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>> this week, 20 24 campaign trail was with president biden as he was on the road in florida and virginia and with vice president harris as she campaigned in wisconsin. with former president trump as he met with voters in manhattan on route to one of his criminal trials. the latest on u.s. house and senate races, including the race to replace the retiring senator, ben cardin, in maryland. first, a look at the latest poll all showing the democratic and gop presumptive nominees in a dead heat. the latest morning paul has president biden and former president trump virtually tied at 44 percent and 43%. in a quinnipiac poll has them at 46%. quinnipiac asked voters who they vote for with independent

options. that left the two major party candidates tied at 30 7%. with robert f. kennedy, jr. at 16%. a later poll from the economist had biden and trump tied at 43% apiece, with kennedy taking just 3%. a look at local coverage from north carolina where former president trump was forced to cancel his only plans campaign event last weekend. >> a day after the jury was seated in his new york because trial former president donald trump was scheduled to speak at a campaign rally in wilmington tonight. due to the weather the event was canceled 25 minutes before trump was expected to take the stage. heidi kirk spoke with supporters about their disappointment. >> there was barely room to walk in this parking lot with the given to people part year for former president donald trump's rally in wilmington. you will not hear anything except the rain that canceled the event.

>> let this sink in. it is the moment lightning strikes just before donald trump's booming voice takes over 30 minutes before he shows up. postponing is worse rally in north carolina since the start of his historic criminal trial. >> they have asked us to ask people to leave the site and seek shelter. >> a message causing crowds to split from the storms. >> it was going to be historical. >> the former president pledged to reschedule his rally, same location at a different time. >> we will do it bigger and better. you have my promise. >> bob and nicole traveled here from new york. >> we are so disappointed we will not see him tonight.

we waited for four hours, five hours. >> but judging from the sky -- >> it is not looking good. >> former president trump was able to meet with voters in new york city as he was under out to his criminal trial in his hush-money payments trial. among those he met members of a local steamfitters union. [chanting "usa"] >> i have a lot of support. i have a lot of support from the teamsters. we did a great job.

[chanting "usa"] [chanting "we love trump"] >> [indiscernible] very talented people. very few people can do what they do. three floors a week in concrete, and it was guys like this he did it. -- who did it. [indiscernible] >> we have a big case today.

the judge is not allowing me to go. the president has to have immunity. if you do not have immunity you just have a ceremonial president. [shouting] [chanting "usa"] host: president biden and vice president harris were also out meeting with voters this week. highlights from vice president harris's visit to the swing state of wisconsin and some of president biden's remarks from a stop in virginia. vp harris: i believe freedom is fundamental to the promise of america.

the promise of protecting and respecting individuals rights and liberty and freedom to make certain decisions, including those of heart and home, and what we know it is sadly almost two years ago no the highest court in our land took a constitutional right that have been recognized from the people of america, from the women of america, and thereafter in state after state we have been seeing laws proposed in the passed that would criminalize health care providers. in some states providing prison for life for doctors and nurses who simply provide health care. laws are being proposed and passed that make no exception

for rape and incest. when we think about what is at stake, it is absolutely about freedom. you know, we talk about democracy. well, let's think about it. i think of democracy as having basically a duality to the nature of it. on the one hand, incredible strength. when a democracy is intact, the strength it has in terms of what it does to protect its people and protect individual rights and freedoms when intact. it is also very fragile. it is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it, and so fight we will, and fight we must. and here is the thing. when we fight, we win. we have 197 days to go, which is

kind of a long time, but really a short amount of time, and there is a lot to get done. i know i am preaching to the choir. elections can be fun. yes, think about it. i don't know if the person you were sitting next to you met before or not, but what i love about campaigns, you get to meet people you may have never met before: all come together because we care, and we understand what is at stake, and we understand the power of collective, and we remember that we are not in it alone. we are all in it together, so let's think about the next 197 days in a way that we remind ourselves tha tthis is what the strength of our country looks like. it is about everyone staying engaged and involved.

