correspondent for vanity fair and an msnbc contributor. and alexis is a political reporter with axios. kevin, i want to start with you, get a sense of where we are at this point. i m setting up the temporal parameters. let s look at the travel schedule for the president. he s in georgia today. tomorrow it s ohio, indiana, and missouri. a trifecta, three campaign stops in one day. what does that tell you about how he sees this election? it s interesting where he s not going. he s not going to arizona, which i think is remarkable given that his closing argument has really been all about immigration. but in terms of ohio, just the importance there. but look, i mean, if you look at georgia in particular, i think that you could have a situation where that could be the dominant headline of the midterm elections, potentially on wednesday morning, especially if she wins the governorship and you ve got oprah who s literally going door to door down there. the bottom line is the president is
really, really, really, really bad, but sometimes judges don t close the courthouse doors and turn out the rights just because it s time to actually use our rights instead of just talking about them in the abstract. those two voting rights rulings even tonight, friday night as we head towards tuesday s election. today was the last day of early voting in georgia. for the last day of early voting today, people were lined up before dawn, lined up in the dark to cast their ballots. that enthusiasm we ve been seeing in georgia in particular, but it really is remarkable the number of people voting all around the country. you might have seen the numbers. last time we had an election where there wasn t a president on the ballot, the last time we had a midterm election like this one was four years ago in 2014. when we were four days out from that election at this point in the election, this is the number of people who had voted. now this year s election, us four days out so, it s
keep voters, particularly voters of color from the rolls. in georgia in particular, secretary of state kemp has purged over 1.4 million people from the voter rolls since 2012. over 670,000 people in 2017 alone. and a lawsuit was just filed yesterday finding that hundreds of thousands of people who were purged from the rolls on the grounds of not living in their locations, in fact, do live there. these are wrongful purges. voting officials like secretary kemp should be working to ensure that all eligible voters are able to cast a ballot rather than implementing measures to block them from the voter rolls. denise, i want to play video for you. this is vice president joe biden, and i ll get your reaction on the other side. do you believe that voter suppression is underway? absolutely. somewhere in the order of 77 in
i think republicans wants to see some things happen. they want to see repeal and replace of obamacare. they want to see tax reform. some republicans want to see infrastructure. so i think they re giving maybe paul ryan a chance and mitch mcconnell a chance to get something moving. we haven t seen that yet. if nothing gets done by the end of the year, then i think voters will be fed up with republicans because they re not getting anything done. neil: all right. we shall see. thanks, erin. thank you. neil: are the latest results adding a new sense of urgency to the gop agenda? if the feeling was, all right, we want to see this agenda completed, get it completed and they don t or delayed, then what? we have bob cusack, kennedy and charlie gasparino. charlie what do you think about that? this is the voter s way of saying we re with you but we want you to get this stuff down you tout. look at south carolina and georgia in particular.
in the country. early voting under way in a third of the country. 17 states. that includes battlegrounds of iowa and ohio. they are set to begin early voting this week or next week. that s two-thirds of the country. georgia in particular has become a battleground state. recent poll shows donald trump with a lead of six points over hillary clinton. that poll conducted before the recent wave of allegations against donald trump by a number of women. if you look inside the state of georgia, evangelical christians makeup a considerable share of the voters, not just in georgia but across the south. the latest nbc the wall street journal poll gives trump overwhelming advantage over hillary clinton with evangelicals, this loyal voting block for republicans is increasingly torn. nbc chris jansing, part of her battleground america tour joins us now from atlanta. she s in a church there part of what s known as jesus junction.