i would. let me tell, you president trump s my friend. let s go now to reporters who are in georgia for tonight s debate, nbc news correspondent, alison barber, and new york times political reporter, maya king. thank you for joining us. alison, let me start with you. basically, what was each campaign hoping to achieve through tonight s debate, and what are they saying afterwards about whether they achieved it? going into the debate night, we were expecting to hear herschel walker make an aggressive push to try and tie senator warnock to president joe biden. joe biden does not have a very high approval rating in the state, in a poll, by the agency, back in september, among lightly georgia voters. the president s approval rating overall was 37%. we ve seen walker do that throughout the campaign, when i was speaking to sources close to the walker campaign. they were adamant that he was going to aggressively make that point tonight. we saw him try to bring that up a number of times.
exceptions for rape, incest, or health, of the woman. my position on abortion is clear. i am pro life, with exceptions for life of the mother. you should understand her position. it s extremely radical. it s abortion up to the moment of birth. to their dixon posted on her social media a picture of her shooting a gun. with the caption that said, gun control means using both hands. gretchen whitmer has made it pretty clear she aunts to make sure she takes away any protection you could have. she wouldn t allow protection, even inside of the school. we know that is the best-case scenario, if we have someone that can shoot down a shooter. while my life was being threatened for making her decisions to save lives across our state, mrs. dixon was spreading conspiracy theories. mrs. nixon was downplaying masks, saying this would go away without getting vaccinated. she knows her response was so completely horrendous, in fact she closed restaurants down longer than any other state. we
mentioned this last block, pennsylvania. pat toomey, republican, retiring, but it s a republican seat, this is the only republican seat where democrats, john fetterman, currently leading the polling average. right now, republicans on the polling average, best position to get to the game you are looking for in nevada, democrats best position to offset it in pennsylvania, that s what raises the stakes, potentially, in georgia. if herschel walker were ever able to overcome warnock there, if it ever came down to a runoff, and potentially that could be decisive. that s what makes a state like ohio, we re north carolina such a potential wildcard. folks have been looking at ohio the entire campaign, wondering when will the polls break advances direction. this is a state that won comfortably for donald trump twice. yet, vance queens on average by less than one point right now. we will talk about this later in the show, the polls have been off in states like ohio, in most recent elections. is t
would support exceptions if the legislators sent him that legislation for rape and incest. on the issue of election integrity, while he has been ambiguous before on how he would certify the election or how he would treat the election certification in future elections, he said, unequivocally, tonight, he would certify the election, but said he would do that because he would sign some of the republican bills that were passed or would be passed if he were governor in the state of wisconsin. on the other side, you saw governor tony evers trying to stay aggressive, trying to stay on the offense. painting himself as the guard rail, the protector for some of what he calls the extreme policies of the republican side. one thing you notice is that you still have both abortion and economic issues top of mind. they play a little bit differently here in the state of wisconsin. all right, shaq brewster in madison. thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate. that coming, up we re gonna take a dee
spreading conspiracy theories. mrs. nixon was downplaying masks, saying this would go away without getting vaccinated. she knows her response was so completely horrendous, in fact she closed restaurants down longer than any other state. we lost 3000 restaurants. my plan is proposing policies that increased guns, decrease oversight, and eliminate gun free zones. that s not going to make us any safer. this is a woman who shut down the state and had to have her powers, her powers, removed by the supreme court. do not trust her with another four years to terrorize you. that was michigan. also tonight, in wisconsin, we just talked about it that close race there, tony evers and tim michaels. they squared off in their first one. it may be their only debate. here s what happened. to mitigate against inflation, we are going to lower our taxes on the middle class folks in the state of wisconsin by 10%. joe biden, week on inflation,