it is about remembering the sign of real leadership is based on not who you be down, but who you lift out. that real leadership, right, is about looking at someone and knowing that the character, it is about the kind of character that has some level of compassion and concern about the struggles of other people and takes it upon themselves to do something about it. and that is what we are then, a room of leaders who care and are willing to get engaged, and so in this process, wisconsin, i say reelect tammy baldwin to the united states senate and joe and me to the white house. pres. biden: today i am proud to announce that americans across the country can now apply to become the first members of the american climate accord. [applause]

over 2000 positions in 36 states to start with an washington d.c. and puerto rico with many on the way. climatecorps.gov to apply. you will get paid to fight climate change, learn how to install solar panels, rebuild wetlands, weatherize homes and so much more that is going to protect the environment and build a clean energy economy. to ensure a better way to good union and jobs you will have access to the apprenticeship training to renew partnership. you may remember when i announced in 2020 i did not initially announce my climate position until i talked to the union's. guess what, ivw stepped up and

they all stepped up and i have the strongest support. when you finish or term of service you will be -- for the federal government job. we are also announcing a collaboration with the bloomberg philanthropies that puts former coal mining communities and powerplant communities that have been hurting badly for generations. today of us is unprecedented at historic action we have already taken to tackle the climate crisis. host: robert f. kennedy, jr. released a new ad this week highlighting his pro-marijuana legalization stance, something he has highlighted on the campaign trail since last year.

next, a part of that new ad. >> my question to you is about marijuana. >> a quarter of people in our of the country are therefore minor drugs. what i've advocated is we should legalize marijuana, we should have a federal tax on marijuana that is designated specifically for drug treatment and rehabilitation, and i want to build this part of my presidency a series of centers of detoxification, centers around this country to treat mental illness and drug addiction that is debilitating our children. we lost 106,000 kids last year to overdoses. double the number of kids that we lost during the vietnam war.

we need to start killing our country, and i think the best solution is to legalize it and make it possible for cannabis distributors to actually bank their profits and revenues and tax that were bustling so that we can pay for these treatments for our children. host: next some of our "washington journal" conversation with charlie cook taking a look at the state of the race for control of the u.s. house and senate. >> where does the battle stand right now? >> the senate and doubts different animals. in the house all of the seats are up every four years but only one third rep in the senate every six years. if a party has a really great year, six years later they may

be overexposed. this is a bad a map for democrats, because they are basically nine seeds that are more vulnerable than the most vulnerable republican seats, and it is an unfortunate situation. they are defending seeds in three states that donald trump carried twice and four more she carried back in 2016. michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and arizona, so democrats are playing defense right now. they cannot have anything go wrong without losing control of the senate. host: you wrote a piece recently asking whether the democrats could lose control of the senate the better question would be what the republican majority could look like. guest: i hate saying that, but given that west virginia where joe manchin is retiring, given

that betsy will turn over, if trump wins they do not have to lose any. they could go 7-0 49-04 vulnerable republican seats and still lose their majority, but if democrats could get out of this with losing only two or three seats that they would be pretty lucky. we have seen years where parties have lost 7, 8, nine or more. in 1980, they lost 12 seats. this could be a horrible night for democrats. it is unlikely it will be a great win for them in the senate. host: jon tester is seeking his fourth term and mpr has outlined, he is pitching his usual moderate message. it does the moderate positions to work for him in montana? guest: it has worked well.

the question is does it work well enough. this would apply for brown in ohio, you can be an olympic gold medal swimmer, but if the undertow is great enough to even you can get pulled under, and jon tester and sherrod brown are the only democrats that could win statewide, but how many trump voters does he need to convinced to vote for him as well for for brown, how many trump voters for brown. we are not seeing a lot of ticket splitting anymore. do your research figured out that since 2012 91% of senate races are won by the party that carried that state that died or two years earlier. in 2016 all 34 senate races went exactly the way they were going presidentially.

in 2022, it was all but susan collins. in 2020 it was susan collins and 2022 it was all but ron johnson. we are nationalized in our voting no. host: we are several months away from the election, what are you seeing any of that from right now carry over where it seems to be following that same trend for this year? guest: it is too early to say, because i think the defining thing for republicans in 2022 that made the night not what it should have been was that they nominated in two dozen key races around the country some pretty exotic candidates. if the republicans had nominated potted plants they would've done better than anyone they nominated, and there are four senate races and governor races, attorney general where

republicans nominated the wrong people. it is too early to know who is going to come out of all of these primaries, so it is too early to say whether it will be the same dynamic or not. host: all of those house races are up for reelection. what do those of like right now? guest: you think coming out of 2020, you had a half dozen margin. the democratic margin, they held him by half a dozen seats. 2022 republicans got a majority but they only held on by half a dozen seeds. in this election, there are more republican seats in districts that trump won four more republican seats in districts that biden won versus democratic seats in districts that trump won, but i will call it a draw.

