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2024. for now, stay where you are now because there is much more ahead on msnbc. breaking news at this hour, the presidential candidates and running mates are on the move a day abuzz with campaign appearances, lots of now headlines including this one hinting at a new shift, what might the campaigns know, who are we talking about with this, everyone. jen psaki and jim heims and jamie erinson. >> very good day to all of you from mrgs smsnbc headquarters. on alex witt reports. the campaign racing towards an

uncertain finish and chasing history. the candidates spread out with days to pitch to voters. vice president harris was in a church at detroit, a series of stops in michigan today. donald trump kicked off his sunday with a rally in pennsylvania. he will visit two more battlegrounds later today. north carolina and georgia. and on meet the press today, surrogates for both candidates expressed confidence in their final push. >> i'm feeling it here on the ground, the energy, the momentum is with kamala harris because she represents the future, the hope, the promise of america, a country that is always forward looking. >> president trump is outperforming in all of the polls where he was in 2016 and 2020. i'm confident that the message he is delivering that lifts up everyone will be the winning message on tuesday. breaking news, the final nbc news national poll before election day, our poll shows a dead locked and unchanged race with harris at 49%, trump at

49%. this among registered voters. earlier on mote the press, steve kornacki took a deeper look at how the polls showed a bigger gender gap. . >> trump is up 18 with men and harris up 16 with women, that is a 34 point gender gap. this could be the biggest gender gap ever recorded if this happened. >> our new poll comes as we got a striking new poll overnight out of iowa. harris and trump neck and neck within the margin of error with the poll. trump led biden by 18 points in june. we have reporters covering all of the battlegrounds. we start with yamiche alcindor who is live in detroit where harris is campaigning. good morning. what are we hearing from harris on the final weekend of the

campaign trail? >> reporter: good afternoon from battleground michigan. what we are hearing from harris is a closing argument that is doing two things. first, she is attacking donald trump, saying he is a danger to democracy and he would not defend the constitution and he would put his interests above the interests of the country. she is laying out what she calls an optimistic vision for the future. she told me that on day one she will have a package of bills ready that will deal with lowering the cost of living for americans, that the economy will be the top priority. but as you said, this is of course the last weekend before the election. so she is here in michigan. she was just at a church in detroit talking to some voters and people who were of course at the church. take a listen to what she said. >> here in michigan right now, each of us has an opportunity to make a difference. because ipthis moment, we face a real question, what kind of country do we want to live in? what kind of country do we want

for our children and our grandchildren? a country of chaos, fear, and hate, or a country of freedom, justice and compassion. and the great thing about living in a democracy is as long as we can hold onto it is that we have the power, each of us to answer that question. >> reporter: so there you heard it. vice president harris said that this is an election about stark choices. she also is going to be going to some other stops around detroit. i'm hearing a barber shop and other retail stops. then she will have a campaign rally in east lansing outside of detroit. i have been talking to harris campaign officials. they say they are cautiously optimistic. they believe in the last week when it came to battleground voters deciding who to support in the last week, they believe they are winning those voters by double digits. even though things are very, very close, they are feeling good about things.

>> that is good to hear. we appreciate that report. we are going now to dasha burns joining us from kingston, north carolina. that will be donald trump's next stop on the campaign trail. a big welcome to you. i understand you had an exclusive phone call with the president this morning. what all did he tell you? >> reporter: hey, alex. i asked the former president about that stunning iowa poll that shows harris leading in red iowa. and this is a des moines register poll done by ann seltzer, widely recognized as a widely reputable poll. i asked him if he was concerned at all about the poll. he said he is not concerned. he calls it a fake poll, done by a trump hater who oversampled democrats. look this is a pollster that he actually complimented in the past, calling her a talented pollster. he complimented the poll when it

showed him leading big in the iowa caucuses. i asked him about the gender gap that we have been talking about with the polls. i asked what his message is for female voters thinking of voting for harris on tuesday. he told me, quote, you are voting for the wrong person. you will end up in a depression and you will not be safe. alex, he already held a rally earlier today. at that rally, he is making headlines for a comment he made about the press. take a listen. >> i have a piece of glass over here. i don't have a piece of glass there. and i have this piece of glass here. but i only have really over here is the fake news. and to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake

