About this. some have done it well. i think the folks in michigan have done it well, which is a bright spot election night i think for democrats. but many have not. and they followed traditional consultant model which is look at the polls, the number one issue is inflation we need to talk about inflation, playing right into my view, the gop playbook. we ll see on election night. i think this is one election i have never seen. i have no idea what s going to happen, nicole. a few hundred thousand votes are going to determine who holds the senate, who holds the house, and who holds key statewide offices in our country and whether or not democracy continues or is pushed over the edge into something else. it s going to be a fascinating night. i wish the democrats had spent and done more of their time in state by state on this issue. i wanted to do two pieces of business. to matt dowd s point i got the first excerpts from the speech, i m going to go through them
One more candidate for you. go ahead on any thoughts now that you ve seen some of the speech. well, the words you have is exactly what i was hoping he would say, which is connect the dots in all of this. i mean, i when pollsters even ask about it, you look at all the polls, most of the pollsters don t ask about threat to democracy, don t list it as a issue. when they do it s the number two issue, the number one issue to democrats. it s number one, more than inflation, jobs, choice, the number one issue among democrats when they do ask about it. i hope it s a visceral thing where he says if you care about the economy and equity in the economy, democracy is the only way to preserve it and not reward people s friends which is what happens in an autocracy. if you care about medicare,
Americans and say, look, i m an american for all of you, even the people who didn t vote for me. you hear the president in the speech, the line that got to me the most this is not an ordinary year we re not casting a vote for democracy usually. it s the people trying to tear at the foundation of our democracy that we should be wary of. this is a continuation of the theme the white house has been trying to lean into, while also balancing what is record inflation, including global issues with inflation. but the idea there are a lot of people in this country worried about pocketbook issues and surviving and trying to balance that, which is why you see democrats and republicans as well. but a lot of democrats in particular talking about inflation, the economy, and trying to say, by the way, you have to be worried about what s going on with democracy and sort of the real threats here. when i watched president obama, it reminds me of why when i talked to democrats who talked to president oba
Next to a very conservative republican, one liz cheney. it was liz cheney s first time ever campaigning for a democrat. she made the case we can no longer look at elections like we used to. we have to walk away from politics as usual. we have to walk away. we have to stand up, every one of us, and say we re going to do what s right for this country. we re going to look beyond partisan politics. if the people in our party are not doing the job we need to do, we re going to vote for the people in the other party because we are americans above all else. the urgent and important need to defend american democracy at the ballot box next week is where we begin the hour with moderaor of washington week yamiche alcindor and cornell and matt. i want to show you one more
Stolen election, all of it, all the way down the line. the new york times adds this detail about paul pelosi s attacker, which suggests that what happened on friday could have been much worse if it were not for pelosi s courage in the moment. the attacker told the police he had other targets. a local professor and several prominent state and federal politicians. the attack on paul pelosi and what it reveals about the threat to american democracy is where we begin. luke browbutter is back, frank figliuzzi and miles taylor is here, former chief of staff at homeland security. luke, the times is out with the great reporting i read from. as the investigation enters its fifth full day, the facts make