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welcome back to the weekend. breaking moments ago, a new nbc news general election poll just dropped two days ahead of the election. the national poll of registered voters shows a tight race between vice president harris and donald trump at 49%. today on the campaign trail, harris is back in michigan with stops in detroit and a rally with young voters in east lansing. nbc news has new details on a noticeable vibe shift. a name telling nbc it has not

been the usual trump show on the campaign plane. and talking business. at campaign stops, trump's extreme rhetoric and extensive rambling is still on full display. joining us now, nbc news correspondent in battleground pennsylvania and our nbc news correspondent is in detroit. >> very good to have you here, julie. you have been out there talking and spending a lot of time with voters and you are getting a lot of feedback and vibes. you have attended both of michelle obama's rallies as well as donald trump's rallies. what are you taking away from these closing messages? what do you think voters are getting from these closing messages as we enter the last

two days? >> reporter: what a loaded question. i spent a lot of time here talking to voters who could decide the election. right now we are in lancaster which has gone solid red for trump in the past. this is his campaign's appealed to the base to show up and sure out that support. and i will tell you that the lines here were long. this morning, there is no doubt that the crowd loves him. they are excited to see him. he will crisscross the straight state later today. and tomorrow we are kamala harris will be as well. on the flipside, the michelle obama rally in the philly suburbs could not have been more energetic and more packed. thousands of people did not even make it inside. the crowd is a little different. just anecdotally, in the philly suburbs campaigning for harris. democrats trying to shore up support.

in this event, a lot of men. a group of people trump has been doing well with. he wants to continue to build support among that group. that is what harris has been struggling with the most. also some atypical campaign stops for both candidates. we saw harris in texas. not part of the battleground states. last week we saw from in salem. it all comes down to pennsylvania. new polling shows that this state is tied between harris and trump. it is close at the other battlegrounds but tied here. that is why the candidates are spending so much time here before the election. >> you have been out there on the campaign trail. julie is live at a rally right now. what can you tell us about how vice president harris has been spending the last few days and also the crowds and the tone and tenor of the voters. were they talking about?

>> reporter: good morning from battleground michigan. as it is in many battleground states, things are very tight. the vice president has been barnstorming. she has been in georgia and in north carolina and is here now in michigan and will be going to an african american church delivering remarks. she also will be going to a barbershop in detroit and will be holding a campaign rally at east lansing about one hour outside detroit. what i can tell you is that when we talk to campaign officials, they some cautiously optimistic. they are saying an internal data that they are seeing something very interesting which is that for voters in battleground states that are deciding who to support, just in the last week, they are winning the voters by double digits. they are looking at that and saying that they are in a good place. with that being said, i did talk to the vice president an exclusive interview earlier this week and asked her specifically what she thought about the race. former first lady michelle obama has been saying on the campaign trail that she sometimes stays up at night wondering why the race is so

close. i asked the vice president, do you stay up thinking about that? what worries you at night like this is what she told me. >> what keeps me up at night are the challenges that face the american family and my role and responsibility and my to do list to address those issues, whether it be on bringing down the cost of groceries or bringing down the cost of housing and what we need to do to make sure childcare is affordable for working families. what it will do to make sure that medicare covers and home care for seniors. those are the things that keep me up, which is doing the work that will directly impact the people of america. >> reporter: in the interview, she laid out closing arguments which of course is a mixture of her outlining her vision for america saying she will have a package of bills ready on day one and that the economy will be her top priority. she also attacked former president donald trump saying he is a danger to democracy and pointed to the recent statements when he said he would be a protector of women whether they like it or not. she said that is more evidence that he doesn't trust women or

