day. any format is better than the debate format. he has slowly gotten back to, you know, the campaign trail, doing rallies where he s relatively more comfortable in that situation. he s done more interviews, one-on-one interviews where, you know, again, better for him than that kind of situation where you have 30 seconds to respond. bright lights are on you. you have to respond to this question. between now and then, that s part of the strategy. his allies, publicly are closing ranks around him, his campaign, arguing that this is not one debate performance isn t everything, and going heavy on the attack against dr. oz, remember, this campaign is going to be decided in large part by negative partisanship. favorability is 30 to 40% in pennsylvania. he has a rough path to getting elected in a state that is very skeptical of him, and the fetterman campaign sees that, they smell blood. they re going to continue attacking. oz s campaign has decided his
head to pennsylvania in the coming days, unclear if he ll go to georgia. former president obama expected to go to both places. early voting in both states, too, turn up has been up. camila dechalus, thank you for joining us, and thank you to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday. morning joe starts right now. don t go anywhere. things aren t going much better for herschel. his campaign for senate gets nuttier by the day. in less than two years, this is where we at. and now you re asking for six more years. do we look like we got peanuts in our brain? hmm, let me think about that for an hour. is the answer yes? i say yes. it might be. there s more from georgia this morning. a second woman comes forward to accuse republican senate candidate herschel walker of paying for her abortion 30 years ago. like the other woman, this
there in the intro where he talked about abortion should be left to women, doctors, local politicians. there s a viral clip that was created the night of fetterman s campaign that cut that into an ad. that has 7 million views online. that s about the size of the entire pennsylvania voting electorate in the 2020 election. the question is how it s going matter to voters in the remaining last, i guess, less than two weeks now before election day. are they going to punish john fetterman for that performance. do they believe he is fit to serve? his argument from his doctors at the least is his mental faculty is there. his problem is performance and communication in moments like that. democrats we talked to, you know, pennsylvania democrats were cringing a little bit watching that. that was tough to watch for a number of them, and some of them have pangs of anxiety, thinking maybe it will, if it s a one or two point race, it could end up being bad for fetterman. we will see. what s the str
the manufacturing, upstate new york that matters, and also aids tell me to give kathy hochul a boost, the new york governor in a surprisingly close race. and the president is going to be in pennsylvania a lot in the next week or so. but not too many other places. the white house still knows that biden s poll numbers aren t that high. a lot of campaigns aren t that eager to have him join their candidates at events. he s not going out to arizona. he s not getting out to nevada, at least for now. nothing in michigan or wisconsin either. he s going to focus on pennsylvania. he s going to raise as much money as he can, frame the stakes, big picture to deliver the closing argument for his party, a party that is growing nervous, mika, here. the house, going to be hard to keep, i think most democrats acknowledge that. but the senate, 50/50, and so much of it is going to come down, probably a trio of states, nevada, georgia, as we have been discussing, and of course pennsylvania. this is a re
fetterman campaign moving forward because in some ways, one might argue, put him out on live tv, they might have wanted to have done that a lot more before the debates so he could get used to what it would feel like. that kind of bracing, the lights are on you. 8:00 p.m. at night. stress that the body goes through during a debate appearance. i mean, it seemed like a lot to put him through. and given that he did have a stroke, some might be surprised how well he did, even though he did seem to be struggling to process his words. is there a strategy moving forward given the fears in the democratic party that this candidate might not be strong enough? and i wonder if there s what we ll see in future polling, you know, what democrats are feeling versus the pennsylvania voters? might they have empathy. a couple of things, first the strategy is to put him in better formats between now and election