Go for it. Bill makes you think about Election Night more than two months ago when david perdue in georgia fell by 3 10 of a vote to avoid a runoff. This is the payoff. Dana a lot of republicans didnt show up to vote. Thats what happens. More on this with Newt Gingrich in a moment. Griff jenkins live in washington will they go it alone . I think they are. Dana. Happy friday. Looks like a purely partisan path. History was made when Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaker advancing the 2 trillion relief plan. The yays are 50, nays are 50. The senate equally divided. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. This after 15 hours of votearama The Republicans forced a majority to add amendments. More than 850 were filed. In the end 41 roll call votes were taken. Among the ones that passed joni ernst to prohibit increasing the minimum wage during the pandemic. Another blocking Illegal Immigrants from getting Stimulus Checks as we
vote to 74.2 million, but the democrats raised their vote to 81.3 million. so it is an open question right now whether they can maintain that same level of excitement. now, our plan, the plan we ve been talking about is working, but the angle has been saying since 2020, we have to do better with harvesting and early voting to match the democrat efforts. by no means should we underestimate the democrats ability to turn out more votes than they have in recent history. right on cue, georgia democrats are now suing to open up early voting on saturday of thanksgiving weekend. there s this interpretation of a rule now saying that the working people of georgia cannot vote on saturday, despite saying just days ago that counties could hold early voting that
was a huge and vital and important part of our family here at msnbc, doing something that was easy for him but hard for the rest of us, offering his staple direct, no-nonsense interviews and always asking all of his guests the hard questions. in his new memoir, this country: my life in politics and history, chris matthews charts his american story through his life and career, talking deeply with abiding faith about where we ve been and where he hopes we ll go. given the ongoing conversation on this program and over the last two hours about the insurrection at our nation s capitol, i want to read this from chris s new book. no one could have truly foreseen how badly the presidency of donald trump would end. after losing the 2020 election, trump tried every legal and pr trick he could to overturn those results. well past the ratification of the vote in the electoral college on december 14th, he continued to insist to his 74.2 million voters that he had won in a landslide.
devastation and the economy and religious nationalism, they are very real and impacting 140 million people. let me put that into context. our 39 million children in poverty, 74.2 million women are in poverty. 26 million black people in poverty. but, 66 million white people in poverty. 40 million more than the number of black people in poverty. i am from the south jonathan. one-third of that 40 million is from the south. low wages and lack of healthcare states. most of the people are being heard in the states they are getting elected are poor, white people. we are bringing all of those together, latinos and asians and saying we are in a moral crisis and we can t have another season