need to understand you have to make sense of this and get the facts. to then understand what the potential issues are. and the issues go beyond whether there's a policy debate when you have people -- i want to be accurate, he did mention that he condemns the violence. but he did not take the opportunity to disclaim, re-running this play book. and they have learned over time and they have installed people in certain local places. and that's also a part of the election that we're both covering and monitoring in a very real sense. on more than one topic tonight, professor johnson, thanks for being here. >> any time, ari. >> appreciate it. thank you as well at home for always giving us some of your time. i know it's valuable and could spend it anywhere. this has been "the beat" with ari melber. i'll see you tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern. "the reidout" with joy reid, starts now. ♪♪ tonight on "the reidout" -- >> because if she does this to america, every one of us are

either going to be leaving or be living like -- we're going to be living like dogs. our whole country, our whole system is going to collapse. >> do we believe in the promise of america! and are we ready to fight for it! and when we fight, we win! the politics of joy from the democrats versus the politics of fear and weird from donald trump. on the golf course all week, not on the campaign trail, of course. and wait until you hear a newly-discovered audio tape of donald trump talking about governor tim walz's respo to the george floyd protests. and it is completely different from what his campaign is saying now. also tonight, getting to know the democratic running mate with the help of the former students he inspired. one of them joins me tonight. ♪♪

and we begin tonight with joy. no, not me joy, but the feeling joy. the joy felt by americans backing the harris/walz ticket. a joy that is palpable and pervasive. as illustrated by the massive crowds greeting vp harris and governor walz at their rallies in wisconsin and michigan today. it feels like we're experiencing another 2008 obama moment, the energy, the excitement, the enthusiasm. it feels fun. imagine that. american politics. joyful again. >> in this fight, as tim walz likes to point out, we are joyful warriors. joyful warriors. because we know that while fighting for a brighter future may be hard work, hard work is good work. hard work is good work. >> it's the tale of two tickets. one, raid yats joy.

the other is dower and franly frightening. vice president kamala harris is criticized fsh her race, gender and parental stat us and laughing. infectious energizing belly laugh, the literal display of joy is a bad thing? she loves to laugh with her sister, especially. she is a foodie, trust me. she and i have talked about food, and it is a passion. cooking with kamala is a thing on the internet. everything from her go-to roast chicken to potato curry. and she is amazing with kids. walz, too. a joyful guy. his former students love him. he was a popular and successful high school football coach. he made weird happen. and he's a midwesterner with big dad energy offering tips on how to fix your car and save money to boot. >> this right here is the headlight harness on a 2014 ford

edge. ford, this is unacceptable. it burned out hot on the connecter. so for 7.99 at napa auto parts in the city, you can replace this. just clip out the back, tape it back together and put it back in. it's about a five-minute fix. and you're back on the road safe and sound. >> okay. that was a very real throw-back joid, by the way. just 11 days before walz won the 2018 election for minnesota governor. some may be familiar with the beer question in u.s. politics? a thought experiment to often utilize by the media or in polling. which says that voters will generally elect the candidate they would rather have a beer with. because victory in american politics often goes not to the candidate who better articulates their platform, but rather who is more likable. you be the judge. who would you rather have a beer with? kamala harris, who dares to laugh and tim walz, the plain-spoken fun uncle who will defend the people he loves.

or, donald trump? who rambles about sharks and hatred and makes fun of people who smirks but who rarely laughs and who doesn't seem capable of talking to a child, even his own grand kids. and his cat-lady hating jd vance. this guy is really weird. so weird the couch meme won't die. now he's basically stalking the democratic ticket. stunning reporters today by attempting to confront vp harris and governor walz on the tarmac when their planes arrived in wisconsin at similar times. here he is on the tarmac after walking the long stretch toward the vice president's plane, telling reporters, quote, i just wanted to check out my future plane. what? like, walking up to the vice president and air force two is not a thing, dude. that is not a thing that normal people do. thankfully he did not interact with the vice president herself and we have secret service to thank for that, i'm sure. vance's weirdness aside, this

race is also a reversal of how the parties are normally framed. the republicans love to attack democratic elites. but harris and walz actually feel like regular, normal middle class folks. yes. they are living extraordinary political lives, but due to hard work, not connections or riches. harris went to howard university an hbcu and the university of california hastings college of law. and walz attended an open admissions teacher's college in northwest nebraska. quite the opposite of what we're seeing on the republican side with trump/vance being the ivy league ticket, loved by the billionaires. quite the elite conundrum for the republican party the so called populus maga movement bank rolling a celebrity. who is not out there campaigning but instead golfing at his exclusive ritzy resort. and vice presidential candidate anointed by super weird tech investor peter thiel.

