there are electoral differences between minnesota and wisconsin. will you speak to some of the differences that you think are significant? >> yeah. i mean, first off, as you noted, you know, obviously, hillary clinton won in minnesota four years ago. she lost in wisconsin. but more than that, you know, if you just look at the geography and the bases within each state, right? obviously, in the state of minnesota, you have this huge metropolitan area in minneapolis/st. paul that is sort of this base for democratic votes. you don't really have that in wisconsin. you have milwaukee, which isn't as big of a metropolitan area as minneapolis/st. paul, and democrats are quite reliant on the big votes coming out of madison, but you have seen this great degradation of the more rural base in wisconsin, so i think minnesota is the safer bet for democrats. but obviously, the difference between minnesota and wisconsin, if you look at the polling data, has shrunk over the last four years. >> to be clear, you'd rather be joe biden than donald trump with regard to t

white house specifically later this afternoon and then will head to pennsylvania, when under minnesota, wisconsinall swing states, there has been no deal on congress, several weeks of negotiation with the white house chief of staff and the treasury secretary and house speaker nancy pelosi in chuck schumer, nothing came from that, no fruitful discussion came out of that. but the president calls himself the ultimate dealmaker, he always has, i asked him yesterday at a news conference, why not meet face-to-face a democrats, talk to them about the issues which he has yet to do. listen to his response. >> i think we have done very well, we had three phases, were into phase four and we've gotten everything that we wanted and we've gotten a great economy. my people are doing very good in my people are in mat office andy call me when it's right, nobody knows the deal better than i do, when it is right i will meet, right now it is not right. >> the president taking questions about the postal service, you heard a lot about the usps ahead of the election, millions of people are expected to send ballots in t

minnesota and wisconsin on monday.hen tuesday, arizona, and thursday, he'll be in joe biden's hometown scranton, pennsylvania. the night that joe biden accepts the democratic nomination. what do you think of the strategy? >> smart strategy particularly if the president continues the message he started tonight which was president, that joe biden if elected wants to raise taxes on small businesses, wants to bring regulations back, make it harder for employees to be able to find jobs make it harder for them to have good access to health care. if that's his message, he's going to have a good week and smart that he's in pennsylvania. andless also on the other side, keep in mind, that every time joe biden is at a big moment in his past presidential campaign, he has failed miserably. and is there any garn guarantee jon he's gong to give a speech life and not a pretape from his basement in wilmington, delaware? >> a third bite at the apple americans never warmed to joe biden as presidential candidate before. but he seems to be

tomorrow president trump plans to offer counter-programming with back to back campaign events in minnesota, wisconsin and arizona, delivering remarks with the theme "joe biden failures." major. >> garrett: weijia jiang, thank you so much. this week's national democratic convention will be, it is fair to say, like no other in history, virtual, no crowds, because of the pandemic. a new cbs news battleground tracker poll shows democrats overwhelmingly like joe biden's choice of a running mate, the survey shows biden and kamala harris leading in electoral votes and in many of the battleground states. cbs news political correspondent ed o'keefe joins me for more on the race ahead in this unconventional convention. ed, our poll also says something about democratic hunger. what do they want that they haven't gotten yet? >> reporter: they want to hear more, major, from joe biden and kamala harris. and democrats overall about why they want to retake the white house, what they would do if they did so, rather than the well-worn, well-known attacks on president trump and vice president pence. if democrats can do

democratic national convention next week, planning campaign events in key battleground states like minnesota, wisconsin, arizona and pennsylvania lester >> kristen welker at the white house, thank you. >>> the president tonight once again pushing for schools to reopen, but districts across the country are learning just how challenging that process is as more close down to cope with surges in covid cases. here's tom costello with that. >> reporter: for millions of students from florida to indiana, louisiana to arizona, the new school year is already off to a rough start in cherokee county, georgia, a second high school has now closed after 14 confirmed cases. nearly 1,200 students and staff quarantined districtwide. >> there were a lot of kids walking through the hallway. there was no way to socially distance and also going in and out of the cafeteria >> reporter: 45 minutes away that high school where students packed the halls, many without masks, closed for a third day today. >> unfortunately they did get it, but i just feel like that's the risk some of us seniors are willing to take to have our senio

