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79 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi is joined by Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution Andre Perry, Staff Writer for The Atlantic Anne Applebaum, President of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten, Michigan Secretary of StateJocelyn Benson, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, NBC News’ Mike Memoli, former U.S. Secretary of Labor in the Obama Administration Tom Perez, President and Senior Lecturer at Repairers of the Breach Rev. Dr. William Barber II

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0:00.0

Well, she starts now.

0:08.4

Hey, good morning. It's Saturday, August the 18th. The election is 79 days away, and tomorrow

0:14.0

Democrats will kick off their national convention in Chicago with the wind at their backs,

0:18.8

hoping to build on Kamala Harris' momentum. This morning,

0:21.9

it was revealed that the theme of this year's convention will be for the people, for our future,

0:27.8

which borrows from the vice president's past campaign slogan Kamala Harris for the people.

0:33.0

It's going to be a slightly different affair from past Democratic conventions and a very

0:36.6

different event that the one

0:37.8

organizers had originally been planning. For one thing, there's not much in the way of real business to

0:42.8

take care of this year. Democratic delegates have already voted and made Harris their party's official

0:47.5

nominee, but it is going to be an opportunity for Democrats to consolidate support behind Harris's

0:53.3

campaign and to unify the party after a tense and

0:56.2

uneasy summer. Donald Trump knows that this could be a pivotal week for the presidential race,

1:00.9

so he's trying to blunt Harris's momentum with a series of events of his own. His campaign

1:06.4

just announced that the former president will hold rallies and press events in multiple

1:10.3

swing states over the next week, despite previously saying that he didn't need to return announced that the former president will hold rallies and press events in multiple swing

1:10.9

states over the next week, despite previously saying that he didn't need to return to the campaign

1:16.0

trail until after the Democratic Convention because he claimed that he had a big lead.

1:21.7

Trump's attempts to steal the spotlight away from the Democrats actually began yesterday when he

1:26.0

held a rally in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania,

1:28.3

one day before Harris Wals and their spouses were set to embark on a bus tour of the state.

1:34.8

During the rally, he took particular aim at the economic policies that his opponent had just started

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