and donald trump's election night plans. and it is the question everyone is asking, how long will it take states to count the votes and determine who wins? we'll get a reality check from the nbc decision desk. a realitym the nbc decision desk.

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we are getting our first sense of election night for the two presidential campaigns. the trump campaign will host a watch party at a convention center in west palm beach. his former adviser, steve bannon, tells nbc news he's encouraging donald trump to essentially president trump, if the votes come in like it looks like they're going to come in, he should step up and inform the american citizens of exactly what's going on and not keep people in the dark like was done in 2020. so president trump should step up and walk people through, state by state, of where these

leads are and how they came about. we're not prepared to have in the dark of night all the problems that happened last time. okay. the 2020 election was stolen. okay. i will never back off that. >> meanwhile, kamala harris will watch the returns come in from her alma mater, howard university in washington. nbc's yamiche alcindor is following this story for us. yamiche, what more do we know about her plans for election night? >> sources tell me that she is looking forward to having an election night party at her alma mater, howard university. she's talked at length about how howard helped her see the world, informed her view. also she joined alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated, the first historically black sorority founded in our nation. she has a lot of bonds there, spent time with her sisters, and they talk about the fondness they have for howard university. i want to play sound of the vice president talking about howard.

take a listen. i recognize my time at howard shaped me into the person i am today. at howard, we learn that we have the capacity to be great, and also that we have the responsibility to work hard, to live up to that potential each day. that was actually something that she wrote. she talks about howard a lot. this is crystallizing this journey that she's been on and really, the idea that she sort of felt like she learned about service and learned about fellowship and learned about how to really be responsible in the world and learned about sort of the values that she would say are pushing her forward to run for president. it's going to be an interesting night. i'm expecting to be there along with our nbc news colleagues. it's not clear that we're actually going to get the results on election night. it is a place she wants to mark the day. >> all of those things that you just talked about that she learned at howard do seem to have a through line to the theme

of last night's closing argument that she made. yamiche alcindor, thank you very much for that. well, kamala harris's bid for the presidency just got a little more muscle behind it. hollywood icon and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger issuing a rare endorsement for harris earlier today. although schwarzenegger is a republican, he has been an outspoken trump critic for years, arguing today to move the country forward is to vote for kamala harris. it is the power of the podcast. candidates spending more and more of their precious time on let's call it nontraditional media, certainly more than we've ever seen before. and today, j.d. vance will sit down with the biggest podcast host in the country, joe rogan, whose interview with donald trump a week ago has already gotten more than 40 million views in four days on you tube alone. he still hopes to interview kamala harris too although he says he declined an offer from the campaign that would have

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vice president kamala harris crossing state lines and party lines hitting a trifecta of swing states today after making the closing argument that she will be a president for everyone. where she's going and the musicians she's bringing with to help her as beyonce put it, sing in a new song. and cleanup, republicans and democrats responding to president joe biden's garbage comment to the racist rhetoric, his response to the racist rhetoric to a comedian at donald trump's rally. plus, trash talk, donald trump fundraising off biden's comments and what trump said just moments ago. plus, bottom line, at key economic reports as consumers are spending big. what it tells us about the strength of the u.s. economy right now. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments but we start in pennsylvania. kamala harris's second stop of the day, as she tries to close the deal in critical battleground