Claire, you called out the republicans. the truth is the republicans stand for voter suppression in the name and in the disguise of election integrity because their base believes it. bill barr couldn t find any, couldn t find anybody to investigate and prosecute. chris krebs said it was the more secure election in our country s history. but that doesn t matter in the fact-immune republican base. and i wonder if you can pick up on what symone is talking about, is there a plan b, and maybe the most biden line of the whole speech was to say, i ve been having quiet talks, the likes of which symone s been talking about, president and vice president have been meeting with stakeholders. president got, i think, the loudest response when he said, i m done being quiet. yeah, i think this is kind of him putting a flag in the ground and saying, this is where i m going to fight. i think it s a smart fight to make. you know, there is no one in america who thinks there s something insidious about g
Integrity measures. there was no damage to the integrity of the elections. there was no fraud. bill barr couldn t find anything to investigate. rudy giuliani didn t rack up a single victory in court. so it s not a debate between the democrats and the republicans. it s one side adhering to the facts and the other passing law after law after law, 19 in total, almost 500 introduced so far in 48 states, based a lie. how do you fight that? well, we are at the dnc are trying to do everything that we can in terms of fighting back. and it s from the courthouses, and marc is also one of our attorneys, and he does such a damn good job of pushing back and fighting back against these republican attempts. from the courthouses to our state houses to the houses of congress, but we re also going to have to take this fight to the streets as well, and i hear some of my friends in the activist and civil rights groups, you know, we can t organize our way out of this. but we can t also sit back and
Ron desantis will announce he s running for president on this notion of the free state of florida. florida s not free if your kids can t be exposed to the full curriculum that would make them smarter and better educated students. florida s not free if you can t get a test or treatment for covid. florida s not free if you don t have access to the ballot box. florida s not free if you re a voter and you vote and by a majority, determined home rule and then governor desantis says, i m not going to let you do that and he kneecaps local voters. florida s not free. it s a narrative that ron desantis is very successfully selling, which is what makes him dangerous. in ron desantis s narrative of freedom, he s really kneecapping democracy right now for people of florida and he will successfully do it on the national stage should he get to the white house. and casual racism is the gateway for the entire conversation on the right about voter suppression. it s shielded in voter integrity, electi
Thanks to reporting in the new book peril by wodward and costa. the authors report on graham and mike lee s investigation of trump s claims of fraud, quote, they took the claims of frauders isly enough to get briefed on the details involve their sister staff and make calls throughout the country. privately, graham said they were suitable for, quote, third grade. neither senator disavowed trump s election fraud claim until after a mob of trump supporters stormed the capitol on january 6th. eddie and claire rejoin us. eddie, what did mr. graham and mr. lee think that bill barr couldn t? i don t know. i mean, it looks as if we have
I do take your point there is a cost to our democracy and something we have to speak truth about. there was a dud and a thud and donald trump couldn t find any either. you said something that stopped me in my tracks. this is your quote in yesterday s paper. quote, people are now waking up to the fact that the battle will now be in the states and they recognize that the only thing literally, the only thing, standing in the way of pennsylvania passing the same ban on abortions that texas passed. i ve given up on the politicians in washington. i don t think we can count on them anymore. now i wish you had said that on this show. democrats control, have you given up on them being able to