Tonight on the readout.

We have to decide do we still believe in honesty, decency, respect, freedom, justice, and democracy.

Do we believe in the promise of America?

And are we ready to fight for it?

You know, they go crazy when I say, the late great Hannibal Lecter, okay, they say, why would he mention Hannibal Lecter?

He must be cognitively in trouble.

The stark contrast between Biden's humility, Harris's hope, and Trump's buffoonery,

as the ground begins to shift beneath the feet of the Republican Party.

Also tonight, the misogyny of the manga attacks on Harris's gender, and J.D. Vance's denigration

of childless Americans, which is firing up the grassroots energy of American women.

I'm Michael Steele in for Joy Reed, and we begin tonight with the Stark and somewhat cartoonish contrast in the presidential race, especially now that the torch has been passed.

That was the message from President Biden speaking directly to the American people about his decision to leave the race and endorse Vice President

Kamala Harris as his successor. He did it for the love of his country. Now while

President Biden put humility and dignity ahead of hubris, Donald Trump, as we all know by now,

only loves himself, so he took the route of denigration and division.

On social media, he used one of his insult nicknames to criticize

President Biden's speech while one of his senior advisors mocked Biden with a photo of

Trump watching the speech. Meanwhile at a rally in North Carolina

Donald Trump showed in real time how the ground has shifted for Republicans

as he tried out some incoherent attacks on his new opponent, Vice President

Kamla Harris, including repeatedly mispronouncing her name, and trying out a

recycled insult or two. So now we have a new victim to defeat Lion Kamala Harris, Lion, L Y I N

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