Tonight on the reidout do you have confidence that it will be a free and fair election and that it will be peaceful? two separate questions. I'm confident it will be free and fair. I don't know whether it will be peaceful. A stunning warning from the sitting president of the united states that trump's rhetoric could threaten the peaceful transfer of power. This comes as trump today once again spread lies about the biden/harris administration's response to hurricane helene. Just one facet of the despicable storm politics republicans are playing with marjorie taylor greene making a claim that's absurd, even for her. We begin tonight we begin tonight with the final stretch with just 32 days to go until election day. And early voting under way in more than half of all states. We're seeing a remarkable contrast between the two candidates and their coalitions. On one side, you have vice president kamala harris, who today made multiple stops across the key battleground state of michigan. Just moments ago, the vice president finished up a rally in the city of flint where she spoke about unions, touted today's strong jobs report, and slammed her opponent's record on manufacturing jobs. Donald trump makes big promises. And he always fails to deliver. He said he was the only one who could bring back america's manufacturing jobs. Remember that? and then, america lost nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs when he was president, making donald trump one of the biggest loses of manufacturing jobs in american history. And on the other side, you have donald trump, who yesterday also held a campaign event in michigan where he gave yet another unhinged meandering speech filled with lies. To what appears to be a half empty auditorium. And this is a video of that event space posted by a reporter. Just as trump was taking the stage. Not the best look for a guy who has spent the better part of the past nine years constantly obsessing over crowd size. Something vice president harris was able to use against him in last month's debate, striking a nerve after pointing out that people are often seen leaving his rallies. This time, looks like they're not even showing up. Washington post has new reporting today on why some of the rally attendees trickle out before trump is done speaking. Among their reasons, the fact that trump is often late and goes long, prompting many to bow out because of other responsibilities, priorities, or just being bored. And no more interest. One attendee said she quickly grew tired of the insults and was ready to leave. The post notes, bennett was undecided before attending the rally with her aunt who supports harris. But after hearing trump speak, she said she planned to vote for harris. Quote, it was the insults and just being an hour late. Watching people leave as trump is still droning on for more than 90 minutes is very symbolic of the effect he's had on the party as a whole. Lifelong republicans walking out in droves, lining up behind kamala harris, who is presiding over an exceptionally large and diverse coalition. Not only does she have the support of the democratic party, but she also has endorsements from republicans like liz cheney, as well as labor leaders, celebrities, and athletes. Like basketball legend magic johnson, who spoke at harris' rally today. She's smart. She's strong. She's passionate. Nobody is going to outwork her. She's committed to you, as the people of the united states, the people of michigan. She's committed to you. I'm joined now by jonathan allen, nbc news senior national politics reporter, sarah matthews, former trump white house deputy press secretary, and alencia johnson, founder of 1063 west broad, and former biden/harris 2020 senior adviser. And the author of the upcoming book flip the tables. I like that title. Welcome to everybody. So there are 1,001 places to start, but alencia, i'm going to start with you, and this coalition building aspect of what we're seeing the vice president do. And really, i mean, in 75 days out of the 107 that she has to do this campaign, she has been able to amass an incredible array of support, but most importantly, from folks like liz and dick cheney. And a whole group of republicans. How does that play out across the country from where you're sitting and how you're seeing the race unfold? listen, never in my life did i think i would be sitting here as a democrat and saying we have a coalition full of everyone including the cheneys. Like, no democrat wants to admit that they have the cheneys on their side, right? but you know, it's showing that there are so many people in this country who are ready to move past donald trump including people in the republican party. I'm not a republican but i have heard that. You have said that. Yeah. But i also, you know, it shows that there are so many parts of the american people that we can organize in order to show up to vote. They're picking between the couch and kamala harris. I will say, i think it is important for democrats to not solely focus on just the republicans who don't want to vote for kamala harris and that's why they're building with coalitions of black folks, coalitions of young people, hopefully getting the undecided voters. I think this is showing people there is this desire to not only move past him but put this country over the partisan politics because it's more than donald trump that people want to get rid of. It's this nastiness that is in our politics that, you know, it's part of the reason why people enjoy tim walz on the debate because they saw this way to have civility with someone you not only disagree with, but someone who is lying with a smile, but you saw a bit of the civility, to talk across the aisle and discuss the issues without all these insults you were showing. I thought that insult aspect from that one person, ms. Bennett, who was at the rallies, sarah, and was turned off by that, and in listening to what she was saying, i couldn't help but think about all the things that have led up to this point, in particularly focusing on dick cheney and the fact that he is not on that stage with donald trump because of a lot of the things that donald trump wanted him to do and then the just turning on him the way he did. I took note of the fact that liz cheney at her endorsement rally with the vice president had this to say about mike pence yesterday. Let's take a quick listen. Our institutions also held because of vice president mike pence. Who refused [ applause ] he refused to violate his oath to the constitution. And that is why mike pence is not donald trump's running mate today. I mean, to alencia's point about the cheneys, to hear democrats applaud mike pence, i mean, really speaks to the time because and you're very much involved in the space. Putting the country first at this moment has been a critical aspect of not just what republicans are saying but how the harris campaign has picked up that mantle. What are you seeing and hearing as you're going around the country and trying to make the case not just to republicans but also to democrats, and having someone as an example like mike pence to say, hey, this