tv Katy Tur Reports MSNBC October 31, 2024 12:00pm-1:01pm PDT
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good to be with you. i'm katy tur. five days to go and so much has happened in the last few days, few weeks, few months. it's hard to tell what, if anything, is going to cut through on tuesday. with the race tied at 50/50, the question is who is motivating more voters right now? you can make an educated guess if you are looking at the way the early vote is breaking, which shows far more women have so far voted than men. match it up with the
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historically wide gender gap we have seen in public polling, and the arguable answer is that women don't like something that's happening. democrats hope that something is the overturning of roe v. wade specifically. but more broadly, the way that donald trump and the maga movement seem to view women. and they have some evidence that they're using. on harris personally, just lately, speakers at trump's rally insulted harris' iq made racist remarks about her heritage and said she's handled by pimps. elon musk's pack called her the q word. something his cohost told him to take back. trump reposted a truth social saying harris got her job through a sexual favor, which we won't describe. and in a fox interview, he said she'd be like a, quote, play toy for world leaders if elected. then on women in general, on top of the worry about abortion,
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trump's allies are so bro focused, even nikki haley says it's clear they're turning women off. the rnc was full of machismo. since then, tucker carlson positively compared trump to an abusive dad who would come home and spank the country if it voted for harris. trump himself has said he's the father of ivf and that he sees himself as the protector of women. he said it a lot. which he admitted in a rally yesterday that his advisers, well, they really want him to stop saying it. >> they said, sir, i just think it's inappropriate for you to say. i pay these guys a lot of money. do you believe it? i said, well, i'm going to do it whether the women like it or not. >> whether the women like it or not. so do women like this? or do they not?
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and is that why we're seeing such a huge early vote turnout. joining us now washington post senior national political correspondent and msnbc political analyst ashley parker and eli stokles, back from the 2016 days. we got a lot to talk about her. ashley, i'm going to start with you. we're looking at this giant gender gap in the polling, seeing women go out to early vote. we don't know who they're voting for. we get to the breakdown of their parties. there are a lot of republican voting as well voting. can you say, point to just the freedom nance of evidence right now about how donald trump sees him, how they see kamala harris, how the party is seeing women and say maybe the women that are going out to vote early, maybe they don't like something that's happening. >> so there is a tremendous gender gap, and what we know is that not all women, but a lot of women, don't like a lot of
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things about donald trump. they don't like his crudeness and his crassness and the way they act, the way he acts. that's including women who may still vote for him. they will say, i liked his policies, so i'm considering voting for him, but i don't like how he sounds or really even who he is. we have seen from previous elections in a post dobbs world and talking to voters, women in particular, don't like the post-dobbs world he ushered in and his abortion policies. a lot of them don't like the crassness and the broness and the machismo of his campaign. and then just briefly going back to what you just played of him saying, saying he will be the protector of women whether they like it or not, there is just -- and i say this from my reporting as a reporter and also a woman existing on planet earth, that whether they like it or not, there is just such a visceral history of things being done to
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women and their bodies, usually but not always by men, whether they like it or not that it feels like there will be some muscle memory there of women remember that they didn't like from a boyfriend or a boss or a coworker or someone on the playground. and then you can also then tie that to his abortion policies because there is now a real world, depending on what state you live in, you as a women, they have to carry a pregnancy to term, whether you like it or not. you, as a woman, depending on your state, may be having a complicated miscarriage from a desperately wanted pregnancy, and you may have to hemorrhage and bleed out in an emergency room waiting room whether you like it or not because the doctors there don't feel comfortable seeing you. so, again, he said this very close to election day. it is unclear how much pickup it will get, but it is the sort of thing that traditionally will be very likely to resonate with
