Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. I m rachel maddow. Let s get right to the week s top stories. The past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the race. Kamala harris and tim walz doing the standard campaign work for a major party candidate. They kept an even keel at the sitdown interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there, honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in masses of its own making including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting through it. The fallout continues from trumps a political photo op and campaign commercial on tiktok at arlington national cemetery at the beginning of the week where he gave the thumbs up over the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of this. He cut a video blaming their deaths on democrats. Now, his campaign is openly doing battle wi
good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart alongside my colleague ana cabrera. for a second hour of coverage, donald trump back on the attack after beating nikki haley in the new hampshire primary. haley insisting she will not drop out with her focus now fixed on her home state of south carolina. but first, the race heads to nevada. this is an unusual one. why trump and haley won t be competing there head to head. meanwhile, president biden easily wins new hampshire s democratic primary. we got exclusive new reporting that he could pick up a major new endorsement as soon as today. and today, former president donald trump is now one step closer to the republican nomination for the white house after winning the new hampshire primary. trump s victory marks the first time a nonincumbent republican swept both iowa and new hampshire since 1976. his opponent former u.n. ambassador nikki haley by 11 points. but minutes after the race was call
lows and he shared a compilation of the barrage of threats of violence his office is receiving. we ll describe it as deeply disturbing, but worse than that. here s just a snippet of what they posted. . going to come protest in front of your house this weekend. we know who your family is and we re going to get you. the wrath of the lord god almighty come upon you, your health, your family, your home, your livelihood, and i pray if it be god s will that you suffer. you and liz cheney can both go to hell. we re going to get you. coming to your house, son. going to get you and liz cheney. going to get you two little [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] we re going to get you. so against the backdrop of a campaign by extremists to literally intimidate kinzinger, cheney and all of their fellow january 6th committee members into submission, house republicans are now plotting to do the ex-president s dirty work out in the open with what can only be described as a disinformation campaig