in the senate. they re statewide candidate quality having to do with the l come. that s pretty remarkable to hear from the republican senate leader. not exactly exerting a lot of confidence. let s talk a little bit about those gop candidates, almost all of whom were handpicked by donald trump, and almost all of more floundering. there is, of course, arizona republican oblique masters who was endorsed by trump and he has pushed great replacement conspiracies and claimed that black people are to blame for america s gun violence problem. supery cyst believes, i might add. no surprise that masters is running eight points behind kelly with his opponent pushing racist views, he might be on the path to the smooth reelection. and then there s republican herschel walker down in georgia. herschel walker could barely string a sentence together most times. he has refused to debate democratic senator raphael warnock, and you can understand why when you see his long list of gaps, which
number one thing among gop base right now. and they are not apologizing for anything that happened in the trump years or the idea that he has come up over the last few years. marjorie taylor greene is a rising store in the spaces. i think people are shocked when you hear that marjorie taylor greene has some real power, but she does. she is a tremendously powerful person among the gop base right now. she has a way to real people in, and on these trump forms they view her even, more so as a vice presidential candidate morsel in mike pence at that point. god help us all of that happens. panel please stick around, we ve got a lot more to stick around. still ahead, how the inflation reduction act is rigged by a republican s conspiracy about the irs. acy abou the irs. ks] [dog panting]
republicans already preparing attacks against the ira. axios has reported on one particular ad that they ve tested features tax provisions and in particular the hiring of 87,000 new irs agents. how do you think democrats should counter that misinformation from the republicans? that is just simply a lie. right now, only 11% of all the iris employees are tax collectors. auditors. the best estimates are there maybe 30,000 more i r s employees, and very few of them will be tax auditors. it will be people processing those 10 million individual claims that are backlogged stuck in an irs cafeterias across the country. right now, the number one personal somebody who s poor, in the south, earning an income tax credit. they make less than $30,000 a year.
order president, backed the blue guy. you ve reported on the violent comments by trump supporters, threatening basically civil war after the mar-a-lago search. what have you been hearing and seeing online since then? the tenor has remained at that level, the rhetoric has remained at a fever pitch, but now they re pulling the irs into the conspiracy theory. pretty much anyone in the federal government is out to get them. that s how they re framing this entire thing, through framing 2022 in 2024 with the idea that since donald trump s persecuted they believe, we are persecuted, we are next. the donald trump fans are next and that we are going to be rounded up, our guns will be taken away, or the irs agents are a secret army to go after trump supporters. that s how this has evolved over the last couple of weeks. i just want to be clear, fielding trump is still the
the audit on rich people have fallen by more than half since 2012. we ve been cutting back on people who should be audited and ratcheting up on people who don t have money. this is not about increasing auditing, it s about making sure that the system works. when you call the irs somebody will answer the phone. indeed, that would certainly be a good place to start. congressman don beyer, i appreciate you joining us this evening. thank you. still ahead, how politics and the pandemic are driving massive teacher shortages across the u s. r shortage across the u s across the u s