like me, who should i be afraid of? that s it for us. the reidout starts right now. good evening, everybody. welcome to a special edition of the reidout, live from beautiful orlando, florida. we re just five days away from the final voting day of the midterm elections. and baby, the stakes could not be any higher. a point that both president joe biden and former president barack obama have been making every single day. when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real life consequences. it s not some abstract political science question. we are all affected. and we take this for granted, and we can t. there are candidates running for every level of office in america, for governor, congress, attorney general, secretary of state, who won t commit, they will not commit to accepting the results of an election that they re running in. this is a pat to chaos in america. it s unprecedented. it s unlawful. and it s un-american. tonight, we ll spend the hour looki
information. not where you want that information. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 23rd. let s start with the news. we begin with that reporting on what sparked the fbi search for classified materials at mar-a-lago two weeks ago. sources tell the new york times the government has recovered more than 300 documents marked as classified from donald trump so far. those documents returned in january included more than 150 classified documents. according to the times, quote, the number ignited intense concern at the justice department and helped trigger the criminal investigation that led fbi agents to swoop into in to mar-a-lago this month seeking to recover more. multiple people briefed on the matter tell the times the former president personally went through 15 boxes before handing them over in january. the paper quotes, reports quote, the highly sensitive nature of some of the material in the boxes prompted archives officials to refer
thanks for having me. i think the most interesting one is down in florida, it is the race to replace governor desantis because it is a statewide race and we are a little biased to those. governor desantis seems like an unstoppable force heading into 2022 and 2024, and potentially a presidential candidate but he s got a win first this year. florida is one of the states that democrats have had a football game away from them, like charlie brown, over the last several cycles. going into november, this doesn t seem like the time that he will be able to beat ron desantis but anything is possible. so the primary there between nicky freed and charty crist is an interesting one. a generational one charlie crist is an interesting character to say the least, to change parties three different times basically and i will look to see what happens there. and briefly on florida, while we still have you, is rubio in any trouble against val demings? we have seen him slip in the polls recently a littl
a democrat. his main rival is state agriculture commissioner nicky freed, crist has out-raised freed and out-spent her on the air waves, arguing he has the experience necessary to beat desantis, and freed has taken aim at crist s past as a republican and past election losses and it is significantly outweighed by desantis himself, and would advance as the underdog in november s general election. also in florida today, democratic congressman demings is expected to win the primary for senate and take on marco rubio this november. he is running for a third term. currently, the political report rates the race as leaning republican. joining us now, democracy state politics reporter for politico, we have run through several races there. which is the one that you re watching more closely?