This virus, it has no eyes and yet it knows exactly how we see each other and how we treat each other. And lets be clear, there is no vaccine for racism. We have got to do the work for george floyd, for breonna taylor, for the lives of too many others to name, for our children and for all of us. Weve got to do the work to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law. Because heres the thing. None of us are free until all of us are free. So were at an inflection point. The constant chaos leaves us adrift. The incompetence makes us feel afraid. The callusness makes us feel alone. Its a lot. And heres the thing. We can do better and deserve so much more. We must elect a president who will bring something different, Something Better and do the important work, a president who will bring all of us together, black, white, latino, asian, indigenous. To achieve the future we collectively want we must elect joe biden. And i will tell you i knew joe as Vice President. I knew joe on the campaign trail. And i first got to know joe as the father of my friend. So joes son, beau, and i served as attorneys general of our states delaware and california. During the Great Recession he and i spoke on the phone nearly every day working together to win back billions of dollars for home owners from the big banks that foreclosed on peoples homes. And beau and i, we would talk about his family, how as a single father joe would spend 4 hours every day riding the train back and forth from wilmington to washington. Beau and hunter got to have breakfast every morning with their dad. They went to sleep every night with the sound of his voice reading bedtime stories. And while they endured an unspeakable loss, those two little boys always knew that they were deeply, unconditionally loved. And what also moved me about joe is in work that he did as he was going back and forth. This is the leader who wrote the violence against women act and enacted the assault weapons ban, who as Vice President implemented the recovery act which brought our country back from the Great Recessions. He championed the Affordable Care act protecting millions of americans with preexisting conditions. Who spent decades promoting American Values and interests around the world. Joe, he believes we stand with our allies and stand up to our adversaries. Right now we have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons. Joe will be a president who turns our challenges into purpose. Joe will bring us together to build an economy that doesnt leave anyone behind, where a good paying job is the floor not the ceiling. Joe will bring us together to end this pandemic and make sure that we are prepared for the next one. Joe will bring us together to squarely face and dismantle Racial Injustice furthering the work of generations. Joe and i believe that we can build that beloved community, one that is strong and decent, just and kind. One in which we can all see ourselves. Thats the vision that our parents and grandparents fought for, the vision that made my own life possible. The vision that makes the american promise for all itse r. So make no mistake the road ahead is not easy. We may stumble. We may fall short, but i pledge to you that we will act boldly and deal with our challenges honestly. We will speak truths, and we will act with the same faith in you that we ask you to place in us. We believe that our country, all of us will stand together for a better future. And we already are. We sit it in the doctors, the nurses, the Home Health Care workers and front line workers who are risking their lives to save people theyve never met. We see it in the teachers and truck drivers, the factory workers and farmers, the postal workers and poll workers. All putting their own safety on the line to help us get through this pandemic. And we see it in so many of you who are working not just to get us through our Current Crisis but to somewhere better. Theres something happening all across our country. Its not about joe or me. Its about you. And its about us. People of all ages and colors and creeds who are, yes, taking to the streets and also persuading our family members, rallying our friends, organizing our neighbors and getting out the vote. And we have shown that when we vote we expand access to health care and expand access to the ballot box and ensure that more working families can make a decent living. And im so inspired by a new generation. You you are pushing us to realize the ideals of our nation. Pushing us to live the values we share decency and fairness, justice and love. You are patriots who reminds us that to love our country is to fight for the ideals of our country. In this election we have a chance to change the course of history. Were all in this fight. You, me, and joe, together. What an awesome responsibility. What an awesome privilege. So lets fight with conviction. Lets fight with hope. Lets fight with confidence in ourselves and a commitment to each other. To the america we know is possible. The america we love. And years from now this moment will have passed and our children and our grandchildren will look in our eyes, and theyre going to ask us where were you when the stakes were so high . They will ask us what k was it like, and we will tell them we will tell them not just how we felt. We will tell them what we did. Thank you. God bless you, and god bless the United States of america. [ applause ] [ applause ] theres your democratic ticket and their spouses. No live crowds to react these days. Politics is about mostly empty rooms. Of course its a time of heavy hearts. You just heard the Vice President ial candidate Kamala Harris wrapping up her historic speech as the first woman of color nominated to a ticket of a major party. She also if you were watching opened tonights session with a warning about the threats to