How Hegseth's reckless firing spree could backfire on Trump
6/24/202641 min
Jen Psaki talks with Senator Raphael Warnock about how voters in Georgia are standing up against Republican redistricting and Donald Trump's immigrant prison camp plans as Americans are increasingly aware that the only way to stop Trump is to stand up to him.
Nancy Lacore was serving as a vice admiral in the U.S. Navy when she was fired as part of former weekend cable news host Pete Hegseth's anti-diversity purge of military leadership. But now Lacore is a promising new candidate for Congress, winning the Democratic primary runoff for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District while on the air with Jen Psaki, and with control of the House in the balance, Trump may regret Hegseth's crusade.
MS NOW's Ali Velshi reports from the big board as primary election returns come in.
Lis Smith, former deputy campaign manager for Martin O'Malley, and Morris Katz, Morris Katz, Democratic strategist on the Mamdani and Platner campaigns, discuss the dynamics within the Democratic Party as more liberal candidates win primaries and Trump's unpopularity drives moderate Republicans into an ever-growing tent.
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Jen Psaki· Host0:45
There's a lot of politics happening. They've already been talking about it. You've probably been following it. There are primaries tonight in Maryland, in Utah, in South Carolina, and a bunch of hotly cust- contested primaries in New York, where polls just closed at 9:00 PM Eastern Time at the top of the hour. And we're gonna bring you the results from all of those big races as they start to come in. Ali Velshi's, of course, at the big board. And we're also gonna talk about what it all means for both parties heading into the fall. But tonight we got our first big result already out of the primary to be the Republican candidate for governor in South Carolina. And in that race, Trump-endorsed candidate Allen Wilson has defeated Trump-endorsed candidate Pamela Everett. Now, you may be wondering, why were there two Trump-endorsed candidates in that race?