news and i don't mind that so much. >> reporter: and you know, at every rally he calls the media and the press the fake news. he has often sparred with the press. this is an escalation. this rally was angrier in tone than we have seen him in along time. thank you for putting up with my indoor voice as there is a speaker behind me as we talk here. >> yeah, you are doing a great job. i wish you could have seen the exchange of looks between jen psaki and i on the set. you will be joining us as we listen to donald trump say that about the face press. okay, i'll leave it there my friend. thank you. let's bring in our political editor mark murray to break down the new nbc news poll released hours ago. welcome, my friend. what are the new numbers telling us about the race now? >> we have a tie.

it is unchanged from the poll when they were at 48% and 48%. and now it is 49% and 49% with just 2% undecided. one thing that is driving the close race is the intense polarization among different demographic groups and among the parties. just look at the gender gap in the polls. it is a 34 point gender gap with trump winning men by 18 percentage point and harris winning women by 16 percentage points. in the 2016 race, we had a gender gap in the 20s. our poll in october and now this shows a 30 point plus gender gap. that will be a story that i will follow on election night as we get the exit poll returns. does this hold up and what is the more dominant force between the female voters and male voters. >> that's something we will be watching. what about the fact that they are neck and neck among

registered voters, what is the breakdown for big issues like abortion, immigration and economy? >> on abortion, harris has a 20% lead on who better handles abortion. this is consistent over the course of the election season. even when joe biden was in the contest with the democrats having an avantage with roe v. wade's overturning. harris has the better handle on who is looks out for the middle class. this has been a feature of the harris campaign. on the flip side, you look at the economy and donald trump ends up having a double digit lead on that issue as well as on the cost of living. finally on the issue of immigration, trump has a 25 point lead. that is consistent with what our polling showed in october and throughout this entire cycle. >> okay. can i ask you about this

bombshell poll out of reliably red iowa showing harris leading trump? granted, it is within the margin of error. but the change is remarkable since the poll was taken in june. can you talk about the significance of this? >> i have been covering presidential politics for 20 years. every election cycle we have one or two or three big shock polls that shake the foundation of what we assume in politics. this is the first big shocking poll that we have seen this entire election cycle. it comes from one of the best pollsters in the business who has partnered with nbc in the past. i think because of her quality and her reputation, this is why we are taking this poll very seriously. but on the other hand, it is important to note that this could be an outlier. it makes assumptions that shows harris to have a very comfortable lead if this result plays out across the country. but i think this poll is helpful

because it opens up the choose your own adventure on election night. you could end up having a convincing harris win despite polling showing it is a close race. on the the other hand, you could have a convincing trump victory or something in between where we are biting our nails on wednesday, thursday, friday because a battleground state is decided by a few hundred votes. i'm really glad this poll came out. i don't necessarily know if it will be reflected in iowa's returns but it is important to note that we still don't have this election nailed down despite all of the polling numbers including ours that show it to be a very close race. >> i don't know if you sound more like a seasoned pollster or a skilled diplomat. i will figure it out. i know you will come back in the next hour to bring us a big number, which way the undecided voters are likely to break. we will see you in a bit. with me now, so happy to

have you in studio. >> we dressed in an americana way and we didn't coordinate. >> jen psaki, of course you watched her show before this one, host of jen psaki msnbc here. let me ask you about the mood. we will get to the poll which was stunning. the mood inside the harris campaign, the confidence that they are feeling in the next 48 hours, what do you think their strategy needs to be to keep it high? >> for them right now, it is about getting voters out to the polls. they have a superior ground operation to the trump team. we will see how much ground games matter when we see the outcome on tuesday. they knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors and made hundreds of thousands of phone calls. that's what they are focused on. if you are them, you feel good about a certain things. the iowa poll, you feel good about it. not because of the iowa

specificity of it but because iowa is a very white, rural state. there are other white, rural states they need to win like wisconsin and minnesota has some whiert rural parts. and you talked about the undeciders. there was a poll today that showed she is winning by about 16 points among late deciders including a huge margin in the sun belt which isn't -- they are part of the battleground but not the blue wall. you want to expand the road to 270 if you can. those are a couple of things they are excited about. >> has there ever been an election where ground game does not matter? >> no, listen i'm just saying they are invested in it. there is no one better at running a ground operation overseeing this. this is a lot of credit to president biden and his campaign for investing in that.

