virginia, where they were explaining what really happens, and the statistics in the sun that, and that s not an effective campaign approach. i think instead the selection of focusing, and make sure some voters, at least here, so republicans can t plan to get social security and medicare, before the election, and defining the economy in a more broad sense who s probably the smart move there. tim, quickly before we go, we have a lot of election deniers, running and given the amount of early voting in absentee voting, much like 2020, we re probably not gonna know the results, on election night, are you worried about how that s gonna fanned the flames, for these deniers? very worried, particularly in arizona and pennsylvania, the two biggest deniers on the ballot, tech mastriano kari lake and as we saw in 2020 both of those states take a while the counter votes, partly because republicans made a law that allows you to count early votes before election day. so i think those are the two
large lift for democrats to make. and could they have responded on crime? they might have. but i m not sure they would ve responded in the way that tim is imagining, which is the republican response. attacking them. republicans aren t good at crime, they are good on crime, act crime. i don t think that s what would have happened. i think we would ve seen something very similar to what happened in virginia, where they were explaining why really happens in the statistics and this and that. and that s not an effective campaign approach. i think instead the selection of focusing and making sure some voters, at least, here that republicans planned to get to social security and medicare before the election and defining the economy in a more broad sense, which probably the smarter move there. tim, quickly before we go, you have a lot of election deniers fighting. and given the amount of early voting and absentee voting, much like 2020, we are probably not going to know the results on el
of the big campaign events. joining us now, nbc s ali vitali in miami gardens, nbc s guad have a nation as. ali, the president is facing criticism for his campaign approach, not having big rallies. today he is showing up in a state trending red in recent elections. what is he hoping to accomplish in florida? reporter: this is a state that biden campaigned in in the 2018 midterms. it s the same approach we are seeing now. try to drive out turnout in those blue areas of the state. if you look at the way this state shook out in 2020, it did trend more red, which is to say trump won by a bigger margin here in 2020 than he did in 2016. it was still just a matter of three points. but in a state like florida that s typically so tight and so swingy, it was a notable margin of victory for trump. so the goal here for democrats, although this is a state that
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debate in that splash, the attention thaw had that turned ugly. we saw birtherism-style attacks circulating online that you are not really black. when the president s eldest son joined in that attack on twitter, that was an aha moment that this was what the campaign is going to be like. it made me wonder how you and the campaign approach if you have a strategy for thinking about that campaigning now that you have seen a taste of it. i have to be candid with you. i was not surprised. i found it uninteresting. it s just a revival of an old playbook that was debunked a lot time ago. so everyone was used to it and as you can see, and i really thank my colleagues and others who spoke up. i have thanked them and will