Trump's 2024 playbook: Undermine elections
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout. Well, you know, that really did not go well. |
| 0:17.0 | Trump's attempt to elbow Kamala Harris off of center stage with a live conversation |
| 0:24.8 | with Twitter destroying billionaire Elon Musk starts 40 minutes late and was |
| 0:29.9 | full of lies and weirdness. Meanwhile Trump remains mostly off the campaign trail |
| 0:34.7 | making you wonder if he's really trying to win votes or he thinks his henchman will |
| 0:40.4 | just pull the levers and install him as president despite what |
| 0:44.4 | voters decide. Also tonight a big step forward in the fight for reproductive |
| 0:49.0 | rights as two more states add the issue to their November ballot including one critical |
| 0:54.5 | battleground. Plus Project 2025 exposed the plot to roll back civil rights and |
| 0:59.8 | force America back to the pre civil rights era. |
| 1:06.4 | But we begin tonight with the utter desperation |
| 1:08.6 | of a washed up reality TV character |
| 1:10.9 | looking to get back in the spotlight by any means necessary. |
| 1:14.8 | For some reason Donald Trump thought speaking with the most toxic figure in social media, |
| 1:19.6 | Elon Musk, would be the solution. Yeah, no. First of all, they couldn't even get Musk's |
| 1:26.4 | shoddy website to work for nearly an hour, which is embarrassing in and of itself. |
| 1:31.5 | The same thing happened to Florida Governor Ron |
| 1:33.8 | Desantis last year when he tried to launch his presidential campaign on ex |
| 1:38.0 | Twitter. You'd think Musk would have worked out the king since then. |
| 1:42.7 | In fact, Trump should have just called it quits |
| 1:44.8 | while he was still ahead. |
| 1:45.8 | But instead, he continued with what amounted |
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