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republicans would do the same local republicans would write the republican national committee and it was largely private individuals. so in the case of the democrats, samuel tilden, who was incredibly wealthy, one of the wealthiest men in america, financed much of his own campaign. democrats had other children. august, belmont, who had long for a long time been the chair of the democratic national committee for horse racing fans. belmont is well known as the namesake for the belmont stakes. one of the races still today, part of the triple crown. belmont was also very wealthy and helped finance these campaigns. so money was becoming increasingly prominent during these campaigns, largely financed by individual sales. there were, of course, no campaign finance laws like we have today. and so an individual could pour as much money as they wanted into a campaign. and large that money would go to help state and local organizations fund their campaigns during the election. okay. now we're going to get into the hard part. sure. november 6th, 1876, here is the popular vote. samuel tilden rece

still a red state but it has to be a republican, that is traditional republican. limited government, economic freedom, individual responsibility. if you are running for example for the office of mine inspector and you have a r behind your name as a statewide office in arizona, then you probably are going to win. just being a republican is enough. but if you say, will i don't think donald trump really lost the last election, then you probably will lose. and i think that is a credit to the people of arizona, who reject people who reject free and fair elections. so i think it is still a red state, but you can't go off on a tangent like the president has. >> and a number of republican voters i have spoken to in the state, in fact i'm going to air the interviews i have had with them in the last few days, who have said the same thing. they in fact, many cases in the last statewide election, they supported democratic candidates, and believe they are republicans but they don't want to vote for this kind of republican. they would like to reclaim their party. i want to ask

we are a group in the spirit of republicans who want a better direction for the republican party. we want to create an alternative narrative to maga. those of us in the party who want a different direction have been far too quiet, so what we've done is we've laid out five core principles that we think have guided the republican party and should guide it going forward. the constitution, the rule of law, the peaceful transfer of power. we think january 6 was an abomination. we believe in unions. abraham lincoln was our founder. his objective was to keep this great country together, and unfortunately donald trump and his movement want to divided further. -- divide it further. we also believe in peace as strength in foreign policy, rejecting autocrats like vladimir putin and kim jong-un. we are in a very different place than the maga movement. we are also for free markets. we are not talking about the 1850's of the 1920's, that the same time we think across the tariffs would really wreak havoc on the country and our economy and not in keeping with the traditions with where we as repub

republicans have a razor thin majority.ack to your calls, eric in medina, ohio on the line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. i voted straight republican because i think we need change. kamala is not going to give us change, she will continue with socialist woke policies that have opened borders. not confronting our enemies. i feel like we need a change. i feel like we need to get a congress in there. host: who is your representative in congress right now? caller: my representative is max miller. one of my senators is sherrod brown. he's been a politician all his life and he vote straight democrat and that's one of the reasons we have the open border policy we have. we are sending money over to other countries and not taking care of our people. that's one of the biggest things that people want to see. host: earl in lakewood, washington on the line for democrats. good morning. caller: how are you guys doing this morning? i lived my whole life in the south. but now, i live in washington state and it is wonde

2020, i have voted republican ticket. i apologize. but donald trump changed that. donald trump ignores the truth and the rule of law. he belittles, he emigrate -- he denigrates americans, including our veterans and war heroes. he divides our country. it's us versus them. trump encouraged a mob to attack the capitol to try to overthrow the results of a tree and their election. he has turned this country that i love to something much darker that serves only him at the expense of us. as we all know and expressed in washington recently, we know a second trump administration would be something dark and dangerous for our country. as a lifelong republican, i'm proud to support kamala harris and tim walz. [cheers and applause] because i know that he will support the constitution and uphold the rule of law. they have a real mission, not concept of a plan, to expand the middle class, cut costs for families, secure the border and reform immigration. one other thing -- my dad was a football coach in campbell, nebraska, in the 1950's.

