With just two days to go, Democratic and Republican leaders are facing a perennial problem of the year-end election season: There’s not much left to say they haven’t said, often a few dozen times.
That was evident on Sunday morning talk shows, where Republican guests repeated points of discussion on inflation and crime and expressed confidence in an upcoming red wave. Democratic guests echoed the talking points in President Biden’s profile and expressed confidence that the polls are underestimating them.
Here are a few moments that stand out from the blur.
RNC urges more people to follow the poll.
Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” about reports that right-wing activists were threatening voters. She replied: “No one should threaten or break the law. No one should. But watching polls is not scary.”
The host, Dana Bash, made no mention of vote viewing, a formal process through which members of both sides can observe the selection and counting of votes. Instead, the episodes she cited included right-wing activists gathering near voting boxes in Arizona with cameras and guns, and a group in Michigan urging members to take pictures of their license plates. voters.
“Don’t attack or intimidate people who are trying to vote,” McDaniel urged before returning to the separate issue of poll followers, whom Republicans are trying to recruit. “The RNC hasn’t been able to do this for 40 years – we followed a legal order where we couldn’t have poll followers, and now we can,” she said, mention a ban was imposed in 1982 after the courts found that Republicans had intimidated voters or tried to exclude minorities. The ban was lifted in 2018.
She added: “They were simply observing, and that helped us to finally give reassurance to voters who said, listened, we were there. We watched it. Everything is going well.”
The Governor of Oklahoma discusses his surprise near run.
Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma – a Republican in the running for re-election in one of the nation’s reddest states – accused Democrats of spreading “misinformation” about the lake. his profile.
Mr. Stitt said on “Fox News Sunday”: “The reason there is such a tight race is that there is an unprecedented amount of dollars against me, with $50 million to spread lies and chaos.” Mr. Stitt said. “The misinformation is just unbelievable. They are literally sending out leaflets to people in rural areas of our state saying I will close rural schools. Nothing could be more than the truth.”
Joy Hofmeister, his Democratic opponent, opposes vouchers that would provide parents with government funding for private school tuition, an idea Mr. Stitt supports. Ms. Hofmeister has called the idea a “rural school killer” – arguing that it would shift limited funding from public schools to private schools, which is not an option in many rural areas – and that argument seems to have power among rural voters.
Clyburn dropped her stake in the election catastrophically.
Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, a third-class House Democrat and an influential figure among Black voters, defended recent comments in which he suggested the United States had risked following the same path as Germany in the 1930s. He said Germany was “the greatest democracy” before electing a leader who “co-opted the media” – and the victory of the Communist Party. Midterm peace could “lead to the destruction of this democracy.”
On “Fox News Sunday,” the host, Shannon Bream, noted that critics condemned Mr. Clyburn’s remarks as belittling the Holocaust.
“I have spoken to many Jews in my congressional district, and they are my supporters,” Mr. Clyburn replied. “They know that this is what causes these kinds of recessions in democracy.”
Mr. Clyburn cited efforts that could allow Republican governors and state legislatures to overturn the results of future elections, as well as the destruction of the news media. such as the disturbing aftereffects of the past.
“I have studied history all my life, I have taught history,” he said, “and I am telling you what I see here is similar to history.”
Chris Cameron contribution report.
