country have seriously considered suicide. that right there is white showing up for these vulnerable young people is so important. i want them to know, i want you to know, that you are not alone. we love you! and we will always support you! remember, if you need help, ask for it! and if you are in a position to give help, please get it! and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us! and i will see you at the end of tomorrow. mary beth whistle about is a city clerk in madison wisconsin. spent the last 15 years running elections in that city. here she is 11 years ago, holding a mock election, in 2011 she was trying to figure out how much extra time voters would need to cast their ballots in 2012 under the state s new voter i. d. law. madison city clerk, and today we are having a mock election in the city county building to time various scenarios of voter i. d.
clerk in wisconsin. she spent the last 15 years running elections. here she is holding a mock election in 2011. she is trying to figure out how much extra time voters need to cast ballots under the state s iner you voter id law. i m madison city clerk. and today we re having a mock election invi the city county building to time various scenarios with voter id and figure out how to do the best practices for 2012 before we actually have an election. she said she chose to do this work because she wanted to combat voting inequities in madison. she encourages every new wisconsin election clerk that comes to herwi for training to similarly find their why. quote, they have to focus on why they re doing this work. what it comes down to is making votingak accessible to those eligible to vote. that s why we keep showing up daye after day. her why is more important now than ever. in 2020, mary beth contemplated not showing up. she almost quit. that s because after election day 2020,
televised political debates over the years, a lot of them featured joe biden. he was on the debate stages in 1988 and 2008 and 2012 and 2020 . we are not even counting 2024, yet. if you had to pick one moment where joe biden was able to beat back his critics and win the moment in as few words as possible, it would probably be this one. an editorial in the los angeles times said, in addition to his uncontrolled verbosity, biden is a gaffe machine. you have the discipline you need on the world stage? yes. thank you, senator biden. that was joe biden during the 2008 democratic presidential primary debates. while moments like that did not win biden the democratic nomination, we later learned his performance on stage was a real factor in why barack obama chose joe biden to be his running mate. it is also a reminder that biden can be a very effective debater when he is calm and in control. by contrast, there is his opponent, donald trump. not a person who would ever willing
way, make mistakes. and that attitude, i think, just being a little more rereal and little more be attentive goes a long way. this was a symptomatic the symptomatic propaganda i think is being pumped out by fox news and all the other outlets all the time. former president obama is about to get back out on the campaign trail for democratic candidates. first he sat down with that interview with my next guest. joining us now is john favro, former speechwriter for president obama. he is also co-host of the little known podcast pod save america which this week featured a guest barack obama. the president in that clip that we just played is sort of explaining why he thinks what the work democrats need to do.
know, say things the wrong way. you know, make mistakes. and that attitude, i think, of just being a little more real and a little more grounded is something that i think goes a long way in counteracting what is a systematic propaganda that i think is being pumped out by fox news and all of these other outlets all the time. former president obama is about to get back out on the campaign trail for democratic candidates. but first, he sat down for that interview with my next guest. joining us now is john favrow, former speech writer for president obama and host of the wilderness, a podcast about the history and future of the democratic party. he is also co-host of the little known podcast pod save america, which this week featured against named barack obama. john, thank you for being here, my friend. i m gonna get right to it. the president in that clip that we just played his, on the one