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♪ >> this week on 2024 campaign trail c-span takes you to south carolina where former president trump claimed another of two primary victories in the past nikki haley continue to push in super tuesday states, and to the r;c border in texas where president biden and donald trump both made visits. look at some of the the house races currently held by california where voters will have primary ballots in presidential house and senate races on tuesday. >> erin covey of the analyst for the cook political report, you've done some analysis on the importance of these california house seats with their primary around corner. why should people be paying attention to some of these california house seats?

>> yeah, so just remind folks control of the house line this year. republicans only have a four seat majority in the house and they are redistricting and a some curveballs and that. looks like at the end of the day democrats only did the flip a few seeds of the going to take back control of the house. we see that as a toss up or we'll think ofwe the party has a huge advantage for control o the house. but at the end of the of these competitive seats are either in new york,fornia. i think new york has gotten a disproportionate amount of coast but california is going to be crucial for the house majority in 2024. >> let's dig into some of these seats. let's start with california's third district kevin kiley. >> this one is interesting dlob are competitive and republican held one of the less competitive ones. he's aom freshman congressman elected after redistricting. this is the seat that trump won by a couple of points in 2020,

and so depending on how the presidential race plays out at the top of the typically they could be competitive if democrats have a strong candidate here in jessica morris. but we had t republican at the moment. >> moving onto california's 13th district, this as a toss up. explain.n. >> yes. we have for my california districts in our tossup category. they are all held by republicans but even among the four tossup seats a lot of folks i talked to think the 13th district couldost vulnerable republican in california. he represents a seat that is in the central valley, parts of at the democratic candidate last cycle came just 500 votes away the beginning of the cyclist is going to be a a competitive race. we haven't rated as test that according to rpg also democrats do have an inherent advantage in the seat. republicans have control of it, incumbent will have resources

that he did not have last cycle. ou this is going to be one those to watch. in terms of the primary itself, there's not a competitive primary. so adam gray who was a estate the sentiment is running against an easyis only democrat on the ballo it's going to be a matchup between those two. >> before we get to thep other tossup races let's talk about the open seat. belonged to the former speaker kevin mccarthy. >> yes so this is thein only california this cycle. it's also in in the bakersfield area.ts in terms of control of the house is not going to be competitive. it's interesting that is open out that mccarthy has resigned. you have that the regular primary that is happening on march 5 rest of california's primaries and in the special election primaries fill the vacancy that is happening two weeks later. runner is a state and is mccarthy is longtime protégé and once it was clear that mccarthy was not going to be returning for another term, he was thought of as the likely

successor. that he does have a of opponents are running to his right. it looked like this could be a bit of a competitive race initially. that was up until a few days ago because trump just endorse phong. obviously in the red c with republican primary voters thompson endorsement is a game changer. i think is a pretty clear front runner heading into this race. >> that's the 20th district. talk about the 22nd distr in california. why should we watch this on? interesting and is probably one of the messiest primaries in california along with the 47thie porter. the 22nd district is very competitive. it's a d+ five seats a technical the most democratic leaning republic held seat in california right now. the congressman represents a has cut out a fairly moderate profile among the house republican conference. he was one of the ten republicans voted to impeach trump in 2021. he's a lot

of cross over votes from folksht the typically over the years. he does have a competitive race as he always has and the concern the cycle is that because he has republican opponent on the and democrats have two candidate on the ballot, the democrats couldet locked out of the general election. this is the case because california unlike most states has an open top two primary systemit of what party they'rehe running under moving to the general because of that in the 50-50 district if republicans and two democrats there's a good chance you get two members of the same party get into general election. democrats have now spentnt over $1 million boosting ray salas status amendmentomps i think ultimately he probably one of any trouble getting into the ge end of the matchup. but this is a race democrats have had to spend a decent amount of money on just to make sure they actually have candidate. >> moving on toid california's 27th district, also a tossup.

