Maddow: Desperation creeps in as Trump's polls turn catastrophic

Really happy to have you here. Happy No Kings Week to all who celebrate. The next No Kings Day is this upcoming Saturday, October 17th. Tonight we start in Hutchinson, Kansas, at a place called Holly's Sweet Treats, where they can make you anything you want. They can make you a wedding cake that looks like it came straight out of a wedding cake storybook fairy tale. They can make you a cake that looks just like a cow. They can make you cupcakes that look like cartoon horses. They can make you cookies that look like anthropomorphic race cars or like graduation robes and diplomas. Look at this. Holly's Sweet Treats in Hutchinson, Kansas can make you a cake that looks like a can of bush beer pouring into a mug. Come on! They can even make you a real cake that looks like a fake cake. Come on! Have you ever seen anything like that? Amazing! Totally amazing. I mean, I can't even make toast. These guys can make absolutely anything. But until this weekend, one thing that Holly's Sweet Treats in Hutchinson, Kansas could not make is they could not make Republican U.S. Senator Roger Marshall pay his bill for the cookies that they made him six years ago. Roger Marshall was first selected to the U.S. Senate six years ago, in 2020. That year, he hosted a Republican primary watch party for which he or his campaign hired Holly's Sweet Treats in Hutchinson, Kansas. And Holly's Sweet Treats made them super cute cookies and stuff. Made them fudge brownies and mini strawberry muffins and these sugar cookies with careful buttercream frosting with blue and yellow logo that spelled out his name, Roger Marshall. And the bill for the brownies and the strawberries, the strawberry muffins and these frosted sugar cookies came to $678.75 and Roger Marshall never paid. It's now six years later. Senate terms are six years long. So that means Roger Marshall is now running for re-election. And he happens to be running for re-election against a really strong Democratic candidate who's really given him a run for his money. The Democratic candidate is named Adam Hamilton. He's a pastor who leads the single largest United Methodist Church in the whole country. Adam Hamilton is a pastor. The incumbent Republican senator, Roger Marshall, the guy who didn't pay for the cookies. He's a doctor. He's an OBGYN. So it's the pastor versus the doctor. And one of the things that Dr. Senator Roger Marshall has become very famous for now in Kansas during this campaign is just how strongly he apparently feels about people who don't know him. Who don't pay their bills. That's become like the single most operative thing in this whole Republican Senate campaign. Because New York Times reporter Sarah Cliff had this exclusive last month. Headline. A doctor sued 700 patients for debts. 81 were arrested. Now he's a senator. That's about Roger Marshall. In his medical practice in Kansas, indeed, Roger Marshall brought more than 700 individual lives and lawsuits against his own patients for failure to pay his bills on time. He had his lawyers routinely ask judges for arrest warrants for his patients if they missed a court date. I mean, there's no indication that Marshall was personally crusading for the arrest warrants, that he was personally directing who was going to get their wages garnished or their bank accounts garnished, but the lawyers working for him routinely, routinely on his behalf, pressured judges to issue arrest warrants. And Marshall thereby got his patients arrested for unpaid bills as low as $114. Roger Marshall got their bank accounts garnished. He got their paychecks garnished. I mean, if you were unlucky enough to have Roger Marshall as your OBGYN in Kansas and you weren't able to fully pay off your bill to him, he charged, he charged 18% interest on those bills. And again, garnish your wages, garnish your bank account. Have you arrested if you couldn't keep up? 18% interest. Now, Roger Marshall responded to that reporting by claiming that this was, he wasn't personally involved in the decisions to arrest people and to garnish their wages, that this was all very normal, that this was all absolutely standard practice for medical outfits in Kansas. Well, this weekend, the Kansas City Star checked that out. Quote, while facing sharp criticism for his debt collection practices as an OBGYN, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall has forcefully defended himself, saying his methods were, very common. But an analysis of medical debt lawsuits in the Kansas court system found that the 18% annual interest rate that Roger Marshall applied to unpaid bills was by far the highest. Of the roughly 150 medical practices whose public records were reviewed by the Kansas City Star. By far the highest. So he was saying this is all very normal, all standard practice is something that every medical practice in Kansas does. No, nobody else was charging 18% interest. By far the highest. And why were Senator Roger Marshall's patients charged this massive, injurious interest