kill it. you were at an event for him in new york. what was your take? joe biden could have had a better night, no question about it. i don t believe we should magnify one debate. what counts to many democrats is not who wins or loses the first debate of 1 but who can win or lose those battleground counties, 25, 30 battleground counties in seven or eight battleground states whachlt doesn t count is what s going to happen november 2020. i do not believe this fundamentally affected the debate. kamala harris had an exceptional night, maybe advances to the top four i would argue that booker had a pretty good night. castro had a pretty good night. for those who have been trailing at 1% to 3%, they re running on fumes. first thing rur going to see is people beginning to step out of the race. question is, where do their supporters go?
it s softer than ever. charmin ultra soft is softer than ever so it s harder to resist. okay, this is getting a little weird enjoy the go with charmin what sore muscles? what with advpounding head? .. advil is. relief that s fast. strength that lasts. you ll ask. what pain? with advil. big national races almost always come down to battleground states. that s how presidential races go, right? in the same way, statewide races often come down to big battleground counties. right now in georgia s super close governor s race, gwinnett county is big, almost 1 million
big national races almost always come down to battle ground states. that s how presidential races go, right? in the same way, statewide races off come down to big battleground counties. right now in dpa s super close governor s race, gwenn et county is the most diverse county, not just in georgia but the whole southeast. 60% of the people there are non-white. early voting started in georgia last monday. by the count of the atlanta journal constitution, almost 41,000 people in the county have cast their ballots in the first nine days of early voting. what does that mean? for context, that is quadruple the number of people who voted early by this point in the last midterm in 2014. four times the number of people who voted in the last midterm. but something else is happening in these really high numbers in
this from the oval office to sort of explain to the american public what the stakings are and as a result it seems clear that many states do not realize how vulnerable they are. as you saw there, some states are not even convinced they were, in fact, penetrated or hacked. and for example, 11 states still don t have paper backups to their electronic ballots. it wouldn t take a massive intervention. right. it would only take a small number of votes being changed in a small number of battleground counties or small changes in voter rolls that could really throw the system into chaos. to be cleeshgs the challenge isn t just what we re doing here to protect themselves from that infiltration. but what message, at least a lot of americans or critics of this white house say, what americans and the administration are doing to send a message in effect to punish russia for its actions in the last election, correct? that s absolutely right. because you re never going to be able to protect e
welcome back, everybody. nbc has new technology that drills right down to the heart of the battle in key swing states. it s an even better way to show you the most critical battleground counties, and joining me now to show it off is chuck todd, nbc s chief political director and white house political correspondent as well as host of the daily rundown here on msnbc. and chuck, these are some of the most interesting counties, and i think that you ve also come up with new names for all of them, correct? well, we have. first, yeah, a little bit of that. but look, every state, every swing state has that swing county, and we ve identified the largest county in every state and we re going to give you a little taste of it in the mega state of flohva. that s what i ve been referring to the big three of the battleground states, florida, ohio, virginia. i know, it sounds like a prescription drug ad you ll see that probably gets rid of aches and pains in your shoulder or maybe the aches and pa