it's a ticket backed by billionaire tech bros that wants to unleash project 2025, the brain child of rich people on the american people. as we often say on this show, it is a hateful vision that all people should fear. reflected perfectly by the two men who want to execute it. alincia johnson, harris campaign senior adviser joins me along with joan walsh and stewart stephens, chief strategist for mitt romney's 2012 presidential campaign and senior adviser to the lincoln project. thank you all for being here. stewart, i do want to start with you because you have run presidential campaigns and you know how hard it is. mitt romney is probably a lovely human being as a person but easily characterized as this elite odd person and that proved really difficult when he was running against barack obama, who despite his name and background, people thinking it was exotic, when you heard him, he just sounds like a regular guy you play basketball with. so talk about this now

dichotomy, where the people you much rather have a beer with, at least most people, are the democrats. >> yeah. you know, you look back at that romney/obama race, it seems like a different era in american politics. you know, election day both of them had favorables of 50%. think about that. i don't think we'll see that for a long time on the republican side. >> true. >> i think this is a tremendous ticket that the democrats have put together. what i really love about it is the way it embraces two classic american stories. you have this woman who is daughter of immigrants, who came up, who had tremendous success and achievement because she earned it. and then you have this small town guy, like a walking john mellencamp song, football coach, who taught -- it's just really two great american stories

coming together. and i think people can relate to that. you know, there was a time when republicans at least tried to claim the mantle of optimism. i mean, that certainly was true of reagan. and the reagan world to be born in america you won life's lottery. and now that's completely reversed. and the democrats own that. and i think it's a very powerful force in american politics. >> it is. and joan, you've been covering the now vp kamala harris for a really long time. she was based in san francisco where you were based as a journalist. the thing about her, just as i experienced her as a political figure, is that she is not -- she hasn't become this happy person. she actually is this happy person, right? she and her sister are hilarious together. they adore each other. but she always presented herself as sort of like the approachable, you know, prosecutor. and that's how she ran in 2020. i still remember her ads then

were like, shirley chisholm inspired me. she is not play acting it and neither is tim walz. talk about her emergence into this moment. it is like she and the moment found each other. >> you know, when i did the profile of her last month, joy, her staff asked to read my 2020 -- excuse me, 2003 profile. and what they said was oh my god, she is the same person. she likes to swear. she likes to tell stories. she likes to laugh. she's combative. she's contentious. she will not let you get away with garbage. if she thinks you're disrespecting her. but you know, i think she had a few rough years being staffed poorly, in my opinion, by some of her staff not all during the presidential race and even in the beginning i would say in the white house, as vice president and what she's gotten now is a great, very, very loyal staff who have her back.

and i loved that moment last night when tim walz said, i have your back. it was very moving to me because she doesn't always have that. and she needs it. she's got the secret service, but now she's also got this stalker going around from city to city like a hang dog ex-husband trying to find her. so, i trust the secret service, but i'm glad that she has tim walz there, too. he's on it. >> yeah. it is so weird. it is so weird. trump is playing golf somewhere while jd vance is like stalking the vice president and saying weird stuff to reporters. like, he's not helping to make it himself not seem weird, but i want to show, here is the thing about the play acting. you can actually in the end as a politician only be who you are. you can fake it only so much. here is donald trump's campaign today. he posted on his pretend version of twitter, an attack on governor walz handling of the george floyd protests. we have now started to hear that

being a theme of the trump campaign, the trump/vaps campaign. well, inconveniently enough, there's always a tape. abc news has uncovered a call of donald trump doing the opposite. here he is praising governor walz's handling of the selfsame george floyd protest in minneapolis. here he is on tape. >> i know governor walz is on the phone, and we spoke. and i fully agree with the way he handled it the last couple of days. but once you called out and you dominated, you took the worst place and you made it -- they didn't even cover it last night because there was so little action. because you dominated. you dominated. it showed the incredible difference between your great state yesterday and the day before compared to the first few days, which was just -- >> absolutely. absolutely. >> police force and taken over.

