himself that is encouraging at the most and at the very least not discouraging this type of violent behavior. this is your piece from the washington post. and you quote an fbi assistant director frank figliuzzi, who says that political leaders, and this is a quote, from the white house down used to serve as a check on conduct in speech that was abhorrent to most people. i see that eroding. the current political rhetoric is at least enabling and certainly not discouraging violence. so the president s rhetoric, the fear-mongering around migrants and muslims, blaming both sides for the violence in charlottesville, how big a factor is that in the surge in right-wing violence? it s always hard to take rhetoric and attach it to a specific attack, for example. but what we know is that the types of attacks we are seeing fall in line with the types of people who have been villainized by this president and his administration as well as the people who are demonized by some of this rhetori
moment is unquestionably driving some of this uptick at the very least. right? that these are folks who have always existed. neo-nazi groups have always existed. anti-immigrant or anti-muslim groups have always existed. but in this moment we ve got a political rhetoric being driven in large part by the president himself that is encouraging at the most and at the very least not discouraging this type of violent behavior. this is your piece from the washington post. and you quote an fbi assistant director frank figliuzzi, who says that political leaders, and this is a quote, from the white house down used to serve as a check on conduct in speech that was abhorrent to most people. i see that eroding. the current political rhetoric is at least enabling and certainly not discouraging violence. so the president s rhetoric, the fear-mongering around migrants and muslims, blaming both sides for the violence in charlottesville, how big a factor is that in the surge in right-wing violence?
their front lawn, but they re going to vote for him privately. a lot bigger than the people at his rallies. i would agree. the thing that would surprise me would be the democrats do not win the house. that would be a big surprise. we re lined up. there s no reason why it shouldn t happen. you re right. he s got this whole investor class, but a lot of those people in his so-called base are now hip to the reality those tax cuts just went to investor class and they didn t reap the benefits of them. fundamental things we re looking at are health care, we re looking at wages, he still is riding a bit of the obama economy. wages aren t doing that well. little britain of a bump. those are every day practical things people are worried about. and add that though all of the fear mongering and the other things he s been saying.
that is a district that could switch from democrat to republican. well, down here in the second, a lot of people are hoping it s going to go the other way around and go from republican to democrat. i m joined by the fritzes. deb, how did you vote today and why? democrat. mostly on moral and ethical reasons. reporter: would you like to define for me, mr. fritz, what does that mean? more kindness, the vitriol that s coming out, the hatred, the fear mongering has got to stop. we have four granddaughters. we want them to grow up in a better world, not what you re looking at right now. the health care is really important. pre-existing conditions is a big issue. reporter: what we re talking about is you cast your vote in this district today, but you re also looking at this nation s capitol when you did it. oh, for sure. reporter: well, that is the news from red wing, minnesota, katy. this voting station is open until 8:00 tonight. they say they ve had more voters
republican turnout was about 24% higher. but listen, i take nothing for granted. i remember that pit in my stomach on november the 9th, 2016. we thought we were going to win and we didn t win. and so when he s out there, and when he s doing the fear mongering and the distracting and the dividing, he s trying to he s trying to, you know, obviously juice his base and get them to turn out. so we can leave nothing to chance. yeah. and i ve just seen too many polls that have showed close races. and you ve got to remember these gerrymandered seated, we not only have to win, we have to beat the spread. that s right, beat the spread. we re not on a level playing field. 40 races are essentially tied in the house, crazy how close this is and how much these next six days matter. tom perez, thanks for being with me. my pleasure, get out there and vote. with me now from one of the upcoming elections, democratic