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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 09-12-2024-230919

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 13 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

Thank you for joining me this evening and happy election day to all who celebrate.

0:07.0

I know November 5th is still 54 days away, but today voters started casting the first ballots of the 2024 election.

0:17.0

Yesterday absentee ballots went out in the state of Alabama and today we are seeing

0:21.6

local news reports that people are already turning those

0:25.0

ballots in. So we are off to the races people. Next week Wisconsin starts mailing

0:31.4

out its absentee ballots and Pennsylvania, Minnesota,

0:34.9

South Dakota and Virginia all start in-person early voting. Slowly but surely the

0:41.2

rest of the states will follow.

0:43.6

And what that means for this race is that the window to change voters' minds is closing.

0:50.5

Today Donald Trump announced that he will not have a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

0:57.0

As everyone saw two nights ago, we had a monumental victory over Comrade Camala Harris in the presidential debate.

1:09.3

Harris though said that she and Trump owe it to the voters to have another debate.

1:14.0

Now, Trump is explaining why he doesn't want another debate by saying,

1:18.0

when a prize fighter loses a fight,

1:20.0

the first words out of his mouth are,

1:22.0

I want a rematch.

1:24.0

And Trump claims that polls clearly show that I won the debate.

1:28.0

For the record, the one national post-debate poll we have so far tells a very different story.

1:34.1

According to Morning Consul, before the debate Harris was leading nationally by three points

1:39.1

within the margin of error.

1:40.6

On the day of the debate, Harris's lead widened to four points and after the

1:44.5

debate Harris's lead widened to five points but yes Donald Trump says he doesn't

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