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you to pay attention to that. pay no attention to the man crying behind our curtain. let's go after joe biden's tragic son who's had troubles their whole life. many people have had problems with struggling with drugs and haven't gotten it together. let's go after him on things that may or may not have been consequential if he wasn't the son of a president. it's pathetic really. they have a very strong messaging machine that's unified that they've created this mythology around hunter biden. that's what they're holding on to. they don't want people to concentrate on what donald trump is doing. the fact that they're running around trying to protect donald trump. january 6th insurrectionists are patriots and they should pardon them. we're in the upside down world. it's all a bait and switch to
that's the genius of somebody, a charismatic demagogue way trump who knows how to talk to people. striking an emotional core in them. that's the victim and the eventually comes and. they feel protected by him about they feel protective of him. and that duality has been present in -- i do want to say one more thing about why this extremist gop could have staying power. they are not working alone. the gop is embedded in a vast global far right messaging machine. trump has many helpers, the saudis, the chinese, the russians, the israelis. with a new report, they were trying to put him in power in 2016. in fact, the people who were emailing bomb threats to manhattan da alvin brad or the russians. this is a different world today
task of choosing your legislation in addition to having custody over your body. if you're republican, tomorrow is the day you try to catch up with the more than 4 million vote lead democrats have racked up in the early voting period. plus the votes cast by absentee voting which at least for now is still legal, even in arizona. even using a drop box. republicans have, though, won one thing, though. ahead of the official election day. they have won the narrative game. they have gamed the media to repeat their red wave talking points by larding the polling averages like fivethirtyeight and real clear politics with junk polls. one of them was even conducted by a couple high school kids. it's a gaslighting extravaganza since as elections guru ron brown steen put it, rcp is a component of the republican messaging machine, no more, no less. they have democrats doing what they do best, fretting and worrying all is lost. despite the 53% to 45% gender gap in the early vote, in favor
lie, misleading them with promises of, quote, jobs, housing, or better lives. the library shared a 1963 newspaper article about this. a black american family, including some children, who were basically pushed off up north by the white citizens council of louisiana. i'm joined by former rnc chairman michael steele. we take a look at the history because on the one hand there's nothing new. it's not shocking in that sense. but it has this ugly roots. it's very performative buck as i emphasize, also real to any human being who gets caught up in whatever you want to call, this this ploy, this trick, this right wing messaging machine. does this matter? and what's your response? >> yeah, it matters very much. and i would say it's shocking to the extent that because we know the history that they still want to engage in that behavior, they still want to do it. they know the ugly nature of
people of violence, and you have this -- i'm not saying it's okay what they do, but they're a vulnerable population, they're a population that can be exploited. trump has certainly shown that. so you think you would operate with restraint if you were in the media, you would be careful about your words. it's the opposite. fox enflames it. it's inflammatory rhetoric, and you know what, think back to all the stories we've had in the past few weeks saying, oh, the trump -- trump and the murdochs are breaking apart, fox isn't in so with them anymore, and the "wall street journal" and the kwt noe" noerk"the new york post," they denounced trump after the last 1/6 committee hearing, but they were all in his corner this week and denouncing merrick garland and saying he overreached. this is what frightens me, that fox -- he still has this machine. he still has this messaging machine. and we know he's good in media.
it's starting to make us nostalgic for the covid quarantine days. this is the true cost of washington, right, you know, where they tax and spend, where they print money, where they attack energy. latinos are reacting in a very visceral way to this. >> that's so true. what you said just reminded me -- we had a guest on. he said that if republicans really want to grab hold of hispanic voters, somebody needs to start a conservative spanish-language news network. i thought that was such a great idea. you know that if more hispanic districts flip from blue to red, the democrat messaging machine will come back with a vengeance. does that concern you at all? >> no, it does. look, you know, right now, um, democrats are on their heels and they're talking about it's been about disinformation that they're hearing from in conservative circles. disinformation to them is
replaced by black and brown migrants as part of a liberal, jewish cabal plot to change america. the innocent people caught up in each attack may have heard of nothing in common, the victims of the buffalo shooting at yesterday were targeted because of anti black racism. the victims of the el paso shooting were targeted because of anti latino racism, the victims of the pittsburgh shooting were targeted because of antisemitism. the victims of the christchurch were targeted because of a laughable yeah. but, in the eyes of a great replacement subscriber all of them are living, breathing threats to the white west. this neo-nazi ask ideologies being metastasizing for years, yes it started online in 4chan forums, racist reddit threads, but it's spread like wildfire moving maniacal e throughout conservative media and the republican messaging machine. to be clear, the only person responsible for the her or in buffalo this weekend, is the
ukrainians are giving up. zelenskyy has fled. all of these things are wrong. and then there's the wider messaging that they're trying to do to the outside world, to the west, and that isn't going very well either. there's the strong sanctions, there are protests around the world, where it is seeing protests in moscow and around russia, so the vaunted russian messaging machine is coming up against reality and it's losing. >> and richard, partly -- part of what they're showing on russian tv, russian state tv, is donald trump praising vladimir putin, secretary pompeo, tucker carlson. you know, with his praise of putin and denigration of joe biden. that's part of their propaganda. just wanted to show you -- let me show you what mitt romney had to say about that this morning. >> how anybody in this country which loves freedom can side with vladimir putin, which is an
productive, but how do we make sure everybody knows what's going on in cyberspace so we don't inadvertently cross over each other. >> and richard, what about the russian propaganda and disinformation campaign? there are words you can't use, they are not at war, they haven't attacked. this is not an invasion, this is a military, what is it, a military situation? there's all kinds of ambiguous strange phrases that have to be used by the russian media. >> yes, andrea, but the russian messaging machine is struggling. they have multiple audiences. you're talking about their internal audience. part of the problem with messaging to their internal audience is this stubborn thing called reality. they're actually not doing it that well. they're not covering it 24/7. we're covering it much more closely than they are. the other messaging russia cares about is messaging to ukraine. that also is being denied by reality. the russians are saying hey, the
prefer democrats, and if the democrats are up in the generic battle, they are actually tied, and here they are down. how much is their fate in their own hands right now? is much is it tied to the guy not even on the ticket with them in this cycle? >> it's a huge problem for democrats. one thing going against democrats is conventional wisdom is returning where it no longer applied at all for several years, and that means the party in power has a terrible time in the midterms, and they will have to message, hey, we know you are still feeling the negative affects of the economy but we are doing x, y and z, we boosted jobs, and inflation is a problem, and we have a plan for that and try to message and say hold on, give us more time to try and get this going and don't give up, but it's not going to be an easy fight. it's going to be against very strong republican messaging machine that you will see