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Office. >> i dont think it is a problem and i agree with your assess many of abrams on the stump. shes really talented. i have a big concern about her. that her advocacy about voting rights, i agree with. but she has leaned over into conspiracy territory in a way that is a little bit concerning to me. she said some things that if trump had said it, we would be condemning it. saying the election was stolen from her, she was the rightful winner. there was definitely some purging of the rules that ...

>> i think stacey abrams is more talented than anyone in the field. i have a big concern that her advocacy about voting rights i agree with, but she has leaned over into conspiracy territory in a way thats concerning to me. she said some things that if trump had said it, we would be condemning it, saying the election was stolen from her, she was the rightful winner. i mean, there was definitely some -- there definitely was some purging of the rolls that shouldnt have been there but she got a mil...

Integrity, and it was never about voter fraud. exceptionally rare that we saw voter fraud. but suppression was a massive problem. and it didnt come in just one package. it came in multiple different times. >> she lost by a lot of votes, though. it wasnt that close. >> the history of georgia and the section 5 of the voting rights act is that the state of georgia couldnt make changes in their voting practices unless they were precleared by the justice department because of the history of voting ri...

Than any of the other candidates have said but she to me is a secret weapon for the base. >> stacey abrams is an amazing leader. she won more votes than any democrat in the history of the state of georgia. she brought on african-american voters, latinos in record voters, young people in record numbers.charisma. she is an amazing leader. in addition, her work to make sure that every vote should count is critical. we talked about the work mitch mcconnell did in the courts, the rolling back of sect...

The last 20 years has faced some vestige of suppression. the supreme court gutted the voting rights act and we know states that used to be covered under the voting rights act have increased their purging and weve seen stricter and stricter laws that make it harder and harder to vote. what we can do in 2019 is prepare states to fight back and by the time we get to 2020 and have a nominee for the democratic party, well have in place voter protection teams in all 20 of the battleground states. that...

Is the faultline. >> and what shes doing now. >> ron klain, i want to get to you on these two 2020 stories and also on eddies broader point on i think the democratic primary contest the way it was before el paso and i think the democratic primary contest after el paso. i wonder if you agree. >> i do. lets talk about stacey abrams a second, about shes not running for president or senate, but lets talk about what she is doing, fair fight.com. fair fight, the organization shes building, is a critic...

>> do you think the vote was stolen from you, the election was stolen from you? >> i think the vote was stolen from the people of georgia. i dont know if empirically i would have won. but if you add together the thousands of people that faced extraordinarily long lines, who faced hurdles that should not happen in a democracy, the votes that we know were not counted, the secretary of state who was also my opponent in the race purged more than 1.4 million voters over basically an eight-year period...

Matched any of the criteria. >> the voting rights act of 1965 is supposed to guard against racial discrimination at the polls. but in 2013, the supreme court decision erased a key provision in the act, and weakened those protections. >> shelby versus holder, do you think 2018 would be different if that court decision, 2016 would have been different, 2018 absolutely would have been different. >> why? >> we saw that happen in georgia. georgia passed many laws. and we saw hole pleasures and purging...

Matched any of the criteria for being removed from the rolls. >> the voting rights act of 1965 is supposed to guard against racial discrimination at the polls, but in 2013 the supreme court decision in shelby county versus holder erased a key provision in the act and weakened those protections. shelby versus holder, do you think 20134 would have been different? >> 2018 would have been different. 2016 would have been different. >> why? >> the evisceration of the voting rights act in shelby v. hol...

Tax, and so on. and actually, if they would just stick to those economic issues,y they would kind of have this in the bag because they have a whole set now of issues that the public has moved to the left on, on o economics. the problem is, they have to wrap it in this stuff that youve just seen to the point where, for example, if i tried to join the dsa, im sure they would screech me out of the place. i wouldnt be able to. i know so many people who have left who were members before this influx h...