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MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell October 5, 2024

That trump will face accountability if he loses at the polls and that is something to hold onto. Joyce vance, thank you for your time tonight. That is our show. Now it is time for the last word with ali velshi. Good evening. Good evening. I'm glad you brought up tina peters in colorado because that story is bonkers. It's not on everybody's radar, but it is worth watching. As bonkers as it is and stuff in arizona and michigan and pennsylvania and georgia were last election, there are still people with plans like this and they are still pedaling, as the judge in that case says, the same snake oil, so it is useful to know about that. I think it is important that the judge is aware of it and thinking of the future, not just the past. That's exactly right. Have a good evening. Thank you. This is the good news that fox and friends viewers woke up to. Fox news alert. The september jobs report was released and shows the u. S. Added 254,000 jobs last month. That is significantly higher than economists expected and the unemployment rate fell slightly, now at 4. 1%. This comes with the election 32 days away and the economy remains the top issue. It is really amazing. Those are really good numbers. They look so sad. It's okay to smile. More of your fellow americans are working and more good news for americans and the harris campaign, santa claus and the allimportant holiday shopping season will not be stopped by a port strike. We will have more on the october surprise that won't be and how the white house averted a fourthquarter economic catastrophe later in the hour, but first, we may be 32 days away from election day, but many voters already made their voices heard. Nearly 1. 8 million mailin and early inperson votes have been cast nationally. In michigan where vice president harris campaigns today, more than 103,000 ballots have been cast. A new michigan poll shows kamala harris and donald trump tied when thirdparty candidates are included. Vice president kamala harris began her day in detroit speaking to union workers about the economy. Look, our economy while we are making good progress, just this morning in fact we got a solid jobs report. Over 250,000 jobs created last month. Unemployment fell and a few weeks ago the federal reserve cut down interest rates, which is going to be great for a lot of folks, but there is still more work we need to do. Vice president harris rallied in flint, michigan for a campaign with prominent michiganders including governor gretchen whitmer. As president, kamala harris knows that when we make more in america, more energy, we are stronger and the middle class grows. After four years of donald trump as president, thanks to leaders like kamala harris, we are finally investing in america and in americans. And los angeles lakers basketball legend and michigan native magic johnson. I'm here because i've known kamala for over 20 years. Cookie and i supported her run for attorney general in the state of california. Her run for senator and now we support her as the vp, but now the biggest moment for all of us. November 5, we have to do all we can to elect kamala harris as the next president of the united states. Now there is a lot of black men in here and i don't mean to not talk to other people, but this is important. Our black men, we've got to get them out to vote. That's my point. Kamala's opponent promised a lot of things last time to the black community that he did not deliver on. And we've got to make sure we help black men understand that. Liz cheney campaigned for harris, appealing for independent and republican votes. Former president barack obama will campaign with kamala harris, starting in pittsburgh, pennsylvania next week. In flint, michigan tonight vice president harris shared her plan for american manufacturing. We know we cannot have a strong middle class without american manufacturing. So over the last 3 1/2 years we have brought manufacturing back to america, creating 730,000 manufacturing jobs. We announced to the opening of more than 20 new auto plants in the united states. And then there is donald trump. So donald trump has a very different approach. So, donald trump makes big promises and he always fails to deliver. He said he was the only one who could bring back america's manufacturing jobs. Remember that? and then america lost nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs when he was president. Including, including tens of thousands of jobs in michigan and those losses started before the pandemic. Making donald trump one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs in american history. Donald trump signed a $2 trillion tax cut that mostly went to the wealthy and big corporations, not to working people. And now he is making the same empty promises to the people of michigan that he did before, but we will not be fooled. We will not be gas lighted. Donald trump's task record is a disaster for working people. And if he wins again, it will be more of the same. Vice president harris closed her speech in flint with this appeal to michigan voters, including the millions who have already cast their ballots. In these 32 days out from the election, it is important that we remind people how we got here. Donald trump handpicked three members of the united states supreme court with the intention of overturning roe v. Wade and they did and now more than three more than one in three women in america live in a state with a trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions. Which is immoral. We will restore reproductive freedom. As president of the united states i will proudly sign it into law. Proudly. And that is not our only battle. Across our nation we are witnessing a full on assault on hard fought and won freedoms and rights, like the freedom to vote. The freedom to be safe from gun violence. The freedom to join a union. The freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. And the freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water. Friends, you know all too well. That clean water should be a right for everyone, not just for the people who can afford it. And as president i will continue to work with communities like flint to ensure you not only have clean water, but the opportunity to recover economically and thrive. So, election day is in 32 days. And already nearly 2 million ballots are in the hands of michigan voters alone. So if you have received your ballot, please do not wait. Fill it out and return it. Early voting starts statewide on october 26. And now is the time to make your plan to vote. Because, folks, the election is here. The election is here and we need to energize, organize and mobilize. And remember, your vote is your voice and your voice is your power. Joining us now is the michigan democratic party chair who was at the flint rally tonight. Nice to see you again. Good to see you, too, ali, how are you? i am well, thank you. That last point about your vote is your voice is important, but there is a particular message to voters who have ballots and i don't know, you tell me, is this a game of convincing people to vote for kamala harris or is it a matter of convincing people who will vote for kamala harris to actually cast those ballots, preferably early if they can? it is some of both of those things. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. We are calling and texting and reaching out to those voters and helping them walk through that plan to get that ballot turned into their clerk. That means if they need some convincing, they will get some convincing. If they just need reminding, they will get that from us. We have a full team of volunteers. Thousands of volunteers doing this work every day, making sure that the folks who have their ballots have everything they need to get it done, no wind to take it, how to mail it, whatever steps they need to make sure those votes get turned in. It was a close race last time. Michigan is always one of those places where it is going to matter every vote, getting every vote out. Tell me about these rallies, because you and i have talked after a couple of them. What does it do? generally speaking i would think the people attending are probably there already. Maybe they are there to hear what kamala harris is saying, but you're bringing out heavy hitters. You've got the governor, magic johnson, senators. Tell me what happens and how that process of these remarkable, energized rallies translates into voting and voting early. Aside from the fact that they make great television, but we have hundreds of volunteers and staff at these rallies, signing people up to be volunteers. To knock on doors, to talk to their neighbors, to take the energy they get in the room. They are excited because they got to see magic johnson, they got to see the governor, they got to see kamala harris. They get to go home and talk about that and also talk about the issues brought up at this rally and talk about the importance of participating in this election. Yard signs, signup sheets. Whatever folks need to become part of this team and part of this process and we do sign up thousands of volunteers and rallies who then turn into super volunteers who show up and do the work we need to do every day to get kamala harris elected. Let's talk about magic johnson for a second. He had a specific pitch to the black men in the audience. Donald trump made promises that were not kept to the black community and he said it is our job to make sure people understand that in order to motivate the vote of black men. What you make of it? it bodes well to have magic there and to say those words. Thanks for coming home, magic, to do that. Very important to speak directly to his fellow black men about this. We know there has been some specific targeting to black men from the trump campaign and we are working hard to push back on the lies about who donald trump is and what he has done, because he has not done those things. He makes promises. He makes promises over and over again. Magic is a great messenger to tell the truth about the fact that you can't believe the words that come out of donald trump's mouth, frankly and we should not have believed them in 2020 if we did, but we absolutely cannot believe them now and we have to do what we did again. Lavora, great to see you as always. Thank you for always agreeing to join us. Happy to be here. Stack in 2020, joe biden beat donald trump by 154,000 votes in michigan. In february, more than 101,000 voters in michigan, a state with a sizable muslim and arab population voted uncommitted in the primary as a protest against the war in gaza. This week vice president harris was endorsed by a democratic muslim voting group and today she met privately with muslim and arabamerican leaders ahead of her rally in flint. That is after governor tim walz made a direct appeal to muslim voters on a zoom call last night. We all know this war must end and it must end now. The vice president is working every day to ensure that. To make sure israel is secure, the hostages are home, the suffering in gaza ends now and the palestinian people realize the right to dignity, freedom, and selfdetermination. Joining us now is my colleague and nbc news 2024 campaign embed. Good to see you and thank you for joining us tonight. Thanks for having me. Let's talk about this conversation. It is in michigan. It is important across the country, but given the numbers we stated, that uncommitted vote, people dissatisfied with joe biden or kamala harris's response to this could make all the difference. Tell me what has happened in the past 24 hours. I think you hit it on the head. It absolutely can make a difference in a state like michigan where there is a sizable population that can influence the vote in democratic leaning cities in the state. You have seen increased engagement by the harris campaign to muslim and arab american leaders. They have long sought to facilitate direct engagement between not just harris and these leaders, but also senior leadership of her campaign and we saw that over the last 24 hours. You mentioned how engaged they were. A virtual meeting with governor tim walz. We know that today before her rally she gave time to some of these leaders and had conversations. She not only sought their perspectives on the election, the state of the race in michigan, but also communicated her efforts to prevent a larger regional conflict in the region. Empathize with them over the suffering as she framed it going on in gaza and emphasize that she is on a mission to not only support israel and facilitate a hostage deal, but also ensure the suffering in gaza ends and ultimately this ends with a situation in which those in gaza are able to operate within dignity and have their own territory in that region. One that allows them to be independent and comfortable, which is something she has gone out of her way to communicate in the last couple of months. This is part of a larger effort from harris to facilitate engagement with the community. It is interesting because as you mentioned, it has not fundamentally changed from her. She has generally speaking articulated of you that would be more appealing to that population, particularly as it relates to the self determination of palestinians. So it is an engagement issue. She is not saying different things in these meetings. Tim walz isn't saying different things and kamala harris said at the convention or elsewhere, so what is the disconnect? i think it is twofold. I think for harris and her campaign it is about at least making it known even if they will not agree to all of the demands from these activists, that they are willing to listen. That they are taking into account the demands and requests that they have and they came out with the statement after the meeting with harris. They said they at least hope if elected she will consider resetting u. S. Policy in the region. On the other hand some of this criticism has come from how far harris is willing to go. We know another propalestinian group in michigan, the uncommitted movement, they were invited to that meeting and they have been calling for an arms embargo, something harris said is a nonstarter. Some of this criticism is over how far the campaign is going, but as a minimum the campaign does want to demonstrate interest in continuing to have a dialogue and ensuring they will have a seat at the table, should she be elected. Nnamdi, good to see you, my friend. We miss you here, but good to have you on the show. Nnamdi egwuonwu is an embed for the campaign, joining us tonight from the harris campaign. Coming up, anyone with visions of shipping chaos and empty shelves is sorely disappointed today. America one. The dockworkers one. Crisis averted for now. The october surprise that won't be his next. Ext. Ame. Crest 3d white removes 100% more stains for a noticeably whiter smile. New personal best. Crest. My name is brayden. I was five years old when i came to st. Jude. 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