move? you know, it may be the only move. look, georgia is really interesting because as i say, when the year started republicans are really optimistic they had a chance at four democratic incumbents. two of those races, new hampshire and arizona, look, much tougher, republicans nominated far right candidates having trouble raising money and those haven t come together, nevada on the board and georgia. it is obviously a very closely balanced state, biden won by only 10,000, 11,000 votes and his approval rating has declined significantly. there does seem to be an overall tilt if you look at polling in all of the statewide races but the personal contrast between warnock and walker has been so one-sided. i mean, you know, walker really has had trouble i think crossing the threshold for many voters of appearing to be a qualified nominee who could carry out the job of being a senator. the main reason he is still in this race is because our congressional races as you know
what do they sell? bubble tea. i don t know. probably green tea. chased with some avocado. chai. it s great. i m not knocking people who do that, okay? it s been a slow fund-raising summer overall. bottom line is, this guy doesn t act like he wants to be out there, doesn t act like he wants to be campaigning and so if you don t like campaigning in ohio and you don t like seeing people, just schedule your event when the buckeyes play. it s like scheduling a rally in alabama up against the tide. you just don t do it. he s having trouble raising money. he has a couple of big backers who can pump money into his campaign but he s been outraised by a lot by tim ryan. polling shows them neck and neck. it s going to be a tight race. that s in a state that was plus eight for donald trump last time
with two likely different outcomes. and sarah palin, i think, is running for congress, as well. steve kornacki joins us this hour with the latest. we ll break it all down. senate republicans reportedly cancel ad spending in several key swing states. what that might say about overall gop fundraising and the campaigns for dr. oz in pennsylvania, ron johnson in wisconsin, and blake masters in arizona. you know, willie, i m not good at this politics thing. good to have the team back together again. i did see a couple episodes of the west wing. is it bad when they take millions of dollars out of dr. oz s state, out of pennsylvania, the republicans, and cancel, what, $3 million? that s a bad sign. they re having trouble with donations. they re having trouble raising money. yes, joe. your viewing in re-runs of the west wing has served you well in this case.
it is a bad sign. it is a good sign for democrats who, not so long ago, had written off the united states senate perhaps. now, when you look at pennsylvania, when you look at ohio, when you look at georgia. the wizard of oz. arizona, they feel they re back in the game. they could perhaps preserve the 50/50 split in the senate. j.d. vance is having trouble raising money in ohio, as well. tim ryan, a strong moderate democrat running there. a combination of bad candidates on the republican side, joe, and some good ones, like tim ryan, running in ohio on the other side. yeah. you ve confused a few viewers. why? this j.d. vance you speak of joe, don t do it again. your imitation is not up to par. you don t want south park, do you? you start south park and end up trumpy. it doesn t work. it does. we ll get there, joe. we re workshopping senator butters, okay? okay. we ll take it off broadway first. we re going to come back to
the republican nomination kind of genius. look at the buzzwords he used in that statement, occupied, raid basically said it was the deep state which totally triggers and animates the people not only who like him, but there was concern, according to people around trump, that he had, that he was losing some mojo. he was having some trouble raising money. and this, he believes, would turn it around. i mean, he has foreshadowed this every step of the way from mueller, every step of the investigation was a political hoax. we all know that if doj did anything this was going to be the response. i do agree with alyssa that this will look bad if this is dotting the is, crossing the ts type of thing on document concealing