gravity. the democrats started off as underdogs. then they had to contend with a string of really bad luck, part of it just the end of the pandemic s worth phase. getting back to normal, they were lingering supply chain issues from the pandemic, led to concerns that very well-documented baby formula shortage. those supply chain issues were also one factor in a record high inflation, which again, was afflicting basically every country across the world. but, you know, you can t tell voters, well, everyone is in the same boat. it really did seem poised to be the single undoing of the biden administration. pardon of that inflation where the enormous high gas prices. another issue for incumbent democrats. republicans, again, this is a political layup. taking every opportunity to talk about the price at the pump and how it s democrats fault. of course, part of the reason gas prices were so high is the biden administration was trying to contend with the largest land war in europ
reproductive rights were very much on the ballot. a strong indication that as some of us were trying to tell y all, the supreme court nuking abortion rights has shifted the mid-term election to democrats. val demming is taking on senator marco rubio in florida. also tonight, new reporting from the washington post on trump s delay tactics as the government tried to retrieve classified documents that were improperly in his grasp. president biden makes good on a campaign promise and as a result millions of people will get badly needed student loan debt relief. we begin the reid out tonight with a game changer for democrats. now if you hear a giant sucking sound, it could be the wholesale deflation of republicans hoping to gain control of congress this fall. after tuesday s election results in new york and florida show that their planned red wave in the november mid-terms could be looking more like a red wheeze. the biggest sign of the night, the special election in bell we
nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. march for your life rallies are scheduled for today. some locations underway right now like in d.c. rally-goers reknewing cries for addressing the gun violence epidemic after a series of mass shootings and cnn is covering events across the country and i want to begin with brian todd at the capitol. hi, brian. things are just kicking off where you are? reporter: that is right, amara. the crowd gathering, several hundred strong with the riser and with the white house in the background. we ve talked to several people in the crowd about the general mood as we come out of the horrible shootings in uvalde and buffalo, and it is the mood of being fed up with the gun violence taking place in the country. especially lately. four years after parkland, a lot of them feel like enough is not being done. rackon brown is about to get up here and speak in a few minutes. and he s a survivor of gun violence in d.c. we should add. what is the message t
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threatening. spaces online and real life where conservatives feel they get shut down for voicing unpopular views and where political correctness and wokeness force them to walk on pins and needles or just keep quiet for fear of getting cancelled. to put it mildly they don t like safe spaces, okay, they really, really hate them, but what s happened on the right and specifically inside the republican party in the last couple of decades is that their sense of victimhood and frankly fear and rage at an increasingly diverse country where they aren t automatically at center of everything, where other communities have gotten a chance to be focused on, like hollywood and books and in the culture and have elected political leaders who look like them, president obama, kamala harris and the guy recruited on to the bad list for being associated with both of them, joe biden. their anger has frankly corroded into something more like hate. to the point where they, even as the my north. only