pennsylvania house 20. that's 49 electoral votes, of the six, those two states have by far -- the largest number of electoral votes. i don't necessarily disagree with that, i think if the president loses two or three of the battleground states, i don't know how he can get the 270. it's going to be virtually impossible for him to do that. >> politico argues, huge surges in mail-in voting will change how and when voters are counted in 2020. in these three states, we may not know the winner on election night. >> that's a great point, there's a big controversy over mail-in ballots, as i think all of your viewers know, the president has referred to it as fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud. and make the point that republicans should vote in person, by the way in the polls that i have seen, more republicans say they will vote in person than democrats. there isn't any gap in that mail-in voting benefits the democrats more than the republicans. let's take a look at the point you just made about when we are going to have the

in pennsylvania, in pennsylvania if a ballot is postmarked by november 3, currently -- and this is under challenge -- three days the balance can be -- the ballots can be counted three days after november 3, on the friday of election week. so you are exactly right about this. we may not know who won the presidential election. some say days, some say weeks, some say months. onre is not any doubt that november 3 we are not going to know who won the presidential election. there is a big debate, as i indicated a moment ago, over whether these ballots will be served. on pennsylvania, the june 2 , 1.5 million pennsylvanians cast male in her absentee ballots. 1.5 million, almost half of the total turnout in the state of pennsylvania. most of us believe that that by november 3. election officials in the state are hiring personnel. like to openwould the ballots and sort them and run them through the scanners before november 3 so that we don't have this long wait that we can expect. again, in pennsylvania, there are elections on june 2, the primary. they were not fully certified for two weeks, for

it's on, pennsylvania. [applause] it.eed you to bring i need you to let these people go find some shade. [laughter] let me hear it. give a big round of applause for this pan-american energy team. what a great team. what a great team. [applause] thank you, men and women. thank you so much. and thank you all for coming out today, but i leave you here with a challenge, folks. i got up this morning, 55 days until election day. we got to put our head down and we got to go tell the story. all of our neighbors and friends. and we've got to have faith, ok? i mean, we've got to have faith in the american people. as we see the other side laying out there radical left agenda, of more taxes, more regulation, less support for our troops and our police, parting from our most cherished values and liberties and ideals, you see a president that is standing up for everything that has made america great. we have got to go have confidence. i truly believe every time the american people are given the choice between more freedom and less freed

president trump won pennsylvania in 2016. ♪ >> hello, pennsylvania.applause] the hard-working men and women kuharchie construction. neighbors and friends from across pennsylvania. it is great to be back in the keystone state with workers for trump. [applause] all camerateful you out on a beautiful day, the first day of september as we start the road to victory on november 3. [applause] it really is great to be here with so many friends who supported this president and our administration from day one. would you join me in thanking someone who has been a fighter for this administration? he has stood strong for an agenda that made america great again in our first three years and has seen this nation and state through a trying time? congressman fred keller, thank you for your great leadership in the house of representatives and for america. [applause] with also great to be here two future members of congress who i know are going to stand with this president and our agenda for four more years. join me in thanking lisa schaller and jim. pennsylvania needs t

how would you like that in pennsylvania? the commonwealth of pennsylvan pennsylvania? darling, what's wrong? i can't watch comp on televisi television. i can't watch our president. darling, we have a rolling blackout. it'll be a few hours. i think we'll be on by 2:00 in the morning, darling, and we can watch a rerun. this is what's happening. you have rolling blackouts. you have it some cases just blackouts. they don't even call them rolling. not going to happen to your state. last year i visited the shell petrochemical plant here in pennsylvania. the largest investment in your state his dream. it was all made possible by our pro energy policies. we have done it a lot. louisiana, we are building some of the largest, the largest plants you've ever seen, largest in the world and it's incredible. all related to energy. your security and your jobs are in very grave peril because the radical left maniacs, they don't want to have anything to do with energy. they don't want anything to do with -- they have different concepts. they have the green new deal where there will be n

