planned parenthood was providing services in wisconsin, and they stop providing abortion services. republicans have blocked the efforts that we have had to repeal the 19th century ban. i brought a lawsuit, we are in court right now, fighting to restore access to safe and legal abortion. republicans are opposing that. in the meantime, there are but attacks formerly led by supreme court justice on the integrity of our elections. there were baseless, they were false. we re gonna keep backing up against. them but the 2022 election is both going to have a on taking access to safe and legal abortion. and when it comes to protecting our democracy. let s talk about ballet docs is an absentee balloting in wisconsin. both have actually saw a remarkable success in the 2020 elections. they were deemed fair and safe. they went through a court cases and evaluations. and yet, both of those things are now challenged in some places eroded by republicans in
Wisconsin's conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Friday that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices and that no one other than the voter.
think we can ignore and hit on this enough, you now have mastriano running for governor who is all in, right, on saying 2020 he s all in on the big lie here and what he would do if he actually becomes governor. that is making pennsylvania even more important. well, and erica, it s also making republicans nervous as to whether mastriano will be a drag on the ticket. i want to point something out, something called act 77 kicked in for the 2020 election in pennsylvania and it did two things, number one, it put it allowed no excuse absentee balloting, it allowed no excuse absentee balloting, it also put an end to what we call straight lever voting. so you cannot go in and vote only for democrats with one pull of the lever or only for republicans with one vote of the lever, you have to vote for the gubernatorial race, you then have to make a separate decision and vote for the senate and
president, the question of who the governor is going to be in pennsylvania and other places but specifically somebody like mastriano, if he were to win, and if he were to follow through on the threats and the actions that he tried to take as a member of the legislature, it would be almost unfathomable how disruptive it would have been for democracy and again, it s not necessarily just about the past. it could be about the future. and it s just an important point, on that point, michael, democrats clearly want to run against mastriano. paint him as an extremist, but could they come to regret that? so here s the interesting thing. you know, there s concern among republicans as to the impact mastriano might have down ballot, but i would remind folks that republicans in pennsylvania, they don t like no excuse absentee balloting. that was part of a deal struck with democrats where they also,
republic. the threat to our national security is sitting right there at 1600 pennsylvania avenue and both the vice president and the president. bret: the shift has happened now from build back better, although democrats say they are still going to try to move forward. we heard from the president tonight. he hasn t spoken to senator joe manchin about a way forward for his vote. but the voting rights bill is now the focus. they don t have the votes though. manchin, kyrsten sinema from arizona are not there on this. the federalist, which is against this bill writes it this way: democrats pivot back to radical election bill that would ban voter i.d. it would force states implement automatic voter registration, early voting. same day registration and no fault absentee balloting. it would require states to allow ballot harvesting. ban voter i.d. laws nationwide and limit access to federal courts for anyone who challenges such legislation. if passed, democrats extreme