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any way. he doesn't think biden or schumer should be telling israel what to do. for decades, the u.s. policy of unconditionally backing israel has been pretty much set in stone. but if netanyahu can lose chuck schumer, i don't know if that is the case anymore. if he really does decide to pull the trigger on a ground invasion that would undoubtedly kill countless defenseless civilians in rafah. we might just be seeing the start of a new era of israeli- american relations. that's our show for tonight. it's time now for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. i think you've got a big guest lined up? >> we do. we have the winner of the democratic senate primary in ohio. of course, that's senator sharon brown. he'll be joining us tonight on ohio primary night. andrew weissman will be joining us with more trump news including the astonishingly insane appeal to the united states supreme court that we're
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going to get to during this hour. >> you have a great show, my friend. >> thank you. >> bye. well tonight, nbc news is projecting that once again, joe biden will win a much larger percentage of the vote in the democratic presidential primary in ohio then donald trump will win. the republican presidential primary in ohio. joe biden currently has 87% of the vote. donald trump currently has 79% of the vote. nbc news projects that the republican nominee for senate in the state of ohio will be the trump endorsed candidate bernie moreno who is running for the senate seat held for the last 17 years by senator sherrod brown, who won his primary tonight with 100% of the vote. bernie moreno got 49.7% in a vote in a primary against a
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more moderate nikki haley-style candidate, matt dolan who has 33% of the votes. if they win the senate seat in ohio, then they will almost certainly take control of the united states senate with a republican majority leader and with republican chairman in every senate committee. that would mean biden would be unable to confirm a single federal judge in a biden second term or it would mean that trump nominated judges would speed through the senate into the federal courts, where they would continue to specialize in taking rights away from americans as the trump judges have already done. the stakes could not be higher in the presidential campaign, and the stakes could not be higher in the senate campaign in ohio this year. martin sheen whose acting career has included so many brilliant performances, beginning with films such as
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"bad lands," and "apocalypse now." continuing into the 21st century in his television portrayal of a president of the united states. in the nbc series, "the west wing." martin sheen was born in dayton, ohio, and was at least once that i'm aware of, approached by the democratic party to run for office in ohio. martin sheen was flattered, but he also believed that there were better people to serve in government, which is why he endorsed sherrod brown for senate, and recorded this ad for the brown/senate campaign released today. >> reporter: the dignity of work is the idea that hard work should pay off for everyone. no matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of work you would do. whether you swipe a badge or punch a clock. whether you work for tips or earn a salary. whether you are caring for an
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aging parent or raising children. your work has dignity. >> this fight is about whose side you are on. i will always be on the side of the ohioans. i spent my entire career fighting for the dignity of work. i won't stop now. join our campaign today. >> and joining us now is the democratic senator, sherrod brown of ohio. he's running for re-election to the united states senate. senator, 100% of the votes sounds pretty good to me in the democratic senate primary. >> i'll take it. considering, well yeah. i mean there aren't a lot of people running. but i think my career in terms of fighting for workers, taking on special interest is why nobody challenged me in the primary, but i didn't really expect to talk about 100% of the vote, but thank you very much, lawrence. >> so you have a son of ohio, martin sheen, who does not
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easily step forward in these situations. tell us about how that ad came together with martin sheen? >> martin and i and janet and con knee and my wife have known each other now for more than a decade. martin, i love to tell the story. he's been campaigning half a dozen times for me and i love to tell the story. martin sheen's first job, he was a caddy at the dayton country club, and he was fired for trying to organize a union. that is who martin sheen is, dignity of work absolutely fits him. he's fought the same kind of special interest that we do, and always devoted his life to justice. one of my favorite moments campaigning is when martin spent two days with us. the second day back in 2012. we ended up in john glen's apartment for a fundraiser. all day he was talking about i can't believe i'm going to see john glen and go to his apartment. and he told me two days earlier, i can't believe martin sheen is coming to my place. so two heroes as far as i'm concerned. in very different ways. but both of them just terrific
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human beings that will fight for justice and fought for people who don't always get a break in life. >> you know, i didn't begin this segment tonight, thinking i'm going to learn a new fact about martin sheen and his very first organizing experience at the country club. but that's a great one. >> yes. >> as you go forward in this campaign, it looks like you know who you're going to be running against. moreno, what do ohio voters need to know, so they know what's at stake in the election for these two candidates for senate? >> well, they know bernie moreno looks out for himself. i mean he has said in this campaign he won't work for democrats. he'll go to washington and do his own thing. he's illustrated that by again calling for a national abortion ban with no exceptions, even though ohio overwhelmingly last november voted by 13 points for constitutional amendment on abortion rights.
