sought to sort of corrupt the pentagon to steal voting machines has been a story that your organization and jon karl s and others have reported i think since early 2021. his intentions and efforts to corrupt the federal government have been known to republican members of the senate and house for years. that s not why we they some may not be so excited. will mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy be in the room at mar-a-lago? and is it just the losing that has him on the fence tonight? well, as you know well, mccarthy and mcconnell have been focused on their leadership elections and what s next for them. i don t anticipate either there will be at mar-a-lago tonight. the real question, whether there will be any republicans who speak out against this or are offering some sort of alternative. the republican party is having a feud, a reimagination of what
what i fear in the aftermath of 2022, even in the best case scenario where we have peace and we have voting, is will kevin mccarthy denounce the candidates who deny the outcome of the election? will mitch mcconnell tell republican senate candidates to concede rather than perpetuating false narratives? i doubt it. the rnc is not denouncing what the pillow salesmen are saying, what the steve bannons are saying, what the kari lakes are saying. they are embracing it. so it s more than complicit. they are part of it. it was haunting when he first said it friday. all the more haunting now one day before election day. hi again, everybody. it s 5:00 in new york. on friday at this hour voting rights attorney marc elias said that, told us about his concerns for these critical midterm elections, now just one day away. how donald trump is no longer just the sore loser he was in 2020 with his ragtag team of
calls earlier how are you feeling? what you watching tomorrow night? what are going to be your early indicators of what kind of night you re having? listen, i am so energetic right now. i m a little tired. we ve just been to 13 states in 14 days. just got back from wisconsin and i ll be back in d.c. tomorrow. but nicolle, i can tell you, our candidates are amazing. our candidates are better than theirs. our volunteers are even mitch mcconnell thinks so. exactly right. our volunteers are just blowing it off the roof in terms of door knocks and all. one of the things the lessons that i learn from 2020, you know i ran for the united states senate, we flooded the airwaves, but we did not have the ground game for close elections. that s why the dnc put $90 million on the ground. presidential turnout operations in many battleground states in comparison, we spend $30 million
invalidate all military ballots. i want you to think about that for the moment. thank you for your service and go buzz off. this would have been absolutely inconceiable even a few years ago that someone would be openly talking about disenfranchising large numbers of serving voters. and yet this is the environment that we re in right now. so we don t know just like, you know, if we had this conversation the day before the 2020 election and you asked me that same question, i would say yeah, we ought to be very, very concerned. and yet even then we had no idea the lengths they would go post-election. and i think we ought to have that same level of vigilance this time. you know, and donna, the other thing that s undeniable is you could argue, i suppose, if you re mitch mcconnell or kevin mccarthy that the decision to humor trump and let him lick his wounds by not acknowledging that