Tonight is where the plot thickens. What will it take to give either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump that critical edge in the final 56 days . And what trump himself is telling our reporter in a Phone Call just this morning about the big showdown tonight. Plus, could the key to winning this election be as simple as getting a small slice of undecided moderate voters comfortable with your candidacy . Maybe not so simple. How do you do it . And who has got the edge . And both Harris And Trump will leave pennsylvania once the debate is done, but likely not for long. Ill talk to two mayors in cities in pennsylvania. We got a lot of experience in what it takes to win in this all important state. So, it is a very busy day, hello, im chris jansing, joined by my colleague Andrea Mitchell for our Special Coverage, msnbc reports debate day. This is the Spin Room. And we are just blocks from where the first and so far only president ial debate will be held tonight. And, chris, Donald Trump is expect
fakes, bots and trolls making it harder and harder to know what is true. a video of house speaker nancy pelosi, slowed down to make it seem like she was sluring her words. it racked up millions of views. they refused to take it down. why leave it up there? we think it s important for people to make their own informed choice of what to believe. it s only getting worse in 2020. facebook is facing autorage for lies. do you think there is a lack of fact checking on local advertisements? facebook claims its job is not to died whether an ad is true or false. google already made a few weeks to, limiting how ad are microtargeted to people and twitter has stopped taking political ads entirely. but the big tech backlash is growing. the constant haze of misinformation brings us to number 1.
yeah. in the year 2011, everything changed when a group of people from silicon valley were putting together the kind of that was done by the republicans before i got to the dnc, and they did it in the 2004 race. whatever they did was certainly enhanced. the obama people made it into an art form. in 2004, it changed everything, and for the first time they started to look at magazine subscriptions and started looking at what they ate and they broke it down to nine-digit zip codes. it was an extraordinary microtargeted and that s why john kerry lost the race, and the obama people took what he revolutionized in 2004. in my own interest, there was a step left out there. when i got to the dnc, i hired
have all these swing voters it looks like now. what are they going to do? so to ebony s point, are the republicans going to find a way to snatch them up. do you think there s any republicans on stage these days that can kind of resonate with black americans? what do you think, charles? washington politics is the last baton of unbridled racial profiling. voters are divvied up by race. both party dozen it. if any other industry did this, there would be congressional investigations into it. but politicians do it and nobody bats an eye. because of that, both parties target their white male voter or their black female voter or however they want to dice it up. don t forget about asians, too. very, very fast growing minority. microtargeted. that s right. ben carson has been on the defensive from constant media attacks. but is hillary clinton be being held to the same standards? wait till you see what she s claiming now. fact.
karl rove a fox news contributor and was close to the romney campaign. democrats have a big advantage. both sides microtargeted. the democrats took it to the next level. rove insists republicans can compete and will win the new political arms race. that will excite many gops. will this give us better manipulateors than better leaders? what about old style political gut and leadership, out trying to sell an idea to people and convince voters this idea is worth voting for? you put your finger on a good thing. because if you rely on the data to dictate everything to you, you make no room for leadership. responsibility of leadership is not to follow, but to mold public opinion in the right direction. as we just seen, data is power. so how would you feel about a new government data center, big