>> yes so this is another perenniallythose were following. it's held b mike garcia was had the same democratic opponent for the last couple of cycles but the cycle democrats of a new recruit, george whiteside. he's the only d about so as far as a primary go sees a esumptive nominee. it will not be competitive but this this is a really interesting race to watch and whiteside is incredibly wealthy. formerly worked for nasa and now has aer private spaceflight he has put a decent amount of his own money into the race as well and has a cash on hand advantage over garcia at the moment. for this reason we have it rated as a tossup. >> likely republican. talk about the incumbent. >> thiit's held by congresswoman young in 2020.

this is one of the few seats that biden won in 2020 but we have as likely r. we believe kim is the clear favorite in this race. this is the sort of district tend to vote democratic at the top of the ticket but also doesn't mind voting for races. this is going to be an interesting depending on how the presidential race plays out, it could become more competitive. for now i think kim is the clear favorite. >> what is her appeal? >> she is one of the korean american women in congress in a large aapi population. she has been able to really advantage of that and to establish her own brand in the she has also carved out a relatively more moder lane and

some of the other republicans in congress. she is still conservative on a lot of issues, early abortion. she has demonstrated crossover appeal. w>> the 41st district. >> this is another really interesting race to watch. ken calvert has been a long member of congress since the 90's. but the seat changed a lot in the latest round of redistrict. it's mostly county. calvert run in these safe seats or he d challengers. his latest opponent had strong fundraising and democrats were excited about the fact that he's running agaithe leaning that some of these other tossup races. because democrats have such a strongandidate and because the

republican incumbent has a moreive record compared to the other members of the delegation, democrats think this is one of their best opportunities of the cycle. >> the 45th district in california. >> it has one of the largest aapi populations in the country. it is inland to orange county and its represented by michelle steel who was elected in 2020 along with young kim as one of the first korean americans in congress. this is a bit more competitive the lien republican category. is going to be probably a bit more competitive. democrats do have a competitive pr that because a couple of the democrats running their have struggled to raise money. democrats have lined up

behind derek tran who has demonstrated stronger fundraising ability and coua stronger candidate in the general election. the primary is quite competitive and there is not a clear front runner. >> -- california house republican seats. to follow her, you can goo cook political report. >> thank you for havinme on.>> californians will also be casting ballots on tuesday in one of the closest watched senate races of the year. the latest poll of the states likely voters has democratic congressman adam schiff at 28% followed by republican steve garvey. the former san diego padres baseball player in second at 20%. democratic house members katie porter and barba lee werethe top performers in tuesday's primary will move on to the general election. some highlights from the final debate before the primary from

nbc four in los angeles. >> when you vote for a resolution that says israel has congressman lee? mr. schiff? >> i will have you explain those. i would like you to express your sentiment towards what the 45th president of the united states haid states america first they want us disengaged from tdonald trump has said on a number of occasions that he questions whether we should be in the nato alliance. oncerns about us pulling out. what is the role of the united states in the world in terms of american foreign policy. you have 60 seconds. and global peace and security has got to. i was the former chair of the appropriations committee. funded all of our development and diplomacy preventing wars.

i believe it was abodefense was policy, make sure we put more p and diplomacy and reduce the military budget. that is the only pathway to peace. the united states needs to lead in seekingand that is the only way this planet is going to survive. ljthe military option is going to always be there, but we must put more of into helping young people especially throughout the world. >> america's role in the world >> first of all, israel has a right to defend itself. it was horribly attacked on i don't see how there could be a lasting peace aserrorist organization is governing gaza nor do i see could be a permanent cease-fire while that is true.

