it s important for history to talk about who he is, but i commend you for doing that. my heart is hurting. everyone i spoke to today, their heart is hurting, and they feel helpless. i m going to talk to the audience about that in just a little bit. but we ve seen this all too often. yeah. you know, anybody at home can probably remember the names of the killers in columbine but not necessarily the people the names of people who lost their lives. i feel like that s the case for a lot of mass killings in this country. we all focus on the shooter, and people learn that person s name, and they want that. they want that kind of attention. i think it s important to report on them and their motivation and everything about them. but i just don t think we should give them that kind of extended coverage. and to call listen, we have to call it what it is. that s our job without fear or favor. but also i was sitting writing the opening to my show tonight, and you again inspired me
Policeman was killed. Security has been stepped up today. The Interior Ministry put 50,000 extra Security Personnel at the Polling Stations up and down the country. It seems to have done the trick. Some healthy cu es have done the trick. Some healthy cues up and down the country. The turnout rate which has been predicted so far somewhere near where it was in 2012. Yet again, in the face of terrorism, the french people showing themselves to be hugely resilient. Which is a good thing because we can focus on the election, the candidates, the policies that matter to the french people. Not since 1958, in the founding of the Fifth Republic, have we seen Something Like what we are witnessing here tonight. Politics in france has been dominated by the two party system but it could well be this evening that the main two parties are eliminated in the first round. We see. Lets talk about the focus candidates we need to focus on. Emmanuel macron, 39. He would be the youngest president of modern tim
To out-trump trump in this race. the former president says he doesn t think she could win a general election, but her rise has really scrambled this race into a real three-person contest. on the democratic side, you ve got john fetterman, the lieutenant governor. he is a clear front-runner in this democratic primary, and just suffered a stroke, his campaign announced. he actually will be observing the election results most likely from his hospital room as he s recovering from a stroke and expected to make a full recovery. he s up against conor lamb, the congressman from out west in pennsylvania, from the pittsburgh area, and malcolm kenyatta, who is from the philadelphia area in the state. in the governor s race on the republican side, you ve got front-runner doug mass triano. he is an election 2020 denier. he does not believe joe biden was legitimately elected. donald trump has backed him in this race. republicans in the mainstream element of the party are concerned that if he s the n