this is the reason he is in position to win in minnesota and wisconsin again.odd: the latest cnn poll is fascinating. it shows the president just trailing joe biden by one% in a polling of battleground voters. with that in mind as donald trump win your state of minnesota and also take wisconsin, both battleground states. >> i don't know you can trust these polls as i think the president is doing better than cnn is showing, they are using the same approach they use four years ago and we saw where those polls ended up after 2016. the president's message every building their economy which started in restoring law and order across this country is the message most americans want to hear is oppose what is being offered by the other side which is raising trillions of dollars of taxes, defunding the police and pushing government healthcare, socialized medicine. >> john kasich, we heard from him last night making a plea to independents and anti-from republicans to get the vote out for joe biden. what was his message about being a crossroads as we see in his video and wh

tomorrow president trump plans to offer counter-programming with back to back campaign events in minnesota, wisconsinzona, delivering remarks with the theme "joe biden failures." >> garrett: weijia jiang, thank you so much. this week's national democratic convention will it is fair to say like no other in history, virtual, no crowd, because of the pandemic. a new cbs news battleground tracker poll shows democrats overwhelmingly like joe biden's choice of a running mate, the survey s shows biden and kamala harris leading in electoral votes and in many of the battleground states. cbs news political correspondent ed o'keefe joins me for more on the race ahead in this unconventional convention. ed, our poll also says something about democratic hunger. what do they want that they haven't gotten yet. >> reporter: they want to hear more, major from joe biden and kamala harris. and democrats overall about why they want to retake the white house, what they would do if they did so, rather than the weelorn,lln l-kn ws attaowck president pence. if democrats can do that it might help address one of the other nota

. >> mayors and governors from minnesota wisconsin, oregon, washington denied the president's attemptrn the keys of the country over to. they are all voting for biden, to engage in this political calculation, putting partisan interests above the safety of our people. trump doesn't need political wind to push them in the right decision. >> your vote will decide whether we protect law-abiding americans are give free reign to violence and our guests, to threaten our citizens. >> to drive that point home, the president asks an important question. >> at the democrat national convention, joe biden and his party repeatedly assailed america, racial, economic and social injustice so tonight i ask you a simple question. how can the democrat party asked to be our country when it spent so much time tearing down our country. >> they can't and they shouldn't but the left is obsessed with power and the president said tonight, it by any means necessary. and like donald trump who puts people's interests first, they put political interests first and that is why they want to take the reins of power from

he's taking his message to battleground states today and today he travels to minnesota and wisconsin and tomorrow arizona and then thursday he will head to pennsylvania. all of this while in washington the battle over mail-in ballots continues with senator pelosi announcing she's bringing congress back to secure emergency funding writing this: reporter: the white house has been pushing back saying they support increased funding for the postal service, but disagree with the relief package of bailout of many democratic states. the president campaign is doing a response every night after the dnc events at 11:00 p.m. pushing back on what they see as a radical tickets. rob: last year at this time if you had said mail would be a big issue i would have said you are nuts. chris, thank you. gillian: with anticipation hot for the dnc mark levine host of my-- said biden's vp choice is as far as left as they go. >> far left as 97% of the democrats in the senate, left of democratic socialist bernie sanders. she's not moderate or a pragmatist like the "new york times" are trying to tell you. she w

in minnesota, wisconsin, arizona and pennsylvania as he continues to rail against voting by mail. >>k at the catastrophe in new jersey but new jersey had more than just patterson. >> new jersey governor is trying to debunk that claim. >> the patterson experience was a local election in may before the primary and i'd view that differently. ip that is a positive data point. some guys try to screw around with a system and they got caught by law enforcement and have been indicted. they will pay a price. >> this week the president said he's willing to make it harder to both by mail. he's letting the postal service run into major funding problems and house speaker nancy pelosi is considering cutting august recess sure to fund the usps. >> i guess he thinks that a suppressed vote, lower voter turnout, will work for him and that will help him win the election. >> the trump campaign says that is not the point. >> we believe in absentee voting and in early voting but we do not believe in blanketing a city or state with everything a person who is listed on the voter rolls because we know that t

