Including the run for georgia primary tomorrow. ian bassin executive director of protective mockery, cnn profit election. he also serves as associate white house counsel to president barack obama, and they both join me now. amy, i wanna start with you. there s been so much focus on the kemp race, understandably. high profile, you know, you ve got vice president, former vice president pence pence today, stumping for kemp. there s been way less attention, to me in some ways it s a more significant rate, which is secretary of state race, precisely because in the gubernatorial race, you know, there is a whole bunch of policy issues at play, right? and the secretary of state race, like it s pretty clear that trump once highest brad raffensperger because he didn t steal the election. what the race look like from the perspective of a republican primary voters?
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Wanted to get you on the screen so we have enough time to talk to you. in the polls running up to this you ve been down by as much as double digits and i m wondering as you sit here on election day is there anything you wish you would have done differently as you ran this campaign? good morning, dana. not at all. this has been a race of people versus politicians. you see pence coming in all the other governors. the rhino establishment politicians, the career politicians coming to georgia to make their case. in georgia people are upset about how our career politicians have treated us over the last couple years and why i got in the race. we ve taken our message to the people. i m running against an incumbent governor struggling to get to 50%. the polls haven t picked up the mood of the people. they aren t talking to half of the voters who voted early. half of the people who voted so far in early voting 19 days of early voting did not vote in
Restroom. all right. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 24th. voters in five states head to the polls in another big primary day today. the most closely watched in georgia, where the power of donald trump s enforcement of his big lie will be put to the test. not only in the race for governor, but also for secretary of state. we ll also go live to alabama, where senate candidate mo brooks surged in the polls after donald trump pulled his endorsement of the republican congressman. plus, the latest on the baby formula shortage. another shipment is expected to arrive tomorrow. we ll tell you where it s headed. and house speaker nancy pelosi will be our guest on set this morning. along with joe, willie, and me, we have former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. she is an msnbc political
What they did here. i think it is what they did. i think it is going to be a very interesting race. and if it does get into a runoff, david perdue is your next governor. joe, donald trump playing the hits there, talking about the polls being suppressed, about the fake news, and also saying he supports david perdue very strongly, except he couldn t make the trip from florida to georgia at the rally. he called in. fascinating to watch his vice president on the opposite side of this race. it is. one of the things that trump said, i won by a lot. the guy never won by a lot. he lost the popular vote two times, squeaked by one time, and lost, of course, in 2020. still can t get over it. yeah, it is fascinating to see mike pence going out there. obviously, we re starting to see more and more of this, where people who were afraid of their own shadows a couple years ago all across the republican party are now speaking up, standing up to donald trump. it s quite fascinating.