council to senate majority chuck schumer, her instagram account emily in your phone, posed by the curtain on politics. tim miller, and of course msnbc contributor and dear friend to the show. tim, with all that we have learned about the selection, with all that we have learned about how unfit for office herschel walker is, can you explain to me how this race is this close? well we ll see if it s close, stephen a, i guess next week it might end up being all that close. i think here s why the first round was close, i can explain that for you. brian kemp won by almost double digits in the governor s race, and you know, cam for all fair criticism about his policies, do the right thing and came to the democracy issue, not going well with the stop the steal. i think that garnered a lot of trust from people in georgia who used to be republicans. let s remember, this is georgia. barack obama, as good as he is there on the stump, lasorda both times. this has been a red state all
chuck schumer, her instagram account emily in your phone, posed by the curtain on politics. tim miller, and of course msnbc contributor and dear friend to the show. tim, with all that we have learned about the selection, with all that we have learned about how unfit for office herschel walker is, can you explain to me how this race is this close? well we ll see if it s close, stephen a, i guess next week it might end up being all that close. i think here s why the first round was close, i can explain that for you. brian kemp won by almost double digits in the governor s race, and you know, cam for all fair criticism about his policies, do the right thing and came to the democracy issue, not going well with the stop the steal. i think that garnered a lot of trust from people in georgia who used to be republicans. let s remember, this is georgia. barack obama, as good as he is there on the stump, lasorda
who says we need a dictatorship. so, election denial on this scale, right, a third of the house creates a culture that leads to being open to autocratic transitions. dean, and joe biden, towards the end of his campaign, the midterm campaign said we can t keep democracy for granted anymore. number there is a good deal of criticism about both biden and democrats, leaning into the democracy issue. last couple of years will be what i am a kitchen table issues and inflation and things like that, how do you see. answer the battle cry the democracy going forward, it can force americans who are struggling with other things sound one note like to talk about democracy being in peril. i think most people understood that inflation is temporary, losing democracy as permanent. i think that is what trickled through, president biden, twice,
midterm where the gop was predicting a red wave or tsunami of republican victories? obviously, that didn t happen. it is of enormous significance. there have only been three prior midterm elections in the history of the country, in which the party holding the white house has faired well. so the democrats really have achieved an historic victory, going against the conventional wisdom, because we have these powerful winds blowing the other way of the abortion issue and the democracy issue. look, here is the big picture. it s easy to point a finger at donald trump. that is superficial. the problem from the republican party runs from the bottom right to the top. these election deniers and candidates with extreme views are not contrary to the main stream of the republican party.
and maybe charge people with crimes. that s not something that people think of. this is a state that has the highest second covid death rate. and immigration very much in the desantis vein. she supports the hillsdale curriculum. pretty far right curriculum for our schools. there s all that of that at the policy level. and then there s the democracy issue which for us in arizona is an issue on every race in the statewide ballot. it s the reason we have reporters from all over the world in arizona right now covering this election. i want to make a point of this, let me run a clip of kari lake that will allow me to make that point. kathryn, roll that tape. i know for a fact we will no longer accept rigged elections. who s with me on that? we have a wide open border, cartels are in control. we have illegal president biden who is allowing it to happen but the fake news wants us to think