north carolina for president biden for our slate of democratic candidates and turn north carolina blue in 2024. we are working hard and we are glad to see the president and vice president today. we are a targeted state and we will continue to work hard to ensure this election preserves our democracy. preserves women's reproductive freedom. preserves the opportunity for people to get health care because i think that is what everyday americans care about right now. >> we have a piece of new ins here. marilynlands has just won the house district seat in alabama. on a platform. she is a democrat. on a platform of repealing alabama's no exception abortion plan. for those of us who don't understand how north carolina works, why is it that statewide, a guy like you got more votes than donald trump that donald trump did in 2020 yet at the same time, you have a veto proof majority in your state houses? what is the thing we have to understand that puts mark robinson in play given that the things he stands for stand in stark contrast to what people in north carolina want particularly as it relate

we'll go to north carolina. he has a problem among the places where who better voting for nikki haley, republicans voted for them. so you watch that play out, and then you come up here. we were talking earlier. he was behind it for now. he's one vote ahead. one vote, one vote, one vote. tell me that your vote doesn't matter. >> one vote. witch, which again, we're not done for the night. but if you do what we do in your on live television on that long, the seesaw is part of the magic of democracy and so 48.2 to 48 point to a third of the vote in, we will continue to watch vermont we do that because it's important. >> all 50 >> all 50 states matter and every vote in the matters. but again, to not overstate it, it's fine and it's interesting, it's fascinating. we'll watch it. but when you just look at the scope of that, jake from coast will see where we are. we touched the other coast tonight and we get to alaska and we're going to get to that coast. and so susan collins of maine had the guts to stand up to donald

not only for north carolina but for the country.mean, we cannot have somebody representing the ninth most populous state in the country, who denies the climate crisis, who denies the 2020 election results, who denies even the holocaust. we are better than that. but of course, what governor cooper said that's fundamentally true is we have to educate voters and that costs a lot of money. i hope that folks will support and embrace our campaign. and to learn more or to contribute, you can go to joshstine.org. >> tell me how much abortion is going to play into this race. i know your video is freezing. at least good we have your audio. letting the audience know that's what's happening. there is now in the state of north carolina a 12-week abortion ban. thanks in part n, in large part to a woman named tricia cotham, who switched parties and gave republicans in the state house a supermajority. will that supermajority be in jeopardy in this race, do you believe? and do you think abortion is one of the leading issues that will help you? >> th

joshstein won the democratic primary in north carolina, so that sets the stage for north carolina to be a big state come november. it sets the stable to be a showdown between someone who represents stability and someone that represents extremism, which probably sounds pretty familiar to you. there's clearly a lot happening from the top to the bottom on the ticket races across the country, and the next two hours, we'll unpack what we know tonight, what we may still learn and what this all means tomorrow and of course, november of 2024. the panel is going to join me in just a moment. they're all here with a lot to stay, and we'll go to steve at the big board. i want to ask you about the senate race in california, because that's a biggie in the last half hour. >> you can see overall, the delegate numbers changing, 63636 delegates is trump leading by 8e62 and haley barely cracking 15% of the vote and he's already winning handedly, and he'll get more delegates and approaching 1100 delegates, and if you hook at the results and fast forward a week when you have georgia, when you have missis

north carolina just did. to push hard. you look at trump and robinson. it's double trouble at the top of the ticket in north carolina. i think that's going to bring a lot of people out to vote. reproductive freedom for women is going to be a strong issue in north carolina this time. health care with medicaid just expanding and hundreds of thousands of people getting health care. donald trump has just said he wants to rip it away. he wants to gut the affordable care act. we have to be really careful about that because this is one of the few promises that he actually tried to keep when he was president. the affordable care act was in significant danger then. and he will do it again. >> and we know that one of the races that's also happening is the race to potentially replace the former democrat who switched, you know, you have got a lot of intrigue around abortion, obviously, and there is now a super majority in your state that is poised to essentially rob women of their reproductive rights. do you think that i

