Penalties will tell you more about that in a second. Plus, with just over six weeks until Election Day, a controversial new rule from Georgia Republicans about Hand Counting balance, despite warnings for Election Officials, Poll Workers, and even some of the states republican officials. But leading this hour, the fallout spills into a second day after cnn uncovered disturbing and inflammatory comments by the republican gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina. Cnns kfile found lieutenant Governor Mark robinsons posts on a Porn Hungerfree Message board for more than a decade ago before he entered politics, robinson called himself on that board, a black nazi, whatever that is, and expressed support for reinstating slavery, even buying a few slaves himself now robinson is ignoring multiple calls for him to drop out of the race. He insists hes not the one behind the posts republicans are voicing concerns that this scandal could impact other candidates in the state. Lets go straight to cnns
the national news. as luck would have it, we brought you the story for the first time a week ago at this time. it s a story out of new mexico. just tonight as we are getting on the air, there is a major development in that story tonight and it is a shocking one. i imagine given these new developments in the story, this will not be the only place you will be hearing about this over the next several days. all right, what we were able to tell you last week is news of a spate of recent shootings that had targeted the homes and offices of at least a half dozen elected officials in new mexico, all of them members of the democratic party. no one was injured in these shootings. these shootings hit buildings, not people. but they apparently had all been targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. so just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to some county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s
targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s newly elected democratic attorney general. then we learned that there is also been an additional shooting at the house of the incoming speaker of the new mexico state legislature. we have since learned some additional details about the shootings targeting individual democratic politicians. it is alarming, it is not an individual pot shot here in there. for example, on december 4th, it was a shots that were fired into a home of one democratic count county commissioner in new mexico. that was december 4th. then on december 11th, it was 12 bullets that were fired into the home of a county commissioner, again, this is all in new mexico, all democrats. december 4th at one politicians home, he s a county commissioner, a shots fired into his home. a week l
i mean it s an extraordinary thing. so if you have a policy of no enemies on the right, you are going to get people entering into public office and entering into political campaigns who behave in such ways. when you say no enemies on the right, do you mean that s the internal dynamic within republican circles as pertains to extreextremism? well, that was donald trump s attitude. essentially if you were willing to support trump, it didn t make any difference if you were a holocaust revisionist, if you were marching in charlottesville, if you were a liar, a cheat, a swindler, what have you. and when kevin mccarthy decided to embrace trumpism, he by definition embraced that credo too. the chickens are coming home to roost with people like george santos and lauren boebert and this guy in new mexico. i mean a political party has got to be big and a big tent, but it
like george santos, or lauren boebert, or salomon pena in new mexico, on as actual republican nominees for congress. it s an extraordinary thing. so, if you have a policy of no enemies on the rights, you are going to get people entering into public office, and entering into political campaigns who behave in such ways. when you say no enemies on the right, do you mean that s the internal dynamic then republican circles as it pertains to extremism? that was donald trump s attitude, essentially if you are willing to support trump, and then make any difference if you were a holocaust revisionist, if you are marching in charlottesville, if you are a liar, and she, a swindler, what have you. and when kevin mccarthy decided to embrace trumpism, he d by definition embrace that credo, as well. and the chickens are coming home to roost, with people like george santos, and lauren boebert, and this guy in new