wisconsin. she spent the last 15 years running elections in that city. here she is 11 years ago 2011. she was trying to figure out how much extra time voters would need to cast their ballots in 2012 under the state s new voter i.d. law. madison city clerk, and today we are having a mock election in the city county various scenarios of voter i.d. and figure out how to do the best practices for 2012 before we actually have an election. whistle bail says she chose to do this work because she wanted to combat voting inequities in madison. she encourages every new wisconsin election clerk to go through the training to similarly find there why. quote they have to focus on why they are doing this work. what comes down to is making learning accessible to those who are eligible to vote. that s why they keep showing up, day after day. her why is more important now than ever. because in 2020, mary beth contemplated not showing up. she almost quote. that is because after election
country have seriously considered suicide. that right there is white showing up for these vulnerable young people is so important. i want them to know, i want you to know, that you are not alone. we love you! and we will always support you! remember, if you need help, ask for it! and if you are in a position to give help, please get it! and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us! and i will see you at the end of tomorrow. mary beth whistle about is a city clerk in madison wisconsin. spent the last 15 years running elections in that city. here she is 11 years ago, holding a mock election, in 2011 she was trying to figure out how much extra time voters would need to cast their ballots in 2012 under the state s new voter i. d. law. madison city clerk, and today we are having a mock election in the city county building to time various scenarios of voter i. d.
clerk in wisconsin. she spent the last 15 years running elections. here she is holding a mock election in 2011. she is trying to figure out how much extra time voters need to cast ballots under the state s iner you voter id law. i m madison city clerk. and today we re having a mock election invi the city county building to time various scenarios with voter id and figure out how to do the best practices for 2012 before we actually have an election. she said she chose to do this work because she wanted to combat voting inequities in madison. she encourages every new wisconsin election clerk that comes to herwi for training to similarly find their why. quote, they have to focus on why they re doing this work. what it comes down to is making votingak accessible to those eligible to vote. that s why we keep showing up daye after day. her why is more important now than ever. in 2020, mary beth contemplated not showing up. she almost quit. that s because after election day 2020,
of an official event to tout a legislative accomplishment. sitting in the front row behind me was lieutenant governor john fetterman. he is of course going to be participating in another event separately with the president later in philadelphia. now, there have been a lot of questions about the president and how he has been spending his time leading up to the midterms and the fact that as you pointed out, victor, he hasn t been doing a lot of sort of rallies and separate events with some of the most vulnerable democrats, but we are seeing how the white house has been making sort of the best political use, they think, of the president. that is to talk about these kinds of legislative accomplishments and to really sort of set the tone for what he believes the democrats have been able to achieve, and the other important piece of this is of course raising money. they think he has been good at that, that has certainly been very helpful for the party. all right, mj lee, traveling
up next. tonight on the reidout nancy, nancy! where are you, nancy? we re looking for you. nancy. oh, nancy. nancy. where are you, nancy? the chilling sounds of january 6th. where is nancy? happening again. not in the people s house this time. but in speaker pelosi s own house. her husband paul brutally beaten with a hammer by a maniac with a reported history of posting extreme right-wing memes and conspiracy theories on social media. meanwhile, elon musk is getting ready to reinject those dark online forces back into the veins of twitter, which he now completely controls. and we begin tonight with a shocking development in the political extremism that has loomed over the midterms. early this morning an assailabout attacked paul pelosi, the husband of nancy pelosi, at the couple s home in california. mr. pelosi who was home alone was hit in the head with a hammer multiple times. the assail want was reported to have shouted where is nancy, where is nancy, during the