democracy by refusing to say whether they will accept election results they don t like. also tonight, what s next after a very bad week for trump with the special master telling his lawyers to put up or shut up and new york s attorney general exposing years of alleged fraud. and as kevin mccarthy makes his pitch for speaker, president biden reminds americans exactly what republicans want to take from you if they win. things like reproductive rights and social security. good evening, everyone. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with the cancer that continues to rot what s left of the desiccated corpse of the republican party. moments from now, the former president will stand shoulder to shoulder with ted budd, north carolina s republican senate candidate. he refused to accept the results if he loses but voting to certify the 2020 election as a member of congress just hours after the attack on the capitol. and he s not the only one. from the carolinas to
according to politico, a fellow republican in the arizona house was shocked at finchem s success given, quote, mark is known as the guy that s probably the dumbest, well there s long list, but one of the dumbest legislators in the house. with friends like these. look, last night, finchem faced off with his democratic opponent, the former mayor copa county recorder who oversaw the 2020 election for really the entire country. a jarring side-by-side of two vastly different perspectives. one grounded in reality and the other grounded in the unhinged fever dreams of the big lie. knowing what we know today, there are certain counties that should have been set aside as irredeemably compromised. when we have conspiracy theories and lies like the one mr. finchem have haired based in no real evidence, what we end up doing is eroding the faith we have in each other as citizens. later, finchem pretty much made president biden s point when he said the reason we can
democracy by refusing to say whether they will accept election results they don t like. also tonight, what s next after a very bad week for trump with the special master telling his lawyers to put up or shut up and new york s attorney general exposing years of alleged fraud. and as kevin mccarthy makes his pitch for speaker, president biden reminds americans exactly what republicans want to take from you if they win. things like reproductive rights and social security. good evening, everyone. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with the cancer that continues to rot what s left of the desiccated corpse of the republican party. moments from now, the former president will stand shoulder to shoulder with ted budd, north carolina s republican senate candidate. he refused to accept the results if he loses but voting to certify the 2020 election as a member of congress just hours after the attack on the capitol. and he s not the only one. from the carolinas to california
future. but, he figures he can cover all that with the predictable maga republican buzz words. on our very first bill, we re going to repeal 87,000 irs agents. we can build an education system that has a parents bill of rights. we should insure women only compete in women s sports. yeah, in case you missed it, yes, that was none other than marjorie taylor greene seated directly behind mccarthy. a short time later in washington, president biden rebuked mccarthy s ban with goals with little or no details and laid out a clear contrast between the parties running for office this fall. in 46 days america is going to choose. if republicans win control of the congress, abortion will be banned, but if you give me two more democratic senators in the united states senate, i promise you, i promise you, we re going
decided to pledge their allegiance and change state election laws that don t exist. earlier, joe biden warned how dangerous this election denialism really is. it s become a litmus test in their party to pledge loyalty to donald trump by buying into the big lie. you can t let the integrity of elections being undermined. democracy can t survive, it cannot survive, not a joke. can t survive when one side believes there s only two outcomes to an election. either they win or they were cheated. one of the most prominent election deniers he s referring to is currently running to control arizona s elections. mark finchem is a republican nominee for secretary of state. he s currently a state legislator and actually tried to decertify the arizona election results back in 2020 but he failed. he s also a member of the oath keepers, that right wing paramilitary group, and he attended the capitol insurrection.