the president is the democrat and so you blame him for the hike. you blame him for inflation. you blame him for whatever economic ills that you think the american people are suffering, or you say that they re suffering while not talking about loudly, but we ve seen it, what they re planning on doing if they retake the majority, going after social security, and other entitlements. other things that they want to do it as tax cuts for the wealthy. things that will have a detrimental effect on the middle class, and working class americans. republicans don t want to talk about that, but president biden has actually been on the campaign trail, reminding people, going out for senator rick scott by name, who has been the head of the national republican senate campaign committee. he is the guy who is out there recruiting all of these folks running for senate to try to retake the majority. he has his own economic blueprint that s got nothing to do with anybody else in the republican party, inclu
you have to go after republicans and said these people who are not condemning violence, the history of authoritarianism says that is never going to beat them, but it s very difficult to say that because it has a spiraling set. ruth, thank you so much, always a pleasure to talk to you. and giving us a really add a check on where we are as a country. thank, you ruth. the idea that you think, ruth, it s always a pleasure to talk to you. it s hard, we talk to ruth? we talked to tim snyder, showing freeman in expert and political violence. regularly i had rethought on saturday morning, you had her on last night. we had her on today. there s no business, ruth ben-ghiat has and tv on a regular basis with a book that should not be relevant today. same thing with him, and, and and all of these people. it s a fascinating time in america with experts on fascism, dictatorship, autocracy and
the line of defense, or the one office that were completed. here s a counter to that argument. we talked to someone who says the dogs may prevail over fetterman in pennsylvania. they talk about that. exit josh shapiro, the democratic attorney general is looking likely to prevail over mastriano. why? why is mastriano republicans in that state are backing to shapiro, so why is it so obvious that in a tough state, josh shapiro is leading republicans? is it because mastriano is so odd? so fringe and extreme that in a state like pennsylvania which is a we ve been talking about it swings both ways, and that it s a purple state, and it s proven himself to be a divider not a unifier. that was part of the closing message of josh appear in the end, when he gave the very powerful message that if you
defenders in the senate. i want to start with you, because two of these are places that you have literally just come from, nevada and arizona where republicans are challenging democrats. it strikes me that three of the states that you highlighted are in the mountain west. these are places that have an independent streak, and so you start there is a premise. and then you have something about it, we re talking about the economy and every one of these races. because of that, it relays so heavily on towards, and industry. the industry was hit really hard by the pandemic and there are still a lot of folks that are reeling from that. part of the conversation that s been happening in nevada is that there are folks that may have normally turned out democrat, and the concern here is not necessarily that they were republicans, the concern is whether they stay, which is why you re getting a big effort there. in the case of arizona, it has traditionally been a very close state. you re seeing som
house side, republicans in wisconsin, republicans are one seat away from a veto proof majority. i talked to the democratic leader of the democratic state legislature and she said, look, it s true. we are on the fence right now. we have to continue to fight. people have to show up. they have to vote. because there are seats in the state legislature. democrats in wisconsin have poached to republican held seats. it s not all for not. to say that they are in a comparable situation is not hyperbole at all. i m glad you are in wisconsin. i talked to my colleague friday morning. she s been in wisconsin also reporting on the senate race. she s been covering politics for years, maybe even more than a decade. i ve never seen her more disturbed by what she saw following senator johnson in