this house and the speaker herself were specifically targets of the defendant. can you definitively say this was politically motivated? yes, it appears as those this was based on his statements and comments made in that house during his encounter with mr. pelosi that this was politically motivated. after years of targeting nancy pelosi with violent rhetoric and imagery, right wing republicans are resorting to vile conspiracy theories and what aboutism to try to downplay their role in the violent attack on her husband. plus, the right wing majority on the supreme court seems poised to dismantle yet another icon of 20th century progress. taking aim today at affirmative action, and surprise surprise, they don t seem too supportive of campus diversity. we ll break down the arguments in the high court today. and how republicans are playing the pundits with skewed polling data, and taking control of the narrative about the upcoming elections. we begin with the latest on
hypered red wave that never came? well, it was a clear strategy to use junk polling to move polling averages, particularly the real clear politics polling average, which is used by a lot of the media to predict outcomes. and what the gop wanted to do was bring about a democratic turnout collapse. that s what happened in 2014, by the way, the reason the republicans did so well was democrats refused didn t turn up because they were i think very unhappy with the lack of progress, particularly on gun control legislation post sanity hook. the gop was trying to do this same thing here by gaming the polling average. the question we really need to ask is why did the media go into this? it was very clear that the early vote was outstanding for democrats. it was also clear for a lot of people who know politics that democrats in 2022, unlike 2020 were actually knocking on doors and turning out voter. in 2020, we did not do that because of the pandemic.
an effort to launder something that matters a heck of a lot more than polls. an unpopular trump saddled republican brand that is consistently rejected when people actually vote by creating this fake appearance of support. obama campaign veteran and friend of the beat chai komanduri says this was a deliberate tragedy by republicans to use junk polling. the goal is not to inflate expectations that cannot be delivered. the goal was to work the reves so people who matter think republicans have more support than they do, act like that, depress democratic enthusiasm, with its drum beat of inevidentability the congress would be lost, the red wave was coming. you heard how they tried to play with you that on fox. we dug more into the archives how it goes from fox to the wider media. republicans are heading into the final five day of the campaign with the win at their
few weeks. now, in six major battleground states, more than half the polls conducted in october have been conducted by republican firms. that means basically we can t trust the data on real clear politics or fivethirtyeight any longer. it s essentially republican propaganda. what it means, i agree with john, we should be focusing on the early vote. the early vote data is telling us we have a lot of people voting. for democrats, across the country, the data is very, very encouraging. i encourage everybody here, if you re geeking out you need to look at stuff, go to the early vote, go to the target early site. it s got great data, every day, to help you understand what s happening with real voters not with pools. to give an example of the. as you tweeted this out earlier, there s a lot of this junk polling, this republican polling that tries to show voters of color are surging toward republicans. there s no reason for them to be doing. it herschel walker, if you look at the percentage