i don't blame you. i blame the mayor. i've never seen anything like it. >> helpful reminder during these protests they're so angry about, donald trump was the president of the united states. here is the spokesman for a spokesperson for the trump campaign. this was her response that trump lauded walz only after the governor heeded his advice to enlist the support of the national guard, something the president can deploy. your thoughts on this? even her to play-acting falls apart because there are always tapes. >> well, i'm kind of laughing because i imagine that governor walz was like i cannot believe i'm on the phone with this man. and this incoherent speaking. let's not forget that this is a person who did not call in or tell his supporters to stand down when they were committing an insurrection on the capitol. right? so the contradiction of them putting -- trying to put out this narrative when, one, there's this tape. but also we all saw this on january 6th, 2021. the interesting thing is that i

think all of their masks are going to continue to fall off. yet on the other side, i love what we're talking about. we're talking about joy on joy's show, but we're talking about joy in politics that quite frankly i feel like i haven't had since 2012 when i started in politics. and we're talking about people who are president or vice president kamala harris and soon to be president as well as soon to be vice president tim walz who they're speaking to a base that has felt forgotten about. i was doing some scrolling and my surveying on tiktok, as we all do, a lot of white women talking about how he speaks to them in the way that their dad no longer does because of rush limbaugh and donald trump. and when you can invoke that kind of emotion in people, yes, the republicans are extremely scared and throwing all of these baseless attacks that aren't going to work. the fact that white women are realizing that they had to evolve over the years and seeing

how fox news is driving wedges between their families and they see donald trump and jd vance as pillars of that and maybe this ticket with harris and walz could actually heal the fractures in not only our politics but families, that is a ticket that is going to be extremely hard to beat. and it's why we have so much hope on these next 90 some days until election day. >> yeah. and i think it's true. joan, you did write a book about 'what's wrong with white america." i used to listen to the ed schultz show, the liberal, the fishing, hunting, gun toting liberal able to speak to that same group. it does feel like tim walz is kind of that, you know. >> yeah. i found it very moving. i saw some of the same tiktoks and social media posts that you did. and you know, people saying i lost my dad. i lost my uncle. you know, i didn't lose my dad.

my dad stayed a democrat, but i lost some uncles to this madness. and some of them are coming back. but, i think that there is something very healing. i also love the way he stopped the rally today to take care of somebody who apparently passed out from the heat. it was like big dad energy, big coach energy. wouldn't continue until that person had water and a medic. so, you know, there's something -- he's just such a wonderful role model. and i think relatable to a lot of people, not just white people, but, yes, white people. >> and it will help because that was one of the groups that joe biden actually -- real quick before we go to a break. we're bringing everybody back. i'll hold it. i want to talk about these attempts to undermine his military service. they think they can play games with that. we'll talk about that and some other thing. don't go anywhere. vice president kamala harris and her running mate big dad energy governor tim walz prepared to

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before he was the democratic vp nominee, before he made weird happen, and called out jd vance as a sectional predator, you see what i did there, before he was governor of minnesota, where he provided universal preschool meals for students, for protective freedoms and laid the groundwork to get minnesota to 100% clean electricity by 2040, kamala harris's running mate, tim walz worked as a high school teacher and football coach. in the days since the announcement, we've learned from former students just how formative his time as an educator and coach was. not just to his political career, but also to walz as a person. he first taught in his native

rural nebraska where he met his wife gwen, whom he shared a classroom with. then in minnesota, where he was named most inspiring teacher for efforts including helping found its first gay/straight alliance group. and coaching the varsity football team to their first state championship. his students in the days since the announcement took to social media to share their stories. one told abc news, quote, he wasn't screaming when you failed. he was screaming when you did well. he's two firsts over his head, jumping 3 feet in the air, unquote. another, noah hobbs, who had mr. walz as a teacher in 2004, the last class he taught before running for congress, wrote, i was a c student. better in some classes. worse in others. walz didn't leave out lesser performing students. he noted that walz is the kind of guy who if norman rockwell was still painting, he'd be his portrait of an average midwesterner. noah hobbs join mes now.