caller: republican, they are both republicans. host: braun, good morning. -- ron, good morning. caller: i will not be voting for my congressman. i went to one of his rallies and asked him why when trump was in there for four years that he didn't secure the border. i asked him how many bills he passed on the border when he was in there. he said zero. i asked him how many bills he's passed since he's been in there. he said zero. i asked him what he's been doing and then i find out that all he does when he's in there is raise money for the republicans. i asked him why he didn't do anything, why he was in there to secure our borders. trump said he was going to secure our borders the day he got in there. while he is -- why he is -- now, i have no idea. host: who is running against the congressman there, now? caller: you know, i really don't care. anybody but vern buchanan and anybody but rick scott. rick scott, our senator, he took and ripped off the government for $750 million when he was in charge of his health care company. he only won by think 1% last time -- by .1% last time and

republicans. learn a little bit more about the two men we're talking about. rutherford hayes and samuel tilden rutherford b hayes, of course, served as president from 1877 to 1881. he was born in 1822 in delaware, ohio, just north of columbus, attended kenyon college, harvard law school. he was wounded in the civil war. he was a colonel and then a general in that war for the union. he was a member of the house of representatives. governor of ohio. what distinguished what distinguished him in your view? a great question. i think one of the really fascinating things about this election is i think the two candidates in some ways, you could describe as polar opposites, as you mentioned, hayes was prior to this point, not very well known nationally. he was very prominent in ohio, his home state, where he had gradually risen up through the political ranks. he had served briefly in congress. and then, as you mentioned, as the governor of ohio, really, it was his military service during the civil war that

because i knew i was republican. i registered republican on my 18th birthday. like i couldn't wait to register. i knew like i was that weird kid, right? i guess. but it made perfect sense to me. but these were the early days of voter data where you could look that stuff up and. so they thought i was was a spy. and so my first, my first. and there are spies in campaigns by. the way that does happen, of course i had no idea. so i walked and wanted to volunteer for my congressman men. and they were like, why would a mexican kid from a democratic family want to work for a congressman who's pretty anti-illegal immigration? like, what's going on. and my first job in politics was to take off stamps from envelopes that had been stamped. they wanted to make sure they wanted to make sure. i, of course, had no idea. thought i was saving the republic right. so i'm like peeling stamps off. and they put me in a storage closet, isolated me from everybody, and i would be there for hours just trying to peel them off perfectly so that congresswoman could use them again. and afte

they are both what we would call maggie republicans -- what we would call maga republicans. that her election day was stolen in some way and has gone to court over it. now she is campaigning for the senate against gallego. gallego is up. harris is down. gallego, the democrat is up by larger margin. that has been a hot topic for the last two months of the election cycle. people are trying to scratch their heads and say, why is that? who are the voters that are going to vote for trump but then gallego or not vote in the senate race at all or vote for someone besides lake? i think that what it boils down to is the difference in the candidates and maybe lake trying to out trump trump without being trump. gallego is a different political candidate than harris. he has a long-established presence in arizona. host: let's talk about some of the others. arizona -- guest: schweiger, who is maybe a familiar name to everybody, he has been in congress for i want to say 14 years. has been there for quite a while. he is known for being a fiscal conservative for having concerns about financi

joseph bradley by republican several treatment millet republican. william strong republican.athan s clifford, democrat. steven johnson field another democratic appointee. let's go back to david davis. what was his story? >> david davis is fascinating because you said david davis is fromom illinois. he had been very close confidant and friend of abraham lincoln. pinpointed by linking to a corporate davis was as you said widely viewed as an independent. in the mid- 19th century independent genuinely independent free of either political party. moston assumed because of his reputation as an independent the four justices congress appointed who then got to choose the fifth justice the 15th member of the committee they would choose it davis. the popular belief was that davis probably favored children but nobody knew for certain. when it's up happening is at the last minute literally as congress is going to vote on this bill that will create the commission davis' home state the state legislature in illinois decides to select davis as their new senator from illinois. the 19th century

about three in 10 republicans. these are people who are sympathetic or adherent to christian nationalism, it is a full one third of that group who favors armed poll watchers. democrats it is around one in 10. the second is when we saw. three and 10 republicans saying true american patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country. the last

