The second gentleman addressed the polls and campaign experts that show Harris and Trump tied in the race – saying that the closeness indicates many Republican voters are lost in a “Trumpian fog.”

Emhoff sat down for an interview in battleground Georgia with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, which aired Monday on the network’s show, “Morning Joe.” With three weeks until the election, an NBC News poll released this weekend showed that both Harris and Trump received 48% of respondents’ support – a change that does not bode well for the current vice president, who has enjoyed a lead ever since becoming the Democratic candidate.

“I don’t think people are hearing what he’s saying,” Emhoff said of Trump. “Because again, there’s this fog – this Trumpian fog – all the gaslighting, all the misinformation, the disinformation and people not willing to see what’s right in front of their face.”

When asked how the campaign cuts through the pro-Trump noise, the second gentleman pointed to Democrats’ efforts in swing states to rally voters across the political spectrum.

“This is why we’re rallying Republicans, moderates, independents. This is why our tent on the Democratic side goes, you know, massively wide. There’s a place for everyone here,” he said. “And again, you don’t have to agree with Kamala Harris on every single policy position, although many people actually agree on most if they actually pay attention to what she’s saying.

"But we must agree on who we are as a country, our democracy, our rule of law, our free and fair election system” he continued. “If you lose, you have to exit the stage. The perpetuation of the Big Lie, which is like a cancer, it’s like a poison coursing through the veins of our democracy.”