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For its nominee this year. it happens that it's donald trump. >> trump campaign manager kellyanne conway talking about the great relationship the trump campaign has with the rnc. the rnc came bearing gifts for the campaign this year. parties and their presidential candidates are supposed to have good relationships. that's part of the deal. that's usually at least ideally how it works. but that relationship, that coordination and the extent of that coordination is something that is now materially important to the breaking news that we reported here last night after the democratic party last nig...

Coordination and the extent of that coordination is something that is now materially important to the breaking news that we reported here last night after the democratic party last night filed papers in federal court in new jersey asking that court to hold the republican party in violation of an ancient consent decree that dates back to the 1980s. it dates back to an election in which the national republican party sent basically vigilante poll watchers into minority precincts in 1981. many of them wore guns, they wore these ballot security task force arm bands and they patrolled voting sites i...

Reported at polling places in newark's north ward. republican poll watcher, some of them off-duty policemen wearing guns and arm bands were also near the polls. it was all part of the national ballot security task force set up by the republican national and state committees to guard against vote fraud. but democrats charge it was a scare campaign to intimidate voters primarily in minority neighborhoods. >> this was 1981, the new jersey governor's race that year. we reported on this monday night. this is the case where the national republican party got involved in that gubernatorial election. t...

That this just seems a little sketchy to a lot of people, but beyond that there is this now plainly observable fact and legally important fact that what the trump campaign seems to be ginning up for election day this year is really a carbon copy of what the republican party did back in 1981 with their arm bands and their off-duty cops and their targeting minority districts. that's what they did in 1981 in new jersey. that's very clearly exactly what they are trying to do now, targeting minority districts, having off-duty law enforcement show up. right? identifying themselves as semiofficial of...

But what we reported here on monday night that has now all of a sudden come to fruition as truly bad news for the republican party brought upon them by donald trump, it's a very specific thing. it's something that leading republicans are tearing their hair about tonight. and it is having to do with this. >> several of these signs were reported at polling places in newark's north ward. republican poll watcher, some of them off-duty policemen wearing guns and arm bands were also near the polls. it was all part of the national ballot security task force set up by the republican national and state...