counting down the three weeks left until midterm elections. early voting is currently underway in several states. candidates are squaring off in debates going this weekend, and as the clock runs out, democrats are calling on their biggest guns, president joe biden is in oregon today stumping for the democrats in that state gubernatorial race, which has become surprisingly close in a reliably blue state. vice president, kamala harris, is in michigan pushing early voting and raising money for democratic governor, gretchen whitmer s reelection campaign. and then there s the news this morning that former president, barack obama, will kick off his own midterm campaign travel with stops in at least three swing states later this month. michigan, wisconsin, and, of course, georgia. where democratic senator, raphael warnock, and his republican challenger, herschel walker, face off in their sole debate last night. walker, if nothing else, seemed to be working from the playbook populari
i was telling my friend to not talk. [speaking spanish] she cried a lot. according to the cdc, guns are now the leading cause of death among children than adolescents in america. it jumps a 30% between 2019 and 2020. according to the washington post, more than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since columbine, in 1999. of course, republicans are suggesting to keep the schools as virtual prisons to deal with this problem. we need serious funding to upgrade our schools. this is to install bulletproof doors and locking classroom doors ultimately. as we all know, what s stops, armed, that guys, is armed good guys. i hate to break it to cancun crews there but that the armed guys were not much help. the police admit to a stunning string of failures. 19 police officers waited in the hallway for nearly an hour as these children were trapped with a gunman, before even attempting to breach the classroom. why the hesitation? one lieutenant saying that they
medicaid can t negotiate those prices. the transportation infrastructure bill, so the promises that were made coming out of the greatest pandemic, that i think we ve seen in over 100 years, and what the president has done and accomplished. the war in ukraine, the aggression with russia, and making sure you keep our nato allies together. i think that people are coming to the realization of what joe biden and the democrats have done, that s why you see biden s numbers going up, and you see people are now predicting any longer the thought they were going to take place when the republicans over democrats headlines over headlines starting to say it s a 50/50 shot. when you see that, you are going to see the turnout increase. now, let s go to the january 6th investigation. house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol ending its knife and purportedly final hearing with
oppressor. particularly first-time voters. we re not seeing any comprehensive movement under police reform. it s indicative. that gets signed as we did see turnout increase across the board. when we say george is hot, georgia s really gonna be hot this fall when it comes to this election. look keep our eyes on it, to, i want to ask you, what are you seeing in terms of turnout? particularly, like i said, there s a lot of voter suppression happening? what is it telling us that we should look out for come this november? well, like natasha said, turnout was a little bit lighter on the democratic side but that s a little bit to be expected. at the top of the democratic ticket there weren t competitive primaries. we knew that stacey abrams was gonna be the gubernatorial nominee. but you still had record turnout, even though it was last on the democratic side that on the republican side. i do think that, you know, as these issues are bubbling up, abortion, gun rights, or gun
already democrats. at the end of the day, the trump voters have shown that no matter what he does, they are going to support him. it does not matter. secret trump supporters, before the tax cut, they were supporting him. public trump supporters are out there and if you attack trum, you attack them. those are not the voters democrats are are going to win. when they need to have and what they do individually, all politics is local, you re seeing the turnout increase. because they re speaking to local issues in their distributes. and non voters, a lot of them. thank you very much. always good to have you here in person. thank you guys very much. up next, move over putin. donald trump s got a new autocrat besty. north korea s kim jong-un. stay with us. we may be one of the world s most familiar companies, but we make more than our name suggests.