an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e
door. she hired people who were involved in the arizona audit. she brought in allies of mike lin dell, and eventually people close to donald trump on this kind of wild goose chase looking for vote fraud in a very safe democratic district. and so she has embraced these, you know, falsehoods, and lies about nonexistent voter fraud in american elections since well before she announced her candidacy for senate, and it s clearly animating, i think, with the base, and it s part of how she s made key alliances. one of her earliest and big endorsers is doug mastriano running for governor, he s the front runner on the governor side, and trump s biggest ally in pennsylvania in pushing his effort to overturn the election, and chartered buss to d.c. on january 6th, and held hearings in the state legislature, invited rudy giuliani in, promoted a lot of the falsehoods