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Im a big fan of elon. Eli gave me tremendous endorsement. Went all in starts right now. That evening, i am chris hayes. Is the first week of school for much of the country, tragically and unfortunately no surprisingly there has already been a School Shooting. Four people were killed at a High School in georgia today, two students and two teachers. A 14yearold Suspect is now in custody. When this kind of thing happens it is harder to feel like nothing can be done because Mass Shootings have unfortunately become a kind of national periodic ritual. But because we are in president ial election this year, things can be done. There are glaring policy differences on this issue between the two president ial campaigns. They are very very far apart. One wants to do something about it, the other definitively does not. Ready to discuss those differences later on in the program with Colorado Governor Jared Polis who has seen a Nut Number of Mass Shootings and is trying to do something about it. Of course, the issue of Gun Violence for many voters, especially young voters point check me out, pull recently, released today and found that 85 of genji voters are concerned about experiencing Gun Violence in public. 59 say they are very concerned. Republicans dont have a lot of incentive to do anything about it. In fact, republican parties actually do anything at all to persuade those last few persuadable voters to win an election. The current Republican Party with Donald Trump as the nominee for the third consecutive election. 78 years old, degrading before our eyes. You may wonder like i do, like we all do i think, how we got here. And i think the answer is kind of staring us in the face. The way americas elections and political institutions are structured provides a massive advantage for opponents. The senate, of course, which is not a representative Body Tilts massively towards republicans the way the current parties are sorted. The roughly 580,000 americans who live in wyoming, for instance, are represented by effect the same number of senators as a 39 Million people who live in california. And, of course, the Electoral College functions in a similar fashion, right . Actually build off the senate itself, even it appears that Kamala Harris is right now, i would say, a pretty clear favorite to win the Popular Vote. The actual president ial race in terms of the electoral count is extremly close. Harris holding narrow one. Lead in the polling advantage, pulling average of pennsylvania which we see as the tipping. State. In the election as a tossup, right . So when you have these two advantages and they are enormous, right . One house of congress, the senate, and the Lectoral College which elects the president plus an extremely polarized electorate you wind up with i like to call the kind of Trust Fund Repcan pty. It is like Rich Kids who never have to actually get off and work for a living, right . Republicans dont need to get off the couch and do the hard work of persuading voters to get on. Because the constitution is effectively subsidizing their Lifestyle Trolling and golfing. And that is how you wind up with Donald Trump at the top of the ticket. Again, the republicans of the clear favorite to win the senate despite fielding some truly awful candidates. In the Republican Party can run terrible candidates and they can lose the Popular Vote by 3 Million as Donald Trump did in 2016 which is not a small amount. Over a percentage and still stumble backwards into powerpoint and if theres any sort of Silver Lining here at all, this is a dysfunction has caused republican some otherwise very winnable Down Ballot Races in cycle after cycle after cycle. And Electoral College, right . A statewide race in a senate race, for instance. Arizona Republican Party, for example, has effectively collapsed over the last Half Decade and probably. In large part due to Candidate Quality issues. I lake who lost two years ago refuses to concede that she has not currently the governor, which she is very much not. Seems bent to continue that trend as she runs for the senate this november. North carolinas upcoming, much less competitive than you might expect, next to this man, Mark Robinson, he has already been elected statewide, by the way. We covered it, republican Lieutenant Governor of the state of North Carolina he might just be the worst nominee his party has put forth in recent memory and that is really saying something. In 2018, robinson posted at this foolishness about Hitler Disarming Millions of and marching them off to Concentration Camps is a bunch of hogwash. He also said the movie black panther, was, quote, created by an agnostic everybody knows that abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers point it is about killing a child because you werent responsible enough to keep your skirt down or your pants up. There is no Reason Anybody anywhere in america to be telling any time about transgender is him, homosexuality and any of that filth and yes i called it health. 