oregon. dan. reporter: yeah. hey, rich. as you know, very few democrats have chosen to campaign with president biden this year, but when he asked if he could come out to oregon and help with the run for governor, tina said come on out. biden s three-state western spring began in colorado where he appeared with senator michael bennett who looks to be pretty safe there. he attended fundraisers in california and now he finishes up in portland. he gives a speech on lowering cost for american families. cotech is locked in a three-person race, and it s been locked up for months. betsy thompson, most believe is taking more support from the democrat than from the republican. she attacks cotech relentlessly over the dual crises of homelessness and crime. in a statement she said, quote, i hope biden comes more often so that portland will clean up more of the trash and tendencies that tina s created between the airport and downtown portland. kotek has been pretty much in lockstep with
primary, for example, was really, really bad on the republican side and, obviously, j.d. vance won, and he s had hard time and doing better raising money, and so he s doing retail politics with going county to county and getting his message across. and i also think that the democrat candidate, tim ryan, id candidate, but he has voted with president biden 100% of the time even though he puts himself out there as ad moderate. as a moderate. i don t think that j.d. vance has a problem at the end of the day. i think ohio has turned extremely red over at least since the bush administration in 2000 and 2004 when we were voting. but i think that j.d. needs to continue to get his message across and make sure that people understand what he stands for. rich: kevin, ohio, do democrats and polls show they have a shot there, can they maintain that momentum? it s a pretty red state. listen, every national democrat that i talk to is look at ohio. we need to invest there.
has been in the senate for so many years, has not paid attention to this race, and tiffany has been banging and talking to people and banging on her message for the last 18 months and is within 2 points of what is really happening. there s a lot of people that feel on the republican side if there s a wave outside these four states that everyone talks about, tiffany smiley can get over the finish line. and there s a lot of money that s starting to go into that race. rich: kevin, what should we be watching that we re not? to ashley s point, and it s a good one, nevada might be that sleeper. to your point, rich, there s a lot of oxygen being consumed in pennsylvania, ohio and georgia. i think the former chief justice of the court or or in is running a campaign, she actually was the sole winner in that, obviously. and i think that could be a sleeper. it s a 1, 2, 3-point race with
issues and add health issues to it. going to pennsylvania, you ve got john fetterman. he had a stroke right when primary was happening. this is fetterman on msnbc last week. i always thought i was pretty empathetic emphatic. i think i was very, excuse me, empathetic. you know, that s an example of the stroke. what you saw and heard there, the auditory processing challenges, the speech challenges rich: so, kevin, there s a debate in nine days. do you think this becomes how much of an issue will this be in the event as i believe they re already voting in pennsylvania? they are early voting, rich. and, of course, all eyes will be on that debate. i think it s on the 25th in harrisburg. but this is a critical race, obviously. the lieutenant governor has been a up a few points heading into the fall with those hits on oz whether it be the new jersey connection, the flimflam stuff he s been doing as a medical there can over the past couple of decades, but all eyes will be
that he worked for bernie sanders, he s as liberal as bernie sanders. he wants to release half the population in our penitentiaries in pennsylvania onto the streets. he s the worst candidate ever on crime in the entire country, and those that s what we should be talking about. i think we should put the health issues aside and talk about what his policies are, which are much, much worse than the health situation. rich: kevin, going nationwide here there was a point where it looked like a red wave, and in the summer democrats started to make some gains around roe v. wade, now it seems to be going back here. how do democrats get that momentum back, and have hay lost it as. they lost it as this sort of push that we saw mt. summer has petered out over last but weeks? yeah, rich, it s a really good question. obviously, in the wake of the dobbs decision you saw that enthusiasm shift a little bit especially with new registrants among young women that were blowing the numbers out of the