israel must make every effort to avoid civilian casualties and we must get the parties to a two state solution. turning to ukraine, it has just lost a city they had gained in reclaiming part of their land. that was a terrible loss to ukraineimpart because republicans in would not approve aid to ukraine which we should approve immediately and i'm calling on the president to seize russian assets to help fund ukraine war effort. we cannot abdicate that responsibility neithin ukraine. >> the united statesbeacon for freedom, democracy and human rights. that's the touchstone that should guide our foreign policy and we should be shed -- centered on those values. it's important to recognize that this conflict in gaza, the result of the horrific attack by

hamas is one in which the padetermine what will be a lasting for them. the united states needs to support peace. we need to recognize incredible humanitarian disaster unfolding in gaza and we need to be firm and clear to to be a champion for peace and democracy. i think it's important that we live our values this waythat we are investing in diplomacy. donald trump did terrible damage to our standing on the world stage, allowing iran and russia to grow we are all paying for the consequences. >> floodin believe we are overextended. we should focus on the mystic issues and not be the police officer for the worldwhat do you say? >> my campaign is based on common sense, compassion and consensus building. are the torchbearer for democracy around the world. the world isá?we support our allies. we are supporting our ally in ukraine. we are looking at taiwan.

i support israel yesterday today and bie all the countries we support have a right to their sovereignty. as everybody looks at us for strength or, we have to maintain that strength so when people look at china russia, iran. feels they can become a threat to democracy. >> i agree but how is that possible? [overlappinger] >> that he wasn't using. you can respond to that. >> i didn't understand what he was talking about. >> let me explain. >> his argument is that you voted for donald trump twice. defendant in your words the foreign policy agenda of the

previous president. 30 seconds. >> look california one-on-one. as your senator, i will do everything to maintain your security. i'm not concerned with anyone being, i am concerned with 38 million californians and 330 million americans. >> miss porter, you have 15 >> mr. garvey has been unclear on where regard to donald trump. he has even said he might vote for joe biden. there is a republican who is republican eric early. >>hank you, congresswoman. >> let's talk about based on your websit which i checked just before we came on member robert garcia out of long beach. you said you didn't go to

washington to make friends. why is that a good thing when a senator really needs to work with other people to come up with legislation and get them to vote? >> i'm tremendously proud of the relationships i have with my colleagues and they have put their trust in me, electing the deputy chair of the -- caucus. i have also been twice selected to be either a subcommittee chair or ranking member. because these chair people sought me out. with regard to endorsements, i would say i'm tremendously proud to have the endorsement of state senators. >> these are neople who work in your house with you. senators, the attorney general for the state of california and elizabeth warren out of the senate. why not your colleagues? >> i have the endorsement of robert garcia and i'm tremendously proud of that. i went to congress to not be to corporate special

interests. i have a different position on earmarks. i have powerful special interests push back. they fund campaigns and it affects what they do. >> trump notched two more primary. be awarded at a state party convention. next, a portion of the former president's victory remarks in columbia, south carolina. something. this was a little sooner than we anticipated. an even bigger win than we anticipated. i was just informed that we got double the number of votes that has ever been received in the great state of south carolina. so that's pretty good.there is something goingme really great

things are going on. you look outside and see all of the horror, millions and millions of coming across the border illegally. we don't know where they come from. they come from jails, prisons, all sorts of that we don't want to know, they come from mentalms. we don't want that in our country andr it. you have terrorists coming in, people coming in that we just can't do this. no country could sustain what's happening to the united states of america. so we are going to straighten things out. the border is the worst it's ever been. we won and we had a bad )s#= lot. i said we are going to fix it, we fixed it very quickly. although we did get millions of more votes the second time. now there is a spirit i have never seen. we ran two great racthere has never been a spirit like this. i just want to say that i have

never seen the republican party soa big part of that is theng behind me. these are the biggest officials in south carolina. are state figures but they are national figures and in the true sense of the they love our country so mu country succeed and be respected again. our country is going to be respected again like never before. so this is a fantastic evening. it's an early evening. you can all go down and celebrate for we have to get back to work big day. michigan is coming up. the autoworkers are going to be with usot sold out by this country. michigan is up and we are going to have tremendous success and

we have a thing called super tuesday. we are leading 91-7 overall. if you don't may i have the pleasure of introducing some incredible people? because they stuck right from the bniment we announced and they believe in make america great again. first of all, my family. ivanka and jared. tiffany and michael. supportive of me and we really and love them. we have a great family and we have incredible friends and we are going to be up here on november 5 and we are going to look at joe, he is destroying our country. we are going to say joe get out. you are fired. >> republican rival nikki haley

