us for tonight, senator. we just heard the president say something in his opening commercial of the presidential campaign, that you rarely hear. i can t think of another president putting it this way. he said something dangerous is happening in america. that is a very strong message, that is an attention getting message, and that is where the president has decided to begin. that s right, lawrence, i will remind you, what motivated president biden to run in 2020, in the first place, was the charlottesville rally. the charlottesville riot, where a torch lit parade of right-wing extremists shouting hateful reminiscent of the not seize slogans, and former president trump s very fine people on both sides.
that is an attention getting message, and that is where the president has decided to begin. that s right, lawrence, i will remind you, what motivated president biden to run in 2020, in the first place, was the charlottesville rally. the charlottesville riot, where a torch lit parade of right-wing extremists shouting hateful reminiscent of the not seize slogans, and former president trump s very fine people on both sides. that is a lot of president biden saying to run for office. it s to say we need to preserve and protect, we need to save the soul of america. and as we just saw in that ad, the soul of our nation is our commitment to voting rights. to free and fair elections. to the very essence of democracy. something that has been fought for for hundreds of years.
like you mentioned, like nick fuentes. nick fuentes only became famous because he participated in neo-nazi charlottesville riot, and then drop out of school because he was too much of a coward to face his classmates back in boston. that s the only reason anyone knows his name. it s the only reason why he was able to create a platform. now he makes money from races around the country, actually, around the world, who have found him to be a useful idiot for white supremacy. you know chris, misinformation, you just mentioned it, it plays a major rise, and major role in that rise of white nationalism. according to ed nielsen report, latino audiences are more likely to receive, consuming, share fake news, and misinformation online compared to the general population. in fact, the daily stormer, which the shooter in allen texas, he was an avid consumer of that website, and they
then in 2016, a 30% spike. in 2017, a 57% increase. the largest since the adl began tracking this. that summer, the charlottesville riot. jews will not replace us. [ chanting ] donald trump didn t invent antisemitism. the thing that made his presidency so frightening in this respect is how he normalized prejudice. kung flu. yeah. it augurs an environment where prejudice is permissible. reporter: and one of those environments, the internet. this is it. reporter: that part of the story when we come back.
in this hate. excuse me. i saw the same pictures as you did. reporter: so jason greenblatt argues if you read all of the remarks in that charlottesville press conference he did condemn the neo-nazis and the white supremacists. i m not talking about the neo-nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. if donald trump convincingly, consistently, clearly called out the extremists and the anti-semites it wouldn t even matter what he said in that moment. reporter: the statistics speak volumes. from 2001 until 2015, anti-semitic incidents in the u.s. were declining. then in 2016, a 30% spike. in 2017, a 57% increase. the largest since the adl began tracking this. that summer, the charlottesville riot. jews will not replace us.