Everyone, and thanks so much for joining me this afternoon. Im jessica dean in for Fredricka Whitfield and americans now have a clearer view of what the 2024 Race For The White House will look like this weekend. President biden and former President Trump traded sharp jabs at dueling rallies in the battleground state of georgia, which holds its primaries on tuesday. Biden won georgia in 2020 by about 12,000 votes. And the state will once again be key to winning the white house in november, trump used his rally to mark biden, State Of The Union speech tonight to go, we all heard truckee joes angry, dark, hatefilled rant of his state of the Union Address wasnt it didnt it bring us together emerging border, bring the country together . Im going to bring it together. Its not an age thing. Its a competence thing he didnt White House Reporter Priscilla Alvarez is joining us now and priscilla, you were at bidens rally on saturday in georgia what is his message now as this General Election gets
As he hits the road. And we turn our focus to this general election. Well, just these dueling rallies certainly provided a window and what were expected to see in the months to come between President Biden and his republican rival, donald trump were the president ticked through multiple themes over the course of his remarks to a rowdy audience. But one of the prominent themes and one that his Campaign Launched on was protecting democracy. And on that front, the president kicked off his remarks, talking about Donald Trumps coziness to authorities, syrian regimes, and also making clear that its a stark contrast between him and donald trump. Take a listen my lifetime has taught me to embrace The Future Of Freedom and democracy and trump and i have a very different value set of an obvious already biden is based on core values of the defined america. And the rest of the world looks at us that way decency fairness, equality were all know donald trump sees a different america and american sto
cultivate the taylor swift voting demographic. this is one of the more popular entertainers musicians, and the world right now and it comes at a time where both candidates are also fighting for that younger vote for the younger generation some trump s supporters may already be skeptical of taylor swift and her politics in january pro-trump broadcasters and politicians put out conspiracy theories implying that the nfl had rig games and favor of the kansas city chiefs to promote swift and travis kelce and give them a platform to endorse president biden, none of which, of course, was even remotely close to being true wealth. how instrumental has taylor swift been in getting out the vote? this is why the biden and trump campaigns both want her on their side, wolf last year in september, she put out a message on instagram asking young people to register to vote according to tracking agencies. as a result of that in just one day, about 35,000 people registered to vote. that s h
Congressman, let me start with you. you ve been fighting this for a long time, before americans knew this was a thing. this idea of creating an environment and support for people to vote who either hadn t traditionally voted or have faced things that made it harder to vote. people ask me, how is this racist? how is this bad? if the same rules my to everybody, why are these changes proposed in texas bad for voting? that s part of what is so pernicious about this. this is all taking place under the guise of standardizing our elections.nahi woptial who could be against that? we might have asked the same question about ourselves 100 years ago. won t that my to everybody? how many gumballs are in the jar?
Won t that my to everybody? how many gumballs are in the jar? what we know is that these are all efforts at suppressing the votes. not all texans in our state but certain texans and historically that has been black texans, more recently, latinos and other communities of color. we see it in big cities like the metropolitan county, harris county, where judge hidalgo has done such an extraordinary job, for republicans and otherwise. it is a piece of the big lie and what happened on the 6th of january. this effort to change the rules of our elections to be able to consolidate the hold on power republicans have in states like georgia and florida. it has passed the house of