Good morning, it is saturday, march 9th. Im jose diazbalart in this morning. Welcome to msnbcs Special Coverage Of Decision 2024. Super tuesday was four days ago and The General Election is in full swing. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, joe biden and donald trump will face off again in november. Both are making a second bid for the term in the white house. President biden was endorsed this morning boy the three largest Political Action committees representing asian americans, black and latino communities. Trump is also trying to consolidate his support within his party. This week, he received endorsements from key republican holdouts including Mitch Mcconnell who threw his support behind the former president just moments after nikki haley dropped out on wednesday. President biden made pointed remarks about trump during his state of the Union Address on thursday night and he continued his criticism in a Campaign Stop in pennsylvania last night. Folks, our freedoms really are on th
Class than the republicans are. The republican nominee has run a very personality centric campaign. She has talked about her career as a farmer, her career as a military veteran, someone engaging, someone using her personal biography in a very significant way. That is an advantage she has. Host steve in pennsylvania. Independent caller. Isler the media in general not keeping up to speed and neither are the candidates for the democratic or the republican parties, keeping up to speed with what is going on with the silent majority of the independent voters which is considered one third of the voting electorate. A very bigsue is thing in pennsylvania and a couple of other key states for the senate races. The opinion is being thrown out on the television by the media, they have not even affected the people on the streets. The street talk with neighbors and stuff like that is that the obamacare is also killing the middle class, especially in our area. I know of seven neighbors they cannot ge
President s term . Independents. All others. Send us a tweet. You can go to facebooked you can also email us. Start dialing in now. First the column for the Washington Post says the president should listen to the criticism. Writing in his piece this morning that, that anyone that knows leon panetta cannot be surprised if he has written a candid and insizive memoir. Goes on to say at the end of his column that panettas book is not the first time hes expressed frustration. A year ago, he lamented the changes in the culture of washington that he has seen. He says there was plenty of blame to go around. And today says there are many ways to convey a message to a pet he says. But sometimes a public bracing can be more effective. Main message is that obama will need to change. Restrictions sense to engage are no longer options. Frustration with Congressional Republicans or the political process or the culture isnt either. At this point, as panetta says, the jury is still out on obamas legacy
Higher education. Appreciate it. Guest it has been a pleasure. Host that props up cspan bus s big 10 college tour. If you missed any of them, go to our website, cspan. Org. That does it for todays washington journal. We will see you back here tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. Eastern time [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] than four weeks to election day. Coming up a bit later today, maryland congresswoman Donna Edwards headlines an event on diversity and elected officials. A number of other specialists who study under represented groups. A part of the forum at the center for american progress, we will have that live at 12 30 p. M. Eastern. Our campaign 2014 coverage continues with a week full of debates. Tonight at 7 00, live coverage of the pennsylvania governors debate between republic governor republican governor tom corbett incumbent and tom wolf. Then live coverage of the Illinois House debate between the 17t
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