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Big Tent vs Small Tent

Velshi

MSNBC

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

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi is joined by Host of SiriusXM’s ‘The Dean Obeidallah Show’ Dean Obeidallah, Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Zeteo Mehdi Hasan, Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law Michele Goodwin, former Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Seth Harris, former Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to former VP Mike Pence Olivia Troye, GA State Rep. Ruwa Romman, author of “Whale Talk” Chris Crutcher

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0:00.0

Belchie starts now.

0:09.9

Good morning. It's Saturday, August the 24th. There are 73 days left until Election

0:13.9

Day. Democrats are fired up after four celebratory days at their convention in Chicago this

0:19.6

week, but this race is far from over.

0:22.4

In just a little over a month, Kamala Harris has managed to close the gap with Donald Trump,

0:25.8

and now that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suspended his campaign, the dynamics of this race

0:31.1

could change one more time. In addition to suspending his presidential bid, Kennedy endorsed

0:36.5

Donald Trump yesterday and appeared

0:38.5

with him at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, where the former president made a plea to Kennedy

0:43.2

supporters.

0:45.6

We're leading now, but I think he's going to have a huge influence of this campaign.

0:51.3

Bobby and I will fight together to defeat the corrupt political establishment and return control of this country to the people.

1:02.0

And to all who supported Bobby's campaign, I very simply ask you join us in building this coalition.

1:11.0

It's a beautiful coalition.

1:13.5

A beautiful coalition.

1:15.0

We're going to talk about that in just a second with my guests.

1:17.5

Kennedy's exit is another reminder of how fluid the race still is.

1:21.0

As an independent, he'd been slipping in the polls for months,

1:24.1

but he remained the top third party candidate in the race. He's been receiving between

1:29.0

five and ten percent support in the latest national polls released this summer. That could be

1:34.6

significant enough to make a difference in an election that it's expected to be extremely close.

1:39.3

Trump's allies had lobbied hard in recent weeks to get Kennedy to drop out of the race after it

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