photo dp photoshopped a sign to say no. millions of people saw that. whether they believed it is almost beside the point. it s out there in the atmosphere. nearly a million people people have voted with mail-ins. there s misinformation about mail-in balloting. donald trump has tried to say the results in pennsylvania will not be real like he did last time. we were there watching the hand count. all the courts said was not necessary, there was no fraud there. steven, you are digging into something that s so important, especially as we approach this election. thank you very much for all of your reporting. thank you.
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that is a dangerous thing to have candidates across the country suggest that the electoral process is somehow rigged against them. it is it is dangerous and it s also stupid. it s stupid because if you tell people that a process is rigged they re not going to come out and vote for you. so why would people take so if you re a republican candidate who wants to bring people out to the ballot box, who wants to get people energized to vote for them, saying that this process doesn t matter and it s broken is literally the worst way you could get people to the ballot box. i don t understand it. it makes no sense. it s just like when donald trump said mail-in balloting, don t do mail-in balloting, go out to the ballot box. people then didn t go out to the ballot box, and republicans like kevin mccarthy were saying and no, no, no, we want people to mail in their ballots. it s safe, it s smart and it s easy. telling people to take part in a process they re terming broken i couldn t think of
of mail-in balloting, president trump launched a new attack on it today as he trails joe biden in the polls. president trump: they re gonna be sending out 80 million ballots. where are they going? who are they sending them to? they re trying to rig this election. reporter: the president s failure to address the pandemic continues to hurt him in poll after poll. asked if he would accept the election results, the president said, i ll have to see. president trump: the only way we re gonna lose this election is if the election is rigged. remember that. it s the only way we re gonna lose this election, so we have to be very careful. jamie raskin: my friends, we ve got some hard days ahead of us, don t we? we really do. we got some hard days ahead of us, but we are battle tested and we are ready. we are preparing for an epic landslide victory for democracy in 45 days. get ready for it! (crowd applauding)
norm of voting in person on election day unless you have a valid reason to vote absentee, like you re in the military or you re very sick. [ cheers and applause ] reporter: the former president has a stranglehold on this political party. the republican party here. and what you just heard from him last night was essentially tell these republican legislatures to do away with absen or mail-in balloting, to do away with ballot drop boxes here. these are the types of voter restriction efforts here that democrats have raised as their fear of what republicans at the state level could do and potentially with majorities in congress in 2023 and 2024 could try to pass at a federal level. alex? okay, well, maybe the president himself can then go and vote in person instead of by mail, as he did the last time as well. okay, thank you. new today, a longstanding