they have a far better apparatus than the trump team does. the trump team is betting on low propensity voters, especially younger men of color. we will see if they need a ground game to turn them out or not on tuesday. >> what do you think is the most plausible path today to 270? >> well, the blue wall still feels like the most plausible path if you look at the consaisancy of polls. we don't know. look at iowa. nobody is betting on that on the democratic side. it does tell you that maybe she is doing better among those demographics than you think. i would say probably the blue wall. but a lot of these other states remain in play. north carolina, georgia, nevada. there are lots of ways to get there. >> but you are not putting a lot of stock in iowa. it is not like you think democrats should expect that? >> no, i don't think she will win iowa. but i think it is interesting because it tells you that she can do better than expected

among white, rural voters. >> there was a trump aide who told -- not revealing the name, the way things are feeling on the trump campaign plain and things have shifted somewhat. he has been known to come out and talk to anyone travelling and give his stories and retell them again and again. and it has been a lot more of a vibe shift downward, much more quiet. the mood is subdued they say. >> well, i think it tells you that number one, they have had a bad last two weeks. they have not held back in my views of trump, but they have a bad closing two weeks. you have a former chief of staff saying you are a fascist. you have a five hour bizarre concerning rally that includes a comedian that has single-handedly massively offended the puerto rican population. >> we talked about it all week. >> the trump campaign did

nothing to really apologize or walk that back. that's not a good way to close a campaign. they know, they look at the polls. we don't know what the outcome will be on tuesday. but it tells you when trump goes out and says insane offensive, alarming things which he did at the rally, it tells you that he is unhinged which we have seen repeatedly. but it tells you that he is an unhinged state of mind. >> you get the sense that he is being told the truth about polls or that they are cherry picking his campaign and his aides as to what they tell him? how do you know which way he will react? >> well, look. he has an ipad and a phone. he sees the polls. he sees what he wants to see. they have internal polling. i don't know what it says just like i don't know what the harris internal polling says. but he has no longer surrounded himself with people who tell the truth in a variety of ways so who knows what people are telling him but i have every

kchdz confidence that he is consuming political coverage. >> give me a sense of your greatest hope and election day and thereafter. >> my greatest hope, one of the exciting thing to watch is the role of women's power in politics. you see that in the gender gap in the polls. you so that in women. and i don't just mean having a woman at the top of the ticket which is exciting. so i can tell my 9-year-old daughter, yes, there is a woman president. but speaking out about abortion access and rights. that is compelling to watch i think. you know biggest fear, to me the choice is quite clear to me but that not enough people recognize that and that it is ultimately getting more people out to vote for your person over the other. >> and maybe that carries over in the days after election day,

that there is a country that does not see eye to eye. >> what everyone should prepare themselves for and i'm telling my friends and family for this, even if harris wins, it is not over. everyone should fully expect because he told us he is going to do this. steve bannon and others have said he will do this. he will challenge the outcome. he claim he won. they will sew fraud even when it doesn't exist. everyone should be prepared for this. when people are so tired and say they can't wait to get to wednesday, they need to guard their energies because it is going to be longer than that. >> speaking of someone who needs a lot of energy, do you have a room in the building? you can't not see you. >> we just did my show. i will be back tonight from 7:00 to 9:00. rachel madow, steve kornacki. >> i'm so glad to have you lead

into this show every sunday. you can watch inside with jen psaki at noon right before this newscast here on msnbc. thank you for joining us. i wish you could stay all three hours. >> thank you. you heard all of that. but what did voters think? you will hear from some in battleground states. plus, harris on snl. we are back in 90 seconds. n snl. we are back in 90 seconds. for people who feel limited by the unpredictability of generalized myasthenia gravis and who are anti-achr antibody positive, season to season, ultomiris is continuous symptom control,

