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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 08-26-2024-224516

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I am super happy to have you here and we are going to show that clip this hour of this thing

0:04.8

that I've been working on for ages and ages and ages and I hope you like it.

0:10.3

In a presidential election year, all eyes, understandably,

0:14.3

are on the two major party presidential campaigns.

0:17.1

We now, of course, have had both the Republican

0:19.4

National Convention and the Democratic National Convention. Every day we have new rounds of polling that come out.

0:25.0

Both the national polls and the swing state polls are generally telling the same story right now.

0:31.0

There's there's there's telling a story that that Vice President

0:34.0

Kamala Harris is doing significantly better against Donald Trump than

0:37.9

President Biden had been doing in his campaign. That is comparatively good

0:42.1

news for the Democrats. They are apparently better. That is from Biden to Harris. That said in absolute terms, the polls,

0:55.6

national polls and the swing state polls,

0:58.2

broadly speaking, don't really give either party

1:01.6

a reason to celebrate right now.

1:02.9

Vice President Harris may be doing better than Biden was against Trump,

1:06.6

but it doesn't mean that she is clearly winning against Trump.

1:09.5

It's basically a tie between the two candidates right now.

1:14.0

And that produces all sorts of interesting dynamics

1:17.6

to watch for.

1:18.2

When it is this close, little differences

1:20.8

between the candidates and their campaigns

1:22.3

can make a very interesting,

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