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and the arrogance of he doesn't really care what the voters want. that's really who he is. we will make that contrast of i fight for ohio. i listen to people. i do round tables all over the state. that is how we would help the senate write that pack act and how we would get a good infrastructure bill and how we got that chips bill. it will create thousands of jobs in ohio. and that is how you do this job. you go county to county, you listen to people. you come back with ideas, and you convince your child to pass the tax credit. you convince your colleagues on a whole host of issues on the pension bill where we save the pensions of the ohio workers. so that is how you do this job that you don't approach it and i know best and i don't care that women have said that they want control with their doctors of their own healthcare. i know better and i'm going to override that and overturn that and that is why this election is as you know, we have talked on the show that you devoted
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your shows to this and it is whom you fight for and it is who is on your side. and that is really why we are going to see a pretty good year this year around the country. >> and there were indications that the democratic party certainly. not so sure about you, and that they definitely wanted moreno as your opponent because they believe that the more extreme the republican is and the better it is for you and it would have been more of a challenge for you. what is your assessment of what it will take? >> i did not weigh in on that and i didn't even know that would happen until it did happen. but it goes back. first of all i'll have a tough race. they will have tons of millions of hours. moreno is a rich guy who will be spending it in this race. but it comes down to whose side are you on?
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that is why i ask people to come here to help us as volunteers and as contributors. we'll win this race. we'll be outspent. but we will be organized. we will have more grassroots contributors. you know, that's how i won elections in the past. i don't see politics left and right. i see it as whose side are you on? that means take it from the drug companies, putting the cap as you have talked on the show. putting a cap on insulin at $35 and putting a cap on out-of- pocket costs for seniors, which means passing the pact action, the pension bill. which means standing up for the child tax credit, which dropped temporarily, only a year, but we will be back with it. dropped the child poverty rate by 40%. i learned those things by listening to people. the mother-in-law of heath robinson, the bill is named after him. listening to his mother-in-law talk about what happened to him when he returns after exposure to the burn pits. that's how you legislate. and my opponent thinks that you
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legislate by doing what you think you should do. people don't trust them on abortion and they don't trust them on ethics or on fighting on taking on interest groups. >> the democratic senate campaign committee weighed in against your republican opponent tonight. just about a minute after the race was called for bernie moreno who will be the republican nominee running against you for senate. let's look at the ad they put up there tonight. >> meet bernie moreno. even republicans don't trust him. >> this is why this man can't be trusted. >> bernie would overrule ohio voters to pass the national abortion ban. >> and he said he doesn't think that the minimum wage should exist. >> at the end of the day, the markets will flush that out. >> affordable care act, it made
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healthcare more expensive. >> he called it complete garbage, complete garbage. and he was sued by employees because he didn't pay them overtime they earned and destroyed evidence to get out of it. >> you shredded those documents because it helped bernie moreno, not the employees. >> to put it simply. >> this is a matter of trust. >> republicans don't trust bernie moreno. why should you? >> what else would you like me to say? >> so this is the donald trump chosen candidate to run in ohio. donald trump has been on a winning streak in ohio himself. so it seems to me that this candidate is going to have an awful lot of support from donald trump while you have support from the democratic senate campaign committee. >> and i'm going to run my own race. i know that when i focus on taking on interest groups. when i focus on what we have done to fight back with that
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train derailment. and what the drug companies have done on overpriced -- my wife every sunday, we go to a grocery store in the neighborhood, and i see people all the time who are paying more for their groceries because of bonuses that executives get. people need to know who is running for president regardless of those comments and they know that i will stand up. and that is why i ask people to come here and step up. this will be a grassroots effort. we show it every day and it is how you represent people. you don't just go to country clubs and do all that. you show up in communities, you do roundtables. you listen to people because the best ideas, i don't have the best ideas, but they come from people in my state. and i met with a number of farmers this past week where we talked about what we can do