republicans and democrats. in this particular case, they were all voting for vice president harris and tim walz, and all voting for you. in fact, your race has now become -- you got -- i want to see a comfortable lead. >> no lead until i when. >> you are outside the margin of error according to poling. the whole country is looking at certain particular states this year, including this one. >> arizona is in the independent-minded state. we are very western. and i think a lot of people are seeing the stakes of this election, realizing that there's only one way to go, and that's to make sure we get people like kari lake and donald trump not elected. especially with abortion-rights . they had a big scare when they tried to take us back to 1864 abortion ban. people are voting their conscience and for freedom this year. >> the republicans on my panel work pointing that out, that the states history of republicanism and conservatism suggests smaller government, and they don't think these abortion restrictions fit in wi

when we talk about age, suburban republican women tend to support broader republican act test compared to their rural counterparts. we know this. we've been operating from that data for about four years now. but the trump campaign has a really -- he is doing the ivf dance now because he realizes this is the play that plays well with suburban women. he is trying to use a strategy that is a throw everything against the wall strategy. at the end of the day, what we need to see

at the republican primary. please. nikki haley got 33, almost 34% of the vote here. so liz cheney, kamala harris, the vice president, know there are some republicans here who did nearly 50,000, who did not want to vote for donald trump, if the vice president can get 11,500 or more of those, she's in business and the first stop, anderson for the campaign, let me come back here and let's come back to 2020 again. was here in pennsylvania where down here southeast pennsylvania, chester county, one of the collar counties around philadelphia, more and more democratic but still look at this. joe biden guts it's 58% there, but go back to those republican primaries. nikki haley got 24% of the vote in this county and pennsylvania, two months after she dropped out of the race. so again, are you going to get all 9,338 of those people? maybe not in a state as close as pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin, what they're doing here is to try to say, we know there are a bunch of republicans out there who do not want to vote fo

that are on the republican ticket. you know, wanting to vote republican.ost: why did you decide to vote early this year? caller: early because i have ankle surgery coming up, very small. but i did not want to miss it. my family did not want to either because they will have to wait on me when i am done. host: i hope it goes well. indiana. line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. you are on. caller: yes. i am voting today. we are having a caravan in gary, indiana. we are meeting up at the headquarters in the state of indiana and we are going down to get the vote out this morning. i am very exciting -- excited to be leading the charge. host: do you normally vote early? caller: i do and the reason why is because i am an advocate and this allows me to get others to vote. and not have to worry about longer lines and things like that. host: how many people are you planning on bringing down? caller: well, we registered a little over 40 cars, so i am not sure how many people will be in the cars. i imagine at least two per car if not m

republicans, trumpers voting -- can't call them republicans really -- voting for donald trump, their freedoms will be taken away. he'll be taking away the freedoms of the american people, something he is threatening to do to political adversaries. that could be anybody he doesn't like. that could be a show he doesn't like. that could be something said at a baseball game that he doesn't like. does that sound crazy? oh, she's crazy. she's overreacting. hold on, hold on, let me bring it back to reality. it is not an overreaction. it is actually what he is saying. you can talk about the talk about what he is saying, or you can look at what he is saying. i am imploring the american public to listen to what he is saying. he's already done this. he's already taken away freedoms. if i sound repetitive, that's okay. i'm hoping it'll break through. he's taken away 50 years of freedoms for women in this country. that's already happened. women's access to life-saving health care is gone under donald trump and his strict abortion bans. women have been bleeding out. they've been sterilized. they'v

because i knew i was republican. i registered republican on my 18th birthday. like i couldn't wait to register. i knew like i was that weird kid, right? i guess. but it made perfect sense to me. but these were the early days of voter data where you could look that stuff up and. so they thought i was was a spy. and so my first, my first. and there are spies in campaigns by. the way that does happen, of course i had no idea. so i walked and wanted to volunteer for my congressman men. and they were like, why would a mexican kid from a democratic family want to work for a congressman who's pretty anti-illegal immigration? like, what's going on. and my first job in politics was to take off stamps from envelopes that had been stamped. they wanted to make sure they wanted to make sure. i, of course, had no idea. thought i was saving the republic right. so i'm like peeling stamps off. and they put me in a storage closet, isolated me from everybody, and i would be there for hours just trying to peel them off perfectly so that congresswoman could use them again. and afte

