middle finger to the system. they are just not going to vote a lot of the time but who will a lot of the young women who are extremely upset at the overturning of roe v wade . >> that is something that i find interesting. >> young women will wipe the floor with donald trump. >> what is interesting, how much it shows at the polls is one of the big open questions on election day. thank you both. i appreciate it. alex wagner tonight starts right now. >> i have adjusted to the reality that every single night will be a huge newsnight. obviously that should have been something i was prepared for. on nights like this this is every single -- i don't know how much longer. >> we are in the part of the lodz -- luge where we are going

90 miles an hour. >> hopefully we have a smooth landing. do you remember donald trump women for america first protest to save america rally. of course you don't. nobody remembers it by that name because that will now and forever be remembered as donald trump's january 6& speech. >> these people will not take it any longer. we will never give up, we will never concede. you do not concede when there is theft involved. we will not let them silence your voices. we are not going to let it happen. not going to let it happen. >> fight for trump fight for trump. >> all vice president mike pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and

we become president and you are the happiest people. write your we are going to walk down to the capitol because you will never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength and you have to be strong. >> that was the moment he incited a violent mob to attack the u.s. capitol. the worst attack on the seat of our government in generations. the first time an american presidential candidate refused to accept the results of in legitimate election. now just one week before an election in which she seeks to return to power his opponent returned to the scene of a crime to layout a new vision for the country before a crowd of at least 60,000 people and remind the world about who donald trump really is. >> we know who donald trump is. he is the person who stood at this very spot nearly 4 years

ago and sent an armed mob to the united states capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election. he says that one of his highest priorities is to set free the violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers on january 6. america, this is not a candidate for president who is thinking about how to make your life better. this is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power. donald trump has spent a decade trying to keep the american people divided and afraid of each other. that is who he is, but america, i am

here tonight to say that is not who we are. that is not who we are. that is not who we are. >> vice president harris use the primetime address to lay out an agenda that ranged from lowering the cost of housing and groceries to ensuring access to reproductive choice but she began the remarks and ended them by emphasizing the ideals of america and how those ideals still very much remain at the heart of the american project as long as voters choose to protect them. >> nearly 250 years ago america was born when we rested freedom from a petty tyrant. across the generations, americans have preserved that freedom, expanded it, and in so

doing prove to the world that a government of, by, and for the people is strong and can into a -- into a. those who came before us, the patriots at normandy and selma seneca falls, stonewall. on farmlands and factory floors they did not struggle, sacrifice, and lay down their lives only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms. they did not do that to cs submit to the will of another petty tyrant. these united states of america, we are not a vessel for the

schemes of wannabe dictators. the united states of america is the greatest idea humanity ever devised. nation big enough to encompass all our dreams, strong enough to withstand any fracture or fissure between us and fearless enough to imagine a future of possibilities. >> joining me is congressman jamie raskin from maryland and former member of the january 6 committee. thank you for being here tonight. i'm eager to get your thoughts. it was an extraordinary backdrop, kamala harris vice president of the united states standing at the ellipse which exists in the popular imagination as the place where

trump incited a violent mob. she is standing there saying the united states of america is not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators. your impressions? >> it was a beautifully patriotic speech. i thought he had traveled expertly at this point in the campaign. that is generally one most candidates who are running a real campaign hit their stride. she was able to navigate the divide between talking about concrete policy proposals like the child care tax credit and making home care part of medicare and then soaring, idealistic oratory about america and about the democratic project we are all engaged in. all of it was contrasted periodically with the authoritarian dangers offered by donald trump and the

billionaire oligarchs who are now propping up his faltering campaign. i thought it was a dutiful way to make that final pitch. i know the people in my district in maryland, in dc and virginia have been on fire about that speech. it was a huge, massive overflow crowd which i'm sure is going to upset and destabilize her opponent. >> he is obsessed with crowds isis. 60,000 people at the event and the fringes of the event. you are raising such an important point which is, this was billed as the vice president's closing argument about democracy. there was a deeply thoughtful meditation on what america stands for and how resilient we can be in the face of potential tyranny and the aftermath of some version of tyranny but there was also a laundry list

of bread and butter economic issues and agenda items she ticked through from the sandwich generation, homecare workers, grocery prices. it seems like the democrats have decided it's not either or. we don't just have to talk about democracy or american principles. we don't just have to talk about the economy. they can coexist together with no sacrifices made in terms of topic. is that how you see it in terms of how the party closes out the last week before the election? >> absolutely. that is what democracy is. in democracy, government is an instrument for obtaining the common good of all. it's about talking about home care, people who need to take care of elderly parents. it's about the child care tax credit and making it possible for young people to purchase their first home. that is democracy.