is the right space to be in? yeah, i think our country owes obviously a lot of gratitude to mike pence for the courage that it took to make that decision on january 6th and to break with donald trump. Obviously, it hurt him career wise. He had aspirations to be president one day. That's likely never going to happen, at least in today's republican party. And same goes for liz cheney. I mean, she is truly a patriot. She understands what it means to put country first. And there should be a line of men behind her who should be out there doing the same and sounding the alarm about donald trump because i know full and well that all of these republican elected officials know that what she's saying is true but they don't have the courage to stand up there and do it. She has more courage than all of them combined in her pinky toe. I'm honored to know her and call her a mentor, but she's out there making the case because she knows that kamala harris and her might disagree on policy, but at the end of the day, what they do agree on is the need to protect democracy. And the stakes are too high in this election, and she knows that she's not going to sit on the sidelines and let donald trump waltz back into the oval office. I get a lot of pushback from some republicans when we say we're going to set policy aside in this election. I'm a republican who endorsed kamala harris for president. If you told her i would be voting for her four years ago, i would have thought you were crazy, but i also didn't think an insurrection at our nation's capitol was possible, i didn't think we would have a president who would try to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power. I tell these people, doesn't character matter? doesn't the constitution matter? these are things that i want in a leader, someone who will uphold the constitution and defend it. Someone who will be an inspiration to the young children across this country and be a really true leader for them. And donald trump has shown us that he's wholly unfit to ever serve office ever again. So speaking of the grind. Jonathan, you're out there grinding on the beat, trying to tap into the movement that is happening, that's coursing between the presidential campaigns but certainly that folks themselves are sort of focusing on these campaigns the way they have or at least starting to as we wind up the last three days. You have the harris campaign meeting with a group of arab americans in michigan today, you know, before her rally, she wanted to sort of have that conversation with muslim and arab american community leaders to talk about, you know, supporting her. And what that looks like. She's really trying to pull all these pieces together, and in this one is particularly difficult because this was a very weak spot for the biden campaign, particularly in the state like michigan, with the muslim and arab community. What is your reporting showing you and telling you about those efforts and how that's kind of come together a lot quicker for her than we otherwise may have thought? you started off talking about this diverse coalition that she's put together. Everybody from liz cheney to liz warren, everybody from scarlett johansson to magic johnson. Nobody would rather get an assist from anyone than magic johnson. But i think what you're seeing, and all of that is a sort of public endorsement stuff, but what you're seeing from vice president harris now is an effort to do the inside politics and the very difficult politics that successful politicians are able to execute, which is she's going to a community that is upset with the administration's policy on israel in terms of the arab and muslim population in michigan, not everyone, of course, but large groups within that set, and she's going to go there and tell them she's going to be a partner, she's going to listen to them. At the same time, to not have moved on the policy, and her ability to convince them that they will have a seat at the table, that she will listen to them, that she may be able to be swayed at some point depending on the issue, is very important. And if she's not able to execute that, you know, i think that's potentially a loss of votes for her in michigan that democrats would normally get. If she is able to execute it, you say that's a pretty effective behind the scenes player. A pretty effective inside player. How are the politicians, the democrats across the country, responding to these efforts by the campaign? because again, that was a space that had begun to shrink for the biden campaign, where people were like, i don't know. Do you see a movement by candidates down ballot towards kamala in regard to these types of efforts? i think if you look across the board at the down ballot races, what you see is that senate candidates, house candidates, state legislative candidates feel like they're in a better place with kamala harris on the ballot than they were with joe biden on the ballot particularly after the june 27th debate. They saw the bottom dropping out as they saw he was going to be a drag on them. I don't think they feel the same way about harris. In some cases her running is not going to hurt them, may help them, but it's a very different ball game. Let me kind of remind everybody, the one unifying thing for liz cheney and liz warren and all the other people in between that are supporting kamala harris is they want to stop donald trump from being president of the united states, and they will do whatever they can legally to stop him from becoming president of the united states, and it's why joe biden is no longer the democratic nominee, and it is why you're seeing very few breaks in the democratic coalition, very few criticisms of this campaign. And i'm not sure that that's always healthy for a campaign to not hear criticism, but democrats are afraid of turning the tables. In one respect, donald trump is unifying the opposition against them, that's for sure. Don't go anywhere, folks. Jonathan, sarah, and alencia are sticking with us because coming up, marjorie taylor greene digs deeper into her bag of loony with her claims of who is actually responsible for hurricane helene. You'll love this one. Stay with us. 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It was yet another opportunity for trump to bash and lie about the biden white house for its hurricane response. Despite his own unhinged response to disasters when he was president. Jonathan allen, sarah matthews, and alencia johnson are back with me. So this is probably in many respects some of the most asinine and galling parts of what comes out of this republican party, sarah. Is in a moment of national crisis, where we're all trying to deal with what happened, we have loved ones and family and friends who have been affected by the storm. The government is pulling together its resources to respond accordingly. You have these individuals, who want to go out and deliberately put out misinformation, so for example, you have fema now having to warn of helene misinformation. Having to launch a rumor response page on their website so that people will get the facts. What the hell is wrong with these p