the republican party is not as well funded. they don't seem to have the organized structure in place. the current governor is a republican and he has been looking to get that in place. we know that it takes years to put that in place but we think it is a very decisive factor in getting the vote and message across and has been critical this year because of how short a turnaround time we had between the decision of joe biden and harris having to get her campaign going. the machine is on the ground for them and we have seen a lot of harris material in the neighborhoods as a result. host: if you would like to join the conversation, if you're a trump supporter, call us on (202) 748-8001, if you support harris-walz, (202) 748-8000, undecided (202) 748-8002. nevada residents since we are focused (202) 748-8003 since we are focused on it, call us on (202) 748-8003. how effective do you think it has been? guest: when we started the conversation, nevada was only six electoral votes could we should not be see many visits by the candidates

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that republicans can support. so this is a major part of the campaign payne's message. now, trump also has democrats and former democrats supporting him. and so that's a part of his message as well. the rfks and tulsi gabbard of the world but, but, but you know, so much of the point of the harris campaign has been about this message to republicans, former republicans, conservative independents that she is a leader who will represent them, we'll bring the country together, will work in a bipartisan way and an effort to, you know, rebut the accusation from the trump camp that she's a far left liberal or a communist as he's called her. and trying to position herself, you know, more in the center and she needs that, frankly, in order to win, she needs some of that crossover vote. she needs. and this is the erosion that the republican party has experienced since donald trump has been the nominee since 2016, we have seen more and more of, again, these particularly upper-income college educated suburbanites leaving the r

the republicans went right back and so republicans consolidated than i would expect. democrats are shakier than they will be in a couple of weeks and independents moved towards biden not by the numbers he needs, but in the right direction. and that's what i'm saying. the fundamentals still are the movement is marginal but the directions of each of those three category is are heading in the right direction, at least at the moment. you about the consolidation. and i do feel that's just we zoom out to the you know 2030 years that is a trend looking at where there just aren't the liberal rockefeller republicans aren't the conservative democrats. you used to see. i mean, when you're looking in this, you explore a lot this trend of the latino vote. to what extent are any gains that republicans are making with simply a product, republicans consolidating. i don't that the movement of latinos to republican party is part of a broader conservative. i believe that the movement of latinos to republicans is part of much bigger populist movement and it is anti-state abolishment. and

we talk about the republican base a lot but the republican base is not joe rogan's audience. the republican base is actually suburban always republican voters, these stalwarts and donald trump struggled with them in 2020. i want to know if they're back. >> i will pick erie county which actually might be an easy bellwether but also will give us some sense of, you know, maybe, donald trump is topped out in terms of white working class voters or maybe he's not. so that's a county that is very close to the national average, but also in an important state. ok, let's go again, let's go. we'll move around the room. how about we'll go here, . >> michael. i'm a west michigan native. >> good to hear that. >> if we come back a month from now, particularly kristen and jeff. to what extent do you expect that you would agree about why, what happened happened? so if i asked you what happened in 2020 is that a long argument between the two of you or is it a short discussion because you more or less have a consensus? >> i find that i agree more with my polling colleagues who are democrats tha

i have aarning for the republicans. donald trump cannot win this election as long as he cap tells to the republican mind of -- cap wtows. the people texas over the department of education $0 billion a year. that is around $8 billion in interest, profit alone that gets sucked out of texas and sent to the department of education. it is similar for the other southern states. georgia is the worst. maryland is among the worst. this is not a democrat problem, this is not a republican problem. people have been massely misled by the media. donald trump was saying the right things in 2015. he said, why is the government making such a massive profit on student loans? there are 40 million people in the country underwater on their student loans. it is like 85% of all borrowers. ey are going to vote their pocketbooks. host: do you have student loans? caller: i have student loans. i am actually the first student loan activist in the united states. i published the first book to be critical of the lending program. i started the first g

