warning signs for the president s re-election bid. a recent abc news/ipsos poll found that his favorability is just 31 percent, down 15 points from the summer before the 2020 election. the republican contenders hoping to capitalize on the president s poor polling. ron desantis today campaigning in nevada. we are going to send joe biden back to his basement in delaware where he belongs. reporter: and nikki haley off the trail, attending a ceremony to say goodbye to her husband as he deploys to africa for a year with the south carolina national guard. so much of my foreign policy does come from the fact that i m a military spouse. karen travers on the campaign trail with biden in philadelphia. you re learning the president will soon shift the focus to funding his re-election bid. reporter: biden campaign officials tell me the president will not hold regular rallies until next year. his focus now will be on fund
four more years. that s his message. he was talking about jobs, he believes there going in the right direction. inflation, he believes that s going in the correct direction as. while he talked about some of his key legislative priorities, things like the inflation reduction act, the infrastructure bill, some of the signal signature priorities uncle used to campaign over the next few years. here s what he said, yesterday. you ve carried the country on your back, you carried long enough. it s time for millionaires, billionaires, big corporations to pay their fair share. i can get that done. i need you badly. are you with? now we saw president biden in philadelphia, or not gonna see him over the next few weeks and months is iowa, or new hampshire, south carolina. some of those early primary states. rose garden strategy they re calling. it where he s gonna legislate, he s gonna be president something that others in the
we are coming on the air with breaking news on today s top story. for the first time, we will see secretary of state tony blinken on camera. you re looking at it live on the left side of your screen there. potentially reacting to that suspected chinese spy balloon, flying over u.s. airspace. also this hour, you ve got president biden in philadelphia after a better than expected jobs report. we re juggling all of it live here in the next 60 minutes on msnbc. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in one of our chief white house correspondents, foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer is live in beijing, and gary locke, former u.s. ambassador to china. let s take a beat. lay out what we know so far about this chinese apparent supply balloon mystery situation. we are about to hear from the secretary of state for the first
fetterman. the battle for control of the senate could hinge on the race. what is the thinking in the fetterman campaign headquarters? reporter: yeah, it certainly could, skjake, and across the country, democrats are playing defense. here is where they could play offense. an open senate seat, republican pat toomey is retiring, and democrats would love to pick this up. i talked to several campaign sources late this afternoon, and one of them acknowledging this is a jump ball, we know this is an incredibly tight race. what we are confident in, they closed it out as strongly as they could. the campaign feels like the last five days have been very good for them. they highlight the oprah winfrey endorsement that came late thursday and dominated the local news cycle on friday. they had the rally with former president obama and president biden in philadelphia, and one here in pittsburgh with obama, and they really feel like that has really lifted and given them a lot of momentum heading into