Were learning that the post master general himself will testify friday before a Republicanled Senate committee. This will be his first chance to answer questions about those delays in service and the implications for our election come november. Meanwhile, President Trump taking his voting rhetoric even further. In just the last two hours, the president raising the possibility of redoing the election. He said universal mailin ballots would be a disaster. He called them rigged. Your daily reminder, there is no evidence of widespread fraud when it comes to mailin voting. Also on the president s mind, the Virtual Democratic National Convention and first lady, former First Lady Michelle Obama at that same event this morning to honor womens right to vote. The president calling obamas keynote speech divisive. The overarching message democrats are hammering home at this unconventional convention, only one clear choice for americans in november. That seems to be their message in d. C. Has reporters across the country covering todays convention. In wilmington, delaware, ahead of night two. Take us through what we can expect tonight. Well, craig, you know the good thing is we got a sense of what day one looked like. We will know what the flow looks of this unconventional convention. So, where we saw Tracy Ellis Ross keeping things going and moderating. Tonights theme is leadership matters. Well hear from former president bill clinton and john kerry and then well hear from new leaders of the Democratic Party with al alexia and jill biden the second former lady. Its a sign this campaign is still introducing dr. Jill biden to the country. Shell give her speech at brandywine high school. The high school she taught english at several years ago. Also, there will be some official business going on tonight. This is still a convention and that formal nominating process for Vice President joe biden. It will take us across all 47 states and territories as they do that in the official role call nominee. As for the Vice President , hell have some Virtual Events today. Hell do an event with marin miranda and attend some of the state delegations virtually. Theyre trying their best to keep everyone engaged despite this being that virtual convention. A very busy day. Craig . All right. Shaq brewster there with a look at whats coming up. Ally, the first nights theme was we the people. We got to hear from former First Lady Michelle Obama. How is her speech setting the tone for what we will likely hear through the rest of this convention . Craig, you have to consider Michelle Obama the first and the second night of this Democratic Convention. The first night was largely laying out the case against President Donald Trump and really highlighting a trio of issues that have been hitting all of us, frankly, over the last few months. The pandemic, the economic recession and issues of racial injustice. So, Michelle Obama speaking very frankly and soberly to those issues while also outlining the kind of leadership that joe biden brings to the table. Listen to how she did that. Donald trump is the wrong president for our country. Whenever we look to this white house for some leadership or consco consulation or any semblance of steadiness what we get instead is chaos, division and a total and other lack of empathy. If you take one thing from my words tonight, it is this. If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can and they will. If we dont make a change in this election. And, craig, you called this an unconventional convention. I love the play on words there, but its true. This was kind of a hard thing to get in the groove of because it looked so different than everything we experienced through the lens of what a convention should look like. But at the same time, the format did have some benefits to it. For example, that kind of speech that Michelle Obama gave, thats one that would have been a little bit harder to replicate the intimacy and the sober nature of it if you had a raucous cheering Convention Floor before you. At the same time, it also allows democrats to highlight average voices that may not be on a typical convention stage. The kind of voters that shaq and i in a normal world would be out talking to every day. Were given a platform to highlight why these issues are important. Theyre not just pie in the sky policy issues but things hitting people at home and in their wallet and in their real lives. As we talk about this whole mess with the post office going on right now. Michelle obama was calling people to action saying now is the time to request your ballots. I think thats really important as we try to get into this whole situation of voting by mail new or novel, no . This is a practice that has been around for a long time. Democrats trying to hammer that home, as well. Thank you. Senator Bernie Sanders calling on his supporters to unite behind joe biden. Senator says that the stakes couldnt be higher. If donald trump is reelected, all the progress we have made will be in jeopardy. To every one who supported other candidates in the primary. And to those who may have voted for donald trump in the last election. The future of our