and the fact is, the population of north carolina is on your side as it relates to abortion rights but the republicans did it anyway. >> this is not who we are, north carolinians. the thing about it is that every single republican voted to override my veto. every single democrat voted to sustain it. even republicans who had promised that they wouldn't do it, that shows you that we just cannot believe them. many republicans are so extreme that they are trying to moderate a little bit but we cannot believe them because every single one of them voted that way. we saw it in the supreme court today. clearly they are just going after women's reproductive freedom in every way that they could possibly think of. that's why it's important to defeat candidates like robinson hearing north carolina with a great economy from our attorney general and that is why we have to elect joe biden and kamala harris. they will put roe versus wade into federal law if we can get a congress that would send them a bill. if they were here today there's no better place than north carolina for them to come today to c

i thank my friend from north carolina for yielding.it's so important that we have this debate on the floor and that we pass the laken riley act. it would be more sfinight in this very chamber if joe biden joined us and said he was going to finally take action using the same pen that on day one when he became president he used to undo all of those actions that were securing our border if he would say he's going to reverse those actions. he can work to restore the remain in mexico protocol. getting us back to a functioning asylum process. he could take direct action with his own pen, no actongress, to end catch and release so that when people come here by the millions as they have, they are not just allowed to go into the intenor of our country -- country where we don't know where they are going. governors can't tell you how many have cometheir states illegally. you see it in cities where they are showing up and shutting down schools and gymnasiums to house people. this is out of control and joe biden created the mess. he could solve t b

he's already been on the air in north carolina, so north carolina is going to be the new virginia, mark my words. save the tape. >> i don't want you not to have a chance to share your thoughts on mark robinson. this guy is nominated is be in the governor in a party you once were a part of. >> it's the end of the world as we know it. he's rough, okay? we've got a lot of rough candidates in the republican party, my former party. i think he looks kari lake look pretty mainstream, frankly. the list of his comments on facebook and other social media forums, it's not good. so the question is can there be the reverse? you haven't seen a whole lot of that, and i think the big question is when you're going into charlotte, you're talking to my people, not the gays this time, the former republicans, the banker in charlotte, they're worried about the state economy with this guy. there are practical concerns. i don't imagine they're voting against him because they care about gay rights. >> or jay-z. >> and so the question is can you get that person to vote for stein and biden? and is that even worth

how important is north carolina for president? biden's reelectionon chances >> not just that we join her in the motorcade, which was to be on the coolest experience my entire life as a young person, but also as someone that worked for her when she was running for president in 2019 and the iowa caucuses. but it was exciting because her campaign also did a stop with 75 young organizers from across that's north carolina. we did a youth organizer training around and relational organizing tool called reach that we are going to implement across the state this year. in particular, on college campuses to help young people organize young people because we know that's what's going to drive out the base this year in north carolina, it's what won barack obama, north carolina in 2008. and it's one of the most important voting blocks that we have heard. for being here. they're going to last visit that she made in north carolina. she went to a and t one of our historically black colleges and universities and our state. and we have the most of th

we passed clean energy legislation in north carolina the people of north carolina do not want to go back to a culture warrior. and that's what we have in mark robinson but it's a dangerous time because donald trump is on the ballot. and donald trump won north carolina in 2,016.2020. although this was his closest win in 2021, 0.3%. so we know with those two candidates at the top of the ticket, that's double trouble in north carolina. and a lot of people are going to come out to vote against mark robinson and for josh stein, who's our current attorney general, and we'll do he has integrity and grit and will do an extraordinary job in keeping our progress going forward. >> well, that margin that you mentioned in 2020 for trump is just 75,000 voters. but, but obviously mark robinson here has done something to appeal to people in your state. you know them well there your constituents what is it that had him be i mean, there were two other republicans running against him. one of them saying these ads are going to cut themselves for democrats here. but, but republicans in your state picked him

because i think he can win north carolina. he he is our best chance to move this country forward. >> but >> again, i'm running to be governor. i have a strong argument for the voters of north carolina. i have been fighting for them as their attorney general and delivering we help delete the national bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general to take the big opioid drug companies to court and hold them accountable, which we've done to the tune of $50 billion. jake, we eliminated what was the largest backlog of untested rape kits in the entire nation. here we've protected kids from child sex abuse. we've depended defendant people's fundamental freedoms, whether that's the right to vote or women's reproductive freedoms. these are things that i've done as ag, and it's that fighting spirit. i want to take to the governor's office to make sure that our schools are strong that our communities are safe, and that our economy truly creates opportunity for every person in addition to the voters in north carolina, going for democrati

