Networks of nbc news, thank you so much for staying up late and ill see you this weekend. The momentum behind the Kamala Harris Campaign shows no signs of letting up. The Vice President was introduced by three time Grammy Winner and Rap Megastar Megan tthee stallion. Vice president harris used that moment to issue a direct challenge to Donald Trump. The momentum in this race is shifting. And there are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it. He pulls out of the debate in september. He had previous agreed to. Well, donald. I do hope you will reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. The saying goes if you have something so say, say it to me face well that rally comes as polling shows she has effectively wiped out trumps lead in all of the key swing states. Harris is leading trump by 11 points in michigan. A major shift in that state. In all six other battleground states, they are in a statistical tie within the margin of error. Harris leads by two points in arizona, nevada, and wisconsin
Major Story Line in the president ial race, and his Cleanup Attempts, well, dont seem to be working as there are now more examples of him using similar phrasing over the past few years. Meanwhile, Vice President Cheyanne Harris is building real momentum with her campaign Holding A Raucous Rally Last Night in front of a huge and lively crowd in atlanta. It comes as the veepstakes is heating up and she will will appear with her new Running Mate next week. Well be joined by one of the men on the Short List for that job, Senator Mark Kweli of arizona. Hell be our guest this morning, and also ahead well bring you the latest out of the meet following a strike that killed a Key Leader of hamas. Good Morning And Welcome to Morning Joe. It is wednesday, july 31st. Im Jonathan Lemire along with the bbcs Katty Kay in for joe, Mika And Willie and we have political analyst former u. S. Senator claire mcas skill, she and our friend Jen Palmieri are the cohost of the Nbc Podcast how to win 2024. Also
Seem to be inspiring more people to get the vaccine. The daily number of first doses has doubled since the start of july. Republicans have turned and said to their favorite scapegoats, immigrants. Joe biden has taken to himself to try to single out florida over covid. This is a guy who ran for president, saying he was going to, quote, shut down the virus, and what has he done, he s imported more virus from around the world by having a wideopen southern border. As the biden administration is allowing people to come across the southern border, many of whom who have covid, most of whom are not really being checked for covid. Those who do have covid, some have been released into our cities. And americans all over this country. Ought to be damned angry what s happening to their country. Total invasion. People are going to die because of people coming in illegally with covid, with the fentanyl drugs that are crossing the border. Joining me now to get into all of that foolishness this morning
Left their jobs and families behind and fled to washington to keep a vote from going into law. Which means all eyes are on those state representatives still camped out in washington. New york times reports, quote, abbott s announcement sent national attention swinging back to a hotel in downtown washington, where several dozen democrats from the texas house of representatives are grappling with a familiar question: stay or go back? but more progressive members are pushing to stay in washington and continue to call attention to voting rights, at least while congress is in session. I think there is a collective will of this caucus to do everything we can to continue to defeat repression of voting in texas. That s what we did in may, we did that in july and we continue to do it going forward. It s not the federal legislation that texas democrats have been pressing for, but it might help. Merrick garland weighed back in on the fight today in a new oped of the washington post marking the 60
Quote, an fbi memo on january 5th warning of people traveling to washington for war, never made it way to top official. Rightwing extremist groups had been posting online. Armed with weapons. Quote, if they don t show up, we enter capitol as the third continental congress, quote, bring guns, it s now or never. The washington post adding this, the u. S. Capitol police had specific intelligence that supporters of president trump planned to mount an armed invasion, but a series of omissions and miscommunications kept that information from reaching frontline officers targeted. By capitol police officers themselves. A case being made by officer sicknick s loved ones about the brutality suffered tess hands of the expresident s supporters. The objects thrown at you will varied in size, some were frozen cans and bottling, rebar from the construction, bricks, liquids, pepper spray, bear spray, sticks of various width, pipes and bats. Another officer tells the committee, quote, we were not infor