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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Decision 2024: Fascism vs. Freedom

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut as we are now less than 24 hours away from the first polls closing, with Georgia set to close at 7 pm ET tomorrow, in the 2024 presidential election. Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final push, with Harris appearing at several events in Pennsylvania, including a star-studded rally in Philly tonight, while Trump holds rallies in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before ending the day in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We have reached the point in the election season where we have said all we can, laying out the stakes in this crucial election: one side standing for freedom, the other meeting the textbook definition of fascism. As we head into tomorrow, keep calm, take deep breaths, get good sleep, and ensure that on the morning of November 6th, you are proud of what you did. If you have not voted yet—or if your friends and family have not—there is still time. Listen now to this election eve edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Oh, we love the music.

0:10.6

Good evening, everyone.

0:11.6

We are now exactly 24 hours before the first polls closed, with Georgia closing at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time tomorrow.

0:23.4

VP Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making a final push to the finish line

0:27.4

with Harris appearing at several events in Pennsylvania,

0:31.2

including a star-studded rally in Philly late tonight.

0:35.1

Trump is holding rallies in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before he ends the day in Grand Rapids,

0:42.1

Michigan. And we begin our final sprint, having arrived at that point in the election season,

0:48.1

where basically we on this side of the TV screen have said all we can. We've laid out the stakes in this crucial

0:55.3

election, where one side stands for freedom, while the other meets the textbook definition

1:00.6

of fascism, namely a far-right dictatorial regime like Hitler's Germany or Franco's Spain or Mussolini's

1:08.1

Italy, but also white ruled South Africa before Mandela and the black

1:12.6

majority took control, or Vladimir Putin's Russia, Victor Orban's Hungary, or Nicolas Maruro in

1:20.2

Venezuela today that suppresses the rights of women and minorities, uses the military to execute the whims of a strong man dictator

1:29.6

and controls and suppresses the press, education, the arts, rewrites history to suit a favored

1:36.7

and dominant racial class and fomence extravagant corruption in order to enrich the dictator

1:43.6

and his friends.

1:46.0

We've warned you about Donald Trump's profound unfitness for office,

1:49.9

from his theft of classified documents and attempted insurrection to his clear cognitive

1:55.5

and physical decline, to what he plans to do if he returns to power,

2:03.7

threatening to lock up or even execute his political opponents, increasing federal capital punishment and unleashing the police unrestrained,

2:10.6

using the military to suppress protests, banning abortion nationwide by enforcing the Comstock

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