return to the campaign trail. cnn s joe johns joins us from the white house. joe, what does biden have on his agenda for this week? battleground states. he s about to go to wisconsin, pennsylvania, also ohio to a groundbreaking for a semiconductor plant there. a huge $20 billion semiconductor plant. so this time of year the labor day weekend is traditionally the time when campaigns start bearing down. the voters start focusing on the candidates. joe biden s name, of course, nowhere on the ballot. but the fact that he s going to these three battleground states tells you a little bit about what the biden people are thinking. it wasn t very long ago that there were real concerns about the challenges faced here at the white house by the biden administration challenges including inflation, the president s approval numbers, the price of gasoline. now some of those challenges have started to ease up and democrats are thinking things might not be as bad as they first thought they c
not knowing if you re going to have enough water from one day to another. we re in for another hot day across california. 40 million, 155 plus records expected. it s pretty stifling. even our ac at home can do so much. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington. pamela brown has the night off and you are in the cnn newsroom. a pilot threatens a mississippi community for hours and lands in jail. the bizarre drama playing out in the skies over tupelo. police saying before dawn, the pilot of the stolen plane called 911 and threatened to crash into a local walmart. pete monoteen followed the five-hour drama. reporter: jessica, this is the best possible outcome after a man who worked at a local airport in tupelo, mississippi stole a plane, threatened to crash it into a local walmart and then ultimately crash landed in a nearby soybean field. his name, cory wayne patterson. an employee of tupelo aviation. the operator of the tupelo regional airport, where he fueled ai
maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans, but there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans, and that is a threat to this country. history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy. i will not the will of the american people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence claims of fraud. i will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win or they were cheated. and that s where the maga republicans
so what the heck is everyone moving? well, one of the most popular places to relocate fromce high tax blue states is without florida, whichn saw its population increase by two hundred and eleven thousand between july1, 20 and july 2020 one . . and by the way, it s not just people moving of the five point eight million new businesses and the applications up between january 21 and january 2020 two, a stunning 12% were right here in florida. now with these numbers, it s non wonder that florida governor rhonda stantis is way up in the polls in his and reelection race. and nationwide, he s building a profile and an impressive fundraising operation with all the above all those things we just talk about liberal governors with ambitions for national office, have the knives out for him, including that walking pile of hair gel. gavin newsom. ff although he easily defeated a recall effort, his statete is reeling from high crime underperforming schools, a glut of illegal aliens, a water
surged in georgia. early voting. ahead of tuesday s primaries in the state. more than 850,000 residents already have cast their votes, despite some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. yet, the core of it all, a most visible reminder of donald trump s unpredictable but enduring pull on the gop. in a state that trump brazenly tried to bend to his will two years ago. is endorsed candidate in the state governors race. david perdue is limping behind incumbent brian kemp. trump announcing last minute a televised rally for purdue tomorrow night. on the other side, democratic former state representative stacey abrams is running unopposed in her race to become the nation s first black woman governor. tonight, we are all about with the primaries will mean for the rest of the country. that s politicsnation this evening. plus, a new washington poll revealing the depth of our racial divide two years after george floyd s murder. now in the aftermath of the tragedy in buff