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with soybeans and turning into jet fuel. i wouldn't have thought of that. but these farmers did. we've seen the science that that can happen. there is just all kinds of opportunities. if you open your ears and listen, you can make a big difference in this job. i think that -- i don't think my opponent understands that. i do. that's why i've been successful. every day working for ohio and being successful in the elections in the past. >> senator brown, thank you very much for teaching me something that i did not know about my dear friend martin sheen and for joining us tonight on this important election night in ohio. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, senator. coming up, donald trump is finally admitting in his way, but he is not a billionaire and cannot afford to post a bond of half a billion dollars during his appeal of the half billion dollar judgment against him for business fraud in new york state. and donald trump descended into public panic today. outright panic about his own
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it was a very rough day for donald trump's voters. and today, donald trump told
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his followers who believe he is the smartest person in the world, and used to believe he was the richest person in the world that he's in tragic financial circumstances because of the $454 million civil judgment against him for business fraud in united states. because in order to appeal that judgment, donald trump sate, "i would be forced to mortgage or sell great assets at fire sale prices. and if and when i win the appeal, they would be gone. does that make sense? trump voters, hay now have to ask themselves how can the smartest man in the world be so stupid to allow this to happen? but voters will probably never ask themselves that question because they are the same people who sent millions of
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dollars to donald trump over the years after promising them that he would never ask for a campaign contribution from anyone because he is so rich. without those campaign contributions, he would not be able to afford his teams of criminal defense lawyers, and the voters, they should be asking himself tonight, how does the smartest man in the world allow one of his white house staff, peter navarro, to go to prison today for refusing to comply with the subpoena? why did the smartest man in the world hire someone stupid enough to do that? and peter navarro gave him angry press conference of sorts, outside the florida federal prison. that became his new home address today. peter navarro said he was mad. that, of course, was probably true, but more accurate to say
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that he is stupid. everything else he says that you're not hearing right now was a lie, which is why you're not hearing it. he was the guy who promised his supporters that he would hire the best people, the very best people of his administration. and no one has criticized the people who he hired more than donald trump who has attacked every one of those best people who are now saying he is unfit to be president because he saw him upclose when he was president. one measure of how good you are at hiring is how many of the people you hire go to prison? the correct answer is suppose to be zero, but in their business and the officer has served time and now accused of other crimes. michael cohen, served time. and the first trump administration official to go
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to prison with steve bannon on track once the appeal is exhausted for the same crime that they committed to denying a subpoena. in georgia, the last white house chief of staff, mark meadows and jeffrey clark could be on their way to prison at the end of that case as could donald trump's legal team including giuliani who illegally tried to overturn the election. joining us now is former chief of the criminal division. he's the co-author of the new best selling book, "the trump indictments." and tim o'brien is with us, the senior executive, and he is host of the bloomberg podcast crash course. an msnbc political analyst. andrew, what happens now? donald trump can go forward with his apeel, but his assets
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will not be protected, which means they could start closing in on some of those assets? >> absolutely. he is allowed to appeal. >> and he is claiming to his followers they won't let me appeal unless i put up half a billion dollars. that's a lie? you can appeal? >> that is a lie. exactly. this has to do with the judgment and whether it could be enforced. to be clear, it is enforced now, but the attorney general in new york has given, which is fairly common, a 30-day grace period to him to basically either put up the money or put up the bond. and so that 30 days ends on monday. i should point out that donald trump's truth social post makes zero sense. he could get a mortgage on his real estate if it is not leveraged already. in other words there is nothing, if he has $454 million in equity in any of his real estate assets, he can do what a
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lot of people in this country do with much smaller real estate, which is just get a mortgage and pay. there is nothing in there and that property is not sold. he could get a mortgage and do that. apparently he does not have that ability because all of his assets, or at least there is not enough assets that are not leveraged. so what can the attorney general do starting on monday? she can issue liens on any and all property, whether it is real estate, whether it is bank accounts, security counts, cash equivalence, that will freeze the accounts. then she could transfer that to her. so all the assets could be transferred to the state of new york. third, if you can't find everything, she could include donald trump to find any and all assets and do the same thing. so on any money, by the way, that he receives, she can attach that to satisfy the $454 million.
