chris covac that was laughed into obscurity. this was pushed well before former president trump, but rocket fueled that movement. it is absolutely because of the big lie. we saw the big lie even impact the senate last week, not being able to when republicans had the first filibuster of the session to block a commission to investigate january 6th. the big lie has infected government on every single level and we re seeing the result of that now. trump s claims about voter fraud were sort of the big lie before the big lie, ron brownstein, this has been going on so long. trump never produced any evidence, any proof that any of the voter fraud claims are true,
the republican party and leadership knows it. the world knows it. and but at the same time think about it a moment, don. he barely got 50% of the votes this time when he ran. so even the blue wave extended it itself to deep rural iowa, deep trump country in iowa. he got 50.4% of the vote. how is it possible that someone with these views a member of congress? because unfortunately we live in the era of trump. we live in the era in which being anti-immigrant. because remember chris covac, the secretary of state for kansas. number one the president said you know i lost by 3 million votes, the popular votes but that s only because 3 million
the wrong move here and they re not paying enough attention to this inside the white house and just how critical these races will be and how long lasting the implications will be. they think the president made the wrong move with desantis, kemp and chris covac. that s a big concern. they do not think that the white house is focusing enough on that and they think it will affect not only 2020 but possibly 2022 with redistricting and what not, and that is a really big concern among the president s allies who are outside of the white house. for those nationally who may not be interested in a governor s race in a state, it does have long-term effects on redistricting. that s the most important. and it portends the future because president trump s margin of victory, say, in georgia was much smaller than you imagine it was. in fact, it was closer in georgia than it was in ohio. so georgia may be the new ohio. we talk about ohio as the main presidential bellwether, it may be georgia. the
state kansas secretary of state chris covac has been running which has been proven to have a disproportionate affect on african americans and latino voters inaccurately but nevertheless disproporlt atel because of the kind of names that are likely to show up in the database. so everything about this commission, 9 formation of it, the membership, the plans for the commission, all of it leads to one conclusion, that this is created to do the work that the piecemeal cases that we have been winning in federal court, by county way ro voter suppression, on photo id, it s ziepd to take all of that piecemeal work and to combine it and put it together into one national platform that voter suppressers can draw to on to continue their efforts through voter purjz, intimidation and other means. this is sort of a reconfiguration of what happened during the bush administration when multiple attorneys were fired. this is sort of their dream come
claim that widespread in person voter fraud happens in this country, and it s a claim that has been perpetuate by the vice chair of the commission who you just played, kansas secretary chris covac and also by other members of this commission, jay christian adams. these are all people who have perpetuate the meth of voter fraud without any evidence of inperson widespread voter fraud. and 50e6 of them in turn premised that on the idea that none citizens is voting. that is code for la teen owes who are not citizens are voting. during the campaign then candidate trump and then later even after the election, trump and his spokes persons continued to talk about none citizens voting, ill leels they called them and attributed some of hillary clinton s vote to ill leels. but you also heard candidate trump talking about urban areas. he said specifically in october watch philadelphia, watch chicago, watch st. louis.