the last decade have been inherent in texas. they re taking, it bryant, literally to the doorstep of president biden. i think it s the last couple of months as we ve seen all of these voting restriction bills across the country buried their way through the political system. we ve kept them in a way separate from what s been going on in washington. or would it rather the lack of what it s happening. but we saw the confluence of what is happening in a different state capitals across the country and what needs to happen at the federal level. and whether we like it or not, what s happening at our state level is intertwined with the federal level. and no other moment has the fact that the protections of section four and section five of the voting right act being gone as of this moment. but i do think there is a positive bent here. i think, at the end of the day. the republicans in texas to have the upper hand. and governor abbott is going to
the first to observe that it is evidently okay to leave texas if you are a texas politician if you have a little wheelie bag and a boarding pass that says cancun. others have made that point tonight on social media. i will ask you this. what can texas democrats teach senate democrats in washington perhaps? it is bringing the issue here at home in texas in terms of the restricting voting rights that we have seen over the last decade happening here in texas, and they re taking it, brian, literally to the doorstep of president biden. you know, i think that for the last couple of months as we have seen all of these different voting restriction bills across the country weave their way through the political system, we ve kept them in a way separate from what has been going on in washington, d.c., or rather the lack of what is happening. but i think tonight we really saw the confluence of what is happening in our different state capitals across the country and what needs to happen at the
the governor has followed suit in that as well. i would anticipate that if this state senator actually goes forward and issued a subpoena that would be litigated and i m confident that we would win that litigation and protect the taxpayers of pennsylvania who at the end of the day would not only suffer enormous privacy losses but millions of dollars in cost. so there is an m.o. here. it is former president trump s m.o. you make the false accusation and use that to back new voting restrictions. we ve seen that in a number of states and watching it play out in texas as we speak. do you expect the same to happen in pennsylvania? it is already happening in pennsylvania. you could draw a straight line between the initial lies from the president, the former president, pardon me, the litigation, more than 40 lawsuits here in pennsylvania, the big lie continuing, the violent insurrection on january 6, now all of the voting restriction bills that have been
joe manchin aside, cornell is right. this whole problem with the for the people act and dealing with all of the voting restriction bills passed around the country by state legislatures, by republicans, is that we really can t be looking at the vote passing. a lot of democratic messaging has been that we have to focus on the vote counting and how corruptible it will be with the passage of these bills. how partisan and potentially raided it will be. there is a talk of water bottles and how that disenfranchises voters, and that s true. they have made this corruptible and we might be looking at our last fair elections as a result. i think cornell is right, you have to alarm voters about this in that way. i agree with what you were told last week, just pass a different