plus, she was one of five people who died during the insurrection. tonight roseanne boylan s six-month descent into conspiracy theories and how she became an american radical. and new reporting on the number of people potentially exposed to covid during trump s deception and some really important news about why you need a booster shot, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a big development today in donald trump s ongoing quest to turn the republican party into a vehicle for his own authoritarian aspirations. of course, the former president continues to exert this power over the republican party with a litmus test he created for republican politicians after his ignominious defeat. and the question, the single question they must answer is did they support his attempted coup? and would they support a coup in the future? and if the answer is no to either question, they re in trouble. we re seeing this again today. now donald trump has set
Contenders who have embraced the former president s false assertions about the 2020 election. donald trump is looking for collaborators. he wants collaborators for his next run at american representative government to destroy it, and he is getting them in droves. senator sheldon whitehouse, a democrat from rhode island who serves in the senate judiciary committee, he just wrote this opinion piece in the boston globe about the upcoming ever summit for democracy and fight against corruption and authoritarianism. senator, you are obviously a colleague of david perdue before he lost that election in a free and fair election in which the people chose to kick him out of his office. it just strikes me as like craven and shabby and odious to sign up for a primary challenge under these conditions, but i wonder what you think as someone who knows the man. i m a little surprised myself. i did not see him as somebody who was going to be this allied
Somebody has done a phenomenal job, jody hice. jody, come here! and jody is running against one of the worst secretary of states in america, rino brad ralphs persian gulfer who is trying to turn the tables on me because i m fighting for election integrity. to be honest, i was surprised. he is a congressman who is loved in his district, who s got no problems, no election problems, could be there forever, and said i want to do this because what s happened to the state of georgia is a disgrace. so brad raffensperger doesn t support the coup, despite repeated bullying by trump, and trump backs a primary challenger to get rid of brad raffensperger, so there will be a more coup-pliant replacement to a single issue primary challenge. raffensperger refused to cave to demands he steal an election. now he has been removed. as you heard donald trump imply there, it s also fair to
She contends that margin was basically due to the changes he had made as secretary of state to suppress the vote. so in brian kemp we are not talk about a guy with a stalwart commitment to ballot access, democratic integrity. in fact, he has a reputation for just the opposite. but like brad raffensperger, brian kemp refused to actively foment a coup, despite the fact that like brad raffensperger, he also was on the receiving end of a call from donald trump asking him to do so. and ever since, trump has been trying to get rid of him too. in september, when trump held a rally in georgia, he hinted that kemp would be primaried and that he had a candidate in mind. your rino governor brian kemp, who has been a complete disaster on election integrity. a complete and total and i m not looking to say that. i m not looking to say that. he has been a complete and total disaster on election integrity.
With us tonight a friend of mine and a great senator, a man who i don t know, are you going to run for governor, david perdue? are you going run for governor? where is david. stand up, david. david perdue. are you running for governor, david? did i hear he is running for governor? thank you, david. he is a great guy, and he loves this state, and he has done a fantastic a fantastic job. of course perdue can run for governor because he lost that senate race quite infamously. last week stacey abrams announced she is running for governor again, a rematch being set up from 2018. and in response donald trump issued this deranged statement. quote, abrams just announced she is running for governor of georgia. i beat her single-handedly in 2018. i ll beat her again, but it will be hard to do with brian kemp because the maga base just will not vote for him after what he did with respect to election