congressman. if turnout is similar to other special elections this year, lamb leads saccone by six points, 51 to 45. it would be an embarrassing and costly defeat for the republican party. in the last two days saccone has enlisted help from president trump and his son donald trump jr. here we go. conor lamb, lamb the sham, right? lamb the sham. he s trying to act like a republican. we need our congressman saccone. we have to have him. what do you think about rick saccone? he is doing a great job. listen. he is going to support the things that my father is doing. you ve got a real conservative. i think that was saccone grabbing a mouthful of food there according to politico, senior republicans have called saccone a lackluster candidate who has heavily leaned on the national party to run his campaign. president trump himself has been down on saccone. i m joined by terry madonna of the great franklin and marshall
scenes. four sources that have spoken to the president say trump things s a acc on one is a weak candidate. let s bring in our msnbc correspondent vaughn hilliard. good morning to you there in mt. lebanon. let s talk about president trump. he won this pennsylvania district by 20 points in 2016. this particular race now is too close to call, within the margin of error. what s the likelihood that conon lamb, the democrat, could flip this district. good morning. the interesting part about this is don junior will be on the tail here today with rick saccone. we ll be sure to ask him about those behind the scenes comments reportedly from axias there.
vaughn hilliard, live for us in pennsylvania, thank you very much. ahead of that special election, i twavl actualactuallo pittsburgh and met with some voters to talk about who they re voting for, why, and whether they have any buyer s remorse about voting with president trump. i want to start by a show of hands who voted for president trump in 2016. all right. so you all voted for president trump. who in in here is leaning towards co had nor lamb. who is undecided? no one? would is leaning towards rick saccone. are you decidedly rick saccone? here is where i m conflicted. in voting for donald trump as an oe outsider, he talked about making america great again, reform our tax code, control immigration. he laid out a plan that i was
now headed by sleepy eyes chuck todd. he s a sleeping son of a bitch, i ll tell you. just a reminder, he was there to endorse rick saccone. chuck todd did not directly address the president s insult, though he did ask steve mnuchin about the president s moral leadership. many people, including myself, raise their kids to respect the office of the presidency and the president of the united states. when he uses vulgarity to talk about individuals, what are they supposed to tell their kids? again, i ll be with my kids this morning and i ll be focused on them on what the president is doing to protect the united states, its citizens and more importantly the economy. so don t worry about his values, don t worry about i ve never said that whatsoever so i don t know where you re putting these words in what i m trying to say, okay.
most effective person as a tool to get president trump s agenda through would be saccone for that reason. it s not just because he s republican. fascinating conversation there. yeah. so i mean, we wanted to see if this was going to be a referendum on the president. and the president himself suggested it was going to be well, from his perspective, it seems leak it s a referendum. or at it seems like everybody race has been a referendum. but my take, if first and foremost, they got nine months. we re going to vote in whoever they vote in and if they don t do a great job, we re going to vote again in november. this saul about turn out. what we need to remember is that as it is in so many cases. 70,000 more democrats are registered in this district than republicans. if they re able to get more turnout for the dem s side, it could go to connor lamb. but if you re a trump person through and through, what i saw,