fraud or as a result of pandemic-related changes to the process is now widely accepted as fact among republican lawmakers into hotbeds of conspiratorial thinking. according to the times report, 44% of republican legislators in nine key swing states took steps to overturn the 2020 election. it s a staggering number. and now ahead of the next presidential election the disgraced ex-president and his allies are trying to add to those ranks and more republicans who are all, too willing to overturn the will of the voters in those states. there s a startling and significant admission quote, in an interview with the times trumpa being knowledged in deciding who to endorse in races he s looking for candidates who want state legislatures to have a say in naming presidential electors. a position that could let politicians short circuit the democratic process and override the popular vote. it s not just statehouses approximately candidates are
bucha really changed the rules of the game. first of all because it s pretty hard to deny what s been done by the russian army. and to the narratives, what happened in bucha on the side of the kremlin were constantly changing. if you look at what s being said by the kremlin in the first days after the events in bucha, the kremlin spokesmen were saying, look, it s all staged. it s fake. there were bodies that were moving on the footage. now they ve changed this narrative again. your op-ed for the new york times is fascinating because it examines conspiracy theories that vladimir putin has essentially weaponized. that always existed in russia, but that putin didn t himself, didn t really seem to embrace or promote. that was left to others. but now you write, conspiratorial thinking has taken complete hold of the country from top to bottom, now seems to be the motivating force behind the kremlin s decisions. and mr. putin, who previously kept his distance from
necessary approach among some of the people close to trump in those final weeks as the now former president was desperate to try to maintain his power on the white house. the fact, of course, that bill stepien and people in the campaign knew that these allegations were nonsensical, it s amplified by the fact that bill barr, trump s attorney general, came out publicly and said they found in evidence of fraud. but despite that, these sort of parallel legal arguments first convoluted nonsensical allegations claims that things were true that just weren t true whatsoever, coupled with convoluted, very unusual legal assessments produced, failure in court, but in the court of public opinion of the ultra-far-right and the conspiracy theory community, we know what happened. we know what happened on january 6th. and the connection there between the foment, the anger, the conspiratorial thinking, it s
so, gina is based in beverly hills where she owns a salon, owned a salon, and she, like a lot of people in southern california, became more politically involved during the pandemic. she attended anti-masking events where she connected with other people who were very upset about the lackdowns, about restrictions. she got into conspiratorial thinking through pizzagate and listening to radical podcasts. on january 6th she believed that the president had called her to be there. the election was stolen and it was her responsibility and those of others to be there that day to support him and do what he asked. you know, the key part of the belief, just to follow up on that and then i want to ask ryan in, i mean, i get this as i go through ryan s reporting these cases, that if you administered a lie detector test, a perfect
i will tell you, oh, did not see that coming. you know, maybe let s give him a chance. he was so close to trump. he is a calculated political player. i watched the speech. he had this long list of things republicans need to do, namely, confrontsing this conspiratorial thinking that has infected the party. but he couldn t name trump. meanwhile, that same weekend donald trump is pushing the rigged election conspiracy claims. christie, if he wants to sit in the abc news studio and tell that to a panel, fine. go take that message to newsmax, try it out at fox. i don t believe it. then when he s confronted about those claims that he made talking about the need for passionate engagement, he throws up his hands, i don t have to answer to you. you have to answer to republican voters like me who don t believe you. so, two things. i think he should acknowledge his part in this, and that is