noah, thank you for being here. my first question is what was your initial reaction when you heard that your former teacher was going to be the running mate of vice president harris to potentially become vice president of the united states? >> yeah. it's pretty surreal, right? i don't know if any president or vice president has been a great schoolteacher. it's a unique experience. when i saw the news, 7:50 on monday morning, it was tears of joy and just being proud of -- immensely proud of mr. walz. >> yeah. and i will note we are waiting for governor walz and vice president harris to come out on stage. when that happens, we will go to it. right now in the polls, the percentage of people who are favorable toward mr. walz or governor walz, 17%, unfavorable 13%. unsure 70%. they don't know him. what should people know about your former teacher? >> yeah. mr. walz is one of the most

genuine, authentic, caring people. i hope everyone has a favorite teacher and thinking of how traits and then turn them up to 11, that's mr. walz to a t. and he was engaging. the description you gave of the athlete, he was that way in the classroom. imagine having someone so invested and excited in your success and not so much disapointed in failures or not meeting expectations. it's the most -- i cannot say enough kind things about mr. walz as a teacher. and as a congressman and governor. >> i think it's very true. i still remember my high school teachers. the teachers that really change your life. and they do really leave a mark on you for the rest of your life because they encourage you to learn. they encouraged you to be who you become. when you left that high school,

did anything that you learned mr. walz shape who you became? >> yeah. two ways certainly. one is assistant high school baseball coach and treating each kid whether they're the highest performing athletes with the greatest ability or kids that may never see the field or rarely see the field treating each one with dignity and respect of each kid and entitled to and should have, that's a big one for the past five years for me. and i served six years on the duluth city council up here. having mr. walz as a role model someone that's not ivy league educated, doesn't come from significant money, that an average, everyday hard-working public servant can make good. really kind of alters what we currently have. oftentimes on the national level. so those are two big ways. having an adult outside of your family that exhibits such positive role model in how to interact and how to care for one another, treating each people as

individuals and not numbers, statistics or whatever else it is that you do for a living has stuck with me forever. >> yeah. you lived in -- you still live in minnesota. what's he like as a governor? how has he performed, in your view? >> yeah. i think he's been great. i work in affordable housing for my day job. and we made a significant investment in that for the first time invested over a billion dollars. housing is a huge need across the entire country but minnesota as well. and he's done free school lunches for kids. they shouldn't be hungry when they go to school. expanded a lot of those types of programs. and i think those are -- it's a good model for the country. >> you know, people compared him to "ted lasso." people are starting to call him sort of the political "ted lasso." talk to me about when your high school won this football championship. apparently you had been a losing team and suddenly you were a winning team. talk about that. >> yeah. so that is a little bit before my time, but i heard i think it was for sure full season of

losing games every -- all year. and didn't score a touchdown until the second to last game before they went the next season went to our first state championship. folks still talk about it to this day. >> yeah. let me read a couple of former students besides yourself who talked about him. nate hood said the energy he's bringing right now to the campaign reminds me of the energy he would bring to the football practice or football practice. tara said he was the guy everyone seemed to trust and wanted to have no matter who you were or what click you were in. kent said he's sincere, he's very easy to talk to, he's knowledgeable. he wanted to consider what we thought. he put together a plan, very thoughtful again, driven for success. one more -- i think we'll leave it there. we have so many. one wishes everyone would say such nice things about you. and i think that it's a credit to him that this is how his students feel. just one last thing, what kind of vice president do you think

he would make? >> i think he would be great. the ability to boil down and distill complex ideas so that 14 and 15-year-olds can understand them and learn from it is a great trait for the nation. then also being able to be a bridge builder. hard not to like the guy. and so if you're bipartisan working when he was in the congress, he was one of the most bipartisan members. it's a trait that i think is more needed in society today. and i think he brings that to the ticket but also just a great communicator and everyone he interacts with you can tell is a genuine interaction. he's fully enjoying it and absolute joy he brings to everything he does. >> share us your favorite teachers. you never know where they're going to go in life and what they'll accomplish and help you accomplish. noah hobbs, thank you for spending time with us. we appreciate your insights on your former teacher. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. coming up, more on the energy that the harris/walz campaign is bringing to the table with vice president harris

