Lawrence: Trump gets lost in music & lies at economic forum as Harris boosted by GA early vote

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz focus on swing states and undecided voters in the final weeks of the campaign. Also, the stakes for Donald Trump’s legal cases rest on the election outcome. And Georgia sees a record-setting first day of early voting. Mayor John Giles, Jonathan Alter, and Rep. Maxwell Frost join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening,
0:03.6	Lawrence. Good evening, Alex. It is 10 p.m. Tuesday night.
0:09.0	Exactly three weeks from now. We're going to be sitting in that big studio
0:14.2	where you are right now for election night
0:17.8	coverage.
0:18.2	We will be sitting there at 10 p.m.
0:20.5	analyzing votes that will be being reported from states where the polls have already closed,
0:27.0	only three weeks away.
0:29.0	I am not ready. I don't have nearly enough snacks I need to start
0:32.8	cappinating now I need to put a more comfortable footwear a lot
0:37.4	needs to happen between now and then Lawrence.
0:39.4	Well I'm glad I mentioned I'm glad I mentioned it then if you're not ready I'm glad I reminded you that
0:45.9	you've got exactly three weeks to be ready. I gotta go. Okay thanks Alex.
0:51.1	Right. Thank you. Well it is exactly three weeks until election day and the
0:56.2	Kamala Harris for president campaign got the very best news it could possibly
1:02.4	get today on the first day of in-person early voting in
1:08.9	Georgia. It was a record turnout for early voting in Georgia. Today's turnout beat the
1:16.2	previous early voting turnout in Georgia in 2020. That early voting turnout
1:22.0	record in Georgia four years ago led to the first
1:27.4	Democratic presidential victory in Georgia in 32 years when Joe Biden won Georgia.
1:35.0	Congressman Maxwell Frost was in Georgia
1:38.0	for the first day of early voting.
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