the president makes it official. he s running for re-election. we made a lot of progress. let s finish the job. most voters think he s still better than the alternative. plus historic testimony. this is an astonishing moment in our legal and political history. like pence testified before a grand jury investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election. are prosecutors moving closer to indicting the former president? and desantis versus disney. the days of putting one company on a pedestal are over. the would-be presidential candidate may have picked a fight he can t win. so why doesn t he just let it go, let it go welcome to inside politics, i m manu raju in for abby phillip. this morning president biden wakes up marking the end of his very first week as an official 2024 candidate. biden launched his re-election bid on tuesday setting up a battle which he must convince voters that he deserves to remain in the white house for another four years. now
new reporting of yet another child pleading for help. and one of the nba s biggest stars said he takes responsible and now wants to make amended for pushing an anti-semitic film. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. five days until the midterms and president biden warning that democracy itself is at stake. in a subppeech just blocks from where the violent mob stormed the capitol, the president told the country we can t take direction for granted any more. make no mistake. democracy is on the ballot for all of us. we must remember that democracy is a covenant. we need to start looking out for each other again. so white house aides tell cnn the president s speech was in part shaped by the alarm that he felt about the violent attack on nancy pelosi s husband. that suspect has another court date tomorrow. today joe biden will be taken his message on the road at a rally in new mexico this evening. and donald trump also ret
History, let us commit and we ll be a nation that will embrace light over darkness, truth over lies, and finally, finally, finally, restore the soul of the nation. here-here. now let s discuss all of this and more with our great panel. heather cagle, new york times national political reporter and the host of the run up podcast astead herndon and cnn s number wiz harry enten and eve a mckend. thank you all for joining us. biden s campaign message, here is basically, i m better than the alternative and look at how the new yorker puts it in their headline, joe biden s 2024 opening argument, it is me or the abyss. he s not talking about what he ll do in the next four years. but he s trying to say he s warning about his opponents. is that a winning message here?
Uncertainty about whether he will slow down the process or any others critical of this but they do expect to get the votes but it could be bumpy until next week. it is good to see you. thank you very much. appreciate it. and let s go to georgia for a moment. where early voting continues and early voting numbers continue to break records. more than 300,000 people cast ballots yesterday. that is an all-time high for early voting in the state. eve a mckend live in georgia for us once again. you re also in greensboro where herschel walker is campaigning today. what do you see there? reporter: well good morning to you, kate. i want to begin with the numbers because what is happening in is this state is really quite remarkable. more than 500,000 georgians have voted so far. that is between the early in-person voting days and those absentee ballots. i was speaking to a woman in atlanta yesterday, and she told me she couldn t believe that she had to vote again. that she essentially just
Just discussed suggests the tide turning away from democrats. is anything working against republican momentum right now? yeah. so, you know, obviously we ve talked about the house but let s talk about the senate. candidates still matter. look at the net favorably ratings for the key states. arizona, georgia and nevada and pennsylvania. they re all under water. all of them have higher unfavorable rating anz the question for me is can the bad gop candidates kind of blow it for the republican party. because it is right there for the taking. but the fak that these candidates are alike, they could lose the senate. it is good to see you, harry. thank you, appreciate it. let s go to battleground georgia, all of the races are out in a big way today. eve a mckend has more on the closing message to voters. reporter: in georgia this year, a fierce match-up between