this hour in our country s history stands in contrast to a republican party devoid of an agenda, other than serving a disgraced twice impeached ex-president who tried to overturn and steal the results of the 2020 election. president biden described the 2022 election has a, quote, defining moment for the country, denouncing the gop s embrace of rhetoric that all too often has resulted in or coincided with violence, most recently with the attack on speaker pelosi s husband paul pelosi and his democratic predecessor president barack obama used his talent as a speaker, as a message deliver, as a leader, and lent his credibility as a popular two-term president to that message that democrats are right now the only ones, the only party, that believes in democracy and fundamental american values. it was something. watch. what we have to remind ourselves is that there s this common thread, there s this thing that binds us together as americans, a belief that no matter who we are or
quasi-lawyers spouting falsehoods about the election on tv and in court. he s now got the weight of one of our major political parties and many people out in the states behind him. as the gop has demonstrated for the last two years, it s more than complicity, as marc said to us, to the ex-president s unsubstantiated and completely debunked claims about election fraud. there s new reporting in the washington post that shows how republican officials in battleground states have taken to the courts to go after one of trump s biggest targets. that s the mail-in vote. the post reports this. in pennsylvania the state supreme court has agreed with the republican national committee that election officials should not count ballots on which the voter neglected to put a date on the outer envelope even in cases when the ballots arrive before election day. thousands of ballots have been set aside as a result, enough to swing a close race. in michigan christina karamo, the republican nominee fo
yeah. so there are still a lot left on the table. so we ll have to wait basically wait and see what occurs. but look, there are still a number of states. florida, north carolina, ohio, pennsylvania, are the big ones you can see here, 28 seats, 24, 15, 17 and you ll notice here, that s a lot of supreme court action that s going on. so in basically in north carolina ohio, state supreme court blocked those and then right here in pennsylvania the state supreme court chooses the final map. so a lot of court involved going on. especially in these two states. there could be huge swing one way or the other in terms of which way those seats go. i m going to change subjects completely. i like changing subjects with. the senate there are discussions about reforming the electoral count act and also we heard from vice president mike pence, the former vice president of the united states who said he did not have the power to unilaterally overturn the election. what s the public opinion on tha