you also go out to l.a. some people are waking up this morning good morning, l.a. a lot of people waking up in los angeles, and man, i m hearing the same thing. under the radar, very under the radar, but you ve got so many lifelong democrats. i was out in l.a., i heard one after another after another, what do you think about the race? what do you think? almost like they didn t want to admit these lifelong democrats were voting for the former republican. yeah. they just kept talking about crime, crime. yes. everybody, every democrat, whether they re in l.a., whether they re in new york, whether they re in washington, d.c., they all have a story about somebody getting shot in their building, somebody getting shot on a, you know getting shot wherever. it s permeating, again, not, like, right-wing republican household. democrats are talking about it. everywhere. yeah. look, i mean, my hometown and
have to be careful in how we do this. right. so it just gets me in my gut as we think about this. we have to be careful how we do it. we also have to remember the poll, again, we ve been showing, and the poll that it s not a republican right-wing talking point to talk about crime exclusively that black americans, black democrats overwhelmingly see crime as a top issue. . what did shapiro say? be safe, feel safe. be safe, feel safe. okay. nbc news political analyst susan del percio, thanks for being on this morning. we ll continue this conversation. coming up, white house chief of staff ron klain will be here as the administration makes its closing argument before the midterms. plus, the fed announces an interest rate hike as weekly jobless claims remain low. cnbc s steve liesman will join
nevada. putting on a master class. how you do that. i m better than he s got all the stuff going because he s that combination of folksy, not professorial, but he talks like a human being, funny, does it with a smile. but the way he integrates those issues, defense of democracy, the economy, crime, the whole thing, that s what democrats haven t been great at so far. let s watch that right now. here s president obama in arizona. here in arizona, there s no question that that katie hobbs opponent, she s good in front of the camera because she s been doing it for a long time. right? some people don t know this, but apparently kari lake actually interviewed me back in 2016 when i was president. she was she was a local news anchor. she was doing her job. at the time, i don t remember thinking that she was the kind of person who would push
does two things at once you were talking about, yes, he s concerned about the conspiracy theories and democracy. he also talks about crime. he also talks about inflation. willie, he s good. he s really good. it gets to this question that democrats have been beating themselves up over or should we auk about democracy or the economy. do both. do both at once. shook up. just walked in and sat down. that s awkward. he fell off the turnip truck, come straight out of the circus. i ll tell you what else that shapiro thing brings up, which you talked about earlier in the show, and a lot of discussion, he ll run for president one day and has his eyes on that prize. the rise in anti-semitism is one of those things that, you know, is always in the background of this thing. this guy who was the first someone who s taken quite seriously as someone who could
came out and said what do you mean perception? they are data deniers. what do you mean? drilling down yesterday she was talking about murders and shootings down 14%. one category. grand theft auto, robberies, assaults are all way up. subway crime, 26 people pushed on subway tracks is all way up. 26 in 2022. who knows how many attempts weren t reported but there aren t enough cops because they cut it from 4,000 down to 2,000. so all of this stuff. she said well i was talking about murders and data deniers for people to bring that up. when zeldin got is mark penn, a clinton pollster that wrote a profile to say zeldin has a shot. why would glenn youngkin come yesterday and ron desantis to get here on saturday and 12,000 packed a long island parking lot