now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. ll good evening, alex. we are of course going to discuss the pennsylvania senate debate tonight. we are also going to consider a local race in pennsylvania, a state in legislature race, as an example of how important all of those other offices are on those big long ballots that we are all going to fill out that we have governor and senator and all of that. but we have to keep going down and concentrate on all the rest of them. and at the end of this hour, we are going to be joined by a guest i have been trying to get for a full three years now. the three year campaign to get jen o malley dillon succeeded. succeeded she was, of course, joe biden s presidential campaign manager. i will never forget that it was jen o malley dillon who gave press briefings the day after election night, saying, joe biden has this won, which i then communicated to everyone any with complete confidence. and then on
then communicated to everyone any with complete confidence. and then on saturday, when joe biden was officially called by the networks, oh my friends thought i was wicked smart because just listen to o malley dillon, i remember that moment too, it was the opposite of what triggering is. i guess reassuring is the world. yeah, exactly! she spoke with such confidence, such normalcy, such intelligence. it was actually an incredibly important role she played in what was a chaotic moment, as someone who basically lived in the keystone state in the closing weeks of that election. i can attest to, a, how important it was to have jen o malley dillon on the airwaves, but also b, how critical those down ballot seats are, not just to democratic control method to the pressures of a shun preservation of democracy. is that this what is on the line. we can go through how pennsylvania changes constitutional amendments, how the legislature, what their role is in constitutional