friday because he took it all back in the national review. but it was too good to be true. do you know who lauren windsor is? lauren winter is an activist, a guerrilla journalist, who in recent months has been turning republicans inside out. the new york times actually profiled her a couple weekends ago under this headline, the liberal advocacy who target republicans with a maga masquerade. pretending to be like-minded, she has generated headlines by coaxing statements about their views. lauren windsor has been before january 6th actually published the first evidence that republican senators were going to be part of the spines of get the electoral votes rejected. it s one thing for to happen in the house, it s a much more serious thing constitutionally for it to happen in both the house and the senate, and it was lauren winter who first showed us the evidence that it
some ways, he s actually privileged over other election workers, who don t have the kinds of protections that he has as an elected official, it does feel unrelenting, and it does feel like there is no help coming. katie hobbs, this isn t one of the things she said. she got a voice mail. she s the secretary of state, the woman you featured from arizona. i am a hunter and i think you should be hunted, you will never be safe in arizona again. wade henderson a civil rights, leader talked about the effect this has had in african american communities. this is country wide, we even have a conservative secretary of state, you heard from him. at least focusing on the facts that we are basically losing election workers. our job, protect and defend the constitution. to me it means it s time to pass the freedom to vote act. you rightfully pointed out that republicans have blocked it, but we must bring it up again.
republicans are a party your committee today could not help but have been moved by some of these testimonials today both from democrats and republicans who testified. is there any appetite among them to try to fix this, to try to protect these folks in some other way? even if for some other reason they re not willing to sign on to a legislation that includes voting rights. will they at least talk about this, talk about solutions to this? in a narrow way. in a way that would just be about protecting, providing federal protection for people who are threatened for doing his public service? i hope so. but we have so many other issues that we were dealing with an elections with. over 400 election suppression bills that have been introduced over the country over 30 have passed it was in one of those hearings were i just held it and he grudgingly came. he issued a strong statement ahead of the hearing. i m going to continue to pursue. that right now, there is one
today s hearing was presided over by the chair the rules committee, minnesota senator amy klobuchar. she made it clear growing threats to election officials demand a federal response. we have seen an effort to mount a federal response. democrats proposed one in the freedom to vote act. which among other things would ve created enhanced protections for election officials. that bill was voted down by senate republicans last week. they would not even agreed to allow debate on it. we know what the threat is. what is the way to address the threat? if republicans stand unified, against even trying to. joining us now is the chair of the senate rules committee, amy klobuchar. senator it s great to see you. thanks for making time to be with us tonight. thanks rachel. could i just first thank you for you know how much is going on in washington, today this, week this month, and i was afraid it was going to get forgotten honestly. those people that came forward,
have a real shot at winning. this is becoming a story that s not just about virginia, this is a story potentially about the 2022 midterm election, and really about two different theories. one from democrats, one from republicans, about what could motivate voters in 2022. let me show you what i mean. using virginia as sort of the laboratory here for this experiment, biden won this thing by ten points last year. democrats over the last 20 years or so have been getting stronger and stronger in virginia making it a blue state. the biggest reason the democrats have had so much success lately in virginia, why biden was able to win by ten points here, the suburbs around washington d.c., the d.c. metro area, the suburbs around richmond in general. these are areas that were republican and until a few years ago and they have flipped to the democrats, and gone heavy to the democrats, especially in the trump era. republicans lost a ton of