and thank you so much for joining us tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and the tiktok on jake tapper. our coverage continues with the strong laura coats and the mighty alisyn camerota as ahead off on this thirsty thursday to do what i do best, sit at my kitchen table and drink. i feel like we have to step it up with the superlatives. i lifted his car one time and i m strong. one time. i don t need a sue perlative. i m just i don t need hype girls. i don t need hype girls. you are just you. you have no power here. good-bye. we re keeping the conversation going tonight. apparently i m strong and you re mighty. i love that. i m laura coats in washington, d.c. i m alisyn camerota in new york. one team here with me. and the other team, the right one, in washington, d.c. here with me. we will look at two key states that people have heard a lot about and one that we haven t been hearing enough about and frankly it is flying under the radar,
that it s really hard to catch fraud. i really truly believe there was a lot of fraud. i don t understand how a large portion of the country has lost the ability to just look at information and process data and understand. i think at the end of the day it is important that we stop using, you know, tiktok and facebook as our personal research tools to figure out what happened. i was volunteering with the gop here in nevada and i saw a lot of fraud. there was a lot of provisional ballots which means they were cast even though it shows there was some type of issue with the ballot. we found so many people that already passed away but the grandson voted for them. how many people did you find that their grandsons were voted for them that passed away. that was one example. there was a couple other examples of family members that did vote for elderly or deceased family. i m not aware of those numbers, but there was 80,000 provisional ballots take ton the nevada secretary of state. i
i think we can all agree, we want our elections to be pretty fair and accurate. we want to trust the election. and how can we do that when, you know you are telling me in 2016 that trump is an illegitimate president. and suddenly the same processes used in 2020 are amplified. mail-in ballots, signature verification turned down. arizona has had mail-in voting for quite some time. and republicans have maintained control in our state. you know, for decades and there has never been an issue with the integrity of mail-in voting until they lost the presidential election in the state. this, as i, said has been adjudicated. there was something like 86 judges across the country. some of them trump appointed. do you still think that there was fraud in the 2020 election? in anything that involves humans, there will be fraud. and any election, it will show that it is really hard to catch fraud. i really truly believe that there was a lot of fraud.
you ve got massive sharecropping. you ve got endemic covert in the black community. and so a lot of jim crow legislation was written that way, not racially defined but racially targeted. it s exactly the same strategy we re seeing today with targeting methods of voting and the election administration of counties where large populations of minority voters reside. it s designed not to catch fraud. but it is designed to deter and dissuade particularly minorities and poor people and young people from voting. so a system that the former president called rigged is being changed in a way that you say actually is rigged. oh, absolutely. now, new laws in key states are not only impacting access to the ballot, but also what happens after the voting. power is being taken away from
black community. and so a lot of jim crow legislation was written that way, not racially defined but racially targeted. it s exactly the same strategy we re seeing today with targeting methods of voting and the election administration of counties where large populations of minority voters reside. it s designed not to catch fraud. but it is designed to deter and dissuade particularly minorities and poor people and young people from voting. so a system that the former president called rigged is being changed in a way that you say actually is rigged. oh, absolutely. now, new laws in key states are not only impacting access to the ballot, but also what happens after the voting. power is being taken away from career election officials and given to more partisan actors. the real danger is the danger of election subversion.