so, that's northeastern pennsylvania. traditional, it had been a center of union support, you know, nylortheast pennia d western pennsylvania. you tended to see that strong working class, historically blue areas, and trump made really big inroads there. so, for his part, he is also trying to, one, discredit biden's pennsylvania roots a say, "you know, i am the peon who you voted for in great numbers in 2016." and, you know, he wants to maintain that level of support. so, for trump, it's about sort of shoring up margins in areas like the sort of more working class, northeast and western parts of the state, and also inu thrbs outside of philadelphia and pittsburgh,ea where he did okay but not as well as other republicans have done. and so, those are ing to be really big factors. can he get more support in those areas where he did well? can he get better support in areas where he was a little bit more middle? >> sreenivasan: i'm s suming that jare on top of mind for people in pennsylvania, especially after the cos.naviru hav

in pennsylvania, in pennsylvania if a ballot is postmarked by november 3, currently -- and this is underhallenge -- three days the balance can be -- the ballots can be counted three days after november 3, on the friday of election week. so you are exactly right about this. we may not know who won the presidential election. some say days, some say weeks, some say months. onre is not any doubt that november 3 we are not going to know who won the presidential election. there is a big debate, as i indicated a moment ago, over whether these ballots will be served. on pennsylvania, the june 2 , 1.5 million pennsylvanians cast male in her absentee ballots. 1.5 million, almost half of the total turnout in the state of pennsylvania. most of us believe that that by november 3. election officials in the state are hiring personnel. like to openwould the ballots and sort them and run them through the scanners before november 3 so that we don't have this long wait that we can expect. again, in pennsylvania, there are elections on june 2, the primary. they were not fully certified for two weeks, for tw

democrat of pennsylvania, long time family history pennsylvania. he was stomach father was working there fox news contributor and author of "trump and the american future." good to happy with us here tonight. you wrote a piece today, america's fight. mike, america's fight, civilization versus anarchy. unprecedented, remot the momentt we are in. it goes back to the riots in the 1960s and the people that were born in that era. or were in that era. >> you can create a genealogical map and you will find that in the late 60s we had 2,500 bombings, in 1971 and 72, we have the black panther movement that openly said they wanted to kill policeman. you had radicals who were robbing banks, killing bank cards, and they literally became sort of the vanguard once they were suppressed, they went into college campuses, they went into a variety of other places, continued to educate the whole new generation of district attorneys who come out of that background to come in and funded around the country. a whole series of district attorneys in portland to refuse to tr

however, senator, you've won close races in pennsylvania, you lost close races in pennsylvania.the president was in your state last night saying that the democratic governor of pennsylvania is trying to rig the system. is pennsylvania open to corruption, has there been widespread fraud in your past elections? or is the president overhyping something to try to gin up a controversy that doesn't exist? >> well, i mean, there is some changes that were made to the -- to pennsylvania elections not in place when i was there, and, you know, allowing more mail-in ballots and as the democratic supreme court did, which i think the president is upset about, republicans are very upset about, the democratic supreme court there basically ruled that the law isn't what the law says. the law says you know, the ballots can't be counted past a certain date, and the supreme court said, well, yeah, that's what the law says, but we don't think that's right. this is why -- all republicans are excited about amy coney barrett, about the judicial appointments of donald trump because we want judges that re

thank you, pennsylvania.t and vote. ♪ ["ymca" being played] >> young man, there's no need to feel down i said, young man, pick yourself off the ground i said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town there's no need to be unhappy young man, there's a place you can go i said, young man, when you're short on your dough you can stay there, and i'm sure you will find many ways to have a good time ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca they have everything for you men to enjoy you can hang out with all the boys it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca you can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal you can do whatever you feel ♪ young man, are you listening to me? i said, young man, what do you want to be? i said, young man, you can make real your dreams but you got to know this one thing no man does it all by himself i said, young man, put your pride on the shelf and just go there, to the ymca i'm sure they can help you today ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay