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here's a look at michigan where harris is trying to keep it blue. the question is will we see higher kern out overall? we have some reporters in swing states speaking to voters on what they see. let's get to antonia hylton. welcome. it looks a little chilly where you are given your jacket. let's follow the historic turnout with early voting now over in north carolina. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: there is a mixture of excitement and nervousness to everyone i talk to. we are in greensboro. trump just rallied here and then they will have a festival gored towards young families, college age students, the type of communities and demographics

that the harris campaign is trying to reach. people are coming here and getting swag, information on polling locations on tuesday, questions they may have about their registration or eligibility tovote. this is about making the voters that are hard to reach, making them feel they can be engaged and excited about the issues in the election. as we talk to young people, a lot of them are already with it. the harris campaign is looking at 4.2 million people. more than 50% of the registered voters in the state that have cast ballots and in high numbers of turnout, especially in metro areas near the universities. they are seeing exactly the kind of numbers they would want to see. i think we know there is some nervousness on the republican side here. it is evidenced by the fact that they are coming back repeatedly, trump and vance to the same

state, a state that at one point they thought was comfortably in their column and now doesn't appear to be so. the iowa poll you were talking about, that has made some democrats excited too. white rural voters in iowa, there are similar communities here in this state, in agricultural parts of rural north carolina. voters who have a pretty similar profile. they think if she is overperforming with white people, they may get excited for something that looks like 2008 come tuesday. >> okay. thank you for that. we will check in with you again. meantime, we will go to jesse kirsch in dearborn, michigan where it is the final day of early voting there. tell me what is driving the early turnout in this blue wall battleground. >> reporter: yes, when we talk about all of the major themes playing out in the general election, i think a lot of them have a pathway that runs through michigan. we have a state that enshrined

abortion access in the state constitution recent years. so a question on how much of an influence that will have on politics even if it is protected at the state level. as the vice president is potentially struggling with maintaining support among groups including black men, we are just outside of detroit, a city with an overwhelming population in the black community. and dearborn has a heavy concentration of arab american community members, arab american voters. this is an election where the war between israel and hamas, the situation in gaza as well as lebanon and broader middle east is front and center and how that is playing into how voters are thinking about how voters will think about their vote this fall. there are any number of issues that make their way through michigan. this is a stay that flipped for trump and went back to biden. here's what we heard from people

in the state so far. >> women's rights is a big one on the table. just the rights for humanity in a way, like all of them. >> cost of living. and the immigration, the people we are starting to see here, you can't compete when people are not asking for a livable wage in this country. >> maintenance of a strong community center democracy, and those rules and things that we follow that make our society function, that's pretty darn important to me, and as i have children, i would like them to grow in a civic minded community like grand rapids always has been. i would like for those rights and privileges to continue. >> reporter: so voters thinking of different things top of mind. no two voters are the same. we spoke with some gop

operatives in this state, affiliated with the races here. one of the things we heard from them, they see harris' traditional base is crumbling. but at the same time the vice president may be making up ground with the suburbs, a group that went for trump in 2020. so that is something to watch. the other thing to keep an eye on in dearborn, maybe the biggest x factor is how the arab american vote could influence the race here in the primary season. more than 100,000 people voted uncommitted in the democratic primary. you look at a state that could be razor thin, 100,000 votes could mean the election. back to you. >> can i ask you just candidly, a lot of reporters have said it is hard to get there, when you ask about opinions, a lot of people are hesitant, given the divisive nature. a lot of people don't want to go on record. you had eloquent, thoughtful responses there. how hard was it to get them to

talk to you? >> reporter: yeah, so, the people who you just saw on camera a few moments ago, i believe that was predominantly a group that the producer spoke to. he said it was pretty easy to speak to them. in dearborn, it has been 50/50. some just brush us aside politely but others speak what they want to say. we spoke to a couple and she spoke quickly who she was voting for and he was not wanting to say who he was voting for because he didn't want his parents to know. and he was close to 40. so once people are willing to speak with us, it rolls from there. there are plenty of times we talk to people and they don't want to go on camera.