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viewers. >> i think you are picking on something very important there. if you are listening to whether you like it or not, i think you're right, a lot of women have a visceral reaction to that because it does sound menacing. it reminded me of the p word he said in the "access hollywood" tape. i do it whether they like it or not. he didn't say those words, but it felt like it had that sentiment behind it at the time. at the time, a lot of women, and you know this, both of you, from being on the campaign trail. a lot of women just said it is locker room talk. it is just the way boys talk to each other. it's not a big deal. i wonder if that's changed because there are real world implications to the whether they like it or not because republicans, you know, donald trump appointed a couple of supreme court justices, three, who overturned roe v. wade after republicans for decades had been saying they want to do it and now they're seeing what happens when roe v. wade is no longer
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federally protected. what happens when male dominated legislatures in states get control of women's health care. even though they put in little asterisks that say in the life of a woman, they see what happens when that -- when that law is trying to -- is interpreted by doctors and how vague it can be and what that means for them in the real world in a hospital in their lives. it is not just locker room talk any longer. it's now in the real world. >> that's right. and, again, you do have to connect some dots there, but they're pretty basic dots to connect because we have been living in a world, after roe was overturned, where we know from friends and family members and news stories across the nation actual real examples of women facing devastating consequences when they cannot get access to reproductive care. and, so, it stands to figure
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that this will be a potentially another way that -- that female voters in particular connect this to what they fear in a post-roe world, what they don't like about it, what they don't like about the menacing leer to whether you like it or not comments. and lastly, vice president harris, her closing argument, she sort of had three prongs. and one of them is reproductive rights. and donald trump just added something to the either that helps make that case for her, which is not divisive for all voters, but it is for some. >> eli, i want to bring you in and ask about messaging here. so we're seeing this, what donald trump says at the rally. it's getting clipped and pushed on line, but is it as broadly precepted or received as some of the other messaging that's been out there. i have been very curious what swing state voters are seeing and hearing. obviously, we live in big city, so i'm seeing the national
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coverage, watching what i see on the world series, the kinds of ads that donald trump and kamala harris are putting out there. what are swing state voters seeing from donald trump? can we see that the whether they like it or not, that sort of -- those comments take it into the ether in michigan and arizona and wisconsin, et cetera? >> well, the harris campaign is trying to make sure that voters do hear about those comments because of the point that you and ashley just made about how viscerally they believe some women, perhaps some who are still on the fence, may react to them. but the broader point is a good one. i was talking to some harris and biden folks yesterday about the president's garbage comment and whether that was going to register. there is a broad consensus that swing voters are not watching us on cable news. they are not sitting on twitter every day. they are tuning out on what we are talking about and what is dominating the conversation about the race. what they are getting is paid media. trump's campaign has more paid
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media and harris people believe more effective paid media than in his two prior campaigns. tieing harris to biden, blaming her for everything people don't like right now, saying he will fix it. so it is really hard to tell what is reaching voters. but there is a lot of paid media that is out there that has kind of gone uncovered in this race. obviously what the candidates say in the final days will generate headlines. it will register somewhere. and i think if you step back from all this and you are talking about what's galvanizing women, we have seen in every election after the dobbs ruling, women have turned out in record numbers. democrats outperformed the polls. and those elections have not seen donald trump's name on the ballot. donald trump is going to bring out lower propensity voters you don't see in a mid-term or statewide election about a ballot measure or something like that. you will see them voting here.
