this evening president biden and his allies including former president trump, including former president obama, are trying to reassure support after our disappointing performance at the first presidential debate on thursday night. the democratic party officials, some members of the biden campaign this afternoon discussed the situation. we have the dnc chair standing by to talk about this. all of this after president biden struggled on stage with an ■çapparent cold. it was his opponent, fromer president donald trump who did battle with the truth. make no mistake, we will be talking about the debate over president biden s age on the program tonight but we will also not lose sight of the egregious lies told by his opponent, fromer president donald trump and his deeply troubling proposals. nor will we ignore the actions taken this week by his ultraconservative supreme court, criminalizing homelessness and putting our personal safety, the environment, and even our democracy a
National Republican Party to be clear, in context, theres a whole bunch of problems that the trump dpan has for the Republican Party. Theres a new poll that puts donald trump nationwide 14 points behind Hillary Clinton. 14 points behind . Now, that is not the only poll in the world, right . Theres another National Poll out also tonight from fox news that says hes only 3 points behind Hillary Clinton. Well be talking later on in the show with an expert about how to read the various polls right now. How to know whats right, especially when youve got results like these that are so disparate. In either case 13 points behind or 3 points behind, he is still behind. The headwinds seem very clear right now. Tonight at fivethirtyeight. Com theyre reading those headwinds for the president ial race and looking at the senate polls. Fivethirtyeight is giving the Republican Party a 68 chance of losing control of the United States senate this year. So that is just one of the problems that it appears
Voters, between the ages of 18 to 34, by 2020 theyll be the largest segment of the american electorate. Theyre not part of this trend. White millennials will almost certainly not vote for donald trump, young white people. The children. Heather mcghee, fernand amandi. Well be right back here on saturday after joy reids bonus hour. Well be here, if my voice makes it. Be sure to tune in for that. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everything . Ill go right to your office and steal them. They sell them at my bodega. I think theyre illegal. Thanks for being with us here this friday night, this friday before the election. Its very exciting. Im very excited. When john f. Kennedy beat
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this. this election season does seem to have brought out more than its fair share of unhinged people. having law enforcement, having deputies at polling places to keep the peace is maybe not a crazy idea. but the other way to look at this is we don t have a great history in this country with armed law enforcement stalking around the polls. right now republicans are waiting to hear any minute from a federal judge who will issue a ruling on whether the national republican party has violated legal restrictions it s been under for over three decades now, restrictions that were put in place because they sent vigilante poll watchers into minority precincts during a governor s race in new jersey in the 80s. armed off-duty law enforcement officers to supposedly protect the ballot. but they stalked around minority polling places wearing guns and intimidated the heck out of voters. the republican party has been banned from election day poll watching stuff ever since