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if he does not get that amount lowered by the court or figure out a way to post a bond, that is what we will start seeing happening on monday. >> tim o'brien, underoath depositions, asking him about how much of this building do you actually own? and you have done that research. he sued you when you wrote he was not as rich as he claimed to be. of course, you won that lawsuit because he was, indeed lying about how rich he was. when they go in here eventually to start looking at these assets. is she going to find that, you know, that this building actually has several mortgages on it already? and that is why you can't get an additional mortgage on it? even though that there might be $25 million in equity left in it. you can't get to it because there is too much on all of these properties already? >> right. lawrence, in the financial
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world, it's leverage. and donald trump has loved leveraging everything he owns to take on more debt, so he could buy more things because he is wildly undisciplined financially and strategically. a year ago, he said in a deposition that he had $400 million in cash, and he was adding significant amounts to the total every month because his business was so robust and the cash was just flowing through. and now he is now saying he doesn't have that money in hand. and there is only three reasons that will explain that. either the cash wasn't there or he simply doesn't want to put up his own money. there is no explanation on why that disappeared. i don't think that he could have ever anticipated when he was trying to embarrass letitia
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james and the entire judicial process against him that he would wind up in a position where these financial dominoes are starting to tumble. because on monday, when tish james decides to attach assets because trump hasn't paid up. if something extraordinary doesn't happen between now and next monday, which could be an outside party giving him money or someone deciding if he had to post a bond on his behalf. neither of those situations look likely. you're going to for the first time get a look, you know, behind the komono at his holdings. he has never been public about the amount and the amount of debt he'll hold against those properties. you are going to get a look at that and get a real sense of what the evaluations are. when he began campaigning in 2016, he put out statements that he was worth $8 billion. then $10 billion if there is
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some with $6 billion. more recently, you know, my colleagues of bloomberg news says he's worth about $3 billion. that's all on paper. that number could start to decline very quickly if you don't have cash and you don't have orale quid assets and you have a lot of debt against it. it is the worst experience that he'll want to have in that world and this sort of guessing game as you noted, you know, he sued me for three pages of a very long book that essentially hung him up on the idea that he's been playing the media and his bankers for how much money he has. now that will become a public thing and a public event. he will have to be feeling right now like a cornered animal. and it has to be his worst nightmare financially. >> andrew, that animal field was there and it has panic social media comments today. there's a couple of things going on here. one is donald trump's complete
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inability to anticipate consequences. until they are upon him. it was clear to us months and months and months ago that this was roughly the number where this case was going to end up. yes, there is real civil liability there. but you get the feeling that his lawyers never impressed that upon him. he never really believed it could come to this. now that it has come to this, the next stage could be donald trump under oath about his assets. one of the options he just laid out about donald trump's claim under oath and about having $400 million in cash. he didn't use this word. that's perjury. you know, that was just a lie. so here we go again, donald. you're under oath. how much of this building do you own? at that point though, they will have subpoena and documentations that shows the building is mortgaged seven different ways. >> the emperorrer has no
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clothes. but something to see it and the way he says it approaches the world and exactly what you said. he's not a chess player. he is not thinking down the road, that is a skill set that you would like to have with a president of the united states or a ceo at a mar joy company. he's focused on the here and now and thinking everyone is not going to remember what happens from day-to-day. that's fine because i'm going to move on to the next thing tomorrow. dim, what about this anticipation of consequences? this is what donald trump fails at miserably. he failed it at the casino business. pretty much every business when you were firsting with about him. he couldn't anticipate e before they landed on him in a bad
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aye. >> because he's been protected on the -- his father is well. insulated him from his business mistakes, poor academic. through the fame he garnered when he was on the apprentice and the consequences of the law thus far in a most meanies aren't. so he never had to grow up. donald trump is 70 years growing old. and that is exactly why he can't play three-dimensional chest or play checkers. he plays hopscotch and falls off the course because he's unsophisticated, self-absorb, and he doesn't see consequences when they are rushing at him because he thinks he could get around him. and i think one of the things we're seeing now in this litigation is this myth that donald trump has always been able to evade the long arm of the law. i think that has been the sort
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of mythic thing that people are wondering why he has nine legal things. and he has never had prosecutors, determined trying to expose him before. that could still run a ground drown in motion right now. but at least in this case, he has hold himself very well. and it is long overdue. >> tim o'brien, thank you very much for joining us about your expertise on trump's businesses. up next, donald trump's lawyers filed a brief with the supreme court today, claiming a president cannot function without committing crimes. and that it was just an oversight while the officers of the constitution that they did not specify in writing total immunity for presidents and former presidents from prosecution.
