this hour in our country s history stands in contrast to a republican party devoid of an agenda, other than serving a disgraced twice impeached ex-president who tried to overturn and steal the results of the 2020 election. president biden described the 2022 election has a, quote, defining moment for the country, denouncing the gop s embrace of rhetoric that all too often has resulted in or coincided with violence, most recently with the attack on speaker pelosi s husband paul pelosi and his democratic predecessor president barack obama used his talent as a speaker, as a message deliver, as a leader, and lent his credibility as a popular two-term president to that message that democrats are right now the only ones, the only party, that believes in democracy and fundamental american values. it was something. watch. what we have to remind ourselves is that there s this common thread, there s this thing that binds us together as americans, a belief that no matter who we are or
invalidate all military ballots. i want you to think about that for the moment. thank you for your service and go buzz off. this would have been absolutely inconceiable even a few years ago that someone would be openly talking about disenfranchising large numbers of serving voters. and yet this is the environment that we re in right now. so we don t know just like, you know, if we had this conversation the day before the 2020 election and you asked me that same question, i would say yeah, we ought to be very, very concerned. and yet even then we had no idea the lengths they would go post-election. and i think we ought to have that same level of vigilance this time. you know, and donna, the other thing that s undeniable is you could argue, i suppose, if you re mitch mcconnell or kevin mccarthy that the decision to humor trump and let him lick his wounds by not acknowledging that
the traditionally drama-free work of serving voters has turned dangerous. from bomb threats to countless threatening phone calls. you rigged my [ bleep ] election, you [ bleep ] piece of [ bleep ]. we re going to try you and we re going to hang you. the justice department s election threats task force made its first arrest today in connection with these actions and says it s received more than 850 referrals on such possible crimes. tonight we re also looking into a newly uncovered plot by trump campaign officials to put forward fake gop electors in seven states that president biden won. sources tell cnn it was led by rudy giuliani. he and other trump aides reportedly lined up surnters to fill elector slots, then circulated drafts of fake certificates that were ultimately sent to the national archives. one of those fake electors, the co-chair of the michigan republican party, boasted at a recent event that the trump campaign directed the operation.
fair and secure election in 2020 are quitting left and right and where others are going to extraordinary measures to protect themselves. they have to. not only are some officials facing the possibility of felony convictions for honest administrative errors or for helping voters who run into problems with their ballot applications. the traditionally drama-free work of serving voters has turned dangerous. from bomb threats to countless threatening phone calls. you rigged my [ bleep ] election, you [ bleep ] piece of [ bleep ]. we re going to try you and we re going to hang you. the justice department s election threats task force made its first arrest today in connection with these actions and says it s received more than 850 referrals on such possible crimes. tonight we re also looking into a newly uncovered plot by trump campaign officials to put forward fake gop electors in seven states that president biden won. sources tell cnn it was led by
far too many americans aren t on the registration roles and should be. instead of actually trying to move forward and advance these pro voter reforms that are common sense that would save money and make our elections run better, we re having these allegations that are completely baseless, this time it is that our voter roles need cleaning, they do. that s not in dispute but it s coming in a context and allegation that the system is rigged. republican secretaries of state like in ohio. yeah, he came out and said we ve got clean elections, republican after republican, election administrator after election administrator will say we need to be better resourced, need to have more resourced that of serving voters better, but that is different than there s widespread cheating like this