Welcome to the beat. I am Ari Melber and these midterm campaigns are in high gear.

I think we'll be able to show you this scene in the crucial swing state of Ohio over the weekend.

This was a rally from one of the Republican parties key candidates.

You see Jim Jordan talking. JD Vance was the star of this rally, the Wall Street investor and author

who spent years publicly warning the Republican party about what he said was the danger of Trump

who he once likened to a potential fascist leader in America. Vance then recounted, he embraced Trump,

he got his endorsement, then he got the nomination for the Senate race and that may all sound familiar

for today's Republican party. What is different in this rally is how Vance, a Yale graduate,

sat by as Donald Trump used the Ohio midterm rally to go quite a bit farther than he has before in

his cultish alliance with this dangerous sometimes amorphous group called QAnon, which is

consolidated its power on the extreme far right by pushing lies that frankly at times sound so bizarre

and absurdist that you could underestimate how serious they are and what a following their building.

I'm not going to try to repeat let alone amplify all of them but among them is the claim that

certain Hollywood actors and certain Democrats are actually some sort of secret pedophile group

aligned with the actual Satan or that they are also cannibals who eat children. It goes on like

that I'm not going to do much more of it for you tonight but I'll tell you why this is the top

store. What does all that have to do with say these midterm campaigns other than maybe villainizing

a few Democrats? Well one of the theories is that Trump will lead this sort of cataclysmic

battle against some of those forces and by the way there are many different versions and iterations

of these conspiracy theories. It matters in many ways. You may recall right after Donald Trump was

elected a gunman open fire in a Washington DC restaurant under the deranged belief that

that act would somehow help children allegedly enslave there in a plot linked to Hillary Clinton.

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