during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. we will cue it. we re now really 13 days outside these mid-terms. control of congress clearly hangs in the balance. we re in the homestretch, people fighting for the votes and have this record breaking early turnout. what does it mean? we re going to go to one of the national experts who s been exactly in this position 13 days out. michael steele, look around left, right, center. he s here in one second. michael stands by. over 12 million people have now voted. that smashes the turnout totals at this point in 2018, which was the first election since trump became president. you remember how energized people were then. i can only tell you what s happening as it happens. i can t predict. but right now as of tonight we re seeing huge intensity in these mid-terms. we re also seeing reaction in isthese big debates, pennsylvania senate, new questions for fetterman and the democrats,
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sophisticated american historian or at least a putative student of american history to understand the code language there welfare queen, the association of foodstamps and being on the doll e of the publ with african-american people, poor latino people and for that matter poor people who are white in appalachia. here it s quite clear by calling the first black president a foodstamp president he gets to knock the ball out of the park two or three times. he gets to knock out several birds with one stone. he can appeal to the republican conservative base. he can suggest that these tax cuts he wants to put in place, 35% for corporate taxes reduced to 12%, should be in place, and then he can give corporate welfare if you will to those who are rich and then he can also suggest that he s tough on african-american people who are on the dole who don t deserve it. it is the undeserving poor that he s getting at here and we all know that circulates mostly around the bodies of poor black women an