his challenger there jamie harrison also polling at 44%. what would the psychological impact to defeat donald trump's mini me in the senate? >> this is -- i'm sure everybody remembers, this is like years ago where republicans knocked out tom dashell. it was like whoa. you're not supposed to go after the generals. this would be massive if lindsey graham loses. he is up against a formidable candidate, a candidate from south carolina and a candidate's whose message is, okay, look this isn't even about trump. what kind of bacon is lindsey graham bringing back to the people here? that's the strategy democrats have figured out. you can argue about trump. if your senator is spending more time yelling and screaming at impeachment hearings than he is building roads, building bridges

>> because jamie harrison has done a great job of defining himself. what we have not done a good enough job in south carolina yet, getting people to know exactly who joe biden is. that is the independent voters. democrats know him. even the republicans know him. but the independence, we have to get the independence to look upon joe biden the same way they're now looking at jamie harrison. i think we'll get there in time. for the voting to begin. i think october 5th. i think october 3rd may be a saturday. so october 5th is when we'll start absentee voting which i sometimes call early voting. so we are going to do a good job of getting the independents to see in joe biden what the rest of us who have been up and down with the information the last 25 or 30 years see in him. jamie has done great with that. early in the process, i said very publicly i'd like to see vice president biden choose a black woman not as an alt mate . o just between you and i, who is he going to pick? >> we've known each other a long time. the reason we each other so long and rema

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also with me jamie harrison, an associate chair of the democratic national committee, the first black chair of the south carolina democratic part. harrison is challenging lindsey graham, and with less than 80 days to go, he looks to be closing the gap in the race. our nbc news poll had senator graham happened by a whopping 17 points in med february. this month quinnipiac university has the race as a tie. welcome to both of you this morning form sorry to get you off the campaign trail. m.j. you have a tweet pinned to your twitter account that says it won't be easy to beat a three-term senator, but a cakewalk compared to three tours in combat. now i get two little kids ready every morning, so believe my when i say i can take on a career politics. saddle up. so what do you have to do to win? >> sadly the bar has been set so low we need to show people that somebody is fighting for them. people in texas are ready to lead again. we're tired of leading in the wrong places, like gun violence. before the pandemic neverly one in of five of us did not have access to regular mel coverage. the ent

and -- and how enthusiastic or how optimistic you are about jamie harrison, a former staffer of yours, who is running against lindsey graham for that senate seat in south carolina. he just had a poll this week that showed him in a dead-heat tied at 44 points each with the incumbent senator lindsey graham. >> jamie is doing extremely well. i knew, since i first met him when he was an 11th grader, that there was something special about him. i have been holding on to him, ever since. he is conducting himself in a way that he's making all south carolinians proud. i ran into a guy yesterday who told me that he was just a -- republican but he was extremely impressed with jamie harrison. but he just thinks he is exactly the kind of prerson that should be representing us in washington so i'm very proud of him. now, as for biden, he is running a real good race. he is taking his time on the vice presidential service. i believe that the vetting is about over. i think he is in the process of determining simpatico, which ones he's got the most simpatico with. and i think that, by next weekend, he'

. >> i am jamie harrison. speaking for the campus of south carolina state university. and for whom the honors college is name. 22 general officers to our service. 15 for bernie sanders and 49 for our next president of the u.s., joe biden. >> south dakota. of the tribe, i welcome you to the black hills, the site of my creations and the great sioux nation. we are all related. our next president must lead by this philosophy for the betterment of the next seven generations. we cast 17 votes for our next, jill biden. -- joe biden. >> tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. this year, i am testing my first presidential vote for joe biden. we will replace donald trump with a president who respects us tennessee casts 50 votes for our josephesident, mr. biden. ago, we were targeted by an arsonist and it devastated all of us. in the face of he, we choose love. in the face of continued gun violence in america, we demand change. the time,. nextst 161 vote for our president, joe biden. had mail-inwe have voting fo

