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Far-right extreme candidates that were continuing to peddle the big lie and continuing to erode our rights, the rights of women across the country. >> in terms of the and the agenda that senate democrats pursued, voted for and was signed by joe biden, how much were you running on that? when you are doing focus groups, looking at polling, running her ads in a state, how much of it was, hey, heres what i voted for, and here is what it did? >> i will tell you, i was sent to the senate by nevadans t...

Erode our rights, the rights of women across the country. >> in terms of the and the agenda that senate democrats pursued, voted for and was signed by joe biden, how much were you running on that? when you are doing focus groups, looking at polling, running her ads in a state, how much of it was, hey, heres what i voted for, and here is what it did? >> i will tell you, i was sent to the senate by nevadans to do the work that i have done. let me give you an example. i was attorney general for yea...

6 hearings were occupying sort of prime time and prime psychic space in the national consciousness. and you had those voters, again, they werent saying they were going to vote against trump or they didnt think he was a good president or they regretted their pro-trump vote in 2016 or 2020. but in talking to someone who runs the focus groups with trump republicans and establishment republicans what they said was there was a softening. they didnt like looking back at the 2020 election. they wanted ...

Message and ultimately perhaps the calculation is that voters are not maybe concerned about it, but the voters they need are not driven to the polls by it. >> it does raise the question, though, why for obama and biden it has been kind of part of the closing message. >> yeah, you saw biden give that speech last week on democracy. he gave a similar one -- i think it was in october as well -- and obama talking about it as well. the polls show something like 89% of voters think this is a -- 9% of v...

When seemingly voters are also talking about the immediate expenses of, like, rent, of gassing up their cars? >> fred, i think its really hard. i think its going to be really hard. right now there are just so many voters in this country who look at washington and say, you know, president biden may be saying the right things about social security, about medicare, but does change ever really happen? does washington ever actually sort of do things that has an effect on my pocketbook? so i think tha...

And you lose that credibility for a very, very long time. think we are looking at an interesting sort of realignment and politics right now for not only are democrats going to get absolutely destroyed in the selection, they are going to do very, very lasting damage to their brand into their party for years maybe even a decade to come. >> katy evans home at this article from politico now for a couple of weeks from going to bring it up again because i just cannot get over. politico reported one of...

Including in newspapers. they have been taught this word. >> carly, we have reached an amazing moment in american politics were you actually have a politicians and people in the media who go around insulting voters. belittling them and acting like they are idiots. i mean what is going on here questar practice on the most preposterous things ive heard of my life or to go to the grocery store something is more expensive thats inflation everyone knows that people are not stupid. also what is your p...

Running in. this is a path to chaos in america. its unprecedented. its unlawful, and its un-american. i said before, you cant love your country only when you win. >> president biden will be back on the campaign trail today with stops in new mexico and california, and i know the concern for a lot of people will be inflation, and what isnt the truth that this is the decision people are making at the midterms? >> its one of the decisions. obviously for us, i think when we go to vote, this will be t...

You know, it used to be when you do focus groups, you would debate the iraq war with voters, tax cuts, educational funding, how to rein in the worst instinct of wall street traders, now were in a post truth political world for about 30, 40, 45% of the electorate who believe conspiracy theories. that believe the election was stolen. how many candidates, i mean, heres the president, hes talking about midterms where the majority of republicans in the house now election deniers? have they officially...

>> wow, times have changed. i just remember, you know, post-9/11 in the years of the so-called war on terror, if there had been someone attacking the spouse of a speaker of the house and calling it a suicide mission, the whole country would have been up in arms and there would have been bipartisan condemnation. it is a sign of the times, unfortunately, the polarization is so strong, that its morphed into almost acceptance, turning away from this, and outright denial. i saw this in some of my foc...