election, including democrats putting the heavy hitter outs in kids dates where the races are very tight, to get every law so they can. but will it be enough? plus we are following the latest of the san francisco, that is where house speaker nancy pelosi s husband is recovering from a brutal attack inside their home early friday morning. a suspect is reportedly looking for the speaker herself. we are gonna have an update on this very disturbing incident. and we are looking more closely at the active threats against elected leaders, and their families across the country. especially women. we cannot ignore the dangerous rhetoric and hate that is turning into real life violence against leaders in our country. i am symone towns sanders, and i have something to say. the 2022 midterms are ten days away, ten days! until one of the most significant elections of our lives. there is a lot going on today. president joe biden is expected to cast his vote in wilmington, delaware,
next couple of years. let s bring in a few folks to talk about it. state senator sydney cam lacquer is with us. she is running for the red states congress represent california. daddy joseph is also here. she was a florida state representative. and holiday mitchell is here. she s the los angeles county supervisor. all right, welcome to you all, ladies. i want to start with you, state senator. because you are wanting to actually replace karen bass in the house. and we ve been discussing it all throughout the show. we saw what happened to nancy pelosi s husband. i think there s a big increase in threats against elected officials. and i think that is felt maybe a little more deeply for women and women of color elected officials. representative ilhan omar, she was on msnbc s alex wagner right last night, and here s what she had to say about it. can you imagine how somebody like me that doesn t have capital security detail, that
a fight for our democracy. the only way to save our democracy, we gotta move together forward, all of us. we ve got a lot of people that know you. and who see you. and who care about you. who understand what you are going through. day, and day out. you did that two years ago when you said joe biden to the white house. democrats are trying to keep control of both chambers of congress. but it s an uphill battle. now, the latest polls aggregated by 5:38 show republicans now have a 48% chance of taking control of the senate. that is less than 50%. but they have an 81% chance of taking control of the house, that is very close to 100. this final midterm push comes as we are still finding out more about a horrible attack on the husband of how speaker nancy pelosi. paul pelosi who was 82 years old was attacked with a hammer by a man who broke into their
pelosi and the president have declared war on working americans. speaker pelosi has been one of the most foremost targets for republican attacks, but in recent years, the prospect of political violence has entered the chat, if you will. and it s deeply concerning. according to capitol police data, threats against members of congress have more than doubled since 2017. 9625 last year. this is what happens when influential people deceive their followers with fantasies of election fraud, with unhinged conspiracy theories. the president is taking a question. all right, that was president biden. he said he is going to note so, i think what we heard in this, oftentimes, when the president is out, he has a pool with him. the pool, as you saw there, the reporters they can ask questions. he noted that he s not going to answer questions inside the
i think this is going to be a situation where voters and americans are gonna have to look to trusted sources of information. our partisan senators or members of congress are going to be accurately portraying this going on. votes are being counted. i think it s gonna be incumbent on local officials, they re registrar of voters in various places. i saw, for example, that the maricopa county registrar of voters in arizona has been on twitter asking, engaging with voters, answering questions. and i think they are seeing people who are engaged in the nonpartisan aspect of this, really trying to step up and dissuade people from some of the underlying tactics that we are seeing. i think it s so important, because you ve got election disinformation, it is rampant. i wanna put something on the screen for folks. a new nbc news analysis found that nearly six in ten republican state legislature nominees in battleground states denied the 2020 election. six in ten, that s a lot of people. there is