democracy is at stake. Nbcs jacob. What has been the reaction to sander supporters to that message of unity . How is it shaping their thinking ahead of november . Thats a good question, craig. If you want to understand what progressive voters think, no better place to come than los angeles county. The biggest county. The most populous county in the country. Senator sanders beat joe biden. Vice President Biden here by almost 10 percentage points. With all those other candidates in this primary election and here in silver lake, almost like a progressive within the progressive bastion and i want to introduce you to someone. Running for city council here in the city of los angeles and you had a lot of overlap. Your voters and your campaign really sort of relied on the Progressive Energy or maybe it was vice versa with Bernie Sanders of that campaign. We heard Bernie Sanders last night talk about trump as an authoritarian and also working with conservatives. What was your take on what he had to say . I think what his message was to everybody was that right now, americas facing a threat from authoritarianism and trump and for everybody who believes in a Better Future for america agrees on that. But because he also focused on policy more than anyone else did last evening. He talked about the 15 minimum wage and fighting Climate Change and the green new deal. He talked about things that i think are at the core of the progressive platform. So, i think he really made it clear that the agenda is to defeat trump but also push forward the progressive policy platforms that people have been fighting for across the country for a very, very long time. So, nithya if youre going to win here in los angeles and defeat a sitting incumbent, youre going to need those progressive voters in support of senator sanders and warren to show up come november. And we know when we looked back four years ago, that didnt necessarily happen here. Do you feel like the voters that youre going to need to win, the voters that joe biden and senator harris are going to need to win are going to show up here in los angeles . To me as somebody who has been here in l. A. Working with voters, talking to volunteers, we have only seen a surge in enthusiasm for working at the local level. After the primary ended. I think that there is a real hope that this National Agenda can really be achieved at the local level. In fact, a lot of the things he was talking about last night. The 15 minimum wage started in seattle. That started at the city level. We can make huge advances here towards getting 100 renewals and impabl 4 Million People in the city of los angeles. We can do so much here locally and to me the people who have been engaged with the campaign are so much more aware of the potential for local politics to drive us towards that change that he was articulating last night. I know we have to go, but just real quick before we do, how much further would you like to see that National Platform go to line up with the local issues that youre pushing for here on the ground . You know, i think that there are National Groups who are pushing that agenda. For me, the focus is on getting rid of trump at the national level, but locally to make that agenda clear at the local level. Because we do have so much power here. And i think what we can achieve at the local level is really incredible. Nithya, appreciate you talking to me and craig. What she says is a really important point. The progressive fire on the local level whether or not it translates with the National Ticket is key to ultimately succeed come november, craig. Jacob soboroff there for us in los angeles. Jacob, thank you. Lets turn now to former Los Angeles MayorAntonio Villaraigosa and served as chair back in 2012. Good to see you, mr. Mayor. Thanks for your time this morning. One of the messages good to see you, too. During that first night was unity. How effective was senator sanders at delivering that message, mayor . I think he was very effective. Look, hes the pied piper of progressives in our country. Hes made it absolutely clear. Hes all behind joe biden. And that its important for us to have people like john kasich at that convention. That its important for us to bring together the country around the notion that whether youre a democrat or a republican that we can do better. That we must do better. That we need a president who can unite us and inspire us and who can bring us together for a common and Better Future. You, the theme tonight is leadership matters. And theres a new nbc news wall street journal poll i want to call your attention to it. It shows voters backing President Trump over mr. Biden when it comes to the economy. When it comes to crime. But voters backed mr. Biden over the president when it comes to handling this pandemic. And race relations. Given tonights theme, how does your party effectively make the case that mr. Biden is the right leader for right now . Well, first of all, were moving in the right direction. You know, two months ago that on the economy was probably Something Like 30 points. Its gone down to ten. And its going to keep on going down. Because the economy is not working for