lost in her home state of south carolina prompted the cash-rich coke political networks to halt its funding of her campaign. she vowed to continue onward to super tuesday. her stops included this one in falls church virginia just outside of washingto eight months at 4:00 a.m. for another year long deployment. hed him and 230 soldiers pickup their du longings to go to a country they had never been all in the name of protecting americthey are willing to sacrifice their and their families because they still believe in this amazing experiment that iso if they are willing to sacrifice fo shouldn't we be willing to fight for america here? [crowd chanting usa]

because we have a country to save. the media is losing their minds going why does she keep fighting?and the honest answer is, i'm doing kids and figure two in your grandkids. because the truth is look at what the younger generation has gh. i'm seeing a lot of them here. was traumatic. they don' this $34 trillion in debt means to them and what they are going to have to be responsible for. they are worried about getting a job and makingthey wonder if a war is going to break out. and that wasn't enough, it's all under this ten and division. and then we want to know why there's so much anxiety our kids deserve to know what normal feels like.

it's not normal under joe biden to allow mil immigrants to come in and not stop them.it's not normal for joe biden to worry more about gender pronouns n actually read that included --then whether our kids can actually read them. it's not normal for donald trump to spend million of dollars in campaign contributions on his personal court cases. it's not normal for donald trump some mock members of the military. it's not normal for joe biden to is opponents fascists and donald trump to be calling his opponents vermin. none of that is normal. i want to get us to a place.

can you imagine a countryould sit down at the dinner table and not have a political fight? can you imagine a country where we can go to work and say what we think and not worry about being demoted? can you imagine aldn't strongly disagree but not hate each other? us to go. because that's who i know we can be. bwe are betwhen i announced that i was running, they asked me what my motivations were for doing this and i came here 50 years ago to an america that was stro and proud and full of opportunities. i want them to know that country again. i'tary brothers and sisters.

i'm doing this for my daughter who just got married and i saw how hard it was for her and her husband to buy a home. the average home buyer in americas ne years old the american dream is leaving them. and i'm doing this for a senior in college and i'm tired of watching him right papers of things he doesn't believe ijust to get in a -- a. and for the first time, 81% of americans don't think their kids are going to live as good of a life as we did. we can't be ok with that. i'm not ok with that. we do have a country to save. this is where you. tuesday is election day. this is a chance for you to be heard. i want every one of you to go vote and take 10 people with you. i want you to get a yard signyou would

be shocked at the number of familyri just general election voters. i want in a general election, you are given a choice. in a primary we make our choice. i know virginia knows how to use the power of her voice. i know you guys can get out there.i want everybody to get vote and this is my promise to you. if you will join us in this , i will take the pain. i will take the bruises. good things don't come easy. and i think that to get to a blessing, sometimes you have to go through the pain. in this, i promise you our best days are yet to come. thank you very much. god bless you.

>> this year's two presidential front runners, president biden and donald trump were both atthu.o border on thursday amid a surge of migrants. next, part of biden's visit to the border patrol station in brownsville, texas. then part of president trump's visit to the border at eagle pass, texas. >> staffing has beenspending long hours patrolling the border, making major sacrifices. i know it makes a big toll on themónd their families. that's why i signed a bill finally gettin agent's overtime pay they deserve. and finally getting overtime pay. it's ridiculous it took this long. ite and i was proud to do it, but we need to do more. it'provide them with significantly more personnel and capability. we also need more immigration judges to help handle the backlog. ion cases.

this deal would provide funding for more immigration judges establish the new the process to get a decision on asylum claim takes five to seven years. it's far too long. we want to change the standard and make it harder. in five to seven years. from a judge determining whether you can stay. th encourages more people to come to the country. because they know they cannot handle the caseloads stay in this country in the meantime. but new policies addition to officers will be able to reduce the process to less than six months.