respect women and in their decisions to make choices about their own lives. another interesting thing of course as i stand in michigan is i have to talk about the fact that her events have been often interrupted by pro- palestinian protesters calling attention to the civilian death in gaza. a big question here is, where will the voices go? will they stay home, vote third- party or talk to people and the muslim community in the next few days. and they say most people have come round to the idea of supporting her because they say donald trump is worse for gaza and the middle east. but an interesting place to look. here's campaign officials say they have a big operation in michigan and specifically in dearborn, michigan, for targeting that group. but cautiously optimistic when he talked to the harris folks. >> tell me why donald trump is spending time in virginia. >> it is a great question. he told the crowd that if we win virginia, we win the election. i don't know where he is

getting the optimism from. the polls show harris is leading him in that state by 10 points. some advisors and officials i spoke to as well were questioning the campaign stop so close to the election. why not just focus on the seven battleground states. why not try to eat into some of the margins that harris has been able to come away with here and go into with republican support and trying to flip them to her side of the aisle there. he spoke with governor glenn youngkin and spoke about the efforts he is trying to make to remove people off of voter rolls and bringing up conspiracy theories and misinformation about the election is happening already this time around. still, virginia's side, which he probably won't win tuesday, he will be hitting the battlegrounds. not only pennsylvania like i just told you about but north carolina later today. heading back to michigan as well where they are trying to get these voters in the

dearborn community that i spoke to as well, to his side, saying he would be better than harris for the middle east. and of course, different from his past remarks. certainly a lot going on here. trump trying to shore up his base. here is trying to cut into some of the margins. the race is extremely tight no matter how you slice it. >> it is crunch time where you are for sure. there are a lot of variables as we were noting. at the end of the day, how is the campaign's closing message really resonating with the voters there that you are talking to? despite the consternation that some in the muslim community might have, and you kind of alluded to that some might come around because they see donald trump is not being any better or worse. but it is the messaging about kind of that old-school republican message. individual freedoms and rights with our government

interference in your lives, particularly when it comes to your healthcare. how is that message resonating on the ground? >> it is interesting. i think there was a moment where vice president harris was going really and on just attacking donald trump and making that the top line of what she was saying and talking about the constitution and talking about the pillars of america and really spending a lot of time talking about donald trump. in the last few days, she has really tried to balance the messaging with really putting specificity on what she would do well in office to and talk about the bills she would pass and that is giving voters who were worried about whether or not she was focusing too module donald trump -- and i should say some were democratic strategists saying that they need to make sure, the here's campaign needs to make sure they really talk about her because she has had this short run, this unprecedented short run for president and some people really want to make sure they understood what she was about and what her core was.

so talking to voters here, it sounds like people are coming around to the idea that they really do like her messaging and the balancing and speaking specifically to muslim voters and african american voters. the ones i talked to said they have also been coming around and talking to the people who they say they were worried about and now feel cautiously optimistic that harris will have their best interests in mind. >> thank you both so much. be good out there and have fun. it is the campaign. get a hot dog. >> next, more on symone's great interview with second gentlemen doug emhoff. this is the weekend on msnbc! when my do ctor gave me breztri for my copd, things changed for me. breztri gave me better breathing, symptom improvement, and reduced flare-ups. breztri won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. it is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it.

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you have really emerged as a leader in this conversation. i don't know if that is -- if you knew that was part of what was coming with this job. >> i will go back to her to start being supportive of me and being there for me. again, when we started in january of 2021, i'm also the first jewish person ever in the history of this country to be the white house principal. >> york great-grandparents fled poland to come to the united states. >> very typical american jewish story. and she was the one that said, as the first jewish person, already knowing about the rising anti-semitism during the trump administration, charlottesville, people don't remember the tiki torches saying the jewish will not replace us and trump said they were fine people on the neo- nazi side, true life shooting in pittsburgh for the massacre

of jews there. that was already happening when they took office. and so she said, you need to do something about this and push me. so even from the get go, i started working from anti- semitism and led to the first strategy to counter anti- semitism and then of course after october 7th, with the crisis of anti-semitism and hate, i really put myself out there with her push to be a strong advocate. again, against hate period. that speech was really designed to talk to the american jewish community. some of whom are supporting trump. and it was really raising the alarm to them that here is somebody who is talking about praising adolf hitler behind closed doors when he was president. general kelly said that. somebody who has said many anti- semitic things over the years. most recently, at an event