. >> i am jamie harrison. speaking for the campus of south carolina state university. and for whom the honors college is name. 22 general officers to our service. 15 for bernie sanders and 49 for our next president of the u.s., joe biden. >> south dakota. of the tribe, i welcome you to the black hills, the site of my creations and the great sioux nation. we are all related. our next president must lead by this philosophy for the betterment of the next seven generations. we cast 17 votes for our next, jill biden. -- joe biden. >> tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. this year, i am testing my first presidential vote for joe biden. we will replace donald trump with a president who respects us tennessee casts 50 votes for our josephesident, mr. biden. ago, we were targeted by an arsonist and it devastated all of us. in the face of he, we choose love. in the face of continued gun violence in america, we demand change. the time,. nextst 161 vote for our president, joe biden. had mail-inwe have voting fo

host: jamie harrison is trying graham.lindsey is this race and play? guest: i don't think so. i think there was a story to be told back in late june when president trump was down 10 points. it looked like things might be getting out of hand. you might've seen a state like be incarolina that might play for democrats. since then, we've seen the polls shift toward donald trump. there is a momentum that biden and harris had in june. they still have a healthy leader. it is something akin to what barack obama had in 2008. it doesn't look like donald is going to lose in a jimmy carter fashion, or the floor completely falls out. websiteu can go to the where they trend all of the .olling, not only nationally the president has gained ground, especially after the republican convention. back to your phone calls. good morning. caller: good morning. another caller stole my thunder theturning -- concerning one about this? number one, people have -- we will see about it. we will see what happens. that is a tell that he doesn't know what he's doing. the massive amount people who were not suppo

guest: yes, and the democrat, jamie harrison, has been a strong candidate, has done the right thing. mainly, lindsey graham, a longtime republican from south carolina, has been weakened in many ways. to 2016, he said donald trump was the third cousin of the devil. now he says he is the greatest thing since string cheese. i do not think donald trump has changed all that much. there was something about the way graham approached donald trump and the dilemma democrats had in 2016 and really the dilemma they have to date your having said that, i think we would all be very, very shocked if graham actually lost. it is one thing to have a race lean your way, it is another thing to have an upset. there is a big difference between having a close and having it go against the incumbent, so we will see. it is possible. anything is possible. i can see the campaign moving in a way were democrats actually get comfortable, but i could also see it moving in a way where republicans retain, very narrowly, the senate. is pretty i think, secure for the democrats. host: last week, we talked to someone you

i think jamie harrison has a shot to pull this off. >> i think he has a shot. south cackalacky.e must be from louisiana. >> look, if i'm right, there's a chance we could pick up seven, eight senate seats. it would give us 53, 54 senators. but one thing we have to remember, 18% of the united states elects 52 senators. so the democratic caucus in a new senate, if i'm correct, will if anything be slightly more toward the biden or the realest wing of the democratic party than it would be more toward what i'd call the sanders idealistic wing of the party. and if you look at the senate map in 2022 -- that's how political i am -- you can see it's going to be florida, pennsylvania, north carolina, iowa, et cetera, et cetera. all of the urban strategists in this party have no answer when you point that out to them. we have to have a broad base coalition that allows us to win in places like south carolina, north carolina, montana, arizona, alaska, kentucky, maine, iowa, on across the board. and i think we can do that this cycle, but people have to understand that the united states senate

republican senator lindsey graham holds a slim lead over jamie harrison. one is leaning blue.le it's still too early to gauge how much of a bump biden's collection of kamala harris as vice president led to his campaign, biden's fortunes in november may depend largely on turning out black voters in battleground states that donald trump narrowly won four years ago. for more on this i want to bring in my panelists. so, we're looking at -- if you're on your side of the aisle, and david jolly is too for that matter in that way -- and you're looking at the number of senators that are in the r column that are toss up, you only need, what? a net four for the democrats to gain power again in the senate. and it seems to be ebbing that way. >> well, it's really good news because a couple of months ago, we would not have been having this conversation. were still tremendous amount of uncertainty about whether or not democrats really had a shot here. and to be clear, it's not in the bag. you know, we still have a tremendous amount of work ahead of us. but it is going in a positive direction

