Cheers, michael. Welcome back to the weekend, everyone. Election day is 66 weeks i gave early voting kicks off in pennsylvania in just 16 days. To win, vice president kamala harris knows democrats need to grow their coalition and part of that means reaching out to conservative leaning voters. In her first major interview as a democratic nominee, she promised to welcome republican voices to her administration if she wins in november. I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it is important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. I think it would be to the benefit of the american public to have a member of my cabinet who was a republican. Joining us now is olivia troye, former homeland security and terrorism adviser to mike pence. When i heard that i was like, that michael steele for commerce secretary. I could put on a tie. I would be happy to do that. It would be an honor
mike pence to snatch away the results. because the people they need to help deliver the election will be right there on the front lines where the voting s happening to do that work for them. a new report in the washington post found that supporters of the big lie, the election was stolen, are quietly working their way into key election positions across the country in states like michigan where local republicans are appointing state canvassing board members who, quote, express sympathy for former president donald trump s false claims the 2020 vote was rigged. or in pennsylvania where already in two counties, quote, candidates who embraced election fraud allegations won races this month to become local voting judges and inspectors. and in colorado where 2020 election skeptics are urging their followers on conservative social media platforms to apply for jobs in election offices. because we administer our elections locally here in the united states, folks on the front lines like these w
answer your own rhetorical question there. honestly just like play it through. you know, a secretary of state in a state says, you know, they had this sort of role. they certify. they get all the reports and they re the one. they re the authority. they have the authority. if the secretary of state is like i don t like the result we re not certifying it, i guess you go to court. the courts are what we re dealing with at that point, but it s not a position we want to be in. we go to court but there are things they can do in the interim. remember everyone focuses on the georgia 11,000 votes. but remember the president of the united states himself picked up the phone and called board officials in the state of michigan to try to get folks in detroit to send the detroit results and then try to get their statewide canvassing board members not to certify the statewide results. so before you get to, you know, the secretary of state there are a lot of steps in this process where bad actors can
week after the election is over. there are canvassing board members which, governor ivey is one, i am one. we always meet, we go over the results and we certify the election after it takes place. i would be very surprised, it would be unprecedented in the history of the state for that to occur after the results of the people were made known. it would be very unusual. the governor has already changed the election date one time, as you will recall. the original election date was set back to be held in june of 2018. however, governor ivey issued an additional proclamation when she became governor that changed the process. however, that was not done once the process had begun. we ve already had a primary, we had a runoff. now we are 29 days from the general election. since october 18th we peddle
we certify the election a week after the election is over. there are canvassing board members which, governor ivey is one, i am one. we always meet, we go over the results and we certify the election after it takes place. i would be very surprised, it would be unprecedented in the history of the state for that to occur after the results of the people were made known. it would be very unusual. the governor has already changed the election date one time, as you will recall. the original election date was set back to be held in june of 2018. however, governor ivey issued an additional proclamation when she became governor that changed the process. however, that was not done once the process had begun. we ve already had a primary, we had a runoff. now we are 29 days from the general election. since october 18th we peddle