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But, you know, donald trump and his surrogates are conflating that with election rigging and that's an attack on the system from within. it's perpetrated by the government on its citizens and those two things are not the same and so voting -- voter fraud happens, voters attempt to cheat in elections but that doesn't mean the system is rigged to the contrary, the system is designed to catch that, to stop it and to plea vent it. >> veteran gop attorney chris ashby, thank you very much for joining us on capitol hill in washington tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> tonight donald trump also took...

To watch people vote, you know, one of the things that those people don't know is it's actually against the law to intimidate people while they are trying to vote. so, you know, we're going to continue to see this. but i think we've been winning, and we've been winning because they have been lying about why they're doing it. and they are the ones who have been rigging the elections. >> you know, what judy just talked about, i mean trump has been telling folks, you know, after you vote, go to another precinct to watch it. you know, there's obviously a really nasty history there about how that's...

So we don't want to go down this road again. if trump wanted to talk about the real voter fraud, the real election rigging, he would talk about the fact this is the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the voting rights act. he would talk about the fact this is the first election since the supreme court has gutted the voting rights act. but since those are things that republicans did to try to benefit republicans, you don't hear about that being the leading threat to american democracy. >> i want to be careful about this word rigging because it has a very spe...

Individuals or maybe by groups of individuals. but, you know, donald trump and his surrogates are conflating that with election rigging and that's an attack on the system from within. it's perpetrated by the government on its citizens and those two things are not the same and so voting -- voter fraud happens, voters attempt to cheat in elections but that doesn't mean the system is rigged to the contrary, the system is designed to catch that, to stop it and to plea vent it. >> veteran gop attorney chris ashby, thank you very much for joining us on capitol hill in washington tonight. >> thanks f...

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