and my favorite moments were jamie harrison of south carolina at and his torically black college, miss cozy making it plain the black women in the party. and of course i wanted a bit of the calamari. >> and since he had congressman clyburn's late wife pictured right there next to him, that was a special moment. professor, let me ask you about something else we've seen. democrats every night, they have trotted out a different republican that apparently is endorsing joe biden are. we saw ohio governor john kasich, we saw last night general are cocolin powell, cin mccain. how much sway do you think hearing and seeing those voices, how much does that actually move people? is it just symbolic? >> you know, i have no idea. to my mind, it seems to me that it is purely symbolic. it represents the values of this big tent party. but it is also -- it illustrates the tension. how do you square john kasich's reassurance of those who support his politics that joe biden will not go so left, go too far left and you square that with what bernie sanders said to his constituency as he assured them that w

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. >> i am jamie harrison. speaking for the campus of south carolina state university. and for whom the honors college is name. 22 general officers to our service. 15 for bernie sanders and 49 for our next president of the u.s., joe biden. >> south dakota. of the tribe, i welcome you to the black hills, the site of my creations and the great sioux nation. we are all related. our next president must lead by this philosophy for the betterment of the next seven generations. we cast 17 votes for our next, jill biden. -- joe biden. >> tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. this year, i am testing my first presidential vote for joe biden. we will replace donald trump with a president who respects us tennessee casts 50 votes for our josephesident, mr. biden. ago, we were targeted by an arsonist and it devastated all of us. in the face of he, we choose love. in the face of continued gun violence in america, we demand change. the time,. nextst 161 vote for our president, joe biden. had mail-inwe have voting fo

he now finds himself in that with a democrat jamie harrison who is raising. he is an african-american businessman who came from poverty and appended the south carolina race. >> we always knew the republicans would have a tougher time because they have more seats being contended. at the same time, they have their candidate. they have to embrace him. they can't run against him. >> if remarkable. back during brett kavanaugh's confirmation, everyone was looking at people like senator susan collins who has the potential to navigate the treacherous political waters. it is typical at any convention for the incumbent to have to face dodges from members of their own party in terms of folks running and more moderate states that want to distance themselves. beyond that, this is my final point, the down ballot races are going to decide not just the direction of policy but also procedure for several years. a superemocrats obtain majority and the white house, the filibuster rule can be thrown out the window. that could have severe implications when you have former presiden

chairman, i'm jamie harrison. candidate for the united states senate.ing from the campus of south carolina state university. the alma mater of clyburn and the late doctor. for whom the college is named. this proud hbcu has contributed 22 general officers to our armed services. and tonight, i proudly cast south carolina's 64 votes as follows. 15 for bernie sanders and 49 for our next president of the united states, joe biden. >> south dakota. >> relatives. as a fern american and citizen of the standing rock tribe i welcome you to the black hills. the site of my creation story and home to the great sue nation. we say we are all related. our next president must lead by this philosophy for the next seven generations. we cast three votes for senator sanders and 17 votes for our next president joe biden. >> tennessee. >> 100 years ago tonight suffrage based here at the hotel in nashville cheered as tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment. granting women the right the vote. i'm casting my very first presidential vote for joe b

we have people like jamie harrison who is a neck and neck fight for the south carolina senate seat. this could be a historic time where the most african americans fill 4 or 5% of the senate but we have the chance to make the senate the most diverse in history and as far as the agenda, should we get mitch mcconnell back into the back benches or possibly he's got a tough race out of the senate altogether, i'm telling you right now, what mcconnell has called himself. this is not what his critics call him. he calls himself the grim reaper. in other words, that he has killed bipartisan bill after bipartisan bill coming out of the house of representatives. even 90% of americans agree on would be getting done right now if it wasn't for mitch mcconnell stopping things. so what i'm looking forward to is having a functional congress again because as a guy who does work across the aisle there is a lot we can agree on and it's time that we stop having the blockage or the grim reaper cutting down bills. >> thank you for that, senator. i want to mention that you and senator bloomenthal introduced

