we saw that change with stacey abrams.hen she ran for governor in 2018 not only support of gun restrictions, but boasted # and n.r.a. and they called themselves an n.r.a. democrat so you saw this sort of sea change of democrats playing to their base really for the first time aggressively, rather rather than going towards the middle. >> that's not what happened necessarily with the democratic party at the national level, and even now, i mean, the desire for the white house to appeal to people beyond the base is something that makes biden the object of quite a bit of criticism. we see often from those in the base. have you seen that in georgia as well? >> yeah, there's a feeling among democrats this cycle, right, that in 2020 it's hard to recreate what happened. the magic that happened in 2020 where you had a huge surge in turnout voters-- i'm sorry, in suburban voters, a huge turnout surge among suburban voters and the base showing up especially in urban parts of georgia. to recreate that won't be easy especially without tr

member of l-pack, which held fundraisers for stacey abrams in her race and made significant donationck before and after the 2018 election. the ties don't end there, nie new oeshg d just dropped. check that out. stacey joining me is georgia congressman buddy carter. the way stacey abrams tries to portray herself, what is the reality from your vantage point? >> i don't trust any candidate who becomes a millionaire while in public office. stacey abrams is out of touch liberal elite who is making six-figure salary while supposedly working full time, i don't know how you work full time, campaign full time, fund raise full time, she claims to be part of the working class and she is not at all. i don't understand how someone could owe the irs money and all of a sudden rake in millions of dollars while in public service, that deteriorates confidence in our federal government, actions like this. what is mysterious, a person is declaring they are working 40 hours per week while campaigning full time and making admissions she is out there and raised $40 million, it does not add up and i don't s

have more e-mail followers on mega that phone that the former president has, but-- >> speaking of stacey abrams winning instead of brian kemp if that were a possibility. what's the democratic party saying as a whole in terms of abrams? is she the individual that they fully support or is there a wing that believes that maybe the democrats could have been more successful in the last governor's race if they had someone who was not as associated, be it perception or fact, with the most progressive parts of the party? >> that's a great question because in 2018 there was a sort of never-abrams wing of the government that thought she would be an ineffective governor the wrong candidate to win statewide, but you saw that stamped out fairly quickly. she beat a formidable democratic opponent in 2018 who had the more conventional approach to running for office, her opponent stacey evans ran the same sort of campaign that many other statewide democrats ran, which was trying to appeal to the middle. keeping the left energized, but appealing to the middle and she was trounced. a primary competition. and that

critics are not buying it. >> stacey abrams is someone who is a hypocrite.ithing when it comes to things like reimagining police or redirecting funds. it means defunding the police and it's a problem. >> harris: new information shows stacey abrams is linked to yet another group that gives thousands of dollars to activists calling to abolish the police. tammy bruce in "focus" next. there she is. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. >> i'm pushing both for public safety measures, accountability measures and criminal justice reform measures. what i believe most fundamentally and true if you look at my entire record is that living wages have to be paid especially to our public workers and law enforcement. we have to have public safety and justice and that's the intention that i have. let's invest in public safety workers. >> harris: she s

my guest nancy mace and stacey abrams. speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan. >> i came here to send an unequivocal message america stands with taiwan. >> china reacts. >> there is no justification for this extreme disproportionate response. >> i will talk with chris van hollen. democrats looking to pass their climate, health and tax bill. >> reduce inflation and lower prescription drug costs and we will fight climate change. >> all against total republican opposition. >> this bill has nothing to do with the real people in the real world worried about every single day. >> join me for insight on cornell bellcher and anna palm and pat mccrory and susan page. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. it is fair to say there are two conclusions we can draw from tuesday's important voting. one is that the history of abortion being more of a motivator for republicans than f

democratic nominee for georgia governor stacey abrams joins me ahead. >>> hello. i'm dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wondering how long they will go. you're looking at live pictures of the senate floor where tired lawmakers are still voting after more than 12 hours of all night debate on the democrats' sweeping tax, health and climate package. right now, democrats have stayed largely united as republicans and bernie sanders offer up amendments to the bill. but now we're learning democrats may be trying to make some changes of their own. i want to go straight to capitol hill to cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, what's the latest? >> reporter: there are some late discussions happening right now among senate democrats trying to change some of the tax language dealing with that 15% corporate minimum tax that democrats want to impose through the legislation that would help pay for this legislation, these proposed programs under this bill. that would affect big companies, companies that have about a billion dollars or more