i have been traveling around wisconsin and i was on my motorcycle yesterday in iowa and minnesota, asisconsin talking to voters. they're not talking about this at all. they don't know about this at all. something that is largely an obsession on the media and what they were talking about joe biden's statements this weekend that if he was elected president he would shut the entire country down by as early as january if that's what advisors told him. that's what people get worked up about, not things like this that are largely a focus of the washington public. >> i'm not asking from a public. it seems as if the president, i take your point. maybe some people aren't talking about it. but a domestic terror threat and social media is the tool that recruits these people. >> i want to make it clear, like i said, i don't think there is any place in the republican party nor in politics in general for these kind of conspiracy eo out there. but what i am saying in terms of the obsession of this, this is not something we're hearing out talking to voters. what they are more worked up about is joe b

georgia, new york, florida, minnesota, wisconsin, iowa, arizona. that is our focus right now.f republicans can win in those, not only is it important politically important, but we will be in great shape for redistricting. >> a lot of the state you mentioned are the critical battleground states for the presidential contest, for the senate races -- how does that impact the state legislative races, where strong campaign might bring $100,000. how do you compete and make a difference when you are the 17th or 18th race on the ballot? >> the national election certainly impacts this. there are 115 districts across our target states that donald trump one in 2016 that he will likely win in 2020. we need him to be successful in those so we can win those districts. there are some places where we will have to win where the president might not do so well in. having the president on the ballot is a great benefit in those target districts, where we need to hold legislative majorities. to comethat enthusiasm out and vote for the president and go all the weight down the ballot for congress, u.s

visiting important voters in important states, four battleground states as you described today, minnesota, wisconsinursday, pennsylvania. the vice president will be in wisconsin on wednesday. so what we will be talking about, what the president will be saying is drawing a contrast between his great record and joe biden's 47 years of failure and the terrible ideas that he's proposing now. what you won't hear at the democratic national convention, like that joe biden would raise taxes by $4 trillion, that he would open our borders, give taxpayer funded health care to illegal aliens and also give them work permits so they compete with americans for jobs. also imposing the green new deal on every single person in this country and killing millions more jobs that way. so this is our counter programming but we know at the end of this week, with the billions of dollars in free advertising that he's gotten since he picked kamala harris from the national news media, we do expect to see joe biden get a really sizeable bump out of this. the historic -- the usual convention bump. but a big one, even eight or ten

arizona, minnesota, wisconsin and pennsylvania. what you think about that?president is how you acted as a candidate. if you think you can hide from the american people, you can't. you can, use social distancing to the white house. people will not accept it. you can get out, do it safely, based the people but here's the test. let's see where he goes. see if he goes to the inner cities and addresses that. it's where he spends his time and what he says. jon: at the same time, the clear politics average shows when you look at the polling in key swing states, joe biden is still up over the sitting president, 48% 45.3. >> i don't like the polls. i didn't buy them in 2016, i don't buy them now. they have their own polls which cannot match the polls reflected being reported in the national media. trump learned a lesson in 2016 about polling. the micro- targeting, you get out the vote effort in the rnc and trump campaign is unmatched so i rely on that. jon: we saw in 2016, the polls about the wrong. we are expecting the same kind of thing happen this time. >> i expec

planning to break tradition this week and campaign himself and swing states like pennsylvania, minnesota, wisconsin and arizona during his opponent convention to offer a counter programming to what the democrats are planning which is two hours a night four nights in a row. >> this entire week starting this morning we are flooding the zone and taken her message to the american people, were all over the sunday shows, the campaign folks and the president himself while joe biden and all of his surrogates have chosen to ignore the sunday shows on the ee of their convention. >> we do not know what president trump's events are going to look like in the swing states yet but we know in wilmington wednesday and thursday remarks are kamala harris and joe biden are being set up to be fully socially distant, they are not setting anything up to host members of the public or supporters or voters, it is pretty much going to be the candidate, their staff, security and us. leland: by assuming some reporters will be allowed inside the venue to speak? >> right, it is going to be again socially distant, everybody's goi