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but you will also bring donald trump's baggage to the table. you will see people who are not only upset about roe being overturned but people who are repulsed by donald trump and who may be ambivalent because they think trump might be better for the economy. at the end, if they are still on the fence, they're trying to decide if this is the sort of thing that swings those few remaining undecided voters. it is not just the tv ads that people are hearing from the presidential campaign. almost every down ballot, those ads are focussing on abortion issues as well. every democrat running across the country recognizes the potency of that issue. >> and the trump campaign argued it will be immigration, safety, the economy. those issues will win out. but on the subject of paid media, are there enough people out there watching television and seeing commercials on tv where that paid media is hitting? or is there paid media on social
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media? >> you are not getting paid media on netflix or commercials there. where is the paid media hitting? >> you are actually. that's what's remarkable about this campaign. future forward, for instance. the number one democratic super pac supporting harris, they spent more than half of their advertising budget on digital spots, not on television. so they are trying to reach people in those places, you know, on their phones, on tiktok, on social media. and also on youtube. we'll flip to, you know, google tv, disney+, we'll be tuning in spidey for our kid and you mow what's sitting there at the top of the page? a harris rally in full. they are putting their information wherever they can, and the trump people are doing that as well. this is sort of a podcast election. all of these voters are at different silos and the campaigning are making strategic decisions about where to reach them. yes, we see some of them on commercials when you are watching the world series, but
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there are a lot of things reaching voters on their phones. that is happening, and that could go a long way to deciding what voters are seeing and processing and ultimately deciding in the final days. >> let's bring in two of our great reporters who are actually in swing states right now. ron hill yard is in phoenix and gabe gutierrez is in reno, nevada. phoenix, what's reaching the ballot there? is abortion going to be a difference-making policy there in phoenix -- or in arizona? and if so, which candidate is going -- is going to get that vote? >> right. i think it is actually the perfect, i guess, representation of the nationalization of the overturning of roe v. wade, because it is not just the presidential election that we are looking at. it came down to 11,000 votes in 2020. but it is also the u.s. senate
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race. a few years ago, kerry lake said she would have defended the 1864 arizona territorial ban which would have punished doctors for performing abortions here in the state. she has quickly tried to, you could call, moderate, change her position on abortion, understanding that there is a referendum on tuesday's ballot that would codify abortion protections statutorily in the state of arizona. if you go further than that, there is the arizona legislature for the first time, decades we're talking about, democrats have the potential of harnessing power in the arizona legislature, and abortion is on the front line of those very close, now swing, legislative districts. if you go a step below that, i mentioned that territorial ban on abortion. well, it was the arizona supreme court that ruled that that territorial ban just earlier this year was enforceable and now there is a couple of those
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supreme court justices who have their names on the ballot here in arizona. and if you drive around the phoenix area, you see the names of those supreme court justices up on signs, which is not ordinary because voters here in arizona have the opportunity to kick those justices off the arizona supreme court, and there is an effort underway, because they ruled that that territorial ban on abortion was reversible that there is a political campaign to kick those justices off the arizona supreme court. it is not just the presidential race, it goes down to literally the neighborhood level here in a way that is just hard to understate. >> that's really interesting. what about nevada, gabe? >> hi there, katy. you can see behind me this line that's forming at the reno art center where a harris rally is set to start in a few hours. it extends all the way over there, and they have been gathering there for at least the last hour or so. katy, talking about women's issues, that is something that the harris campaign is
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definitely leaning into this morning. they basically see it as a gift from former president trump, that his comments about protecting women, whether they like it or not, and you just heard from vice president harris a little earlier today about her reaction to those comments. listen. >> it actually is very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies. he does not prioritize the freedom of women and the intelligence of women to make decisions about their own lives and bodies. i think it is offensive to everybody, by the way. >> now, katy, we have been speaking with self harris supporters here, and they tell me they were deeply offended by the former president's comments but not surprised. we are hearing from senior campaign officials. they say one of the things they
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feel very optimistic about is early voting. they say that 55% of early votes in battleground states, according to their tracking, have been women and that women are -- harris is performing better among women. so this is some encouraging news. but they're really leaning into that message in these last few days as they heard those comments from president trump. of course, harris has been focussing on the issue of abortion rights for this whole campaign, but really leaning into it now following the comments from the former president. >> ashley, just to wrap it up, this is just a ton of instances that we didn't get to cover, trump accused of sexual misconduct by 27 women. there is the jean carroll court findings, jessica lee, the "access hollywood" tape, we mentioned. the way he talks about kamala harris, like a play toy, somehow a woman is doing better than president biden did, the way he talked about hillary clinton, a nasty woman. if she were a man, i don't think
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she'd get 5% of the vote. if hillary can't satisfy her husband, what makes you think she can satisfy america. not to mention all the shirts we saw at the ralrallies. calling nikki haley bird brain when she was running against him. heidi cruz, ted cruz's wife, how he denigrated her. the woman who ran against him in 2016. megyn kelly, blood coming out of wherever. whoopi goldberg, the me too movement. the list is longer than this small typed sheet i have in front of me. there is so much history there. is it all baked in, or does it all start to compound and build on top of each other? and do you reach a tipping point? >> so the answer is both, right? some of this is baked in, and, you know, we all covered donald trump in 2016. and you can look back and realize that while more
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controversies and more scandals and more comments came out after he was elected, when voters went to the polls in november of 2016, whether they liked him or hated him, they sort of fully understood who donald trump was, how he acted, how he treated women, how he felt about immigrants, how he spoke of minorities. it was all baked in. but, and the but is this is why he has a ceiling. he also has a floor of hard core maga supporters who will never desert him. but he has a ceiling that he can never go above because some people don't like him and don't think he should be president. in an election this close, you know, you don't -- the floor is helpful for him. the ceiling is not, right? so if you need to win a very tiny sliver of voters in a very tiny number of states, the answer to your question is both. it's baked in. in some ways it may not matter.
