and if you are still at home hanging out with your family, they say now is the worst time to leave. between 2:00 p.m. ea and 8:00 tonight. let me tell you. nobody is going to find an empty middle seat next to any ea of them on those planes, that s for sure. hank you, adrian. a historian who accurately predicted nine of the last 10 elections has some thoughts about president biden s election. what he htis saying whether bid should stay in the race, coming up in just a few minutes. a day to all of you from msnbc world news headquarters. welcome to alex witt report . we begin with breaking news the decision 2024 with president biden arriving just a short while ago in harrisburg, pennsylvania, for a campaign event. he is in that battleground state just eight days before the republican national convention kicks off in milwaukee. and 43 days before the 43 democratic national convention in chicago. president joe biden taking the fight to stay in the race to the battleground st
force 1 and flew to palm beach, florida. president trump: thank you, thank you very much. thank you. crowd: [we love you.] president trump: thank you very much, and we love you. and i can tell you that from the bottom of my heart. this has been an incredible four years. we ve accomplished so much together. i want to thank all of my family, and my friends, and my staff, and so many other people for being here. i want to thank you for your effort, your hard work. people have no idea how hard this family worked. they worked. and they worked for you. they could have had a much easier life, but they just did a fantastic job. i just want to thank all of you, everyone. i want to thank mark meadows, who s here someplace right there. i want to thank mark. but it s been been something very special. we ve accomplished a lot. our first lady has been a woman of great grace and beauty and dignity. crowd: thank you, melania.] president trump: and so popular with the people. so popular wit
perks that presidents get once they leave office. professor, good morning. guest: it s great to be with you. host: many of us know professor lichtman from the election season where he correctly predicted the outcome of all of the u.s. presidential elections since 1984. but he s not here to talk about how you get into the white house, he s talking to us about what happens to presidents and the perks and benefits they get once they leave. so let s get into it. what type of benefits are presidents entitled to once they leave office? guest: until the former presidents act of 1958, the answer was nothing. there were no perks and benefits afforded once a president left the white house. andrew carter at one point offered to endow a pension fund for former president s but that never got off the ground. in 1958 there were a couple of former president to live like herbert hoover, who was a successful is this man did not need help, but harry truman was struggling, financially. that was
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days of the projections we have for you at this hour starting in kentucky with 8 electoral college votes they go the way of donald trump that is exactly as we would expect but just have a look at some of the detail on it of the popular vote and it s solid isn t it 53 percent with 14 percent and this is just how to understand it even with 14 only 14 percent of precincts reporting it is enough for us to be able to make a solid projection for donald trump also looking at vermont which is going to the column of joe biden the 3 electoral college votes which the democratic candidate pretty much always gets at this time of the night and just running through a few others now the polls are close but that doesn t mean we can actually decide at this point indiana too early to call in indiana with its 11 south carolina as well if it s 9 it s too early to call as is virginia more on offer in virginia 13 that should be blue when the time comes but it was a swing state in past years and fin