rate that no one else was charging? Right? This interest rate that was getting people's bank accounts garnished and their paychecks garnished, getting young moms arrested in front of their kids. Why was Roger Marshall specifically charging this exorbitant interest rate to his patients that no other medical practice was charging? Well, the lawyer who represented Roger Marshall in many of the lawsuits he filed against his patients tells the Kansas City Star that it wasn't like a standard rate of interest. It was Roger's choice. Quote, Roger Marshall's office was responsible for determining how much interest patients owed on their unpaid bills. Nice. And did I mention that he didn't pay his own cookie bill for six years? Late last week, the owner of that little bake shop in Hutchinson, Kansas posted the bill online and the picture of the cookies that she baked for Roger Marshall, the one he never paid for for years and years and years. After that online post started to get some traction, perhaps given how famous Roger Marshall now is for being real strict about other people not paying their bills, Roger Marshall suddenly decided it was time to pay for the cookies. Decided to make a big public show of him finally paying off that bill. He posted this online saying he had just finally paid that six-year-old bill and he hadn't just paid the bill, he said he had double paid it. Quote, "We have repaid the bill from 2020, double." Well, let's see. The bill was, you saw it, right? $678.75. Double that is $1,357.50. Roger Marshall paid $1,300. So, I mean, he didn't pay all these sweet treats double. He still, I mean, by his own account, he's still stiffing them $57.50. That said, if they wanted to charge him, say, I don't know, picking a number out of the ether, 18% interest? Like he charged all his patients? Well, if they were going to charge him 18% interest like he charged all his patients, then Roger Marshall still owes Holly sweet treats way more than that. I mean, don't hold me to the math, but by my count, if this had been six years at 18% interest, that would mean Roger Marshall still underpaid the bakery by about $112, which is very close to the $114 for which he had at least one of his patients arrested. A joint reporting project between MSNOW and the Kansas Reflector also just reported on the perplexing news that for the past five years, Senator Roger Marshall in Kansas has reported that he has exactly zero paid campaign staffers. Zero. Quote, according to Senator Marshall's most recent FEC records filed in July, no one working for Roger Marshall's campaign had received a paycheck in the past five years. Wow. Now, is that because Roger Marshall inspires such devotion that every single person working on his campaign donates all of their time to him for free for years? Anybody asked any of his former patients if he's got them working off their pregnancy and miscarriage bills and some kind of barter arrangement so he doesn't have them arrested? I kid, I'm kidding, there's no reason to think he's doing that. But I do have to say, it would, theoretically, be really, truly illegal for Roger Marshall to have any of his Senate staffers, have any of the people paid to work in any of his Senate offices doing any work on his campaign. Because those jobs are taxpayer-funded jobs, And the taxpayers do not pay for your campaign, Senator. You're supposed to pay for that yourself. You're supposed to pay for your campaign staff out of your campaign funds. Like you're supposed to pay for your cookies, too. Roger Marshall's chief of staff says the campaign now does have some paid staff, though he declined to offer any evidence of that or details about it, like how many people are now being paid or when their employment began. But the bottom line here is that Republican incumbent U.S. Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas may be about to lose his seat. He really might be ousted from that Senate seat by Democratic candidate Adam Hamilton in Kansas. Two Republican governors of Kansas have come out and endorsed the Democrat. They've endorsed Adam Hamilton and explicitly said they cannot support Roger Marshall, that he has done a bad job for Kansas, even though they are lifelong Republicans. And I actually have some news to announce on this front. Tonight, just minutes ago, MSNOW's own election desk moved our network's characterization of the Kansas Senate race from likely Republican to lean Republican, which is still lean Republican. But it's actually amazing that a deep red state like Kansas with an incumbent Republican senator is only now is now only leaning in the red direction. I mean, Kansas last elected a Democratic senator in nineteen thirty two. But they really might elect Democrat Adam Hamilton in just a few weeks and throw Roger Marshall out. And part of that is that Roger Marshall turns out to be a terrible candidate, right? When he's not stealing cookies from his constituents, he's trying to lock them up for not paying the uniquely extravagant interest rates. He decided to charge