Works. Vote him out thats harsh. Trump was confronted with signs of how big of a challenge he faces november. New york times poll shows him trailing joe biden in iowa, tied in georgia, and barely leading in texas, all states that he won in 2016. Just out tonight fox news polls show him losing three battleground states, nevada, pennsylvania, and ohio. What . Like it or not trump is facing the consequences of his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 203,000 american lives have been lost to the virus under his watch. Facing dismal prospects hes showing autocratic tendencies, trying to send a message that voters be damned, hes not going anywhere. Will you commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election. Well have to see what happens. You know ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. I understand that. But people are rioting. Do you commit to making sure theres a peaceful transfer of power. Get rid of the ballots and well have a very peaceful there wont be a transfer, there will be a continuation. Just get rid of the ballots, dont have an election, there will be a continuation. This afternoon he made clear hes sticking to that autocratic rhetoric. We want to make sure the election is honest and im not sure it can be. Meanwhile trumps republican sycophants on capitol hill did pl best to appear to tamp down his undemocratic claims. In a tweet, Mitch Mcconnell said the winner will be inaugurated in an orderly transition. Mitt romney said, that a president might not respect this constitutional guarantee is unthinkable and unacceptable. What you dont see in those comments is the name donald trump. Then theres old Lindsey Graham. People wonder. Peaceful transfer of power. I can assure you it will be peaceful. We may have litigation about who won the election but the court will decide. If the republicans lose, well accept that result. That assurance, quite frankly, sounds like horse pucky comes from mr. Use my words about potus nominee. Certainly doesnt inspire confidence and comes on the heels of a frightening analysis that trumps greatest abuses wont even come until after Election Night in a new piece titled the election that could break america writes, unquote, according to sources matt Republican Party at state and national levels, the Trump Campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass Election Results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where republicans hold ledgesive authority. With justifications of rampant fraud, trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly. With election 40 days under way and voting happening in several states, pennsylvania, minnesota, michigan, new jersey, illinois, lines stretched up to 2 1 2 hours today. It means when it comes down to it, do not count on republicans to do the right thing. In fact, just assume they wont do the right thing. The only people who can save this democracy are you, the voters. Joining me now chris murphy of connecticut. Senator, Lindsey Graham went on tv today and others tweeted to try to make it look like they are normal members of a democracy, we would never, ever allow donald trump to seize control of the white house and never let it go. Here is Lindsey Graham saying so. Theres a lot of shady things going on, but the courts will hear all of our complaints. The courts will decide. We will accept the courts decision, republican and democrat, i promise you, as a republican if the Supreme Court rules in favor of joe biden, i will accept that result. Senator murphy, the problem with the i promise as a republican, you can count on me, everyone, is this. Here is Lindsey Graham making similar promises and protestations about the Supreme Court. If theres a republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president , whoever it might be, make that nomination, and you could use my words against me and youd be absolutely right. Senator, why should anyone believe anything Lindsey Graham or anything any of these republicans say. You shouldnt. You shouldnt. You cant believe Lindsey Graham, you cant believe the president , you cant believe Mitch Mcconnell. They have made it 100 clear there is only one motivation that drives them. It is not honor, it is not precedent, it is not truth telling, it is not patriotism. It is the accumulation of power. If anybody had any question as to whether that was true, they have been disabused of that notion over the last five days. So you are very right. Ultimately, this is up to us. We are going out there. Instead of spending our days worrying about whether theres going to be a peaceful transition of power, going out and working every day for joe biden and Senate Candidates to make sure there is absolutely no question. It is still within our hands. Yes, its sad and disgraceful that we have to win by six or seven points in order to avoid a contest, in order to win in the Electoral College but im telling my activists let us in washington worry about trying to set up all of the protections we can to assure a transition of power. The millions of people who care about this out in the country have to go out there and work to get joe biden elected. Let me let you listen to chris wray, the fbi director, one of the last credible figures that had anything to do with this administration talking about this idea of voting fraud. We have not seen historically any kind of