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there is certain voters he will never be able to persuade and some who after three campaigns may hit a tipping point. >> yeah. he liked harris' chances because she has room to grow. that being said, donald trump did earn seven more million votes in 2020 than he earned in 2016. ashley parker, eli stokel, vaughn hillyard, gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. what the next president will inherit that will put the wind at his or her back. and a texas woman's 40-hour wait for health care after a miscarriage and what it resulted in. we'll be back in 90 seconds. in . woah, limu! we're in a parade. everyone customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. customize and sa— (balloon doug pops & deflates) and then i wake up. and you have this dream every night? yeah, every night!
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doctors warn that women would die, but lawmakers passed state abortion bans across the country despite those warnings. now we're learning about a preventable death. this one in texas. a 28-year-old mother pregnant with her second child. in 2021, she was miscarrying her 17-week-old fetus. its head pressed against her dilated cervix. but doctors in houston would not intervene, telling her it would be a crime under texas' six-week abortion ban. she spent 40 hours in the hospital praying for the doctors to help her get back home to her other daughter.
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and while her uterus remained exposed to bacteria, it was only when the fetus ceased to have a heartbeat that doctors treated the miscarriage and sent her home. but three days later, she was back with a fatal case of sepsis. "pro publica" reports, she is one of two texas women that died after doctors delayed treating miscarriages. joining us now cassandra. thank you. it is such a tough story because doctors warned against this. in some cases they testified in the state legislature saying this warning is too vague. you cannot take these decisions out of the doctors' hands because they know best in any given situation. now we're seeing the results of that. tell us more about what happened to this woman. >> yes. the case, so many people have brought up the medical exemption
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that the texas heartbeat bill has. however, this is the question, right? what counts as a medical emergency? when she first presents to the hospital, she's complaining of bleeding and cramping. and what the medical records show is that almost immediately, as he comes in, they know that it is a miscarriage. by the next day, they call it an inevitable miscarriage. and, therefore, after we talked to experts, so many of them told us that we'd know the sooner you intervene, the better the outcomes here. one of the options that she did not have on september 3rd, 2021, three days after this bill went into effect was that ending a pregnancy was no longer allowed if there was fetal cardiac activity, which is something the doctors were actively monitoring during her time. >> so they were watching for the fetus to find out whether it still had a heartbeat, but it
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was pushing on her cervix. why could they not help deliver the fetus or do a c-section to take the fetus out and then to try to -- to try to keep it alive but then also to protect the mother? why was it the only -- why was the only scenario that she miscarry or wait for this fetus to die? >> when we got the medical records and saw those details, it was just horrifying just seeing how when i first spoke with the husband he described it as the baby [ speaking in a global language ] but this was worse. this was the baby was already, like you said, pushing against her dilated cervix. >> it was too far down. >> and we attempted to reach the doctors that oversaw this care to better understand what was going through their heads. we just don't know. we never got comment from them.