north carolina we've had, was never elected veteran j.nomaly in north carolina is a two-party system matured there but we can write on the precipice ofic the. serv, and open seat in north carolina and we need more soldiers on the field who can make a difference like ken has been in texas. the state attorney generals tool is one of the most effective in the tool bag fight against what we've got to do is fight back. it's another aspect of what ken just said, among people who tend to be conservative the very fact matter how crazy, though might have invented or novel the application of the particular statute to allege a crime, people can to be repelled or to pull back in sort of a respectful, in a fee or disconnection. when you see the corruption we've seen in the system that no longer can be the case. we've got to lean in. we've also got use every tool at our disposal to fight them back that's one going to run for north carolina's attorney general. >> stephen, what's your response to this? >> first of all good morning cpac. it's great to see

because governor cooper never gave up, north carolina has extended health care coverage, which has helped00,000 north carolinians so far. that by itself is a heck of a legacy. i also want to thank your attorney general josh stein who fought for a.c.a. and fought to extend medicaid as well. he's an outstanding leader and peek intoing of great -- speaking of great leaders and legacy, 14 years ago this week, i stood by president obama as he signed into law the affordable care act. as many of you know i thought it was a big deal. thank god my mom wasn't around. well, look, it's even a bigger deal today. the affordable care act is the most controversial health care act since medicare and medicaid. it was always about millions of americans lying in bed at night wondering what would happen if i lose my insurance. my dad came home one day. we lived in a four-bedroom house, my mom and pop with us. i could hear my dad was restless at hell. i couldn't understand why. the next morning, i was 14 years old, i asked mom what's the matter. well, he just lost his health insurance. the company he worked fo

north carolina is a state of 10.8 million people. and we've got every type of person here and what we got, what we have to do, our obligation is to tap that potential of every person because we can't afford not to. the world is too competitive >> attorney general, josh stein. thanks so much for joining us today. appreciate it. >> thanks, jake. >> saturday night live has now weighed in on the response to the state of the union from alabama republican senator katie britt. we're gonna get into that and the controversy over some of the substance of her remarks tonight, i'll be auditioning for the part of scary mom >> calling the trap. and he couldn't get out. >> vegas was having an identity crisis. that was the beginning of the downfall, but degas, at a different idea the vagus, the story of synths sitting next sunday at ten on cnn >> from friends coming over to moms, coming over so many ways to save life, ready wallet, happy. that's 365 by whole foods market. >> i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, they're sky rosie, things a

a growing political spotlight shining on north carolina with anderson clayton chair of the north carolina democratic party, anderson, it is great to have you and i know that we're sort of fresh off of watching what happened here. 12% of democrats, 88,000 voters voting no preference last night, instead of for biden, which is notable especially because trump won north carolina in 2020 by less than 75,000 votes. do you have a handle on why they voted no preference? >> i mean, i think that young voters right now, especially across our college campuses, are advocating and using their democratic process, right, to make sure that they are pushing this president to do what they need him to do right now, we're really proud to see the vice president call for a ceasefire when she was in selma this last week. and we are very excited to see this administration takes seriously the needs of young voters in this election cycle. but i will say what we have seen in north carolina, in particular this a margin that we're looking at for the 88,000 voters is not any different than it's actually smaller than wh

and time for the great state of north carolina. don't forget, don't forget. er is named carolina! ok? very important. need chnd every one of you to get the patriots of your family, your friends and everybody. get them out to vote in record numbers because we have to show what is happening on november 5 which is when we have to get the worst president in the history of our country the hell out of office. the worst, the most corruwith yg on super tuesday. and in november north carolina will tell crooked joe biden, joe, you are fired. get out! you are fired, joe! you have done a horrible job. you i've done the worst job of any president in history. -- you have done the worst job of any president in history. and my first act upon taking office will do something is common sense. not conservative, not progressive, not liberal. the thing i think probably works for most of the people in this room, seal the border and stop the invasion of ou two days ago i was with governor greg abbott at the texas border. he was■ doing a good job. to witness the total devastation that

