I am katie feng and for alex. The 2020 presidential election was one of the closest races we ve ever experienced in this country although george w. Bush won the election, it was al gore who won the popular vote that your. When you start to slice and dice the electorate into different voting groups, that race starts to look weightless tight. Check this out. In 2000, george w bush dramatically outperformed his opponent among white evangelical voters, winning 68% among that group. In 2024 he increased that support by 10 points. Evangelical support for the republican presidential candidate remained relatively steady for the next two elections and then look what happened in 2016. Donald trump won the support of 81% of white evangelical voters. Trumps ability to supercharge the evangelical vote has largely been attributed to the reason he was able to win the presidency the first time he ran. Without a strong evangelical turnout, it becomes much more difficult for donald trump to chart a repe
From msnbc world headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone to alex witt reports. We begin with decision 2024 and 66 days until election day, 10 days until the first residential debate, and six days until voting by mail starts in north carolina. New today, another push by the harris campaign for open microphones at the september 10th debate with donald trump. We will have more on that in just a moment. Also new, reaction from the first gen z member of congress, touring college campuses and talking with potential student voters. Maxwell frost is telling my colleagues at msnbc s, the weekend, that young people are energized. People are fired up all across the entire country. North carolina, arizona, ending today in pennsylvania. The rooms are packed. Students are assigned to go organize. Young voters have been so neglected in politics for generations, and we are seeing a candidate run a full campaign to court the youth about, and people are saying, this is out of this world. Morning rea
Far as we followed chris getting. Certainly the day was wild. What is often reported is the level of also camaraderie among the writers on the day, a surprising aspect that i didn th fully anticipate. We sort of show this in the film, where after the evening of the sixth, they go back to the hotel and are having an after party, barbecuing in the street, sort of celebrating and talking about their exploits of the day. It is extraordinary. I have love talking with you, i wish you the best of luck with this film, homegrown. Thank you so much for joining us. In just a few minutes, steve korn nike breaking down the shift for, harris in one battleground state. Very good day to all of you from him as a bc world had go to new york. Welcome to alex witt reports. We begin with decision 2024, and 66 days to election day and the countdown to the first e presidential debate. That is just 10 days from now. The harris campaign today pushing on social media to keep candidates microphones open during t
Cnns liveSpecial Coverage of the tragedy near miami continues, this hour. Im pamela brown in washington. And im wolf blitzer here, in surfside, florida. Scene of the stunning collapse that turned this 12story condo into a smoking pile of rubble, in a matter of only seconds. Within the past hour, the Miamidade County mayor, Daniella Levine cava gave an update on the victims of this tragedy. Listen to this. Our teams have been working, around the clock, as always, to search for survivors. They have not stopped. And today, our searchandrescue teams found another body in the rubble. And, as well, our search has revealed some human remains. The process of identifying these victims is very difficult. We are going to be relying on dna testing, and that is why weve, already, been gathering dna samples from the Family Members. So, they have all participated, and provided dna to assist us in the identification. This allows us to do rapiddna test testing, onsite, for bodies that we find. And, you
Cnns liveSpecial Coverage of the tragedy near miami continues, this hour. Im pamela brown in washington. And im wolf blitzer here, in surfside, florida. Scene of the stunning collapse that turned this 12story condo into a smoking pile of rubble, in a matter of only seconds. Within the past hour, the Miamidade County mayor, Daniella Levine cava gave an update on the victims of this tragedy. Listen to this. Our teams have been working, around the clock, as always, to search for survivors. They have not stopped. And today, our searchandrescue teams found another body in the rubble. And, as well, our search has revealed some human remains. The process of identifying these victims is very difficult. We are going to be relying on dna testing, and that is why weve, already, been gathering dna samples from the Family Members. So, they have all participated, and provided dna to assist us in the identification. This allows us to do rapiddna test testing, onsite, for bodies that we find. And, you