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♪♪ over the last several year, the american/israel public affairs committee or apack played an increasingly active role in spending massively to take down democratic members of congress who are critical of israel. their campaign arm, the united

democracy project, spent millions in 2022 to defeat maryland's donna edward and michigan's andy levin, who was one of the most progressive jewish members. after that success, they earmarked one 100 million dollars this year toward defeating the most ar dant and vocal critics of the war in israel and members of the squad. they spent $14.5 million to defeat new york's jamal bowman in june. and they now scored a second win in missouri. on tuesday, congress woman cori bush lost her primary to st. louis prosecutor, wesley bell. instead of returning a vocaled a voe scat for the community for a third term in congress, voters chose a man who, as a city councilman, opposed the initial consent decree for ferguson's police department and once ran a campaign for an anti-choice republican candidate. congress woman bush was defeated in the second most expense i have primary this cycle behind

bowman's. bell also got a ton of cash from crypto currency super pacs. and airks pac's campaign arm poured nearly 9 million ads sporting bell and attacking bush. leaving congress will not be the end of her work. >> there is nothing that happens in my life that happens in vain. so if this happened it's because it was meant to happen. and let me say, it's because there's work i need to do. and let me say this. aipac, i'm coming to tear your kingdom down! >> joining me now is editor in chief and ceo.

i think a lot of people the question i have been asked the most how is it impossible a foreign interest lobby, their main interest is lobbying for support for a -- nonunited states government, a foreign government. the fact that they're so involved in american politics to a lot of people strikes them as odd. can you talk about that a little bit? >> yeah. so the argument in response, joy, this is not a foreign lobbyists. these are americans pushing for an alliance between our two countries. the problem is of course the whole b.s. shared values now being exposed day after day. look at the torture being exposed in israel right now in palestinian detainees. look, the argument is about this is about two countries, shared values, i don't buy. what's interesting, joy, this lobby group has been bipartisan for a long time. and that is now cracking. there's a great piece in the guardian today pointing out that aipac spending all this money to defeat cori bush is not a victory, it's a defeat. they didn't have to spend money

like this before. they got their way with much smaller donations in spending. the fact they had to spend $14.5 million against jamal bowman, 8.5 million against cori bush, that's $23 million spent against two black members of the squad. to knock them out. the fact they had to spend that much money to put that in context, joy, the british labour party won an election in the uk, they raised about $11 million for the entire country's election campaign in two weeks. this is what's being spend in individual districts. and my position is this, it doesn't matter whether you're pro israel or anti-israel, whether you like cori bush or don't like cori bush, which american wants tens of millions of dollars spent to affect the outcome of elections. madness. >> the money is staggering. we're talking about $5.2 million being spent against cori bush and then 3.3 million for wesley bell, jamahl bowman, 9.8 million. it's a lot of money.

the thing that's interesting, wesley bell initially was going to run against josh hawley, the first in the air insurrectionist senator. he dropped out of it. there's audio that shows him vowing not to run. let's see if we can play that. vowing not to run against cori bush. >> don't think -- don't even think for even a second that that's the case. i am telling you right now. that is not happening. >> and i guess the question is, did he decide that defeating cori bush was more urgent than defeat josh hawley an insurrectionist. it was a strange move coming on the result of lots and lots of money. >> there was another candidate who came out and said he was offered lots of money to run against cori bush and he chose not to. perhaps this victor from yesterday, mr. bell, you know, said it could say to every politics has a price. look, it's a lot of money. it secured victory or helped secure victory yesterday against

cori bush. the whiter point about josh hawley and the republicans is interesting. politico reported interestingly, aipac is the biggest single source of republican money going into democratic primaries. that's astonishing. if i'm chuck schumer, hakeem jeffries, doesn't matter how pro israel i am, i should be opposed to aipac, pouring republican money into my party's primaries. how is the democratic party okay with that? insurrectionist money, anti-abortion money, anti-lgbtq money, trump donor money coming into democratic party primaries and the democratic party is okay with that? >> yeah. it is very -- it is very -- it's a thing. it's a thing that's definitely happening. you have a documentary or there's a documentary that's coming out that zatao is a part of. >> it's our first original film called israel's reel extremism. they are different parties. israel is heading very, very much to the far right. on the ground examination of what you're showing right now, those viral tiktok videos vulgar

putting out from october 7th on gaza. our films went out there, interviewed the soldiers, joy, who made these films and they don't care. you see them on tape talking how they're superior to palestinians. how they have no problem humiliating palestinians. you see israeli politicians defending their behavior. you see young israeli settlors say kill a million palestinians. examination how israeli society shifted way to the far right and all americans need to ask questions, why are we funding? >> yeah. that one of the things that representative cori bush tried to do and paid for it with her seat in congress. we'll hopefully all check that out. check that out. med di has san, thank you my friend. >> thank you, joy. vice president pick tim walz has now taken the stage in detroit. vice president kamala harris is expected to speak any minute now.

