alexandria, richmond, roanoke, he needs to have inroads in those areas as well as what has traditionally voted republican in the south if he s going to be the first republican to win statewide since 2009. i think voters are paying attention. i think he knows voters are paying attention and he s trying to split the baby. this is what happens when you have donald trump as your main representative for your party. he can t bring donald trump in because glenn youngkin would be forced to alienate some of his voters. our democratic candidate actually has the full standing of his party and has mcauliffe has barack obama coming in, he has the first lady biden coming in. he s got the big guns. there s a bigger gun that s not mentioned on that list who so far hasn t said whether he
gavin newsom has pulled ahead in the polls. republicans are running the, you know, fraud playbook. how is that going over in california? i mean you could tell when you talk to democratic sources in the state, you know, a couple of weeks ago they were more nervous, but as we ve seen more polling, as they ve spent tens of millions of dollars turning out the vote, as we ve seen the mail-in ballots coming in with democrats casting twice as many as republicans they re growing more confident. these events, whether vipt harris or president biden coming in to rescue, so now it seems more like a celebration or helping him run up the margin. we won t know what happened until tomorrow because obviously a lot of republicans are waiting to vote on election day, but we are seeing people including president trump earlier today saying that this election is rigged and sort of laying out the ground work to challenge the results. it feels like one of the more dangerous new practices. i mean they re s
president biden today on his first trip to the west coast since taking office, in this hour he will be surveying the damage left behind from the wildfires in california that have burned thousands of acres and structures and homes in the region. earlier today the president was briefed at national interagency fire in boise, idaho, amid the climate crisis that envelopes the whole country. the president last week calling the situation code red. the president is hoping to use this trip as a way to sell both his bipartisan infrastructure deal as well as his build back better plan, but the trip culminates in a joint campaign appearance with california governor gavin newsom who is hoping that the president can help cement a victory ahead of the recall election tomorrow. let s bring into our coverage seema meta, political reporter for the l.a. times and my colleague nbc s jacob soboroff in long beach, california, at the tight of gavin newsom s final rally before tomorrow s recall. seema, tell
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states. ainsley: that includes 46 people in the northeast after remnants of ida battered our region with record breaking rain. steve: and then the flooding that came as well. fox weather correspondent steve bender joins us live from new orleans with the latest. steve, the president is heading your way. yes, good morning, guys. and the national guard is out here. obviously in preparation for president biden coming in later today. but let s talk about the remnants of hurricane ida and what it did to the northeast. you guys just mentioned it killed 46 people as it ripped through on wednesday and thursday. and that does include actually connecticut state police sergeant. that s 26-year-old sergeant brian, he was found yesterday morning after his cruiser was swept away by those floodwaters. now, it was a frantic scramble for many in the northeast to get to safety and we hear from one man who was clinging to his wife to make sure she was safe. i want to go my neighbor.