and supporting prop d to build more affordable housing hi, everyone, it s all happening. it s 4:00 in new york on election day. the end of a campaign that has been like none other in recent history. more than 44 million people have already voted and millions more will have voted before the polls close in the next few hours in all 50 states. it has been an election season defined not just by the issues that dominate every election including the state of the economy, how people feel about the state of the economy, but it s also been defined by an unprecedented threat to income on the ballot and the first national election after the january 6th insurrection. in nearly every state there are republicans who have affirmed their commitment to this same big lie that led to that attack on the u.s. capitol. their races for governor, attorney general, and secretary of state that could have major implications on the next election, 2024, especially if the twice impeached ex-president as
while there are candidates trading barbs right now, the former president is dredging up his lies about the 2020 election, handing out these signs. you can see it there. accusing his chief political rival, president biden, of subverting democracy. we have opponents. a lot of opponents. we ve been waging an all-out war in american democracy. you look at what they ve been doing and becoming more and more extreme and repressive. they have just waged an all-out war with each passing day. those accusations come after trump told supporters today, he wants to prosecute the results of the 2020 election and encouraged them, encourage his supporters to go into ballot counting facilities in 2024 to, quote, guard the votes. national correspondent kristin holmes is in cedar rapids. we have to keep pointing out, while they re handing out these signs that says biden attacks democracy, it was trump who tried to overturn the 2020 election results. there is no erasing that fact. reporter:
we are live in the newsroom in washington. good evening. today donald trump and ron desantis held dwelling campaign events in iowa. the florida governor is in the hawkeye state wrapping up a campaign tour of all 99 counties in iowa but high- powered endorsements from iowa s governor has not had mucht on the poll numbers. desantis showing in the polls that he is back behind donald trump, whose lead appears to be growing at this point. the former president is pushing lies about the 2020 election, saying he hopes judges will let them prosecute that race. he is claiming his rival is handing out these signs. look at these on screen right there. these signs say biden attacks democracy. he is encouraging his supporters to enter ballot counting facilities to guard the votes. we are live in iowa. steve is in newton with the campaign and kristen holmes is in cedar rapids with team trump. pretty astonishing to hear trump s allegation that president biden is waging a war on democracy as
2020. law enforcement expected this might occur in the period before the 2020 presidential election in october. they knew that was not likely. he went on to post this, what is not as widely known is the role twitter played in helping the fbi track and identify violent actors who wanted to perpetrate acts of domestic terrorism at polling stations and ballot counting facilities. this work is close held and we will never get public credit. i would like to thank our fbi counterparts who worked with us this election cycle. here is shellenberger on tucker last night. there was pressure by external fbi agents on twitter to basically adapt content
as being proof of some sort of fraud in the election process and something that will mean that a result that is not to the liking of certain people in this country will be blamed on a rigged election. so what i m worried about, and, again, i think things have gone relatively smoothly in terms of voter safety at polling places, but what i m worried about is what will come after today when any one of these little glitches becomes the basis for, you know, litigation, baseless litigation over voter fraud, potentially intimidation of the people who are in charge with counting ballots. we saw some of that in 2020. we saw attacks on the ballot counting facilities. many of those have put up security and reinforcements this year. but that minor little things will fuel this bitter narrative of voter fraud that has been, you know, rampant for the last