part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s
good evening, i m mehdi hasan. we begin tonight in florida. land of endless sunshine, citrus fruit and senior living. welcome to the villages. the florida retirement community is so big it s the same size as the city of gainesville, florida, just off the interstate. also its biggest waco texas and the village is a big deal politically as well. it s a regular stop on the campaign trail for right-wing republicans. donald trump spoke to supporters there in the final stretch before election day. he signed an executive order on medicare there in 2019. while matt gates and marjorie taylor greene took their traveling gave a gifts act there in 2021. when ron desantis said he was stripping disney of his self governing power in the state when he sought to control higher education and when he briefed people on his coronavirus response in 2020, he did it all from, you guessed it, the villages. if something major and conservative politics is happening in florida, and chances are it s happ
straight-up, racially motivated hate crime. now, the justice department is investigating. we ll have the latest. the january six committee slapped five congressman with subpoenas, and more could be coming. former impeachment manager joe neguse joins me live to discuss. a new nbc news poll is that with the latest snapshot of voter sentiment in this midterm election here. senator chris murphy joins me live on set to discuss the democrats agenda. also here, former attorney general eric holder to talk about the fight for voting rights and our democracy. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, we begin with that mass shooting at a grocery store in buffalo, new york, that left ten people dead and three people injured overnight. law enforcement officials have flat out called that racially motivated. the 18 year old white suspect is in custody and appeared at a hearing overnight. according to the erie county da, he is scheduled for a felony hearing on thursday.
discover more small contributors. and while it initially brought in large amounts of donations, it has since stopped. by the end of july, the committee had collected a record $181.5 million. but spent nearly all of it entering august with just over $23 million on hand. today, the nrsc is raising less than before. the first charges levied by the new form election police unit may not lead to convictions after details cast doubt on possible intent. according to court documents obtained by nbc news, officials say that of the 20 people charged with voter fraud, many have said they received a voter registration card from a country from a county rather election supervisors an office and believes they were eligible to vote and others said they only returned registration cards to see if they were eligible to vote. additionally, there is confusion
voter fraud at the villages. in central florida. he was announcing arrests that were made in heavily democratic south florida, part of a crackdown by his controversial new election police unit, created to pursue donald trump s false claims of the stolen election. didn t donald trump win florida? yes. red state, right there. which means that desantis is instead pursuing people who genuinely did not realize they do not have the right to vote in florida. people who apparently wasn t aware, ramona oliver wasn t told restored voting rights to most former felons in 2018 does not apply to convicted murderers or sex offenders. desantis added to the confusion when he implemented a poll tax of sorts. requiring ex felons before being allowed to vote. sure, you could say those are people who committed a murder