now. we are rocking it. they re throwing grenades, shooting people with paint balls but we re in here. be safe, be safe. god bless and godspeed and keep going. get it, jess. do your [ bleep ]. this is what we [ bleep ] lived up for. everything we trained for. we begin tonight on the start of hispanic heritage month, when americans are supposed to celebrate the culture and contributions of americans with ancestors from mexico, the caribbean, and central and south america. it was president lint lyndon johnson who created hispanic heritage week after appealing the most xenophobic anti-immigration law. today, while many americans are honoring those hispanic contributions, last night, florida governor ron desantis had a different idea. proudly taking credit for sending two plane loads of latino migrants to martha s vineyard in massachusetts. roughly 50 venezuelan and colombian migrants, many fleeing venezuela s maduro regime, said they had gun from san francisco, texas, wher
this hour. right now election battles are underway in two of the biggest states. these are really important primaries happening today in new york and in florida. they are out voting. reporters are fanned out in each of those states. bryan llenas is here in new york city. phil keating is on board in florida this afternoon in the sunshine state. brian, what s going on in new york? martha, good afternoon. all eyes are on new york s we drawn 12th congressional district which pits two democratic leaders against one another and what has been a personal and nasty clash between once friends. representative carolyn maloney going against jerry nadler. now, maloney has questioned whether sadler is senile. maloney says she s the female candidate needed to protect abortion rights. nadler has called her gullible and cowardly for voting for the iraq war and patriot act. i m the principled progressive. i cast hard votes, unpopular votes that have proven right like voting against the war
of the cat skills. while most new yorkers will be voting in the primary, others will be voting in a special election for the house seat vacated by tino delgato after he was appointed governor. so why this race, especially because it s for a four-month term? this is because it s most potent, for economy and crime or abortion and democracy, what ryan is running on. the democrats are hoping the closer-a than-expected red districts, along with the resounding defeat of the anti-abortion measures are not one-offs. the hard-and-fast rules don t see so hard and fast. look at our survey conducted august 12th through 16th. threats to democracy has overtaken cost of living as the most important voter issue. president biden s approval numbers are still stagnant and modern history tells us the only time the party in power gained seats in the mid term is when the president is overwhelmingly popular, clinton in 1998 and bush in 2002. but even among exception, this is an exceptional time, th
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