long as i count the votes, what you re gonna do about it? that certainly sounds familiar. you ll remember when donald trump asked georgia secretary of state to just find him 11,780 votes to overturn joe biden s win in that crucial state. of course, raffensperger thankfully refused, so trump has since endorsed his challenger. along with many other far-right secretary of state candidates around the country who plan on doing his bidding come 2024. they plan on counting the votes for him. he is, as shane goldmacher puts it, aggressively pursuing an agenda of vengeance against republicans who are wrong them, and we re seeing more than 150 candidates nationwide, and turning the 2022 primaries to a stress test of his way. for example, last week trump issued this anti endorsement telling pennsylvanians to not
vote for republican bill swayne for governor. that is in retaliation for mcswain us trump said, doing absolutely nothing as u.s. attorney general of the massive election fraud that took place and philadelphia and throughout the commonwealth. of course, there was no massive thrall frauds. but perhaps, the best demonstration of donald trump s mar-a-lago machine comes from for the parade of republicans who make the pilgrimage to palm beach because their leaders ring and begging for assistance. goldmacher paints the picture, quote, working from a large win this government of the when he was in the oval office, trump has transformed mar-a-lago s old bridal suite into a shadow gop headquarters. and the ex president has amassed more than 100 and $20 million, a war chest more than double of the republican national committee itself. which she goals out stingy and lead to candidacy king s approval. some of those candidates even pay to attend mar-a-lago fund-raisers for others, clamoring for a fl
gone. nobody is talking about it anymore. but it is not just mike lee who has disappeared from our headlines, donald trump jr. texting meadows a strategy to overturn the election, and ginni thomas the wife of supreme court clarence thomas to overturn the election as mark meadows himself being investigated for possible voter fraud, there s trump s son in law church kushner getting what looks like a two billion dollar kickback from the saudis. north carolina accusing his congressional colleagues of attending coke fueled orgies, and never taking the accusation back. those republican members of congress marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar of holocaust deniers. not even a slap on the wrist from their party leadership. the republican congressman of nebraska resigning after being convicted of lying to the fbi about foreign money given to his campaign fund. i mean look, this is an almost endless list. i could go on, and, on and on. and all of these stories
being accused of advancing critical race theory. and from the congressman who resigned after a felony indictment to the utah senator who helped trump overturn that election, how republicans get away with nonstop scandals by just flooding the zone. when all in starts now. good evening from washington d. c., i m mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. nearly seven years ago, donald trump entered the race for president. he came down that gold escalator a trump tower and proceeded to defeat 16 eminently qualified candidates, including senators, governors, and even the brother and son of a president. he read them all and took over the republican party. and then his presidency was a total car crash. he led republicans to defeat in the house in 2018. and then lost the senate on the presidency in 2020, making him the first president to lose all three in a single term since herbert hoover in 1932. now, you would think that after all of that, the republican
mike lee stuff is a big deal. i was pretty shocked by the republican senator from texas who was texting with chip roy, the congressman. yeah, chip roy, but i was even more shocked by these mike lee text because i had read some stuff about it, but i was super surprised and how he was involved, and trying to get sydney powell involved. sydney powell s thought of as pretty and he was the one who was pushing sydney powell and trump. so these text messages are pretty disturbing. and also, he is up for reelection, mike lee is up for reelection in 2022. so, molly, what do you think is the solution to this lack of coverage, this inability to stay focused on these gop stories of corruption and scandal? as i said, part of me thinks democrats need to go on the attack more, because if democrats didn t move on from mike lee or jenny thompson and kept talking about them and be much harder for the media to move on. right, that is for sure. you see that, republicans and