purporting to fight anti- semitism in d.c. when he said anti-semitic things and basically, if i don't win the selection, i'm going to blame the jews. this is who donald trump is. and i want to remind them who, the harris'. every step of the way when i go home and something horrific happens in the jewish community, she is the one i talked to. she is the one who was there for me. she is the one who understands what i'm going through as a jewish person. it is really to debunk some of the stuff, the lies on the gas lighting out there that she somehow won't be supportive of the jewish community or support for israel. in her own words, i say, listen to what she said about it. >> can we talk about the broke culture situation? every election, i do believe that there is every presidential election, there is a natural conversation about

gender and the fact that the top of the democratic ticket is a woman, vice president harris. i think the gender conversation is more prolific. there is a lot of talk about the gender gap and donald trump targeting rule culture and trying to turn out men and that the paris and tim walz campaign is more turning out women. i think men are important part of the conversation, whether we are talking about, not abortion, that is just not at conversation delegated to women in the country. you talked about the vice president that encouraged you to say something. i know you talked about how your daughter also called you up and said, what is going on? what is your take here on the historic gender gap that we are seeing in the selection and this whole pro culture about what it means to be a man, masculinity and strong? >> what i thought i would talk to young men about who might be

taken by the fun side of donald trump, such as it is, the dancing and going to the wrestling matches and going on the podcasts and trying to portray himself as someone who would be really hit. i think cardi b said it is all the hustle. i'm trying to implore young men and particular to do the research. he is not your friend. the policies he is talking about will not help them in the economy. the policies he is talking about have nothing to do with them. they might think he is great and cool. i was in an event somewhere and i was talking to the mom of an 18-year-old who was nervous and worried that he and his friends were all kind of taken in by this part of trump. and she just said, please just go online and watch him. watch the speeches. listen to what he is saying.

not the podcasts or him at the wrestling matches or ufc or football or just listen to the speeches and watch him and look at her and watch her. and he came back and said, my goodness mom, i'm voting for harris. >> you thanks do you think donald trump says have an effect on people? a lot of people say -- and reporters will say this. voters know donald trump but they don't know vice president harris. >> i say to do the research. and they know it. and this is an issue for all of us. you have seen a lot of men, and talk about what has happened to their families were for woman lives in texas basically with an absolute ban, women are dying and almost dying and getting to death's store before they can get medical care and doctors are looking over their shoulder and worrying about criminal prosecution. and it

is completely outrageous. so men know this issue. this is not just an issue for women. and it is also about rights. as a lawyer, if you read the dobbs decision, the concurring opinion from justice thomas is talking about what else, based on this griswold right of privacy, which roe v wade was based, can we look at? that means, who you can marry and contraception and if you extrapolate that out, it is all these other rights that could be seriously at risk. and so i tell people, this is what is really happening. and who do you want picking the next set of supreme court justices? the guy trump picked the three that overturned roe v wade and started this whole crisis with jobs. and if he is elected, they will pick two or three more. they will be young and even more extreme and these decisions have a real-world impact. i think dobbs caught the

country and said these decisions by the supreme court have real-world impact on everyone's lives. >> second gentleman doug emhoff. >> that, for me was just a wonderful encapsulation of the man, the relationship between he and the vice president. and i was really struck by what he said regarding the bro culture. and then just listening to donald trump and listening to her. and it is very important for folks. i think with the second gentleman was saying is, don't get caught up in the culture around donald trump. >> the marketing, the entertainment. all of that stuff. watching him dance. just watch the reality. listen to him and then listen to her. and when you do, you begin to understand why she is running for president. >> when you look at the iowa