introduce another republican, the daughter, of course, of a republican vice president who has long been despised in many democratic circles for his role in pushing the war in rain rack, a wam who was once a member of republican party leadership, serving as the chair of the republican house conference just three years ago. yeah, she was there along with other republicans as part of a new wide reaching basically moral coalition who stood on the stage with the democratic nominee for president, d kamala harris, and said this. >> i tell you i have never voted for democrat, but this year i am proudlyea casting my vote for ve president kamala harris. thank you. but mostly we're not going back. i ask you to meet this moment. i ask you to stand in truth, to reject the depraved cruelty of donald trump. and i ask you instead to help us elect kamala harris for president. >> there are so many powerful forces that have been the intent on trying to demean and belittle and make people afraid, and there are many who know it is wrong, and then there are those who have the courage to speak out loudly abou

he shifted that race to lean republican. that means if democrats won a viable path to the majority they have to find another target. increasingly texas is becoming the target. you have ted cruz, of course he won by less than three put -- points in 2018. presidential election should be harder in texas but there is a couple of unique things happening. ted cruz is polarizing and he has emphasized his work as a legislator. he has toned down the bombastic personality but he is running against colin allred, who is a more centrist congressmen, flipped a seat in 2018 from red to blue in the midterm elections. then he was drawn into a safe c. he could have stayed in suburban dallas for as long as he wanted, but democrats convincing him to run for senate. he has been able to fund raise. the latest number in texas, he has already spent almost $50 million between him and and all right's campaign versus cruise. his heavy advantage on air has enabled already to raise his name identification, to get his message out there, and there are two

but the point i've made is that this country, that my party, the republican party, the republican party away from this type of maga movement. it is alienating much of the country and a lot of republican voters. that is why we need to get something that is grounded in principles, things that abraham lincoln and many of the others to lead this party over the years aligned with. we should be looking forward. and i don't agree with the democrats on a lot of these policies, some of which you mentioned. but at the same time, we've got to get to a better place is a party and i don't think trump is the right guy. host: we don't take personal attacks on our desks, we don't allow those. james and buffalo, kentucky, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call, i really enjoy your show. after this fella here, he has no clue what he is talking about when it comes to the economy. he is a rino and a disgrace. host: stick with the policies, what policies are you talking about? caller: i grew up in san francisco, and harris when she was there, she made a mess out of things. her and nancy pelosi.

she was joineded by per than 100 republicans, that includes former republican congressman and the januaryect committee adam kinzinger and former georgia lieutenant governor both who had primetime speak roles in her convention. the vice president's message to republican voters today looking to turn the page on the chaos of donald trump and his very explicit and specific plans now to rule as an authoritarian should he win in november and that's where we start today. democratic strategist and pollster msnbc political journalist cornell belcher is here and ruth bengia is here, chief political columnist and host of the podcast joel halliman, i'll start with you. there's something like a finger in the socket for me when i hear the democratic nominee lifting up and celebrating the courage and patriotism of mike pence, someone who served loyally. you can say one thing about mike pence is this he served almost sycophantically for donald trump all four years except for two hours, one day, and it is a day that led to a threat against his family and the mission of hanging mike pence was the chant hea

you are a republican in a blue state. his bid to become maryland's first republican senator in nearly 40 years is testing his bipartisan appeal in a deep blue state. - i liked him as a governor. i'm not anti larry hogan. - hogan's race against democrat angela alsobrooks could decide control of the senate. - larry hogan, his bff, mitch mcconnell, and donald trump's rublican party want to flip this seat. - and the key to the senate majority runs through maryland. - i welcome whatever it takes to get us into the majority. i don't care if he's a vegetarian, it doesn't matter to me. he has received, and rejected, trump's endorsement. - i think he has a good chance to win. i would like to see him win. - so there's no chance you'll vote for trump? - i'm not going to. i didn't vote for him in 2016 or 2020, and i think i made that pretty clear. - what does former governor larry hogan say now? - [narrator] "firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foun

