And the concerns that he could still play spoiler. And breaking news, the fbi holds a briefing on the gunman who shot donald trump, revealing images of the weapons discovered and new details about what he was searching for online. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start in battleground georgia, the big kickoff for Kamala Harriss statewide swing, just a couple of hours away now. Nbcs mike memoli is in savannah. What are we expecting, mike . Reporter well, chris, the Vice President now on her way here to georgia, and the goal for the harris walz ticket is to take the energy, the Excitement We Saw in the arena in chicago and bring it to the battlegrounds into southeast georgia, part of a Battleground State where we havent seen much president ial activity. The stat of the day, chris, is this, there has not been a general election president ial Campaign Event for a democratic candidate in this part of the state since the mid90s. That just tells you the ways in which the Harris Campaign feels like it can use that momentum to go more on offense. Theyre really using multiple strategies here. We have seen over the course of the year the Vice President make multiple stops in the atlanta area. Well, now theyre trying to take this into a different part of the state to play to different coalitions. This bus will take them to rural parts of, yes, a blue county, but to different types of voters to offset the numbers we would see republicans getting in these parts of the state. Its not just a candidate that has been to this part of the state as well. They have Campaign Officers throughout southeast georgia. Theyre extending their resources here. We are going to see the first joint interview for the team, this is a moment a lot of people have been looking forward to. We havent heard this kind of question and answer session with the newly minted democratic nominee. Mike memoli, thank you, and well talk to you once again in just a bit. Now for the First Time Since dropping out of the race, President Biden will return to the Campaign Trail for Kamala Harris. Nbcs Gary Grumbach is traveling with the president in Rehoboth Beach, delaware, at the dnc, biden did promise he would be the best volunteer that the Harris Campaign has ever seen. What more do we know about his plans . Reporter even the best volunteers need down time. Thats why were here in Rehoboth Beach as he spends the final week of summer with some down time with his wife. Starting labor day, were going to see something we havent seen since he dropped out of the race, President Biden on the Campaign Trail alongside the woman whos replacing him, Vice President Kamala Harris. Theyre going to be in pittsburgh. Why labor day. Theres perhaps no more important constituency to joe biden than union workers. Its a group of people that he has spent a lot of time with over the years. In fact, he has spent every single labor day of his presidency with union workers. The past two have been in pennsylvania. This one will be in pittsburgh as well. It will be very interesting to see how the Harris Campaign over the next 68 days or so uses President Biden. Of course he was sort of publicly pushed off the ticket because of his lack of popularity and because of his age, and so how they use him and his popularity when he goes out on to the Campaign Trail will be something to watch. Chris. Gary grumbach, thank you for that. Rfk jr. May have dropped out of the race. His name is stuck on the ballot in two big Battleground States. Garrett haake is following that story for us. Whats going on here, garrett . Reporter its a great irony that so much of robert f. Juniors president ial campaign was a battle of ballot access. Now state laws in michigan and wisconsin, he can not get off the ballot, despite having suspended his campaign, and endorsed donald trump. In michigan, hes on a minor party ballot line. Wisconsin, the ballot there. And the specifics of the laws say as long as hes a living and breathing human being whos nominated, he needs to stay on the ballots. Why could it matter . Kennedy was targeting low engagement voters, people tuned out from the rest of the system who may not know hes not a candidate when it comes time to place the vote. If you dont think the margins matter, the possibility of Third Party Candidates in michigan and wisconsin can swing the balance of the president ial election, ask president Hillary Clinton about it. Thirdparty candidates were a huge part of the reason she lost critical blue wall states in 2016. This is something im sure the Trump Campaign and the Harris Campaign are watching very closely, chris. Garrett haake, thank you for that. Breaking just moments ago, the fbi sharing new details about the Assassination Attempt on donald trump. Nbcs ryan reilly joins us with the latest now. I just had a chance to look at the story you posted on nbcnews. Com. It is striking how much detail you got, and how detailed he was in looking for a target. Thats right, chris, and essentially what the fbi is saying here is that the trump rally appeared to be a target of opportunity for the attempted trump assassin. That he searched for info on the Republican National committee and the Democratic National convention. Both of those events before ultimately quote hyperfocusing on the actual rally where this shooting took place, which is only announced days before. Were talking about