Good evening from Los Angeles. I'm Jacob Soberoff in for Chris Hayes. We are 258 days away

from possibly the most consequential midterm election in American history. And Donald Trump,

the aspiring authoritarian in the White House, is desperately looking for ways to turn the math in his party's favor.

One way to do that would be to try to add voters to his coalition.

The other is to subtract voters from the equation entirely.

In fact, you might have caught the Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Noem last week saying her department was going to help make sure the right people

were going to elect the right leaders. And it turns out that is exactly what they are trying to do.

New reporting from MS Now tonight says DHS is being deputized to hunt for voter fraud and suppress the

vote. We're going to have more on that report in just a moment with the great

Carol Lenig, but it is becoming obvious that Plan A, trying to figure out how to sell voters on MAGA,

is not working for them as Trump's average approval rating has sunk to 41 percent. That is,

its lowest point in a year. Last night with just weeks before the first election primaries,

dozens of White House aides, including Trump's chief of staff and his top pollster, gathered for a

closed-door midterm strategy session. Sources tell MS now that in that meeting, officials concluded

that the economy, the economy will be the top issue, and Trump's historical advantage on immigration

was gone. So the Republican plan to add voters to their coalition is to talk about affordability,

a word Donald Trump says, is made up and avoid talking about the border, which Trump constantly

obsesses about. Just pretend that everything's going great.

That the wild scandals enveloping the White House are worth ignoring because the Dow.

None of them ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein. How ironic is that? You know why? Because Donald Trump,

the Dow, the Dow right now is over, the Dow is over $50,000. I don't know why you're laughing.

I don't know why you're laughing. I don't know why you're laughing.

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