minute. tonight s last word is maeve. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the current president versus the former president. joe biden on the road promoting his billion dollar infrastructure projects, while donald trump spent a day in court on the stand. then, mitch mcconnell casts doubt on the bipartisan motor package as the de facto leader of his party pushes for chaos. while politicians in washington continue to play politics with immigration, what is actually happening at our southern border. we will get into it as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle live from msnbc headquarters here in new york city. well today, we saw an incredible split screen of the current and former presidents who are right now likely headed for a rematch in november. presidential biden was on the campaign trail in wisconsin, touting the latest numbers showing the economy grew 3.3% in the last three months of 2023, an
former hedge fund ceo dave mccormick. their positions have been flip-flopping all night long. thousands of votes still left to be counted. as things stand this race will almost definitely trigger an automatic recount. in the governor s race in pennsylvania trump backed candidate doug mastriano with a clear lead, cnn projects he has won the republican nomination. he is pennsylvania s leading far right figure. he has championed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. he will face democrat josh shapiro the state s attorney general. shapiro is the first nonincumbent to run unopposed in a gubernatorial primary since 1930. also in pennsylvania john fetterman easily won the democratic senate primary, he might be the first candidate to do so from a hospital bed. he is out of surgery this morning after suffering a stroke and receiving a pacemaker just hours before the polls closed yesterday. we will hear from his wife on his condition in just a bit. meanwhile, north carol
language. i thought it was interesting that they both intersected to say i can be your guy maga if i get this across the finish line. don t can count me out in the fall and consider voting for me if i make it out of this primary. can we talk about fetterman, the democratic nominee for senate who got 60% of the race. fetterman seems as part of the progressive wing of the democratic party but on the other hand he is sort of crosses a lot of different border lines there. what do you think? what are we to make of him? i looked at last night as a snapshot of the year but i also wanted to go retrospective and look at pennsylvania and kind of how conor lamb came on the scene. lamb was a backlash of trump winning in the special election in 2017, similar to how joe biden is like a backlash to trump in pushing through 2020, but democrats are frustrated. democratic voters want we see a stalled agenda and they went