please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusual stak
and i mean club quite literally, because they have signed pledges. that may sound extreme, but nordquist s powerful groups has won that policy battle in his party. a conservative activist named grover nordquist. americans for tax r, noted for the afternoon-tax pledge. he also has the hear of powerful golf leaders who won t act unless he s signed off. he s an libertarian ideologue, that believes washington is controlling our lives. we want it down to the size, to where we fit in the bathtub, and then we can worry about what we re up to. joining me is wilbur
democracy. meanwhile, obama s closing argument went back to some issues that haven t dominated the biden discussion social security, medicare, protecting them. some in the gop are running on that vow, even if it sounds unpopular. to also be fair and precise, other republicans say that will not be their immediate priority if they win back congress, but in politics, as in relationships, one of the best predictors of long-term behavior is long-term behavior. reforming or capping social execute benefits is a long-circulating request on the right, gordon nordquist has been shaping the gop s shift from skepticism into this current era of a militantly committed, strongly enforced anti-tax club,