[applause] look, kamala and i have come back to north carolina a.c.a.of us we can't take anything for granted. just any back before the a.c.a. a patient with a heart disease, diabetes or a child as massachusetts couldn't -- sasthma couldn't get coverage, why? because the insurance companies considered ate preview existing condition. [someone in audience yelling] >> everybody deserves health care.p be patient with them. they have a point. we need to get a lot more care into the -- but folks -- [applause] back to the subjects at hand. even pregnancy was considered a pre-existing condition. did y'all know that? for all the young people out there, before kick off your parents' health care plans before you turned 26 just as you're heading out on your own. a lot as changed. for so many other people that start their own business because they couldn't risk losing the health care they had where they are. and prior to the a.c.a., many insurance companies imposed lifetime caps on how muchu. that meant a cancer patient would be halfway through chemo and they reache

[applause] including north carolina. thank you for answering the [applause] but while president biden and i are fighting to expand abc access to affordable health care, there are extremists in our take away health care coverage or make it machine expensive. extremists who wants to take away coveragerying to cut sociay and medicare. they want to take away coverage for working families by trying to want to take away coverage from people with preview existing conditions by continually trying to repeal affordable care act. and, across our nation, extremists attack a woman's access to healthand reproductive health care. they have proposed and passed laws that criminalize doctors and laws that threaten doctors and newses with prison time even for life. simply for providing reproductive care. laws that even make no exception for rape or incest. the result is a health care crisis with real harm. consider, since roe was■r ov, i have met women who were refused care during a miscarriage. i met a woman who went to the emerncyd was t

joe biden has one in 3 states, north carolina, vermont, and virginia. he's got no real challenger, it's patty cool. hanging joins us now from richmond in virginia. so patty virginia was an important state for nikki haley. how are things shaping up for her now? well i have to say this is probably the least super of all the super tuesdays that i've covered because it was pretty much a foregone conclusion. but you're right. it was very important for when were you in a bathroom, nikki haley in the state of virginia, and here's why it's open primary. you don't have to be a registered republican to vote in the republican primary. and we actually saw 30 percent of those republicans order said that they were independence. 10 percent of that. they were democrats. so it looked like hailey might have a big when we don't have all the numbers yet. but with a 37 percent of the votes cap got counted, trump is at 64.9 percent is a 33.2 percent. so a good showing for haley centers and she's done in most places, but it's probably not going to matter in virginia. they hav

so those of the rules for north carolina tonight.one of these other super tuesday states we want to hear from you tonight. here's how we have divided the all republicans across the country (202)748-8920. democrats (202)748-8921. if you're in the super tuesday states 7488922. all others 2027488923. mark in tulsa, oklahoma. what are your super tuesday we'll talk to you again. i the right across the street from the pole votinions. the interesting thing if you look at 2016 and 2020 about primaries, i live in a mixed neighborhood. people don't put signs on the year old the 22% of like half drunk half biting kind of people. and this year is zero signs signs are everywhere on the trump voters warp speed back vaccinating kill us they've got the hoax you've got biden's going to be the savior of it all and you stiltell them to vaccinate. it's the goofiest thing ever. you know what we need to do? we need to get a better system. they probably talk to the pentagon and the federal reserve the two entities that really control this country, get out

for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition?unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized forne minnk you, mad. mr. speaker, i rise today to congratulate the cherokee high school girls varsity basketball team. mr. edwards: for winning the north carolina high school athletic association's 1-a state championsh first time since 1996. the cherokee lady braves defeated their opponent by a dominating 42 points. making the final score, 74-32. the entire team contributed to a historic state championship wit& ■aery player on the cherokee roster making an appearance in the game. the lady braves showcased the very best high school i'm confir determination, leadership, and perseverance will prepare them for success on and off fans tune in at home across the country, including shaquille o'neal, who share his congratulations on instagram. congratulations, lady braves, on a remarkable victory. you have made carolina proud. with that,

like why not north carolina?e that. >> reporter: the 26-year-old chair of the north carolina democratic party, anderson clayton says the efforts will need to continue for biden to overcome the political headwinds from courting rural voters to breaking voter apathy. >> yes, he can win this state. is that going to be an easy thing to do? no because it's going to be a fight. it takes early investment. it takes boots on the ground everywhere. it takes people getting out into these communities and building the coalitions that he needs to say this is how they fought for us. >> reporter: meanwhile, republicans are also expressing that optimism, not just pointing to the head to head matchups but to polling showing donald trump leading on key issues like immigration and the economy. the rnc spokesperson said to us that democrats lit money on fire. that's her words. in 2016 and 2020, and she believes they're on track to do it again. >> shaq brewster, thank you very much. >>> human tragedy, now an economic tragedy, the ripp

