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they believe the big lie. it s even higher for people who use fox news as their main source of information or who trust it. i think it is like in the low 80s. how do you begin to even counter the big lie when you have that many people buying into it? it s difficult. and to be sure, this was amplified by donald trump and his campaign, but it goes back so much further. we have to remember that this the idea of the big lie and why it was able to take hold is because decades, lawmakers, particularly republicans, have used this, this idea of protecting against fraud. fraud that s never existed, that s never been proven, in order to make voting more difficult. to pass laws with everything but from stripping voters names from polls, from requiring i.d. requirements where we know that it s more difficult for black people, brown people, poor people to get them and may tend to vote democratic. that s been happening for a long time. you have the stripping of the voting rights act where it
and marie sivano, thank you. up next, how the narrative pushed by rudy giuliani became a defining belief among republican voters. the growth of the big lie, coming up next.