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we hope that we could talk to doctors further to better understand how these laws are creating these scenarios and, sadly, in this case death. >> is texas doing anything to investigate this, to right this wrong? >> the entity that could investigate this is the texas maternal mortality review committee. however, the state already has a three-year lag. they are barely looking at 2021 maternal deaths. and it is in law that that committee cannot even look at abortion-related deaths. so they're the ones with access to information. so we may not fully know the toll of maternal deaths in this issue. >> it is such an important reporting. as we were discussing in the break, it could be an issue that changes the course of the senate race there with colin alred trying to unseat ted cruz and
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notably because there is not a texas abortion on the ballot. this is a woman's chance to go in and protest the abortion law that is currently in effect in texas. thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it. thank you for bringing us this really important reporting. we'll be right back. ting we'll be right back. they get it. they know how it works. and most importantly, it works for them. i don't have any anxiety about money anymore. i don't have to worry about a mortgage payment every month. it allowed me to live in my home and not have to make payments. if you're 62 or older and own your home, you could access a portion of your equity to improve your lifestyle. a reverse mortgage loan can eliminate your monthly mortgage payments and put tax-free cash in your pocket. it was the best thing i've ever done. really? yes without a doubt. these folks know, finance of america can show you how a reverse mortgage loan uses your built-up home equity to give you tax-free cash.
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say it is really lousy. that's because the inflation scars are really fresh. what we lived through through the pandemic was remarkable. the international monetary fund says we're the strongest economy in the world. the economist magazine had a whole issue called the envy of the world, the united states, everyone wants to be like us except the people living here, who are really distraught about the economy. >> tell me how things are going so well. how are we getting the best stock market since the '30s? what's happen something. >> such small business creation that is booming. you have plentiful jobs. you have wages rising by 4.6%. wages are rising faster than inflation. we're scarred by the fresh inflation memories that people really focus on the price they're paying for things and they don't really see the big picture. also, though, car insurance, home insurance and i would say child care. i think child care is one of the
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underreported crises of the american economy that pretty much affects half the country, are worried about the cost of child care. and that hurts their position in the economy. >> that's why the democrats say they want to focus on it. they want to give everybody a child tax credit especially in that first year when you have a baby. the stickiness of child care, is that part of why you are seeing so many people feel negative? and then also, is it part of why you see so many young people say they want to put off having a family? is it why young people look toward the future and say i don't think things will be great. >> especially millennial couples who are trying to buy a home or start a family, they're seeing this pressure. also, the cost of college is still fresh in mind. even though you have good wages and a strong job market, there are these pressure points, pain points in the household budget even as the overall economy is doing well. and i do think that the stock market, that number, i mean, the stock markets had the best year in an election year since the '30s. that's remarkable.
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the amount of wealth being created by the stock market is something that's really amazing, except only half of americans are directly exposed to the overall stock market. i also think that i go back to how i feel like covid stole our optimism. and there are other periods in american history when maybe you look at these top line numbers in the '90s, for example, and people would feel, you know, they would feel void by them. there are these cornerstones of the american economy that don't work for everyone. >> elon musk saying that it will necessarily involve some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity. this is elon musk's quote on a proposed trump economy in the next term. >> warning american families that you are going to hurt before we fix everything that's wrong with the american economy. that's kind of the way he's looking at it. >> wants to blow it up. >> he wants to go in with a blowtorch and cut regulations. meanwhile, he is regulated by the american government. he is a contractor.
