Jason Johnson

Jim Acosta is the host of The Jim Acosta Show on Substack and YouTube and former chief White House correspondent for CNN.

Jason Johnson is a professor at Morgan State University and MS Now political analyst and host of the podcast A Word with Jason Johnson.

And here with me in studio, MS Now White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez.

All right, Jim, election deniers, pardons, what does that tell you about his strategy in these final days before the election?

Has he done that? No, of course not.

But once you sell that bag of goods to the electorate, you gotta keep running with it, and this is too late at this moment in time to give up on that

thatBut that's not the only bag of goods that he sold, Dr. Jason Johnson.

He also sold a bag of goods that he was going to improve the economy.

Laura Barron-Lopez covers the White House for us.

And Jason Johnson is a Morgan State University professor, MSNOW political analyst, and host of the podcast A Word with Jason Johnson.

Ned, I keep thinking about what the Wall Street Journal ad board said, a moral and strategic mistake.

Do you agree?

And we told him, do whatever you want, but don't hit the diesel fuel, because there's a big problem, a big shortage.

And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel.

So, Dr. Jason Johnson, I guess he's gotten bored of blaming former President Biden for all of his economic woes.

What do you make of this attempt 22 days out from an election day to all of a sudden blame Zelensky for gas prices?

All of this is another sign that even Republicans get how toxic Donald Trump is right now.

Jason Johnson is a professor of politics and journalism at Morgan State University and an MS now political contributor, and he joins me here, uh, in LA.

Good to see you.

Good to see you.

They're not normal names.

Right.

Um, Dr. Jason Johnson, thank you so much for being here.

It's good to see you.

It is not helpful.

I want to bring in Jason Johnson, politics professor with Morgan State U. He's also an MSNBC Now analyst.

And Margaret Carlson, a long time Washington veteran for us, editor at large with Semafor.

Uh, welcome to both of you.

Also with us, former CNN chief White House correspondent and host of the Jim Acosta show, Jim Acosta.

MS Now political contributor and professor at Morgan State University, Dr. Jason Johnson.

And MS Now political analyst, former executive director of the New York Democratic Party, Basil Smikle.

Jim, um, this scenario was avoidable for Republicans.

Uh, we elected her twice.

Uh, we have showed you the template for the sort of Democrat that can perform well here, um, and we just have a candidate in Adam Hamilton who's operating very much in the same vein."

To, to that point, Jason Johnson, I recently learned a fun political factoid, and since you are all fellow nerds, I will share it with you, which is that Kansas has had a Democratic governor in power for more time this century than the supposedly liberal bastion of Massachusetts, three women to boot.

So why is the Senate then been so tough for the party to crack there?

Just a little bit ago, the president seemed to cave on those controversial propaganda ads, posting online that he has decided to, quote, "Pay for them myself and with money I raised from MAGA Inc." Instead of using our money, taxpayer funds, to cover those costs.

Well, we'll get into tonight, into it tonight with Jason Johnson and Brittany Martinez.

They're both with us.

Um, uh, is that a little bit of the backstroke, folks?

We spend a lot on governors.

All right.

Jason Johnson, Brittany Martinez, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Stay with us.

Classy.

With control of Congress on the line, let's bring in MS Now political analyst and professor at Morgan State University, Jason Johnson.

Galen Druke is a political analyst and host of the GD Politics podcast.

Mariana Sotomayor is Capitol Hill correspondent for Puck and MS Now political analyst and host of Fast Politics podcast, Molly Jong-Fast.

And when you see him and, uh, JD Vance out on the trail, when they're going to places like Iowa, which should not be a swing district, you're having Senate candidates not campaign with them.

And so there's a reason for that, and that's because they're seeing the internals and they're seeing they're a drag on the candidate.

Dr. Jason Johnson, I want to bring you in on this because the president went to Truth Social to now declare all voting in America is corrupt.

It started as a post about Brazil's elections.

It's not a PSA.

Lots to discuss with Morgan State University professor and MSNOW political contributor, Jason Johnson, staff writer for The New Republic, Perry Bacon, our reporter, Alex Tabet, talking to voters in Battleground, Alaska, and Democratic strategist and senior advisor for Try and Stop Us, Mally Smith, is here on set with me.

Jason, I'm gonna go first to you.

I think it's hard to think of a more blatant example of Trump doing the opposite of what he promised his supporters than taking money away from border security and using it for these basically pro-Trump hype reels instead.

The letter also asks that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the man in charge of the state's election, be held accountable if he resists this review.

Now, we should note this board is stacked with Trump supporters and has actually removed Raffensperger from the panel.

I want to bring back Jason Johnson, professor of politics and journalism at Morgan State University, MSNOW political analyst and host of A Word with Jason Johnson, the podcast, Perry Bacon Jr., staff writer at The New Republic, both still here jason president trump has of course been obsessed with voting in georgia since the 2020 elections that infamous ask of raffensperger to just find the 11 000 votes that he needed to win there and it appears that in the off season out of cycle allies inside this election board are now willing to step up and help the cause

Yeah.

And as White House officials raise a glass of Schramsberg Blanc de Noir, They probably won't be thinking about Ed Westrick, a rural Texas voter who told the L.A. Times yesterday, I hear the politicians talk about making groceries more affordable, but yet none of them are addressing the issues.

MSNOW contributor and Morgan State University professor Jason Johnson joins us now.

And Cornell Belcher is back with us at the table.

I just this feels like terrible, terrible politics for a number of reasons.

So.

That's given unreliable.

Cornell Belcher, you are very reliable, and so are you, Jason Johnson.

Thank you both very much for your time.