Voting Rights presently in our country. And before that we heard the sharpest attack yet from trumps predecessor, former president barack obama who spoke live from the museum of the American Revolution in the city of philadelphia. And from the woman trump defeated, hillary clinton, a dire warning to the electorate not to sit this one out. Brian williams here with you for the rest of the way, but we want to begin with what we have just witnessed with our friends Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, joy reid who remain with us and watching from our new york studios. Rachel, i want to get your thoughts on tonight and what we have just witnessed. And im tempted to say you think you know somebody, and i dont mean us and the business. I mean us as American Consumers and citizens who had a good number of barack obama speeches to watch over 8 years of his presidency. You think you know somebody, and then tonight someone and something altogether different. Yeah, and actually i would apply that analogous brian both to the culminating speeches tonight. Both to president obamas peasph and senator harris. Shes been a public figure to me for a very long time. Ive paid close attention to her as a president ial candidate. I really thought she was going to win the president ial primary this year. I was completely wrong. She did want even make it to iowa before she dropped out and ended up endorsing biden. But i felt like i knew her before i saw her give this speech tonight, and this was a different Kamala Harris. This was more like what she is like in person if you have the opportunity to meet her off camera, that warmth and that personal willingness to show you who she is and to talk about things that matter to her in a way that, you know, can soften your heart a little bit. And i think of her as a politician and a public figure as being kind of nails, as being tough. Its part of the reason i always thought she had be an excellent general election candidate against President Trump or in any election. To talk about her mother as the most important public figure in her life. Talking about that 25yearold indian woman who gave birth to me, to turn to that my mother taught me service to others gives my life purpose and meaning. Thats a side of Kamala Harris very accessible i think and kind and warming in a way thats been so tough as a public figure. She hadnt shown much of that. That to me was a surprise. President obamas speech tonight slayed me. His warnings we could potentially be at the end of american democracy scared me, and i found upsetting and hard to watch. But its powerful. Powerful stuff. Yeah, absolutely. First of all, id like to cosign everything Rachel Maddow just said because i agree. To go to president obama for a moment i was looking to to write book about his speeches. So president obama can be a poet. Theres a kind of speech he gives particularly his eulogies that are all poetry and take you through these emotional chords of american history. Hes a writer so he speaks as a writer and participates in writing his speech which is unusual for a politician. And he has this poetic and almost dramatic sort of sense. That was not the kind of speech he gave tonight. This was president obama saying i sat in that office and i want you to listen to me because im warning you because i know it from inside the job that theres a danger here. This was the speech that obama has given throughout all of the speeches ive read or watched that absolutely did feel like the most of a warning. And i think it was warning about the potential end of america. And that seems dramatic when people say it and people throw around if we have four more years of trump the country will end, but there is a fundamental sense that if you break every institution that made it possible for there to be a barack obama it will end. You know, itll be another thing. I think his speech was important. I think its one of the most important speeches ive ever heard him give. On Kamala Harris, again, i will agree with Rachel Maddow. She is extremely nice. So i think the hard charging tough person that were used to seeing rip apart bill barr is the kind of person were used to, but shes also capable of just being this. And her story about her mom was so poignant to me. Personally i lost my mom to cancer which the part i need a kleenex because losing your mom and not having a mom with you during these big moments in your life when youre achieving big things is so personal, that for a politician to explain that and to share that with the public its something barack obama also understands and dealt with. And i think the pain politicians brings to the table is what makes them empathetic and makes them real. Joe biden has exactly the same ability to channel the personal. Tonight she was lovely and loving. I also want to shout out the Elizabeth Warren speech psh and i will give the total credit to rachel who noticed the blm in the background, said black lives matter. Love that and the Gabby Giffords. The Gabby Giffords thing was incredible. A lot of emotion there, and obviously this was the allstar team of democratic women. Hillary clinton, nancy pelosi, Gabby Giffords. You know, it was an allstar presentation, i think it was one of the best prosecution of a sitting president that i think ive rel really ever seen. Let me jump in on the obama speech first because i actually think that these speeches went together in an interesting way, and i think president obama doing what he did allowed senator harris to do what she did, and i think that kind of coordination is not often executed the way its been executed this week. Thats a good point. Let me say this about obama. I have a hunch that every living former president would speak from the same deep well of despair. Obamas speech shook me because of his despair laid bare. And if you