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so there is an inherent conflict of interest there with him going in and blowing up regulations and potentially could matter for people who are driving cars and, you know, flying on airplanes. >> by the way "the economist" is endorsing kamala harris saying trump is too much of a risk. coming up, reports from three battleground states about what reporters are saying. what each candidate is doing to launch a small but crucial electoral, latino men. i told myself i was ok with my moderate
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we have a new batch of battleground polls. and spoiler alert, they show a statistical tie between harris and trump. let's put the polls aside because they tell us pretty much nothing and go to our reporters on the ground. political anchor and reporter for our phoenix affiliate kpnx and detroit news reporter beth leblanc. the polls say nothing. what are you hearing on the ground, shaq? >> the polls say it is all tight, which means it will come down to what happens here on the ground. i have been spending the morning walking with organizers who have been door knock anything this milwaukee neighborhood, trying to reserve a trend you have been seeing in previous elections. we're talking about vanishing voters where if you look back to 2016, you saw there were 40,000
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or so fewer voters in just milwaukee alone when the margin between donald trump and hillary clinton then was about 23,000 voters. so these guys are walking around there informing folks about the candidates. they're reminding people about election day, giving them their options. listen to what the lead organizer who has been doing this door knocking, what she told me about her message to folks, especially folks that didn't vote in the past. >> it seems like a lot more people are interested. >> in this cycle. >> in this election. a lot more people are saying they're going to vote. so we have been hearing a lot of people say that. i feel like a lot more people are starting to pay attention. >> and she says when she's making that case to folks, she's not just using the idea of voting is important, which we all know, but she's informing folks about the values of each candidate. she asks them and says it is a
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conversation. what's important to you and then puts it back with what each candidate is going to do on those issues. by the way, this issue of depressed turnout that we have been seeing in previous elections is something that has so more been mirroring itself in some of the early voting numbers. we know that here in milwaukee it's been lagging behind the state-wide turnout right to this point. there is still more days of early voting. there is, of course, still election day. it is something the biden campaign is -- excuse me, the harris campaign is aware of and the democratic party here in wisconsin is aware of. it's why you have former president bill clinton here today in milwaukee, and you have vice president harris coming tomorrow with some big named celebrities trying to do what they can to turn out the vote. >> old habits die hard. let's talk about arizona. what are you hearing there from voters? >> well, we have an early vote here. two republicans are trying to get out the vote right now and do much better than they did in 2020. they're doing slightly better
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than 2020 when the message to republican voters was don't vote early. democrats are keeping pace on the turnout side. unfortunately for democrats, their registration numbers are way down in 2020. right now they have a historic deficit against republicans of about 7% on registration. that matters because democrats need republican voters as well as independents to get them over the top. that climb could get a little steeper. also, the ground game, that's where democrats think clear. this is something they know how to do, started with barack obama in '08. the model carried forward, been tweaked. they have been on the ground here since the beginning of the year really with their first office and have been continuing. they're up against an untested -- i'm a test lab for a ground game running by turning point usa and charlie kirk and elon musk's troops with the america pacs spending a lot of money. performatively, we can see that
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turning point is -- is active. we just don't know if they can keep up with the democrats' ground game. it is a pretty -- it is a pretty sophisticated task going door to door and doing it effectively. democrats have mastered that. they couldn't do much of that in 2020. it is yet to be seen whether turning point usa can match them. one more thing. the model democrats are pointing to, and i would agree with this, is watch what happened in 2018 in the senate race back then. the democrat versus republican martha mcsalary. kyrsten sinema was behind, but made it up in day of voters and the so-called late early ballots, early ballots turned in on election day which had not been counted by election day. that's something to keep an eye on as the returns come in next tuesday. >> what about the mormon vote, the arizona mormon vote? jeff flake is endorsing kamala harris. is that going to make a difference? >> i think it will for a couple
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reasons. the -- the effort to get lds voters who are pretty solidly republican to vote democratic is far more expansive than it was four years ago, more significant figures and they're getting out in the community and making the case. how much of a difference? can't say, hard to measure. again as i said earlier, democrats need every republican and independent they can get. one note about independent registration, it is way up. and there is a suspicion among latino organizers that many of those voters are latinos, and that's a very important group for kamala harris, donald trump, kerry lake to capture. it appears right now that giego and trump are capturing latino men. >> really interesting. beth, finally to the state of michigan, tell us what's happening there? >> yeah. so there's been a huge push in the state of michigan for --
