i am no lawyer, but it s worth noting that among the many provisions of the voting rights act is an explicit ban on intimidating people who are attempting to vote. the senior reporter is cornell belcher, democratic poll turned strategists with the inside in the future of the democratic party in the light of tuesday s ongoing election shenanigans, he joins me now. let me start with you, ari berman, on the descendants announcement which outlet level is a stunt. but another really strikes me as essentially intimidation. saying, we re going to make a example of the first person caught,. it s saying we re going to try and senate siege to make people scared of voting. exactly. it is just the further weaponization of the big lie. remember, desantis already signed a sweeping voter suppression bill as an exclusive on fox and friends. so they already made it harder
0 had a bad in court. plus, the predictable freak out as the biden administration finally releases vaccine guidelines inside the company, as the world on climate for scotland. a major solution may already exist in a metal box in iceland. when all in starts right now. i good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, on the night of the virginia gubernatorial election. votes are coming in, the field former president the united states leaves a statement, quote, all eyes on by the delay, trump was talking about fairfax county of course the most popular county in the state of virginia. we know, what he was doing. it s been five years driving conspiracy theories about voter fraud and there have been very real consequences that play out day by day by the sham on it in arizona, that was totally bogus and hilariously found joe biden actually won more votes than allegedly believed. to the current republican scheme to collect every voter in the state personal information, to order some proof th
the big lie itself is on the ballot in 2022 and american politics as we know it could depend on next year s midterms. the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump has become fuel for republicans looking to run for office next year from u.s. congress all the way down to state legislative seats, but particularly with republicans running for secretary of state roles, a position that oversees elections in many states. joining me now is josh shapiro, the attorney general for the state of pennsylvania. he just announced his run for governor of the state. attorney general, good to see you. there s a specific reason good to see you. we have been talking about election shenanigans in arizona, in texas, in georgia, in michigan. pennsylvania is interesting because your republican
instead they sent a clown car after him of the and now it may be an ambulance. in other words, gavin newsom you think about scott walker in wisconsin. he survived a tough recall and he became presidential candidate. gavin newsom, you talk about the ups and the downs. if in fact gavin newsom winds up being where he may be, because he made this about texas and florida, he s saying i am gavin newsom, i am doing better in my state than texas and florida. he s becoming a real figure now. so i think what s ironic is that people the republican party thought they had this guy. they may have actually made this guy. right. and to anderson s point, though, on the election trutherism, i think now tonight we have to see if elder loses what he does and what he says because before this before he first said joe biden was fairly elected. then he sort of took it back. now he s talking about election shenanigans, right? so what is elder going to say if he loses?
election returns turned off, and then started showing the elder signs. that s when the mood shifted. the big question, of course, was whether larry elder was going to concede the election or continue to make baseless claims of possible election fraud. he has mentioned, quote, unquote, election shenanigans in the lead-up to the election. but he did come out speaking to his supporters, acknowledging the loss. take a listen. my opponent, governor gavin newsom [ crowd booing ] come on. let s let s be gracious. let s be gracious in defeat. and by the way, we may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war. reporter: larry elder then went on to recycle his campaign stump speech, talking about the issues that were important to conservative republican from california issues like homelessness, crime, school