now, north carolina is a lot of close races. this may be one of them.forth with our politics is as far as senators and governors so she could still win but we've learned the lesson and i think this is what she's learning. it's a bad lesson but maybe if you don't apologize, you can get away with it >> i mean, it shows the whole trafficking in q and on talking about adrenochrome and all that is based on anti-jewish horrible anti-jewish tropes which were used by the nazis about jews drinking the blood of children. i mean, the idea that this person could be head of the school system in north carolina is it's quite extraordinary. >> it's extraordinary. and look, it would be extraordinary if she were also the insurance commissioner candidate or a state senator or for basically anybody running for governor unfortunately, though anderson in our politics right now, we're so stratified and we've seen the parties go so tribal. it's not even so much red versus blue anymore. it's almost shirts versus skins that everything that we do in our politics it comes down to

josh shine is running for governor in north carolina. able to weather many a storms and i think the biden harris campaign sees an opportunity in north carolina. the vice president herself has made upwards of 12 trips to north carolina over the past 12 weeks. >> she's building a brand that's different, i think, in many people's minds, a negative perception. seems like the more people get to know her, the more response she's getting. >> i think so. i also think the administration has great things to bring. like this trip, they're talking healthcare. coming off of the heels of the anniversary of the affordable care act. a number of of the, joe biden, the btd, he's going to be there talking about that. one of the trips she came and expanded the pool of money for underserved businesses. this would benefit black businesses. she made that announcement on black wall street in durham. the campaign is making a targeted play for north carolina and they have to. the election was close last time and it's going to be close this time. 11,780 votes in g

and it just puts north carolina squarely in the map. in fact, joe biden will be able to just kind of flow with the wings of josh stein. and i think you're going to see a lot of those dollars that we otherwise would spin in a place like georgia being spent in a place like north carolina, but it expands the man you think that georgia maybe slips back a little bit in terms of the priorities and north carolina moves. >> i think i think of all of the sinc of all of the swing states. georgia is probably at the bottom or gives republicans the best chance to flip that swing-state. i think north carolina now becomes a state that is right there on the playing field with georgia and you just going to have to you know, there's better than somebody has to sit in a room and figure out where the dollars are spent. and if you're looking at georgia, north carolina with mark robinson on the top of the ticket. i mean, he is an abomination. he's anti semi he somebody that is beneath beneath the office i think democrats have a unique chance to win there and

nbc's shaquille brewster is on the ground in north carolina. good to see you, shaq.ell us more about how this new biden campaign strategy will work? >> reporter: look, it starts with what we saw yesterday, the president and vice president sharing the same stage, but sending the signal that they view north carolina as an important state. doing what they can to go on offense this a state that donald trump won twice. >> hello, hello, hello, raleigh. >> a biden campaign show of force in north carolina. >> it is good to be back in this beautiful state. >> the president and vice president on the trail together. work to go buck a losing streak for democratic presidential candidates here. while democrats haven't won a presidential race here in north carolina since 2008, in 2020, president biden came within striking distance, lose big just 1.3%. this year, with state polls showing a tight battle, north carolina's democrats hope down ballot races will drive energy up the party ticket. starting with the race for governor, where democratic attorney general josh stein is facing t

live from upholding station in raleigh, north carolina, john north carolina, key swing, state of force, and a good example. all of the disparities that exist between urban and rural voters, talk to us about the issues that boat has there. i'm most concerned about as rightfully the, if you look at the map of a state like this, what you'll see is read for the republican blue for the democrat. and the blue is always in the urban areas and in the suburbs around it. and the red covers the rest of the states, but those are more sparsely populated area in north carolina is just like so many other states in that respect. but what's different here is that a lot of people have been moving into the state and they've been moving into the urban and suburban areas. so what that means is that, that red is turning bluer around those metropolitan areas more democratic. and that is why, although donald trump won this state 2 times in a row and is hoping for lightning to strike a 3rd time, joe biden thinks he really has a shot at north carolina this time around. and the issues that we've been talking to