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to -- from both parties to get in and early vote, to get as many people as possible to be voting early. this is the first year in michigan where early in person voting is allowed. so far as of today about 2.4 million people have gotten in early ballots. if you compare that to 2020 when about 5.5 million total voted, you are seeing a lot of early vote returns. and republicans, this is new for them to be pushing the early vote in michigan. in 2020, president trump actually criticized absentee ballot voting pretty heavily. as a result, what you are seeing in 2020 and even now in these returns is that they're predominantly democratic, from what they can tell of the folks who have voted so far. however, republicans are hoping to get up their numbers there. and i think the hope with both campaigns is they can get those votes in early and then turn to those low propensity or kind of
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disillusioned voters, who are less likely to come out to the polls. republicans in particular this year in michigan have made a case for getting to those low propensity voters, which they -- they believe they're about 200,000 to 500,000 republican-leaning propensity voters in michigan that they can target to try to get them out to the polls. in michigan, those kind of margins matter. biden won the 2020 race by 154,000 votes in michigan and trump won in 2016 by nearly 11,000. so it is really small margins here in michigan and any kind of vote they can get, they're going to go after it. >> yeah. they won every single one of them. beth, shaq and bram, everyone, thank you very much. coming up next, what both campaigns are going to a small but crucial constituency, latino men. or gas... ...your body's giving you signs, but crucial constituency, latino men. oua small but crucial constituency, latino men. ra small but crucial constituency,
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arizona, where i was this week, if he does, it will be largely thanks to latino men. take a look. even with voting well underway in key swing states, both campaigns are still scrambling for a small but crucial slice of the vote. latino men. >> i'm proud that we are getting support from latinos like never before. >> part of the agenda i rolled out that i'm very aware how it would affect latino men, for example. >> reporter: men like this man. a manager at a roofing supplies company in tucson. he is not donald trump's biggest fan. but he will be voting for him anyway. what's the main issue? >> to me, the main topic will be economy. i live in increasing of rent, grocery, materials that we sell to customers. >> reporter: in the last eight
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years, trump made gains with latinos. much is driven by men. while harris leads trump by 26 points with hispanic women, they are tied with hispanic men. trump is popular among young men without college degrees, like this 33-year-old first-time voter, chris gonzalez, an employee at the roofing supply company. >> i love he is not sensored by anybody. >> reporter: do you think some of the things he says are offensive or inflammatory? >> he can be over the top. that's just one of the reasons why i like him. >> reporter: some view his gains with latinos as part of a historic realignment. others are waiting to see whether election results match the polling. the harris campaign knows they have been losing these voters. they need to invest into presdefring as many of them as possible in the home stretch before the vote. >> we have six spanish phone banks a week. a spanish team of volunteers dedicated to reaching
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spanish-speaking voters. we are being super intentional about our outreach here to make sure people turn out and vote. >> reporter: in spanish language tv ads, they outspent its rivals. they launched a message on the economy. it is pulling in celebrity heavy hitters. like protecting immigrants in the u.s., harris polls better than trump. >> we have a lot of family that are dreamers. if trump gets his way, he will get rid of them. >> reporter: the harris campaign's closing message hasn't made its way to chris gonzalez. he wouldn't buy it if he did. >> if she gets into office, i done think it will change. i think it will get worse. >> reporter: in a state that biden won by less than one-third of 1%, it's a big question. will there be enough voters like chris to carry trump back to the white house? this strategy is a big gamble for the trump campaign. this exact demographic, latino men, especially young ones without a college degree, they are a among the lowest
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propensity voters out there. if they say they like donald trump, there's no guarantee that trump will be able to cash in on their votes next week. that's what we will look out for. >> that's going to do it for me today. happy halloween. "deadline white house" starts after this quick break. "deadline white house" starts after this quick break
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♪♪ hi, everyone. 4:00 in new york. in a few moments, vice president kamala harris will speak in phoenix, arizona, as part of a tour of western battleground states she's making today. she will speak to our colleague, yamiche alcindor. we will bring that to you live when it happens. we begin with a quote from donald trump. he said this, whether you like it or not, on the night before halloween, trump resorting to scare tactics as part of his
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