lost its mojo, that they ve blown a historic midterm opportunity, that all because their primary winners were just terrible. you do have republican nominating, shall we say, flawed candidates. herschel walker in georgia, j.d. vance in in in ohio, dr. oz in in pennsylvania. what looked like a wipeout for democrats in the fall is maybe not going to be so bad because of the candidates. republicans are nominating. walker can lose ause, can lose, johnson can lose their bad candidates so smug and so wrong. liberal super pacs even helped boost the so-called election, denying republicans the primaries with the thought that they d be easier to defeat in the general elections. well, even our own senate minority leader joined the pig pile against his own party, trying to tamp down his party s expectations by blaming the populace. the maga folks. there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than some senate races are just different or statewide. candidate quality has
her pay and saying it s not a salary increase. in the midst of crime rising to alarming rates. none of our political figures deserve raises. rachel campos-duffy down in del rio, texas. rachel: joe biden says our border is secure. raise your hand if you say our border is secure. all right. there s your answer on that. ainsley: capitol hill is going to continue to stay cloudy there today. 60 degrees is your high. so take a sweater. ainsley: i m going to washington after the show. we are celebrating mary s birthday. ainsley: we are so glad you were born ms. mary. happy birthday. steve: what would be interesting though because peter will be there, too. i wonder at what point peter will start to pick up the bill. he is a grown up and has a job. ainsley: never, not when your dad is there. steve: you are probably right. somebody who knows about parenting is rachel campos-duffy. she is live in del rio, texas. and today, because so many people are worried about
trump s feud a statement congratulating elon musk on twitter. he said his account will be back on monday. that does it for, as we will see you again tomorrow, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening alex, it is candidly night here at the last word. we have senator mark kelly from arizona, katie hobbs running for governor of arizona, governor kathy hochul of new york running in new york, beto o rourke running for governor in texas. they all have one thing in common. one very important thing in common. every one of them is running against an election denier. the republican candidate for governor in new york voted to overturn the presidential election as a republican member of the house representatives. that is how pervasive this is on the republican party. you cannot escape it. greg abbott, kari lake, these are important names to remember as you talk to the candidates that he will have tonight. lawrence, that is a great
faced before in this country. it is the most important election of our lives because the losers of this election might not just be candidates. we might actually lose democracy and this election. and then maybe you will be relieved of ever hearing again that this was the most important election of your life because the election will not matter in the future because america lost democracy in 2022. in the 2020 election, we did not know before we voted that democracy itself was at stake. there was some rumblings about republicans in some states thinking about how to deliver their electoral votes to donald trump even if he came in second in that state. but there were no legal mechanisms for them to do that. those scenarios were always legally impossible in 2020. but the republicans running for office now want to create legal processes for stealing elections. let me say that again. because that sentence has never been an element of american politics before in our history. republica
crash saying republicans will crash the economy if they win control of congress in 12 days. plus the january #th committee closing in, new this hour, the key testimony the panel is pursuing which could be its final act. the new data that should quiet questions about the u.s. in a recession but can it stop the federal reserve from a new big hike in interest rates. hello and welcome to the lead. i m john berman, 12 days left until the midterm elections and president biden is sharpening his closing argument. you re looking live pictures talking about his administration s toefrts get the economy back on track, he s expected to poimt to new data showing that economy bounced back in third quarter and it grew at an annual 2.6%, biden has called the economy strong as hell and he s trying to convince voters who believe the opposite that democrats should stay in p power. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is live on the scene in syracuse, jeremy, what can we expect from