right now on ana cabrera reports, the countdown to new hampshire, new signs that ron desantis is giving up on the granite state. does that open a new lane for nikki haley. plus, writer e. jean carroll back on the stand this morning, who s not in the courtroom? donald trump, absent today after dramatic clashes with the judge. also ahead, the doj set to release a long-awaited report on the tragedy at robb elementary. what more it could reveal about the botched police response. and later, new u.s. strikes against houthi rebels in yemen. have these strikes done anything to stop attacks on commercial ships? so glad to be with you. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we are just five days out now from the first in the nation primary and the big political contest of the 2024 race. new hampshire. and this morning, nikki haley who has put a lot of time in the state is campaigning alongside governor chris sununu. donald trump, meanwhile, spent
control of the senate. i m harris falker and you are in the faulkner focus. this had to make it worse. now 11 days out and that brutally awful debate from fetterman this week. now the big guns are headed to the keystone state. his performance there was so challenging for him that those poll numbers we ll see in days to come and watching to see how much it made a difference. i can tell you this, a lot of people have already early voted in that state. president biden, vice president harris are traveling there today. somewhat of a rescue mission. former president barack obama will be there next week. fetterman s campaign needs all the help it can get. senate majority leader chuck schumer caught on a hot mic yesterday sharing his thoughts with the president. harris: i ve been around for such a long time i don t believe that man didn t know he was picked up by the cameras and microphones. wouldn t that be a way to shake up your base and a planned moment? can t prove it. just 3
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some of that, richard? i m curious to pick your brain on that. i don t think it s defense or offense. what the polling says is true. economy is hurting everyday americans. they are talking to likely voters. for democrats, the democratic voting universe is more than just likely voters. it is registered voters. what we saw in 2018 when democrats took control of the house is this. when donald trump was the president is they have to go and expand the voter universe. when you talk to the stacey abrams campaign that s what they are doing. talking to registered voters about the issues they care about. if they can turn them out it will be the ballgame for them. harris: i thought you would try to defend the fact you are losing blacks and late latino in owes in your party and you might want to fit to get them back and come up with ideas. i understand how registration works, of course, appreciate
a little bit more inclined to decide with president obama for now. there s so much time to go. i was going to say, when do independents get into the race and get their minds set? do we have any sense of that? you re right, we talk about republicans and democrats, when really if we wanted to, we could shape this race and really analytically look at with just looking at the middle percentage there we could. but nothing definitive until october. a lot of late deciders. a lot of them are low information voters. these are people who, unfortunately, don t watch msnbc. they re busy with their lives and they re not really paying close attention. they vote once every four years. it s instructive to look at the difference in the voting universe between 2008 when 130 million americans voted and 2010 when 80 million americans voted. those 50 million who didn t vote in 2010, a lot of them are independents. we really don t know which way