it's the system that cares about the common good of the common people as opposed to the vladimir putin, viktor orban, donald trump, kim jong un autocracy that is anything but. it's about the guy getting in and making as much money as possible for him, his family and corporations. if i had a critique it would be that that part of it was left out. he is first and foremost a con man that took us for a ride for millions and millions of dollars from foreign states, kings, princes, the oversight democrats released a report on all of the foreign government emoluments we could lay our eyes on. the chairman did everything he could to blockade us but we also found hundreds of thousands of dollars that they got with him charging the secret service and other federal government agencies.

totally unconstitutional to do the and donald trump jr. said he did not even take his salary when he was president. that's all you are allowed to take. you are not allowed to take the taxpayers to the cleaners by shaking down all the federal government agencies and foreign monarchs and despots. it has come out that they have gotten not just millions of dollars in deals they are making with foreign governments but billions of dollars that jared kushner brought back more than $2 billion from saudi arabia. he really should be registered as a foreign agent. those are radically contrasting forms of politics and government we are talking about. >> you name checked james,. i have to bring up a comment that former president trump made about a little secret that he shares with the speaker of the house. i do wonder given the record here of republicans in the house

enabling corruption, how concerned you are about them sharing anything let alone a little secret. >> i think with our little secret we will do really well with the house. our little secret is having a big impact. we will tell you what it is when the race is over. >> what is the secret? do you know what it is? >> i do not know what it is but we know he's willing to lie, cheat, and steal literally in order to hang on to public office which is such a great moneymaking opportunity and what he called the greatest infomercial of all time. he would do anything for that. if you think they would not engage in further corruption, fraud, deceit and lying to take office you are too innocent to be let out of the house by yourself at this point. the great news is the democrats in the house and senate and our lawyers are prepared for all of

their mischief and shenanigans. whatever their little secrets are, of course, they told donald trump about the contingent election provision in the toth amendment which is if they could somehow deny the rightful majority of electors to the winner in the vote under the electoral college it is kicked into the house of representatives where we vote not according to one member one vote but one state one vote where the republicans have an advantage. he thinks that is a big secret because he doesn't know anything about the constitution. we understand that is in there but we will see that the certificates of ascertainment that are sent in by the governors are honored based on an honest and accurate counting of the votes. president biden is in charge of the national guard, not donald trump who sat there eating cheeseburgers and french fries and watching tv while the capitol was stormed by the mob that he incited.

president biden will be there to defend the government and the constitution of the united states. we have non-scalable fencing and we are ready for any proud boys or oath keepers that are trying to overturn an election result and overturn the constitution. i am more concerned about them trying to steal it earlier in the process by challenging the certification not at the end but challenging the certification at the precinct level, county level and state level. >> can i ask you about that because we have footage of valid boxes being burned in oregon and washington. before 2020 there had only ever been a handful of instances in which election commissioners declined to certify an election. in the years since they have voted against certifying results in at least 20 counties across eight states. so violence as the ballots are being cast. potential to cannery which is euphemistic. fraudulent

activity around the commissioners who are selected to certify these things. on a scale of 1 to 10 what is your level of concern? 10 being the most and zero be in the least. >> i feel pretty certain based on what we've seen that there are going to be a tax on the ballot boxes. there will be attacks on people's right to vote. they are a shrinking minority party operating as a cult of personality around a charismatic or allegedly charismatic field -- figure at this point. they know the majority is not with them. even hillary who lost the electoral college beat trump by more than 3 million votes just like joe biden beat him by seven and a half-million votes. we have 14 million new voters in this country overwhelmingly young people who are proenvironment, pro-choice, pro- democracy, anti-mega.

they are against the bashing agenda. they know that they cannot win fair and square so there will be every effort using internal means to try to thwart people from casting ballots. there might be outside stuff by provocateurs like prop boys and oath keepers to stop us from having a fair and honest election. we are ready for them this time. we know what they are capable of. they say we are going to run a fair, honest, and tough campaign. we will win the election and we will defend the election against all comers whether it is donald trump or vladimir putin or other forces that want to interfere with democracy and freedom. >> jamie raskin, thank you for

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tonight, former president donald trump held a rally in allentown, pennsylvania, home to one of the largest puerto rican communities in america. it comes at a remarkably awkward moment for the trump campaign. it's been only 48 hours since a maga comedian made an incredibly racist comment about puerto ricans along with latinos . >> i don't know if you know this but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean. i think it's called puerto rico. >> when questioned by reporters about the comments, trump did not apologize. he pretended not to know him.