coordinated National Voter fraud effort, whether by mail or otherwise. As a reminder, utah, colorado, Washington State vote 100 by mail. It is poppycock to say a nefarious scheme that will happen, but that is what it appears that even statewide republicans are planning to use as a very thin pretext potentially to steal the election and say we dont care that the majority of pennsylvanians votedforjoe biden were giving the election to donald trump. So my question is, do you have any confidence that if a slate of electors was sent to a state like pennsylvania to the United States senate that completely violated and overturned the will of the people in that state, is there a single republican, in your mind, that would actually say no to those electors. Isnt it true they would all say, you know, well, something something harry reed, something something obama, make an excuse, Lindsey Graham and all would put in the electors that were not voted for. I think the honest answer to your question is i dont know. We are spending a lot of time behind the scenes in the United States senate talking through these scenarios to the extent they will listen with republicans to make sure that in the days after the election they stand up for the simple premise all votes get counted. Thats the first thing thats going to happen. The president is going to try to stop the mailin votes from counting, create some controversy. Republicans have to be clear that all those votes have to be counted. As we move down this schedule of horribles that you mentioned, including potential contests over who are qualified as electors, we are going to have to be consistently pressing our republican friends to stand up for the rule of law. Listen, i have less faith than ever before that they are going to stand up and do the right thing but our ability to win this election by sizable numbers in places like pennsylvania will make their cover for donald trump much harder. Very quickly before i let you go, senator, in the year 2000, a number of particularly black and asianamerican members of the house of representatives went to the floor in the well of the senate and begged for even one senator to say they would affirm they would not seat those electors. They only needed one vote. Would you pledge you would be that one vote, if necessary, to join if the house objects to the electors . Well, i think the answer is likely yes. Obviously it would depend on the circumstances. But let me just tell you, we are going to leave no stone unturned to make sure that the Voters Decide this election, not donald trump, not lawyers, not ar15 wielding protesters in the street, we are going to be there for the American People if theres a contest. Yeah, and ill throw in not russia. That would be nice, too. Senator chris murphy, thank you for coming on. Appreciate it. Joining me staff writer for the atlantic and opinion writer for the Washington Post. You scared the hell out of everyone in america with your piece but lets walk through it. Let me start with what you wrote about this pennsylvania gop chairman talking about electors. This is the sort of parade of horribles that could happen after election day before election. Ive mentioned it to them, and i hope they are thinking about it, too. I just dont think its time to discuss strategies and approaches but direct appointment of electors is one of the options. Its one of the available Legal Options in the constitution. I understand why republicans would like for you to write about that because they would want it to be normalized in the world. How real is the idea that republican legislators in pennsylvania would ignore the election and put in electors. How real is that . They are never going to tell themselves and tell you they are ignoring the will of the people. They are going to be highly invested in a narrative of fraud and abuse and rigged voting and the collapse of ordering voting. Its going to be portrayed, i think, if it happens as a consequence of the vote count being poisoned and falling apart and being untrustworthy, so the legislators are going to have to make their own judgment about the what is the will of their constituents. That would be the way they would pitch it. Isnt it true that with go ahead. I was going to say the state of pennsylvania, for example, just for one second. Pennsylvania has a democratic governor. Its not as if democrats have no cards to play. I do believe the secretary of state might be a democrat. Arent there state laws that republicans would either have to change or abrogate in order to pull Something Like this off. It depends state by state. That could very well be true. It is not obvious that its okay to grant the people the right to choose electors by popular vote and then after they vote yank that power back. But again, it wouldnt be portrayed that way. It would be portrayed as rescuing the will of the people from the collapse of orderly voting that donald trump would be. All these people mr. Gelman is talking about are politicians that then have to get reelected themselves. I cant imagine statewide election two years later or wherever in the state of arizona or anywhere where the voters would then return to office somebody who said, screw you, i dont care what you voted for. I dont care that i heard Steve Kornacki say on msnbc this race is called for joe biden, im putting in trump and sort of imposing