Voting later this month. It means a good portion of you have made up your mind, but there are some still left deciding out there and we know that because the polling is changing. Harris is inching ahead nationally and in key battlegrounds including Sun Belt states so who are those folks and how much change is still possible in these next furious few weeks . Joining us now at the big board, Nbc News national political correspondent, the one and only, steve kornacki. So where are we today, steve . Look at it from two vantage points. Nationally, this is the average of the national polls coming out of that Labor Day weekend. Harris, 48, trump, 45. Threepoint advantage for the democrats. Theyre happy to be ahead and in a different position than they were when Joe Biden was their candidate. He was basically trailing Donald Trump all year. But for republicans, theres solace in these numbers, too, because Donald Trump is no stranger to this kind of a set up. Labor day. Being a little behind. T
We were hearing the National Media talk about black folks. Vote but more importantly we wanted to build power in our community so we could have impact on policies that were impacting us. So we started black voters find and black in order to have a really robust democracy you have to do work to engage voters on the ground level, on the local level so that they could chip the policies, and take a chip representation for the communities. Why did your organizing approach look like this year . With did you do at on the ground to get more black voters to not only register, but the show up and vote. A couple of things. When we did start this, year we started into thousand 16 and we never stopped. One of our things is cant, stop wont stop. Oftentimes in the black community you often see people come around election time, right, and its not like if a friend who only close when they want something, you never excited to see them. But for us the way that we felt we would build power is that we woul
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Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is getting in the National Media dialogue about the campaign. We get in on a lot of local media when we show up but in terms of the network news, the big newspapers, the cable news, weve been blanked out. And so thats a big frustrati