them for their miscarriages. I mean, come on, it's a part of it is that Roger Marshall Marshall is, oh, my God. But part of it is that Adam Hamilton is a good candidate for Kansas with a very compelling story to tell and a ton of people in the state who know him already and like him already from his very influential work with his very influential branch of the Methodist Church. I mean, yes, there does appear to be some sort of bias. There is some sort of blue wave coming in November. But individual candidates matter. Individual races matter. Individual campaigns matter. Case in point, actually, in the same announcement tonight from our election desk, that MSNL was moving the Kansas Senate race from likely Republican to lean Republican. Our election desk is also at the same time moving the Minnesota Senate race in the opposite direction in Minnesota, where Democratic Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan is facing a Republican named Michelle. MSNL is also moving the characterization of that race. But in that case, it's a move in the other direction. It's from likely Democratic to lean Democratic. Because every state is different. Every race is different. Individual states, individual races, individual candidates have their own dynamics separate and apart from the national trends. I mean, take the great state of Maine. Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins has been an impenetrable force in the state of Maine. She's been a great leader in the state of Maine. He went to Syracuse, New York. to support the Republican who's challenging Democrat Kathy Hochul for New York governor. I think he thought he was in real safe territory in Syracuse. I doubt this is what he expected. But thousands of people turned out in Syracuse, New York on Friday to protest against him when he visited there. Wait till they see what happens this Saturday, October 17th, which is the next No Kings Day. You think they're upset? They're a little panicked about how badly they're losing the country right now, by how the country views them right now. Wait till they see millions of Americans this Saturday turning out to tell them exactly what they think. As the electoral drubbing they are likely in for really sinks in for these guys, you see the White House, you see the administration pulling out all the October surprises they can think of all at once. Today they had federal agents raid the home of a Democratic congresswoman. Not FBI agents, not police, but immigration agents. Since apparently you can use them for anything. They're just a catch-all, often masked paramilitary force that does any political errand they're asked to at this point. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota had her house raided by Trump's federal agents today, 22 days before the election. Think there was some urgency there that they needed to do it 22 days before the election? At the same time, the White House has also announced a kangaroo court show of the only black woman on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Lisa Cook. Not a law enforcement investigation, not a congressional investigation. They tried those, neither of those worked, so now they're going to form a hand-picked presidential committee of inquiry that will hold an inquisition of Lisa Cook at the White House. And in case you're wondering, no, a presidential committee of inquiry is not a thing. This is a brand new fake proceeding they have in vented just for her. And if that's not enough, if you're not enjoying the showy televised raid of a Democratic congresswoman's home three weeks before the election, if you're not enjoying the planned weird show trial at the White House for somebody at the central bank, then perhaps you'll enjoy the firing squad execution of a man in a wheelchair, which the Pentagon is promising to livestream, though presumably will have to pay some sort of licensing fee to the Taliban for stealing their idea. A federal court had told the Trump administration to not knock down trees or take any other major actions at the public golf course in Washington that Trump is seizing for himself. This weekend, they took down hundreds of trees there anyway. A federal court had ordered the Trump administration to stop running propaganda pro-Trump ads on the taxpayer's dime. As of last night, they had been ordered to stop those ads. As of this morning, they were still running them. They're trying to get away with everything they can while they can. Because they know they are about to lose. I mean, when you're about to lose an incumbent Republican U.S. Senate seat in freaking Kansas, you're liable to lose everywhere in the country. Gina Hinojosa and Angie Nixon are testing that right now in the two biggest red states in the country. They join me here live tonight. Stay with us. I don't know if you've heard, but in the great state of Texas, high school football is a huge deal. There was a whole very popular, iconic, unforgettable TV show about it you might have seen. Go on, say it with me. Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose. So when you are in the final stretch of election season in the great state of Texas, a political ad like this one is a good idea. Watch this carefully. This is not an actor. I'm Coach Buchanan. As a football coach, I won eight state championships, but I know how to read a scoreboard. Under Greg Abbott, the billionaires are up and Texas is down. Taxes through the roof. Parents stressed out. That's Abbott's corruption, and it's costing us everything. I voted for Abbott three times, but I'm getting off the sidelines for Gina Hinojosa. Now Gina's running for governor to take on the billionaires and always put our kids first. Something a little bit unexpected is happening in Texas right now. The state's Republican governor on paper ought to be cruising to yet another election victory next month. His three previous terms in office, he won each of those with double-digit victories each time. But it doesn't look like that's happening now. People like the eight-time state champion high school football coach you just saw in that ad, people who voted for Governor Greg Abbott three times before, like he said in that ad, people like him say they're going to vote for the Democrat. This time around. Greg Abbott has been on a mission to privatize public schools in Texas. In practice, it means eliminating public schools in Texas. Public schools in Texas are now so underfunded that hundreds of them are only open four days a week. Gina Hinojosa first got into politics by running for her local school board to try to stop her son's school from being shut down. Greg Abbott has managed to infuriate Texans who used to be his voters, conservative, often rural voters who deeply value their local public schools, whether or not they have great football teams. He's also enraged just about everybody in the state with his absolutely unbridled sprint to cram hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of AI data centers into Texas, often in rural conservative areas. And so, yeah, we are seeing these sort of head-spinning reports out of Texas about MAGA moms and dyed-in-the-wool Republican voters. Now rallying around Gina Hinojosa. But it's not just anecdotal reports and vibes. Earlier this month, a New York Times Siena poll, which is one of the gold standard polls, they found Gina Hinojosa leading Greg Abbott by three points, although that's still within the margin of error in that poll. Now the Hinojosa campaign has provided us with new internal polling that's in line with those results. This new internal poll for the Hinojosa campaign, which was conducted with 800 likely Texas voters last week, finds Hinojosa to be one of the most likely Texas voters to be voted by. Hinojosa, again, leading Greg Abbott in this one by two points. That is within the poll's margin of error, three and a half point margin of error. But the bottom line here is that this race is just unbelievably close in Texas. It has Democrats daring to hope they might win the Texas governorship for the first time in over 30 years. Joining us now is Gina Hinojosa, Democratic nominee for governor in Texas. Representative Hinojosa, it's really nice of you to be here with me tonight. Thank you for taking time. It's great to be with you, Rachel. Tell me how the public schools issue is resonating in your campaign. From everything that I've seen from outside the state, it's just a radioactive issue for Greg Abbott right now. Yeah, well, listen, when I launched this campaign, I would talk about public schools a lot and had people tell me, you talk about public schools too much. And I said, I'm going to talk about them some more, because I knew that this was an issue that was going to happen. And I said, I'm going to talk about public schools a lot. Parents, especially coaches, as you heard, superintendents, teachers, school communities, were real angry about what has happened to our public schools. Those of us who still have kids in public schools understand the crisis that our public schools are in. And listen, we fight for our schools because they're important to our kids and our communities, but they're also essential to the American dream, right? That deal where if you do your part, Texas does its part. If you work hard, you can have a good life. There's no way that we're going to be able to do that. We're going to There's no American dream without strong public schools. They provide the gateway or the opportunity to the American dream. And that is my agenda, to secure the American dream, get back to basics, a government that delivers for the people. We do that in Texas by saving Texas public schools and putting money in your pocket. And you can learn more at my website at ginafortexas.com. In the national conversation about this year's elections, there's sort of like this pundit class discussion about whether or not people should be talking about corruption in terms of especially what's going on in Washington or whether people should be talking about practical pocketbook cost of living issues like education, health