2 that guy, the guy talking about pulling the shackles out of your pocket, that guy, he is currently one of two men who will run the state of North Carolina. Only two people on the ballot, right . His whole Back Story is that he found jesus in the 1980s and slowly but surely reformed to simple ways. He is now an agent of Avowedly Christian nationalist movement trying to create a rightwing theocracy in america. This week we did a gules more inside news past. According to a new report from the assembly North Carolina which has not been concerned confirmed. Six men to be us, six men, six sources say robinson was a Glar Cuomer of multiple Adult Audio Stores often pay to view or purchase pornography as frequently as five nights a week. Robinsons campaign denies these allegations strenuously. A spokesman called the allegations a word we cannot repeat. He called the journalist degenerate. But multiple named sources on the record, men who either worked out or frequented those stores, including the owner tell a different story. One guy named Dave Dan Livingston who went on the record with his actual name said he used to see robinson frequent a shop called the grove. Robinson usually came in with a pizza, purchased a preview of an adult Film And Weninto a private booth to watch it and eat. Now, hey, its a free country, okay point we should know, of course. Consenting adults have the right to purchase some pizza and then go and produce or purchase that kind of material, pornography, at least for now. Although i should say project 2025 actually want to change that. Pornography should be outlawed, the people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Now i dont think it is super likely that Mark Robinson who, again, in this article with six sources including a named sources said that he would go frequent this shop five nights a week, often with pizza, that he will win his election but this is an example, again, of the republican instinct to nominate these kinds of guys, the most extreme antisocial candidates and they have to be defeated at the Ballot Box over and over and over and over again because the only way it will disappear, they keep trying it. As Jonathan Martin put it in politico this week, if republicans want to win they need trump to lose big Point Trump will never concede defeat no matter how thorough his loss. More decisively Vice President Kamala Harris when the Doppler Vote in the elect oral college elects political oxygen he will have to reprise his 2020 antics. The faster republicans can build a posttrump party. Again, of course, that comes far from given, right . Think of it this way, Donald Trump could utterly disappear from public, never appear in public once again from now until Election Day, still have a pretty good shot of winning the White House and republicans flipping the senate. Like a queen, maybe. Nd th makes it all the more important that, again, the Country Prodemocracy Coalition does the hard work of preventing that outcome. Because the reality is winning a clear majority is not enough. Listen to this. The Republican Party of the united states, one of two major parties, The Party has won the Popular Vote one time since the fall of the berlin wall. Say it again. Only one time since the collapse of the Iron Curtain have republicans managed a national majority in a president ial election. So it is incumbent on democrats to win by such a large margin that overcomes the structural advantages against them. Even some republicans know this is the case, like former congresswoman Liz Cheney who spoke in North Carolina. As a conservative, someone who believes in and cares about the constitution, i have thought deeply about this and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses not only am i not voting for Donald Trump but i will be voting for Kamala Harris. The Maga Movement needs to lose over and over and over again point democracy will not be on secure footing in this country until republicans thE Lesson happens, understandably because happens, understandably because we focused the Electoral College. Because that is the way the system works. Is to ignore how much the gravity of that pulls on everything in politics, particularly Republican Party which is essentially subsidized by this constitutional structure. I think it a really good way of putting it. There is just no incentive for the Republican Party to really try to pursue national majoritys in order to hold power because, as you have stated, more or less the trump troll features The American system gives republicans, really gives the guys the kind of constituencies that republicans have, give them control of the senate, of them a minor advantage in the house and then a real advantage in the electoral College Point i think if you want, if you want not just a Post Trump Republican Party but they Republican Party folks have to do something about the structural features. The thing that is so while to me, too, is that you and i lived through the bush years. America is not something, america is not a country incapable of producing natural majority. It is clearly a country that is capable of doing that point it is not some outlandish, Crazy Idea A Universe where some version of the Republican Party went to the polls on Election Day and president ial election and got 5 Million more votes. That is a plausible world. It is just not the world of the Trump Era Party in any way, shape or form. I do have a permanent majority of the whole thinking behind george bush moderation, right . Bring in enough latino voters to get out of the national majority. That didnt worut heres the problem, though, that the people that would try to put in a durable national Majority Arent really in charge. Like these guys that are talking to Politico And Background that Donald Trump should lose and a Bank Shot Victory sometime in the future but too shameful and cowardly to say on the record, these guys arent running The Party. The voters are running The Party and the voters want, the republican primary voters what the crazy and the taste of it in the Trump Era and they are not going back for Kamala Harris and that is why they put up these guys like a Mark Robinson who i feel like owned a pizza franchise, would not hire him to be the manager of the