>> republicans, there's gonna be a red wave. it was not a red wave in large part perhaps because of this issue yeah. >> i mean, look, absolutely possible. this we talk about the presidential race being tight, what probably not going to, who's won the house for days, if not weeks on end, because the ballots are counted so slowly out in california. course there's so many key districts. they are key battleground districts. new york, we're obviously i'm from i took the train down yesterday. please make it. did stop from both sides. >> way too much. >> interrupts my baseball games, my football games try living in wisconsin thank god bless those folks. >> god bless. but here's the deal. democrats are going to run on abortion because it's by far their best issue. they don't want this campaign to be about immigration. they don't want it to be about the economy. they want it to be about abortion. it worked for him in 2022 poll after poll, after poll shows, it's their strongest issue. voters very much disagree with the overturning of roe

it's hurting republican turnout. meanwhile, democrats, stacey abrams, they were all embracing early voting. and basically democrats were building a giant lead. republicans would kind of frame it as now they've got to come back in the fourth quarter with a 28-0 deficit. that kind of thing. so, we are not sure, exactly, again, we were seeing a lot of big turnout in rural republican leaning counties where there was not big turnout before. so we are not sure if that is just a transfer from election day or if there is significantly new turnout in those areas. >> here is something we do know. because you share a byline on a recent article saying that the two key questions keeping the campaigns of that night are weather enough lachman will turn up for harrah's, and whether swing voters will break for trump. so, what can you, greg, tell us about how the two campaigns are doing as they try to win over these import demographics? >> yeah, this is a huge concern for both candidates. let's start with black men. harris is pulling

>> yeah, this is a big trend we have seen from the republican party.orth carolina and as you point out, most recently in michigan. they are targeting, as you say, a subset of ballots cast by people who are living overseas, many of whom are in our military. these are military and overseas voters, so they are throwing caution to the wind, challenging at the last minute the ballots of people were stationed overseas and their dependents and it just shows that the republican party doesn't stand for anything. there was a time when the rnc would've waived the flag, but time and time again we will see they will disenfranchise anyone and any group if they think it gives them an advantage. >> it was a federal judge in that case who seemed skeptical at the hearing today on that, partly because of how close it is to the election. the alabama case is interesting because scrubbing voter rolls is something that republican secretaries of state have done in texas and alabama. there have been a lot of places and there you have seen litigation from progressive groups, de

he was the republican nominee for president and a long time republican senator.he fact that this race is even close -- i have john boehner, former speaker of the house. he's not supporting trump. i have a list of the trump generals. john kelly thinks trump is exceedingly dangerous. there was an article with a taped conversation with john kelly saying trump admires hitler. it is not within the normal democratic -- the normal american discussion about candidates. the other generals that are not supporting. milley is not supporting him. mattis is not supporting him. the generals think trump is dangerous. host: here is wally on facebook who says the endorsement of actors and politicians does not matter in the least. larry on facebook says not really. their opinions mean no more than anyone else's. here's what danica patrick said on fox this week. [video] >> it's been so confusing how when you say maga it is meant to be an insult. i am passionate because it feels like voting for donald trump is like a vote of reason. it is the rational, reasonable choice. i feel like

party used to be, where republicans -- many republicans want to return it, right? so i think that's going to be part of the message, and i think ultimately they're going to go -- both of them will go after donald trump, and rightfully so, not -- i mean, most people probably remember this, but liz cheney was part of the january 6th committee so she knows firsthand what donald trump did that day,ed, what all his enablers did and so i think you're going to hear a lot of messaging reminding people because politics is all about reminding people. we're busy. we're working multiple jobs. we're working all the time. we're raising our families. politics is ultimately about reminding people, especially when you have a candidate like donald trump. i think we cannot under estimate how much people forget and how much time allows things to be roman at this sized. and then you have trump on top with his revisionist history. so i think you're going to hear a lot of reminders of just what happened on january 6th and what a threat to democracy donald trump is. >> christine, i want t

