d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers
historic. hashtag tyrus. like the titanic, the movie, not the actual horrible maritime disaster of 19 12. i know, i know, too soon. yes, that s right, one of the biggest moments in tv history. and, no, it s not the first black man hosting the number one late night comedy show. nope, brother s been kicking ass on tv forever, red fox, richard prior arsenio hall dave chappelle and who can forget lewis muhammad gutfeld? but i m definitely in the top three. no. even bigger. it s the first time a wrestler has hosted the number one late night show. [cheers and applause] yeah, that s right. a wrestler. burns, doesn t it? just a wrestler. and where would this country be without wrestlers? we would probably be invaded by canada. look, even hunter biden is a huge fan of the rock. although he smokes it. the country without wrestlers would be like kamala without bongos. it is critical that we work together to understand where we are, to recognize and have the courage to speak truth abou
desperately needs, and it is what democrats will deliver on in the coming days. so up next, the bill still needs to survive a rare weekend session, a parliamentary review and a senate vote-arama. more on that coming up. assuming it passes, it would send democratic members home on top of another win on top of the kansas abortion vote that fired up the base and great jobs numbers today as well. it also adds fuel to the already frenzied pace of midterm campaigns escalating to levels we rarely see today. nbc news now predicts election denier and trump acolyte kari lake is the winner of the republican primary for governor of arizona. she repeatedly claimed election irregularities but now says her supporters, quote, outvoted the fraud. among those endorsing lake, the conservative group cpac, which is now meeting in texas and where the keynote speaker was hungarian prime minister victor orban who was welcomed with a standing ovation. the washington post described it as, quote, a
ballot. that s true. but he is casting a pretty big shadow as he continues to endorse some, it s not always clear, i might add, who he is endorsing, more on that in just a moment. and the timing will be pretty interesting here. it isn t just post january 6th. it s post the first series of january 6th hearings. we ll see whether it impacted voters and which way it did. it hasn t seemed to impact the platforms, though, of candidates in several swing states. some continue to echo the baseless fraud claims and there is a whole slate of them in arizona who are running for top positions like governor and attorney general, secretary of state and senate, you know, consequential office holders for those who run elections. also closely watched, the senate race in missouri. trump has endorsed an eric. okay, but which eric did you mean to endorse, sir? rivals eric greitens and eric schmitt both claim trump meant them and trump for his part has yet to clarify, now, on election night. it s
offers more threats nearby. state side a number of critical republican primaries have the attention of washington and bedminster. looks like we already have winners if you can believe it or not inner missouri and michigan and the polls have just closed in arizona. now this hour s going to be a high wire act as we bring you all of these breaking stories but we begin tonight with threats and truth. that is the focus of tonight s angle. five years ago, speaker visit taiwan. it was completely wrong. the u.s. draw a lesson from it instead of making repeated mistakes. laura: it s now, well, let me just tell you one thing. 10:00 a.m. in taiwan and, to her credit, nancy pelosi didn t back down when china essentially threatened to shoot her plane out of the sky. now she s been the ground for what, about 12 hours or so landing here just after 10:30 a.m. eastern today. we re going to bring you news about the specifics of her meetings at any moment. now, remember, trip details have b