minnesota, wisconsin and arizona. greg lee, ktvu, fox 2 news. >>> stay with ktvu for coverage of the democratic national convention. coverage begins every day at four clock pm. the main speakers will be shown on interrupted beginning at 7:00. we are planning similar coverage for the republican convention the following week. >>> a new poll shows the presumptive democratic nominee for president, joe biden, is maintaining a wide lead over president trump with about 2.5 months left until the election, wall street journal nbc poll found that 50% of voters nationally said they would vote for biden if the election were held today. more enthusiasm wafrom trump supporters. >>> nancy pelosi is calling the house back into session this week because of the postal service crisis. she wants the house to vote on a bill prohibiting the u.s. postal service from making changes ahead of the election. the representatives are expected to go back to capitol hill on saturday. the accusations that the new postmaster general is deliberately tr

the planning telling nbc news, he's going travel to several battleground states including minnesota, wisconsinona, and pennsylvania. on the same day vice president mike pence will travel to wisconsin and likely accuse democrats of, quote, abandoning the state for pulling most of their convention from milwaukee just houring before biden will be headlining the final hours of the dnc from his home in delaware because of the pandemic. joining me once again, political reporter from "the hill," julia manchester. so i don't think any of us were surprised to hear the president was going to do some of this counterprogramming as we are now learning as the dnc gets under way. especially interesting that he's going to go to pennsylvania where he feels like he's going to hurt joe biden in his hometown. what can we expect from the president next week? >> yasmin, what's so interesting is that in a number of these states where you've seen vice president mike pence not only travel for official business but also political business and campaigning, you know, joe biden is leading in those states in a number of ba

biden is planning visits to battle ground states including minnesota, wisconsin, pennsylvania and arizonaday. >>> president trump made no mention of jacob blake shot seven times in the back by police in front of his kids. now his family says he's handcuffed to his hospital bed. even though he's paralyzed from the waist down. why is this happening? no one -- no one seems to be able to explain this and it's a familiar theme in this case. answers are few and far between almost a week down after this incident. blake's uncle says the handcuffs add insult to injury. here's wisconsin's governor. >> certainly, he's paid a horrific price already being shot seven or eight times in the back. so i can't imagine why that's happening. >> 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse will be in court today in illinois. he's charged with killing two people while acting as a vigilante on the streets of kenosha this week. police say he called a friend in between the two shootings to say he killed somebody. inflammatory comments from 2018 have surfaced from the kenosha county sheriff. this was after a car chase for black su

trump is planning to break tradition this week and campaign in swing states like pennsylvania, minnesota, wisconsin arizona during his opponent's convention to try to offer some counterprogramming to the democrats' plan two hours a night, four nights in a row. >> this entire week starting today, starting this morning we are flooding the zone, taking the message to the american people. we are all over sunday shows both the campaign folks as well as the president himself while joe biden and all of his surrogates have chosen to ignore the sunday shows, on the eve of their convention. peter: we don't know what the president's campaign events are going to look like just yet for the rest of the week but we do know that the in-person remarks from biden and harris that are going to be here in wilmington, delaware are going to be fully socially distanced. the party is not setting up for supporters to be there, really, it's just going to be campaign staff security and press and the candidate. arthel. arthel: you're magical. thanks, peter. fox news -- fox news will be covering all angles of the democratic nat

okay, in a swing state of minnesota and wisconsin today, the president was on the road and on offense. against high-profile democrats at the dnc tonight. >> they are making speeches that are single wants to listen to michelle obama to a taped speech? you've got to have her get up there. we are doing a real speech on thursday, next thursday, so you'll be listening. >> shannon: chief white house correspondent john roberts wraps up a very busy day for the president and for him too. good evening, john. >> shannon, it has long been an unwritten courtesy that rival campaigns stay dark during the other 'convention. that tradition went out the window in 2016 and again this year. president trump counter programming the democrats' virtual convention within person campaign events. president trump with three campaign stops in battleground minnesota and wisconsin today, but don't call them rallies. >> we are not supposed to call them rallies. i hereby grant you a pardon. we will call it a peaceful protest, that way we can do whatever we want. >> the president accepting the endorsement of more than

