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Declaring it an emergency goes a long way to make sure that people understand that this is a very high priority. we turn now to pennsylvania and the race that could determine the power balance, the balance of power as we like to say in the senate with the democratic nominee poised to make a return to the campaign trail next week. john fetterman announcing his plans to hold his first rally since suffering a stroke in may. the rally set next friday in erie county, a key swing county that went for president trump and flipped to biden in 2020. despite being off the trail for the last few months,...

You mentioned the national average. come with me and we'll check out the prices in gainesville. unlead, $3.89 a gallon. diesel, $4.99 a gallon. in atlanta it's even higher. we have spoken to people at gas stations in three different counties. all of them politically significant and politically different. one of of them a big swing county, another a deeply blue county and another a deeply red county. every time we talked to people, they said they do not like what they're seeing at the pump. for some of them it's up-ending their budgets. when we ask them who or what is to blame, their answers va...

Cents from just a week ago and up $1.41 from a year ago. it's a lot higher than that in places where we're watching. in the battleground state of georgia, one of just four states where the price of gas is under $4, gas prices and inflation are increasingly becoming a hot-button campaign issue. nbc's ellison barber is in gainesville, georgia about an hour north of atlanta. so ellison, what are you hearing from folks who are just fed up about the cost of filling up their tanks? >> reporter: fed up is a really good way to describe the mood here, garrett. worried works as well. we have been to thr...

>> shannon: kenosha, wisconsin turned into ground 0 for black lives matter riots a couple summers ago and now flipped red. county electing the first-ever republican executive. casey stegall has more for us. >> a swing county inside a swing state, the g.o.p. touting as a big win in kenosha. samantha kirkland this week the first woman and the first republican ever elected to a county executive job. she's currently serving as a state representative and will now oversee the county's budget, includes law enforcement and emergency management dollars. departments obviously that have been under close ...

I don't think that the democratic party is going to go extinct, but they are at a point right now where you've seen that slip that greg has been talking about for a long time that all of the sudden the republicans are part of the working class and there's a little bit -- you are seeing it every day. i point out that if you just look at the school board members that got recalled, that was 80% margin in san francisco. so imagine in a swing county or a swing state, there's not that many left, but that margin is going to be incredible for republicans this year. >> you are a politician, you wear, d...