had been the president you probably feel, you probably have a well of theory that started the first day of the transition. When donald trump and his son tried to setup a back channel to russia to go around the Intelligence Community. By the way, there are a bunch of stars at the cia from members of the Intelligence Community that died protecting this countrys National Security. First thing that trump did when he won was to liken them to nazis. So we cannot fathom the fury and the despair and the rage that every former living president im going to out on a limb and say the dead ones, too feel when they watch President Trump. And ive not seen any living president tap that well of despair and be vulnerable enough to share it with the country, but is my theory of the case of what president obama did tonight. And the gift it gave senator harris, the Vice President ial campaign exists in three acts. The first is the announcement speech. The second is the convention speech. And the third is the Vice President ial debate. By obama doing what he did and being that vulnerable and sharing that urgent call to action and i would guess he wrestled with whether or not to do that she was allowed to do i see her attacks as really nice. I think the reason she slays bill barr is because she does it with this velvet hammer. I didnt see her as sort of putting aside the fearnewiercen be nice. I dont think any woman should have to compartmentalize herself. Im from the bay area, too, and ive grown up knowing her and watching her and watching all the women around her. So to see all them there it just let her tell that part of her story, but i think that this Convention Story telling is second to none. I actually think that the stories they have told have built this drama that is hollywoodlike in its tension, in its despair, in its pain. I mean to make the pain that we have all felt if you love this country to watch what donald trump has done do it has been searing. It has been gutting. And to make that part of the case to the country is risky, and, you know, we wont know until election day if it works, but it is big and it is painful, and it is raw. And i just think that this obama speech was one for the ages. And it let everybody else kind of go out and do what they be to do to tell the biden story, but i think its something well be talking about for a really long time, brian. Excuse me, brian. I was just going to say before we delve back into what we witnessed historians and we all read them and we all are lucky to be living in a time of great historians love president s and precedent. And think about a time when no prior president s support the incumbent. And nicolle, think about next weeks convention. The living surviving former republican president will not set foot virtually or no in that convention. This is an extraordinary night for those reasons. Well, and brian, so take that and put that exact frame around former living generals except maybe flynn, right . Youve got mattis who was who is a great and revered general who came out after Lafayette Square and likened Donald Trumps tactics and his penchant for division to the nazis. I mean, thats not just a general that wont stand with him as he, you know, stands for reelection but someone who has called the president he served similar in his tactics to the nazis. Youve got john kelly who i think called him an idiot. Youve got Rex Tillerson who was his secretary of state who called him a bleeping p p p p . And for the people who cover it this is instructive. Because the trump team rules by intimidation and fear. This was his cabinet. His National Security officials drew these conclusions, and theres only one president at a time. So president obama, former president s bush didnt see him up close, but Rex Tillerson did. John kelly did. Secretary mattis did, and those are the conclusions they drew. I think it is a moment of choosing for this country. I think thats what president obama came out and said tonight. And again, none of us knows what the country will choose, but i do think that senator harris and Vice President biden deprived donald trump of all of his ammunition from four years ago. Theyre not elites. I mean, donald trump ran as this sort of common man, but he isnt. He has gold toilets. Joe biden was nominated by someone he met in an elevator that did want endorse him. I mean, joe biden is sort of taking all the trumpy stuff away from trump. And i think senator harris helps make that case. I think president obama helped tell the story of why it matters so much. President obamas not emotion but his kind of there was a little bit of rage. We all know there has to be a saturday night live character create today be rachel obama, right i had told the control room i want today play number six, which i changed my mind about because im that terrible person but can we play number three of obama . So at this point he has made the argument that our democracy is at stake. He has talked about how a democracy withers until it is no democracy at all, when people are talked about the idea that our system of selfgovernance is what we can do to solve whatever problems that we have. But theres this moment where you see obama like kind of having to reel himself back in terms of how serious he thinks this is and what we have to do about it. Lets watch that. What we do echoes through generations. Whatever our backgrounds we are all the children of americans who fought the good fight. Greatgrandparents working in sweatshops without rights or representation. Farmers losing their dreams to dust. Irish and italians and asians and latinos told go back where you come from. Jews and catholics, muslims and sikhs made to feel suspect for the way they worshipped. Black americans chained and whipped and hanged, spit on for trying to sit at lunch counters. Beaten for trying to