Can virginia voters help her stop a trump Super Tuesday sweep and keep her in this race . Tracking the protest vote. How the president s handling of the war in gaza could affect todays primary in minnesota. And big clues for a battleground. Why the race for governor in North Carolina could offer a preview of the president ial matchup. Our nbc News Reporters are fanned out across the country as millions head to the polls on the largest day of voting outside of the General Election. And we start in california where high stakes swing races could determine the Balance Of Power in congress. What are you hearing there . Reporter weve moved to downtown los angeles. Its a big, big day for california politics, but not so big when it comes to turnout. Something we were expecting on primary day. Its going to get very dark because this is, Black Box Theatre here, but come on in. This is where the Polling Location is. Most of the people weve seen today come in and drop off ballots. California does
elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of
what do you make of that? what i make of it is the extreme maga republicans run the republican party. i mean, basically kevin mccarthy will do whatever he has to do to appease the most extreme, obnoxious members of his party at every turn. that bill that i mentioned that we passed out of the arms services committee, that would have passed the house floor with probably 360, 370 votes. we would have lost a few, you know, the freedom caucus members and some of our folks on the left who don t vote for the defense bill typically, we had a strong bipartisan bill, but kevin mccarthy s made it clear, whatever the far right wants, he will give them. and no, no, we ve never had anyone serve on the conference committee who s not a member of the committee. but, again, he will give away what he has to give away to keep them, you know, at least marginally happy, i suppose. congressman adam smith, ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. thank you for your time, sir. thank you, a
approval. while congress is at home for a two week easter recess, a breakthrough, really? there are signs of a potential breakthrough, john. what we know right now is that leaders of the tuesday group and the house freedom caucus, they have been communicating over the easter recess and sources are telling us that they are trying to reach a deal that could bring on board some 18 to 20 newhou he freedom caucus members, members who could be a yes. i do want to point out there are obstacles to being a vote next week. the house will be focused on funning the government so it is unclear how much political capital republican members are going to want to spend on the issue of health care next week. there are also fundamental divides still on policy when it comes to health care within the house. for example some conservatives are not going to want to vote