care, and the other stuff that you were just describing. To me, it has always seemed like it's not either or. And in your campaign, almost more than any other, including in that ad that we just showed, you've really talked about, for example, the public schools issue as being directly linked to what you say is Greg Abbott. It's corruption. How do those things connect to each other? Yes, listen, Greg Abbott sold out our schools by pushing through, forcing through his voucher scam after receiving $12 million from an out-of-state billionaire, Jeff Yaz, who has a financial interest in vouchers. It's the largest campaign contribution in all of Texas history. So, absolutely, it is the other side to that coin. The positive agenda is pro-public schools, right? It's the other side to that coin. The reason why we can't get there under Greg Abbott is because he sold us out. It is the same with data centers, right? We have had all these data centers descend into Texas with the richest tax breaks in the country. They pay no sales tax on the electricity they consume, and we know it's gobs electricity. They pay no sales tax for 20 years, these hyperscale data centers, right? He's received over $20 million from the data center interests, and we are in a situation where we're are losing a billion and a half dollars a year in Texas. are mad about being sold out. And in rural Texas, which is mostly Republican, they're big mad about public schools and data centers. Latino voters in Texas have been a focus of intense national interest in terms of what they say about Trumpism, what they say about the divide between the two parties and the sort of partisan valence for that big demographic. Obviously, Latino voters are a huge proportion of the electorate in Texas. What are you hearing from Latino voters as distinct from the whole rest of the electorate in terms of what's driving them and their thinking and their propensity to vote this fall? Well, Latino voters are angry about this high-cost economy, just like everybody else, right? And they know who's been in charge in Texas for 12 years. They know it's Greg Abbott. They know where to lay the blame. It is harder to make it in Texas after 12 years of Greg. So they want relief. They're looking for a leader who will deliver relief. And my plan to put money in their pocket speaks to that. $1,500 to every Texas household, freezing our electricity rates, making sure that the corporations, including the data centers, are paying their fair share and ensuring every Texas child has quality health care. We have the most children without health insurance in the whole country, right? So we are running, again, to deliver for working Texans. The Latino vote is the swingiest of votes. I think that because the Latino demographic has yet to pick a political party, they're just looking at who's going to be best for their pocketbook. They know this administration, the leadership in Texas right now, has been bad for their pocketbook, and they're looking for change. And we know in 2018, the last time we had a midterm election with Trump in the White House, we know that Beto got 64% of the Latino vote. When I get 64% of the Latino vote in 2026, I win. More Latinos in the voting population than there were back then. And what we're seeing in the polling, what we're feeling on the ground, is Latinos have swung back in a big way. We are polling at double digits with Latinos. So we are not taking anything for granted. We are making sure to engage with the Latino voter and with Latino, Black voters and all Texas voters. We are sitting down with MAGA voters in rural Texas. But listen, this is an opportunity, because it is about securing the American dream and pushing back on corruption, to bring everybody together to forge a new way forward that is about putting Texans first. And that is resonating in this campaign. Gina Hinojosa, Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, surprising everybody all the time, outperforming all expectations, being outspent. But in this race right now, seemingly out-polling the guy who's outspending you. It's such a fascinating race to watch. Thank you for making time to talk to us tonight. Really, really, really appreciate it. Great to be with you, Rachel. All right. Another Democratic candidate who has given Republicans in another red state a big surprise of an unpleasant kind. Angie Nixon is going to join us live here next. Stay with us. If you're filling out your election bracket, as you stare into the swirl of polls and wonder, hey, could Democrats. Can Democrats possibly win there? Don't sleep on Florida. Florida is holding a special election this year to finish out the Senate term left behind by Marco Rubio when he left to be Trump's Secretary of State and, like, 10 other jobs. The huge favorite in the Democratic primary, the overwhelming conventional wisdom, was that the Democratic nominee would be Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vindman. In the primary, he outraised and outspent his opponent by multiples of multiples. Alexander Vindman had at least 30% of the vote in the Democratic primary. 