saying, i don't know tony hinchcliffe. somebody put him up there. i don't know who he is. >> it was a lovefest. it was an honor to be involved. >> as a reminder puerto ricans are u.s. citizens. about 5 million of them live in the united states and can vote in this election including 472,000 who live in the battleground state of pennsylvania. joining me is victor martinez, owner of la mega the radio station in allentown, pennsylvania. we saw each other, it feels like two years ago but was a week ago. first i want you feel from the ground. the rally just concluded. there was talk there might be protests in and around. what

was the reception like? >> there were a few people who decided to go and protest. i told my audience not to. i told my audience it was not worth going there and putting themselves out there. i thought it was dangerous for them to do so. what i told my audience is if they are really upset if they really want to protest the best way to do it is next tuesday at the ballot box. if they want to take the flag and be proud of being puerto rican the best way to do it is next tuesday at the ballot box. >> the comedian at the rally said such appalling things about many americans. he reserved a particular amount of vitriol and directed it at latinos and black americans. what have your viewers, your listeners said to you? i know you do call ins on your radio show, but what was the reaction to the comments?

>> the last two days, yesterday and today we've taken hundreds of calls. first of all, they can't believe something like this would be said in such a public way about any country but about puerto rico, they were surprised and upset. now they are just mad. one of the things that has gotten the puerto rican community met by the hour is the fact that even though, trump did not say those things for the last two days he has completely neglected to even address the situation or apologize or distance themselves from what happened. this morning we heard he was having a news conference we all thought maybe now he will finally say something. we hear him say that it was a lovefest. he loved it and was proud of being part of that event. that told us flat out that he

agreed with everything that was said. >> it is also a reminder of the attitude he has taken and the aftermath of 2017 and it was an abysmal response. for people in your community that may have forgotten this is a searing reminder of the attitude he has taken to an essential part of the united states. do you think this is the kind of thing that will make latinos, people in your audience, change their votes if they are trump supporters? >> from what i am hearing now, yes. i had a listener that called in this morning. he told us he's a republican and he already voted for trump by mail. he was upset. he was mad that he already voted. when i asked him now what he said in order to make up for already voting for trump he is now calling everyone he knows

to make sure they are voting for kamala harris. that gives you an example. you mentioned maria. time heals all wounds, that happened five, six, seven years ago. we let that go as it was. what happened on sunday brought all those feelings back. it reminded us that is right. that's the guy that was throwing paper towels that us. he wanted to trade us like a used car. he called us poor and dirty. he now is part of this puerto rico is trash comment. it is like a wound that is bleeding again. >> latino artists some from puerto rico including j lo, her

heritage is puerto rican, bad bunny who is probably the most culturally relevant artist right now. don omar, daddy yankee they came out and endorsed kamala harris. we talk about celebrity endorsements to have those endorsements rollout do you think that makes a meaningful difference? >> i think that has an impact that all of those artists are endorsing. the puerto rico representative in congress which is a republican, a trump supporter, and a candidate for governor in puerto rico jennifer gonzales said today on puerto rico television that she believes that this situation will hurt him in the states where puerto ricans live. >> you are in one of them. i want to hear daily news about what is happening on the ground there. thank you so much for taking

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>> our whole country will end up being like to try if she is president. >> with that comment he is looking at the blight of the houses that haven't been torn down, the abandoned factories that haven't been cleaned up. >> why did he say that? >> donald trump, at his age he's had that eloquent speaking sessions of his life. >> you are saying we don't -- he does not give a [bleep] we are past prime eloquence. >> when were we ever in prime eloquence donald trump? when was that? for the past eight years daily show correspondent jordan klepper has gone to maga rallies and interviewed trump supporters. a lot has changed. he's more unfocused, fatigued, bizarre, he toggles back and

forth between fascism and color commentary about sharks, hannibal lector, and arnold palmer's genitalia. trump supporters have become more extreme themselves. >> back to back catastrophic hurricanes. you can't tell me they did not have a hand in that. >> the democrats are controlling the weather. >> the government. >> if trump gets in office he will have control. >> they will pass the torch. >> people are coming up and saying trump is a time traveler. >> i have not heard the time traveler one. >> so he came back? >> he had already been there once before. >> if that's the case he must know that he won because he decided to run again. >> i think he knows he's going to win. >> that's why he's so angry because he knows that he won so

they cheated. >> we can't be the most far out theory of the day. >> you are not. >> how much for the kamala toilet paper. >> democrats control the weather and donald trump is a time traveler. trump rallies have always been an ecosystem unto themselves. this year they feel like an ecosystem on mars. don't take my word for it. jordan klepper joins me to discuss how the man and his movement have gotten even more maga, next. , next.