it is roll of the dice. >> the big take away is parental pressure never leaves us. >> never goes away. >> thank you, jesse. a new poll out of iowa may have donald trump worried. f iowy have donald trump worried. mom where's my homework? mommy! hey hun - sometimes, you just need a moment. self-care has never been this easy. gummy vitamins from nature made, the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand.

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detroit. she did address the cong reigation there and now addressing reporters. let's take a listen. >> do you have any closing arguments for arab american voters and why they should vote for you in this election? >> sure, absolutely. i'm proud to have the support of many american workers who represent the concerns of the arab american community. i know they are not a monolith and there are issues that are specific to happening to gaza. on the issue of gaza, i have been clear the level of death of innocent palestinians is uncontionable. we need to end the war, get the hostages, and achieve a two state solution where the palestinians will have a right

to stability in the region. but again, the issues are as varied as they are for any voter. it is about that and it is about bringing down the cost of living. it is about supporting small businesses, bringing down the cost of housing, groceries, extending the child tax credit. these are issues that redinate in our community as well as every other community. i will continue to speak to members of that community and to ask for their vote which i hope they earn. thank you. alex? alex who? >> keep going. >> it is 48 hours out, everyone is a little tired. a little sleep deprived. >> how are you feeling and have you submitted your ballot? >> i am feeling great. i'm looking forward to these next 48 hours to continue to talk with the voters and talk

about the stakes and tog about the future of our country which i think is bright when we are working with the same spirit of building community, building coalitions and the strength of our economy and country. i have, actually, i just filled out my mail in ballot so i have voted. >> madam vice president, have you returned to the ballot to california and how did you vote on prop 36? >> so my ballot is on its way to california and i'm going to trust the system that it will arrive there. and i'm not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly, it is the sunday before the election and i don't intend to create an endorsement one way or the other around it but i did vote. >> donald trump prematurely declared victory. and the past few days, he has

suggested he is brooding about it. how will your campaign respond if he does the same thing again? >> so here we are on the sunday before election, and i would ask in particular, who have not yet voted to not fall for his tactic which i think includes suggesting to people that if they vote, their vote won't matter, suggesting to people that somehow the integrity of the voting system is not in tact so that they don't vote. again, i think that it is a tactic. it is meant to distract from the fact that we have support for free and hair elections in our country. we did in 2020. he lost. the systems in place for this election in 2024 have integrity. they are good systems and the vote of the people will determine the outcome of this election and everyone must know

that their vote is their power to determine the outcome of the election. their vote will count. it does matter. >> thank you. >> all right, thanks, y'all. >> all right, kamala harris wrapping up a few questions from the media there gathered following her around today. she will remain in michigan. we will stay with her as well. meantime, joining me is our senior political contributor and strategist for the bush cheney campaign. dawn callaway, host of pine street strategies, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst purseio and molly ball, political correspondent for "the wall street journal". welcome to all of you. my big take away from what harris just said, much of what we have heard, she mailed her ballot and it is on her way to california. sometimes you forget, she is a registered california voter. i was thinking you live in d.c.

but now we know she is hoping like many others that the mail in ballots get to where they are going. we start with you, don, a new nbc news poll. it is still a dead heat. but even a bigger gender gap. harris leading on being the change candidate. but i'm curious your take away overall. what is the state of the race right now? >> kamala harris is going to win the race. there are two more days to run through but kamala harris will win. we are seeing if you go beneath the national poll, we are seeing the trends to reflect that. georgia and north carolina are looking handsome as the black and women's groups have done what they are supposed to do in organizing votes over the last three months. we saw the poll in iowa in which she is ahead 3 whole points. a margin of error could hold up. she could be ahead 4.5 points in iowa. ultimately i think one of the most telling statistics overall