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we're back. and what you're looking at there is minnesota governor tim walz giving his part of the michigan campaign rally. there he is taking it to the crowd. let's listen for a few minutes. >> this might be my chance to

use it. [ crowd chanting wrkt [. >> we know who built the middle class. here is the deal, what we know is that donald trump sees the world a bit differently than we see the world. i've been saying it. he doesn't know the first thing about service. because he's way too busy serving himself. this is a big difference. again and again. he does things that weakens our country. only to strengthen his own hand. he mocks our laws. he sews chaos and division amongst the public. and that's to say nothing about his record as president. he is that. he is that. look, we had the worst crisis of a generation. and he froze during covid. people lost their lives because of that. he drove the economy into the

ground. and make no mistake, violent crime was up during donald trump's presidency. that's not even counting the crimes he committed. some of the gray hairs in here remember a republican party that used to actually talk about freedom. these guys, when they talk about freedom, it means government has the freedom to invade your exam room with your doctor. now, i know -- look. we got a lot of commonalities. i'll say this as an nfc north guys, viking fans are proud of the lions. i will say that. i will say that. >> bringing together vikings fans and lion fans, that in and of itself is grand diplomacy, my panelists back with me. we came out of it because this is basically the stump speech.

he added a few things in there. as one does. stewart, i want to talk about this just for a moment because that guy we just heard, he's such a regular guy. you know that guy. we all know that guy. we all met that guy. and yet the way that jd vance is choosing to attack him, is -- let me play it. he is attack one of the best things about tim walz his military service. >> when were you ever in war? when was this -- what was this weapon that you carried into war given that you abandoned your unit right before they went to iraq and he has not spent a day in a combat zone. what bothers me about tim walz the stolen valor garbage. do not pretend to be something you are not. criticize me for getting a ivy league education. i would be ashamed if i was him and lied about military service like he did. >> oh, i think he might want to see someone's manager. stewart stevens, here is the

problem with that. vote vets came out immediately with a fact check. governor walz submitted his retirement request months prior to notification that his unit was going to be deployed to iraq. the minnesota national guard has also confirmed walz rank is accurate. it is not stolen valor. let's be clear, jd vance was in the coms side in the military in the marines. he was not shooting it out on the front lines. he is not exactly some heroic war hero. i want to talk about that as an idea you would go after something that is checkable, that one would google of just ask the minnesota national guard. doesn't seem smart. >> yeah. they don't know what to do over there in that campaign. so they're just trying this and trying that. you know, what's really striking here is when you watch both of these -- how does it make you feel? watching jdvance, it's just something about it that it brings you down. it's like, who is this guy? why is he saying these things. and i think that a lot of

politics is how it makes you feel. i mean, people always said that one of the worst things about nixon was how nixon made you feel. because it was so outrageous what he was doing. >> yeah. >> and i think that's something that -- you can't poll this. you can't jet it in any kind of data search. but it's something that's happening out there. and i think it happened in 2008 with barack obama. i think to some degree it happened with reagan and happened with kennedy. but there is something big that's going on out there. vance and trump just are lost now. >> yeah. and i think it happened with clinton, too. there was something about that campaign that, you know, when he was playing >> and i think it happened with clinton, too. it was something about that campaign, just playing the saxophone. it was something about it that made you feel a part of it because it was sort of a fun thing. lindsay, it definitely happened with president obama.

i've never seen anything like it. people were throwing barbecues in florida just so they could raise $20 for him per person who came to the barbecue. people were enjoying the campaign. they had full confidence. they weren't even worried about the metrics in the electoral college. they were in the full enjoyment of this moment, this man. everything he said they found fun. they found him fun but yet what they are doing with vice president harris, who is a laugher, laughing is bad, with this guy, the wall street journal, rupert murdoch's outfit, this is what they tried to do to him. they listed this thing is their bill of particulars against him. funding free college program for low income students, the horror. creating a state system for paid family medical leave, mandating the creation of carbon free electricity, subsidizing the electric vehicles, passing permissive abortion statutes to let women have control of their bodies, declaring minnesota to be a trans refuge. imagine. establishing automatic voter registration so people can actually get access to votes, letting voters sign up for permanent absentee ballots as if those are bad things. i think the right has lost