too many people. California and other states have a great deal of homelessness, of poverty and i think people are starting to realize that even when the economy was hot, it was hot for, you know, the people at the top and not for enough people in the middle and the bottom. So, i think what we need to do is to continue to hammer home that we need an economy that works for more people. That we need an economy where people who have worked but because of coronavirus cant work. They need unemployment. We need to have a safety net for those people. We need to retrain people for the new economy and we need to get them ready to get back to work. While i have you, mr. Mayor. If senator harris is elected in november, perhaps youre aware that her senate seat becomes open. It will fall to Governor Newsom to appoint someone to complete that term. Are you remotely interested in being considered for that seat . I am passionate about public service. I think, you know, people are watching and looking at whats going to happen but we have to win an election first and ill do Everything Possible to make sure that the biden harris ticket is elected. I want to serve. And the best way i can serve between now and then is to work my tail off to make sure they get reelected. To be clear, that did not sound like a no. Its not a no. What it is, its a focus on whats at hand. You know, never count your chickens before theyre hatched. We have a lot of work to do. This is going to be a close election. They engage in voter suppression. Theyre calling into question the notion that absentee ballots and voting by mail are somehow going to create a situation where people could steal an election. The only person we saw is donald trump. We have to work our tail off to get these two people elected to unite our country and to come together again. And then we can think about vacancies in the u. S. Senate. 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A postal Union President says the early hours dont bother her, but what does are the dramatic changes shes seen recently in the way mail is delivered. Our Cardinal Rule is not to delay the mail to have someone come in and tell us were not going to deliver all the mail every day is a complete change in the culture that we were taught from day one. Reporter cash along with fellow poster workers michael of long island and daily of cleveland told me the new mandates implemented by post master general are causing an unprecedented slow down in mail. We want to just do our jobs to the best of our ability and, look, be given the resources to do them. Reporter dejoy, a republican mega donor and trump ally who took over as post master general in june argues his cost cutting measures are aimed at overhauling an agency suffering billion dollar losses. Overtime pay for workers, erased, post Office Operating hours reduced leading to service slow downs and delivery delays from coast to coast. We have mail that has been left in the plants. The way theyre stopping it. The mail is just not making it to transportation. Have you seen any improvements at all based on the changes the post master general has made . Nope, not a thing. None. From the top down. From the top down. Reporter the postal workers we spoke with insist the post office has the capacity to handle the expected surge in mailin ballots. We handle over a billion christmas cards every holiday season. We can handle a couple hundred million ballots coming through. Reporter they say theyre up to the job, if only given the chance. And, craig, the concerns about the delays extend well beyond the mailin ballots and retirees facing delays waiting for their checks and Small Business owners already slammed by the pandemic and more challenges because of these delays and military veterans who are dependent on mailorder prescription drugs from the va. Normally a three to fourday wait taking three to four weeks in some places, craig. Well, you know, my dad was a mail clerk for 40 years. I appreciate your commitment to the story and thank you for highlighting those postal workers who are just out there trying to do their job. Thank you, geoff. Right now, voters in florida are casting ballots. Its primary day from state level offices there. And it could be a test for, could be a test for how florida will run things in november. Nbcs Kerry Sanders is at a polling place in miami beach as part of our countytocounty coverage. Kerry, how are things working there today so far . Well, craig, things are working. Its a very interesting picture, potentially of how this is going to work in the president ial election. Over my shoulder in this firehouse on miami beach, they set up for voting. But weve seen very few people actually walking in. In fact, as we take a look at some pictures from around the state, you can see that the voters are not necessarily mobbing the vote locations. Thats not unusual in a primary election like this. Its not the biggest election that draws out the most number of voters, but florida has mailin balloting and absentee balloting and what were seeing is a significant number of people who have gone that way. Statewide voting by mail, so far, 2,212,675. That number is significant when we roll back and look at 2016 and we realize only 1. 