i will use pennsylvania. this room was pennsylvania's legislature. pennsylvania decides to write a constitution that is so radical for its day that they get rid of the position of governor. they will not have a chief executive for pennsylvania. fairlyll have a democratically run, one house legislature as opposed to the , standard two houses that most states will use. pennsylvania has got a very different set up. it proves to be too radical to work. our 1776 pennsylvania constitution will only last about 14 years. they go to the traditional governor, two houses of legislature. this is the idea in 1776. each state will start itself over. the problem is, being all a little bit different -- and one of my colleagues loves to talk about that today. we still have differences from state to state, speed limit, rules for driving will be different. we do still have vestiges there. but, the problem was, in those early days, they manifested themselves in ways that threatened what someone like george washington, who is very nationalist, believing in this idea of t

we have one in pennsylvania. two judges, state judge, federal judge, both highly qualified from what i understand. i hear that they are not too happy about what they are seeing. so we are going to see what happens. the lawyers feel very confident. but we have to win those cases. but what you have to do is send in your early ballot and then go and make sure that violet is tabulated or come to. and if it is -- make sure that vote is tabulated and counted. and if it is not counted, go vote. if he comes in late and it is not too late, they have the job of making sure they don't count them. but follow that ballot. because these people, they will be lost, they will be gone, the off,rs are incredible, 25% 30% off, 20% off, follow your ballot. china,band travel from biden called it xenophobic. if we had listened to sleepy joe, hundreds of thousands more americans would have died. he gets up today, covid-19, covid-19. have a country, and i agree with that, and we have done a hell of a job. we have done a hell of a job, if

you mention the president in pennsylvania today.o critical to both joe biden and president trump, and every little bit counts, and so energizing the base for democrats and republicans really will make a huge difference as we get into the closing days of the presidential campaign. >> john stick with us we're going to go to pa big 747 is there right behind the crowd of the back drop. but president has just been introduced. a little hard to see on my monitor but it looks like the president is coming down the stairs waving to the crowd, and the crowd is waving back. it won't take him long to make his way down the steps of air force one to the podium where he'll be begin speaking shortly last week the president didn't have the 747. i got a couple of e-mails from people who asked me why. well it's because it takes a lot of runway to land a 747, and the president was appearing last week at an airport on the -- that doesn't have runway needed for big 747 that is air force one so he flew on the 757 version the twin engine version of the pres

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with pennsylvania, i don't have to make a play. i've got pennsylvania. years though, pennsylvania was the place that republicans didn't win. and for many years everybody thought they were going to win, every republican, they said we will win pennsylvania. and they didn't. and i came along and we won it and we won it quite easily. and i think we're going to do even better now because remember, number one, in the history of your state last year is because of what we did. we stop the dumping. we saved so many different things. pennsylvania is the home of american energy, think of it that way, and this is taking place over short period of time. also the birthplace of a thing called the american scureks right? american constitution. and to uphold our constitution as written, as opposed to as conceived by some radical left, i will soon be announcing that nominee that you're going to love. you're going to be so happy. if you don't like it, my pponent refuses to release a list of justices. i was told, i was told a big thing when i was running last time. nobody r

if biden wins, china wins, when we win, pennsylvania wins and america wins. >> pennsylvania is a really important state, perhaps the most important in the entire race. why is that?mo if trump takes, pennsylvania, he can still afford to lose wisconsin and michigan from his 2016 map and still go on to win. joining now is john bevan cofounder and trump 2020 campaign poster. john , can't believe it, but 42 days to go. what are the state combinations the trump team is now looking at. >> again, you are pointing out quitting at 12:00 o'clock because the teleprompter is hard to move out andd keep up with the president but when he does go out, you can tell he's following the president precisely to the states of pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin coming he even use the teleprompter to go to florida, and give to speeches, so when you're looking at the polls, and the polls are coming out every day, polls that look good for the president whether it's, north carolina within the last 24 hours, iowa or georgia, joe biden has a lot of ground to cover with that teleprompter. >> thinks the entire thing