vote. If anyone had a right to believe that this democracy did not work and could not work it was those americans, our ancestors. That is an uncommon barack obama right there talking. And its not even the way he normally talks about american history. He normally talks about the reconciling nature of our history and the ways in which weve been able to repair. And hes very much about that. He really does deeply believe in the reparative power of america. This was i was going to pick the exact same one because this was barack obama saying this isnt even the most savage our history has been. And im going to explain to you how savage it has been. And those people believed that democracy was the solution to whatever problems we have, and now were going to be the ones who if we lose america after they manage today get through all of that and save it and build it to what it is now. And save it, and its funny because Kamala Harris kind of ends with the same kind of flourish where she says one day people are going to look back and theyre going to ask us what was it like, what did you do, and dont let yourself be caught saying i did nothing, because you only have to vote. And its risky now because covid is there and Voter Suppression is real. And the fight against democracy, ive never seen anything like it. I say it all the time my mother is rolling in his grave. He was a reaganite. He would never recognize what the Republican Party is now because it is in many ways an insurgency against america. Its an insurgency against every value that republicans used to claim they held dear. Theyre not just fighting, you know, barack obama, theyre fighting us. Theyre fighting voters, the postal service. Theyre fighting every institution to break it so they can keep power. Both Kamala Harris and barack obama in very different ways made that message. And for obama to have made that pointed case against whats happening with trumpism and whats at risk with trumpism, and for harris to be left, nicolle, as you pointed out to say they ask us what it was like and we will tell them not just what we felt but we will tell them what we did. She got to introduce herself tonight. She said i know what a predator looks like, pointed pause. We all knew what she meant, brian. But at that point she steps up to talking about trump, gets back to its nice to meet you america, heres how were going to help. And thats a powerful emotional sort of way to bring us back from the brink that i think president obama brought a lot of people tonight by speaking so starkly. And as if to stay on brand and prove some of the underpinnings of the arguments we heard tonight, rachel, you were too kind to mention the incumbent president tweeting in realtime as his predecessor spoke in all caps staying on brand. To our friends, to rachel, joy and nicolle, thank you. A reminder we get to do this again tomorrow night, though, perhaps different content. Appreciate it, and to all of those watching we now begin our special twohour edition of the 11th hour for tonight which happens to be day 1,308 of the trump administration. 76 days to go until our president ial election. Night three of the Virtual Democratic National Convention in this new format. And as part of the backdrop of the day President Trump talked about qanon conspiracy theorists. The followers believe among other things the world is run by a group of satan worshipping pedophiles and cannibals plotting against trump while operating a global child sex trafficking ring and while spreading the coronavirus via 5g internet service. Today trump described them, as quote, people who love our country and who like me very much. More on that topic later on in this broadcast. We have a lot for you tonight, a lot to get to as the 11th hour gives way to Something Like the 12th hour. Coming up next well be joined by two Obama Administration alums including one who helped the former president write tonights speech. Our special twohour edition of the 11th hour just getting under way on this Convention Wednesday night. Hey College Students sundays away from your team are tough. Ill take it from here announcer guy. Ive got just the ticket. Is this real . As real as this super bowl ring its nfl sunday ticket. Tvu. Theres so much. Football . Yep. Its every game, every sunday afternoon. Wait, no matter where i live . Thats the whole point dude. College students stream nfl sunday ticket live on your favorite devices with nflsundayticket. Tvu for our exclusive studentonly price. For eight years joe was the last one in the room whenever i faced a big decision. He made me a better president , and hes got the character and experience to make us a better country. Back with us again tonight two veterans of the obama white house, David Plouffe, former Campaign Manager and senior advisor. His latest work is a citizenss guide to beating donald trump. And former White House Press secretary under president obama. And david, i know you had a hand, had a role in the crafting of tonights remarks. And i know that no one need remind you writing it is one thing. Its in the delivery, and i contend we saw something altogether different tonight. Oh, i mean that was Barack Obamas speech. Its an idea in writing in delivery. I obviously helped on a lot of speeches through the years as has robert. Watched a gazillion of them, theres never been one like that. I mean i think he often used to talk about the fierce urgency of now that dr. King talked about, and i think urgency, truth one of his signature lines back in 08 he would often say as president is im not going to tell you what you want to hear. Im going to tell you what you need to hear, and thats what he did tonight. Even for me id seen the speech ahead of time. Its alarming to hear it. Hes basically saying if this election goes to donald trump our election could be over. And thats