record-low temperatures as they get ready to make their choice in the first nominating contest of 2024. chaos follows him. you can t just terminate the constitution. former president donald trump lead his rivals even as he makes some of his closing arguments from outside a courtroom. it s a witch hunt in the truest sense of the word. who will emerge as trump s biggest challenger. steve kornacki has the results of our final poll, and chuck todd will offer a guide on what to watch on caucus night. plus, smoke signals. chris christie exits the gop race, warning nikki haley will get smoked, but will he consider his own independent third party run? i am going to make sure that in no way do i enable donald trump to ever be president of the united states again. and striking back. the u.s. launches air strikes in yemen as tensions rise in the middle east. these strikes were very deliberate, very focused. while the pentagon s top official remains hospitalized and u
politicsnation. tonight s lead, record right now, we ve got two days left and 48 hours until one of the most impactful midterm elections in recent history. brand-new polls from nbc news show two days out, show the parties themselves neck and neck in a variety of ways. americans are mere even over the democrats should retain majorities and house and senate or rather republicans should retake one if not both chambers. 48% of likely voters say they prefer democrats in control of wisconsin. 47% prefer republicans. with two days ago, democrats have closed the enthusiasm gap. seven in ten voters from both parties now say they are highly interested in tuesday s election. still, president biden s popularity with voters is a concern for the democratic candidate. just 44% of voters approve of biden s performance. 50% disapprove. nearly half the country say it wants a massive change in direction from biden s first two years as president. the landscape has democrats, has got democrats
does that end up hurting him enough that elvis s son, nephew, can win? you know, that s a good question. you know, how does that translate for folks? to be honest, stepping away from it and being this far, i don t think it will really factor. for a lot of those voters. there hasn t been a lot of blowing up around that. and yeah, it was a scandal. i think they re blowing up about it. it s hurt his popularity. it s made him very unpopular, tate reeves. yeah, but the question is how does that then translate into votes? donald trump is unpopular. but that has him beating joe biden. i m not going to base my experience in politics. i m not going to base how a campaign is going to turn out based on who is unpopular. what i m going to base it on is how reeves and presley are managing their ground game. and how they re managing the vote. and who they re turning out. are they turning out voters who see reeves as unpopular? are they taking advantage of his unpopu
Thank you. My favorite Offsite Location that we ever had. These folks here are fantastic. They are fantastic, and you make it complete, and chuck, the big X Factor is the weather. We want to show folks, we actually did a little experiment. We threw a cup of coffee outside into the air. Look at what happens, chuck . I love it. My daughter who is majoring in meteorology will have fun with this. I love it. It speaks to how frigid and dangerously cold temperatures. So the question is always about turnout. Right. And that adds a new element and what will you be watching in addition to the weather . Thats the point. It almost is the entire turnout. Rick santorum didnt win in a large turnout and those sorts of things and Donald Trump has benefitted from big turnouts. He really, when weve had the higher the turnout its been in the general election, the better, the more Trump Voters have come, and is there a Complacency Issue about that
joining me now is the democratic senator jon tester fetterman. as of now it s pretty clear from the voting that control of the senate is a toss-up and will come down to the competitive races in georgia, nevada, arizona, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. republicans need to gain just once he to win a majority. what s your sense of the mood of voters today for election? if you are political, jackie this time of year both sides highly motivated. you will see big turnouts. we are seeing big turnouts from both democrats and republicans. i think these elections will be very close. they ve tightened in the last few weeks. we anticipated tightening in the last few weeks. i m gonna tell you what democrats are telling me. they are going to win because they have a record accomplishment and because candidates are outstanding. and becauseyou were talking abn