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and he s asking why republicans won t ban assault weapons. and another justice department deadline, the government s response to a federal judge is due today. prosecutors hope to make the case that they were careful and that there s no need for a special process now to sort through the documents seized from donald trump s home. and a noteworthy maga makeover. house a denier scrubbed his website that a the 2020 election was stolen. the president of the united states enters the campaign fray in a few moments. he will leave for pennsylvania for a planned speech on gun violence. the president will suggest republicans have little standing to talk tough on crime if they keep bowing to the gun lobby ant your votes. and the president is in one of those places that will tell us a ton come election night. in pennsylvania s eighth congressional district. you see the red from 2020. donald trump carried the county. this congressional district, if you look in here, the eighth congr ....
President. absolutely, john, and a battleground within a battleground. that perfectly captures exactly the kinds of districts that democrats are eyeing so closely as they try to minimize the potential losses in the house of representatives heading into november and you re absolutely right that there is an ongoing debate as to whether president biden himself is a political asset, it of course depends on the race itself, where in the country he is traveling to, but i can tell you what is coming into clearer focus as the days go on is his political messaging and a big part of that messaging is to draw a contrast and paint the republican party as antidemocratic as being an extremist party, as standing for unacceptable policies so when we see the president speaking in pennsylvania later today, we are going to hear him talking about his support and the democratic party support for law enforcement. in part we re told by bringing up the january 6th insurrection efforts and then also on the ....
Within the margin of error, but there s a strong sense that mark kelly on the democratic side is, you know, feeling safer than he was a few months ago. and i think to jeff s point, we are going to see in race after race, not just the senate race, not just senate races, but in race after race, scrubbing of websites. the problem for these candidates is going to be just like journalists have screenshoted pages beforehand, so has the democratic party spent months tracking what these parties are doing, it s all going to appear in ads, all of it, particularly on the abortion subject. deleting things or rewriting things does not make them disappear in the digital age if you haven t figured this out just yet. the new york times reporting the campaign arm of the republican party canceled $8 million of television and digital advertising last week citing the inability of him to win a race. that is why the next ten weeks ....
Scheduled to campaign. i was driving up there and he got covid that day. so that s why this is a rescheduled speech. but they could have done this speech anywhere. they re doing it for a reason. this is the time of the map which you said we love. location, location, location. pennsylvania is absolutely the center of this midterm election campaign. house races, governor s race, as well as the senate s race, of course. one thing that history is not a guide for this i think in one respect is that we ve never had a president who is so who is occupying the same space as a former president. there has never been one in this case. now they re using it to their advantage. there s no question that president biden has long wanted to move beyond the trump era. he s not wanted to make january 6th the centerpiece of his agenda. but now they re using it as a moment to draw a contrast. so a midterm election is often challenging for a president party because it is a ....
Are so fascinating in the sense that forget what people thought two months ago, wipe out completely what they thought four or six months ago, you look at arizona, democrat thinks, okay, i might hold this, nevada, the democrat is in play. you look in pennsylvania, democrats say, the senate map has changed. but republicans do know that their pathway to victory in the senate includes arizona and that s why they re not pulling out advertising completely out of that state. we also saw that one nation which is affiliated with the senate leadership fund today go up on the air with new ads. that was part of a previous ad buy. there s another ad going up. they re not fully pulling out of the state i m told by republicans. it s a state that they know that they need to continue to play in partially because of what margaret said, the polling is still really tight in that race, it s a competitive race and it will be in 2024. when it comes to money decisions, we re ten weeks out. watch them now. ....