did i mention the president was in minnesota, wisconsin and has four more trips?ews now, more than 200 members of the mormon church haas week published an open letter opposing president trump after the campaign recently launched a latter day saints for trump coalition. never in their letter did these apparently disgruntled mormons talk about their senator mitt romney's action as the lone republican senator who voted to convict the president who was obviously innocent in the radical dem' sham impeachment trial -- dems' sham impeachment trial, nor his hesitancy to investigate joe biden or the romney-burisma connection through a friend and ties that appears it might be politicized. president trump leads biden by 19 points in utah, home of the mormon church, according to the latest news from the desert news, the hinkley institute polling. joining us tonight is pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the new york post, fox business contributor michael goodwin. michael, good to see you. let's start with, let's just start with the mormons and romney. romney coming out again

. >> reporter: and president trump is making campaign stops in minnesota and wisconsin. his first of several in key battleground states. the president accused biden of trying to push the agenda of the progressives. >> joe biden is nothing but their puppet. heel has no clue of what's happening. >> reporter: julie back to you. >>> today with ktvu with ongoing convention coverage we will have ups starting 481 interrupted coverage at 7. >>> new to latest on two wildfires that are burning in napa county. both are started thigmorning when intense lightning and thunderstorms moved across the bay area. debra has more. >> reporter: frank, both have zero containment. the gamble is that 24 acres and the henacy is the one that's threatening homes. >> reporter: the sight and sound too familiar in california. wildfires developing in brush and trees. this morning they watched the henacy fire grow and by evening, they agria today to leave. >> we were asked to evacuate and we're getting our possessions and will leave in a few minutes. >> reporter: they're hoping a fire doesn't top a ridg

we only need to win one of these upper midwest and mid-atlantic states with minnesota, wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania to re-elect the president. we have many more pathways to victories than democrats do. i'd rather be in our shoes than theirs right now. >> your pathway assumes you carry florida. >> we will. florida's trump country. >> every single night of the convention president trump will speak? >> you will have president trump speaking at various parts through each of the nights. we have some big surprises lined up. make sure you're tuning in, chuck. >> i will be there as all of nbc will. jason miller, senior adviser with the trump campaign. i appreciate you coming on and sharing your perspective. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >>> and joining me now on behalf of the biden campaign is former presidential candidate pete buttigieg of indiana. mayor buttigieg, welcome back to "meet the press." let me start with the following sort of assumption here which it certainly appears to me that the democratic campaign coming out of this convention in some ways is very similar to the democrat

he's talking about making stops in arizona, minnesota, wisconsin, pennsylvania, so that's something thatll keep tabs on in the coming months heading into november. >> for sure, and states that hillary clinton was criticized for not visiting, right, in the crucial weeks and months leading up to 2016. arlette saenz, thanks very much. >>> the second highest ranking republican in the house is facing criticism for sharing a doctored video of joe biden, that's right, it was doctored. congressman steve scalise showed an interview between biden and a progressive activist ati barkin who has a.l.s., lou gehrig's voice that uses an artificial voice to speak. the clip was edited to mislead about biden's stance on funding police. this is key, that the number two republican in the house shared this. you know, twitter has been more forward leaning, right, in calling out stuff from the president and others that's either false or misleading or doctored? what did they do here and what effect did it have? >> to go just blatant miss information, particularly distasteful given that ati barkin has a.l.s. and

. >> mayors and governors from minnesota, wisconsin, oregon, denied the president's attempt to bringthey rejected it all together. so are these the leaders that we want to turn the keys of the country over to? they all vote for biden. the ones that engage in this disgusting political calculation. so they're putting partisan interesting above the safety of our people? trump doesn't need political wins to push him in the right position. he's always been there. >> your vote will decide is whether we protect law-abiding americans or whether we give free reign to violent anarchists and agitators and criminals that threaten our citizens. >> to drive that point home, the president asked an important question tonight. watch. >> at the democrat national convention, joe biden and his party repeatedly assailed america as a land of racial economic and social injustice. so tonight i ask you a simple question. how can the democrat party ask to lead our country when they spend so much time tearing down our country. >> the answer is they can't and they shouldn't. the left is obsessed with power and