it will be within a handful of seeds. host: former january 6 committee cochair liz cheney was a guest speaker where she was in a conversation with author and historian jon meacham. she talked about david mccormick , at the pennsylvania republican who this week one party's primary against the democratic incumbent bob casey. >> the republican candidate for senate in pennsylvania is a man named dave mccormick who served honorably, served in the military, served the nation honorably. she served in both the bush administration -- he served in both the bush administration and the trump administration. she knows better. he knows trump is not fit for office, and in the last 24 hours

he has been circulating an endorsement donald trump made of him. donald trump was standing in the hallway outside the courtroom in new york and endorsed mccormick, and mccormick is now circulating that endorsement, which that sort of behavior from somebody who absolutely knows better creates a permission structure for people to support the former president, and i think that everyone who has taken an oath to the constitution, everyone who wants to serve in public office has to be willing to say, no, this is wrong. it is not about policy. this is wrong and is a threat to the constitution. host: the latest poll in the pennsylvania senate race has the democratic incumbent senator bob casey up 13 points according to the pittsburgh post-gazette.

the latest ads from both of the party nominees in the keystone state senate contest. >> they hope you will not notice, ceo sneak around downsizing favorite brands charging more for less. same packaging, smaller box, from your logo, you were servings. i am bob casey. my plan gives the federal trade commission a plan to punish corporate price gouging and let's use huge tax breaks to put more money back in your pocket. >> six minutes, that is all you get. on the wrestling mat, there is no place to hide. i am dave mccormick. wrestling is in the bloodstream of pennsylvania. the toughness, the grid, the independence you see on those wrestling mats, using of those high school gymnasiums, to me that represents the best of

pennsylvania. when i look around the country i see these intractable problems, and more than anything else we need leadership. the thing i learned is leadership is about toughness, it is about resilience, it is about making hard choices, attacking hard problems, and that is not what we are doing, so there is something to be learned about the kind of leadership we need to take the country back. i am running for the senate to make the articles. host: here to talk about a race to replaces senator is john o'connor. who is running against each other on the democratic side? >> it comes down to about two candidates, we have one who currently represents a district that represents the u.s. house including montgomery county. he is the billionaire founder

and executive. she is running against a prince georges county executive in her second term in one of maryland's largest counties, and the races between the two of them. trone is bringing a lot of his personal financial forge into the race and angela is bringing a lot of the political establishment to the race. polling has been fairly consistent. we did a poll a couple of weeks ago that found trone holding an eight point lead, so within the margin of error. polling as been fairly consistent showing him 6 to 10 points in the lead overall in the primary. the interesting dynamic is most likely in the general election

is former republican governor larry hogan, so there is a lot of polling testing hogan against these two candidates. >> is one of them ahead on fundraising? >> trone has sunk $40 million of his own money into the race. it is very difficult to turn on the television, go on the internet, watch your favorite streamer and not see a trone commercial. ashlobrooks is raising a pretty good amount of money by maryland senate races standards, but she is getting swamped right now because it is difficult to compete with that kind of money. >> you mentioned former governor larry hogan. a lot of c-span viewers might

recognize him as his days as governor. when did he get into the race, and how has that changed the trajectory of this? >> yes, she got into the race on the very last a possible. on filing day we got something of a surprise announcement that hogan was going to enter the race. it had been boarded elsewhere national republican had been courting him in those last few days running up to the filing deadline and convinced him to get in. he said many times he was not interested in running for senate , he did not want to be in the legislative body after serving as executive but decided to jump in at the last minute. typically maryland federal races are decided after the primary. the state voter registration is roughly half democratic, order

