electoral fire wall. if they can win, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin their path to 270 electoral votes was pretty secure and was their path to the white house. hillary clinton lost all these three blue wall states in 2016. only for joe biden to narrowly flip them back last year. they were key to both trump and biden s electoral victory. they will play the same role in 2024. these state vs taken on a new stance as a new firewall. the feeling among democrats is they need to make sure to hold onto these governor chip s because if they do not, a republican governor will enable a coup in 2024. there is real concern about the powerful pro-coup anti-democracy in these states. in a presidential election, empowered state republicans do things like invalidate results to show a democratic candidate
the one who is were heroic on that day. what do you make of the fact we have six police officers, six capitol police officers who can face discipline for taking the wrong side. this includes the guy who took the selfie with some of these insurrectionists, refusing and failure to comply with directive, improper remarks and dissemination of information to get to members of congress. my dad is a cop and my two brothers walk the beat every night. it really concerns me. we need to know that there is no inside threat because we already have an inside threat from the pro-coup, pro-insurrectionist
republican side, or the fact that toyota had, on their payroll, someone capable of coming up with that one-sentence response? well, i put out some bad statements back in my pr days, brian, but i don t know about pro coup and pro right to work. we ll call it even. i don t think i ever put one out that was quite that bad. here s what s happening. i think in this country companies have a right to support candidates they think support their causes. i think rightly speaking, most of corporate america saw what happened on january 6 and said, this is a step too far. no matter what we think on this whole slate of other issues, if we don t have a functioning democracy and a functioning republic, this isn t going to work for anybody, so we need to safeguard our democratic norms and i think they acted as such. the other nice thing about america is if one of these companies don t decide they want
kill a democracy because if those who are in power are silent this normalizes it. the great senator daniel patrick moynihan described this as describing a deviant done. people like kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell, people who are not calling for a coup, by not criticizing it the way liz cheney and others have in your view, they are trying to straddle both the pro-coup and the anti-coupe worlds which is dangerous in your view. it s rare for anti-democrats to have a majority of the vote. the way that electoral aultocrats get to power though is by working with the establishment or a key segment of this establishment who think that they can ride a dem going or an outsider to per. we saw this in 2016 and we re seeing evidence of it once now. flynn streams have made these comments at this event attend aed by qanon conspiracy theorists and believers in the