trump's not a normal republican. and kamala harris is not fitting the stereotype of some california democrat who can't do outreach, who doesn't wouldn't to make room for disagreement, who isn't willing to stand up to whoever it is in her own party who may say no conservatives, no republicans never. she is evincing a type of inclusion in the broadest sense of the word that, whether you agree with it or not, is not the stereotype, especially when people who follow politics less of, say, a liberal california democrat. >> no. but i think the thing is, it's necessary. and you mentioned this in your sort of opening segment. as long as you got, you know, 44 to 47% of the population who are going to have this fantasy, when i reminisce over you about what the trump administration was like, harris has to make sure she continually defines herself as somebody new because she has to work against not only frustration with the biden administration, but people memory holding what actually happened under trump before the pandemic. so

about three in 10 republicans. these are people who are sympathetic or adherent to christian nationalism, it is a full one third of that group who favors armed poll watchers. democrats it is around one in 10. the second is when we saw. three and 10 republicans saying true american patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country. the last one is that everyday americans may need to rise up. a little bit less on that question but the patterns are still clear. republicans about twice as likely as democrats to say this and if you affirm christian nationalism may be almost three times as likely. we should let this sink in. this is quite alarming. i have looked these numbers a lot and have to remind myself that this is a big deal. this is something quite new in the country. the other question we have is not exactly about violence, but it is about a coup. support for trump overthrowing the election if he is not confirmed as the winner, he should declare the results invalid and do whatever it takes to assume his

, maybe nikki haley republicans.y to come out on the trail maybe in madison square garden, maybe some place else. and maybe to counter some of that talk. what do you think of the two closing arguments? >> well, i mean, it's all about the undecided voters. and they are very small group. but the group seems to me to be, one, minority men, black and latino, and, two, those non-trump voters. non-maga voters who voted for haley in the republican primary even after haley had withdrawn. and i think you are seeing that in terms of the campaign approach. so the closing message really has to be to those groups. because turnout is key. and, you know, it used to be that republicans turned out early all the time. but then came donald trump who told people not to vote early now he says vote early. he says he is voting early. i think that the key here is who is able to get their people to the polls election day. >> bret: tonight was pennsylvania's last night for registering voters. if you look at 2020 versus now, republicans up 130

those republicans? >> yeah.isten, when people write the history of this period the republican elected officials who know it's false, who continue to spread the lie, will be among those who are shown to be just really complicit in this attempt to unravel the republic, and so they are spreading this lie. they know it isn't true. if we are going to be a nation of laws we abide by the rulings of the courts and donald trump had the opportunity, 61 out of 62 courts ruled against him and he was told that what he was saying was false. the fact that you now have the republican party and the leaders of the party who are in the grips of, you know, it seems to me just to be cowardice, that they are afraid of donald trump, but that they are willing to perpetuate his lies at the expense of their duty of the constitution tells you something about the real damage that's been done to the republican party. >> you told my colleague savannah guthrie, quote, a vote for donald trump may be the last election you may ever get to vote i

she would consider the traditional republican party before donald trump. i don't want to gang up on matt, but i want to push back on sept. thing. he said too about about this issue of kamala harris supporters being concerned that liz cheney's hawk military defense, foreign policy views are going to affect vice president harris's views liz cheney has made it clear, and i think vice president harris has this endorsement, this appearance today. it's not about policy. it's about what they see as the danger of donald trump and democracy all right, thanks, everyone. >> i want you to stand by because we do have some breaking news. a federal jury has just reached a verdict in the case against three former memphis police officers were charged in the beating death of tyre nichols, a 29-year-old, unarmed black man. let's get straight to cnn's shimon prokupecz. shimon, what did the jury decide? >> yes. so a mixed verdict here, alex, certainly the top counts here, which was the civil rights charge, was the count one was the deprivation of rights under color of law, exc

it's not like you hear bush democrats or obama republicans or republicans for clinton. you imagine? you know what you do here, though, these days? republicans for kamala. it's a result of her message and commitment to unity. something her opponent has no interest in. in a fox townhall in battleground georgia, trump appeared before an audience of all women because, you know, hosting an adjudicated rapist is what fox would green light. trump doubled down on his hitler talking points about the enemy from within. >> it is the enemy from within. and they're very dangerous. they're marxists and communists and fascists and they're saying -- i use a guy like adam schiff. they made up the russia hoax. we have china. we have russia. we have all these countries. if you have a smart president, they can all be handled. the more difficult -- you know, the pelosis, these people, they're so sick. and they're so evil. >> turns out trumps enemies from within aren't undocumented immigrants as his followers want you to think. i see you glenn youngkin. those enemies are democrats elected by