2, 1. 2 million or so folks voted by mail. So, this is a reflection, perhaps, of coronavirus. People who want to participate in the election process but dont want to go out to an actual polling location. Now, one of the things that we cant calculate in all of this is those ballots that were sent out and not yet returned. The number is huge. We have 2,088,000 ballots in the state of florida that were sent out by the county supervisors of elections and could be voters chose not to vote overall. Maybe a group organized to get those ballots sent out and people didnt want to vote, but may also be a case of reflecting the process of the u. S. Postal service. Slowing down the mail, as some suggest, and that people put their ballots in the mail late, theyre still in the system making their way ultimately to the supervisor of election office. In the state of florida, if they are not in by the end of 7 00 today, they wont be counted. So those votes may have been in the system and slowed down by the mail service and, of course, that is the big question that youre hearing coming from both the Democratic Party and over all Elections Officials about what they fear could happen in the president ial election. Craig . All right. Kerry sanders there for us in miami beach. Kerry, thank you. 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In florida, the number of new daily coronavirus cases is down to the lowest points since june but the number of tests also down. Nbc sam brock is in miami for us. Sam, whats happening with these numbers and in cases and testing . Craig, good morning. You know, its great news first off that the Positivity Rate in florida has plummeted in recent weeks. The latest figures from today sub 8 . The problem, craig, theyre just not testing as many people. 39,000 tests conducted that were reported on monday. 56,000 today. Thats down from about 100 to 120,000 daily as recently as several weeks ago. I reached out to the governors Communication Office and theyre looking into this and so is the Florida Department of health. So far i have not been given a concrete answer to why there is a dramatic drop. We knhurricane isaias halted staterun facilities. We mentioned the Positivity Rate and including today six Straight Days below 10 . One day dip at 11. 9 last week because one lab had dumped out weeks worth of test results in one day. Hospitalizations also a good factor to look at. From miamidade, which is where i am right now, the hardest hit part of florida. They were close to 2,000 Covid Patients a few weeks ago and that figure at 1,300. Hospitalizations are coming down and at the same time the debate over schools is heating up. The florida education association, the Largest Union in Educators Group here in the state of florida suing the state right now. Mediation going on, as we speak. Started this morning, it goes potentially all the way up until midnight. If they cannot figure a deal. If they cant come to a conclusion, craig, it moves back to Court Tomorrow where a judge is going to be looking at that emergency order in florida requiring School Districts to offer inperson instruction at a time, craig, where we know cases of covid among kids is elevated considerably. Craig . And, of course, ironically, that mediation is happening virtually, not in person. Sam brock in miami, sam, thank you. From florida to texas. That state still heading in the wrong direction in this crisis. A snapshot of the last seven days in texas shows a testing Positivity Rate of nearly 13 . For perspective, in new york state, its about 1 . The cdc warns anything above a 5 is a red flag. Texas just surpassed 10,000 deaths, as well. The management of this crisis could be a key issue on voters minds come november there. Im joined now by m. J. Haygardthe democratic candidate running to unseat john cornyn and also an air force pilot, one of the first female combat pilllets pil pilots in the military. Good to see you. Thanks for your time, m. J. So depressing to see those numbers because the numbers in texas are worse than that. The reason i say that is because nearly one out of every three texans 1873 dont have access to health insurance. I was talking to a nurse who had a patient who needed a covid test and she said ill need a couple weeks to put together the 150 it will take to get it. A Health Care Crisis that was here before the pandemic. Its just, were in trouble down here in texas and we just really need better leadership. Lets talk about voting for a moment. And what were watching play out with the Postal Service. Theres a legal battle under way in texas over voting by mail. Right now people who are 65 or older, disabled, out of town or incarcerated are the only folks who can do so. So some folks may have to risk their health to cast a ballot in texas. How do you think that is going to impact turnout . Well, ironically, its probably going to impact texas less than it impacts a lot of other states and thats because our state elected officials have been trying to suppress our votes for so long and keep us from voting by mail. This administration attack on the post