free, fair, honest and able to be fully and quickly audited. reporter: using those debunked allegations to post election ballot reviews. lawmakers in 19 states passed 34 restrictive bills in 2021, according to brennan s analysis. brianna an center president michael waldman said it is a sharp uptick driven by trump s rhetoric. the big lie has driven states across the country to enact new laws to make it harder for people to vote. some are worse than others, but they are invariably targeted at black and brown and asian voters. it is the biggest attempt to roll back voting rights since the jim crow era. reporter: senate democrats are insisting their stalled national voting rights legislation is top of the agenda in the new year, but state republican lawmakers are already chugging ahead with voting restrictions. if congress doesn t act, it gives a green light to these
virginia governor s race which is later this year, we re seeing the same tactic by democrat terry mcauliffe or perhaps in some of the big senate races in the midterms, we could perhaps see democrats try to pursue that tact. and i think the second thing is the emphasis on covid and embracing vaccine mandates. that was essentially the closing message for newsom and we can see that that is what president biden is really leaning into with his policies and i think this recall gives democrats permission to embrace these policies because it appears that it is not actually just a democratic base issue, this actually appeals to independents and even a couple republicans as well. melanie, larry elder was setting up this big lie 2.0, right, that he was going to potentially contest the election results. in the end he didn t do that. what is your reaction to seeing that happen and also, you know, why do you think that didn t happen? i think sometimes the math just is so overwhelming. i mean, it