New york. Nine weeks to go until election day, folks. Nine weeks until today and one Week Today to what may be the only President Ial debate to transpire between donald Trump And Vice president Kamala Harris. And then, of course, the start of the socalled final sprint to election day, which finds two President Ial diameter rickly opposed, polar opposite camps. She wants to turn the page on a dark and dysfunctional past decade in politics, her campaign has been met with obama levels of enthusiasm among voters, her rallies drawing massive recordbreaking crowds, her campaign enlisting an army of volunteers, racking up endorsements from all across the political spectrum, as politico reports today, quote, the Vice President has flipped the enthusiasm gap, the Money Gap and the Polling Gap in her favor in the six weeks since she replaced president Joe Biden as the democratic nominee. Now, the other person on the menu behind Door Number two, a candidate who is unable to land on an effective l
we are less than a week of nate from entering a presidential election year. and if i had to choose just one thing the republican front runner said this year, i think we should carry over to the next year, just one thing from 2023 that tells us everything we need to know about the upcoming election, well, it would probably be this. under normal circumstances you are promising america tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except on day one. he s going crazy. except on day one. meaning? i want to close the border and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quip that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself has continued to promote t
and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quid that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself had continued to promote the idea that he will be a vengeful dictator in a second trump presidency. over the holiday weekend, he shared this image of a word cloud put together by the daily mail. the image was based on a survey of what voters sent about trump s ambitions for a second term. and you can see that the most popular responses, the biggest ones represented in the middle r, power, revenge and dictatorship. revenge being the most devoted. that is the image that trump himself wants to cultivate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, an image she wants to promote, eve
and yes, it coincides with ugly rhetoric from former president trump and others linking the coronavirus and china as the pandemic worsened across our country. one group tracking anti-asian hate say they ve received some reports of 3,800 incidents with over two thirds of the attacks reported by women. today the vice president, president, atlanta s mayor all condemned such crimes. whatever the motivation here i know that asian-americans are very concerned. we ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple of months and i think it is very, very troubling. i do want to say to our asian-american community that we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked and outraged. this is an issue that s happening across the country. it is unacceptable. it is hateful, and it has to stop. just today the director of national intelligence, the dni, released a new report about extremist violence compiled with the help of the justice
with him to his defense, but as politico reports today, pence s allies long believe trump played a role in the strategy and indicated trump was frustrated the justice department intervened to defend his vice-president against gohmert s suit, but unknown how involved he was in trump s legal strategy. representative jamie raskin called it a significant detail in that it was part of a plan to isolate and coerce pence. joining our conversation, carol lennig, author of the book i alone can fix it, georgetown law professor, both nbc contributors. so carol leonnig, when i read this, and i remember covering the gohmert suit at the time and i think there was a lincoln project ad that a lot of folks thought put it on trump s radar