A very good day to all of you from new york. Welcome to Alex Witt reports. We begin with a new Nbc News Poll with 44 days to go until the election. Kamala harris leaving Donald Trump 49 to 44 . The candidate best representing change, Kamala Harris with 47 to Donald Trump with 38. Steve karnak keep pointing out this Morning Harris is seeing additional growth. Some of the groups that have gravitated the most toward harris is independence, 20. Joe biden was putting up very poor numbers here. For harris you can see a 26 point jumped. As far as issues go, inflation is the top concern for voters. 65 of the people in your poles say the country is on the wrong track. Who is best able to solve the Crime Problem . Trump by six. Who is best on the economy . Trump by nine. Inflation, trump by eight. The election will be close. Weve always known that. Thats what happens in these president ial elections. We know this will be a close race. Vice president harris will be in new York City for an event.
Voting results in key states are still in play a 4th straight day of record Coronavirus Infections across the u. S. Joe biden makes the pandemic his 1st priority and celebrations in azerbaijan as the government announces it now controls the city of shoe shop in disputed nagornokarabakh. And in School Child Care is testing its ability to host a safe olympics next year the citys staged its 1st International Competition of the games venue since the new pics have to be postponed due to canonical. Us president elect joe biden has declared its time to heal a deeply divided america. Even as his predecessor still refuses to concede defeat in a bitterly fought president ial election biden vowed not to divide but to unify and called on americans to give each other a chance reaching out to the 70000000 people who did not vote for him his running mate kemah harris will be the 1st woman black american and american of asian descent to serve as Vice President and she paid tribute to the women who pav
Do you want to raise taxes on the rich with a fourth bracket . I was thinking about it was i want to make sure the middle class gets taken care of. We have a zero break the and people arent including that. That would make it a fifth bracket. I call it our competition, which is the competition of the past. And we may not have that. But i would rather do thats than have anything to hurt the middle class. Charles w last november. Literally the democrats have been writing their talking points for months. A fax break for the rich, a tax break for the rich. If you lower the Corporate Taxes and get rid of the death tax, then overall still the ones in the top fax bracket will have scene overall tax cut and the economy will be doing much better. If you can get this entire package back, its goopped overall. Its one of those things where trump is trying to win the messaging battle, and in this case hes winning a messaging battle with democrats when you will get zero votes from them, when we know
Is blocked by courts. Speaking of that the president is expected and may be back in washington and touchdown here soon after a working weekend at his club in west palm beach, florida. Administration is preparing for a busy week include what is expected to be new executive order on immigration and border control. And were told it will temporarily ban travelers from the same seven country and theres a lot of questions about green card holders and dual card citizens and those who hold visas and hes likely to expand enforcement to de port illegal immigrants. And you get indication of what is at stake coming in this executive order. Lets move on. Meantime this president s day was marked by protests,ant eye trump activists spilled into the seats across the country and thousands demonstrated in la, chicago, new york and d. C. For what some called not my president s day ralryes. Organizers at the d. R. Rally are calling upon people to come together in what they deem is rhetoric and actions of
Here. Ive been through it. Weve talked about it on the news. We want to focus on, obviously, pennsylvania, where Hillary Clinton, according to your poll, leads donald trump 49 to 38 . Not anymore. Yes, and we will get to that. Well get to that. You see the sampling error there. And well just throw out some more information. Here are some subgroups of where theres big support between the two candidates. Big lead with clinton with white women in pennsylvania, and, after that, we will also see that the unfavorability of both candidates is pretty high, but clinton is 52 . Trump is 62 , trump 10 points higher in that. Whats the Biggest Surprise that youve found in all of this . Well, i think the Biggest Surprise was that, for the clinton campaign, its all about the southeast. Its all about the four suburban counties and philadelphia. 1 3 of the vote comes out of 5 counties. Think about that for a minute. And she leads there. And she leads there. And the race has narrowed considerably. We ca