franchise, just based on what he did with pizza and Social Media posting, and bankruptcies. Like that is who the voters are putting forth point it is not like the North Carolina party didnt author more normal people the voters wanted the craziest guy. Thats true peer yeah, i think it is an interesting. Because i do think that the rational party should pursue victory and it should move median voter theorem. It should move to maximize its chances. Tims. Here is tons of opportunities for li the mcconnell primary basis. Like please, please, dont nominate the cycle. The crowd, give us that. Got to have the Cycle Point we want to call we want that cycle, please give us the cycle on the ballot. E and you wonder if like enough er losses just grind it out of the base is really the question at t this. That is a really good Question E the demand for this. It seems that the demand for this reflects this underlying psychology. I think a lot of republican based voters sincerely believe that there is no world in which they really can be the majority. And so why not just go, why not just do a hail mary, right . Why dont i just go with the most extreme candidates on the ballot who flatter your sensibilities and also speak to your since x essential dread. I want to add to tims point. I want to know the big the election of and youngkin in 2021 and the State Party had to engineer a process to cut out t of voters to make that happen. Very successful basically been Backroom Deal to make sure that guy was the nominee because they were like we cant, if we give the come you see what om these people do. You cant let them. And there is a question, too of like, a Decoder Writing in the new York Magazines saying that,h you know, republican politicians have already been burned once by conceded 2020. All of them come flying back is there any chance they will toss him out of The Party if he predictably loses election to dial in november, no. I do wonder at onepoint is there apoint at which the E Lesson could possibly be learned or is this every two to four years having to keep doing this sure. I think decades. Sorry, go ahead. Is going to say i think it is going to be around. Theres a point that could happen really should have happened with they had a chance to convict in january of 2021, that was like the am i think. Sorry, jamaal. That is okay. I was just saying, i think trump doesnt go away until he is either in jail, if you loses or he, you know, meets the fate that meets us all Point Jamaal Bowman and tim miller, Thanyou Al thank you both, appreciate it. Coming up, stunning revelation from the Justice Department. A multimillion dollar russian investment in pro Donald Trump e influencers point that is next. Will will will will will dealdash. Com right now and see how much you can save. Two two resident Vladimir Putins Inner Circle directed russian public relation companies to promote this Information And State sponsored as part of a threat to influence the 2024 u. S. Presidential election. An internal Planning Document created by the kremlin states that as a goal of the campaign is securing russias preferred outcome in the election. Today Justice Department took action and the latest attempt by Vladimir Putin to help Donald Trump and to the white House Point the doj seized 32 russian Web Domains Masquerading as real news sites. Russian state Media Company. According to the indictment, the pair deployed nearly 10 Million former shell entities to covertly fund and direct a tennessee based company that publishes englishlanguage videos on multiple Social Media channels including tiktok, instagram, x and youtube. Although the indictment is e the company, did quote directly from the companies mission statement. The eap point that it describes it as a tennessee based Content Creation Firm with six commentators and the website identified itself as a network of commentators that focus on western medical and cultural issues point that description exactly matches Tenant Media, an online company that host videos made by wellknown conservative influencers Tim Poole, Betty Johnson, and others. We now is cohost of the Msnbc Podcast prosecu Donald Trump. Who serves as the acting Assistant Attorney General for national security and the department of Justice Point this is a quite an indictment to go through. Lets talk about the Tenant Part of it. There are a few different parts but the Tenant Part to me is the most revealing and fascinating just gettipeek behind the curtain of how this Influence Operation according to the Justice Department. Right, well it is a direct effort to, you know, be able to influence through use of americanbased Social Media websites, platforms, The American population. That is what, that is classic two Russias Intent here is to influence not only are policies, policies toward ukraine and also our election this year. And in doing that what they did is use personas created fake people to engage with the founders of Tenant Media who have been also identified in other Journalism Today of the Reporting Today and to have them higher commentators who are well known right Wing Extremist commentators with heavy Social Media followings, hire those as commentators and then use the decorated individuals in this particular indictment who are raised in russia to really direct the sourcing of particular types of content on the Tenant Media platform. Content would then be driven by these commentators and would post themselves, creating videos, sometimes multiple videos a weekbad on these directions coming straight from russia. And from Russia Today, in particular point so that content that, of course, gets picked up in the Social Mediaci