among the stops, minnesota and wisconsin and the president claims the only way he will lose is if the election is rigged. >> just like they want to rig the election with all of the mail-in ballots. let's send out 62 million ballots. some say you shouldn't talk about it. i never talk about it. >> the latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows biden leading trump nationally 50 to 41%. >> the governor announced today santa cruz county has been taken off of the state watch list and it happened on friday. the list is constantly changing. counties are put on the list with three straight days of concerning numbers and taken off the list of three days of positive trends. all nine bay area counties are still on the governor's watch list. >> bending the rules to prove a point. hair stylists opened their salons and invited health officials inside to show they can safely reopen. the stylist should be the same category as dentists and physical therapists but they are grouped with bars and restauranted. the extended closure is changing the landscape of the industry. >> if you can't go to the

democrats build up biden, president trump stopping and stumping in critical battleground states minnesota, wisconsinizona, countering the convention with repeated attacks on his opponents, calling 2020 the most consequential election. >> this election that we're eling into is the most important because we had crooked hillary, but this is something, these people are sick. >> reporter: tonight we'll get our first look at somebody on the ticket, the vice presidential candidate kamala harris. a headliner will also be another familiar face, former president barack obama. will? mona? >> andrew, thank you. >>> we'll have analysis from the abc news political experts ahead in this half hour. logon or tune in for tonight's coverage right here on abc. >>> now to the latest .icemopments in the coronavirus have been diagnosed with the virus, and morth people have died. a penn stateve aniitutrsy 2,5f students could contract covid-19 if the school resumes in-person classes. that study also says two students would die within 90 days. university officials claim the research is flawed. abc's steve osunsami has more o

that is why he carried wisconsin, almost minnesota, carried pennsylvania. coalitions are changing. as coalitions change, people that grew up in one party see it moving away from them. i think that's what we saw. i heard a comment about the underfunded postal service. 1972,stal service, since has had to operate on its own without federal subsidies. many of us went to the obama administration and said the postal service is in trouble. the business model they grew up with is gone because you have competitionfaxes, from ups and fedex and other groups, and it needs reform. inability, when you have a democratic congress, a republican in congress, they stayed away from it because it was unpopular. only in an election year are they raising this. these letters that went out to the states were approved by an attorney for the post office general counsel prior to the new postmaster general coming in. he will answer questions before congress next week, as you should, but it speaks more to the postal service's need for reform for some time if it is going to remain financially viable. to try to p

president trump is heading out shortly for a campaign swing through minnesota, wisconsin.e's talking with reporters at the white house before he takes off. we can't show you that video live. if he makes news and so far he's really just talked about belarus, he's talked about maybe a surprise trip to iowa today, we'll bring it to you, we're monitoring it and you'll see it live right here. all of it is going on against the backdrop of the prolonged pandemic in this country. this morning, as we make sure you know the facts, we start with good news on a new method of testing. federal officials are giving emergency approval to a saliva test developed by researchers at yale. this was first given to nba players and staff, the fda commission eer calls the test groundbreaking. why? it is simple and less expensive. the reality is grim, with another devastating milestone in this country, 170,000 americans now dead from the virus, right now there are more than 5.4 million confirmed cases of covid-19 across the country. and overseas, the prime minister there is postponing the general e

going to minnesota, wisconsin, arizona, and pennsylvania later in the week. we know when the president is out on the road and he talks directly to the americans about what he wants to do and what he's been able to accomplish, in such a short amount of time on their behalf, making their lives better, we know that resonates, and so did the democrats and so do media members. they hate it. >> harris: i do want to bring this up, because you talked about what resonates with the american people. you got your plan there. there was clearly a plan last night to keep it positive. jill biden is getting credit today by some including he our n brit hume, who has been a journalist in politics a long time, saying she did a good job last night. she never even mentioned president trump's name. she talked about uniting the country. i want to watch a bit of that and get your reaction to it. >> we just need leadership worthy of our nation. worthy of you. honest leadership, to bring us back together. to recover from this pandemic, and prepare for whatever else is next. leadership,

