Jamie raskin umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. My illness won today. Look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. Umm, so, he didnt have anything in there about take some time off. laughs and, uh. Crowd usa usa usa usa jamie raskin why is america such an extraordinary country . We are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. Were unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. It is an aspiration. Its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt be some kind of fetish document. It should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. That is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. That is the constitution that weve been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. Crowd trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump Cr
jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum
we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. we did win this election. (audience cheering) we want all voting to stop. we don t want them to find any ballots at four o clock in the morning and add them to the list, okay? (crowd cheering) reporter: millions of votes still being counted, but the legal battle already under way. reporter: president trump and other republicans have filed more than thirty election fraud lawsuits, and judges keep throwing them out for lack of evidence. reporter: the president and his allies are casting doubt on the integrity of the election itself, fueling unfounded conspiracy theories of cheating and fraud- jamie raskin: the president is trying to stop the counting of tens of millions of ballots, and that obviously is an outrageous assault on democracy itself. we must stand by the popular vote and we must stand by the popular vote as it translates through our complicated electoral college system. there were all
jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum
american constitutional democracy will prevail. we have no choice. we were absolutely resolved that we would not allow this to be a permanent break. if we actually let a day go by or two days go by, who knows what could have taken place? the president might have declared martial law. everything could have been lost at that point. woman: get him the fuck out of here before he starts more shit. (crowd yelling indistinctly) jamie raskin: we are gonna go forward. if we ve got to stay here all night, we re gonna go forward if we ve got to stay here all day tomorrow, we re gonna go forward and the next day. we are going to complete the counting of the electoral college votes, as called for by the constitution of the united states. the unknown is not empty. it s a storm that crashes, and consumes,