republican" or independents and third-party, so democrats have a significant number is it a vintage year. it has been quite a while since republican has run a statewide federal race. the 1980's was the last time, so hogan has made in some ways a bipartisan three way primary, because he has certainly upended the democratic primary in that those two candidates are positioning themselves against it was the better candidate to run in the general election as well as trying to convince democratic voters i am most closely to your views in these issues that you think are important. >> teller viewers just a popular larry hogan was as a red governor of a relatively blue state? >> he was both popular and enduring. the last several years of his tenure, the number was fairly

consistent. about 70% job approval in maryland. he was more popular among democrats than he was among republicans. national democrats and maryland democrats are going to want to nationalize this races much as possible, whereas so far larry hogan is campaigning as a third term for governor even though he will serve in the senate, so democrats are going to want to point toward abortion as an issue. maryland has a law protecting the right to abortion. there will be a constitutional ballot amendment question this year, but democrats will make the argument if larry hogan is elected to the senate potentially a national ban is in play. likewise they will say hogan joining the senate help support republican positions that may be

hogan does not hold himself, so that could be renewing the trump administration tax cuts that will be up again. that could be the future of the affordable care act. if you could be a lot of different issues that democrats are going to use the positions of national republicans to try and drag down support for hogan. >> thank you so much for your time and expertise. host: a look at highlights from the receipt candidates for him -- forum in a baltimore hosted between the two top senate candidates in maryland. >> forum. >> what is the government's role in the larger conversation when it comes to public transit, and how would you ensure accountability and oversight for the federal dollars that would be coming to regions like baltimore city to ensure the project don't belong and we actually see results? >> first of all we have to

recognize and pay respects to the six workers that lost their lives. often we demonize immigrants, but these folks are some of the greatest americans who are working really hard for our country day, and in this case, night. then we have to support the longshoremen and other folks who were there working who lost their jobs. they have got more jobs. zero. gone. we have to get them paid. unemployment at $400 a week and not enough. we have to get them back to the pay they had before this. and we have to get this bridge just as quickly as we can. we are going to get the money. we will make that happen. >> what i can tell you is that rebuilding that bridge is very important to not only get the infrastructure dollars that will be necessary to build a bridge, but to make sure we are securing the jobs of the 15,000 individuals who have been

impacted, as well as getting small business loans to the businesses impacted. i am the only person in this race who has the experience. voting is just one part, there are people in washington who think voting is all of it. but have been able to literally get the funding, but actually turned that funding into infrastructure. i have built schools, hospitals, roads and it is important to implement the funding even after you get it. >>. >> both of you have made similar comments about abortion rights and access, another conversation seems to be turning into the future of i.v.f. do you believe the federal government has a role in regulating i.v.f. nationally, and if so, how would you work with other members in the senate to get your view accomplished? >> there is no rule for the federal government to leverage and regulate a woman's health choices. these are the choice is between a woman and her doctor and no one else should be involved in that, certainly no person of the

political spectre. absolutely not. we have to work instead to open up freedoms so people have that choice and we can get roe v. wade re-codified as the law of the land. >> this issue is a personal one to me. as the mother of an 18 year old daughter, i believe that the privacy and freedom that women deserve to make their own decisions about their bodies belong to a woman and a woman only. it is outrageous that it is not only abortion-rights under attack, but we see now that these republicans will not stop. their reproductive rights are on the ballot. also we see i.v.f., in arizona now we have republicans who want to charge a woman with a crime and incarcerate her. women deserved to choose. reproductive rights, i.v.f., it all belongs to the woman. i have spent the last 27 years in public service because i believe it is the highest

calling. as state's attorney i ever saw a 50% cut in balance while i will state's county executive, i have built schools, build health care facilities. invested not only in health care but an economic opportunity, making sure we all have the opportunity not only to develop generational wealth than to have higher wages. i asked for your vote every day and every evening, i know what i am fighting for, who i am fighting for and what we are fighting about and i will continue to fight for all of americans families and preserve our democracy. >> it will be tough to raise taxes on big companies we are taking one of their dollars. that is a challenge. my background is i started off on a 200 acre farm. we had no indoor plumbing. we had an outhouse. my dad was an abusive alcoholic. our farm field and we went bankrupt and lost everything. i started over with my mom and younger siblings and go to the american dream. i was so fortunate, so lucky.

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