republicans gathered as well, including in the state of georgia. democratic party electors met right up there in the senate chambers. they are official, they are certified and they voted for joe biden. but georgia republicans, they met as exactly the same time, right behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified, they still met and chose donald trump. even as democratic party electors were meeting in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic vice president and vice president, one floor below, at the state capital, georgia republicans were meeting for their own meeting to select republican electors for donald trump. those fake republican electors signed forged certificates, purporting to be the real electoral college votes and, in other words, asserting that in fact donald trump had won georgia. those fake certificates were actually mailed to the national archives as though they were official. and it s not like they
jersey shore. and i am wishing all of you a very good and very safe night and a great weekend. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, i want to thank you for staying up late with us. i will see all of you next week. i will see all of you xtne week welcome to the special second hour on all in. it s made it clear that the march on the capitol on 2021 was arranged by donald trump and his allies with in fact a specific goal. it wasn t just an expression of anger at the supposedly stolen election, nor was it the idea that the mob would somehow disrupt the certification of joe biden s win and then magically donald trump would stay on as president. no. the plan was to put pressure on republican lawmakers and the vice president, mike pence, to carry out a very specific plan. and that plan was set in motion actually weeks earlier, back on december 14th. that was the day that presidential electors gathered in all 50 states to cast their official electoral college v
and texas, is of course a state that donald trump won in 2020. all of this would ve been easy to wave off, it would even be funny to laugh at if it were one or two instance of republicans pushing these 90 proposals. but then election denial is not poised to become the official position of the actual state republican party in two different states, both of which are entirely in control by republicans. each day that donald trump spoke a selection conspiracy goes unchecked within the republican party, it evolves from a french conspiracy theory too widely held belief within the party, to then ultimately becoming official republican doctrine. joining us now is ruth ben-ghiat, a prison suppressor of history at new york university and author of strongmen mussolini. professor ben yet, thank you for making time for us. they re a few things that i wanted to talk to you about. but i wanted to start getting your reaction to a story i just
party just last month. and texas, is of course a state that donald trump won in 2020. all of this would ve been easy to wave off, it would even be funny to laugh at, if it were one or two eccentric republicans pushing these proposals. but then election denial is not poised to become the official position of the actual state republican party in two different states, both of which are entirely in control by republicans. each day that donald trump s bogus conspiracy goes unchecked within the republican party, it evolves from a french conspiracy theory too widely held belief within the party, to then ultimately becoming official republican doctrine. joining us now is ruth ben-ghiat, a prison suppressor of history at new york university and author of strongmen mussolini to present.