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you. i m mehdi hasan. just like daylight saving time, showtime this sunday. special addition of the mehdi hasan show. alicia melendez she will be with you from 7 pm eastern for a special two hour look at the math dash to election day. that is where we begin this hour, with the question of whether american democracy will and/or. in two days time, the biggest test yet of this great american experiment, if you think election day is just about the next two years, think again. also tonight, young voters, there are 8 million new eligible voters this time around. joins may live tonight to talk reproductive rights and why it is nonsense to say this election is pitted between abortion and the economy. nothing short of a national emergency. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. this is a perilous and precarious time for american democracy. the future is on the ballot in these critical midterm elections. over the weekend in key swing states like wisconsin, the final early voters were ....
work. rachel: i ve told them what i want for my birthday. will: is it happening? rachel: i want carrie lake lighting in the studio. can we get that? will: i thought that was a request for sean. come on, duffy.y. rachel: i love her and i love the lighting. rachel: she s paving the way for good lighting and that s a good thing for her people. todd: she s doing well in the race and that s because people are freaked out about the southern border. take a look at numbers. this is astounding and migrating encounters year over year and pop this up on the screen. fiscal year 20, fiscal area 19 under a million and that s during the trump administration and look what happened during fiscal year 21, which is predominantly biden administration and look at fiscal year 22. almost 2.4 million migrating encounters year over year and not to get into the political part of this right off the bat and mentioned carrie lake at the outset, if i m undecided and i live in arizona and i m not ....
And if you are in the majority then the leader becomes the speaker. steve: right, exactly. nancy pelosi has not anowptioned her plans. clyburn has not announced his plans. steny hoyer has not announced his plans. behind the scenes, they re all in their 80 s. unless they win they are probably on the way out. who would take over? well, right now working the phones extensively hakeem jeffries from new york state and also adam schiff is going out and buying people bunch. hey, come on over. how about if i m the guy in charge. pete: really? steve: yeah, adam schiff. pete: if that s who they choe that will tell you a lot. adam levin on where we are. the democrats and the media are celebrating. what are they celebrating in the red wave, it never happened. it wasn t going to happen. they are delooting themselves. ....
Because trump will burn down the party. before he goes away. and he ll burn down whoever is standing next to him. on the podium, on the debate stage. no matter what. an enormous beat donald trump. you have to go hammer and tong. you can t be nice about it. you have to mean about it. you have to run ads that trigger him. a few years ago. about two years ago. and no matter what happens, we re going to end up with 20 or 30% of the republican base hating your guts. even if you do manage to beat trump. i would make a point of what you re just talking about. i think the democrats were little complicit in the red wave. yeah, i think that s fair. for three reasons. one is, they re genuine fare of what happened in 2016. secondly they wanted to scare their voters and showing up. third, they want to lower expectations. ....
Tonight, i want you to picture this scene as i take you to a post midterm future. it s january the 5th of 2025. by now, you know what that means. it s the date legally mandated by the electoral vote act and codify d by c u.s. e15 for congress to be in session to count the for president of the united states. as a matter of course in his country, a rubberstamp, essentially, what basketball players would call a layup. golfers would call it a gimme. no big deal. on january the 6th 2025, 119 congress meeting, for years on from a violent insurrection. you want to imagine that republicans now control both the house and senate, having taken control of both chambers in the red wave of november 2022 and having easily kept hold of them in november 2024. it is not too difficult to ....