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The Rachel Maddow Show

Maddow: 'History is calling' as pivotal election season winds down

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

Madow, Washington, Rachel Maddow, Congress, Campaign, Policy, Election, President, Nbc, Public, News, Government, Maddow, Politics, Issues

4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Plus, Yulia Navlanaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is Rachel Maddow's special guest.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Really happy to have you here. So we are two weeks out from election day. It's two weeks from tomorrow.

0:05.0

Well over 10 million Americans have already cast their ballots, myself included.

0:10.0

It feels great to have voted. I highly recommend it. No feeling quite like it. But now we are getting close to the point where we are out of time for anything but voting.

0:24.4

Whatever you want to be able to say you did in this year's election,

0:28.3

whatever you want to be able to brag about someday in the future,

0:31.2

whatever you want to say you're proud you did when

0:35.5

your country needed you. You know what you want your answer to be when somebody

0:40.2

someday asks you what you did in 2024 when you were alive and American and fully

0:47.0

aware that this was the highest stakes American election since 1940 and 1860.

0:54.5

Whatever you want to be able to brag about in terms of your contribution to this moment in American history,

1:00.0

your contribution to this election, this election in which we are being asked to choose, not just

1:05.1

between one candidate and the other, we are being asked to choose between one system of government

1:11.7

and another.

1:14.0

Whatever you want your family lore about you to be

1:18.2

for future generations of your family.

1:20.3

When your family in future holidays,

1:23.4

future family reunions, family get-togethers,

1:27.7

when members of your family generations yet to come

1:30.4

talk about you and what you did in the election that decided whether or not America

1:34.6

was going to switch to a strong man, authoritarian state instead of the system we were born to and

1:40.4

grew up in whatever you are going to do it's what you're going to do now and

1:47.6

in these next two weeks history is calling.

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