presidents of the united states do campaign in campaign years. so, the criticism of president obama for being out on the campaign trail, republicans and democrats. thanks so much, peter, for jumping in there. joining me now is jan brewer, former republican governor of arizona, also a trump supporter. we wanted to talk to you, always interested in talking to you, governor, but is arizona possibly in play? we saw 15,000 people turning out in tempe yesterday for hillary clinton. they re saying she s making a play for arizona. is that a pipe dream, a longshot, or is there actually some chance that arizona could go democratic? i don t believe it will go democratic. i think, of course, she wants to believe it will be in play. she held her rally at asu, at a campus. the largest campus in the world, by the way, where there s a lot of young people that attend.
injunction about practices by republicans purging thousands of voter registration lists. ari melber joining me. the legal state, the judge said she was taking it under advisement. since we ve been on the air, we haven t heard anything about that injunction. obviously, there are only five days left to vote. an emergency injunction is just like it sounds, a request for unusually fast legal action. you could see some effort to address this either by telling these officials to stop knocking these voters off the rolls, reinstate them, or a ruling that leave it be, saying this is appropriate. the big question is you have the naacp arguing these are effectively systematic purges, it looks like an attempt to move a lot of people off the rolls. you have the counterargument that there is under state law an ability to try to test someone lives where they say they do and challenge them. accordingly, the department of justice, as you and pete williams were reporting yesterday, has put a statement
people were interpreting her stop in detroit and the fact they were back on the air in michigan as a sign of weakness. what is your take on whether donald trump can pick it off? i think trump sees two alternative routes to winning the 270 electoral votes. i can t believe we re talking about it really being possible, but it is. if he can t get pennsylvania, he has to go around to other industrial states like michigan and wisconsin as the alternative way to get the big electoral vote. and ohio. i think he ll get ohio. i think he has ohio. but i think he needs the other two. here s what s fascinating for people who love to figure out how our country works. why do presidential elections tend to favor democrats and why is it congressional seats tend to favor republicans? it s so simple. democrats live in big cities, whether it s oakland or san francisco, l.a., chicago, south florida, they all cluster in certain congressional districts like in philly. you have like 85% of philadelphia
some of the new polling that shows a tightening race in places like colorado and new hampshire. places i m sure you ll talk about in a moment. as we ve been with him over the course of the last several days, what resonates most with these folks have been attacks on, among other things, as they describe them disastrous obamacare premium heights. i can hear the crowd getting loud. they sense donald trump about to take the stage. that s what he ll talk about today, he tweeted about it. as air force one in miami was parked just a matter of yards away from donald trump s plane. he wrote, why is he campaigning instead of creating jobs and fixing obamacare? yet back to work through the american people. but the reason this area, duval county, jacksonville where we are, is so important, andrea, because this is a county in 2004 for george bush was a 17-point win for the republicans. but it was only a one-point win for john mccain in 2008 and a four-point win for mitt romney in 2012. the republic
if you will, they waste their votes. they overcrowd, overload the zones in the big city, put all the votes in the big cities because that s how the liberals, minorities force to cluster because of discriminatory housing, whatever you say it is so democrats can carry the big states because they re in the big cities. they lose to congress because they put all the votes in the big cities while it s one of the great ironies. republicans overlook the cities until presidential election years and they say, oh, my gosh, there s a place like philadelphia, we haven t thought about that. oh, there s a detroit. we didn t think about that. they realize, these big states are block busted by the big cities. one county in pennsylvania, called philadelphia county, out of 67 counties, is probably going to rock pennsylvania for secretary clinton. there are reports bill clinton stopped to meet with detroit s mayor last night, so bill clinton, who knows this stuff better than anyone than, perhaps, you