telling you about. more important than predicted polls is what people are already doing. 32 million people have now voted. this is election week like we told you it would be. it outpaces the early vote number at the same point in the mid-terms of the trump era. president biden delivered an address on the high stakes amidst the maga supporters. not all but some republicans have done to their great disgrace, minimize or joke about an attempted murder at the home of the speaker of the house. this is the era we are living through. this is where i update you about the vote, i have to tell you as part of the news that the husband of the speaker of the house is out of the hospital tonight after the attempted murder now charged at the state and federal level. meanwhile, more information also emerging about republican efforts that many people warn are main lining violence, that go beyond political speech or the zealous political speech. quote, be ready to do hand-to-hand combat with t
united states refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. he refuses to accept the will of the people. he refuses to accept the fact that he lost. he has abused his power and put the loyalty to himself before loyalty to the constitution. a typical year, we re often not faced with questions of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put us at risk. but this year, we are. and the last standard bearer of the democratic party, president barack obama campaigning in arizona, the state that perhaps any other battleground state has been roiled by the big lay with election deniers on the republican side picked up on the same themes, laying out for his audience, the stakes in this election this way. i lost my first congressional race in the primary by 30 points. i got whooped. i was frustrated. that didn t feel good. you know what i didn t do? i didn t claim the election was rigged. i didn t spin conspiracy theories. i didn t instigate a mob to go up on and stor