in the case of ghost candidates, and areas like the villages where there seems to be a scandal where folks voted twice, and these are taking place to benefit republican candidates and hold on to republican power, and if anything this kind of strange gestapo type we are going to enforce the elections going forward with the new funding governor desantis put in place puts an ominous quality on that. in florida there has been, so far, a sense of impunity and immunity for those republicans and those republicans tied to interest that are behind the issues in florida. it s just one piece of this, and you have florida republicans working to undermine democracy through restrictive voting bills and touting trump s big lie. how do all of the factors work
against andrew gillum by a quarter of a percentage. these races we are looking at, josé rodriguez, who was a champion for clean energy, and he lost that race by 32 votes. their ghost candidates strategy, it had a difference in the election. they will stop at nothing to maintain their hold on power. i want to look back to a point that furnan made about the absence of accountability here. is there any appetite for that on that, and is there effort to safeguard and put safeguards in place so you don t see most ghost candidates popping up in future elections? in the florida legislate
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discomfort. this is this is the ultimate in voter suppression tactics. we have, for example, the miami-dade state attorney investigating actual fraud committed by republicans in our states when they put in ghost candidates that had similar names to try to confuse voters, and it likely swung several state senate races. and there have been arrests made, and diet indictments issued, including to a former state senator. that is handling, and should be, by our local state attorneys. and this is nothing more than an additional, very aggressive, frightening voter suppression tactic, to stop black and blown people, disabled people from coming to the polls. it s a solution, a terrible one in search of a problem, and it s a dangerous, dangerous tactic to start using when it comes to letting people freely and fairly cast their ballot. congresswoman, i ve got to be quick here with you, that said,
omicron comes around? how are we going to prepare because i would say this time we were caught behind, and we don t need to be caught behind. we need to make sure that, yes, everyone should have high-quality masks. everyone should be able to access rapid testing. but what are we going to do policy-wise in terms of keeping americans safe on a local, state, and federal level that we haven t been doing? and that s the reason why, you know, the u.s. is an outlier. we have such a tremendous number of deaths due to covid-19, and that s what we need to be thinking about right now. all right. dr. uche blackstock, as always, thank you for your time and for your expertise. next, florida republicans push a bill that would shield people from discomfort over teaching unflattering parts of u.s. history. a state senator joins me next to talk about it. and later, inside florida s dark money scandal. who is funding ghost candidates and why they re dangerous to our democracy. but first, a previe