>> i was curious which new sources you follow and do trust. >> i ask questions from my lord above. i honestly get a lot of stuff from x. >> so god and twitter. the daily show's jordan klepper has been attending trump rallies for a decade and is still standing. while some things have the same some things are different. j.d. vance is on the ticket, democrats can control the weather and donald trump is the a time traveler. joining me is jordan klepper with his new special jordan klepper fingers the polls, rallied together. it's available on paramount plus, comedy central, and youtube. i want to get all of your thoughts. >> let's get into it. >> you are a seasoned vet of

maga land. >> i have been there. i have the t-shirt. i tried to return it. they just keep giving me a new one. >> written in the new york times far from's showing strength, he's writing about msg. far from still -- showing strength they showed it is a spent and exhausted force even if it is not yet defeated. i wonder as you go to these events whether that comports with the reality you are witnessing. does it feel like a movement that has lost steam that is more carnival than it is political movement? >> i do feel like the circus has come through town many times. people are still coming out to see the three armed man still telling them self lies that that's not a prosthetic that it is a third arm. we are seeing less and less people there. the diehards are there. we see a lot of people who have

been to 93 rallies and keep going to more. it's like the deadheads. hearing those details, that's what i saw as well. it is impressive to fill an arena. filling an arena full of new jersey folks is not going to win an election. just ask the jets. what i saw was donald trump looking small. it's the people he brought up with him. if you are presenting to the world your final case, and the best thing you have to offer is dr. phil and whole cogan, these d listers that are out there with anger and bad jokes that are offensive and racist and feel like man scribblings on a bathroom wall by mediocre men, if that is your final offer, that is your team what you have. i see that. it's 18,000 people but somehow

he made 18,000 people and the event seem tiny. >> we were talking before it began about the comedian that made the most racist garbage comments at the rally. you were saying, you know this guy tony hinchcliffe? >> i do not know him personally . >> you are familiar with his work? this was not a secretly are surprisingly purulent set that he did. >> if you are hiring tony hinchcliffe are asking him to be part of the show this is what you are expecting. it's not like anybody is shocked that whole cogan ripped his shirt off. that's what he does. tony hinchcliffe told roast jokes. that's what he does. these things usually happen at a small comedy club or the back rooms at a maga event. this happened at madison square garden . suddenly the secret is out. it is laughable to me you

know and i know. >> we are told from people that are not familiar with these sets that this is the kind of stuff that resonates with young men. it may seem passi or like a weird sideshow, but this is what is with the whole -- you see the enthusiasm level. is that an assessment of the value of these people. >> this excites all men. -- not all men. the worst men. not to be pejorative about it. if this is what gets you going i think you need a hobby. learn how to play guitar.

i do have empathy. >> you see this at these maga rallies . part of the excitement at a maga rally is the rebellious nature. rebellion against what? that is very ill-defined. they by t-shirts to make people angry. >> kamala harris toilet paper. >> it is more akin to a rebellious teenager who wants to tp the front yard. that energy exists. they want someone to say something untoward that might play with a dirty, dark joke. this is not the back room to some comedy club. this is somebody asking for your support. >> you also want to win over latino men, women, voters this is not going to help you do that in addition to being explicitly racist. you mention the trolling the lips aspect and we played some

trump supporters saying with straight faces, donald trump may be a time traveler or democrats can control the weather. you are up close with these folks. is that more like trolling or saying outlandish thing or do you generally think that that kind of disinformation has implanted itself in their brains? >> at that point it's not about what the truth of that situation is they are not seeking truth. they are seeking comfort. the weather conversation, they have marks their worldview around this idea that everything is us versus them. air is now something that has to be them and not us. it is not a discussion over what they truly believe because at that point it's almost somebody but they believe most in winning and most in donald trump. they comport the worldviews to that. donald trump gives them just enough rope to hang themselves in the proverbial bad information world. >> when you have conversations, i mean whatever happens on

november 5, the country presumably will stay the united states of america. i wonder what is it when you get out of occult, there is certain ways to bring people back into society. i wonder if there are any sort of devices or tricks you have learned to help people who are so deeply embedded in the cult of maga come back or at least see a light at the end of the tunnel that may be, in fact, the truth. is there a way to approach these folks? >> the short answer, no. i have not seen a lot of change. to be fair i'm not going out there to try to change minds. in this special we brought somebody, edward. we brought him to a kamala harris rally because he had never been. from his perspective everybody at a kamala harris rally is a paid actor. they don't bring -- believe

anything they talk about. he's critical and trolling but he's a good-natured person. i like edward. he feels like your uncle. over time through exposure and engaging in conversations and talking one-on-one, he did not change his mind but he at least thought it's a movement. it's not my movement, but there's a movement here. they are not lizard people. they are real people. the internet is not a real place. if you look at someone face-to- face and want to troll them it is really hard. it is so we see from the internet or msg if it's just your pals. if you are face-to- face i truly believe you can connect and help that person. i think that is built-in to a lot of this maga. what is the phrase? dictators pray on loneliness. we see that. you have to deal with the loneliness and that may provide a path out of that.

