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The fact that so many election officials across the country made it easier and safer for them to be able to vote in the middle of pan demic was remarkable. as a result, in 2020, more people voted in america than ever in the history of america in the middle of a once in a century pandemic. [ applause ] all told, more than 150 americans of every race and every background exercised their right to vote. they voted early. they voted absentee. they voted in person. they voted by mail. they voted by dr...

State representative trey martinez fisher, hes one of the democrats who led that walk out. representative, its good to have you on this morning. >> thank you, jim. >> when you look at the changes in this bill republicans are going to try again, such as banning drive-thru voting, 24-hour voting a felony -- a felony to send unsolicited mail-in ballot applications. in your view, are these changes deli deliberately intended to reduce democratic voter turnout? >> voting is one of the most patriotic t...

Racist new rules. of far more inclusive in georgia, far more accessible for voting in georgia. the state of georgia, their new law, that mandates 17 days of in person early voting. thats accessibility. delaware has 0 in person early voting. in georgia, anybody without any reason can vote absentee. in delaware you must meet specific requirements. you need to give a reason. in georgia they have drop boxes for absentee ballots. they are available at county election offices all throughout the state....

More restrictive than georgias new so-called jim crow 2.0 racist new rules. of far more inclusive in georgia, far more accessible for voting in georgia. the state of georgia, their new law, that mandates 17 days of in person early voting. thats accessibility. delaware has 0 in person early voting. in georgia, anybody without any reason can vote absentee. in delaware you must meet specific requirements. you need to give a reason. in georgia they have drop boxes for absentee ballots. they are avai...

They get into absentee votes as well. i wont say that eric adams is necessarily the explicit paths that they should take across the country, but they should take some notes from what we saw world up from biden and you said as a potential playbook paired with other things that were seeing that again, focus on the response in the needs of their community. >> so mike, lets go there right now, it is an interesting contrast between eric adams and maya widely, frequent contributor in the past in this ...

For example, led by stacey abrams rafael warnock and yes the ever weak, frail, cognitively struggling joe biden, democrats across the country with their friends in the media mob basically have accused the entire state of georgia of being racist. republicans in the state of georgia of being racist. theyre claiming that georgiaians have disenfranchised minority voters when just the opposite is true. and keep in mind the state of delaware, joes home state where joes represented people over 8,000 ye...

Not when democrats do it. we see a similar trend with the georgia election bill. for example, led by stacey abrams rafael warnock and yes the ever weak, frail cognitively struggling joe biden, democrats across thes country with their friends in the media mob basically have accused the entireta state of racist.the entireta state of republicans in the state of georgia of being racist. theyre claiming that georgians have disenfranchised minority voters when just the opposite is true. and keep in mi...

Voting, i ran for congress four times and ran up huge leads with the absentee votes, focused on it nonstop. picked up the phone and i would call active duty service people overseas and i say, i appreciate your vote. it was that important to republicans. man well run up the tallies beforehand even if we dont do so great day of and trump undercut that. it was crazy. >> i remember as far back as 1982, the republicans won a governorship by sending out -- it was all legal -- preprinted absentee forms...

>> obviously we still have those near 100,000 ballots that are still out for the absentee and the election day votes. essentially that ten-point lead in my mind is pretty solid if it holds. why is that? we can look back at ranked choice elections that have taken place since 2000. it just started in new york. when you have a leader with less than 40% of the vote, which adams clearly has and is ahead by less than ten points, that first-round leader wins just 72% of the time. but if the leader has ...

Favorite moderates in the race. garcia and yang. with crime on the rise last night adams took a swipe at those who want to defund the police. listen. >> how dare those with their philosophical and intellectual theorizing and classroom mindset talking about -- you dont know this. i know this. i want to keep my city safe. >> the former mayor giulianis pick won the primary. we may not have an official democratic nominee because of rank choice voting and the absentee votes wont begin to be counted u...