morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in
election in 2024. according to reporting s of republican party operatives this was a change where political, it includes a multi pawn strategy. first they have poll watchers to challenge voters on election day, then tracking objections on a special website so that maga lawmakers can intervene to try to block a vote counts and democratic or people of those of color. they are doing all this while crying about voter fraud on the other side. the rnc says that it is going to rectify and balance in favor of democratic election voters in a large urban areas. we hear you. we know it irvine. means do not be fooled. if you ve been paying attention we know this is coming. everyone who glanced preserve democracy should pay extra close attention. this plan to subvert the election should not come as an election surprise. they lost in 2020. they know the policies are trash. they know that they cannot win election on merits. it sure looks like this point it is going to cheat. they are going
needle, or trying to move the needle, in her favor to beat and convince ended and marco rubio. less so the candidate for governor of maryland. he ll join me in studio. we ll talk to him about a bunch of issues including about how he defines patriotism, which is striking compared to his trump best opponent. and one more thing, john colby will be joining us to talk about threats from abroad and we ll take a break from politics and talk to actors wendell pierson sharon d. clarke about the groundbreaking production of the classic death of a salesman. with an all-black cast. it will be an amazing show. i love the new introduced purloined to us. i don t use that word often on velshi, but now i m going to start. jonathan, good to see my friend. the sunday show it jonathan kaye starts at 10 am. we re coming right back. e coming right back. what will you change? will you make something better? will you create something entirely new?
i m topped off? no. it ain t like that. look, ponds man, in the game, they get tapped quickly. they be out of the game early. unless they have some smartest ponce. there must be some smartest pawns. bode was so brilliant. if you can wendell, do you have a favorite episode? a favorite season? something that really spoke to you as an actor? my favorite season was the fourth season because it really spoke to how and where and when we as a society lose our youth. we see solutions given, and it is such a canary in the mind, this entire series for me was like a canary in the mine. it was such a cautionary tale for american society as a whole.
those boys can really grab. my father had me on the string, but like any young man, i want to be hard also, so i showed up to all the house parties with a tough voice hong. they knew i wasn t one of them. the mom cases would come up me and say, go home boy you do not belong here. wendell, that scene, it still resonates. and so many of us, we know the people you are talking about. david, you wrote about it for the baltimore sun. wendell, so many of us who live that life, we knew the people on the corner who is saying get out of, here go home, go to school, be a good guy, and didn t know what they were doing. just tell me how you reflect on playing that character 20 years ago and what we are seeing