Moment. But we can expect as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. Wednesday night. Good evening once again, i am stephanie live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. We are now 244 days from the election. Now that Super Tuesday is history, biden and trump are set most officially for a rematch after nikki haley dropped out earlier this morning. Even though the Presumptive Republican nominee got rid of his rivals in two months, his victories reveal Warning Signs for november. Trump underperformed his pulling in every state. The new yorks times points out his victories masked problems with independence and republicans that voted for biden last time around. My colleague has more on that. It is now up to trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond who did not support him and i hope he does that. The battle is now on for her backers, urging supporters to join him in opposing trump, writing i know there is a lot we will not agree on but i hope we can find comm
Movement led by sdon don. He is mon shod the 13 13 times. Trump and the threat he thoses to our democracy here at home to our standing in the world looms large over every line of the speech. New york times describing the president s State Of The Union quote unleashed an unyielding. Mr. Biden seemed to relish the showdown. While he boasted his accomplishments as president s do, he made no aspiration to rhetorical flourishes. He men shod his utty agenda with no utty in it and he. We will not walk away biden said in his address we will not bow down. He was speaking go russia and he seemed to intend it for the fight for his own presidency. President biden came out swinging against donald trump and the gop in the speech that laid out in the bluntest terms the stakes in the upcoming election for our democracy and freedom at home and abroad. With us at the Table Board Member Analyst is here and National Affairs analyst is here. The host of politics nation here, and the president of the Nation
Melissa murray and Andrew Weissmann get the last word. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight the rematch for the white house with Nikki Haley Out of the race, the battle to win over her supporters and her donors begins. And the focus on the economy. It is a key issue for voters and one that the five Biden Administration is still delivering on. And looking ahead to the state of the Union Address. The white house sees this as a major moment. What we can expect as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. Good evening, once again. Get ready for this. We are now 244 days until the election. Now that Super Tuesday is history, President Joe Biden and donald trump are set, almost officially, for the rematch after nikki haley dropped out of the race early this morning. Even though the Presumptive Republican nominee got rid of his rivals, his primary victories reveal Warning Signs for november. The Wall Street Journal noted he underperformed his polling in most state
shocking images coming out of the midwest right now where detroit and chicago have some of the worst air quality in the world as smoke from canadian wildfires smothers cities. cars vanishing into white clouds in michigan as they move across this bridge. you can barely see them there. in chicago, the skyline today is almost completely blurred out. more big cities now in the path of the smoke. and in fact, right now president biden has just walked up to the podium in chicago to sell his economic agenda, a vision aides have branded as bidenomics, we re going to bring those comments to you live. also this hour, new developments in multiple cases tied to former president donald trump as he denies showing off classified material in that potentially damning audio saying, quote, yeah, it was bravado. it comes just as georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger just finished meeting with the special counsel team. but we re going to begin the hour with extreme weather affecting t
at the barrel of a gun. russians have orchestrated sham referendum votes in four occupied regions in ukraine. plus, calling trump s bluff. the former president and his lawyers publicly suggested the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. now the trump appointed or approved special master is daring them to make that claim in court. we begin at the white house. notably this is a political venue for president biden s speech moments from now. what are we expecting to hear from the president? this is all part of the amped up political activity we ve seen from president biden as he is anticipating and describing what he believes will be a very tight midterm election campaign. that is why the president is using these types of political events to, one, try to tout some of the legislative accomplishments his white house has achieved, things like infrastructure, bipartisan agreements when it comes to guns and also the recently passed inflation reduction act which touches economic, clima