right now, the stage is set for what could be an historic election if democrats can defy trends. if you ignore the fear mongering, if you ignore the cynicism, if you vote, then we will keep this country moving forward. and you look at all the polling data. if y all show up and vote, democracy s sustained. not a joke. as donald trump uses his campaign rallies to road test a likely run in 2024 and ron desantis. let s see. there it is. trump at 71. ron disanctimonious at 10%. this hour, we ll have reports from five states. pennsylvania, georgia, wisconsin, nevada, and arizona. and check in on critical governors races across the country. we ll also take a closer look at fears over intimidation tactics at polling places and concerns over online misinformation already spiking after mass firings at twitter. good day. i m andrea mitchell at msnbc election headquarters in new york. president biden is spending his final days of the campaign defending normally safe democrati
have said we could, we have to focus on the economy. i think both issues are driving people to the polls. but i also think that there s been a great deal of confusion about the ballot proposal in michigan. there s a ton of flat out bad misinformation. children are not going to be able to be sterilized. parent of consent is still going to be there. and it is tighter, quite frankly, than it should be and people who really care about this issue are going to need to vote and i m not sure what s going to happen on that ballot proposal. the political board has moved michigan governor s race from likely democrat to leaning democrat. which is a downgrade for the democratic hopes of governor whitmer. so running against dixon as you know. who is an election denier. also election deniers on the state ballot, the state ticket
of ballots having been returned here in arizona. that s the same number we saw in 2018, but this is notable because in 2020, there s the expectation that even more voters than 2018 are going to be voting tomorrow on election day. so we have seen a great number of ballots from pima county, the district, the county where mark kelly and blake masters are actually from. it leans heavily democratic. the big question comes into what sort of surge republicans are able to turn out. i was talking to somebody working with masters campaign, what has changed with these polling numbers. because they started focusing on the economy and immigration. the big question is is mark kelly able to win over about three percentage point advantage over masters among those independents and secure a full
from being termed out of office by lee zeldin in a solidly blue state. today, the president will be outside d.c. in maryland, campaigning for wes moore, who is highly favored to win on tuesday. meanwhile across the country, today democratic senate candidates in the toughest contests are making their final pitches without the party s leader. covering the three biggest senate contests, nbc s dasha burns in pittsburgh. eliassen barber in atlanta and jacob sob rof in las vegas. fetterman and oz, how are the candidates trying to use that momentum in the last few hours? reporter: well, andrea, right now, we are at the democratic headquarters for a last minute get out the vote effort and our final nbc news poll showed that about two-thirds of voters had made up their mind about who they re going to vote for before labor day, which means the last couple of months it s been about
that independent breakage on the other side. and jeff, what are you seeing among black voters? that could be key in philadelphia, which the turnout there is going to be key to fetterman eking out a victory over oz. certainly in georgia, there s a real issue with two black candidates, but one of whom significantly has more black support. one could argue that senator warnock is the you know, pasture of the traditional martin luther king church, has more black support than does walker. no, that s right. i think that s why president obama is so important and why you ve seen him in so many of these swing states is he really is these days a political unicorn. the shohei ohtani of politics where he s able to both be a persuasion communicator and also talk about get out the vote in that part of the democratic base. he is positive as a politician, which is unlike any other