how would you like that in pennsylvania? the commonwealth of pennsylvania? is wrong i cannot watch trump on television. i can't watch our president. we have a rolling blackout, it will only be a few hours. i think we will be on by two clock in the morning and we can watch around. this is what is happening, we have rolling blackouts, some cases you just have blackouts. they remain called rolling. it is not gonna happen here state. last year i visited the petrol chemical plant in beaver, pennsylvania, the largest investment in your state's history. and that was all made possible by or pro-energy policies. had we done it a law in louisiana. we are building some of the largest plants you've ever seen, blur just in the world. it is incredible. all related to energy. your security and your jobs are very grave peril because the radical left maniacs don't want anything to do with energy. they don't want anything to do with -- they have different concepts, right? they have the green new deal where there will be no energy of any kind. it is crazy. it is aoc plus three

thank you, pennsylvania. go out and vote.hank you. ♪ >> that was president trump rallying supporters in pennsylvania joining me now for reaction lew lew author of the book the trump century which i have right here i'm going to read it a little bit later. all right let's get to the big news of the day. amy coney barrett was nominated for the supreme court. i thought it was a flawless ceremony today at the white house. poised, confident, great delivery, beautiful family. but as you know lou, republican president sometimes they get up there and they can shank one. you can nominate someone that's a swing justice, you know, a kennedy or o'connor, or someone like that or even a souter even liberal what makes lou dobbs think that amy coney barrett is going to be a rock solid constitutional conservative justice? >> she's an extraordinary talent. and she's the perfect person to be stepping on to the court at this moment in our history. she is brilliant. she is dedicated to both her family and the constitution. she is a remark public,

we have one in pennsylvania, you know that right?itaker: the trump campaign, the g.o.p., democrats and interest groups continue battling in court in pennsylvania and most other states. >> trump: so we'll see what happens. >> whitaker: do you expect that there will be lawsuits that will continue on election day? >> shapiro: i can tell you my team and i, along with others around the country, are preparing for all kinds of outcomes. sadly we have to fear that we have a sitting president of the united states that may take legal action to try and stop certain legal votes from being counted. >> whitaker: back in philadelphia, the election commission is taking over a larger space to process election ballots. republican al schmidt told us the state supreme court ruling provided some clarity to the election process, but didn't allay all his concerns. what most concerns you? >> schmidt: our republic depends on confidence in our electoral process. and there are a lot of voices across the spectrum that intentionally or unintentionally seem to be

in 2017y did you think you could win a general assembly seat in pennsylvania? guest: i wasn't sure i could, but i knew i needed to try. i thought they were a variety of different issues that were critical not only to folks in my community but pennsylvania families across the commonwealth, that you could look at the investment we need to make in our young people, k-12 and also in terms of decay and early learning -- of pre-k and early learning. , they reallytaxes question them, whether or not they can stay in their homes. and i think about issues of health care and climate change, so many of these things -- the battle front of them are right in our state capitals. not every single issue is going to be solved in the oval office, certainly not in this oval office. but many of the issues that we face are happening at the state and local level, so i felt that was an important place to be involved, running a competitive race come in here we are. host: when and why did you decide to endorse joe biden? you look atnk if everything going on right now, it really has made

is pennsylvania ready to handle mail-in ballots? mr. parnell: of course, look.he safety and security of our elections is paramount. in january 2021, there is going a swearing in of a new president, whether it is joe biden, god forbid, or president donald trump. what i'm not in favor of is moving the election day. anyone looking at what is happening right now in this country and seeing the provisions the governor has put forth, the idea that absentee -- the idea that mail-in ballots can be delivered three days after the fact with signatures that don't match or no postmark of sets the conditions for massive voter fraud. quite frankly, that concerns me because i think that that shakes the foundations of the trust that the american people have in our electoral system. i'm certainly opposed to moving the election day. obviously, the system we have in pennsylvania was developed in a bipartisan way. republicans and democrats, the early and absentee program is pretty good, it is very secure, but moving the election and allowing for early mail-in votes to be cast three d