trump somehow on the American People, they would be doomed electoral. It would be incredible that every legislator in all states would collude to throw the election to trump. Can you imagine your former party doing it . No, i cant, but they have done ridiculous things. I want to underscore something, though. Those ballots trump says are invalid have republican senators on them as well. Thats right. Its interesting to see if they are so gungho about throwing out ballots or not counting ballots when they are behind on the day of the election. So lets say how much Lindsey Graham really supports donald trump if he thinks some of those votes out there could be his, particularly military ballots. None of this makes an awful lot of sense. If they had been logical from the beginning they would have dumped him long ago and gone with pat souza, evangelical right winger. They arent being logical. They are afraid of their own shadow. They are afraid of donald trump. They are afraid of their own base. They go through these machinations. Thats why you see people running down the halls, afraid to comment. They hope it will all work out and they wont have to take take stand or saying anything. I do think that something you said is absolutely right. It is very hard for them to pull it off if there is a margin of victory in many, many states. Its one thing to have one state, as we did in 2000 in florida or even ohio in 2004 when there was still votes outstanding. Another to have a margin of five, six percentage of votes in a whole slew of states. It becomes a little bit untenable or more untenable for him. I think we have to rely on people like chris wray and one of the commissioner allen weintraub. I dont know what youre talking about, we dont throw out votes, we count them in america. Were going to have to rely on a lot of people inside the government, outside the government, to try to see if theres a sufficient margin of victory so it just becomes untenable for him to go forward. And that were even discussing this, even having to go through this is so frightening and so antithetical to america, its like were operating in a tinpot dictatorship. The United States of america should be considering these options is frightful and very disturbing. You would think at this point voters would have had enough of this clown show. The way to do it is dont wait for the regime, assume the regime is already here, the republicans are all working together on it. It is what it is. Fight back with your vote. Thank you all very much. Up next on the reidout, another note of protests after Kentucky Attorney general decided Breonna Taylors life simply didnt matter. Family Attorney Ben Crump joins me. Remember the big, beautiful obama replacement hes been promising four year . Surprise. The largest leaps, most exciting strides yeah, no. Meanwhile hes still fighting in court, as we speak, to take away the Health Coverage of 20 million americans in the middle of a pandemic. Back with more of the reidout after this. 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People are gathering in cities across the country for a second night of protest in the wake of yesterdays grand jury decision not to charge any of the Louisville Police officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. In fact, only one officer saw charges from that night, and that was for the wanton endan r endangerment of taylors neighbors. Overnight the anger and frustration of yet another black person denied justice played out in the streets nationwide. Sadly, its become all too frequent, all too frequent occurrence and americans have banded together to call for substantial changes in this country only to be mostly ignored. In louisville two Police Officers were shot during the protest and a suspect is in custody and both officers are expected to recover. 127 people were arrested during the protest. Joining me now is ben crump, one of the attorneys for Breonna Taylors family. Ben, the question im getting from people texting me is is this actually over. I want to play the governor of kentucky andy beshear who wants more information released. Here he is. Its time to post all the information, all the facts, interviews, ballistics. Its time for people to see basic information, facts and evidence and be able to come to their own conclusions about justice. Just looking at this as the attorney for the family, ben, do you believe there will be any more investigation about the shooting itself and what led to the shooting and the pretext for the Police Officers entering Breonna Taylors apartment. Yes, i do, joy reid. Breonna taylors family and my cocouns cocounsels, we agree with Governor Beshear that the transparency that he talks about, but also Kentucky Attorney general cameron talked about yesterday needs to be real. Thats why were demanding the transcripts of the grand jury proceedings to be released, because we dont know what evidence he presented to that grand jury. Did he present any evidence whatsoever on behalf of Breonna Taylor . Because if he did not, joy reid, then he unilaterally put his thumb on the scale of justice to help exonerate these Police Officers who killed Breonna Taylor and made sure that she would be denied justice based on his presentation to the grand jury. So we want to know, did anybody speak tore Breonna Taylor in those grand jury proceedings. Yeah. I think a lot of us wo