abortion, as texans head to the polls. and news tonight the january six committee will only hold six public hearings next month. committee member, jamie raskin, i ll ask him about that. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. or just 11 hours away from polls opening in tomorrow s crucial primary electorate in georgia. and the two marquee races that republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. to trump back candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex presidents 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. b
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
there. giuliani s claims, mostly left out at the state. is legal challenges the election went towards. trump again working on it another scheme, again, all georgia focused, right? on december 28th, few weeks after those hearings, but then acting chief of the department of justice s civil division, remember jeffrey clark, he s plotting to have trump installed him as the acting attorney general, so that once in power, he can release a memo, using the official letter had, and applied legitimacy of the doj, to say that we re election regularity s in georgia, as well as a number of other states, and you authorized a legislature to call itself into session for, to throw biden s victory. had that plan succeeded, it would have cost a full blown constitutional crisis. i mean, it s really hard to overstate the damage that would be done to our democracy, for the attorney general, department of justice, to falsely claim there was election fraud, and say, hey, georgia you should know. you guys shou
and applied legitimacy of the doj, to say that we re election regularity s in georgia, as well as a number of other states, and you authorized a legislature to call itself into session for, to throw biden s victory. had that plan succeeded, it would have cost a full blown constitutional crisis. i mean, it s really hard to overstate the damage that would be done to our democracy, for the attorney general, department of justice, to falsely claim there was election fraud, and say, hey, georgia you should know. you guys should call special election, because we just can t say what happened. calling for legislators to go rogue and overturn the election. now, thankfully, the folks, the highest level of the department of justice, understood this. and they threatened mass resignations, trump backed down. but that was another failed