week. i saw it. and every other place that i go i will be talking about the fact that the republican party must once again be the party of truth. and if we do that then we have a chance to be a winning party again. and if we don t then we re going to be consigned to what happened to our lost the house, the senate, and the white house, the only other time it s happened in republican party history and we were out of the white house for 28 of the next 36 years. i don t want to see that happen to our country, and so that s why i m speaking out. and i can t be responsible for everybody else, nicolle. i hear you. i can be responsible for myself, and that s what i m doing by writing this book and by coming out and talking to you about it, even in a place that may not be i appreciate that and i think you are a straight shooter and that s why you re here. i just think if you care about the party, i think liz cheney cares about the party, i think you have to deal with the places that
penalizing its few members who dare to criticize trump s role, tell the truth about it and the insurrection, emboldening baseless election audits in more and more states across the country, even failing to condemn threats of violence against democratic members of congress. but luckily, for the sake of democracy, the patriots who spoke out in november of 2019, people like alexander vindman and fiona hill haven t retreated. today they are speaking out on the threat to democracy posed by a divided america and a radicalized far right. both vindman and hill are immigrants to the united states who have spent decades looking outward at democracy struggling or outright failing to thrive. they ve each spoken on this program about their alarm at what s become of their adopted country, the united states. i never thought i d be looking at the united states in the same way i looked at backsliding democracies somewhere else. i spent most of my time, my
deep has this lie gone. and of the 390 republicans who are running for statewide office in this next two-year cycle a third of them have either come out saying they believe the election was rigged or they ve bought into trump s lie about the election or they have sought to downplay or diminish what happened on january 6th. that s a third. and that includes, by the way, ten republicans who are seeking to be a secretary of state in their state. and that s an important job because those are the people who actually oversee the elections in those states. and it s not for us to i guess presuppose who actually believes what they re saying, but we know that at least for a moment in the aftermath of the horror, ashley, that kevin mccarthy saw the truth. mitch mcconnell saw the truth. but they backed away from the truth because of this dynamic phil s talking about. i think a full 78% of republicans do not believe that president joe biden legitimately won the election. and that is because of th
we know b.s. when we see it. and i think at least the people i m around, and yes, there are those who are very pro-trump and flying the flags and still, you know, singing the songs, but there are a lot of people who are just over it. and they just want somebody to tell them the truth. like in mccomb county, this swing county in michigan. you know, they were reagan democrats or biden republicans, and trump came through michigan in 2016 and promised these guys, these men and women of all races that we re going to get your job i m going to get you job back, that specific job that you lost, i m going to get it back. and he didn t do it. they voted for him. he didn t do it. he lied to them. and they don t like being lied to. so, michigan went biden. you know? they re just looking for somebody, a democrat, a republican, anybody who will tell them the truth. and make this world a better place for their kids and their
career, looking externally at how to help those countries. now i have to reshape my mind to help the united states harden democracy for the next time it s challenged, for the next time there s an authoritarian leadership because donald trump was not an effective authoritarian. he didn t have what it takes. he didn t have the capabilities to do that, but he did as much damage as he possibly could and he continues to do that damage. telling the truth should be a matter of course. and you know, the fact that the united states should be propagating lies and conspiracy theories, you know, for me, it s incredibly shocking. i never thought i would see this here in the united states. this is not the united states that i came to, and there are millions of other immigrants like me who feel the same way. many of my friends from countries that have been ripped apart by civil war, who came here because the united states stood for the truth and was a beacon of hope, the land of opportunity, they r