Wow the official clincher for joe biden and the cases momentum is pointed in the right direction. Then. Every single penny goes to the number one and the only job of the rnc. Electing donald j. Trump. The unexpected hollowing out of a Major Political party. And the infatuation with strong men. Nobody is a better leader than viktor orban. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. It is Election Night in america. Did you know that . And President Biden just clinched his partys nomination. Joe biden is indeed official. The presumptive nominee. Within just a few minutes of polls closing in georgia, the president secured enough votes to cross the threshold for his partys nomination. It has been apparent since nikki haley dropped her bid that 2024 would be a rematch between donald trump and joe biden. But tonight, that is expected to become all but official when both candidates cross the Delegate Threshold set by their respective parties. For the republican nomination, donald trum
chief? can he have control of nuclear weapons for another 14 days? that s the kind of question that americans have really never had to ask about their president, certainly in my lifetime. in that moment, they face a choice, republican leaders. are they going to go along with the easiest direction for their own political base and reach an accommodation with donald trump and try to avoid open conflict with him to the greatest degree possible or are they going to try to leave or tell their own voters, we know you still like the guy, but we have to go in a different direction now. looking back from a place where we are now, it can all seem fore ordained. at the time, they really did face a choice, and some of them truly contemplated a liz cheney-esque break from donald trump. they just didn t follow through. everything was up for grabs in the hours and days after. it was like access hollywood in the fall of 2016.
conclusion is fore ordained. i think we re in a tough time here. we need to stand up for democratic institutions. that means congress. that means the states. here they were talking about seizing voting machines from the states, the party that refuses to even pass a voting rights act that will defend everybody s right to vote is perfectly content to go along with a president who is willing to deploy the department of homeland security or the department of defense or the department of justice to take voting machines away from the state governments. it s just extraordinary. but, sir, as unethical or as awful as it might be, those republicans don t want to support voting rights legislation because they wanted to win in the midterms and going forward. right now, are you concerned that time is running out, we haven t gotten the big reveal, and even if we do, if people don t tune in and don t care, what rules are being changed to protect us from someone like donald trump trying to do this
believe me. this is a bloody, difficult and tragic and painful history that we ve lived through and are living through. but we can t give up. democracies are the exception, not the rule. there s nothing fore ordained about the ongoing success of the american experiment. and there are a lot of folks who wouldn t even argue it s been a successful experiment. i disagree with that. but i understand those who see the country s history as fundamentally flawed. of course it s flawed. history is all of us, right? what is a democracy but the fullest manifestation of all of us? and so we have to do everything we can to press on. well, jon, we love having you, especially when we can hear
says a lot because they want to confuse the issue, which is why we are talking about all sorts of mud, as phil brought up. he is absolutely right. and the president, for all you could say about the president. phil knows this well. he is in constant contact, almost hourly contact with people on capitol hill. and not with one person, not with two people, with a dozen or so members of congress on capitol hill who he trusts and who channel his feelings and his emotions and his strategy and bring them into the halls of the capitol. there is good and bad with that obviously. there is some upside. there s a lot of downside when you have members of congress looking to police him and listen. phil is absolutely right, the result here is ore-ordained and the president has made a calculation and we will see if it s a good calculation or not. he has decided to not take the powers afforded to him, which is to defend himself. he was offered a route to defend himself. he declined. he said the process