Voting later this month. It means a good portion of you have made up your mind, but there are some still left deciding out there and we know that because the polling is changing. Harris is inching ahead nationally and in key battlegrounds including Sun Belt states so who are those folks and how much change is still possible in these next furious few weeks . Joining us now at the big board, Nbc News national political correspondent, the one and only, steve kornacki. So where are we today, steve . Look at it from two vantage points. Nationally, this is the average of the national polls coming out of that Labor Day weekend. Harris, 48, trump, 45. Threepoint advantage for the democrats. Theyre happy to be ahead and in a different position than they were when Joe Biden was their candidate. He was basically trailing Donald Trump all year. But for republicans, theres solace in these numbers, too, because Donald Trump is no stranger to this kind of a set up. Labor day. Being a little behind. T
land is more important than the principles that we re all sworn to protect. and i well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections. and tonight, harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now, the real work begins. she put country over party. and, joe, she paid for it politically. yeah. she did. but, my gosh,ful anybody s watched this show more than a couple days heard me say that in politics, sometimes, when you win, you lose. and sometimes when you lose you win. i think here is the beginning of something much larger than being one of 435 members of the house, one of 535 members of congress. the language was remarkable. talking about in the spring of 1864, the union, after the union suffered more than 17,000 casualties in the battle of the
1980, if we were to fail, freedom to be imperiled. so let us resist to the blandishness of the faint hearts. let us ignore the hallows and the threats of the extremists. let us stand together and do our duty. and we shall not fail. very fitting. a lot of historical parallels. and, john heilemann, none of them melodramatic a day after i had conversations with two republicans i ve known for decades. one my entire life, that were calling law enforcement officers the gestapo. talking about revolution. one conservative thinker had been around since reagan. and some established conservative thinker, saying to me, the united states government is not sacrosanct. we can replace the u.s. government. talking about revolution. comparing a guy from delaware, a
dozen people in trump s immediate entourage who are sandbagging and foot dragging with the committee. and so that s what slowed us down by a few weeks. but we are determined to get to those hearings quickly in the spring, home hoping in april, certainly no later than may and get a report out to the american people about what happened. i was impressed by the testimony of that insurrectionist you had on a few moments ago who said he was going to take his crowbar in there in order to get freedom. i remembered something that the great conservative thinker and novelist, thomas mon said when he was living in america. he said if fascism ever comes to america, it will be in the name of freedom that it will come into our country. and so there they are talking about freedom while they re trying to destroy our constitutional process. it started with donald trump and with his entourage and it filtered out all the way through that mob that stormed the
that s the least worst thing. ..and in particular the january 6th assault on the capitol. right. ..which to many people look like a coup d etat attempt. yes, we were really going to get the qanon shaman as our new leader. makes very clear sense. in the context of all of that, you could just say, i don t know who s going to be the next republican candidate, but i can tell you one thing as a republican, it shouldn t be donald trump. are you prepared to say that? i don t know who. listen. you re not prepared to say it? no, because i m not a. my role and myjob is not to sit there and pontificate. i don t. ijust asked you as a voter in america. i didn t ask you to give me your political analysis. do i plan on voting for donald trump in the next republican primary? no. is the question of, is it going to be donald trump or kamala harris? well, i m voting for donald trump because kamala harris would be a disaster. a final thought. a long time conservative writer robert kagan wrote. i ve n