office, while a threat to our democracy, isnt going to slow us down in texas. We just had the biggest test of that in our primary. We had a Million People vote in our primary runoff which the primary runoff electorate should be one of the smaller electorates. Were still setting turnout records because the fact that the people who are in office are trying to keep us from voting. I dont know if you know texans but if you try to keep us from doing something, it only motivates us to do it more. The moments in our democracy is when it is the most important to get out and vote. Lets talk about the convention thats happening right now. Texas congresswoman and a state repwe rep were added to tonights lineup. More prominent texans like beto orourke and Julian Castro and do you think the dnc made a mistake not highlighting more texans . Im so excited this is a conversation piece. We have been left out in the past and it hasnt been a point of contention. That should tell you something about what is happening in texas. Biden is tied or leading in the polls and im neck and neck with john cornyn and im just excited that is a part of the conversation. But, frankly, im really more focused on what is happening here in texas. The unemployment numbers and the fact that we have a Health Care Crisis before the pandemic, which, before the pandemic, one in five of us didnt have access to health insurance. The worst in the country. Also getting pummeled by the effects of Climate Change. We had an economic krcrisis wit our energy industry. And we have our hands full with enough to be focused on here in texas other than getting our feelings hurt. You just mentioned your oppone opponents favorability. There is this ugov poll conducted online. You had a much higher net favorability rating among senator cornyn among registered texas voters, but a lot of folks still dont know who you are. For those voters who still dont know enough about you, how are you changing that . How do you get your name out in the middle of a pandemic . Youre not going door to door. Youre not having largescale events. What are you doing . Well, i mean, the good news is that nobody knows who john cornyn is either. They shouldnt know who i am because im not a politician and hes been in the u. S. Senate for three terms now. So, he has a 67 name i. D. But the better news for the election and the worst news for texas, i guess, is that the more people learn about john cornyn and his track record, the worse his favorability rating gets. So, probably a strategy there in him trying not to increase his name i. D. You know, texas is a giant state and we drove tens of thousands of miles before the pandemic. Corner to corner. Meeting with, you know, communities and voters from across the state and now that were virtual, were taking advantage of the fact that its difficult to get to every corner of this state in the next, you know, lets see. Let me look at my clock. 77 days left, i have my little clock up here. 77 days left until the election. So, we could be in a position where were trying to get to every corner of the state in my truck or on my motorcycle like we were doing before. But now were virtual. And we are reaching people who otherwise wouldnt have come to inperson events. So, were not letting this epidemic or this pandemic be an excuse to slow us down. In the military, in combat. You dont look at obstacles and figure out just a way to overcome them. You try to turn them to your advantage, if you can. We have. We have had exponential momentum in fundraising and polling. The problem is that john cornyns big special corporate interests have noticed that. You can expect to see big pharma rushing to his aid to protect their profit margins. But i think enough people in texas as you just saw from the favorability rating, enough people in texas are fed up with politicians and they are looking for fighters who have faced the challenges that they have faced and are facing to go to d. C. And deliver a healthy dose of texas values. Mj hegar, well have to leave it there. Good luck to you, okay. Thank you so much. Theres probably, probably no one who knows what Kamala Harris is going through right now better than senator tim kaine. Senator kaine will join me next. Well talk to him about the message of this weeks convention and the fight over the Postal Service on capitol hill. Ouch, okay. Huh, boring, boring, you dont need to see that. Oh, here we go. Can you believe my client steig had never heard of a home and auto bundle or that renters could bundle . Wait, youre a lawyer . Only licensed in stockholm. What is happening . 