he held an event with the new york city police benevolent here, he'll swing through minnesota, wisconsin, pennsylvania and arizona in the coming days and that's likely to be what we will see replacing any kind of rally in the coming months and it's just about two and a half months away, coming up quick, leland. leland: quick, indeed. mercedes is up in wisconsin and we'll talk with her and team trump in a couple of minutes. thank you. kristin: joe biden and kamala harris wasting no time hitting the campaign trail together and raising record-breaking fund raising dollars ahead of the democratic national convention next week. jacqui heinrich is live from wilmington, delaware, hi. >> hey, kristin, yeah, it appears the democrats may be closing the enthusiasm gap a little bit after adding harris to the ticket. in the 48 hours after announcing harris as biden's running mate, the biden campaign brought in $48 million and that's really a lot of money when you consider that biden only raised a little over 60 million dollars in all of 2019. also, new this morning, the campaign releasing its first a

now we have some big battleground states from nevada to arizona, florida to north carolina, minnesota, wisconsin and michigan, all already lean biden. we think biden has a lead of 5 points or more. what's interesting here, savannah, is that the states that we haven't assigned, iowa, ohio, georgia and texas are toss-up states right now. he doesn't have to win any of them and he'd still win the presidency with barack obama-like electoral vote numbers. >> you're talking about joe biden. but just for those who remember this movie from 2016, chuck, when folks like you and all of us put up polls and put up maps that said that hillary clinton would win and now you're showing us a similar map, i think a lot of people sitting at home are probably a little skeptical. >> that's okay, i'll give you the trump path. it exists, it's legit. it's the same thing. there's a way for him to do this. it's very narrow. but when you're trailing in the national popular vote by the numbers he's trailing, in order for the president to get to this path, he needs to get a job approval rating north of 46%. he's not been nort

writing, how does the appeal really appeal in john kasich ohio in pennsylvania, and places like minnesota, wisconsindoes this really appeal? >> it doesn't, and the democrats today are the party of the rich, the party of coastal elites, manhattan and san francisco, kamala harris was a bold move to lockdown the vote in san francisco, and that's who they are trying to appeal to is the radical left, when it comes to working men and women, when it comes to union members, when it comes to the ohio steel worker, they were nowhere to be found. the democrats don't have a message for teamsters. they don't have a message for right now nt for mobs are burning police union halls. they used to be that union leaders would stand together, but the democrats have said, we care more about the woke mob than we do about standing with cops or firefighters or working men and women, and to go tonight without saying a meaningful word about the riots and the police officers being murdered, it is an example of how the democratic party, they are getting more and more extreme. and it's all because they hate donald trump. that's

does this appeal, really appealed to john kasich ohio and pennsylvania and in places like minnesota, wisconsindoes this really appeal to stu stuff? >>? well, it doesn't and the democrats today are the parity of the rich, party of coastal elites, party of manhattan and san francisco and kamala harris and theis bold move to lock down the boat in san francisco. that is who they are trying to appeal to, the radical left. when it comes to working men and women and when it comes to union members, when it comes to the ohio steel worker, they were nowhere to be found. the democrats don't have the message for the teamsters, the democrats don't have a message for right now. and t for mobs or police union homes and it used to be that unions would stand together bute care more about the wolk mob than we do about standing with cops or firefighters or working men and women and to go tonight without saying a meaningful worried about the riots, the police officers being murdered,ei it's an example of w the democratic party, they are getting more and more extreme and it is all because they hate donald trump an

he barnstormed through minnesota and wisconsin today. >> nobody is going to want to cover sleepy joe.ll end up with one very boring socialist country that will go to hell. >> o'donnell: and ed joins us now with more on that question, how is the democratic party hoping to address that enthusiasm gap that exists? >> reporter: norah, tonight at least they will be relying on the former first lady and senator sanders, both of whom are expected to talk about biden's character. the former first lady expected to talk about what she saw over his eight years as vice president to her husband, and sanders is expected to talk about biden's open mindedness and willingness to embrace more progressive ideas. that appearance with cardi b. and interviews that kamala harris gave over the weekend to women's publications are all designed to motivate younger, minority and female voters that the party know they will need in order to win in november. >> o'donnell: ed o'keefe, thank you. and a programming note, we will have live coverage of the convention starting tonight at 7:00 pacific. hope you will join u

