studio? i like it like this. is it you doing this? i don t even know. i m a kind of go along to get along dude. i like being with you, so if that s the cost of sharing a studio. we can raise it up, whatever you want. just feet away from each other. i ll just wear a sweater. thank you. have a good evening, chris. thank you for joining us tonight. i m ali velshi in for alex wagner. we re going to warm up in the next few minutes. president biden hasxt released s first campaign ad of 2024. and in that ad president biden makes clear what he believes will be the central issue of thisce election. i ve made the preservation of american democracy the central issue of my presidency. i believe in free and fair elections and the right to vote fairly and have your vote counted. there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement who does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now what will we do to maintain o
that he gets attacked, the reason they try to take him off ballots or the reason that he is under indictment is about people being afraid that he is going to, yeah, disrupt the establishment applecart. and there s there really is a totally different reality that republican voters are living in. for example, we think it is extreme, obviously, that people attacked the capitol on january 6th because of a lie donald trump told about the election being stolen. but when you talk to republican voters as i do week in and week out, many of them take it as an article of faith the election was stolen, that democrats did cheat. and so if you live in that reality all the time, you don t think of trump as extreme, you think we re the ones who are wrong. obviously there s a challenge there for democrats in the election coming up, but for republican candidates running against trump is there any way to break through any of the stuff you re talking about?