the question is, whether that s a signal about even more to come. and not charging for verified users. well we have to have another segment for that. were you going to pay eight bucks or not? that s what i want to know. it s a no for me. is it no across the table here? will you pay to be verified? we were talking about this earlier. how is it, supposedly, you got elon musk, supposedly, a genius oh, he s a genius. how is it he made such a horrible deal buying twitter? you know, don t play yourself is really what it is. he played himself. don t don t believe your own bs. he said, i alone can fix it, hyped himself up, surrounded himself by people who said the right thing and didn t realize that market conditions were falling under his feet and deluded himself into thinking that this is a great deal and i can do it. does tesla get hurt? absolutely. twitter is not a money-making
people talk about how horrible these things they took they all-starred the game out of atlanta. the numbers are huge. and again, people could say, they re voting in spite of that. okay, but it is still easier to vote in georgia, let me say it again, than new york city. sometimes, you just hold back on the comparisons to jim crow. yeah, even stacey abrams didn t want the all-star game pulled out of the state of georgia. and we are, as i said, seeing record-breaking early voting in that state. joining us now, republican political strategist and publisher of the bulwark, sarah longwell. she s executive director of republican accountability project, and host of the focus group podcast. also with us, nbc news national affairs analyst and executive editor of the recount, john heilemann joins us. john heilemann, let s start with you. a lot of polls, and those polls are close. pick the state, states, we could start with states that democrats are supposed to run away with
express their ideas. at the end of the segments, we re going to do a fact-check. you are going to hear some factually inaccurate statements throughout. but they re very important so that you understand the state of democracy in america and how voters are perceiing the integrity of elections. let s go. since republicans use it as ammunition frequently, invoking that stacey abrams didn t concede, is that a problem, that she didn t concede in 2018? no. he didn t either. that s right. here we are, two years later. two years later. [ laughter ] not only that, it doesn t matter she didn t concede. no. she moved on. there s always irregularities, especially in the african-american community. you know, it took me seven hours to vote. i went in there. there were 24 machines. six of them were down. then i have a girlfriend who lives in buckhead, walked in and out. in and out. in and out.
unfortunately, for all the conspiracy theories drummed up by bizarre websites and, as i say, chinese cult websites, religious cult websites, unfortunately for people that buy into that, donald trump s own administration official, who was responsible for checking election integrity, said this was the cleanest election in american history. so that s on the republican side. i have to say, on the democratic side, too, the fact that not one democrat is upset that stacey abrams never conceded the race tells you just how idealogically driven this is. it is hard for democrats to be shocked that trump wouldn t concede the race when they re saying stacey abrams didn t concede. there is no what aboutism. donald trump has again, he continues to undermine american
outraged media coverage of january 6 is donald trump s insistence several statements a day from him that he he did not lose the election. you have some thoughts about that. yeah, i do. i think that in life you have to learn to lose. hillary clinton has to learn that. you know, al gore pretty much did learn that. stacey abrams didn t learn that. and if you did, in fact, get screwed out of this election, put together an a-team list of lawyers and show us the districts and show us how. i have not seen any of that. and people were very receptive. you would have been very receptive if they showed prof of this. now, it defies logic to think a president could win by 7 million votes who never left his basement, who couldn t put together a clear speech, who never engaged in a challenging interview, who really struggled through every debate could actually win election. but in the end, i think you ve got to channel back to andrew jackson, the guy the president