also tonight catching up with the republican nominee to run north carolina's public school system, whose tweets have called for the killing of president biden and former president obama but plus a sinister new twist and the princess of wales medical saga, the possibility that hospital staff tried to snoop on her records while she was a surgical patient. >> good evening. we begin to and i keep them honest. we're just five days and counting until the former president's 464 million new york civil fraud bill comes due the one he's told the court he cannot secure a bond for despite prior claims like these by his attorney they know by looking at a statements of financial condition that this guy is worth a lot of money billions and billions of billions of dollars. and that didn't even include his brand martha. unfortunately, they picked the wrong guy to pick on, in my opinion, because he's strong, he's resilient and he happens have a lot of cash. this guy is worth a lot of money, billions and billions of billions of dollars happens, have a lot of cash. >> of >> course he has money, you know, he

we also reached out to the north carolina republican party and we didn't hear back. so it's gonna be really interesting to see how all of this is going to play out in north carolina in 2024. it's obviously such an important swing state. mark robinson, who is at the top of the ticket, as you mentioned, has that history of extremely controversial comments and this was a state that trump beat biden by in 2020 with his smallest margin. so all of this at the top of the ticket down-ballot, it's going to be a big factor in 2020 before kfile is andrew kaczynski. thank you so much. good to have you back >> us journalist went to russia to visit her sick mom >> only to be detained for months or family is going to join live in studio next >> this source, but kaitlan collins tomorrow at nine. >> what's the greatest invention of all time, new hands-free sketcher slip ends. you just slip in and they're on. it's like they have an invisible built-in shoe horn. so your foot slides into place so that bending down or touching your shoes, then the haeil pillow technology keeps your foot

how kin president biden win in north carolina? >> we're the third fastest growing state in the country are blue counties and cities are getting bluer. joe biden has done so much to help the rural parts of america with high-speed internet. he's fighting to control drug prices he knows what the american people need right now and it's critical that he win the swing states. i think the presidency will go through north carolina. this was president biden's closest loss last time with the increasing number of college-educated people have that we have with reproductive freedom on the line with the fact that republicans have nominated a real slew of extreme candidates for governor attorney general, superintendent of public schools that are probably the most extreme slate in the country i think you're going to see such attention paid to north carolina that this is a state that president biden can win. >> you think he can win even though he didn't in 2020, talk to me about the republican gubernatorial candidate, lieutenant governor mark robe

it's an honor as well to work with someone else from north carolina.he north carolina contingent. everybody else, it's ok. i've known michael for so long. and he's a fighter. he's he's a doer. that's exactly what you're going to see out of the republic national committee with us at the helm. we're going to be doing andnd w. my husband, eric, was here and had to catch a flight. he was here with me and want to say thank to youdw him. since the day my father-in-law came down the golden escalator, everyone remembers that famous day. of us as individuals, it's about us as a family and it's been about our country. and with eric by my side, i've done things i ner imagined possible. believe me, 10 years ago if you had asked me if i'd been part of and yet i worked for three years as a senior adviser to the trump campaign, an incredible opportunity. i got to see this country from sea to shining sea and meet incredible people and have life experiences i will never forget. but eric encourages me every day. and i know that with his support, this role is going to be

north carolina has been great for years. this is an outstanding north carolina team. cormac ryan, another transfer from stanford, i thought, you know, had a solid game. but when you have a cut inside to make all kinds of place, and you have rj davis, you can run the floor, and he's like a, he's a, just a leader and a guy that can do it. so north carolina is, they're special. they're going to be very difficult to knock out of the tournament. they can play as slow. they love to play up and down and take it to the rim. they can defend the basket, and to me, they caught is a difference maker. he's the one guy in a tournament that you know he's going to get his 20 and 10 every game. >> but i tell you, this fellow, ingram, he was feeling it. he just had to keep beating it. five threes in a game! >> ingram, to me, is like cormac ryan. they're wildcard in the game. you know davis is good. you know you're going to get inside play with, with bacot. but if you can get ingram on the outside making threes, ryan making threes, then that elevates north carolina to another level. >>

he's in north carolina. >> north carolina was the only battleground state voting today and party leadersplay in november. why? because it's commonplace to see single-digit margins of victory in statewide races, just like donald trump 2020 when here where he beat joe biden by just over 1%. it's a purple state and is also known to split tickets. that same year voters elected a democrat for governor, republican for lieutenant governor, and a democrat for attorney general. stein and robinson will face off in a general election gubernatorial contest in november so the take away here is the convictional -- conventional wisdom of a down ballot going either side might not apply in north carolinians tend to have a swing state of mind. with how super tuesday is going in the northeast, john keller is in boston. >> reporter: good evening. if there's any state voting tonight that ought to be fertile ground for nikki haley, it's massachusetts. famous for electing moderate republicans like former governor charlie baker, a prominent never-trumper who heads the ncaa. haley staged her big local rally this