early july is when crooks allegedly started focusing on this event and getting in and ultimately going to that target that was so close near his home. It was ultimately, what appears to be a target of opportunity for him to take, and they also discussed his ideology. It was all over the place. They found things from the left perspective and right perspective. They dont have a definitive ideology or motivation. They have found no evidence and no reason to suggest that anyone else was helping out crooks with this attempted assassination on the republican nominee for president in 2024, chris. One thing that would seem to back that up is if hes looking at both events for trump, and of course, at the time, joe biden. If hes looking at the dnc and rnc, it would argue against the idea that this was an ideological attack. Precisely, yeah, and thats what the fbi really says here is that he was just looking for some event. He later googled how far the man who assassinated former President Kennedy was, oswald was from kennedy when he was shot. He had done research into it. It really was about that opportunity. They also thanked former President Trump for his cooperation with the investigation, and youre seeing on the screen some of the images that the fbi has released in connection, just today, with their investigation. That right there is the airconditioning unit that crooks allegedly used to get on top of the roof where theres been so many questions about why that roof was left unmanned and unprotected. Thats something that isnt going to come out of the fbi investigation. The Secret Service findings in their Inspector General report. The fbi is focused on the shooter, his motives, not so much second guessing the actions of law enforcement. Theyre going to leave that more to congress as well as the Secret Service, through the department of homeland securitys Inspector General, chris. One of the things that really struck me from the Special Agent in charge at this briefing was saying that the shooters family has been extremely cooperative, but have they given any insights into the possibility of determining a motive or what the days leading up to this were like or anything they observed . Did they say anything about what the family revealed . Other than saying that they were extremely cooperative, and in previous briefings, they said theres been no indication that the family, for example, had any indication that this was about to happen. There wasnt something on their radar that he had expressed, you know. Theyve looked through all the social media accounts, and i think ultimately, the social media accounts and his electronic accounts and searches, and i think thats where it seems like a lot of new info is coming from. From everything they have described about the shooter, he fits more of the sort of profile of the school shooter. Hes a loner, is how they have described him, not someone necessarily really idealogically motivated as indicated by the scatter shot ideologies that they have seen but, you know, there are a lot of mysteries here, and we have seen the briefings from the fbi, even though they have gotten a little bit further apart when weve gotten these briefings. This is not something the fbi normally does. They can do it in this case because of the fact that a shooter is dead. Theres not going to be a prosecution here. So the fbi isnt worried about spoiling a future case and how this would impact a prosecution. Theyre just ultimately focused on getting to the bottom of what happened and getting as many answers for the American Public as they can. Chris. Ryan reilly, thank you. Coming up in 90 seconds, hab maybe he didnt get the memo. Donald trump tears into the use of mailin ballots, while his Campaign Pushes for voters to embrace them. Rs to embrace them this is our future, ma. Godaddy airo. Creates a logo, website, even social posts. In minutes how . A. I. impressed ay i like it who wants to come see the future . get your Business Online in minutes with godaddy airo aaron i own a lot of businesses. Get your Business Online in minutes so i wear a lot of hats. My restaurants, my tattoo shop. And i also have a nonprofit. But no matter what business im in. 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Team trump is pushing what it says is the first nongovernment web site allowing voters to request a mailin ballot. It got them headlines in pennsylvania, but at the same time, the candidate was saying this. I know there are things that you are not in favor of, this ballot harvesting, this mailin ballots. Its all terrible. It shouldnt be allowed. Its a whole different mindset. But it is. Youre right. Republicans like to go there on tuesday and vote in person, and thats been for, you know, a long time. Many years. Decades, decades. Its a custom, almost, its a family custom. Its a beautiful thing. The democrats play a different game. Anytime you have a mailin ballot, theres going to be massive fraud. Trump has been undermining mailin voting for years, including after his loss in 2020. With the first mailin ballots set to go out in nine days, it is raising the question, will that suppress the very vote his campaign is promoting. Joining us now, nbc news chief political analyst, chuck todd and julian castro, 2020 candidate, and msnbc political analyst. Chuck, whats a maga republican to do, get your mailin ballot now via their own web