Voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice. President trump hopes this will upend a race he is losing but is there any evidence it will ill talk to nominhillary clintn the third ranking republican in the senate john. Plus, an administration at war with itself. Covi deaths hit 200,000 and President Trump finding his own experts on vaccines and on face masks. This face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when i take the covid vaccine. It is not more effective than any vaccine and i called him about that ill talk to health and Human Services secretary alex azar. How it is impacting President Trumps reelection chances. Covid, leadership and where the president ial race stands with six weeks to go. Welcome to sunday and a special edition of meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington this is a special edition of meet the press with chuck todd good sunday morning and a happy ru happy. The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
In september of 2001 when the 9 11 attacks happened, and whatever shock the body politic had experienced by the contested and indeterminate 2000 president ial election, well, the 9 11 attacks further scrambled and upended political expectations nationwide. And so while the basic Political Science principle is that the president s party tends to lose seats in a midterm election, whatever party holds the white house, they tend to suffer in a nonpresident ial year election following them getting into the white house. Thats the basic principle. But for a lot of different reasons, that expectation didnt really take hold in 2002. Really nobody knew what was going to happen in that midterm. And in the great state of New Hampshire, that National Uncertainty in 2002, that upending of all normal expectations in 2002 was all funneled in that state, that year, into a very intense competition for a u. S. Senate seat that year in New Hampshire. The incumbent republican senator from New Hampshire los