in pennsylvania, the governor was named onus. they had given that name for william penn, and it was a pun, it men like onus meant feather, quill. so when they called him onus, his name in our language is onus, pen. so every subsequent colonial governor was known as onus. in maryland, at the maryland delegation at the treaty of lancaster in 1774, he's given the name tokari hogan, the honored place in between. in between the government of pennsylvania and the government of virginia. of course, when they names happened, there was an expectations presents would be offered in response, so the colonial delegation of maryland hosts a feast for the indians in exchange for this name, so it's all about reciprocity. conrad wiser actually at one point at the treaty of lancaster sits down with the colonial delegates about to have a dinner in the courthouse and we have to go over some etiquette issues, and tells them the proper way to interact with these native american dinner guests they're going to be having. so that kind of emphasis on not

his strength was northeast pennsylvania, his strength was rural pennsylvania, southwest pennsylvania.is nobody who can work through a big board malfunction quite like you. thank you for making that important point on p.a. we appreciate it. >>> speaking of pennsylvania, i want to bring in somebody who represents that state, congressman brendan boyle. thank you for being back on the show. lots to talk about this morning. let me start with your reaction to the new polling steve just mentioned which shows that president trump has narrowed the gap in p.a. just a little bit, as we talked about the campaign is focusing on these smaller towns, more rural areas, not necessarily those voter-rich suburbs of philadelphia, which you represent. are you concerned that that strategy might work for president trump? >> i said all along, going back over about a year ago that i thought the race in pennsylvania would pretty much mirror the national popular vote. if you look at all 50 states, pennsylvania really comes closest to owning the title of the tipping point state because we have big cities like mi

whether you live in north, no, florida, pennsylvania, ohio across the midwest to the west, people look at kenosha and say there goes my town, how does this impact how i vote, what do i think about defending the police or police reform that might restrict the ability for them to protect my treasure, my family or my community, i think it has shifted some people and making them pause and consider how they're going to vote going forward. >> you know pennsylvania probably better than anyone el else, you are in cambria county, the most recent story the forgotten counties that will make their voices heard, as you talk to the voters, though supporting the trump pens campaign or the biden harris campaign, what are you hearing? >> i am hearing that people are concerned again were gonna go back to the issuesl concerning kenosha, obviously jobs are always the most important to a person because it impacts their family and their life and their community and impacts the tax, good jobs, everything else is forcing. so jobs is the number one thing among voters both sides of the aisle, the pandemic has m

how about pennsylvania?ump won this state by a fraction of a point, he won that by 7/10ths of a moisten brand-new poll in the last hour, our friends at monmouth, biden leading trump by 4. remember what i said, the movement nationally is about 4 points. the movement in pennsylvania from 2016 to right now is about 4 points. so if biden is running nationally about 4 points better than clinton finished in '16, you can expect roughly, this is not all exact stuff, but this is consistent with it, a lead of 4 for biden in a state like pennsylvania is probably consistent with a lead of 6 nationally for him. so you can see the challenge for trump. he's got some improvement in that national number. to get it down to 6. he's got to get it closer. if he can get it down to 4, 3 points, a state like pennsylvania could come very much into play for him. >> let me ask you about something that we're seeing. in the grenell poll, when you look at it, the president has a huge deficit to joe biden among suburban women. but then wh

trump: thank you, pennsylvania.thrilled to be here in the home of the late great, my friend, arnold palmer. what a great guy he was. thank you so much. 61 days from now, we will win the commonwealth of pennsylvania, and we will win four more years in the white house. [applause] joe biden wants to surrender your jobs to china. you know that. his son walked out with a lot of money for doing nothing. he wants to surrender your nation to the radical left wing mob. he is trying to change now. he says it is not working because we are going up and he is dropping like a rock in water. [cheers and applause] and before the china virus, this election was over, and now i had to go back to work. we have done a great job on it. and we do not get the credit. we made a lot of governors look very good, but i will keep your jobs in america and i will bring rioters, looters, anarchists, we will bring them to justice. that is what we are doing. [cheers and applause] we have over 400 right now under arrest. these are bad people. over th

