a reminder that election date is november 8th, everyone. chris, thank you as always. thank you. thank you for joining us at home tonight. we re just two weeks away from the midterm elections, in the battle for control of congress in the state houses could really could not be closer. polls have been tightening for weeks, as republicans have edged into democratic gains that were made over the summer. tonight, debates just wrapped in races for your governor and the senate, we ll have much more on that. but before, that it s worth remembering exactly how we got, here considering how much of a rollercoaster of electioneered s been. remember a few months ago on june 7th, when the city of san francisco shocked the country, when it recalled its progressive district attorney. the campaign against him had framed his criminal justice reform platform is somehow soft on crime, provoking backlash among san franciscans. that local election in blue california, was held up as a canary in
literally not be closer. polls have been tightening for weeks, as republicans have edged into democratic gains that were made over the summer. tonight, debates just wrapped in races for new york governor and the senate, we ll have much more on that. but before, that it s worth remembering exactly how we got, here considering how much of a rollercoaster of an election year it has been. remember a few months ago on june 7th, when the city of san francisco shocked the country, when it recalled its progressive district attorney. the campaign against him had framed his criminal justice reform platform is somehow soft on crime, provoking backlash among san franciscans. that local election in blue blue california, was held up as a canary in the coal mine for democrats. the party, according to them, had a crime problem that republicans would seize on in an election year, when that already favored republicans. and here were some of those headlines. progressive backlash in california,
category is not as a weak person. no matter what his recovery process looks like, the man does not look enfeebled. he doesn t, and actually, it s very interesting, because i was thinking about that tonight. so much of the initial attack that i was made on fetterman, about crime, has to do with his work on the pearl clemency board, and granting clemency, including to two brothers who work on his campaign now, who are wrongly convicted and served 27 years for murder that they did not commit. and it has nothing to do with, sort of crime statistics around the country, it is truly a bait and switch argument that is rooted in a lie. fetterman, himself, has actually been very friendly, and pro police, i think more pro police than a lot of progressives would like him to be. but it is also true, that we know that a right-wing, no matter how dishonest, and no
experience with a deep belief and every individual states right usually, a state is not involved in the decisions made between the patient and his or her doctor, therefore the statement he had a weird medical practice, apparently. one more, rebecca, the crime piece. you bring up fetterman s background which a lot of people don t really understand vis-à-vis crime. and the ways in which oz is trying to tether federer men s vulnerabilities to also being soft on crime. do you think that is any more an effective line of attack, given what we know of fetterman s background, and the person he is, just sort of category is not as a weak person. no matter what his recovery process looks like, the man does not look enfeebled. he doesn t, and actually, it s very interesting, because i was thinking about that tonight. so much of the initial attack that i was made on fetterman, about crime, has to do with his work on the pearl clemency board, and granting clemency, including to two brot