how the war has um pactimpacted family and what the war has been resulting in. interesting to talk to her. mike pence s break with donald trump on full display when he campaigns for brian kemp in georgia. georgia s primary election is tomorrow, and kemp has pulled away from his trump-backed challenger, david perdue. kemp is a top target of donald trump after kemp decided to, of course, support the big lie. the republican governors association hatched a plan months ago to spend millions to defend incumbents against what one former governor called trump s personal vendetta tour. the group personally invested $5 million to defend kemp in georgia. joining us now from atlanta, nbc news correspondent von hilliard. i think mike pence getting a
shake up politics there and have national implications. von hilliard explains. reporter: the peach state republican showdown on tuesday. this year s most personal race for donald trump brian concern is turncoat, he s a coward and complete and total disaster reporter: the former president is trying to take down brian kemp, georgia s republican governor who, despite trump s rage in 2020, certified his state s election results, a win for joe biden. we need to win and win big on tuesday reporter: kemp widening his lead, among republican voters looking to defeat trump s hand picked challenger, former u.s. senator david perdue the election in 2020 was rigged and stolen reporter: perdue acknowledging tuesday s potential loss we might not win tuesday, but i guarantee we re not down 30 points reporter: a perdue loss would undercut trump s standing as his party s defining king maker if you don t win, is that an indictment on your focus on the 2020 election and the former pres
initiative. the ukrainian armed force also need our sustained support. we ll have the latest on the region. and from the president s trip overseas in asia, he s raising eyebrows this morning after saying the u.s. militarily would get involved if china invaded taiwan. what the white house is now saying about that. help is on the way for america s families. tens of thousands of pounds of baby formula just arrived in the u.s. but when will store shelves start filling up again? we have our eyes on georgia, we re a day out from the state s primary elections. early voting already breaking records there. the anticipation is intensifying in the battleground state. that s where we start this morning. von hilliard is in atlanta and i m joined by the ceo of the new georgia project, a voting rights advocacy act. greg bleustein, msnbc political
ballots. shocking? he wants to cancel democratic ballots and ballots from predominantly black areas in 2020, but they find it shocking, i guess, that he wants to cancel republican ballots now. interesting. shocking only if you haven t spent five minutes around donald trump. meanwhile, days away from georgia s gubernatorial primary. david perdue may have lost donald trump as his biggest supporter. the former president is disappointed in the lackluster campaign effort and will not be making any more personal appearances in georgia on behalf of perdue. a fox week poll had the incumbent, brian kemp, holding a 32-point lead over perdue. von hilliard spoke to perdue about the numbers yesterday. your campaign has gone off theairwaves, the former president hasn t come in for another rally, and you re down
look here, mike simpson, incumbent republican, he was getting a challenge from the right. mike simpson is one of about three dozen republicans who voted for the creation of the independent january 6th commission. so there was some chatter that simpson might find himself in trouble in this primary. but no signs of trouble so far for simpson getting a challenge. there s two of them here. one main challenge here from brian smith on the right. these two idaho races i think folks were looking at and saying, there s seeds of interest here. it looks like the results are actually going to be pretty lopsided. fantastic. well, look, steve, that s fascinating because we re getting calls. we re getting your breakdown. you re staying at the board for us obviously as we keep an eye on all of this. given everything we have been hearing out of pennsylvania, we ll go back there directly where nbc von hilliard has been at dr. oz s headquarters. he just addressed the crowd. tell us what happened here.