you know north carolina well. >> i know north carolina very well and i'm not sure how successful thatn-american church, the black church in north carolina is incredibly strong, as well as north carolina has more historically black colleges than any other state in america. it trump and the republican machine can try all they want in north carolina, but we have a considerable amount of boots on the ground to fight back. >> as i said, you were head of faith outreach of the d&c. what do you think the biden campaign and the d&c need to be doing now? >> first of all, mobilizing and engaging, working with resources you know you have, making sure the people have the opportunity to exercise their franchise. there are plenty of people who are solidly making sure they have access to the opportunity to vote. the ministration is seeking how to do that, the rhetoric, making sure, i think they're working hard to make sure that people here were, that they hear the people and i think that is what has to happen. >> i will ask both of you, are they doing enough to reach young people? >> you have to do m

in north carolina, voting no preference. president biden lost his first primary this year in american samoa, where jason palmer defeated the president winning 56% of the vote. who is jason palmer? a baltimore resident who campaigned using zoom. x posted day before the race he is advocate of america samoa. president michael blockberg won there in 2020. >> carley: he is from maryland, a venture capitalist. his campaign website crashed because everybody was looking to see who is this guy. >> todd: i wanted to do two separate hours on jason palmer and i was rebuffed. lucas tomlinson, thank you. we're following important down ballot races. california senate race, schiff and republican steve garvey, dodgers and padres, both advancing to general election in november. >> carley: matt flynn will join us, hi, matt. >> garvey and schiff are looking to fill the seat left by dianne feinstein. >> tonight is first game of a doubleheader. second game will be daunting like a super bowl over fourth quarter or eight innings. it should be excit

he has won alabama, arkansas, colorado, maine, massachusetts, minnesota, north carolina, oklahoma, tennessee, texas, and virginia. former south carolina governor nikki haley, the last remaining challenger in the gop race has won just one state, the state of vermont. she has won with 50% of the vote and 90% of the expected vote in so far. >> the associated press has called president biden the winner in races in alabama, arkansas, colorado, iowa, maine, massachusetts, minnesota, north carolina, oklahoma, tennessee, texas, and virginia -- utah, vermont, and virginia. president biden experienced his first loss of the primary season tonight in american samoa. baltimore-based investor jason palmer won the territory and four of its six delegates. the president won the other two. >> we are still awaiting results in a couple states. the polls closed in california and they remain open in alaska for another hour. we are joined by our panel for full analysis. that is new york times columnist david brooks, jonathan kay park, associate editor for the washington post, amy walter of the cook political repor

so let's start in the increasingly purple north carolina with dianne gallagher. dianne, what are you hearing from voters there so we've been pretty steady turnout at this particular polling location. and cornelius, north carolina are about 40 minutes north of charlotte and you probably see a couple of people standing out here. the majority of voters that i've spoken with have given me issues like education abortion democracy, and the border as what is key for them when going in there and choosing their ballot. now in north carolina, most voters, the largest number of registered voters or unaffiliated, so they can go in and choose democrat or republican, whichever they want to. and i've been talking to voters who say that they're looking at the top of the ticket, but also an extremely long down-ballot in the state with everything from the governor and the attorney attorney general to members of congress and local races. they have to choose from as well. i spoke with a haley voter, a trump voter, and a biden voter about why they made the decision visions they did t

in north carolina in 2024. it's obviously such an important swing state. mark robinson, who's at the top of the ticket, as you mentioned, has that history of extremely controversial comments and this was a state that trump beat biden by in 2020 with his smallest margin. so all of this at the top of the ticket down-ballot it's gonna be a big factor in 2024 >> k files andrew kaczynski. thank you so much. good to have you back >> a us >> journalist went to russia to visit her sick mom, only to be detained for months or family is going to join me live in studio next erin burnett outfront tonight. it's seven odd cnn shingles, some describe it as an intense burning sensation or an unbearable edge. this painful, blistering rash could also disrupt your work in time with family. shingles could also lead to long-term debilitating nerve pain. they can last for months or even years. if you over pick day, the virus that causes shingles is likely already inside of you. and as you age, your risk of developing shingles increases don't wait. >> ask your dr. or >> pharmacis

