the few republican presidential candidates willing to be opening late critical of donald trump. his line of attack as you saw there is that trump is a losing loser that will probably lose again the next time. with the second indictment and revelation of the audio recording from bedminster, trump preparing to waive around classified materials openly, the category of people making that same point is growing ever so slightly. how do you explain to your supporters and you re donors that since your campaign has launched, you ve dropped nine points? two things. one, i think that if you look at the swing states, biden beats trump in the swing state, and i beat biden handedly in the swing states. that s ultimately the election right there. who s going to win georgia, arizona, obviously i will win florida if i m the candidate of texas. you ve got to be able to do that. if you don t have a path to do that, then nominating does not make sense. even house speaker kevin mccarthy, who rushed t
officials or crucially state courts say. all we are demanding of vice president pence is this afternoon at 1:00 he let the legislatures of the state look into this so we get to the bottom of it and the american people know whether we have control of the direction of our government or not. [applause] this is bigger than president trump. it s a very essence of our republican form of government. and it has to be done. anybody that is not willing to stand up to do it does not deserve to be in the office. it is that simple. that was the speech at the ellipse before an angry mob went to the capital and batched a bunch of cops brains in. the insurrection on january 6th failed in its goals to subvert democracy.
contain, at its core, an idea that was central to the donald trump s scheme to overturn the 2020 elections. the question of whether state legislatures can do whatever they want in elections, up to and including simply appointing electors to the preferred candidate, even if the citizens of their state vote the other way. trump s lawyers push the idea that republican legislators in all kinds of states could simply ignore the will of the people in states that voted for joe biden and opted instead to send their own fake electors, trump electors, to congress. it was fake electors in seven swing states, arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, new mexico, a nevada, in coordination with the trump campaign sought to overthrow the election results. trump s lawyer john eastman, along with others, actively lobbied for and push this idea across multiple states, trying, in fact, to get state legislatures to abandon their core democratic duty and choose, instead, a path to crown trump king, essenti
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more than entitled to weigh in on whether congress is properly acting within its authority. so it would have been an odd judicial stripping position for a supreme court like that authority to have taken, number one. but number two, it would have undone all of our expectations about how democracy works in this country. we understand there are statutes in constitutions and the constitution s trump the statutes. our intro focused on the most extreme version of this. the plenary power of the state legislature saying we re giving our elections to this other guy. but the more common application of this is whether state courts can strike down what they view as gerrymanders the violate state constitutions. you say the democracy docket is currently tracking 25 cases that bring under constitution state law, seven which challenge congressional maps and challenge procedures. under understate constitution administration of elections or maps, they are now preserved, thanks to this rule. yeah