chairman, i am jamie harrison, candidate for the united states senate. campus of south carolina state university. the alma mater of jim clyburn. this proud hbcu has contributed 22 general officers to our armed services, and tonight, i proudly cast south carolina's 64 votes as follows. 15 for bernie sanders, and 49 for our next president of the united states, joe biden. >> south dakota. >> as a first american, and citizen of the standing rock sioux tribe, i welcome you to the black hills, home to the great sioux nation. we often say we are are all related. our next president must lead by this philosophy for the betterment of our next seven generations. we cast three votes for senator bernie sanders, and 1 votes for our next president, joe biden. >> tennessee. >> 100 years ago tonight, suffragists based here in nashville cheered as tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment. granting women the right to vote. this year, i'm casting my very first presidential vote for joe biden. women will decide this election, and we'll replac

jami jaime harrison, who we've talked about. he's raised a lot of money. south carolina being five points and that senate race being tied, again, that is not what the average of polls is showing and i think that's probably one of the best polls harrison's gotten. i wouldn't expect the race to be that close. and yet that is, like, it's hard to express how much of a four-alarm fire that is for the republican party if they're seeing anything like that in their internals right now. >> i mean, i think that it just shows how far the republican party is behind the electorate on a number of issues that matter. i mean, whether you're talking about the coronavirus, whether you're talking about the economy, and also whether you're talking about issues that you might not expect to be high priorities this year, like climate change. so we actually asked voters about issue areas like climate, and we found that they tend to be siding with the democrats on a number of issues, whether that be investing in clean energy. you know, environmental justice. ensuring that funds ar

host: jamie harrison is trying graham.lindsey is this race and play? guest: i don't think so. think there was a story to be told back in late june when president trump was down 10 points. it looked like things might be getting out of hand. you might've seen a state like be incarolina that might play for democrats. since then, we've seen the polls shift toward donald trump. there is a momentum that biden and harris had in june. they still have a healthy leader. it is something akin to what barack obama had in 2008. it doesn't look like donald is going to lose in a jimmy carter fashion, or the floor completely falls out. websiteu can go to the where they trend all of the .olling, not only nationally the president has gained ground, especially after the republican convention. back to your phone calls. good morning. caller: good morning. another caller stole my thunder theturning -- concerning one about this? number one, people have -- we will see about it. we will see what happens. that is a tell that he doesn't know what he's doing. the massive amount people who were not support

guest: yes, and the democrat, jamie harrison, has been a strong candidate, has done the right thing. lindsey graham, a longtime republican from south carolina, has been weakened in many ways. to 2016, he said donald trump was the third cousin of the devil. now he says he is the greatest thing since string cheese. i do not think donald trump has changed all that much. there was something about the way graham approached donald trump and the dilemma democrats had in 2016 and really the dilemma they have to date your having said that, i think we would all be very, very shocked if graham actually lost. it is one thing to have a race lean your way, it is another thing to have an upset. there is a big difference between having a close and having it go against the incumbent, so we will see. it is possible. anything is possible. i can see the campaign moving in a way were democrats actually get comfortable, but i could also see it moving in a way where republicans retain, very narrowly, the senate. is pretty i think, secure for the democrats. host: last week, we talked to someone you know wel

if you go from lindsey graham to harrison, you get the bins, to jamie who is a really terrific person he is in a dead heat in south by god carolina. >> absolutely. >> i've been in touch with all of them. i can't, i don't know about you but my deal with cnni can't no longer work for politicians but i can volunteer. i've been burning up the zoom lines doing campaigning for all candidates. mj is a bad-ass texas woman who rides motorcycle, reminds me of ann richards. >> can we turn texas blue? >> yes. abc, rival network, texas is a toss-up state. texas. john cornyn favor is 36. >> do you know her personal story? >> i knew her opponent. >> mj, she was a pilot in the army, rescuing wounded soldiers in afghanistan, a soldier gets wounded, she gets the call, helicopter gets shot down and mj gets shot and she's bleeding out, they send another chopper in and rescued woman soldier and mj and terrorists start fighting again. you know what mj did bleeding returned fire. so i love that race. i would even watch al gross in alaska. independent, likely caucus for democrats but he's a doctor but commer