13 times more campaign money than state lawmaker Angie Nixon. He spent more than $2 million on ads while she spent less than $100,000. But when Democratic voters actually went to the polls in the primary, Angie Nixon won. And she won by a lot. She won by 12 points. Did I mention her spending was five digits and his was over $2 million? She just whomped him. If that result was a shock to the Democratic political establishment, it was maybe less surprising to Florida voters who have come to know her. She didn't come out of nowhere. The sort of mainstream gloss on her victory has been that she's one of these charismatic Democratic socialists who've been toppling establishment candidates all across the country. It's not quite the story with her. She did join the DSA, but only a couple of months before she won the primary. She also does not consider herself to be a socialist. Rather, in Florida, Angie Nixon is a longtime known commodity. She's an organizer and activist. She is good at it. She is known for it. She does practical politics. In 2020, to win a seat in the Florida House representing a district in Jacksonville, she ousted a conservative Democrat. In that district in Jacksonville, she owns this bookstore slash coffee shop slash political statement all on its own. Ms. Nixon told the Nation magazine, quote, I stocked the books they tried to pull off the shelves and cafe resistance. Earlier this year, as Republicans in the Florida House rammed through a redistricting scheme to drastically reduce Black representation in Congress, Representative Angie Nixon walked the House floor with a pink bullhorn, objecting that what her Republican colleagues were doing was unconstitutional. She was later arrested in a sit-in outside the office of Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. So whether or not anybody could see it from outside the state, it's Florida voters know what Angie Nixon is made of. And in a year when Republicans everywhere are finding out the hard way that big spending does not guarantee victory, in a year when Democrats continue expanding the map to surprising places, Angie Nixon is now the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, running with the belief that the voters can surprise you and money isn't everything. She's already proved it once. Joining us now is Ms. Angie Nixon, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Representative Nixon, it's such a pleasure to have you here. Thank you so much for making time. Thanks for having me, Rachel. It feels like Democrats have been watching Florida kind of drift further and further out of reach for Democratic candidates for quite a few years now. Why do you think that that might change this year? Yeah, it's going to change this year because we are ready to hold Republicans accountable. After 30 years of failed Republican leadership here in this state, we are witnessing our teachers not getting paid. Over 50 percent of Floridians cannot afford to be alive here in this state. We watched as our infrastructure dollars, our emergency management dollars were used on an expensive political stunt by Ron DeSantis and Ashley Moody to go after immigrants. And they spent over a billion dollars in alligator on alligator Alcatraz when it should have been used for times of natural disasters like this hurricane that recently hit us. Democrats are just tired. They're frustrated. And it's also not just Democrats. It's also independents and even some of the Republicans. A lot of corruption has been happening. We've witnessed Ashley Moody basically steal ten million dollars and collude with. Ron DeSantis and James Utmeyer stole that money that was supposed to go towards sick kids here in our state and instead used it to divert to two political slush funds for Ron DeSantis to defeat two citizen led ballot initiatives that the citizens put on the ballot. And they're frustrated and they're ready for change. They're ready for someone who was going to put them first. And they know that after running and being elected here in this state and organizing for nearly two decades in this state that I am the person to do just that to have their back and put them first. Your organizing experience absolutely paid off for you in the Democratic primary that got you to be the Democratic candidate for this Senate seat. I think people looked at the dollar difference between you and Colonel Vindman and just thought that you didn't. However good a candidate you were, however good your ideas were, however well you were able to explain what you could do as a Senate candidate, you were never going to have a chance because you couldn't speak loud enough with enough money behind you up against that sort of a differential. You've now got another huge differential in the general. How have you been able to basically communicate to the Democratic Party, communicate to the people who fund campaigns like this that they ought to spend on your behalf? I've noticed that people have started