stacey abrams was giving you a transition from pro choice. i think what you're going to see is some reasonable guidelines of what abortion is, but be careful, democrats, on this issue. don't overplay your cards because on surveys, people are still more conservative on the abortion issue but they aren't willing to go to the extreme. >> one quick thing. when you win with 60% in kansas not just democrats and you see polling some republican women may not be pro choices but don't like the idea of the government taking away their rights. >> they become single issue voters then? >> i think that will tell us a lot in november. >> before we go to break, we want to let you know about something you need to be subscribing to right now. our excellent newsletter. our daily political newsletter from "meet the press" called "first read." every morning we bring you the newest polling data and freshest reporting from the campaign trail and, of course, the best analysis on the top political stories on the day. sign you and scan the qr code on your screen. go to

but we see here brian kemp has a consistently over stacey abrams. a good may be drug walker across the finish line but this is not a race that is in your camp at this point. another instance here or bidens approval rating has been so well and they are still not great to be clear. it is just up a few points. 40's or so, low 40's. but i have seen numbers of him in states that he won i have seen the states, his approval rating with artie's. but these democratic incumbents, they have been outperforming him by several digits which is not something we usually see. we usually we see that type correlation. host: what about the democratic apparatus in georgia? stacey abrams in the get out the vote effort there? guest: that is something you cannot discount. she has empowered the get out and vote effort. but brian kemp was the one person who seemed to think wish the trump endorsement against him. cap --kemp has gotten out to areas that i think will help republicans. there are some good stories on this. there could be concerns about walker's companion. i have h

coming up we will be joined by georgia's democratic nominee for governor, stacey abrams, here to talk about everything that is on the line this fall. but first, let's bring in an incredible round table, we have former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele, former white house press secretary under president obama, robert gibbs, host of msnbc's politics nation and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton, former george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan and former white house director of communications, to president obama, and director of communications for hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, jennifer palmieri. michael, let's start with you. you ran the rnc. i need you to explain something to me. how could it be that the republicans have, i would say, the best environment, if you just look at leading economic indicators right now, as they've had since ronald reagan's massive victory in 1980 and yet look at the senate race, behind in all of the key states, behind in pennsylvania. they're behind in ohio. they're

blumenthal, stacey abrams, all these democrats, there's only one answer to this.u have to do is say yes. but you can't do it. that ought to tell you all you need to know, american people, about how his own party feels about the president. >> no, no. >> i'm sorry, forgive me, we have somebody on the ballot here. >> i find it funny. this is a guy who knocked off an in incumbent president, got the most votes ever. if he decides to run, he should be the nominee. he's done a good job, and if he can get more margins in congress, we'll be able to do more. >>> the annual conservative political action conference was in texas this weekend. i want to play some of the rhetoric that came off that stage. >> we are at war. we're in a political and idealogical war. >> we have the ability to shatter, shatter the democratic party as a national political institution. >> the militant left wing in our country has become the enemy within. >> what the militant left is now proposing is not simply wrong, it is evil. >> is that something that will appeal to republican voters, particularly

i'll call out stacey abrams, but the mainstream media shield is stacey stacy abrams. lionized her made her a hero and then called out donald trump for saying the same thing. this is the hypocrisy one. i won't participate in it, but i will blow the whistle on it. well, i wonder if people would say that you're you know jumping over some context. they're clearly stacy abrams believe that governor kent republican in the race had taken steps that she felt helped him to win in the total vote. but so did donald trump well, so the trump supporters, they're both wrong. but you can't say one cause is right. so therefore they can say the election was stolen and the other causes wrong because they're republicans. all you do is empower the other side then to say we're going to go even further because the press isn't fair and that's what i object to the president blow the whistle on hillary clinton when two years after the 2016 election. she said that donald trump was illegitimate president nor did they blow the whistle and jimmy carter two years later when jimmy carter said donald