eastern pennsylvania, lancaster, pennsylvania, albany, new york, these were small frontier towns that became similar to this diplomacy. >> this was an image from a mob produce in 1765 and shows a treaty conference happening on the ohio frontier after british military expedition into the region. it's not a perfect image, but it's one that somewhat approximates what happened at lancaster and 1744. you have an outdoor meeting. oftentimes, in these towns, not a public building large enough to accommodate the size of the audience that these meetings would attract. you have a group of officials in this case, british military officers sitting around the counsel fire on one side, and a group of indian males on the other side. this indian's making a speech at the council fire. he has a whopping belt that he's holding in his hands as he makes his speech. but if you look around the scene, we also see the tens of the soldiers who are camp nearby. it is a scottish soldier. we can tell it is scott a silvio because he's wearing a kilt right there. this is lackluster, they wouldn't be soldiers they w

that's exactly what i'm doing here in commonwealth of pennsylvania. >> the pennsylvania supreme courtcials to throw out naked ballots, ballots that arrive without an inner secrecy envelope, a top election official in philadelphia estimated that's as many as 30,000, 40,000 mail-in ballot tas could arrive in philadelphia alone for the presidential election, are you concerned about that? >> well, look, what's important is that the counties mail the correct material out to the voters, the voters are educated on how to fill out their ballots, put it back in the mail and send it back, and so there's a lot of work going on to educate voters. here's the deal at the end of the day, i want voters not have to worry about lawyering i'm doing in court or the processing of the ballots and simply make their plan to vote, make their plan to vote, engage in our democracy and choose the best path forward for our commonwealth and our country. >> let me switch gears for a moment, obviously the president probably going to coming back to pennsylvania between now and election day, his rallies tend to not ha

in the second frame, it was the economy is the number 1 issue in pennsylvania.peak to that as well as what is your approach to trying to get somebody that voted for obama, voted for trump, how do you get that person to then vote for joe biden if the number 1 issue is the economy? >> i think it's two things, dana. one it's reminding them of vice president biden's record. he was put in charge of the recovery act when we were given a recession when president obama and vice president biden came into offer and led to the longest stretch of private sector of job growth in the nation's history. in states like pennsylvania where the unemployment kicked up last month, you know and as i mentioned, 29 million americans on some form of unemployment insurance. i think joe biden will lay out that case and also as important he will talk about how he can build back better. he will talk about his plans to create jobs and get out of this recession that we've been put in. >> dana: what about this issue of whether the economy would be shut down again under a biden administration? b

here in pennsylvania, it hasn't been. the law that was put in place back in 2019 to create vote by mail was passed with more republican votes than democratic votes. this is not something that should be partisan. people have their own preference in terms of the candidates they will support. in terms of the operations of elections, it really needs to be a non-partisan effort. the koucounties need the suppor they need and governor wolf has stepped up to do his job to ensure that. i'm confident they will get it done. >> thank you for spending part of your labor day with us. i hope you enjoy the rest of your holiday. appreciate your time. >> you too. stay safe. >>> college students nation wide are being told ditch the parties, stay in your dorm room. swa stay with us. you're watching msnbc. machine you're watching msnbc. machin mornings were made for better things than rheumatoid arthritis. when considering another treatment, ask about xeljanz... a pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis when methotrexate

vice president pence here in pennsylvania.'s what some fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox new mexico albuquerque, the national cancer institute says some people probably got cancer from the radioactive fallout that wafted through across new mexico after the u.s. government detonated the first atomic bomb in 1945. the exact number is unknown. scientists say it's impossible to know with certainty if cancer rates changed after the test. here's a live look from los angeles from fox 11, our affiliate out there. one big story, and american air airlines pilot says he sees a missing person on a jet pack. second pilot says he saw it too. faa says they turned over the report to the l.a.p.d. but fox 11 has not received that report be that is tonight live look outside the beltway from tonight's "special report." as we had to break, some locals still have not decided here who to support. >> we are not exactly enthusiastic about both candidates. >> bret: either campaign has a shot at your vote? >> he's being slammed

