anniversary. right now, i m in buffalo, new york. having reached at two churches on a very solemn sunday for the city. today marking the one year anniversary of the racist mass shooting at the top supermarket that left ten black residents dead. president biden also addressed the anniversary. where he lamented the played of gun violence that appears only be exhilarating in the wake of the buffalo massacre. telling the american people, he is doing everything he can to reduce gun violence. but congress must do more. new york governor kathy hochul is here in her hometown of buffalo. she will join me in a minute. before participating in a memorial event tonight for those lost in the mess shooting. that tragedy is just one of the things they are contending with this weekend. the governor is calling for more federal aid to help care for an expected influx of asylum seekers. tensions in the southwest border have been declining in the days since the covid days. they re already straine
problem. white supremacy is a disease on the right, and it s going to take republicans and conservatives to courageously confronted. and right now, they are not. because it is a major animating force in today s republican party. and the republican party is afraid to confront that. in today s, republican kentucky voters will head to the poll to cast their ballots for a gop challenger for democratic governor his bid for a second term could be a bellwether for democrats in 2024. as they former democratic governor of a fairly republican state, what messages should members of your party be sending to attract voters, governor? yeah, it rev. time now governor beshear i knew his dad, i served with his dad. the messages that we need to be putting out in places like kentucky are exactly what andy
were white college educated women sort of the demographic that we traditionally think of as abortion being an animating force. it wasn t just them who were engaged by this. it was women from macomb county who don t have a college tree, less affluent, where economics and cost of living is a pressing issue but abortion was more upsetting and more motivating for them. this was a startling finding that the democratic strategists found. just days after the draft opinion came out to say that not only could they use this as a way to, you know, boost their own base, but it was actually going to prove to be a potent persuasive issue for those undecided voters in key battle ground states. there certainly had been that conventional business come in the closing stretch of the campaign. the democrats weren t talking enough about the economy. that s what would matter to voters and certainly a huge deal. as your reporting finds, abortion rights, threat to democracy played a big part as well. let s
republican party? it deserves looking at. it deserves attention. because what they re saying particularly at home to their constituents, particularly as they get start getting ready to run for reelection, is all this stuff. and it is occurring animating force in one of the two major parties in our country. pretending that it s not now and it s not in the past. i m going to show you another piece of this now. i mentioned a few days ago that the colorado lawsuit was about to become a font of information, about where all this stuff came from. about how these lies and conspiracy theories about the election got invented. how they came up with this stuff. how they started propagating it. you heard this congressman in arizona, for example, selling the stuff about dominion voting machines. dominion voting machines. that s been one of their big villains. that s been an animating conspiracy theory around why the arizona election results needed to be auted, and they
you ll recall from 2010. the uniting, animating force among republicans, establishment republicans, tea party republicans that they really didn t like the president. as a democrat it turned out very badly for me and my democrats but that gets everybody on the same page when you re out of power. when democrats are governing again i imagine these things will be harder to sort out and we ll have real disagreements to figure out, but for right now i think there s a way to get an economic message ay cross that says the powerful are taking advantage and that s something both establishment and more this rising generation of democrats can all agree on. yeah. i think the rising generation, at least the ones i ve spoken to would agree. their point, they re not hearing it from too many democrats or not hearing it in a way that resonates. rick, i m curious about how republican candidates may be looking at all of this when they hear any blue just won t do. say you re a senate candidate running