is that 98% of democrats are with harris and only 88 to 90% of republicans are with donald trump. that margin is made up of middle class suburban women who decided enough is enough and they can't back the most obnox s guy they knew from high school. i'm confident that kamala harris may struggle in november but she will pull out michigan and pennsylvania and she will be declared the winner next week. >> okay. dually noted. what about the new poll in iowa that is making waves and to reiterate what don was saying, it shows harris with a 3 point lead in the state. it is within the margin of error. but talk about why this is a big deal and not just for iowa? >> it is a big deal for iowa because no one has considered that to be a swing state in the cycle, a state that trump won by large margins in both of the past two elections.

as you say, it has larger implications across the map. if the trends that are shown in the poll are accurate, and ann seltzer has a good track record, what she is known for is not being afraid to put out a result that contradicts a lot of other pollsters if the data leads her in that direction. she follows the data and not or assumptions. so if what she has put her finger on is correct, we are really seeing a massive turnout of women, including senior women, including white women. that has implications across the map, including all of the battleground states, particularly the states that are demographically similar to iowa which would be the blue wall states of pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. i'm increasingly hearing confidence about that part of

the map from democrats who really feel that their ground game is going to put them over the top and that there is a hidden surge of women across the political spectrum, but particularly college educated women and white women who are surging to the poll in part because of the threat to reproductive rights. >> so what we are hearing a different mood these days on trump's plain. instead of the trump show, he and his team are more subdued, focused on business. do you think the seriousness is a good thing for republicans or does it show a lack of confidence? >> well, i've always said and having been in two close campaigns is you can tell the status of the race by the mood in the headquarters and on the plane. if everything was going as the trump folks say it is going that they are going to win and win all of these states and win overwhelmingly, there would be a

different mood on the plane. i think they know what the impact of the iowa poll is. it is not so much iowa. i still think she will have a difficult time winning iowa but substract 5 points in iowa, even if he is only ahead by two or three, says a lot not just about iowa. so the interesting thing about ann seltzer, more than anything else in 2020, she caught the overestimation of biden support before anyone else and she caught the surge of donald trump in 2016. i think what she has done is she has caught because of the way she polls, she doesn't model, she doesn't wait. she just accepts what she gets as data and then it reflects. i actually think she has caught the surge and she has caught the hidden harris vote that polls have missed. >> yeah, i was watching susan nod in agreement about the poll. so i get to you now susan.

this follows the atlantic article that details the ruthless, restless final days of trump's campaign. it notes a sense of resignation among trump staffers this week. you contrast that, what we saw with harris on saturday night live last night, emphasizing joy and energy. how do you interpret this. how do you think voters might interpret it? >> well, when it comes to the voters, when they see a poll like iowa, there is another bonus, not just because everyone thinks harris may or may not win iowa, i don't think she will but it looks like she is surging. people like to get on the band wagon if you will. it looks like she is winning. one thing you can tell from the mood on the plane, or even what we see with the rallies is the internal polling. we see the public polling. you look at campaign polling, it is a different thing.

you see what's tracking and it looks like harris has the momentum to go forward. one thing i found interesting is even though trump is doing better on the economy and immigration, and harris is doing better on abortion, the number that stood out to me and may explain how well she is doing in iowa, she wins 51-42. which candidate better looks out for the middle class. that means people are relating to her. that's what we are starting to see. >> okay. i will ask all of you, matthew, don, susan, molly, stay with me. what will you be watching and what will the headlines be. we will get to that. but first we head to florida where two big ballot measures are motivating voters. joining me now from dural, florida, is marissa parra.

tell be about these issues and what are voters saying about them? . >> reporter: good to be with you. i will point out that we are at miami-dade election headquarters. this is one of the most mrurp places for people to vote. we see the line grow because this is a popular place. i have sewn that over the last several days with early voting. this is the last day for floridian voters to do the early voting. here in miami-dade, it is still continuing until tonight at 7:00 local. we have two really important and slightly controversial issues on the ballot. amendment 3 and amendment 4. amendment 3 regards cannabis rights. and amendment 4 is abortion rights. this is what we have been covering for months. there was a six week ban that started on may 1st, turned into a 15 week abortion ban. the state's supreme court ruled that voters would get to decide ultimately, and have the final say come tuesday.