re-elected without pennsylvania. what is the strategy going in? >> exactly. i mean, right now, republicans have told us for so much of this year that once this becomes a contrast choice between president trump and the eventual democratic nominee that it will be more equal footing ground, that's not been the case and it's 35 days out from the election and there's a referendum on him, his handling of the pandemic, the economy and everything else that's happened this year but the strategy really hasn't changed all too. president trump is not someone who is known for preparation. he is seeing kind of all of these impromptu gaggles and press conference that he has with the media on a regular basis as kind of his debate prep, that's what sources are telling us, and we will see -- we will see how the president kind of aims to get under the former vice president's skin tonight, but he is certainly the underdog here. i mean, the real key thing to remember is that vice president biden has many multiple paths to victory conside

current polls show former vice president joe biden is leading in pennsylvania. >> ladies and

i want to bring in peter alexander from shanksville, pennsylvania. can you tell us what it is like to be there on the ground on a morning like this? >> reporter: it is a powerful scene here. the president arriving a short time ago as they participate in this solemn ceremony, a light drizzle. this is a place as you know well represents unity, courage, defiance, and the face of adversity. just moments ago, they completed the reading of the names, names of those passengers and crew members who died on this day 19 years ago, each echoed with the ringing of the bells of remembrance. last night they debuted the tower of light display illuminated the sky. the chaplin in the beginning of this ceremony, his introduction, said no one gets over it, but together they hope to get through it. this is a country who, today, remembers one crisis as it is dealing with another. and the coronavirus pandemic is present here. and they are separated, socially distanced, the seats are separated and in the past there would be a thousand people in attendance. this year, there

eric: they will both be in pennsylvania and friday is 9/11 and they will be ensuring still pennsylvaniaf they meet each other and see each other while they are there. the schedules unclear. have they thrown the baseball bats at each other. here is president trump basically accusing biden of not doing a correct job during eight years he's hammering him with china, nafta, shipping jobs overseas. here is the president. >> joe biden spent the last 47 year shipping pennsylvania jobs to china and for nations and i spent the last four years bringing them back home and we will bring them back home. [cheering] >> i ended the last administration eight years he run pennsylvania, oil and coal and fracking. eric: i think you will hear a lot about eight years during the campaign. >> i think you will too and you will hear a lot about jobs and the president is eager to have a favorable job report that came out on friday but the thing about all the midwestern states is that even within the states, there is a huge divide within states like pennsylvania, michigan, minnesota, the suburbs and the cities are

do you believe the trump campaign has done enough to resecure pennsylvania? >> they will do a lot more. the president was in pennsylvania a few days ago an end then in late august as well. back in 2016 donald trump's path to victory was fairly simple, he had to win all of mitt romney states and then he had to win florida, ohio, and pennsylvania. he did that and then he threw in

here in western pennsylvania. this is a county the president won, essentially doubling up hillary clinton four years ago. it's a very rural county, very much a trump base area. this is the kind of place where he needs to run up the score if he wants to win again in pennsylvania, a state he carried only by a percentage point back in 2016. so that may be what's behind this latest memo from the white house, essentially directing the federal government to try to find ways, if they can, to defund in some way these big liberal cities that the president has been at war with. new york governor andrew cuomo, of course who oversees arguably the biggest, most liberal city on that list, new york city in new york state, of course, responded already. here is what he had to say about this proposed trump plan. >> he's not gonna do anything, dan, because he doesn't have the legal power to do anything. it's just a political statement. now, i'm sure he doesn't know the law, he never knew the law, and when he knows it, he breaks it a

in fact it was in pennsylvania yesterday. but what he needs to do in pennsylvania is show up and offer concrete ideas and demonstrate how he's going to move this country forward. i think he is doing that effectively. for the trump campaign, the attacks are simply not landing on joe because people know joe here. he was considered the third senator here in pennsylvania for some time. and that is just not something that i think it's working for the trump campaign. >> martha: so talk to me a little bit about the mail in voting. you heard the president talking about that. and it looks like nevada is maybe the only state that is in that sort of buffer/swing category that is doing the universal mail-in ballots. pennsylvania is not doing that, but what we are seeing the registration to get a mail-in ballot the old absentee ballot numbers much higher among democrats than among republicans. is that what you are seeing? how will you deal with all of that? >> i can't speak to nevada. let me speak to what is actually happening in pennsylv