site or just assume that you dont do it because its very very bad . This is a bigger progress than just this, chris. You know, the entire effort on Get Out The Vote that republicans and the Trump Campaign are doing. Theyre very focused more on election security, for instance. So this is yet another way that in a very close election, i think trump loses because of these Little Things. You know, its sort of like in football, it would be, you know, the Little Things that youre not cleaning up. They have a mixed message on mailin voting. They have a mixed message on Get Out The Vote. Trump himself said hes more worried. The votes are all there, im just worried about them being counted. Theyre recruiting more Poll Watchers than they are people to go door to door. You have to ask yourself, have they created an entire getoutthevote messaging system, including mailin voting that simply tries to support his Conspiracy Theories about four years ago, and maybe they make him feel better, and they make him look semiconsistent. Right . Hes desperately trying to make his 2020 allegations seem relevant, focusing on election security, down playing mailin balloting. I think all of it collectively is going to cost him a point or two somewhere. And that point or two could be the absolute difference between winning or losing in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin, which still are the three most important states. Take North Carolina, which is going to be the first of the Battleground States to have early voting. More democrats will vote early than republicans, and if youre banking your vote early, thats more opportunities to get your vote cast versus how the republicans are pitching this. Again, this is part of a larger issue inside the Trump Campaign. Im still trying to parse this out, julian. If what theyre trying is say this is a safe way to do mailin voting, the campaign cant provide a ballot. The web site simply directs them to the Pennsylvania Department of state. And to chucks point about where you put your resources, somebody had to spend time setting up this web site. Anyway, what do you make of it . Well, i mean, we have several things going on here. First of all, one hand doesnt know what the other hand is doing, it seems like. Theres a tremendous amount of hypocrisy. Trumps campaign and the rnc are trying to encourage mailin ballots. Trump is attacking it. Secondly, donald trump used to be for mailin balloting, early voting before he was against it. He kind of has a hot and cold relationship with him, but it serves him. Third, as chuck has alluded to. Any candidate, anybody thats run for office will tell you, you know what, i want all of my supporters to go and vote early if they can, because you never know what comes up if you wait until election day. The weather could be terrible. Somebody could have a Family Emergency or Something Else that takes them from being able to go when the polls are open from 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Some people forget to go vote. You want your votes in early. Fourth, this is donald trump Laying A Predicate again for objecting to the results of the election, fraudulently himself if he doesnt win. This is him throwing up one more reason to be able to turn back and say, you know what, those Election Results are not legitimate. I didnt really lose. And i should be the one in power. He saw this play out in 2020. Im sure that he wants it to play out that way if he loses again in 2024. And questioning mailin balloting, which has been researched, its been investigated, the level of fraud here is infinite, super small. Chuck in 2020, there were, a state decided by less than 80,000 votes, it was a covid election, right, i wonder, though, if you think it did get a lot more people, not just in pennsylvania but around the country used to voting by mail, and is it potentially even more important this year than it was in 2012 or 2016 . Well, take donald trump. He voted early in florida in the primary a couple of weeks ago, by the way, so we ought to point that out. Hes been a Walking Contradiction on this. This whole phenomenon started out west. It was a special election out in oregon in 1995 that elected ron wyden to the United States senate. They did it, then, as a way to save money in an off year election because they didnt want to do it. It just sort of took hold, and you see that, you know, california is basically a permanent mailin balloting state. Colorado is. Ill tell you a place where it benefitted the republicans over the democrats. As it turned out, that was bad news for his senate race that year because it turned out that about 70 to 75 turnout, there was a path to victory for bullock. Guess what, the less frequent voters leaned right in montana, and everybody getting a ballot ended up benefitting the republicans down the ballot. Trump won by a bigger margin than he had won before. So, you know, it does depend on the state. But what we do know is convenience isnt partisan. Okay. I have seen it in the state of florida. The liberals like convenience. Conservatives like convenience. Everybody likes to save time and have something convenient. So it really is an odd thing for trump to sort of plant his flag on, especially since he himself just voted early a couple of weeks ago. Chuck todd, julian castro, thank you both. Still ahead, a toss up in the tar heel state, new sig