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Hillary clintons running mate in 2016 and also a former chair of the Democratic National committee. Senator kaine, good to have you. Thanks for your time. You bet, craig. Good to be with you. What are you hoping your colleagues on the Senate HomelandSecurity Committee ask the postmaster general on friday when they question him . Craig, they have to unpack a series of bizarre actions. The disabling of voting, sorting equipment. The sacking of key leadership personnel of the post office and the postmasters decision to tell registrars that they have to use first class stamps rather than rely on the lowcost mailing that registrars have been able to rely on always for ballots. Those three actions together with President Trumps statements about, you know, mail fraud and things like that have convinced us that there is an intentional effort to hurt the post office to try to hurt the mailin voting. So, my colleagues in the senate and then the house members next monday have to go directly at him about his actions and President Trumps words. Lets turn to your convention. Youre former dnc chairman. How do you feel night one went . What do you think your party needs to do with the remaining few nights of the convention . Craig, you know, the two highlights for me for night one were, number one, Michelle Obama. I mean, she was just superb. She has the ability to say, i dont like politics. Im not into politics, let me talk to you like you are my next door neighbor and she just delivered such a rebuke of the administration and such an uplifting message about the character of joe biden. And then the second most powerful moment was kristen urquiza, the young woman from arizona who talked about her dad. She said my dad was a 65yearold healthy guy and one preexisting condition and that was that he trusted donald trump. A donald trump who lied about the virus and who preached quack medicine and now were a nation of 170,000 deaths and climbing because people like her poor father fell for this showman president. Those were two very powerful moments. They set a theme that i think will be the theme of the week. We need to trade out the Trump Administration for one that stands for character, compassion and and thats what joe biden and Kamala Harris will bring to our nation. You mentioned senator hairs and you were also former Vice President ial nominee and you spent some time in the past talking about the double standards being partly to blame for what happened to you and senator clinton in 2016. Do you get the sense that senator harris is already facing those same kinds of attacks so far . Craig, i do, but i think shes very prepped to handle it and while were talking about this topic, you know, today is the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. The 36th state did it august 18, 1920. Hist historic day as were thinking about Kamala Harris breaking the Glass Ceiling that i wish Hillary Clinton would have broken four years ago. I did everything i could to make that happen and so disappointed that we fell short. But kamala will set a double set of double standers because shes a woman and we have a poor track record of electing woman and also to congress. Our National Legislative body is 24 women. That ranks us 76th in the world. Were tied with iraq, but were behind afghanistan, canada, mexico, so many other nations. But shes up to this. She faced this before in her career. Shes facing now a racist line pitched by the president that largely because of the color of her skin hes trying to claim shes not a u. S. Citizen. He wouldnt level that claim against somebody with white skin. But shes tough and shes faced this before. She knows what shes getting in to and i think shell handle it in a very effective way. 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Thats why hes coming here to yuma. We should note this is his second visit to this Border Community of about 100,000. His second visit in now less than two months. [ inaudible ]. His main message here, craig, is essentially trying to sell what he started back in 2016. Hes trying to make the argument about promises made, promises kept. [ inaudible ] in which 300 miles of border wall have been constructed. The majority of that has been replacement wall. But he needs to sell that. The other part of this is, usnca deal. He wants to sell that his trade wars had benefits for arizonans. The number we should keep in mind, in arizona, per our nbc news marist polling, just 3 of voters in arizona say theyre undecided. Meaning this isnt so much folks deciding between joe biden and donald trump, but its a matter of the voters supporting those two candidates are going to show up. In a game of margins here, places like yuma that have actually seen a percentage increase in the number of Republican Voters here, its those voters here that could help the president make up for margins around the phoenix suburbs that hes expected to lose, craig. The always unflappable Vaughn Hillyard there for us in yuma. The second part of your report was fantastic. No one heard a thing you said the first part. Because it sounds as if you are perhaps broadcasting from the belly of an f16. Where are you . Reporter were at literally the air base next door. To good luck to the president here later this afternoon when he tries to speak himself, how about that . All right, Vaughn Hillyard, thank you, sir, through a mask and over the sound of aircraft. Vaughn, thanks, my maam. My man. Facebook chief operator officer Sheryl Sandberg will join my friend and colleague Andrea Mitchell up next to talk about the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment after a short break. 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