touch with what good versus bad things are, to most people. >> add passing background checks to guns on that list and that's actually our party platform that a lot of people in the democratic party wants, so the more that the right berates us for standing for these issues, the more our bases galvanized so you mentioned the feeling around obama's 2008, 2012, you know it's a feeling that is reaching beyond folks who are paying attention to politics every day when you have the street vendors who are able to get there swag up before a campaign is and that's what's actually happening again here, those harris t-shirts that came out. the pushing this discord, you were talking about vice president harris having a good time, being a successful woman who also enjoys living life. i mean i was at her residence when they had this hip-hop 50th

anniversary and i'll tell you, the vice president, she knows some west coast rap and she was having the best time, and for me as a black woman to see another black woman at the height of her career also being human, that makes me run towards her. that makes me, even if i was someone who disagreed with her policy, i would say, wait, she's human and she can do all these things and listen to people. and that gives me permission to be myself, and then the policies to match this around allowing people to be there full cells. that actually works for more american. republicans want to act like it doesn't. >> it's jen x in the house. it feels like generational change in the sense that it's going from sort of a boomer, i think biden might have even been the next thing up from a boomer, to this kind of gen x vibe these people have. their six month difference in age, which you would not believe that they are really vice president and presidential candidates. i feel like the other piece

publicans have missed, and i'm going to ask you about this verse, and stewart might agree or disagree, the overton window on what is liberal and progressive i think has moved. i think people in louisiana mississippi would love to have paid family leave. people in kentucky would love to have the opportunity to have some time off when they have a baby. this is not some crazy marxist idea that you could actually have automatic voter registration so you don't have to stand in line at the dmv for hour and a half. these are crazy things. this is the new moderate. >> i think this is the new moderate and i think these things are enormously popular. it's funny that the wall street journal acts like it's marxism. is the democratic platform and most of those things have 60% to 80% approval. i think and stewart knows this better than i do, unfortunately in some very deep red states, even though they might want those things, they are voting other interests and it's sad. one footnote i want you to know, i watched her sing all of atomic dog, george clinton.

she knows all the words. so yeah. but i was not -- >> that's her karaoke song. that's her karaoke song. yes. stuart, the other piece, you guys talked about this before on the show, i think they still think that even on the racial side, nothing has changed. they haven't come out of the '80s. there are a lot of very conservative republicans with black grandkids, you know what i mean? this isn't crazy to them, either, and they're still trying to act like it's unusual. i'm going to have you hold your thought because he or she is. vice president, harris, she's taking the stage. she's waving to the people. let's live in it for a moment.

>> good evening detroit! good evening! we got this. we're gonna do this. we are doing this! we are doing this! thank you.

thank you. thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you. okay. come on. we got business to handle. we got business to handle. good evening everybody. good evening, good evening. can we hear it up for tim walz? isn't he amazing? he's going to be the most incredible vice president. all right. so it is good to be back and to be with so many incredible leaders. i love you. governor gretchen whitmer, thank you for your friendship, your sisterhood, and your leadership, and we are going to

do this together. lieutenant governor garland gilchrist, thank you so much. his parents are over there. and the members of congress including senator debbie stabenow, my dear friend. and your next united states senator, representative elissa slotkin. we're going to get that done. mayor mike duggan, thank you for the warm welcome always and of course it is so good to be with the president of the united auto workers, my dear friend sean vane. and last week it was -- it feels like last year -- last week it was my great honor to accept the endorsement of the united auto workers.

>> uaw! uaw! uaw uaw! >> and the uaw has always worked to lift up the working people of our nation. we need some help over there? i think we need a medic over there, please. their should be medics in each corner. we're going? okay. all right. let's all take care of each other and look out for each other. that's who we are. we look out for each other. okay, so as i said to shawn, as i've talked to sean about this, this election is going to be a fight. we like a good fight.

when you know what you stand for, you know what to fight for. we know what we stand for. so i'm so proud to have uaw. >> vice president kamala harris dealing with the medical emergency, having the time of her life, having been introduced by her vice presidential running mate tim walz, speaking to a packed, packed, open air arena in detroit and loving every moment of it, clearly. thank you two alencia johnson, joan walsh and stuart stevens. we got to go, though, guys. we got a commercial break and then all in with chris haze starts -- actually all in with chris haze starts right now. >> tonight on all in -- >>, la!, love! >> a rapturous welcome. >> we are joyful warriors. joyful warriors. >> has the democratic ticket