GOP candidates backtrack on 2020 lies in midterms homestretch as Obama and Sanders hit campaign trail for Dems

The Beat with Ari Melber

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday October 19 and reports on the midterms as many in the GOP are attempting to backtrack on their 2020 election lies and as Democrats tap heavy-hitters to campaign including Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders. Plus, Politico reporting that Trump signed court document that "knowingly included false voter fraud" information. Errin Haines, Karoun Demirjian, David Kelley join, as well as CPAC chair Matt Schlapp.

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0:00.0	Appreciate it. Welcome to the beat-um-arri-melber.
0:02.8	And here is how you know we're a new territory
0:05.9	in this mid-term's home stretch.
0:07.7	Look who it is.
0:09.0	Barack Obama is heading out on the trail.
0:11.0	He'll be visiting key states like Georgia,
0:13.0	Michigan, Wisconsin, today adding Nevada to that list.
0:16.8	The former president is the surrogate
0:18.5	most in demand in his party right now.
0:20.7	That makes sense, but there are other names.
0:23.5	But we actually know, can galvanize crowds like this.
0:27.5	You're looking at some of the large, young and often diverse
0:30.8	crowds that we saw gather for Bernie Sanders
0:33.8	on his campaign trail.
0:36.0	You see, this is him out on the hustings back
0:38.4	in the presidential primaries, so not tonight,
0:40.8	but I want to give you the context of why some Democrats
0:44.4	are excited about this announcement.
0:46.0	When you look at crowds like that in so many parts
0:48.0	of the country, well, Bernie's announced today
0:49.8	he will hit eight states for 19 events in this last stretch,
0:55.0	the 81-year-old showing his stamina.
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