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Towards poll workers. all of this has mark warner, one of the negotiators on this effort telling me that this is part of a push to make it harder to do and try to succeed at on january 6th. >> it makes very clear that a sitting vice presidents role in an election, presidential election is simply ministerial. that any future vice president cannot, should not, will not be able to overturn legitimate votes of americans and their electors that states vote. >> reporter: now, theres still some time be...

She and her daughter moved to Jacksonville in April of 2021. They have been patiently waiting for their voter registration cards, but patience is an understatement.

Replacing the good guys. >> one of the clearest takeaways to me of this weeks hearings, hearing that testimony s one of the goals that former president donald trump had was to subvert the system and pressure local poll workers, election workers, he may not have succeeded in 2020 but ultimately, like this pressure campaign continues, and i do think there are ongoing threats to democracy well see in the 2022 election, the 2024 election. on that i think the verdict is out if he succeeded. >> you wo...

Hearings. how donald trump triggered harassment of poll workers. some of the lawmakers investigating trumps coup attempt have beefed up security because they are facing so many threats now. of course january 6th was a glaring example of political violence. people using force to try to get their way. the supreme courts ruling against abortion may be used as an excuse for even more unrest. right wing media outlets and stars have been stoking fears of left wing mass violence as this report notes. f...

And impartial, elections are scared out of the publics face. so that they will simply hide in their homes, so that they wont try to be poll workers or count votes. i mean, this is really an attack on a really fundamental principle, a fundamental tradition of american democracy of citizen involvement. people like trump are sending a message that says, if you dont count votes the way i want them counted, i will put you and your family in the crosshairs of really dangerous people. i mean, watching ...

Direct response to january 6th. it bought into the notion that there was a lack of integrity in our elections and us something had to be done. and their decision was to suppress the very voters in 2020 in 2021, to make their voices heard, some for the very first time. while she we should applaud anyone who does their job, we should not line is those who do their jobs on one day but spend the rest of their careers undermining voting rights and sadly, thats what weve seen with wright camp and raff...

Indeed on going efforts to replace me with our election this year and others who stood guard with people who would willingly look the other way or say yes ill find those votes if indeed the former president were to call and ask for them again. >> what about when you go all the way down because you had a former president and his attorney bully two poll workers. now the whole country has seen how they have been terrorized over the last year and a half. who are we going to get? who you going to get...

Showing up at the homes of public officials, to demand a different fraudulent election outcome. lets discuss. al franken and, michael steele so with. that >> michael steele, we have witnessed a web of trump lies does to people. i want to share some of professor jason johnsons reaction, how he thought about what some of these poll workers are experiencing. >> you know what happens to people in the supreme court when they get that sent? they get the credit paid for by the senate. but not regular b...

She wont run for re-election because of the threats she endured. thats real. whats also real is others are stepping up which is incredibly inspiring thing. we have seen thousands of individuals sign up to be election workers, poll workers, people from both sides of the aisle operating in good faith who want to be champions of democracy with us in this moment. and thats what its going to take if were going to continue to see democracy prevail. >> let me pressure you on that point a little bit, ma...

Burdened by many of the heavy questions on the justice department right now. >> but whats takes so long? , if i walk down to the studio and i walk to saxon avenue right now, and shoplifted. i would be arrested immediately, and i would be downtown facing consequences within hours. it has been 17 months since we heard from brad raffensperger, or since we heard that phone call, in the span of that time, those poll workers have been terrorized. he had time to write this in a book, publish it, and go...