2004 campaign. kick us off here, dasha. let s talk voter mindset as we head into this debate. you talked to a group of voters from battleground pennsylvania. what did you hear from them? reporter: yeah, we talked to a very specific slice of voters in that critical battleground state. and in a critical county, erie county, pennsylvania, where we re following voters very closely. we talked to republican voters who went out and voted for nikki haley in the pennsylvania primary. now, that happened months after haley dropped out of the race. so these voters went out, voted for a candidate that was no longer in the race. they did it to send a message, ana. and those haley voters, we went to see what they re thinking ahead of november. some of them are going to come back home, to their republican party and vote for former president trump. some of them are considering voting third party, still persuadable, they don t like either candidate, they don t know what they re going to do.
you know, strong, vital and young and can contrast against both trump and biden and someone who showed common sense during covid and kept the economy going and created jobs. look, running on these things that are ideological that got him reelected those are the kind of things a little harder to do. you don t get all the click bait and everything that you put out there with these cultural stories. he is not going to get the ultra maga voters so to speak. he is going to get more moderate, centrist, older republican voters who want the party to take a change from donald trump. brian: but, mark, he did run on this is where woke comes to die. did he get a lot of points taking on disney unlike what brian kemp did in georgia where basically the corporations ran all over them when they came up with that phoney story about jim crow 2.0 and the voting situation. it was a good start but then he signed the six week abortion ban. you know, most people in america are comfortable with 16 weeks,
questioned the 2020 election result are currently on the ballot at state federal level so these people will be the ones deciding how the votes are administered in 2024 and crucially if and how they are certified so in terms of having to try and avoid a repeat of 2020, they are watching out for what this new group of individuals might mean in terms of the voting situation and what it will be like in 2024. horse what it will be like in 2024. how im ortant what it will be like in 2024. how important could what it will be like in 2024. how important could it what it will be like in 2024. how important could it be what it will be like in 2024. how important could it be for determining ifjoe biden is a candidate next time round? even among people who are forcible to beat donald trump, they might have reservations about the ability for him to do so next time round. yes. him to do so next time round. yes, and joe biden him to do so next time round. yes, and joe biden expects him to d
is in places like georgia and texas. it s that you re not dealing with a voter suppressed, sort of voting situation. so, it s you could have strong turnout, because there aren t as many barriers. but will there be strong turnout in this race? you know, that is actually a great concern to me, joy. because you are right. we are not dealing with voter suppression here, although i do think that part of the strategy around the deluge of ads, especially the negative ads, was to really demoralized the voting population. but everyone in california that has registered to vote, we see as valid. so there isn t much of an excuse. people have been voting for a month, but the turnout is low, so that s why we have an active, vigorous ground campaign to drive up the turnout. and one of the other issues that played a big part in this case is the issue of homelessness. it s a tragic issue that takes place all over the country. but it s fairly acute in the city of los angeles. how are you addressing
deemed asphalty. the league of women voters describe the voting situation in texas as a nightmare. and ed, in order to win a primary race in texas, candidates have to get a clear majority of the vote. 50% plus one vote. that s an underlying factor in another hot race today, for attorney general. reporter: right. you mentioned greg abbott off the to have. two other challengers are primarying him from the right. by and large, people think he should escape without a runoff. a lot of eyes on the attorney general race. ken paxton who has been a darling of donald trump, endorsed by him. he s facing a number of challengers including eva guzman, louie gohmert, from the tyler area, and also, george p. bur, the son of former florida