her father, the former vice president, a staunch republican, has also endorsed harris, saying, "there has never been an individual that is a greater threat to our republic than donald trump. he tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power, after the voters had rejected him. he can never be trusted with power again." and today, another notable endorsement. bruce springsteen, throwing his support to harris, with a similar warning. >> donald trump is the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime. his distdain for the sanctity o our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him from the office of president ever again. >> reporter: and liz cheney here just saying that kamala harris is now standing in the breach, saying, she's trying to unite reasonable people from across the political spectrum. it comes as the harris campaign is now upping its outreach to gop voters, with republican supporters holding events this week in every key

it is a very republican area. members of the house of representatives and the population and for me it was republican white males. and the list goes on. when i one, i one by 984 votes. i was a latina, i was young, one of the youngest woman to ever go to congress. there is a democrat and a woman, all the things you wouldn't imagine so when i got to the house, they refused to accept my election and they investigated me for 15 months in congress. many said of my election, it is the worst in the house of representatives. >> so you all think you win -- it's a club. he come over, knock on the door, they opened the and you show your paperwork. on the day -- okay. >> if you win, you get is. >> january 3 was the day i remember, it's my birthday. he will stand up. 435 of us stand up and we are all sorting together except the last day, republican close to the microphone the second boat was whether i get to stay in congress are not so you ask, how does of presidential election affect you? and that way it affected me well beca

you say it's a republican state. how does that break down, republican, democrat or otherwise?ell us. guest: in state of georgia, we don't have voters' register by party. we have 7.1 million active voters in the state of georgia. look, you saw governor brian kemp win his re-election, about 53%. then you saw rafael warnock win in a runoff against herschel walker. the challenge was some voters didn't come back and some were uncomfortable with herschel walker. when we look at the state of georgia, we don't have party registration. again, the way i look at it is this is a republican state, but that you can win if you find the right path. host: when you talk about those demographics, when you take a look at the state itself, what portions of the state would you look at saying ok, what is the determining factor of who wins this year? guest: we talk about who will be the swing voters. every voter in the state of georgia is going to matter, whether in rural georgia where you have a lot of republican voters, but the smaller population and you have a large democratic center areas like au

the republican perspective and. so it was not it was not a repudiation of the of the new deal by, an attempt to refine it. you could say, and this caused them some issues later when harry truman, in a sense, called their bluff and challenged congress to pass some of the measures in the republican platform. so that was by, you know, the when it came out of the convention was agreed to by all. dewey stassen and taft all signed off on it. they were they were okay with it. so there was a kind of unity platform among the presidential contenders, as did harold stassen and robert taft campaigned for thomas dewey in the general or i believe stassen did a bit. taft wasn't really asked to. in fact. dewey made an important campaign swing through ohio in the late in late 1948 and october of 1948. and did not ask have to be with him, which was a bit of a snub for the, you know, senator from from ohio. so he did not play a major role. but that was it's not totally clear how much of that was his decision, but clearly at least some

republicans and a lot of places. he has a unique coalition that may be specific to him. and we will get to your questions soon. i do want to asksk wto you abouy hobby horse and my hobby horses that donald trump is now a typical republican which is to say the republican party is differenthe because of donald trump. donald trump is different because of the republican party. he -- he has changed at more than it's changed him but he behaved in the polls much more like a typical republican. he came in and quickly came to his party and we didn't get the thing that we got in 2020 and very much in 2016. so let's talk about the time of the decision. in 2016 there was a big chunk of undecideds and what we found out in the end was those folks when that glacier of undecided votes melted 80%me of that it ran offo trump whereas this time those folks have been with him from the beginning and the republican party has been much more united this time than before. is my hobby horse the correct hobbyhorse i think there are three horses.