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but the top of your ticket is obviously stacey abrams who's challenging brian kemp again for governor not only to protect the election in 2024 but local elections, midterm elections and all the other ones. what are some of the ways that you think that stacey abrams prevent presents better thing for juror georgia veterans than the current incumbent brian kemp? >> stacey abrams has been a leader on voting rights in the state of georgia, and we saw in 2021 after we deliver these winds for the two u.s. senate seats that have been crucial to our success as a country, we know that republicans went into the legislature and passed this 98 voter suppression bill that makes it a crime to give someone a bottle of water to someone waiting in line. it takes away some cure job offers. that was endorsed by both the governor who signed it into law and the secretary of state. i will remind voters that that bill was also bills based on conspiracy theories and based on lies. if we had a governor like stacey abrams and a democratic legislature, a democratic secretary of state, we can take steps to repeal

they are still making excusese for stacey abrams right now. there was no evidence to support her claim, none. she does have a hope and a wish that so many candidates have the something must be wrong. and apples me to this day you were not willing to criticize cory booker or shared around the senator from ohio for the statement that the election was stolen. you're making excuse for one and blaming the other. >> host: i clearly don't think that's right. only talk about issues like voter suppression and possibly changing the district i think that is palpable real factual and that's what was cited by stacey abrams and senator booker. let's move on. you absolutely are known also as the rest agent and you have had tremendous successng pass the te of being press secretary. people go on and they don't always identify hey i represent this group, i'm with this group. could the ed gas company of tobacco or oil company. how do you feel about this because you areea talking head well-known to the american people and trusted they do think this is the way bus

stacey abrams and they get out the vote effort --the get out the vote effort? >> there was a powerful effort but brian kemp was the one person who managed to vanquish the trump endorsement against him. he was not a favorite of tom. -- trump. brian kemp has been proven to get out and vote in rule areas but there has been the atlanta constitution has done great stories. there might be a warnock-cap voter which seems to be a unicorn -- brian kemp voter which seems to be a unicorn. it is not one picking take for granted even in a state with a midterm election like this, should slightly favorite republicans. host: if you are watching in georgia, call in. we want to know how you plan to vote and wife. viewers in any of these key states, and for that senate, if you have georgia, pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin and for drug -- governor races, georgia, michigan and pennsylvania. coley -- call in and tell us how you plan to go. --vote. let's talk about the senate race. guest: we shifted pennsylvania from a toss to leaning democrat. this is the most likely senate seat in th

stacey abrams was pounding the table. they went from a city that was 57% black to a city that was about 9% black, and i asked stacey abrams, i said, let me ask you a question. you know, the $110 million that we generated economically from that all-star game, and i know this because i am a shareholder in the cincinnati reds, let me ask you, why would you deny your community that? i said, why would delta that is located in atlanta be an advocate for moving the all-star game? because the state legislature there moved for voter id, photo id. think about this. when i get on a plane where i purchase a ticket to get on a plane, what would the counter agency if i showed them my utility bill from her my id? i said, if i was, left tickets for anybody in this room at the will call window, you could not go and just say i'm ken blackwell, i'm joe smith, here is my utility bill. you have to show a photo id. she in fact, we won that case. they moved they gain but we won the argument. and that's what i want you to understand. we went arg

he is very against stacey abrams.rying to be the first black woman to be governor that happens yet, and there are no republicans or black women after, harris became vice president. he has a good turnout effort, but we are still seeing him trailing in the polls and whether the abortion issue will tighten up. democrats have argued about the primary, and they have been lingle -- lingering. they dislike stacey abrams enough to turnout. host: nancy and, republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. i wanted to discuss tutor dixon. he is running for governor again. i wanted to talk about -- i know that tutor had some issues on one topic. when i wanted to talk about what is important in michigan. it is about our housing. cost of housing. the rent. most importantly, groceries. there was grocery shopping yesterday. they are just unbelievable. people really care about these things. another thing is the schooling. there were huge problems with that. that is made its way to the republican's because the women are angry at the