the truth as he sees it. And i violently believe in it. I hope what comes out of this speech are people who work 5 hours a week, work 10. People who werent sure they were going to vote early, vote as early as they can, people understanding the stakes. It was a historical speech really because we had a former president who loves democracy say its all on the line. But i thought his delivery, the speech itself was powerful but the delivery was incredibly powerful. And i think again like i think Michelle Obamas speeches actually the fact it was not in front of a big hall i think was very helpful. I think it really helped set the stage not just we, the people and the constitution in the 3 c1 background, but there was an intimacy to his call to action and his urgency. And i think we all need to heed it. And if we dont, you know, the whole enterprise could be over, brian. Well, that was robert gibbs, that was the undercurrent. Thats what historians will take away tonight of the American People, absent campaign that democracy itself is under threat. And i also, robert, want to read you the work of peter baker in todays the new york times. This is adjacent. After watching President Trump systematically demolish many of his achievements mr. Obama has almost as much at stake in this Years Campaign as his former president and his 2020 president ial nominee joe biden does. A Second Chance to redeem his legacy and prove to history that mr. Trumps election was an anomaly not a permanent repudiation. Robert, all that leaves out in making it personal both can be true at the same time all that leaves out is by the way, folks, your democracy is in danger. Well, and i think he did a remarkable job setting out the stakes of what is on the line in november. And i agree with david. Ive heard that line of fierce urgency of now from barack obama so many times, and you could feel it i thought he was overcome by emotion walking us through that argument. I think it was also important if you take this back to his 2004 speech, he also attacks the cynicism of letting this moment get the most of you and what you have to do to pull yourself up and become involved. And i wholeheartedly agree with david. I think the idea both with michelles speech and baracks speech tonight the ability for us to not Pay Attention to the crowd shots or funny hats or having them try to talk over a crowd, we could focus oneonone. I felt like with michelles speech, i felt like i was having coffee with her. With baracks speech i felt we were in a backyard at a barbecue and he was walking through whats at stake. And i think that will become more powerful and more consequential as we relisten to those words. It wasnt a lecture. It was just a simple heres whats at stake, take it from me, im one of the few people in the countrys history that has sat in that office and made those decisions. Robert, while i have you for your team to win it of course means the incumbent has to be defeated. The incombpt wumbent again twee realtime in all caps while his predecessor was giving his speech. When i listen to that and i see the horror hes left us, the stupidity of the transactions that he made now, president obama did not do a good job. And the reason im here is because of president obama and joe biden. Because if they did a good job i wouldnt be here. So robert, how do you personally process that . How does the most popular president in the land process that . Well, i dont think he processes it all that personally. I think, look, elections after 8 years of one party are uniquely changed elections. And weve seen that throughout our history. I think whats important for what was important for obama today was, again, lay out what he sees as the real stark reminder of whats at stake and to think through and to walk us all through what he sees as important. And i think the power of it, the softness of the tone, the emotion in the delivery look, im a big believer now that if donald trump wants to tweet and give press conferences and do events democrats ought to encourage him to do twice as much because it does nothing but turn off voters. It does nothing but walk, you know, 44 , 45 and lose 55 . And i think if you look at the popularity of someone like former president obama theres a reason that he spoke at this time on this day in this convention. Because he still has a big sway over people that will ultimately decide this election. A small sliver of people that have decided to fire the incumbent and want to be reassured that they can hire joe biden and get competent leadership. Treat to be able to talk to you guys, veterans of obama team. David plouffe and robert gibbs, our thanks for joining us yet again tonight. A historic evening we have just witnessed from various sections of our country electronically. Coming up well further go through night three of this convention with our guests when we come back. H our guests when we come back with my hepatitis c. I felt i couldnt be at my. Best for my family. In only 8 weeks with mavyret. I was cured. I faced reminders of my hep c every day. I worried about my hep c. But in only 8 weeks with mavyret. I was cured. Mavyret is the only 8week cure for all types of hep c. Before starting mavyret your doctor will test. If youve had hepatitis b which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after treatment. 