the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. our top story is about this push that we need in america, the push for accountability as we face political lies and violence. so let me start here tonight. do you remember where you were when joe biden beat donald trump? do you remember how that entire race came down to that official call on the weekend? there was rejoicing. there was spontaneous crowds gathered in the nation. people making their own signs, walking around. it was kind of a big moment. it was unlike as a reaction, any recent president losing an election. do you remember the road to that call? because the election actually took several days to be formally resolved, but the key to that resolution i m about to show you, when the writing was on the wall, was when trump lost a state that he almost certainly needed for any hope of victory. it was arizona. among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornac
admitting their poor messaging are hurting their election chances. i m a loyal democrat but i am not happy. we did not listen to voters in the election. when voters tell you over and over and over again they care mostly about the economy, listen to them. john: democrats are not just bickering with each other over canned goods, but also canned lines on the campaign trail. no more drilling. there is no more drilling. i haven t formed any new drilling. sandra: that happened yesterday. bronxville, new york, the president promising again to put an industry out of business and enraging a senate in his own party. we ll see if the administration will try to walk back the president s remarks as we await the white house briefing this hour. john: also, mike roe is here to weigh in how the mixed messaging is affecting american workers. sandra: and newt gingrinch is here with some messages from 1994. john: on the ground in one of the senate races that could decide it all, pe
Dr. Mark Schulman served as Time magazine’s pollster for almost ten years, and he worked on the ABC News Election Decision Desk for many years. Dr. Schulman became President of the American Association for Public Opinion Research 2002. He co-founded one the nation's largest public opinion/survey research firms, Scientific Research Based Interventions or SRBI, which is now part of Abt Associates.
among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornacki, people counting every state, everybody knew, you lose arizona and you re donald trump, you re the loser of the race. and it was actually an arm of fox news, not tucker carlson, not the hosts being sued for defamation, which i ll get to, but something they have over there called their election decision desk, which when it came to the fateful arizona decision, well, they made that call. the fox news decision desk is calling arizona for joe biden. that is a big get for the biden campaign. big indeed. that call decimated the reality based wing of the trump campaign, because those numbers showed it was over, and now for the first time we re actually learning about back room deals at the highest levels of that losing president s campaign and fox news who you just heard make that call. and we re only learning about
some in nevada and arizona. the two states are the toss-ups, 2 of 4 toss-ups we are watching, particularly watching nevada, cortez masto against laxalt, obviously incredibly close race here. of the four toss-ups talking to our election decision desk, looking more and more like it could be moving in the direction of the republicans, and the key race in arizona, toss-up, both toss-ups of the four, obviously these could determine control for each party in the senate. mark kelly trying to hang on there, blake masters making a run, so razor thin, these, the margins in these races that this is going to be what it could come down to election night, closing 9:00 p.m. in arizona, at nevada, 10:00 p.m. john, if i can bring you in here to look at nevada, hospitality is a big one, reno and las