Down in nevada and is set to speak soon in las vegas. She and her running mate tim walz crisscrossed the country this week hitting of the key battleground states. This is the typical grinding travel schedule of a competitive presidential campaign. Donald trump on the other hand was mostly at home at his florida country club. When he did emerge, it was to give a rambling press conference on thursday and then for a friday campaign stop in the nonbattleground state of montana. It is unclear what the trump campaign is thinking. It could be laziness or it could be a lack of stamina. After all, donald trump now is the oldest presidential nominee in u. S. History. Whatever donald trump s excuses for not visiting a single battleground state this week, there is one battleground that the maga movement is unquestionably, fiercely targeting that we have to pay close attention to. That is not necessarily the swing states, but local election offices in swing states. Rolling stone magazine identified
The same mindset, and it s highly disturbing you still have people in america who want to take on democracy and destroy it. And this afternoon capitol police arrested a man for a weapons violation saying that he brought a long knife to the rally. Let s go to nbc s elson barber joining us from there. I know the crowds are much smaller, but for the most part with they remained peaceful? yeah, i mean by and large they have. As you mentioned there was that one individual who according to capitol police was arrested. He is facing a weapons charge. They say he had a knife. We saw just a little while ago someone appear to be detained or at least surrounded and then escorted out of the area by capitol police in full riot gear. They sort of circled around this individual and backed out with them taking it behind the police barricade line. That was one of a couple of incidents we saw today. Apart from that, though, thick things really did seem by and large peaceful. This was not a huge ewhen you
breyer s decision to retire has electrified washington, d.c. adding a legacy making item to the president s agenda and could galvanize the democratic base at a time of sagging approval ratings and with the signature legislation of the president stalled amid gridlock in washington. the news wednesday came as a relief for liberal activists who worry that democrats would lose control of the senate before breyer left the court and a shot of confidence to the democratic leaders who view the politics as a brigtd spot in an otherwise gloomy election season. president biden has promised to nominate the first black woman to the high court, a prospect the party hopes energizes supporters. republicans are already gearing up to oppose the yet to be named nominee. the new york times reporting, quote, holding a bare 50-seat majority under threat in november s elections democrats acknowledge the need to act fast since an illness or death of a member could deprive them. senate democrats
senators, jon ossoff and raphael warnock, democrat s. they were runoff elections for both senate seats one year ago today and the democrats won both of those races. georgia electing to democrats to their two u.s. senate seats, that s how we got senate majority leader chuck schumer. that s what s flipped control of the senate from republican control to democratic control. that s what made it possible for the biden administration in its first year to enact all the legislation they have passed in the last year, including covid relief and the big infrastructure bill and all the rest of it, not to mention confirming president biden s cabinet, confirming judges, all of. it all of that made possible by what happened a year ago today window senate elections happened. that, said it wouldn t be until a year ago tomorrow it wouldn t be until january 6th that the election results in georgia actually became clear. but when they did become clear, i mean, it was a big deal. it was a hug
and i want to get to know the region that my family left behind all those years ago. is this jogging your memory at all? that s a long time ago. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides, and i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. caught between a rock and the sea, the calabrese are notoriously tough. but this is a place where southern hospitality is a way of life. oh, my gosh, look at the size of it. you should open a restaurant. and in this poor region. all right. every meal is a celebration. oh, wow. there s like a million different flavors in there . calabria sits in the toe of the boot of italy, connected to basilicata in the north and separated from sicily in the south only by the narrow strait of messina. it s a region of rugged landscapes, dramatic mountain ranges, and some 500 miles of incredible coastline. it doesn t have that infrastructure. it s st