your songs will bring you back. you ve got to get yourself together you ve got stuck in a moment i m not ready. just sing. well, for some people, the results of the 2020 election are still in dispute. that election delusion climaxed at the beginning of this year with the attack on the capitol, but it didn t end there. red states are conducting fake ballot audits, and pushing the big lie in ways that leave lawmakers and poll workers vulnerable to threats and harassment. let s start in georgia, where high-ranking election officials and low-level poll workers alike
come. but senator mcconnell has, already, demonstrated he will enforce unified opposition, even to something like establishing a bipartisan-independent commission to investigate the origins of the january insurrection. he s literally called in personal favors to do that. so, it s not hard to imagine him killing tomorrow s effort on voting legislation by withholding the ten republican votes needed to open debate. and even if he does that, even if any chance of a bipartisan alternative dies with it. there are, still, plenty at the state level that troubles any serious student of how democracies fail. we mention the potentially-metastasizing so-called ballot audits at the top of the program well, in addition, dozens of republican-sponsored bills to restrict voting are making their way through state legislatures. and local-voting officials remain under threat. some, even needing round-the-clock security. it s a lot and the white house knows it. it s important to remember that this has be
even if he does that, even if any chance of a bipartisan alternative dies with it, there is still plenty at the state level that troubles any serious student of how democracies fail. we mentioned the metastasizing ballot audits at the top of the program. in addition, dozens of republican-sponsored bills to restrict voting are making their way through state legislatures. local voting officials remain under threat, some even needing around-the-clock security. it s a lot, and the white house knows it. it s important to remember that this has been a 60-year battle to make voting more accessible, more available to americans across the country and our effort, the president s effort to continue that fight doesn t stop tomorrow at all. this will be a fight of his presidency. more now on the so-called audit in arizona and what could happen with it this week. kyung lah is in phoenix for us tonight. so what s the latest? reporter: we are learning that this part of this exercise
lynch you is not something any rational person would agree to disagree with anyone on. and for what its worth, i do consider mike pence to be rational. but what s happening is, mike pence is no longer in a rational world. he s trying to function and thrive, frankly, in donald trump s alternative universe and in this deranged place, not only was the election stolen it wasn t but we learned from multiple reports in the last few days let by the new york times maggie haberman, trump believes he could be reinstated as president in august because of these unofficial and, frankly, fraudulent ballot audits going on in places such as arizona. that s not going to happen at all. there s no reality to it. but instead of republican officials making that clear, they re hiding and trying to