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today donald trump's criminal defense lawyers filed an appeal's brief with the united states supreme court, asking the supreme court to establish a new constitutional principle that is not even hinted at in the constitution, in which no president before
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donald trump thought was constitutional or asked the supreme court to make it constitutional. donald trump is asking the supreme court for full criminal immunity for everything donald trump did while he was president of the united states and after he was president of the united states. the trump brief begins with this lie. a denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future president with de facto blackmail and extortion while in office, and condemn him to years of post-office trauma at the hands of the political opponents. the trump brief does not explain why that has never happened in the entire 235-year history of the american presidency. when no one in the presidency or in the american criminal justice system ever believed that a former president could
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not be prosecuted for crimes. everyone in the criminal justice system and in the country believed that richard nixon could be prosecuted for crimes, that he committed while he was president. and president gerald ford who took office after they resigned is absolutely certain that the justice department would definitely prosecute richard nixon for crimes committed while nixon was president, which is why president ford pardoned richard nixon in 1974. in the eight presidents from nixon to trump, every one of them was always 100% certain that they could be prosecuted for crimes committed in office just as richard nixon was going to be prosecuted. before he was pardoned. not one of those presidents was inhibited in any way in office
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in doing their duty by fear of being prosecuted. the history of the american presidency and the american criminal justice system, especially the post nixon history proves beyond a reasonable doubt that this statement in the trump brief is a lie. the threat of future prosecution and imprisonment would become a political cudgel to influence the most sensitive and controversial presidential decisions, taking away the strength, authority, of the presidency. arguing there is no reason for the court to hear donald trump's appeal, special prosecutor jack smith said that the criminal immunity that donald trump is asking the supreme court to write into constitutional law, "would upend understandings about presidential accountability that have prevailed throughout history while undermining democracy and the rule of law,
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particularly where. as here, a former president is alleged to have committed crimes to remain in office despite losing an election, thereby seeking to subvert constitutional procedures for transferring power and to disenfranchise millions of voters." andrew weissman is back with us. and andrew, you know, it is a reasonably sized brief to a supreme court appeal. got 50 pages in here. did you find anything that is worthy of supreme court consideration in this argument? >> no. but to add to your list, it is worth noting that you can add donald trump himself. during the second impeachment, his argument as to why he should not be impeached successfully convicted in the senate was because he could always be criminally prosecuted later.
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that there should not be this rush to decide things now. he's about to leave office. there is always the criminal justice system. so you can add him to that litany. there are two things that i thought were quite interesting in this brief. one, you will really like because i was sitting here with you when you were pointing at brett kavanaugh before he was on the supreme court. he wrote an article where he said current presidents should have enjoyed criminal immunity, that you have to wait until they are out of office. and former presidents can be prosecuted. so you might be thinking well, that doesn't help donald trump in this position because he's being prosecuted as a former president. and that brett kavanaugh article is cited in this brief. and it is incorrectly cited for the proposition that former presidents cannot be charged and that is a point.