that would have a serious deterrent effect on those coming north. criminal gangs say we will get you north for 8000 bucks. and i'm going to get there and say sixpn they may be a i don't know, man. six months, seven years two different things. a person think that inner and the united states understands the case is to be said in a few weeks or months instead of five or seven years or less l come in thees first place because they're not going to pay the cartels thousands of dollars to journey. bipartisan border security deal is a win for a win for the people of texas and it is fair for thosehere to begin with. it's a win for the people that's why the border patrol unit endorsed it. i believe that's why theíg national chamber of commerce endorsed it. not known as thetif democratic organization. look that's why the "wall street journal" endorse it as well a truly bipartisan

initiative. that's why the be that cities endorsed it.te folks, i didn't get everything i wanted in that compromise bipartisan bill. neither didbody else. a compromise is part of the process. that's how democracy works that's up it's supposed work. compromise is a positive step on country. we need to have i want the people to understand bill was in the united states senate, was on his way to being passed, and it was derailed by rank-and-file partisan politics. you sent needs to be considered this bill, and those senators who opposed it need to set politics aside and pass it on its merits, not in what is going to benefit one partyrther party. it's about whether benefits the american people. it's what the american people deserve. the speaker thou say to put this bill on the floor because if he put on the floor unrestricted it would pass. the majority of democrats and republicans in both houses

support this legislation. until someone came along and said don't do that, it will benefit the incumbent. that's a hell of a way to do business in america for such a we need to act. it's time for the speakers and my republican frien this bill to show a little spine pass a bipartisan, remember, supported this, border security . let's remember who we work forth, for god's sake. we work for thee end with this. understand my predecessor is in eagle pass today. u here's what i would say to mr. trump. instead of playing politics on this issue instead of telling members of congressis legislation join me, or i will join you in telling the congress to pass this bipartisan border security bill. we can do it toghe you know and i know it's thest most efficient most effective for security bill this country is ever seen.f playing politics with the issue why do we just get together and get it done? the heck we work for.

we work for the american the democratic party or the republican party. we work for the american people and thus remember who we are. we are the united states of america. no, i mean it. think about this. there's nothing nothing beyond our capacity, nothing whenáa we work together. and all working together on this, we have the formula to get it donsked ordinary contrast. we have president trump back in austin texas literally on the board itself a place he has been too many times talking about all the things he's done to secure the border. at the present time we have president biden down of brownsville, tex which was an obligatoryim. he'd never been to the border because i got the keys on the rd sanitized location in the brownsville area not texas is put upo brownsville after it was already known that president trump was coming to the state of texas. it just goes to show biden does

not care about either texasthe border and what's going on. >> now the united states is beingrr the biden migrant crying. it's a new form of dishes violation to our country. it's migrant crying. we call it biden migrant so we'll just leave it. but every time you heard the te migrant crying you know know what that comes from.housands and thousands and actually millions and millions of people to come, co b 18 million by the time he gets out of office hopefully the biggest risk we have is nine months, that's a long time. a lot happen. they all we say in speeches the ten worst president in history of our country add them all up all lousy jobs they've done, you can add them apt's not as bad as this one man has done for our country what he's done to our country, he's destroying our country. we were just talking before, the general was saying he can't happening. he can't believe it's a sad. last you a eyes a rest were criminal aliens

charged with more than 33,000 results, 3000 robberies 6900 burglaries. 7500 weapons crimes. this is all crying. 4300 sex crimes. 1600 kidnappings 1600 kidnappings and 1700 homicides and murds. these are the people that are coming into oure country and they from jails and prisons and mentalan asylums and they arehe terrorists. they are being led into our country, and it's horrible. it's horrible. i know many of these of the countries that are doing it and it's not just south america. all of the world the. congo the population coming ingo. you look at the jails now you take a look at the jails throughout the world, they are inking out because they're dumping them into the united states, these guys tried to make bike isn't that wonderful? they don't have a clue. i think they're looking for ooking for somebody, nobody is really been able to

