Im john berman. Im michaela pereira. It is 8 00 a. M. In the west. At this hour, millions are bracing for yet another blast, a bitter blast of cold weather. Not as bad as the polar vortex episode we saw last month. Still, cold enough to get our attention and your attention. That arctic air is hitting the minnesotas and dakotas today and it rolls east. Temperatures are expected to be below zero in parts of the north and below freezing in the south. It has been a bad winter in the south. Forecasters are not expecting any big snow or ice storms. The growing controversy swirling in arizona. They are urging the governor not to sign a bill that critics would say would allow businesses to discriminate against gays. They say it is all about freedom of religion, including one state senator who has some bold statements. You will hear from him in a group behind the build in a little bit. Some outrage from the states only openly gay legislate tore. If the arizona bill becomes law, the top cop ther
194 1984. Not even Ronald Reagan did as well as george w. Bush did in 2004. Heres the next number, next data point. 31 is how much of the latino vote that john mccain got in 20 20 2008. Mccain did a big about face on issue of immigration during that campai campaign. He started out leading the push for a path to citizenship and faced a revolt. His own plan to a path for citizenship, then after doing that he got only 31 of the latino vote and he lost the election to barack obama. Okay. Third data point. 27 . 27 of the latino vote is what mitt romney got in 2012. Just 27 . Its very hard to win a president ial election when you do that badly with members of such a big group, so romney, like mccain, lost the election. And, again, i dont know if you can call three data points a ski slope. But this downward slide, from that 44 that bush got in 2004, to the 31 that mccain got in 2008, all the way down to the 27 that mitt romney got 2 years ago, that is not the kind of pattern that any Politica
Thats how much of the latino vote that john mccain got in 2008. Mccain did a big about face on the issue of immigration during that campaign. He led the push for the path to citizenship and then he faced a revolt from the right. He disavowed his own plan and then he only got 31 of the latino vote and he lost to barack obama. And then 27 , 27 of the latino vote, thats what mitt romney got in 2012. 27 . Very hard to win a president ial election when you do that badly with members of such a big group and so romney, like mccain, lost the election. Again, i dont know if you can call three data points a ski slope. But this downward slide from the 44 that bush got in 2004 to the 31 that mccain got in 2008, all the way down to the 27 that mitt romney got, thats not what any Political Party wants to see. In the case of mitt romney in 2012, theres a reason theres very little question why it happened. Theres a reason why it happened. The reason has to do with this. He had spent the republican pri
All of that is ahead tonight. But we begin tonight with the 2020 candidates who were back out on the trail today after a fiesty combative debate in detroit where the night two democratic contenders whacked each other over the heads over their differences on policy and over each others records. Vice President Joe Biden and senator Kamala Harris were teed up to battle right from cue 1 over their health care proposals. Julian castro took aim at the obama biden administrations record on deportation. Tulsi gabbard attacked harris on her job as prosecutor in california. Senator booker and biden got into a Heated Exchange on their respective criminal justice records. For the second time this cycle, biden was tagged, this time by Washington Governor Jay Inslee over his vote for the iraq war. If youre detecting a theme here, yes, the frontrunner was a pinata last night but he was not alone of the at times it seemed like candidates were debating not just bidens record, but also the record of pre
Impact in kentucky. Welcome to thursday. Good evening, im chuck todd here in miami. Weve got a lot to talk about tonight. The president is right now en route to cincinnati where he will be holding his First Campaign rally since his infamous send her back chant rally from about ten days ago. All as the president continues to stoke racial divisions ahead of the election. The president just spoke to reporters about those chants and his attacks on congressman elijah cummings. This comes tonight as the gloves truly did come off, yes, take the pun and smash it in the head, but that is what happened last night in this democratic contest where we have entered a new phase in the contest. Hand to hand political combat. And the big question for democrats right now is this. Is joe biden up for it . He had a chance to take command of this race, and he didnt. But he didnt crumble either. His performance last night, though, was, frankly, a bit uneven. A lot of democrats watched biden last night the w