Good morning. It is saturday, september 14. Im Alicia Menendez with Symone Sanderstownsend and michael steele. The postdebate lift in fullest fact as the Harriswalz Campaign goes on offense across the country. How harris is making the impression. In the meantime, the Ex President Cannot Stop Spreading Lies and conspiracies. It is having a realworld impact on refugees. Democratic congressman Joe Neguse joins the table. Grab your coffee, settle in. Welcome to The Weekend. Election day is just 52 days away. The time to reach voters is now. This Week Alabama became the first state to send out absentee ballots. This coming monday, in person early voting kicks off in pennsylvania. Vice president Kamala Harris kicked her new Way Forward tour in North Carolina with stops in pennsylvania yesterday. You know, in the midst of this moment where there are people trying to divide us as a nation, trying to make people feel small, these are moments that remind All Of Us that we are all in this togethe
New swing states horse. She sat down for an interview with a local News Station to make her pitch to undecided voters. The vast majority of us as americans have so much more in common than what separates us. And i also believe that i am accurate in knowing that most americans want a leader who brings us together as americans. Who is trying to have us Pointing Fingers at each other. With 52 days until election day, the pressure is on for the Vice President to both reintroduce herself to persuadable voters and draw a sharp contrast between her Agenda And Donald trump dark vision for america. Joining us now, the publisher of the bulwark and podcasts and serves as Executive Director of republican voters against trump and Tim Miller, msnbc political Analyst And Writer at large at the bulwarks. Welcome to the table, bulwarks. What do you think of the term undecided voter . Especially in this moment . Look, i know a lot of people think undecided voters are real but there are a couple types of
Democratic efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back republican support in 2022, end quote. At this surreal headline in todays paper, the party of lincoln and reagan now formally and publicly holds the position that the deadly mob of people trying to overthrow the u. S. Government consisted of, quote, ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. In case you missed that. The official position of the rnc now is that legitimate political discourse is what happened on january 6th. A day in which resulted in the deaths of at least five Police Officers and multiple insurrectionists including one who was shot and died while attempting to forcibly breach a barricaded area of the capitol building. According to the rnc, legitimate political discourse now includes publicly chanting a desire to hang the former Vice President mike pence. It also includes bringing a preconstructed gallows along. Ive never seen a gallows in my life, not in america. The rnc
Democratic efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back republican support in 2022, end quote. At this surreal headline in todays paper, the party of lincoln and reagan now formally and publicly holds the position that the deadly mob of people trying to overthrow the u. S. Government consisted of, quote, ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. In case you missed that. The official position of the rnc now is that legitimate political discourse is what happened on january 6th. A day in which resulted in the deaths of at least five Police Officers and multiple insurrectionists including one who was shot and died while attempting to forcibly breach a barricaded area of the capitol building. According to the rnc, legitimate political discourse now includes publicly chanting a desire to hang the former Vice President mike pence. It also includes bringing a preconstructed gallows along. Ive never seen a gallows in my life, not in america. The rnc
Said she condemned mcdonalds saying, as americans, we must acknowledge those tragic events, we cannot allow a false narrative to be created. We cannot allow the calling it legitimate political discourse is wrong. She clarified, the violence at the capitol, is not legitimate political discourse. She was talking about the bogus claims, and the fraud that had been the foundation of the republican party, since election day 2020, they are not legitimate political discourse either. Meanwhile, the New York Times has new details about the january six committee, and how it has adopted prosecution tactics, in conducting its investigation. The committee does not actually have any power, to pursue criminal charges on its own. But, it is clear that its members understand the high stakes of their work, and ultimately, want accountability. That it is why, it has been aggressive and relentless in its work. The committee has interviewed nearly 500 witnesses. It has issued more than 100 subpoenas since