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starts right now. hi. thank you so much. i am ari melber and whoop there it is. election day within three weeks. early voting has begun, including in new key states. and we begin with something special. i m not going to hide the ball. i m going to show you the two chairs. howard dean who ran the dnc. michael steele who ran the rnc. in our opinion, no two better people to walk us through and it, they are here right now. let me tell you the context. 2 million people cast ballots. when we say election day, it s like rhetoric. this is election month. early voting is showing records smashed in certain states. fluid dynamics. new polls show the house leaning slightly towards republicans, depending on what happens. democrats believe they are still in a strong position to hold the senate majority. and as we ve told you, we cannot accurately cover 400 plus races at once. we will bring you the highlights, the context, the facts and the music. but i will show you some of th ....
the alarming numbers in alexandria. ashley, carley, it s sad when you look at these numbers laid out in a map or remote learning lesson for longer, children suffered the sharpest declines in learning. the nation s report card was last administered in 2019. show that since then eighth grade math scores have dropped by a staggering eight points. again, it s a three-point loss for reading in both fourth and fifth grade, statistic offer this quote: the losses are bigger, much bigger in math and reading and are much vulnerable kids. those are things consistent with every other piece of information that we have seen in post-pandemic testing. school closures were the dander and so little was known about covid-19 but the more known those closures became political, calling the shots based on national guidance and dr. anthony apo fauci is seekino separate himself from that. they always come back and say fauci was responsible for closing school. i had nothing to do let s g ....
Regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic status. came down to where they live. carley, ashley? carley: the last time she was saying the test taken in 2019 before the pandemics of this is the best indicator of how covid lockdowns and virtual learning have affected kids. eighth grade math fell by eight points. what does that mean question mike peck a car at the commissioner the national education also said that normally for the nap assessment looking for snippets and as of 2-3 points. 8-4 points. so an eight-point decline we are seeing in math data is stark, troubling, insignificant. ashley: jeb bush said we need higher skills to succeed in the way the world is going so it really makes you concerned for the future of these kids and ....
Data. they re right on the statistics, but the narrative, the expression, the messaging is where they come up against that wall to get people over the hurdle so they understand when they state the data, the emotion behind it is commensurate or the same, right? in terms of truth. and i think that s always been the trick. go ahead, howard. i m going to get howard in. michael sounds like the coolest math teacher i ve ever met. down with the math data. i think he s right, and i think the democrats have historically done what michael said, unfortunately for us. however, the people of oklahoma are not stupid, and stick was hoping that they would be stupid. a poll i just saw five minutes ago showed that that lady, whose name i don t even know, is ahead by five points in that race. in oklahoma, one of the reddest states in the country, a democratic woman is leading. ....