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State to see just how much of a role abortion is playing among voters there. and with just three weeks to go before the election. >> reporter: perhaps the most vulnerable democratic incumbent governor in the nation is here in reliably red kansas. it's also the place where this summer voters overwhelmingly opted to protect abortion rights. >> the vote on august 2nd made it very clear how that can be, that kansans tend to elect to the governor's office, a moderate, common sense, thoughtful person to run their state and make sure the basic services are provided for them. >> reporter: governor lau...

From the audience. hobbs has refused to debate lake, who still denies the results of the 2020 election, saying, "it's impossible to have a real conversation with her." former president trump was in mesa, arizona, last night, rallying for the state's entire republican ticket. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard was there covering it and joins us from phoenix. what stood out to you. >> reporter: we should be clear about this kari lake and hobbs situation here. we are two day ace way from early voting in arizona, 48 hours. it is go time here. over the course of these last months, ever since th...

Going forth. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: one of the big races on the governor side is in kansas, glenn youngkin and ron desantis has been there and the battle is considered a toss-up with the incumbent democrat trying to seek and win re-election. derek schmidt is the challenger, the attorney general of kansas. good morning to you. i want to show our viewers the top issues in kansas, inflation, cost of living. abortion, jobs and economy check in at 15%. the referendum on abortion was two months ago august 2nd. we know how that turned out. a strong turnout as well. how do you believe abortion...

Regardless of who they voted for in the last presidential election. rachel, you also worked on the kansas ballot initiative, if you will, where you all were successful. how is -- first of all, this is very different from kentucky in the sense that one of the -- this is a supreme court, doing some things. what else is different about kansas versus kentucky? what lessons are you taking from kansas to apply in the fight that y'all are waging now? >> you're absolutely correct. kansas and kentucky are fifth different states. but i still think that there are a lot of lessons that we can learn from t...

Democrats are congress and publicly scored a biden reelection bid. jerry nadler and carrie maloney giving responses when asked about the president, and adler saying i can't give a "yes" or "no" answer but the democratic party are best served by pleading until midterm and before we begin, but maloney answered much more bluntly saying "off the record, running again. on the record, no, he should not run again. emma, the interviews for august 2nd primary when jerry maloney and carrie maloney, and apologizing for her comments. quite the comment from her there. the cdc making changes to the covid-19...