tell me how anybody --ant to understand the other side. you want to figure it out so you can do something that's good or bad, depending on what you looking for. but nobody can e to me because of u.s.p.q. says how horrible it is. nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown from countries unknown who don't speak languages, we have languages coming into our country we any money who speaks as languages. they are truly foreign languages.nobody speaks them. they are pouring into our country and they're including medical problems as you know. we had a the title two different things to solve the problem but tha terminate all of it, even the judge couldn't believe it, the judge said no, no you can't do that. it would be horrible to do that. he let it go and what he said in six months it expires. it expired and that's i think you're doing and go a beautiful 22-year-old nursing student barbaric attack almost

unrecognizable while she was out on a on a morning run. she was morning doing keep yourself in shape she was a beautiful young woman. sh person, best nursing student there was. spoke to her parents yesterday. incredible people, devastated beyond beyond belief. but she was beautiful just a beautiful in so many ways and brutally assaulted horrifically beaten kidnapped and savagely murdered. the monster that charged in death as an illegallien migrant who was led into our country and released into ourcommunities by crooked joe biden. he's crooked. i tookbi the name away from hillary. >> next a preview of what you'll see this weekend on american history tvs historic campaign speeches series. every saturday c-span2 looks a presidential campaigns past. this week you'll hear to make speeches from a store grown-ups to super tuesday. firsmocrat hillary clinton from a rally in los angeles then 2016

republican senator marco rubio from his home state of florida ahead of>> lets begin to do in the war in iraq and i said on my day i start the plan to bring the troops home within 60 days. [cheers and appla i will do this carefully of i know we have some veterans in this audience hard and dangerous it is to withdraw troops and equ care of our civilians who are there. got to figure what to do with the iraqis who helped us. so we need a president and commander-in-chief who understands that we withdraw from iraq, unlike senator mccain who said he would be perfectly happy to be there for 100 years. [booing]i just want you to think about this. i believe that we can have a

election this time where all of the issues, including national security are ones that democrats can stand and proudly promote. no one. and my commitment to protect and defend this country but let's do a srt change.íg >> of all the places in ameri and i have traveled this country now and i'm so proud to be back, because there's no place in america that understands the american community and this great state of florida. like our country this is a place built by people who always work hard for a better life. here in this community we have all been safe and raised by people who know how special

america is. because they know what life america.ple who lost their homeland, by millions of people who lost their future. but thank god they found this great country where anything is possible where everyone go it go as far as their talent and their work will takee them. that the things that make america special were not an accident. they did not happen on their own. they happen years each generation of americans did what they needed to do, to leave their children better off than themselves. o i know of no place in america that understands that better than we do here. for literally every single one of us here is but a generation removed from someone who made our future the purpose of their lives. only in america with data been possible. >> seen and reported a political action committee supporting independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. was able to secure ballot access

in arizona and georgia. the latest poll shows independent polling 14%at nationally with president biden falling to point behind trump. next a video that can be camping its ocean the accounts aimed at younger voters. >> hey, everybody. it's robert f. kennedy jr. and i'm an indepentates. if you are under 30 you probably know my name but you may not know much about me. the 35th president of the united states. my father was his attorney general and was himself a candidate for president when he was assassinated in 1968. although i grew up around the house and i am deathly not a career last 40 years of my career as as a farmer, looking the kid against large ces and tried to protect america's wild places and the quality of your food, the quality of the water you drink and the qualityir that you breathe. my hope is your generation and

that your children will have the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment andprosperity and good health as the communities that earlier generations of americans gave to my generation. and right now i'm the top choice for young voters in this country. i'm also theou most feared and hated candidate in washington, d.c. among the elites because i i'm not viable. as president going tote in the forever wars. th generation and left you with $33 trillion in knows nothing of return going to bring the money back to our rebuild the american middle class. did you know t pentagon has failed every single audit in history? you work hard, pay your taxes and play by the rules. but the government clearly is not working for you. the political elite want you to the corrupt mergers of state and as systematicallyat strip mine your generation of its wealth and equity

the world exemplary democracy to crooked corpo by driving up the costs of housing in transforming america from an ownership rental society. when they do that, americans go from being citizens to being subjects. i'm going to end all that. i'm going to help you buy your first h home wittgage rate plan. i'm also going to bring rental prices down which no one in washington seems to wantt to talk about. and and i did why should you believe me? you are feeling disenfranchised dissolutio dis with all the political process. my folks and power of gotten your generation nowhere. they have crippled you with the debt andnd let's be honest, they lied to you. my father told me when i was a little kid that in authority like him and our government and the mainstream media on outline to us every day. i say that enough is enough. that's what i look forward to earning your vote here put me under a microscope holding only to account. i am app job and you were the recruiters.

