culture rages and florida where matt books are ludicrous lee being accused of advancing critical race theory. and from the congressman who resigned after a felony indictment to the utah senator who helped trump overturn that election, how republicans get away with nonstop scandals by just flooding the zone. when all in starts now. good evening from washington d.c., i m mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. nearly seven years ago, donald trump entered the race for president. he came down that gold escalator a trump tower and proceeded to defeat 16 eminently qualified candidates, including senators, governors, and even the brother and son of a president. he read them all and took over the republican party. and then his presidency was a total car crash. he led republicans to defeat in the house in 2018. and then lost the senate on the presidency in 2020, making him the first president to lose all three in a single term since herbert hoover in 1932. now, you would think that after a
being accused of advancing critical race theory. and from the congressman who resigned after a felony indictment to the utah senator who helped trump overturn that election, how republicans get away with nonstop scandals by just flooding the zone. when all in starts now. good evening from washington d. c., i m mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. nearly seven years ago, donald trump entered the race for president. he came down that gold escalator a trump tower and proceeded to defeat 16 eminently qualified candidates, including senators, governors, and even the brother and son of a president. he read them all and took over the republican party. and then his presidency was a total car crash. he led republicans to defeat in the house in 2018. and then lost the senate on the presidency in 2020, making him the first president to lose all three in a single term since herbert hoover in 1932. now, you would think that after all of that, the republican party would want to rid itself of
herschel walker at this point. but he has helped us distill a trend growing clear for decades among the gop. for republicans winning is the only thing. that s about blunts, unambiguous message conservatives have conveyed to the american people this week as they closed ranks i m around a man whose alleged life choices so thoroughly and fundamentally contradict the values they purport to stand for, it actually boggles the mind. the most recent development, the new york times reporting that the same woman who alleged herschel walker paid for her abortion in 2009 also alleged that walker urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years ago, or two years later, excuse me. herschel walker has denied those allegations, saying he has never paid for or pressured a woman to have an abortion. this october surprise, which at one point would have ended other candidates chances, just didn t seem to matter to the right wing. we are full speed ahead in georgia, said the president of mitch
up with been told go to college, get a job make a living. frankly, that s just not realistic for a generation. it is really frustrating, the boomers think were lazy, you know the whole term pull up your boot straps and work hard, to get the same life they had? no, the world is very different these days the next pandemic in 2025 might wipe this all out anyway i have no time to wait for retirement you ve got to will it into existence life just not fair, the world is a hot place, and the stock market which is the purest form of yolo. short sellers continue to get hurt by wallstreetbets. it s making me sick. this is populism coming for capitalism through gamestop. on the surface i can be pretty scattered. in the water though it s coming for me. because you re seeing everything is quiet. you hear your bubbles, you hear breathing. and you just hear the water around you. i don t give a shit about risk. i was deployed to the middle east, we were doing anti-terrorism force p
They picked somebody else. yeah, i think exhibit a would be donald trump. that guy lied his way through life and then when he got into office, nothing changed about what he was doing. matthew, let s talk about the election rigging and denying. this, obviously, is an existential threat to our democracy, to our country. this is far worse and then just supporting a bad candidate. this is potentially killing our democracy. yeah, it s a lethal to our democracy. if this is allowed to occur, we don t have a democracy anymore. if these people win secretary of state and attorney general and governor, in some instances, like pennsylvania, who gets to appoint a secretary of state, we don t have a democracy. if they can decide what the will of the people s no matter what the voters say in the course of this. i think it s incredible, incredibly relevant fluttery, this is, in where we are today. to me, this isn t fundamentally about what trump says on the lies he tells, and the crazy herschel wa