waking up to the fact that you might have a real shot here and they've started sending some resources your way nationwide. Yeah, for sure. So listen, Rachel, it is just good old fashioned grassroots organizing. Look, I know that organizing organized people will be big money each and every day. But let's be clear, we're not just going against big money right now. We're going against gigantic and enormous money. But the people are leaning in. Right. And so also we need to not only organize people in this moment, we need to also organize money. So folks need to lock in. And that is what's happening. Folks all across the country, not just the state of Florida. They recognize that it is time to allow people to decide what their communities and their economies look like and not just allow these big campaign donors and these corrupt corporations to decide things. And so folks have been donating. But now we're also seeing some of the more bigger donors coming around, the more establishment donors, because they know that we need to stop this corruption and chaos from happening in Washington, D.C. You know, they are they're ready. They are they're opening up because, honestly, there's more just regular everyday people out there. And so I'm excited that folks are going to AngieNixon.com to donate. We need more money so that we can stay up on commercials because they are, in fact, you know, pounding away at us. But look, I am going out to try to hit all 67 counties before the general election day happens. And it's been resonating. We have been in. We have been in deep red counties like Putnam County. And what was interesting, it was supposed to be a town hall, not a town hall, but actually a roundtable meeting of about five to seven individuals. And it turned out to be over 100 people that showed up in a deep red county to talk about health care. And that is because people like Ashley Moody voted to end health care for over four hundred and forty thousand people here in the state of Florida. And I have Republicans that are now coming up to me saying that they are going to vote for me. Because, number one, they know that I am truthful and I have their back and I will put the people over my campaign donors, unlike Ashley Moody. And also we are a state that is full of immigrants and I want them to know that immigrants are welcome here. But Ashley Moody does not feel that way. We are witnessing her not sign on to things like SB 4814, which would extend TPS to Haitians and the Haitian community here in the state. They contribute over two point six billion dollars annually. And not only that, but we are also witnessing her and the deporter in chief, Donald Trump, having to having deported over 13000 Cubans back to not only Cuba, but to countries in South Africa. We see they are deporting people back to Venezuela and taking over their oil. And so, again, this is about accountability in this moment. We need to put the power back in the hands of regular everyday working people and stop allowing Donald Trump to basically shake down this country. This is the biggest grift that we have ever seen in modern history. And I'm looking forward to going up there to Washington, D.C., and hopefully stop it. Angie Nixon, Democratic nominee for United States Senate from the great state of Florida. Really, really thankful that you took the time to be here with us tonight. I know you're incredibly busy. Thank you so much. Good luck to you. Thanks for having me. Bye. All right. We'll be right back. As you've probably heard, the president of the United States has announced that he wants the U.S. to start buying diesel from Russia, which is illegal because after Russia started the biggest land war in Europe since World War Two, we put sanctions on Russian energy. Nevertheless, on Friday, Trump took a call from Putin. Somebody pulled his chatty Kathy talk now string. And next thing you know, he's. He's telling us that we're going to be buying Russian diesel now. It will not be enough to meaningfully lower the cost of diesel here in the U.S., but it will give Russia a big new source of money to use in their fight against our ally Ukraine. Great. The Trump administration would love you to believe this was all Trump's idea. This was some some brilliant agreement he came up with a great Trump deal. Definitely not Trump getting played by Vladimir Putin again. There are many reasons why that is obviously not true. But the over the most overlooked one. Might be the tell that Trump made as he announced this deal. Here's how he announced it. He said, quote, I've just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Putin of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace. 300,000 tons. Tons. That is not how Americans measure oil and gas. Russians measure diesel in tons. Americans. Everybody else in the West measure diesel in barrels. So when he announced how many tons they were giving us, maybe that was just like a copy paste error from the Russian. More ahead. Stay with us. All right, that's going to do it for us tonight.