elizabeth warren has done a lot, stacey abrams thinks about this and obviously aoc is a media contentfactory of herself. but for the most part there is still a reticence to embrace progressive media in the leadership -- . . . what about n messaging? a lot of people i'm around think the party is not bold enough, laying low when we should be fighting back. this is the time to not dillydally. and there are other people who say, we can only do so much, aoc obviously believes ot what do you think? >> like i always have the sympathy for people who are in the white house and a very limited tools to solve very big problems people care about. so i fully recognize the president has, there's not very much he can do. there's nothing he can do with his pen like undo what was done or protect the millions of people who just lost their rights. what i do think what, and i thought the aoc twitter thread on this resonated with a lot of people in my life who are interested in politics but don't work in it. because what she did was say, to recognize the urgency of the situation, say we need a plan. even i

stacey abrams will be my guest. and then new reports trump's top white house lawyers both subpoenaed by the department of justice over january six. plus >> he got the message is right there. >> you know a perjury is right? >> alex jones and is misinformation factory facing justice for his sandy hook lies. >> you must tell the truth while you testify. this is not your show. >> all in starts right now. >> good evening from washington d.c.. i'm mehdi hasan and in for chris hayes. do you know the last time kansas went democratic in the presidential election? it was 1964 when lyndon b. johnson carried 44 out of 50 states plus the district of columbia. since then, republicans have won the state of kansas every four years for the last 54 years. in 2016, donald trump won kansas by 20 points. less than two years ago in 2020, he won by nearly 15 points. kansas is a red, red state, and yet last night we saw a huge win for liberals in kansas. voters resoundingly rejected and an amendment removing abortion rights and protections

. >>> turning to georgia, where stacey abrams tested positive for covid today.ate's race >> reporter: it is the top issue for many voters across the country. >> inflation. these gas prices are crazy. >> my number one issue is probably the economy. >> reporter: with prices rising to the closest annual rate in decades, republicans hope to ride the wave to victory in inflation. democrats are working overtime to address pocket but issues including in the peach state where stacey abrams laid out her economic vision before business owners this week. >> i personally understand how rising taxes hurt those that have the least. my plan relies on conservative economic principles to deliver for georgia. >> reporter: this involves using the states surplus to invest in state surpluses and residents. >> this will create new jobs in every region of our state and we can afford it without raising a penny in new taxes. >> reporter: georgia edited seer with an estimated $5 billion surplus on top of more than $2 billion surplus from the year before. >> conservative leadership has wo

stacey abrams does this. obviously aoc is a media person herself. for the most part, there is still a reticence to embrace progressive media. if the leadership does not, we cannot get the public to do it either. >> what about abortion messaging? a lot of people i'm around think the party is not bold enough, laying low when we should be fighting back. this is the time to not dillydally. and there are other people who say, we can only do so much, aoc obviously believes otherwise, but what do you think? >> i always have sympathy for people who work in the white house and have limited tools to serve -- to do what people care about. there's nothing he can do with his pen that will undo what was done or protect millions of people who just lost rights. but i do think, and i thought aoc's twitter thread on this, really resonated with a lot of people in my life who are interested in politics but don't work in it. what she did was say to recognize the urgency of the situation and say we need a plan. even if they plan over the short, medium, and long-term, we

we have to reallocate resources. >> stacey abrams supported defunding the police.he is pushing to abolish police. she voted to bankroll anti-police groups. she is dangerous on crime. host: that was an ad from the georgia governor, accusing his opponent of wanting to defund the police. in response, her campaign has an ad it is running that uses various voices to a cap -- attack the governor on criminal justice issues. >> i've seen all kinds of gun crimes. the new law is dangerous. it makes it easier for criminals to carry loaded guns in public. at the movies. in church. no permit. a background check. i call that criminal carry. brian kemp may talk tough, he makes us less safe. the last place we want more criminals with guns is here. host: we are getting your thoughts on which party you trust on crime, policing, other law and order issues. let's go to more of your calls. this is christine from ohio. caller: this is christine. i want to say good morning. i am a former dod employee. we were trained, everyone in our office, never take classified off the property. i unde