24.gov. >> marianne williamson announced on wednesday she was on suspending the democratic presidential campaign. the news came the morning after she notched 3% in michigan's democratic president primary falling behind president biden's reelection effort and more than % been committed. but headed minnesota congressman dean phillips. >> next the video she posted to x announcing a return >> hey i have an important announcement to make. as of suspending my campaign for the presidency of the united states. i suspended because of losing the horse race but something so mu important is at stake here. we must respond. right now with a fascist standing at the door. everybody's all upset about it. we should be upset about we're not going to defeat the fascist by, what is president biden offering? he says let's finish theld talk about millions of voters can even survive and or thus the work two three jobs. what iss he saying the on the

economy is really doing well? are you kidding me? for whom? it's 20% of us but that's an island thrown by vast sea of economic despair. report the skipping meals in order to pay the rent. over half of bankruptcies come from medical debt, one in four americans carry. we are living in a time where economic anxiety is experienced by the majority of people, the majority people living paycheck to paycheck. the minimum wage not havingeen raisedmu and increased and increasing militarism. what's g i'll tell you what's going on. we the peo own this country right now. abraham lincoln said that people ie the union had died so that theve government of the people by the pe not perish from the earth. it's perishing now and on our watch. we are a government for all intensive purposes of the corporations by the corporations ons and we need a president who says that there we needns a president who laysown an a we're going to turn this thing around. we're going to take an economic

u-turn.ple. we can do different we can do better. thatcountry great again. to return it to a time when we actually had a thriving middle class and you don't do that with ld trump's policies. you do that with medicare for all.ic you did with t college and textbook. >> you do it with eliminating using the higher education the entire college loan debt. you do with paid family leaveyou do with guaranteed housing guaranteed living wage, guaranteed sic this will make it more beautiful. we havee to respond to donald trump dark vision of possibility. we need to have peace academy as well as a military academy. we have army's of peace builders as well as military personnel. we needo pc games notches wargames. we need to learn to wage peace. america's war on drugs. we need to have a ceasefire now. we need to have reparations. we need to have policies that expand opportunities and thus expand the economy and expand the possibili fti the future for our children and our children's children. we need to ramp down that keep

wrapping up fossil fuel extraction.. take this country in a direction of hope and that is the vision that will defeat donald trump. not finish the job. we're watching a car crash in slow motion here. will say ms. williams a what is delusional. what is delusional officiousur eyesl and cross your fingers and hoping that some of biden and yours will be able tot of dark, dark vision. we are going to defeat that lifting ourselves up to a realiza beginnings is what america specializes in. thisnn is what we were born for. wewe need to remember what our ancestors had done when they were challenged.be we have done great things. we're hard work and we have to do now. i hope you go to marianne 2024.com and read her policies. we are still in this. t's serious. this is the series. we need to save you the american e need to say to donald trump we

see your bs. s do this. thanks so much. d. >> an update on new jersey senate race come one of the prominen democrats battlin held by senator bob menendez. and can has filed suit in federal court to do away with the garden state line voting system. that allows county parties to endorse candidates on about making it possible to vote for multiple offices with just one choice. they argued system put of the candidate at an inherent disadvantage. meanwhile his rival new jersey first lady tammy murphy started airing this add on airways this week. >> this is the nra's world headquarters. it's where cowards work. they know their guns arere telling our kids but they don't pathetic politicians refuse to stand up to them. i will fight for universal background checks. to an immunity for g? assault weapons once and for all. i'm tammy murphy and i will make it my mission to take down the

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