president trump launched a new attack on it today as he trails joe biden in the polls. president trump: they re gonna be sending out 80 million ballots. where are they going? who are they sending them to? they re trying to rig this election. reporter: the president s failure to address the pandemic continues to hurt him in poll after poll. asked if he would accept the election results, the president said, i ll have to see. president trump: the only way we re gonna lose this election is if the election is rigged. remember that. it s the only way we re gonna lose this election, so we have to be very careful. jamie raskin: my friends, we ve got some hard days ahead of us, don t we? we really do. we got some hard days ahead of us, but we are battle tested and we are ready. we are preparing for an epic landslide victory for democracy in 45 days. get ready for it! (crowd applauding) we don t have, believe it or not,
we were a slave republic of white male property owners over the age of 21. but it s been through these successive movements for democratic enlargement that the constitution has become better and we ve become a more perfect union. a great marylander, frederick douglass said, if there is no struggle, there is no progress. power concedes nothing without a demand. it never has, and it never will. (crowd cheering) thank you for organizing. black lives matter! man: black lives matter! woman: black lives! crowd: matter! woman: thank you so much. reporter: not only may this actually be the most important election in our lifetime, it certainly will be the most unusual. reporter: states across the country are turning to mail-in voting in this election in an effort to allow americans to vote safely during the pandemic. holt: while most americans support the option of mail-in balloting, president trump launched a new attack on it today
we were a slave republic of white male property owners over the age of 21. it s been through these successive movements for democratic enlargement that the constitution has become better and we ve become a more perfect union. a great marylander frederick douglass said, if there is no struggle there is no progress. power concedes nothing without a demand. it never has and it never will. thank you for org. black lives matter. thank you for organizing. black lives matter. not only may this be the most important election in our lifetime it certainly will be the most unusual. states across the country are turning to mail-in voting in this election in an effort to allow americans to vote safely during the pandemic. while most americans support the option of mail-in balloting,
transpired in georgia when you said you had election officials overruling state officials and saying we ll keep the ballot open to allow universal access and mail-in balloting. at the same time the constitution is clear what that process is. you re afforded a chance to challenge, you re afforded a chance to bring legal challenges, but at the time of the electoral college meeting on december 14th, at that point the process is concluded. that s why the constitution wanted the states the ability to certify elections and not for the federal government. it s very clear, in fact, in the federalist papers. they warned about the threat of a federal government having that sort of authority. do you believe joe biden was a legitimately elected president? i believe joe biden is duly elected president of the united states, yes. i think there was significant concerns about the process of that election that s going to create a cloud, but i think, chuck, at the same time, to your point, the campai
we were a slave republic of white male property owners over the age of 21. but it s been through these successive movements for democratic enlargement that the constitution has become better and we ve become a more perfect union. a great marylander, frederick douglass said, if there is no struggle, there is no progress. power concedes nothing without a demand. it never has, and it never will. (crowd cheering) thank you for organizing. black lives matter! man: black lives matter! woman: black lives! crowd: matter! woman: thank you so much. reporter: not only may this actually be the most important election in our lifetime, it certainly will be the most unusual. reporter: states across the country are turning to mail-in voting in this election in an effort to allow americans to vote safely during the pandemic. holt: while most americans support the option of mail-in balloting,