willis now having exploded into public view, stacey abrams is using that to link the governor more closely to former president donald trump, in her words saying that kemp refuses to testify against trump, even tweeting out a campaign-style video to that effect. >> all right. joyce, when the judge says this is not the forum to hear about politics, what does he mean by that? >> so he's focusing on this delay argument that governor kemp has offered, that he's willing to testify but not until after the election. and really that's something that the judge will have no trouble dismissing out of hand. bonnie willis has been trying to get kemp's testimony for quite some time. she first tried to get it voluntarily. she then followed up with a subpoena when it became clear he wouldn't testify. we are more than 60 days out from the election. even if this was a d.o.j. investigation into someone who was a target of an investigation, that would still be enough time to act. but kemp is a fact witness. his testimony is being saw the sought to aid the investigation. he hasn't received a target letter. the

the stacey abrams, , activist, best-selling author, entrepreneur and political leader. this is someone who made history as the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party spending 7/8 n over eight years as minority leader in the georgia house. stacy found multiple organizations devoted to social issues and has authored several best-selling books herself. she has earned more awards and honors that i can even list here in the time given. so if everyone is ready to start, i would love to hand it over to stacey to moderate the state of care discussion between hillary rodham clinton and louise penny. so stacey, take it away. >> thank you so much, lower. thank you so much to lucy, and welcome louise and welcome madam secretary. >> thank you. stacey, it's a wonderful. we never met. i know you and hillary are close, but such a pleasure. thank you for doing this. hi, hillary. >> you are still unmute. >> okay. [laughing] >> we could solve a lot of our problems, but i cannot tell you how excited i am to do this with our two local bookstores. and i want

i'll be joined by senators lindsey graham and richard blumenthal as well as gubernatorial nominee stacey abrams. sunday at 9:00 a.m. and noon. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> a 50-year low that surprised everyone. "the lead" starts right now. the u.s. economy has regained all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. what the july jobs report stunner means for the high cost of basics like gas, food and housing. >>> and then missiles, military drills and now a communication cut-off. tensions between the u.s. and china get worse as the white house summons china's ambassador and beijing sanctions nancy pelosi. >>> plus, water wars pitting neighbors against neighbors. a fight over who gets to use the river that fuels life. we visit two states that are facing off. >>> hello. welcome to "the lead." we begin this hour with our world lead. a pair of escalating international crises. russia and the united states are now indicating they're ready to hold talks about a prisoner swap. just a day after a russian court convicted american basketball star brittney griner of drug smuggling, and sent

stacey abrams is the democratic candidate for governor of georgia. also the founder fair fight action, both voting rights actions and joins us now. thank you so much for coming on the show tonight. were you surprised not just by the win in kansas but by the huge margin of victory? >> i was surprised by the margin, but not by the success. kansas has made a habit in recent years of doing the right thing. the election of laura kelly, in the face of the extremist chris kobak the kansas want to good leadership and in this case they wanted the right to freedom for women in that state. they refused to allow women to be relegated to second class citizenship, and i'm proud of kansas and i'm proud of america to take the steps we need to protect abortion care and united states of america. >> so, in your state of georgia, a federal appeals court allowed a six-week abortion ban to go into effect last month. what is the state of abortion access in georgia right now tonight? and what would you do as governor due to secure abortion rights? >> brian kemp passed an ex

brian kemp is lying about stacey abrams. >> flat-outlying about stacey abrams and the police. >> shelaw enforcement all over the state. >> how is it playing? >> melanie really laid out that push and pull. in georgia, particularly in metro atlanta, there's a crime problem and voters are very concerned about it. they want more policing. more policing takes money. but you also had progressives, you had the activists that say money may not solve the problems, and meanwhile we still have lingering problems when it comes to police accountability, police brew kalt, qualified immunity. georgia is the home of the ahmaud arbery, and we saw the people who killed him held accountable, but that became a law enforcement issue as well. there are a lot of documented cases in georgia and many other states where progressives are saying when are we going to get to that? it may not be the politically expedient cause, it's something progressive voters and particularly people of color who are the backbone of the democratic party in many states do care a lot about. >> you have a diverse democratic party. s

