they ve hurt. character matters. herschel walker is not only not ready to be in the senate, he s not fit. i m going to stand before you and say his a marxist. he believes in abolishing the police and the court system. we have an extremist on one side and an ohioan on the other side. tim ryan is running a campaign that his own record shows that he doesn t believe. this is possibly the lost election in our lifetime if we don t elect the right people, if we don t stop the election deniers. they close our businesses, defunds the police. it s not just about protecting a woman s right to choose. it s making sure everybody has a right to vote. the democrats have tried to blame other people for their policy failures over the last few years. guess what? there s no one else to blame. martha: so that was adam laxalt. he s looking to flip the nevada seat red. that would be a pickup for republicans. he s up against katherine cortez masto who has been closing strong accor
52-38 on the economy in the abc poll. on inflation, 50-38. on crime, 54-34. these are issues that are pretty closely matched. what is interesting to me, education and the schools is 44 republican, 47% democrat. that s a big shift. this used to be a big advantage to democrats and melted away. and threats to democracy. some people say one party rule like we ve seen the last couple years is a threat to the future of our country. some people in the hispanic community and particularly in florida are saying, i think the democrats are going too far to the left. i don t want socialism in our country. the issue that works for the advantage of the democrats, 37% republican and 50% democrat say that democrats can handle the abortion issue better. the problem is of the issues tested in the abc poll, it s number 6 in importance. even less so when you try to isolate it like in the gallup
martha: former. obama echoing what many in this party have claimed will happen if certain republicans win their races tomorrow night. when true democracy goes away, we ve seen throughout history, we ve seen around the world, when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real consequences. this is not an abstraction. governments start telling you what books you can read and which ones you can t. dissidents getting locked up. reporters start getting locked up the they re not toeing the party line. corruption reigns because there s no accountability. martha: so this is a theme that we have heard from a number of democrats and also from someone who is close to the white house and is a historian. here s what michael said and then we ll bring in ronna mcdaniel.
american people. martha: it s interesting that this is a big part of the closing argument. when you look at how these voting-related issues that would fall under that broader category of presuffering democracy, they don t rank to the top of people s concerns. it raises questions about their political tactic here. doesn t it? it does. they keep using this denier phrase. listen, the democrats have been inflation deniers. they have been crime deniers, fentanyl deniers, education deniers literally as they kept our kids out of the classroom. we re seeing the deficits. they won t even acknowledge the pain and suffering the american people feel because of their policies. they could have unleashed american energy. they can shut the border, stop these drugs from coming across. they could have said instead of funding 87,000 irs agents, let s get more border patrol. let s make sure we have more teachers for kids with deficits. they re the ones denying that
enemy of the people. i m telling you, what i see here parallels to what the history was back in the 1930s. martha: he did not back off of that. he stood by it. so i asked of him voters, if they decide to vote for you but the other side of the ticket that they are somehow responsible for giving a rise to hitler or something that happened in the 1930s germany? i reminded him, democrats spent more than $40 million getting people that they consider extreme through the republican primaries thinking that they would be better candidates for democrats to take out. so what responsibility do you bear to getting some of those people on to the general election ballot where a lot of them have a good chance of now winning? democrats play this game, republicans play this game. when you enable with your dollars to get those people there, you can t decry if you vote for them you re trying democracy. in nazi germany, you couldn t