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He was a statesman. He filled the screen with his words and with the emotion behind them. I dont think donald trump has ever looked smaller than he does tonight. He looks teeny tiny small because he spent the day whining about whether or not people could wear his hats. And, you know, whining in all caps oh, hes spying on me, which of course is not true. He just looks tiny, and that was the contrast that barack obama brought to my and by the way, on fear the republicans next week are going to tell america to be afraid of people who dont look like you. Be afraid of muslims, be afraid of immigrants, be afraid of protesters. Barack obama tonight said be afraid that were going to lose our democracy. Be afraid that youre going to lose your power in this country. Its a different kind of message and one that i think resonates obviously much better with the American People than the other kind of fear. Professor, talk about the combined candle power in a visual medium like tonight of senator harris and president obama backtoback. It was extraordinary, and i want to lean into something that Nicolle Wallace said in the last segment or the segment before last. We have to read the two speeches in tandem, and what i mean by this, right . Theres a sense in which Barack Obamas speech took the form of the 17th century puritan form of speech called the jeremiah. It is an indictment. It is a lamentation and it is an exhortation, an indictment of the sins of the community. An exhortation for us to turn back to our ideals and principles. It was an extraordinary example of what we call the american jeremiah. And he opens up the space for senator harris to then introduce herself differently, right . To not engage in the kind of prosecutorial work that we thought she was going to engage in but actually reintroduce and carry with her into the room, call the role of all those black women who made it possible and brought in her family, particularly her mother. And what did we get . We got inspiration and aspiration, a kind of version of the country that did not shrink or shirk shrink from our ugly past but really to imagine us differently. But only insofar as we act in this moment. It was an extraordinary kind of echo of a old political form of speech brought together by two historic actors. Its something that ive got to really sit down and read and study because i got to bring this to my students as an example of classic american political speech. Lawrence, did you dream that in your adult life we would hear a former american president and not one of the silly ones, one of the serious ones, a two termer, a history maker in his own right look into a camera and tell us his fellow citizens that our very system is under real and present threat . It was something you could never have possibly anticipated 5 years ago. Barack obama standing up there and saying do not let them take your democracy away, and he means the president of the United States. He said the president of the United States would cheat to win if necessary, and theres not a person out there who doesnt believe that. That is now just conventional wisdom. Trump voters believe trump would cheat to win. They know he would cheat to win, and for many of them thats okay with them. I want to point out another thing that barack obama did tonight in the totality of the presentation. There were two presentations by barack obama. They ran the video, the whole white house video of president obama giving joe biden the president ial medal of freedom which came as a surprise to joe biden. And i personally had forgotten the surprise element of it, which we saw on video. And so you saw that incredible embrace of joe biden the person, the man by barack obama. And in Barack Obamas speech he referred to him as a brother. He said he was choosing a governing partner for a Vice President but he discovered a brother. He couldnt have hugged him more closely on a personal level. And yes there was a lot of apocalyptic language used by the president. All of that was merited. All of that will get plenty of attention, but i want to focus on that very, very personal bond that president obama delivered for joe biden tonight. Our guests are staying with us. Just ahead an example of some of what tonights speech making was about. 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He doesnt know how to expand past this little calcified bubble of people that think hes terrific and the world is out to get him. So it is outrageous especially when you contrast it with what we heard tonight. It is embarrassing for our country. Professor, does every day give us a new living, breathing alternative flip side image of the former president who spoke tonight . Every single day. And it previews what were going to see next week, brian. Were going to see white fear appeals to white resentment. As David Plouffe has said were going to be experiencing white power hour over and over again for a few days, we need to buckle up and witness what we witness. Lawrence, finally, the president may know the expression having been in the casino business, hes playing with house money. But here im talking about the stewardship role of the presidency. When you accept the accolades from qanon youre supposed to be a steward and accept it on our behalf. The night he won the election, and that is he never once speaks to voters who havent already voted for him. He never speak tuesday a voter who he doesnt already have. Senator mccaskill just said he might have lost voters with what he said today. Maybe, but what we know for certain is he did want gain any. Theres so many moments that he handled like that one where he could have easily said of course people who vote democratic or registered as democratic voters are not cannibal. Theres so many easy things to say in response to that that make you sound like a reasonable person and dont have to swerve into policy areas. But its yet another example of how donald trump is incapable of he doesnt even have the basic intelligence to speak to voters who have not voted for him, who might conceivably be talked into voting for him. He has absolutely no capacity to reach them, and thats thank you so much for making the broadcast there much more of the special coverage ahead. 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