>> i've been through the fire. >> jordan klepper, thank you. thank you for what you are doing. the daily show presents jordan klepper fingers the polls, rallied together. that is available on paramount plus. it is great to see a. when we come back, republicans are losing some key court battles over the 2024 election. election day is not even here yet. lisa rubin joins me coming up next. next. i'm also a library board trustee, a mother of two, our legal eagle joins me next. ts t . i saw the commercials for prevagen. i started taking it. and it helped! i noticed my memory was better. there was definite improvement. people say to me, "barbara, you don't miss a beat!" prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. camilla tried the new scent of gain relax flings

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spouses and children of servicemembers. in about it the state supreme court ruled that election officials can count mail-in ballots that arrive without a postmark as many as three days after election day. and in pennsylvania the state supreme court ruled that voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected should be allowed to vote with a provisional ballot. the republican party has appealed that decision to the supreme court. joining me now is lisa rubin. thank you for being here. i want to go through as many of these as we can in our time. the one in nevada where voters are being held accountable for a postmark on or not on their ballot seems to be insane. >> that is what the court said in this decision. basically telling the rnc, no, it's not reasonable to demand

that voters get a postmark on their ballot if the statute says that we are to count it where the postmark cannot be determined and that includes situations where there's no postmark in the first place. but putting that on the voters is incompatible with the legislative intent of expanding the right to vote and not contracting it. >> to they have an argument to make? i voted by mail. how could i know that a cup postmarked? >> they say that the rnc said a voter can ensure their ballot is postmarked by visiting the post office and requesting a postmark from associate while dropping off their ballot. and then the court said it's possible for some but it might not be for other groups, including people who need to vote by mail. seniors who are homebound, it's against the reason that we have mail-in voting to begin with, which is to protect those most

foldable and make sure they have access. >> i'm curious about your thoughts on pennsylvania. can you talk a little bit about what is happened there? >> first of all, let's talk about the supreme court. tomorrow the winters in pennsylvania oh their response to the supreme court in terms of where it's going to go and if it's going to go. in pennsylvania you have a bunch of people who try to vote by mail and got it wrong and the case they failed to include a secrecy envelope that protects their ballot. >> the inner envelope that you put your ballot in before you put it in the mail. >> they were notified that they messed up their mail-in ballot and then they tried to vote provisionally and they were essentially told caught your vote cannot count. they then took the case to court, and now you have the supreme court saying not only do you have the right to vote

provisionally if your mail-in ballot is somehow messed up or you have one without a signature, but, counties must count them were voters cast them. >> so basically people were messing up the secretarial part. and not enclosing it and were informed, you messed up your ballot, but then you were told that a provisional ballot would not count. and this is still the line republicans are trying to push. >> again, the pennsylvania supreme court says a variation of what nevada said that the whole purpose of this is to expand the population of people who can vote. it's wrong to penalize people for getting the technicalities wrong. so they didn't include the inner one or they failed to sign it. but if they are notified got to not give them an opportunity to cure that is punitive and not

in the spirit of what the state constitution requires as well as what the law allows. >> in north carolina that they are trying to restrict families of servicemembers whom i would assume probably vote in healthy numbers for republican candidates and they are trying to restrict their ability to vote by mail. >> someone described this to me is not necessarily something republicans expected to win but throwing spaghetti at the wall. in an attempt to make that red mirage that we might see on election day feel like a red finale. if you can exclude through litigation the votes that will be counted last of all, you can make what looks like a decisive victory do you like the result that should been reached all along. they are grasping at straws and did not expect to win and uniformly in all those cases

that involved adult children or spouses they've lost across the board.>> for a lot of us who are watching ballot boxes being burned or election deniers, the fact that the courts are still resisting efforts on the part of republicans to subvert democracy and to disenfranchise voters, it's good news especially as we head into an election season where there is bound to be a bunch of lawsuits. >> let's hope the courts stay filled with integrity. >> always good to see you. that is our show for this evening. please be sure to turn in tomorrow for a special we are having and i will cohosted alongside my friend joy re-. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. after that historic speech by kamala harris, we need