astonishing of all the races in all of the states that are holding elections tomorrow. it is basically a shoe in for this guy, and that is amazing. so, you ve got that story, and that coverage coming up this hour. we re also gonna get some expert help this hour as well, on the potential impact, potential consequences, of a very unexpected high-profile resignation from a russian diplomat today. today, he not only resigned from the russian government, he put them on blast over putin s invasion of ukraine, and putin s corruption, and what putin has done to russia. one of the consequences of that, in terms of public morale, and the sort of guys of public morale in russia, and potentially, one of the consequences for that guy who resigned today. so, that expert help on that, and we got a bunch of news to get into tonight. but when i start with something that is taking us more than a year to figure out. it was last year, last january, one week after the january 6th attack on the u.
republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. two trump backed candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex president s big lie of a stolen election. you ve got former senator david perdue, close trump ally, who lost his senate seat last year. he s challenging the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. and you ve got far-right congressman jody hice, who s hoping to oust the current incoming secretary of state, brad raffensperger. these races are notable, not only as a referendum on trump s attempt to do, but also to set the groundwork for the next one. because out of all of trump s attempts to overturn the will of the voters and steal the election, what is the state of georgia, where he put his most effort? part of that of course has to do with how humiliated trump appears to have felt by his defeat over there, not only because the election was widely seen as repudiation to him and his movement, and it has been years since a democr
deadly insurrection and that threatens to unravel our democracy, well, it s on the ballot in several states today in gop primaries that are just as much a measure of the trumpification of the republican party as they are a test of the disgraced ex-president s political power. in georgia, governor brian kemp and secretary of state brad raffensperger are facing primary challengers entirely because of their refusal to overturn the results of the 2020 election there. trump s conduct in georgia is notably under criminal investigation now. a pair of trump-backed candidates, that would be former senator david perdue and congressman jody hice are hoping to unseat republicans kemp and raffensperger. new york times reports this, quote, along with representative jody hice, david perdue is running a campaign that s almost single mindedly focused on trump s baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and in true trump style, perdue is ending a campaign that is staked
their circumstances in lynchburg prison, they got somec good news. a new lawyer who wanted to try to reopen their case. it is no wonder orzo, the cat, came over to help. i don t think this was photobombing by a cat. i think this was encouragement n by cat. i think this was get it right, maddow. spit it out, you can do it. spit it out. i m the times are you going to restart this sentence? thanks to kelsey and the rest of the podcast team. and most definitely, orzo, the producer cat. episode three of ultra was finally spat out by me. na it is available now for free wherever you get your podcasts, eight episodes altogether. this is three. dc it is a banger episode if i don t say so myself. you can take it for me or you can take it from producer cat orzo, who is a very, very good boy. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. at evening, rachel. i just experienced your description of that cat story the same way that all of our listeners