continuing to take money from the citizens of nevada. you did make it into the debate and there was a question about you in this debate. let s listen to this. people want to know if you engaged in favor buying when you promised political juice to tea party candidate scott ashjian if he should drop out of the race? no, what i offered was the access to government that all people want when they have a representative in the u.s. senate. they want to know that when they come to washington, d.c. they will be heard. they want to know that when they request a town hall meeting that they will be heard. scott, is that what it felt like to you when she made you that offer? no. that is a boldface lie. there are groups to sue me to get me off of the ballot. they know it is going to make a difference. we have been victorious in every lawsuit.
hey, kyra. you re right. we are heading into the final days of the election season. let s start out in nevada where senate majority leader harry reid in the fight for his life and spending $25 million to try to keep his seat. cnn, time opinion research corporation did a poll. released it late yesterday, kyra. this is right off the presses. it shows that reid is losing right now to sharron angle. she is that tea party favorite. where the tea party movement came in and helped fund that campaign. that poll shows reid at 40%. angle at 42%. there is a third party candidate, scott ashjian. he draws 7% in that poll. when we pull scott ashjian out of the equation, though, it s still showing that sharron angle has a two-point lead. president obama is heading out to las vegas later this month for a big rally for harry reid and he is a few democrat who s not trying to distance himself
i can t do that. you can. i should just remember the difference between men and women is that i could you can make fun of that. i cannot. all morning, all morning on it. that was awfully insensitive of this guy, joe miller if she s working all morning on the facebook post. i m sorry. let s go to chuck todd at the white house. nbc news chief white house correspondent seriously, though. i don t support that type of joking at all. i m sorry. chuck todd, you re the co-host of the da the daily rundown. the bp report not great for the white house. savannah guthrie saying the white house was either not contents or not candidate was the report. and the white house firing back and saying the report is extremely pre limb narp and among other things they re pushing back on this. chuck, what s your say?
acting in distress. the whole thing. here is why it s a powerful ad. in vermont where democrats are running against an anti-choice guy, no rape, no incest, no exceptions. what it does is color the candidate s character. people are not going to vote on this issue. they do get uncomfortable with people out of the mainstream. this is an out of the main stream position on the east coast and the west coast. i think it s an effective ad. would ntd spaend whole lot of time and money doing that. that s a devastating ad if you re thinking, if you re mad at the establish mtd and thinking of voting for somebody like carl paladino, especially for women that puts an issue right in your lap that s concerning. that s fascinating, because around the table we were comparing it to the rick lazio ad on the ground zero cultural center which we thought he used a divisive issue. we made the same complaint about that.
out. these things, they re fascinating because it s showing this country is breaking down regionally. democrats are gaining on the east coast and the west coast. republicans are sweeping in the south and the midwest. let s take a look at nevada first. this is the new cnn poll in nevada. republican sharron angle leading senate majority leader harry reid by two points, 42 to 40, well within the margin of error. also the tea party-backed candidate, scott ashjian 7%. 10% polled none of the above. why is harry reid so unpopular in his home state? the truth is that lately, and i don t quite understand this, lately over the last ten years or so, that in the senate they have both sides have gone after the majority leader on the other side. harry reid hammered mcconnell, put in millions of dollars to try to upset mcconnell. they didn t get close but made