them can be an infringement on the people s right to choose their elected officials. together, they re a nightmare for democracy. we re back with betsy woodruff swan and hayes brown. hayes, when you zoom out and argue the gop is doing three main things. redrawing the borders of the battleground states, making the electorates smaller, throwing out results they don t like, they have always done the first two, they just used to do them on the dl. how is their transparency about what it is they re doing and how they re doing it change the way democrats respond? this is donald trump s greatest gift to the republican party, the idea that the base doesn t care about democracy, they care about winning and having their guy in office. so his big lie after the election that he actually won, that biden had somewhat manipulated the country and he was an illegitimate president, that idea has taken root inside the republican party. republican leadership is unwilling to push back on that.
elections, altogether. again, that reporting today from linda sow at at reuters. i mean, this is the stuff of nightmares, right? nightmare for election officials and poll workers, a nightmare for democracy. and these are the people who make democracy function. right? these are the people, who like check you in when you show up to vote and make sure that if you have any problem, you have somebody to ask for help and make sure you get to the right precinct, right? anytime you every show up to vote in person, it s usually elderly folks, kind of church ladies and stuff who do this sort of thing. those are the people, who are now being are now the subject of death threats and conspiracy theories. by trump supporters. trying to intimidate them out of doing their jobs. trying to blame things on them, that they have absolutely nothing to do with. you can t not have a functioning democracy, if running elections or staffing the polling sites means taking your life into your own hands. and it