morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in
considerable political baggage, the bottom line voters is who s going to win, who will carry forward the agenda that they want? i don t have to tell she knew what democratic victory doesn t make the steak blue or even purple. raphael warnock did beat a candidate who had some problems in 2021. you know, the gop is really solidly focused on winning, and that s the thing that they care about. this time, they re kind of putting their hopes on, frankly, the running back on the history of georgia, rather than what continues to emerge about this narrative with, i guess, 30 days to go until election day in georgia. shannon, all three of us are journalists, we remember a time where stuff like this came out, there would be an apology, an explanation, and whatever the case may be. now there s a whole lot of gaslighting. it goes beyond, that in fact. there was, and i want to read from your reporting, in which he say the media was barred from attending a prayer