presidential nomination in a city that he reportedly told house republicans was horrible. this weekend the biden campaign are seizing on trump s harsh words. while trump s campaign and his allies are doing all they can to down play, deny or justify his comments, falling back on racist lies about crime and voter in a city led by a black mayor. joining me now the mayor of milwaukee, wisconsin, cavalier johnson, a democrat. thank you for being with us tonight. i know that you are a democrat and you as a democrat still deeply involved in bringing the republican national convention to milwaukee. now exactly one month away. so how did it feel to hear the presumptive gop nominee had reportedly told house republicans that your city was horrible just two days ago. of course trump is now denying this happened but which kind of conference with what he and other republicans in the meeting have said since but still what are your thoughts on this? well, thank you reverand sharpton. look,
another way of saying that, the republican party will need black voters? we always have. reporter: meanwhile, democrats here have maintained and even increased their margin, their share of the vote here in the city of milwaukee, but there has been a sigp can t drop off in turnout. in the midterms in 2022 there were 36,000 fewer votes out of milwaukee when you compare it to the 2018 midterm elections. that s part of the reason you have dnc officials, biden campaign officials here during the republican debate. it s a sign they acknowledge they have work to do to excite and activate their base here in the state of wisconsin. shaquille brewster in milwaukee. thank you so much. that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose bediaz balart. reach me on social media at jdbalart and watch height highlights from today s show online. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now.
that have happened throughout the course of this race. literally, we are in a call, a bar if you will, and one of them is on television. i m like, this is the at. they all talked about how disheartening it is. it s motivating for them to want to get out and vote. i think conventional wisdom says folks are paying attention and not necessarily engaged. a lack of democratic enthusiasm. i saw in wisconsin and engaged electorate, young people, women, black voters, in the city of milwaukee, who want to see the first black united states representative. i think about ron johnson, you bring about the point which is a future podcast idea. what happened to you, man? i will be listening. we came up with that in the commercial break. ron johnson had this moment in the debate, you guys remember this? mandela barnes is asked what something good about your opponent. he says, he s a good family man. ron johnson response, he is a good family man. why does he hate america? and that, right there
96%, some votes came in that boosted her up a little bit. here s the big one still over here in the detroit area, and this is why this is so important. we re up to 72% now but she s starting to stretch the lead here and what we are told from the clinton campaign war room and democratic labor activists on the ground say most of these votes in here and they expect they re going to be overwhelmingly for hillary clinton. does that mean it s enough? we ll wait until they come in to do the math. she has closed significantly in the state of michigan. now we re going to go back to wisconsin. 65% of the vote, you re in the trump campaign headquarters. i want to come down to milwaukee county, 17% roughly, the state population, we re at 87% county wide. again what we re being told, from the clinton war room, so this consider the source, but what they re telling us is there are only 18 precinct from milwaukee proper have reported. there are 300-plus in the city of milwaukee. they re saying their