Roller coaster election season. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are hunkered down, plotting strategy for their first debate on tuesday in philadelphia. The latest polling from New York Times and Sienna College suggest for all of the excitement surrounding harrisentry into the race in july the race remains a dead heat with neither candidate holding a significant at vantage either nationwide or in key states. Donating millions of democratic candidates to take on maga republican candidates as the state and local level. Joining me now is North Carolina Attorney general the democratic governor. And before we get started to your governors race. North carolina is in the News Week as the Vice President first stop in her Barnstorming Tour after the debate. Polls show a tight race between her and trump in North Carolina. But also in other Swing States. What do you think North Carolina is the vps and we do you think it is the vps first stop post debate. Reporter polls
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good morning. welcome to morning joe. that s a look at times square. we re a heart of hours the ball the will drop and we ll turn the page to 2024. good morning. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to this morning, including another state remove donald trump from the republican presidential ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis on that big decision from maine s secretary of state. plus nikki haley s attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. also forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure to protect civilians. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023 from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former president s many legal battles as he enters the presidential election. a lot to go through. with us for all of us is nbc news national affairs analyst john heilem
will: the hispanic population of texas hitting a new milestone and make up more than 40% of the state s population and outnumbering every demographic group for the first time since mid 19th century and how will that affect 2024 elections and joining us is the director of grass roots operations for americans for prosperity texas. tina avalos and carolina del calvo an latino immigrant, mom, and business owner. thank you for being with us this morning, ladies. i d love to talk with you about the future of texas. let s talk if we might about politics. caroline, i ll start with you. what did you think this means for texas for red state means it
here to pepeka. no fatalities. nine people were injured there. one person critically injured. governor of kansas is declaring state of emergency there. let s get right to our meteorologist rob marciano who is tracking these storms for us. that same line that produced the tornadoes last night across parts of kansas and missouri moving into parts of kentucky and indiana and illinois. dangerous storm with a tornado dropped down to harrisburg, illinois, damage there and search and rescue actually under way. that s with this line and this cell moving just to the south of evansville, indiana, just to the north of hender son, kentucky. another storm just northeast of paducah. another one just southwest of that. these are strong storms moving quickly. 65 to 70 miles an hour. and in somepla places it s stil dark. tornado watch is up until noontime central for parts of kentucky and also it s kind of sliding back through just north of memphis. this storm is a big one. it stretches all