numbers, let's remember that iowa had the six-week abortion ban go into effect this summer. when he talks about dobbs, you are seeing it resonate with voters. anything was interesting. also talking about the fact that often we contextualize this a young woman's issue when you had women over 65 breaking for harris in big numbers in iowa and in part because they have lived through this history. >> it is a double whammy for them. >> this is not a theoretical conversation. and when the story the second gentleman talked about when he said, he told this young man to just go online and look at what he is saying, what donald trump says does matter. you have these young people on tiktok that discovered the access hollywood tape. and you are on tiktok now and watching videos of gen z voters reacting to the access

hollywood life. >> and their two young gen z girls watching him at 18, 19 and the look on their face, just the shock of it, that is what he is talking about. just listen to him. >> what donald trump says matters. voters do feel like they have a sense of who he is and where he is. the question is, have they heard what he said? have they heard what he said? i think it is media apparatus across the board. a calculation made a long time ago that voters know donald trump. and so yes, he says these things but voters are excusing him. and we are assuming the voters have heard what he said and they have not always heard what he said. i think it is very interesting how this will play into tuesday and i'm very grateful that the second gentleman gave so much time to have such a robust conversation and we can bring it to folks today. >> i think it is playing into tuesday which by the numbers looking the way they look and

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democracy docket and a founder at elias law group and also with this is presidential historian. >> you were weighing heavy on steve bannon's mind. we will play this. he had a little press conference just hours after he was let out of jail on tuesday and this is what he had to say. >> we will have hopefully mike davis and bill mckinley free the prominent leaders to combat mark elias. every day after november, the evening of november fifth will be stalingrad. to feel where we stand on the legal side of securing trump's victory is where we need to be? >> we will never be as good as mark elias but we are better

pretty prepared in 2024. >> we will never be as good as mark elias. they realize they are up against a very capable and talented litigator. and every day will be stalingrad. and he had oppressor. i think they recorded the press conference and they talked about it there. >> i definitely seem to be living rent-free in his mind and in the mind of my get -- maga extremists. kind of a backhanded compliment. the more time they waste spending on me and not attacking, harrows, i take as a win every single day. i will note that when they say they are better prepared in 2024 than in 2020, 2020 was rudy giuliani sweating through his hair dye outside of a landscaping company and sidney powell claiming they were missing mythical sea creatures and venezuela with leaders and jenna alice, we know how that

turned out. i take them seriously and i believe donald trump will falsely claim victory. i think he will try to attack the election system and that will include filing frivolous lawsuits. we have seen that. in the month of october according to democracy documents, they lost 18 lawsuits in one month. we need to be prepared and we are. i'm not super worried about their efforts. >> we know the vice president's closing message is about turning the page on american politics and american history. when have we seen america able to do that before? >> usually, when there is a definitive victory with a winner and a loser. in this case, if that is what she is talking about, she said donald trump come from her point of view must be defeated so soundly that anyone who runs for future republican

nomination will have it very much on their mind, how they can show that they are very different from donald trump. the other thing is, just as i hear you and mark and everyone talking about this, i'm worried younger people will find or assume that this has been true for all of american history. you try to win the election and maybe there is violence. threats against state governors as there was four years ago. and after that, a republican nominee, as we see this year, hinting about secret deals with the speaker of the house to throw the people's choice into congress and have this be a closed-door political choice. the point i'm making is that that is not what the founders had in mind. they had in mind a peaceful transfer of power and even in a close election. that happened with kennedy nixon and it happened with

carter and happened with humphrey. all of those in the last half- century or so. that is what american history really is. not this evil circus that we are watching. >> mark, one of the underlying areas of stress testing the system, lawsuits for sure, but also the organization on the ground. how both parties position themselves within the context of a state or county's election laws, et cetera. you have donald trump already setting the stage for blaming someone other than himself for his potential losses. let's listen to what he has to say about the current currency chairman. >> if you haven't voted early -- if we don't win, i'm going to say you did a [bleep] job. i think we will win. we have rnc chairman michael

