an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e
have to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. she has made plain there will be no pivot to the middle if she makes it to the fall campaign. i don t know where the middle is from where she starts, but, you know, you take sort of your body of reporting of what the republican party has pushed in the wake of the 2020 election defeat, and it wasn t an examination of how they lost, it was rewriting and rigging the rules to sort of go along with this fake reality that to them has become all the more real. she seems the embodiment of that national post big lie political wave. well, she actually did it herself, if you go back to her original race for congress, she lost by 20 points. it was a significant loss in a district that no one thought she would have had a chance to win. it was a safe democratic district. but she went knocking door to
schiff is, of our chances next year. i think we lost a lot of seats because of the straight ballot voting. the people that came out and voted straight ticket republican won t come out in the same numbers. i feel pretty good about that. we ll keep my seat and i ll be happy about that as well. and i ll be working hard to make sure that s a sure thing. you said, we re going to keep my seat. one, you re in a safe democratic district, but also the possibility of your son running to secede you. i ll ask you about that another anytime. john yarmouth, thank you very much for coming back to the sunday show. coming up, i m catching up with democratic nominee for virginia governor terry mcauliffe who s out on the campaign trail this morning with stacey abrams. stay with us. this morning with stacey abrams. stay with us
over in montana, you may remember this state attorney general who we had on the show the other day about his fight against citizens united. a fight that s going to the united states supreme court. he, steve bullock is considered likely to win the democratic e primary for governor. polls close there at the top of the hour in montana. it s a read state that s happy with its blue governor. in new jersey, it s democratic congressman versus democratic congressman. they are both democrats. they are both incumbents and the district they are fighting over is considered to be a safe democratic district. polls closed in new jersey at
be more liberal than the one that you have now because the liberal members by and large come from safe democratic district, they are going to stay around and win. the guys in peril are the moderates to conservatives. jon: is part of the problem for them the fact that they have the d in front of their anytime and this is an election where voters are saying they want everybody but the party in power. sure, the midterm seems to be the refer refer dumb on the party in power. that seems to be what happens in these cases. these people in many cases are lawmakers who have won in 2006 and 2008. they came in when the democrats were pushing out marginal republicans. they are not deeply rooted in their district. they are value in a rabl, they are not really established lawmakers. these are the people that rob emanuel brought in and rode in