State of Play with 44 Days to Go

Velshi

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Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Ali Velshi is joined by Senior Diplomatic Correspondent at HuffPost, Akbar Shahid Ahmed, syndicated radio talk show host of, ‘The Thom Hartmann Program’ and New York Times Bestselling author of, ‘The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America – and What We Can Do to Stop It’, Thom Hartmann, award-winning documentarian, Ken Burns, Professor of Constitutional Law & Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law and award-winning author of, ‘Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood’, Dr. Michele Goodwin, Executive Director at The Yellowhammer Fund, Jenice Fountain, Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and award winning and bestselling author of, ‘On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century ‘, Dr. Timothy Snyder, Editor-at-large at Jewish Currents and author of, "Beinart Notebook", Peter Beinart, MSNBC Daily Columnist and author of, ‘The Dean’s Report’, Dean Obeidallah

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0:00.0	Good morning to you. It is Sunday, September the 22nd. Only 44 days remain until election day.
0:11.1	And all signs indicate the race is still very competitive. Even after an historic shakeup in the race,
0:17.7	nothing's really been able to move the needle significantly enough to give one candidate an outright advantage over the other.
0:25.0	A brand new NBC News national poll just released in the last hour shows that Kamala Harris
0:30.8	has improved upon Joe Biden's numbers. In a two-way ballot, 49% of respondents say they would vote for Harris and her running mate Tim Walls compared to 44% for Donald Trump.
0:44.5	These are national polls that are more likely to reflect the popular vote than the electoral college vote.
0:50.8	And while those results should give Democrats some comfort that Harris's two-month-old campaign has been effective, those numbers are still within the vote. And while those results should give Democrats some comfort that Harris's two-month-old
0:54.8	campaign has been effective, those numbers are still within the margin of error. With thousands
1:00.5	of early votes already cast and many more absentee ballots arriving in voters' mailboxes
1:05.0	in the coming days, both campaigns are now taking a more aggressive stance in these final
1:09.9	weeks of the race.
1:14.7	Now, following her well-received debate performance just 12 days ago,
1:20.3	Kamala Harris is seeking to do it again and face Donald Trump at least one more time.
1:25.2	Her campaign announced yesterday that the Democratic nominee has accepted a proposed CNN debate scheduled for October 23rd, less than two weeks before election day.
1:30.1	That's basically a dare for Donald Trump, who insisted that actually he won the last debate
1:36.8	and doesn't intend to do anymore, a point that he reiterated during his rally yesterday.
1:43.3	The problem with another debate is that it's just too late.
1:46.8	Voting has already started.
1:49.0	She's had her chance to do it with Fox.
1:51.1	You know, Fox invited us on, and I waited and waited and they turned it down.
1:57.0	They turned it down.
1:58.0	But now she wants to do a debate right before the election with CNN because she's losing badly.
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