clearwater beach. this is where you said is the place to be if you want to chase the storm? if up to chase the storm, yeah. appreciate it. stay safe tonight. as you can see, once again the winds are picking up. we re going to get some shelter as well. victor, back to you. we can see the people on the beach behind you pack up, running in as the winds pick up. sg really has gotten worse in a few minutes. just a couple of minutes. as the former president s big lie lives on, we ll talk about how many republicans are fueling their campaigns with it in the run to the 2022 midterms. machine - that moment you walk in the office and people are wearing the same gear, you feel a sense of connectedness and belonging right away.
2020 election and he still has plenty of support among his followers. cnn s donie o sullivan joins me now from cleveland. donie, it sounds like you got an earful in ohio. you spoke to some trump supporters. what did they tell you? the pg version, that is. reporter: that s right, jim. yeah, that s right. some folks were more polite than others to us yesterday here in ohio. but look, the big lie lives on. and most importantly, lies about the insurrection are really continuing to circulate and also grow among many trump supporters. have a listen. your shirt says trump won. yes, he did. is this talking about 2016? all of them, 2020, and the next one. reporter: he lost in 2020. no. reporter: do you think what happened on the 6th of january was a stain on his presidency? this was all staged, i truthfutruly believe that. reporter: what do you think
interests ahead of what s best for our country, john, chaos ensues. and if this were happening anywhere else in the world, the united states would normally be the ones to point their finger and say no, that s not a democracy. you can t condone an insurrection and pretend an election wasn t fair when certified by everybody including the vice president of the united states. so when that starts to happen and short term political interests, trump was good for our country, a crisis ensues. the former president essentially said when you look at this embrace of the big lie by many in the republican party and using that lie to restrict people s ability to vote, he s worried about democracy. you know, i wonder how you think i go ahead. i want to interrupt you to say we have 47 states in our country that are trying to pass laws to restrict the americans right to vote. that is anti democratic. how do you think all of this january 6th and what we re seeing now has affected how he
say, well, he don t mean that. this is not what he meant to say. that take his word for it or his tweet speak for itself. he was joking. okay, how are these people who are deranged that listen to every single thing he tells them. he tell him the sky is blue and there is a storm outside and they believe that crap? when? when is it going to stop? is it going to take your own family to be murdered by these people? this time it s against this president. next time it might be you. and those words, next time it might be you say so much. because as we said at the top, the threat to democracy did not end when the sun came up on january 7th. the big lie lives on. even now attempts are still
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