thank you. >> he's heading to pennsylvania.ually going to be in middletown, pennsylvania, that's where the political campaign rally is set to take place later tonight. jeremy diamond, we heard the president say i want to see a peaceful transition, then he said it's got to be x, y and z. he is obviously very, very concerned he says about the ballots. >> yeah. and i heard similar comments from the president last night at his rally in newport news, virginia. the president there kind of walking back comments from earlier in the week where he refused to say he would support a peaceful transition. but at the same time, wolf, still telling supporters that the only legitimate outcome of the election is one in which the president is crowned the victor and that is not only false because there are a myriad of ways joe biden could win the election without any fraud, without any cheating, and there's of course no evidence of widespread voter fraud, but it's also potentially dangerous because it sets up a scenario where at least a third of t

a mega people and the people of western pennsylvania, why should we believe you? we shouldn't believe you. you said one thing and you did another. you don't deserve another shot in this job. >> next question, we are seeing the new, we are seeing new violence and breakout at several cities this week and have them on since the george floyd incident in his death advance the conversation about race in america or set it back and are there reforms the congress needs to support? congressman. >> i think they have a advance the conversation because we heard so many more voices from the black community and from all different walks of life talking about what they have been throughout their life and how many have experiences with the police that someone like me never had. but it's a difficult conversation and so i thank you have to constantly try to separate between the people who protest peacefully and have a positive message want to change things for the good. that is what you always hear from the family members of the victims themselves whether george floyd family or jacob

the republicans in pennsylvania promote it.ide and then claim it's subject to fraud on the other. when the truth of the matter is more monerepublicans voted by m than democrats did. there's simple fixes to guarantee a timely, safe and completely accurate count of the votes. >> if you have a state like yours tending to be close on presidential politics, what is your best guess if you have a record number of mail-in ballots, wednesday, thursday, maybe friday before we know the winner of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, not tuesday night? >> a lot depends on what the republicans in our state legislature are willing to do. the governor today released common sense, not trocontrovers fixes. they're common sense. if they adopt most of those i suspect we would be able to deliver our results rather rapidly. if we are mired in this law that will hamstring some results it may take longer and most important thing is accuracy of the vote and the fact that the other side will try to create doubt or cast this idea that there's fraud and not

trump needs pennsylvania and the biden campaign needs pennsylvania too. women, biden in every poll has broken 50%. that makes it a very, very tough. >> dana: you two are my two favorites and i love having you on the show. we will touch base with you after the debate as well. thank you. next president trump's supreme court pick is taking heat from the media over her faith. we will talk about that next. this message is for spouses of veterans with a va loan. with just one call to newday you can cut your family's mortgage payments by $3000 a year. the va streamline refi is a benefit your spouse earned. it shortens the refi process so veteran families can save money by refinancing. there is no income verification. no appraisal. no out of pocket costs. all time low mortgage rates have now dropped even lower. pa pass with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you don't have to. with a painless, one-second scan you can check your glucose with a smart phone or reader so you can stay in the moment. no matter where you are or what you're

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i am with the pennsylvania state building trades council. we represent 16 regional councils throughout the commonwealth of pennsylvania and 94 construction unions, which all aspects of construction through the state of pennsylvania, collectively we have about 135,000 construction men and women in the commonwealth who are building major projects like the planting beaver county, which by the way, donald trump didn't start. that was started under the obama administration. i sigh press release he put on that -- saw a press release he put on that they mandated everybody show up for the event he was at. he stood up there and said he entity outt whole there, which isn't true. but i will go away from that for a minute. we have had the opportunity to meet several times through the years, and you have my highest respect. our union members are better off because of you and what you have done in your career as a senator and as vice president. we couldn't ask for a better friend to become president of the united states. us,it's just -- it saddens saddens