Harris campaign focusing on key swing states

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Republicans dump cash into a key Wisconsin Senate race. Also, Democrats work to shore up support from Black male voters. Plus, a Pennsylvania Democrat is running to unseat election denier Rep. Scott Perry. And MAGA Republicans push to suppress swing state voting. Rep. Debbie Dingell, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Roland Martin, Janelle Stelson, and Matthew Seligman join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Ali Velshi who is in for my colleague
0:05.0	Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Ali. Alex, thanks again for an excellent show. You have
0:08.7	a great weekend. I'll see you next week. You too. Good evening to everybody. Today the stock market closed at all-time record highs, which means that once again Fox Business
0:18.4	brought out the virtual fireworks.
0:20.0	We just clarified some very important issues about the banks coming up.
0:25.0	Thank you, Gerard.
0:26.0	Here we go, folks.
0:27.0	It is a record close for the Dow Jones Industrials and another record close for the
0:32.1	S&P 500. on the screen today driven by the bank
0:36.2	earnings but as you know next week big news with earnings as well so we'll see you.
0:42.1	The Fox Business Celebration comes after another
0:44.3	Rupert Murdoch-owned company published an article titled
0:47.6	JP Morgan calls it the US economy has made a soft landing. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the
0:54.6	world's largest bank announced that the US economy under President Biden has
0:59.5	achieved what was once seen as impossible, a soft landing.
1:04.0	Investopedia describes a soft landing as an economy that slows down a bit,
1:08.5	in this case because the Fed has managed interest rates,
1:12.1	without triggering inflation or a recession.
1:15.9	Pandemic-era inflation is way down, unemployment is low, job creation is high and wages are
1:20.8	growing, and no one is talking about a recession anymore.
1:25.0	There are just 25 days until election day
1:28.0	and more than 4 million votes have already been cast.
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