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and if you're going to cite a sitting justice, you might want to get that right. >> and you could spend a lifetime reading these and never find a supreme court justice quoted, cited, incorrectly in a brief submitted to the supreme court. i mean this is a level of incompetence that i've never seen before, and of course, donald trump is incapable of even realizing. >> second point in the brief to add to your litany of things that are incorrect whether intentional or not. and all of donald trump's actions with the inspection and leading up to it is because he, the then president, was aware of, and i'm just going to paraphrase this substantial amount of evidence that there
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was fraud in the election. the site to that is to members of congress, and to his sitting vice president. so neither those citations to actual facts, and there will be a reason for that, which is 60 judges who heard this said there was no fraud and that would change the outcome of the election. it is remarkable in the introduction of a brief in the supreme court to have that statement sort of sitting there, that he somehow has this undisclosed evidence, which he still is representing to the supreme court of the united states, but has never ever represented to the american public. >> so the next filing in this will be jack smith's reply to this. the smith filings are the exact opposite in this flawless all the way through. we will be waiting to see what he has to say about this. andrew weissmann, thank you very much for joining us. up next, president biden is
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today president joe biden kicked off a three-day campaign swing through nevada, arizona,
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texas with an interview on radio which offers programming for spanish speaking audiences. >> and here is the thing i want to stop. trump decided to call and saying that they are not people. he said immigrants are poised in the blood of this country. he separated children from parents. and mass deportation for the tens of thousands of people here. we can't let this happen. their $30 million ad campaign and battleground states with a reminder for spanish speakers about what joe biden has done for grandparents who need insulin. >> for our abuelos. >> insulin that costs $35. >> or hundreds. >> that is the difference. between joe biden.
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>> and donald trump. >> for women. the freedom to control our own bodies or doctors going to jail for an abortion. >> this is the difference between joe biden or donald n trump. >> only one choice is right. >> and the difference between them the your vote. >> i'm joe biden and i approve a this message. >> here with us is simon rosenberg. simon, president working in the southwest trying to shore up the latino vote. in ohio, president biden getting a much higher percentage of the vote in his primary than donald trump does in his primary. now brown has an identified opponent in the senate race. full trump supported opponent as trumpy as donald trump. what is your assessment of the state of the race on this ohio
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primary night? >> the most important thing is the biden campaign is really turning on. we are starting to spend the money you mentioned. this big cash advantage they have over trump. they are getting deeper into the general election. the president and the vice president are campaigning. and we don't want to jump the gun, but there is evidence you are seeing things shift a little more in his favor. there are five polls taken since the state of the union that have biden ahead now. and in the economist tracking poll. he is actually up by one point over trump now. so you know, here we are in the general election. joe biden is a strong president. and trump is an unprecedented dumpster fire as you have been talking about all night on this show. >> so, we are running the ads that the biden campaign is doing because they can afford them and the trump campaign cannot. stunning numbers coming up
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about trump fund raising. in 2023, last year, the year before the election year, the trump campaign raised 62.5% less money from the small dollar donors than it did in 2019, the year before that election. and those small dollar donors are really huge funders in the aggregate of past trump campaigns. >> trump is in trouble right now. i think the trump is strong tr bubble is bursting in front of our eyes. as we discussed, he has been underperforming polling in every state and struggleing in the primaries much more than biden did in his. they are struggling mightily. with low dollar donors and also . republicans are fleeing the house and retireing in record
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numbers. there is an unprecedented revolt in the republican party. we have news a bunch of nikki haley's most important fundraiser haves now shifted over to biden and not to trump. this thing, this is the ugliest political thing we have seen. and what is beginning to happen now is the bubble, this idea that trump is somehow strong, he's not. he is weak. and the reason the media is waking up to the fact that biden is coming out of the state of the union strong. and trump is struggling in an is unprecedented way as we head into the general. >> there is more money coming biden's way. the league of conservation voters want to put $120 million into the biden campaign. pledged for a billion dollars. no such announcements on the
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republican side. >> yeah, look. the the democratic party is fired up. we are winning elections raising tons of money. taking stuff away from them all over the country. is a very energized party. we know democracy is on the line. and people are responding to this call to step up to the democrats. the same has not been happening from the republican side. they are struggling to raise g money as well. we head into the general with the democratic party strong, unified and winning elections. the republican party struggling, deeply divided and in rough shape as we head into the general. as i like to say, in every way imaginable, i would much rather be us than them. >> and we stress the money, the big money expenditure is buying television ads and that is still the way that you reach the swing voter in the end. simon, thank you very much for
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that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. >> good evening, i'm jonathan in for stephanie ruhle. it is primary night in several states including a crucial gnat republican primary in ohio as the party tries to take control of the upper chamber. nbc news can project donald trump endorsed car dealer bernie moreno has beaten dolan and larose who were considered more traditional republican candidates. moreno will face three term democratic senator sherrod brown. and in the