whatley. >> one of the compelling aspects of this campaign is when donald trump turned the corner into this year. they stripped out the organizational infrastructure to level up 220,000 poll watchers. and now, those poll watchers, instead of grassroots organizers, are the ones that the party is relying on. talk to us about what those poll watchers come what you are seeing those poll watchers doing and how they can impact the selection. >> i think it is a really important point. i don't shed a lot of tears for ronna mcdaniel. ronna mcdaniel was fired by donald trump because he believed she was not committed enough to the voter suppression tactics and voter suppression plan. and so she was replaced by michael whatley who came into the position with the promise

that he was going to focus on voter suppression, election subversion. and at the expense of, as you point out, michael, traditional get out to vote and traditional voter registration. we heard donald trump say over time that he doesn't care about getting out to vote and doesn't worry about people voting. he just wants to focus on this. that is a tone that has been set from the top and i think has been heard loud and clear both by the rnc and the state parties and by the right wing funded web of organizations. and so we have seen a lot of litigation aimed at trying to purge voters. we have seen a lot of litigation aimed at trying to challenge voters. we have seen a lot of efforts to try to do things to undermine the voting process. here is the thing. it is failing an courtroom after courtroom after courtroom. judges are rejecting this. i have confidence, as we head toward election day, that we will have a free and fair

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able to vote. the gen z voters, that we don't want them to believe that this is the run-of-the-mill. this is how it is always in politics. this is an anomaly. it is not usually like this. they are not usually threats of violence at the polls. any talk about the historical arc that we find ourselves in here? >> sure. beautifully said as usual, symone. let's go back to 1860, at least in history, if not in reality right now. 1860, abraham lincoln was elected but there was a threat of violence over his becoming president. he took a train from springfield, illinois to washington d.c. there were so many death threats against him that he had to get off in baltimore and come to washington d.c. wearing a disguise to make sure he would not be in danger. on the day of his inauguration, march of 1861, there were gangs

of assassins driving around the washington mall threatening abraham lincoln's life. the tragedy is that when we hear about these sorts of violence, it makes me heartsick to think that 57% of americans think there might be violence by the trump side if the election is not resolved in his favor. but it seems to be true. this is not going to most of american history. this is going to the eve of perhaps one of the worst moments in our history which is the civil war. the best thing we can hope for, and i say this to everyone who is watching and everyone on our panel, we have to at least strive to make sure that the mark eliass of the world are making sure false charges about cheating and in pennsylvania do not get believed by the american people. making sure there is no

violence against state legislatures, governors and members of congress would have to certify this vote in january. and also making sure that there are not secret games played between one candidate and in this case, donald trump and let's say, an outgoing, if he is outgoing come republican speaker to thwart the will of the people. that is against american history. it is against the intention of the founders. if we allow this to happen this time, we could be living in a very different country for a very long time. i pray that is not happen. >> i want to stick with you if i could on the history point. i want to play a sound from alicia keys in morristown, pennsylvania yesterday. for me, it was very profound iteration of this moment. let's take a listen. >> a woman's right to vote did not come easy.

suffrage is organized for 70 years before the 19th amendment was past. and it didn't pass the first time and it didn't pass the second time or even the third time. it took four tries to pass. and only by two votes. it has been opposing forces all the way from abolition to suffrage to this very election. but it is the difference of a vote or two they can change the course of history. >> i think ms. keyes really encapsulated this race in so many ways. talk about that aspect of it, particularly for women that walk for suffrage to get the vote in the times' it took to get to vote. and to get to a time where the vote is more important than ever to reestablish rights that have been taken away.

