pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan by less than one point. they acknowledge privately there is reason to be a little bit worried. joining me now, msnbc political analyst, zerlina maxwell, senior director of progressive programming at sirius xm. amy parms and shane gold mmatch are still with us here on set. both have acknowledged my home state is a must win for them. if you look at the trends of pennsylvania, president trump won there in 2016, as we ve said. but before that, it was democrat, democrat, democrat for the past six presidential elections. what do democrats need to do to try to flip that state blue for 2020? i think the same thing is true about pennsylvania that s true about michigan and also wisconsin. it s that we need to increase turnout. and specifically in the major cities. so when we re talking about these three states and specifically pennsylvania, we need to remember that the
people are feeling pretty good about where he is in polling. they re looking a new morning consult poll that was out today that shows that not only is he up in intense favorability, but he is the second choice among people he s the second favorite among all these other candidates. and that is optimistic. that looks like an optimistic thing for them. because if all of these people drop out, they re all going to move over to biden. shane, what are you working on? what are your sources telling you? that dig debate coming up, 12 candidates who have to double qualify, both with polling measurements and donor measurements, jay inslee on the precipice of getting 65,000 donors. that may sound like a good thing for him. the party is worried, though, at this point, there are more than 20 candidates, there are only 20 slots on that debate stage. not everyone is qualified, but it s a little bit of a scrum to get those last few slots. and some surprising candidates haven t hit that donor thre
supporters, like, look what he s doing, we need to do better than this. so they re going to kind of make things rough for him in terms of fund-raisi fund-raising, in terms of being the establishment figure. joe biden is banking on the fact, as shane said, that he can do both. that he can still appeal to small donors but also appeal to these big moneymakers. guys, stick around. zerlina maxwell, it s always a pleasure to have you on. thank you, my friend. appreciate it. msnbc s road warriors and all the democratic contenders are on the road to miami for the first democratic debate of the 2020 election. that s going to be next month, june 26th and 27th. it will be here before you know it on msnbc, nbc news, telemundo. it will also be live streamed on n nbcnews.com. it s going to be very interesting. time to get a look at something else that s interesting, what our sources are saying. amy, what are you hearing from your sources and reporting on? looking at biden in polling, people ar
into the third debate, and where years and that is a record to be proud of. appreciate that, and appreciate the point, and we the debates have been truly unusual, and we have also seen it all, and the second debate have heard some of that from for many people is just a sad both par is this in this segment moment for america. at least. rick wade, rick tyler and amy and what are you seeing in the third? well, i think that it is parms. and now, there is time for you going to be sadder, don t you to have your voice heard on the based on what you have just first pulse question. said, and reading the tweet. do you believe as some of the this is all of the signs of a donald trump s accusers waited to come forward to hurt his desperate campaign getting close chances of winning the election. to the unhinged level and talking about rigging the election, and saying that saturday night live is part of weigh in at pulse.msnbc.com/america. the rigging of the election by we will discuss your re
ivanka trump says there is a special place in hell for people who prey on children. jeff sessions says i have no reason to doubt these young women. conservative voices putting women and children over party. and this morning the moore camp moving quickly to capitalize on the president s words. putting out a fund-raising e-mail for thanksgiving. quoting both the president, as well as the reverend billy graham and including a link where you can donate money. chris and alisyn, back to you. thanks, joe. let s bring in our guests. we have cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein and cnn political analyst amy parms. amy, we re seeing what s happening this morning in real time. the president exercised about lavar ball. that big interview on cnn a couple nights ago and broke the internet and the president still thinking about it. yesterday he didn t say