amendment 4 will decide whether or not abortion rights in the state of florida are protected until roughly viability, that is roughly 24 weeks. so we have heard, over the last several months, reporting on voters who have talked about their interest and people in the last 24 hours, coming out and voting for the first time, showing up on an issue that orderinarily they would not be here but they are here because especially abortion rights is so important to them. they decided to come out and cast a ballot. here's what we are saying about a county from miami-dade county elections, they have surpassed the alltime record for early voting. here's what we heard from a couple of voters this morning. >> i feel like this is very strict about things like marijuana. i feel like they should be focusing more on violence and things like that. and marijuana is not a big issue to be so strict on. if they legalize it, that would make a lot of b problems easier

for a lot of people. >> there are more things to vote for than the president. >> we vote for our rights, not just the person that represents them. >> if i don't vote, then i might as well not have a political stance at all if i'm not going to act on it. >> reporter: so a couple of things that i rolly want to make sure we cap off on. when it comes to amendment 4, i would not look at that as an indicator on how the state will vote when it comes to the presidential candidates. because i have come across independent, libitarian, republican voters that have said they will vote yet on 4 to protect abortion rights until viability. but they are still voting for the former president trump. so when it comes to what we are hoping to learn from the state of florida, we know the results come fast, early, and it will be interesting tosee if former president trump will win the state of florida three times in a row. he won the last two.

the last time he won the state of florida, it did not cost biden his presidential win. another thing, will mamdade stay blue? this has been a place that was reliably democratic. we will see if they can hold onto thet which of course we are seeing early voting numbers come in and we are seeing strong turnout for registered republicans in miami-dade. only time will tell what that means. >> both critical things to focus on. thank you. two looming questions when our panel returns. what will you be watching for tuesday night and what will the headline be wednesday morning? h headline be wednesday morning? under the tree. i love him! and weathertech gifts are always special too. vehicles are protected with laser measured floorliners for the front and middle... plus a cargo liner for the rear... and seat protector for furry messes. and with the pet feeding system he'll eat safely his entire life. add a cupfone to make sure the phone is secure while driving. find these american made gifts or get a gift card instantly at wt.com.

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a live look now at orlando, florida, where former president bill clinton is set tospeak there. there is a key senate race on the ballot there. and a look at wisconsin where former president obama will be speaking later this afternoon as donald trump, kamala harris and running mates are out in full force. back with me is don callaway, susan del purseio and molly ball. we will get to it. susan, it has been quite the sprint for harris and all of us but for her particularly. just 105 days since president biden dropped out of the race. i know you praised the vp's campaign and you wrote that trump had all of the time in the world and still couldn't stay on task while harris was thrown into the race at the last minute

and has pulled it off masterfully but the question is has she had enough time. >> i think she has had enough time and almost too much time. if she was given more time, it would have worked against her. what i'm looking for first on election night is new hampshire. their polls close around 7:00 eastern time. that race is still somewhat close for the race for governor. it could be close for president. so i will be watching that. it could be a little bit of a telltale for the blue wall. headline i'm looking for the next day is probably welcome to

this was also packed as well as the rallies for kamala harris. i attended both of them.

michelle obama was in the philly suburbs is today, 24 hours, not even 12 hours later i am at this rally pro-trump and something you focus on so much was talking about potential problems we could see him the election. he growled -- laid the groundwork to challenge the election like he did in 2020. none of those lawsuits stood up but i spoke with voters who say they want to make sure their vote counts and nobody tries to disqualify their vote this election. >> that cannot be done for anybody, thank you so much julie tsirkin, we appreciate that. checked the anxiety certainly building with two days out. we are going to get a read on how many people in this country feel about the election, the results of the nbc paul in just a moment. a day to all of you from msnbc election headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing now, the 2024