welcome to the show, i m mehdi hasan. we hire less than five weeks away from the midterms. where democrats are not only looking to hang on to the majority, they re trying to hang on to control of the senate. and back in the spotlight is the quote, unquote, latino vote. which could be crucial for dams in especially in tight rates furch both states with large latino populations that went for biden in 2020. but for democrats, a worrying trend is playing out. she feels very upset with the current leadership of democrats because she feels that taxes are higher and the money is just not enough to get by. so she s voted democrat her whole life, she says. and now she s not happy with the economy. and that s why she thinking about since the 2020 election, especially, we have been inundated with think pieces about the latino vote and how it shifting to the right. becoming more republican. becoming even more trumpy. and yes, kind of astonishingly, trump did gro
this country. they want to see that playing out, and manifesting in different ways. so chap, letting omen. specifically. could become a major swing block. how can democrats better reach out in a way that resonates? with presumably, could resonate with other men of color and white men that they have lost? as one of the only latino men in national projects, with out a degree that went to work. i am that man. i grew up a single father, tried to make ends meet. and seen them become a national political correspondent. with my mother my grandmother. how do i feel that baby? who s gonna watch that baby? who s gonna take care of that baby when i m on the third shift? these are real things that you are not seeing right now. in tv commercials to your point about what we can be doing differently. i ve been a democrat since i started my career working for an richardson texas. what s happened with the party is that we have gotten away
too close to call, the decision desk calling it in favor of the president, winning 9 electoral votes, in 2008, after a strong showing of support in the denver suburbs. we have a fox news correspondent, watching the situation there for us. joining us live from the denver county clerk s office. alicia, great to see you. colorado got to know the campaigns pretty well. huh? reporter: very well. that s because they both consider this place to be very, very important. both the candidates and their runningmates, over the past year visited colorado in pursuit of this 9 electoral votes, a combined 44 times in the past year. the reason is because of the breakdown here. it s pretty much divided into thirds with the registered democrats and republicans and the last thir is really that prize. that unaffiliated swing block. colorado is called the swingiest of the swing states. governor rom no s camp clearly came in with the idea of this is
congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama and without delay and without needs to pass this without drama and delay and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. we ve been through this before, remember? we ve seen this movie. we don t need to see it again. the time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over. let s go straight to cnn congressional correspondent kate bouldan. kate, this is a surprising turn-around. what are you hearing there? what made them decide to make this move? jessica a surpriseding turn-around and sharp and surprising reversal by house republicans on the issue of the payroll tax cut. as you know, one of the demands house republicans have been making all along during this month s long battle over extending the payroll tax cut is their incidentses that the payroll tax cut and other measures be included in the deal be paid for. be covered and paid for by offsets tha
president said, very troubling and said that state of the union addresses in general had become political pep rallies and wondered if it was proper for members of the supreme court to be there. whatever the chief justice decides will be very important and whether the republican-appointed justices or maybe all of them don t show up. megyn: it was chief justice roberts, kennedy, and alito that were there last year. alito said he s out. chief justice, expressing reservations about going, even though he s been there every year since 2005, though last year was the first time that the supreme court was directly insulted by the president. now kennedy is on the swing block. what kind of a dynamic or optics problem does it present if you have only justices from the liberal half of the court sitting there as the president delivers his state of the union