here biden has been up with ads on air in north carolina since the start of the campaign. >> on joe bidenthis message. >> the best is when they actually start cranking it. but >> republicans like strategist >> jonathan felt, who advises a super pac supporting gop gubernatorial nominee mark robinson believes that the early investment is actually a sign of weakness i think the fact the president and the vice president have come here in march, the reflection of they know they've got a base of voter problem. >> north carolina has been something about white whale at the presidential level for democrats, the so-called swing-state has only swung to the democrats once since jimmy carter in 1976 and the party has been unsuccessfully trying to recreate that 2008 obama campaign magic ever since. in 2020, biden came close losing to donald trump by just about one point. it was trump's limits victory on the map, biden's campaign here got started late in 2020. i think they finally had to organizers on the ground late june, late july we've got people that are coming out to canvasses right now that hadn't

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like why not north carolina?e not see that type of investment? >> reporter: the chair of the north carolina democratic party says that the efforts need to continue for biden to overcome the political headwinds if getting rural voters to breaking voter apathy. >> yes, he can win that state. is that going to be an easy thing to do? no. it's going to be a fight. it takes boots on the ground. it takes people getting out into the communities and building the coalitions to say this is how they fought for us. >> that was our nbc news correspondent reporting from north carolina. and joining us now is democratic governor roy cooper of north carolina. governor, thank you so much for being on this morning. so, biden is behind trump in some polls at this point. can he flip the tar heel state blue? what is it going to take? >> yesterday we see how public policy affects how people vote. this shows the best of joe biden and the worst of donald trump. every north carolinian cares about health care access. we have a million peopl

so cornelius, north carolina, where diana's about 20 miles north of charlotte, outside of lake norman, a lot of suburban people who live there and work in raleigh especially suburban women well, if i was in north carolina this weekend and went to nikki haley rally in raleigh and they had to move the venue to larger venues twice to accommodate crowd size. there's something happening within the republican party. same thing's true with democrats as we saw in michigan. but very clearly voters are saying we don't want to see this movie again, and there's weakness with both candidates. this does the movable object against the resistible force and all polling says from voters don't do this. >> it's interesting because trump's base, sara, is pretty solid, set in stone. but what about with suburban women with more moderate republicans out there? how's he likely to do? >> yeah, look the number that i think about all the time now is 30%. it looks like about 70% of the republican party, or just with trump all the time. that's big, that's a big number. however, that 30%, where do you see it? you s

>> biden campaign officials are calling north carolina a critical piece of his passing to reelection.e fastest-growing states in the nation with exploding diverse populations in cities and suburbs of charlotte and raleigh it's investing early with state-level staffing, spending time and money. >> here biden has been up with ads on air in north carolina since the start of the campaign. >> on joe biden. and i approve this message, >> the best is when they start cranking it up. but republicans like strategist jonathan felt, who advises the super pac supporting gop gubernatorial nominee mark robinson believes that the early investment is actually a sign of weakness i think the fact the president and vice president have come here in march, the reflection of they know they've got a base voter problem. >> north carolina has been something about white whale at the presidential level for democrats, the so-called swing-state has only swung to the democrats once since jimmy carter in 1976 and the party has been unsuccessfully trying to recreate that 2008 obama campaign magic ever since. in 2020,

about 12% of voters cast ballots for "no preference" in north carolina as did 9% in massachusetts. during an interview tuesday, donald trump broke his silence on the war in gaza by openly endorsing israel's actions . he spoke to fox news host brian kilmeade. >> the noncommitted vote biden is getting, they're not going to like you come either, because you are firmly in israel's camp. are you on order with the way idf is taking the fight in gaza? pres. trump: you had a horrible invasion that took place that never would have happened if i was president, by the way. amy: over the weekend, trump reportedly met with billionaire elon musk, one of the world's richest men. trump is seeking to boost his fundraising at a time when he is at risk of losing much of his personal fortune. last month, a new york judge ordered him to pay $454 million in a civil fraud case. in california, democratic congressmember adam schiff and the republican baseball star-turn-politician steve garvey are headed for a showdown in november to fill the senate seat of the late dianne feinstein. schiff and garvey won t