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This is just an ongoing effort on his part to curry fair and hold on to that seat, which i see no possible way for him to win. so they pick on fulton county georgia. why fulton county? because we are the largest of the 159 counties in georgia. we're the most democratic county. in. and therefore four other county s surrounding us. these five counties, we represent almost 40% of the population of the state of georgia, primarily democrats and we're going to come out and vote like we never have before. this is not about the 2020 election. this is about the big lie and trying to position themselves...

So they pick on fulton county georgia. why fulton county? because we are the largest of the 159 counties in georgia. we're the most democratic county. in. and therefore four other county s surrounding us. these five counties, we represent almost 40% of the population of the state of georgia, primarily democrats and we're going to come out and vote like we never have before. this is not about the 2020 election. this is about the big lie and trying to position themselves for 2022 and 2024. let me ask you about the 2020 election. "the atlanta journal-constitution" reported on an internal audit of...

Democracy. and it's happening now in front of our eyes in georgia. it wasn't enough for georgia republicans to make it extremely difficult for minorities and others to vote in predominantly democratic areas of their state, now a swing state. so they are now turning to election subversion. if they can't win elections even by shading means, then they are damn well going to overturn the results. a letter sent friday to the georgia state board of elections from statehouse republicans request that the state undertake a performance review of local election officials in atlanta's fulton county, the s...

Had donald trump won. state senate republicans sent a letter earlier in the week. it's a move that could result in a republican takeover of election operations in the state's most democratic county. that republicans are even allowed to make this request is a part of georgia's controversial new voting law. last month president biden called election subversion the most dangerous threat to free and fair elections in our history. >> never before has there been an attempt by state legislatures to take over the ability to determine who won. not count the votes, determine who won. we have election of...

That's what the new category of negotiation is all about, and i think it's ball game. i think republicans understand that if they control the counting rooms and the counting process, that is the way in which they can systematically undermine democracy in the most profound way. we saw it on display, the threat of it in 2020. i think if any bill that democrats take up in the senate or in the house or in congress over these coming months, if it doesn't address that issue, it misses the point. >> the for the people act was written last year. it was written before the election, long before we saw t...