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All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once in a cent ray pandemic, we got a glimpse of what a full or fuller participation version of our democracy would look like because due to the pandemic, state after state, jurisdiction after jurisdiction, and i should note this is both democratic and republican there were fights over this. But across the board, more or less on the whole in the aggregate, all these places did something praise worthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mail ....
Aggregate, all these places did something praiseworthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mailin voting and early voting and adding drop boxes for ballots right . Theres Public Health concern. You dont want everyone crowding in on election day so people found ways to just make it easier to vote so you wouldnt have that. And the results are clear. It worked. Turnout was the highest it had been in 120 years. Nearly 67 of eligible voters cast a ballot. And also there was no uniform drubbing of one party by the other. It was not a blowout. It was a competitive election. Yes, joe biden won by a healthy margin. 7 million votes. 70 plus Electoral College votes. But remember republicans gained seats in the house. They want some key senate rates right . Now rather than looking at that outcome and thinking wow, we can be a Competitive Party even in high turnout elections which would have been a totally rational conclusion. Republican ....
Aiming for 700000. 00 plus to attend. However, actual numbers felt very short, was only several 100 showing up. Now, almost all the latest polls show the subject of Border Security and emigration reading as number 2 or number 3 and voters might get brought a showing of this last rally against the lack of security at the southern border. You would think the only action voters are looking to take on the issue is going to be on election day. But its ridiculous to take a politician is going to take care of a problem, especially if its one that they have done Everything Possible to avoid fixing in the past as somebody or and say, encouraged this problem to grow. Well, lets discuss this with our panel. Join me today, our former democratic congressman from florida, alan grayson, whose personality is just as bright as that shirt and from new work. We have surgical analyst, stev ....
Border. You would think the only action voters are looking to take on the issue is going to be on election day. But its ridiculous to take a politician is going to take care of a problem, especially if its one that they have done Everything Possible to avoid fixing in the past as somebody and say, encouraged this problem to grow. Well, lets discuss this with our panel. Join me today, our former democratic congressman from florida, alan grayson, whose personality is just as bright as that shirt. And from new york, we have typical analyst, steve malls, bird and director of policy studies at the center for immigration studies. Jessie von, thank you so much for joining me. Lets make sure that we have a lively conversation. Honestly, i do believe it is an important issue. And i will start with you just because i remember the anti obamacare rallies that have it in 2009 in do you see there were thousands of people that all really le ....