220400 or go to miso book dot com. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. it is a very, very busy news day. thanks for sharing your time. some new cnn polling releasing this hour. it is a sober reality check for president biden. tough performance grades and a big wow on the question of deserving four more years, plus a simply blockbuster blonde bombshell report. get this supreme court justice clarence thomas. did not disclose luxury trips around the world worth hundreds of thousands of dollars paid for by a billionaire, conservative activist and protests and controversy right now in tennessee, three democrats in the legislature could soon be expelled for staging a gun reform protests on the floor of the statehouse, and today they are still making their case for change. we are making this political statement today by trying to act like we re doing something that is not going to do anything to prevent what occurred. more police officers in schools. u
history. it will lower health insurance costs. lower energy costs. i want to take the most aggressive action ever, ever, ever, to combat the climate crisis. i will build the future here in the united states of america with the american workers, american companies, with american-made products, and after years of some of the biggest corporations in the united states paying zero in federal income tax, they will begin to literally pay their fair share. it is not easy and it never has been. but i know with conviction, commitment, and patience, progress does come and is coming now. as much as they chalked up the timing of the event today with the anniversary of signing the act, it is obvious that today was all about the midterms. showing exactly how much democrats have delivered for voters. across the aisle, republicans have a little bit of trouble. this afternoon, south carolina care senator lindsey graham instituted a bill that would prohibit abortion after 15 weeks of pregnanc
how a 2020 campaign will be. if it becomes them. it s way too early to assume that, but we should not necessarily assume that it would have the same outcome. the excitement factor is just not there for joe biden. maybe he can change that. maybe donald trump becoming the nominee could excite democrats. but joe biden has not fired up democrats, so i want to move on to a key republican point in a minute, but this is part of a longer baseline polling. we do several different kinds of pulling. this is a month long look at the america. an electorate to sort of help us understand what s happening out there. so this is what you do, and you re great at it. when you look at numbers like this, and you have, you know 54% of the democratic party, saying somebody else even as the republicans are getting active and busy. you would think that would be sort of the frame moment for democrats. okay? the campaign is starting. he s our guy. let s rally to the incumbent president because there s nobody big
she is incredibly positive as a personality, and she s tough on issues. she knows history. she is not particularly happy about american history going back. but boy is she popular. can she jump in this race at this point? your thoughts. is that reasonable, what michael moore said last night? well, i have no idea. i do know that you and i are on our best day have not exactly gotten 15,000 people at a single book event. maybe close here and there. she is a remarkable cultural and political figure. when she came to nashville here on her book tour, people were coming down the steps of the reimann auditorium after shaking her hand, weeping. it s like they were lords. and i think that s part of what moore might be getting to. people are looking for a miracle in this, because they see trump as such a disease. they see him as something that has to be overcome. and the other thing that i would just say about biden, and the excitement factor is thomas jefferson once wrote a love
told you and a little analysis, if you will, about where we are in the money race. reporter: sure, chris. here s the context particularly as the o rourke campaign views this. they re aware they re coming into this race thinner on policy and accomplishment than some of the other people. part of what o rourke brings is this excitement factor that he can bring now people into the party and raise money. they know they had to prove that on a national stage when he s not just running against ted cruz, someone who all democrats were willing to get behind him and support him. they need to prove that he can raise this money on his own and they think they have done this with the $6.1 million top line number that they released on monday. today o rourke outlined some of how they got there. more than 128,000 individual donations. that s significantly more than they had gotten in any given day during the senate campaign. and then also this number, $48 is the average donation. they believe this sho