Announcer tonight, on late night with seth myers Stacey Abrams. Creator of david byrnes america utopia, david byrne and all new closer look. And all new closer look. Featuring the 8g band with sonny emory. Now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth myers and this is late night. I hope everyone is doing well tonight. And lets get to the news. Well just this week we learned that women received unnecessary hysterectomies at an i. C. E. Detention facility the attorney general called for demonstrators to be charged with sedition and the white house wanted to use a heat ray on Peaceful Protesters to clear the way for a photoop i think at this point even queue is an undecided voter. Thats right federals officials reportedly considered deploying a socalled heat ray that makes targets skin feel like its burning, in preparation for clearing a peaceful protest across from the white house in june. Apparently, they decided the ray was too much after testing it on steve bannon looks like the heat r
Campaign committee. She joined the organizations executive director to talk about the democrats strategy of winning house seats in the 2020 elections. Hosted by the american universitys women and Politics Institute this is just under an , hour. Betsy we are delighted to have with us this evening congresswoman cheri bustos of , illinois. She is currently the chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Congresswoman cheri bustos of illinois. She is currently the chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She has served four years in the house and in her previous life, she spent nearly two decades working as a journalist. With18, she was reelected the largest victory for any democrat from a district which trump won in 2016. We are delighted she is with us. Thelso have lucinda guinn, executive director of the d triple c since september of 2019. She is the first latina to hold that position. Previously, she was Vice President of campaigns at emilys lis
Betsy we are delighted to have congresswoman cheri bustos of illinois. She is currently the chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She has served four years in the house and in her previous life, she spent nearly two decades working as a journalist. With18, she was reelected the largest victory for any democrat from a district which trump won in 2016. We are delighted she is with us. Thelso have lucinda guinn, executive director of the d triple c since september of 2019. She is the first latina to hold that position. Previously, she was Vice President of campaigns at emilys list. And she worked at the dnc, so she has now come full circle. Were going to talk about their efforts to expand their House Majority and build on the success we all saw in 2018, year of the woman. They will give us the landscape, how it looks now, then i want to go through some of the Democratic Women to watch in the districts they are targeting. The bottom of your screen, you will see a a
We are delighted she is with us. Thelso have lucinda guinn, executive director of the d triple c since september of 2019. She is the first latina to hold that position. Previously, she was Vice President of campaigns at emilys list. And she worked at the dnc, so she has now come full circle. Were going to talk about their efforts to expand their House Majority and build on the success we all saw in 2018, year of the woman. They will give us the landscape, how it looks now, then i want to go through some of the Democratic Women to watch in the districts they are targeting. The bottom of your screen, you will see a ask a question send a so feel free to question. It is always my favorite part of the evening. So we hope you fill that out and ask a question. If you want to watch any of this then, the replay will be on website. With that, welcome. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having us. Betsy congresswoman, the red to blue program, can you give us a sense of what that is and why it i
trump s meddling in the 2020 election, a deep rural urban divide and unending drama between the trump wing of the republican party and the local gop establishment. it s on those last few points where tonight s results will give us some important answers potentially to these questions. what is the power of a trump endorsement these day, and does the big lie have staying power here? the republican schism over those two points are at play in the republican gubernatorial primary right now. current georgia governor brian kemp fighting to keep his seat, keeping it from trump-endorsed former senator david purdue. both of them were on the campaign trail last night. purdue has the backing of the former president. and kemp last night on stage with former vice president mike pence who fell out of trump s favor himself after, of course, january 6th. now, whoever wins that race will face off against democrat stacey abrams in november. she held an event in the last 30 minutes and said this