trump tried to change the channel with some counterprogramming in the key swing states of minnesota and wisconsin. >> they're making speeches that are taped. who wants to listen to michelle obama do a taped speech. no, you have to have her get up there. >> and joe biden will accept his party's nomination later this week from wilmington, delaware. republicans will hold their convention next week. in washington, ines de la cuetara. >> thank you. >>> special coverage of the democratic national convention starting at 7:00 tonight right here on abc7. "jeopardy" and "wheel of fortune" will not air at their normal times. abc7 news at 11:00. >> god bless you. >> nasty. >> oh, my. another racist incident caught on camera and now we're learning more about what happened. >>> and from michael finney college students who can't pay for their apartment during the pandemic. >>> before we get to all those stories, though, checking in with mike. today we're still talking about the heat. >> we really are. the heat, we will get a little bit of a dropoff tomorrow and thursday. we'll try to get temperatures closer to

all of this is happening against racial tension sparked by police shootings in georgia, minnesota and wisconsin. protests turned into riots and looting and violence. peter doocy in delaware with the democratic nominee's decision to hit the road after labor day. mike emanuel in washington on the politics of violence and we begin with kristin fisher at the white house and the trump team's message after a big night. good evening, chris. >> it was, brett. fox learned that the trump campaign and republican national committee raised $76 million over the last four days. for comparison, the biden campaign and the democrats raised 70 million during their convention. so the republicans definitely came out on top there. as for president trump right now, he's in the air and on his way to his first campaign event since the convention. before he left the white house this afternoon, we saw a continuation of the president using his executive power to make another one of those made-for-tv moments. >> we're taking alice from commutation to a full pardon. >> he gave her a pardon on the unconventional convention w

minnesota and wisconsin are both swing states, very crucial for the election. trump losing minnesota by less than 2 points in 2016 he won wisconsin by less than one point the real clear politics average of polls not quite so close this time around as you can see but we've got connell mc shane whose on the road again, again, swinging through the swing states to see how the economies in this place is going to impact the election you're in racine, wisconsin you just couldn't sit still, connell off you go. connell: yeah, i'm really excited actually cheryl to get out of the house, right, for a couple weeks we'll hit as many swing states as we can and beginning here, as you said it was so close and so important for the president last time around, if he's going to win in wisconsin, the next time he'll have to again dominate the farm vote which we've been focused on here in the ground, dairy farmer s like dave daniels went big in the president's way the last time and dave when i spoke to him said he's leaning towards voting that way again but he's not yet completely sol

part of that reason, no doubt, that president trump is headed to minnesota and wisconsin today, is that they are key states. he's going to be talking about the economy. he's also talking about traveling to iowa, which has been hit by so much rain. >> a surprise visit to iowa if we can get it in we're going to do that. but the very important thing is that we approved the emergency declaration for iowa. so they're in good shape. they're working as we speak. also fema is in iowa now full force. >> reporter: trump would later say i like iowa, they're loyal. he won iowa in the six electoral votes in 2016. most of the news today is going to be about the convention and politics. but let's keep an eye on iowa as you know that storm with hurricane-force winds went through the midwest. that was last week. and there are still 83,000 iowans without power. that's how powerful that storm was. it was a week ago. >> wow. all right. scott mcgrew reporting for us. don't forget to join nbc news tonight for prime time coverage of the dnc race. coverage begins at 7:00 tonight. >>> new at 11:00 for you, the

among the list of trump's stops, minnesota and wisconsin. during today's speeches, the president claimed that the only way he'll lose the election is, quote, if the election is rigged. >> just like they want to try and rig the election with all these mail-in ballots. let's send out 62 million ballots. let's send -- well, you know, some people say, gee, you shouldn't talk -- i got to talk about it. >> the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows biden leading trump nationally 50% to 41%. >>> still ahead, gunned down while helping a woman with her groceries. tonight a powerful and emotional memorial for a young man killed outside of the safeway where he worked. >>> plus it's been removed. the local county just taken off the governor's watch list. >>> and we're still seeing inland temperatures into the 80s here after 11:00 as we see day four of five ahead on our excessive heat warning. when cooler temperatures will be making a comeback in our forecast when we come right back. we love our new home. there's so much space. we have a guestr