brian kemp republican incumbent versus stacey abrams.k around issue of abortion. i'm not sure agree with "disappears" but testing the idea a lot of suburban republicans, former republicans, at least, and independents, might be inclined in joe biden's first mid-term to vote republican. >> stacey abrams's campaign changed dramatically when this happened. open about it, how she talks about it, how her campaign is operating. she believes she has a much better chance because of the anger about abortion in georgia. you talk about the differences of different campaigns and in different states. back to tim ryan in ohio. he's barely talking about abortion, because that doesn't play for democrats as well in a state like ohio, where he thinks the best path to win is through the working class who think that maybe the democrats have forgotten them there. it just shows these candidates have to know their constituents, who they hope to be their constituents. right now they're voters, and in georgia, clearly they believe it's about abortion. other place

. >> in the state of georgia, obviously stacey abrams continues to run against the current governor brian kemp. georgia was a surprise for so many folks in 2020 not just because joe biden but the special election and this is a matchup that everyone's paying attention to. i want to take a look at a new high that's out from your campaign targeting brian kemp in this exact issue on abortion. >> it's an attack on the women of georgia. >> brian kemp made abortion a crime. before >> he supports a total ban. >> even if i'm raped. >> a victim of incest. >> forced pregnancy. >> criminalize women with jail. time >> out loss and birth control. >> under camp, i could be investigated, and imprisoned for a miscarriage. >> for a miscarriage. >> the only way to stop this >> the woman of georgia >>'s to stop brian kemp. >> you know lauren, a lot of people say abortion is health care and it's often put out there as a talking point but can you talk about how in the last few weeks a lot of americans including the ones turn and record numbers down in georgia understand the life and death stakes when women don

he and stacey abrams have faced off in numerous battles when it comes to voter suppression.der but it's really sad to see what is happening, there this is what i can tell you. if they say the voting activists cannot pass out food or water, 150 feet of a polling location, as activists are die hards. they would do it 151 feet of voter polls. latosha brown and cliff all right with black voters matter who have done so much great work there. we have a lot to get to this morning in addition to what is happening with voter suppression. we are taking a look at some of these republican candidates ali, following donald trump's footsteps. it is really wild to see florida man of course, ron desantis. you know that trumpism is on the ballot this november, even if trump is. and we will dive into that and see how some of these candidates are even viable. it was interesting to say mitch mcconnell say it acknowledge that they will have a challenging time trying to take control of the senate. plus for all of the parents out there, ali there are many folks heading back to school with a teacher

his opponent, stacey abrams, talked about this last night.et's listen to what she said. >> if you look at the emails that have been released about the back and forth and having dealt with the kemp administration, i would actually put my faith more in the fulton county da's office. i know that this has been a meticulous and very thoughtful investigation and that he is not the only republican who has tried to skirt his possibility to provide information. >> ellie? >> i did a double take when i heard that last night on erin burnett's show. she said it twice, this is a meticulous investigation by the da's office. how often earth would stacy a perhaps know that? stacey abrams is a civilian, no different than any of us, she is not a public official or part of the prosecutors office. there's two pockets here, one, which i hope it's not, is that she's being briefed on this behind the scenes by the prosecutors office, that would be wildly inappropriate, all sorts of crossed wires politics and prosecution. the others is she made it up. there's sort of

folks like mandela and redfield were not, and stacey abrams, we have work to do.nating that diverse slate of cans candidates. >> before we go, i want to know that you're organization has knocked down 1 million doors to get voters of color out in georgia. do you think you've been successful in motivating black voters to participate in the midterms, and what do you think of the turnout? >> despite the attacks on the black electorate and the black vote, we are encouraged by what we're seeing and the conversations that we're having we're witnessing a more sophisticated black electorate, right? moving from the analysis about the guy you'd want to have a beer with, to who can we elect to send to washington d.c.? who can be sent to the governor's mansion to do our work? who has an agenda for working families and for black families? what we're also seeing is a response, i know this may not be universal factor, but the attack on democracy, right? the republicans willingness to sacrifice democracy on the altar of racial superiority. on the altar of white supremacy. black pe