>> in 1922 have the constitution with an amendment guarantee that they will be given the right to vote in every single state. the other thing heartbreaking is that many of us assume that when lyndon johnson and congress passed the voting rights act, 1965, that would at least offer a process so that rights would not be restricted. and then the supreme court has been contracting those rights and giving those rights to presidents with a presidential immunity ruling that will allow donald trump, if he were to become president running for reelection today, to go to his justice department and conspire to steal the selection. that was not even a possible four years ago before the supreme court ruling. what i'm saying is that we cannot keep on vandalizing the political system and breaking

down the voting rights act. allowing presidents to act without fear of legal prosecution. you cannot keep on doing this and expect the public to survive. and so this year, whatever happens on tuesday, it will be a test of the system, a kind we have never seen before. >> mark, use of the three of us writing it down so we can repurpose that point. on tuesday night, i want to talk to you about a headline from reuters this week. trump fraud claims star concerns of another contested u.s. election. and harris democrats meanwhile are preparing for the possibility that trumka tried to prematurely claim victory before all votes are counted as he did in 2020. the initial plan is to flood social media with calls. i know you are gearing up for what that could look like. can you paint for us a broad picture of what that will require to maintain calm and preserve the dignity of our democracy, should he do that?

>> let's be clear that donald trump is going to do that. donald trump lies about everything. the crowd size and his polls and his policies and lies about joe biden and, harris. of course he will lie again about the outcome of the 2024 election and he will likely do it immediately upon the polls closing saying he won. let's be clear. the other day in new mexico, he said he won new mexico in 2020 and 2016. he falsely claimed that he won minnesota in 2020 and he lost minnesota in 2020. the other day he said that he believes he will join new jersey. he will lose new jersey. he is going to lie about the outcome of the election. it is incumbent upon all of us come from the mainstream media to individual citizens with social media accounts to not amplify his lies. to not let that spread.

but rather to call them up for what they are. attempts to subvert -- avert democracy. we have to play a part in that. i have to play a part of the lawyers have to play a part so does everyone who cares about the future of this country. >> mike beschloss and mark elias, thank you for being with us during these extraordinary times. much more to come. we will be right back! hey, take a moment. do you know who we are? we are the kids you champion every day. we are the ones who dream big.

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and history will be made either way, okay, come tuesday or maybe wednesday. >> for me, all the noise and the media in the planning and the process boils down to the franchise that was given to us by the founders. and what we do know is that when those words were written on parchment, that created this nation under the banner of we the people, we were not included in that. we were not part of the people. but you know what, folks, today we are. we are black and brown and male and female and lgbtq and we are moms and dads and stepmom's and stepdad's. and we vote. we vote. and we get to set with the nation's course will be. not the politicians and not the

institutions and not the bro culture and not the oligarchs. we the people do. if you wrap your head around that, that is where your power is. that is why i love doing the bottles on elections. i have a lot of fun. i can mix it up with any democrat iran into and a few republicans too. but i get to vote to get my final work. and i think that is the strength of the moment. >> those of us that come from countries and places where people are not granted that same opportunity, it is a reminder of the privilege of what we are able to do and as you said, we live in a country where there has been a continuous expansion of who is considered and allowed to be part of the democracy. and i will go to bed tonight thinking about what we heard from michael beschloss where if this is the thing, if we value value this thing, we cannot continue to vandalize it. you have to treat it like this secret institution that it is. >> love your country.

>> i urge people to have some patience on election day. like that evening. things are going to change. giving a pep talk to myself to have patience. >> tune into msnbc. we will be here. it is going to be a good night and a good day and election week. election week is on its way. much more coming up. ali will be joined by rachel maddow for a special report on abortion rights in america. you do not want to miss this! s 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 policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call

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the big week is here and in just two days be sure to join rachel maddow and the team for msnbc coverage of the 2024 election. steve kornacki will be at the big board to break down results as a rolling. that all starts tuesday at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. no matter what happens, we will see you back here next saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern and follow us on social media at the weekend msnbc . val she will continue coverage now. ali velshi, we can't wait to see the show. >> you got the lady on. >> i was excited about the show in till she said no matter what happens we will see you next week. >> woods with