democrats election strategy let s be honest. those takes are like searching the edges while refusing to see what is staring back at you and i can assure you, black voters in virginia are not shocked by the so-called youngkin shocker. this isn t about enthusiasm. this isn t about democrats not doing enough to exercise their base, and this definitely is not about messaging or even about beloved. this is about the fact that a good chunk of voters out there are okay with white supremacy. let s call a thing a thing. actually, scratch that. they are more than okay. this afternoon a reporter asked president biden about the results. she clearly understood the assignment. what s your message to voters, especially black voters who sees republicans running on race, education, lying about critical race theory and worried democrats don t have an effective way to push back. speak the truth. layout where we are. some voters are also gridty over candidates that have no business govern
embracing a foaming at the mouth brand of conservatism that includes worshipping the disgraced former president and dismantling democracy and forcing businesses, forcing them to operate on their terms that happened to include opening the doors to the pandemic with the worst of them associating the killer virus with freedom itself. they ve also launched a new national past time empowering anti-vaxxers and anti maskers to mop up and scream at, spit on and attack workers who have to mask up to work. they re not harassing teachers and health care professionals or moms walking their kids to school for masking up to prevent covid. a life does need variation. we now have abortion bounty hunt governor greg abbott of texas banning any entity in his state, including private businesses from mandating covid vaccinations for workers or customers. he s denouncing vaccine mandates as federal over reach while his covid loving side kick florida governor ron desantis is making good on his prom
wideproceeded? many other places, something we should keep in mind here. they are only growing more rabid in our country, includes on politicized turf like governor desantis florida, where the governor has been attacking rules, dr. fauci and masks to protect children. context matters, you hear about this drama, but most people in that conservative state still support cdc measures. a vocal minority, though, is turning from virulent to violent. people making personal threats against school board officials, who are just trying to coop the schools safe, dealing from stalking to direct menacing threats of violence. i don t reject them standing outside my home, i reject them following me around, my car i reject that i need to beg for mercy. they re also going behind my home and brandishing my weapons to my neighbors. they re making false dcf claims against me to my daughter that i have to take an investigator to her playdate, to go underneath her clothing and check for burn mark
even his own party feels the weight. trying to backtrack on his remarks that president biden s unpopularity is dragging him down in a closely watched race. joe johns is in delaware with president biden is spending the weekend, and cnn s suzanne malveaux is following the facebook story. the social media giant does not seem to be cowering. here s what facebook s vice president said this morning on cnn. if you removed the algorithms, which i is think frances haugen s one of her central recommendations, the first thing that would happen is people would say more, not less hate speech, more, not less misinformation because these algorithms are designed precisely to work almost like giant spam filters to identify and deprecate bad content. suzanne, what are lawmakers saying about facebook today? reporter: well, pam, despite clegg s appearances on multiple shows defending facebook s practices, include the suggestion that facebook couldn t possibly know whether its algorithm t
two critical senate hearings are happening now on capitol hill. first up mayokas and f.b.i. director christopher wray are testifying on the threats to america that are now growing. open border will do that. they are pointing to an explosion of anti-semitism we re seeing as well since hamas terrorists tortured, raped, killed, israeli citizens on october 7th. the second hearing defense secretary austin and secretary of state antony blinken also facing questions today for their part on america s response so far to the 25 attacks on u.s. military men and women serving in the middle east. and testimony was just getting underway at that hearing when police had to remove disruptive protestors from the gallery. first it was a woman, just one, and then it was a crowd. stop funding this brutal massacre. israel s genocide is a terrible thing. pray for the children of gaza. cease-fire now. harris: they held up their hands covered in what we assume is fake blood, paint, somethin