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President trump said there were fraudulent votes in 2016, so after the election it was not surprising in 2020. one was the narrowness of the win, the fact you had a handful of states where things were very, very close, imagine an election like 2000 where it was just focused on florida but so many other states just as close, that creates a further breeding ground for controversy. but also the length of time the ballots take to get counted. some was driven by covid and the massive spike in mail in votes but you have states like california and new york that always take a long time to count ballots. and you add swing states in, it s not healthy for america that steve kornacki had to be up for hours straight, it s not good that ballots take so long ....
That needed to be confronted if they could not be converted. i thought it was one of those moments in history we ought to freeze and play it over and over again. even after the hearing some of the insurrectionist congressmen doubled down on their comments. coming up, new effects of the lie of a stolen election. and later, the surgeon general joins us in danger of the delta variant, and what it means to people not vaccinated. morning joe is coming right back. le not vaccinated. morning joe is coming right back s all about. it s what the united states postal service has always been about. so as your business changes, we re changing with it. with e-commerce that runs at the speed of now. next day and two-day shipping nationwide. same day shipping across town. returns right from the doorstep, and deliveries seven days a week. ....
You saw the same thing coming. i have a lot of republican friends in p georgia, who were worried leading up to the georgia special election. they re saying we wish the president would just shut up because he s going to make the republican voters stay home by saying the voting in georgia is rigged. you talk about the law of unintended consequences the democrats have chuck schumer as majority leader based on republican field workers that i talked to because republicans said it s rigged i m not wasting my time going out and voting. republican areas, turn out was much lower than it was during the election. massive unintended consequences that are rippling throughout the congress because republicans don t have 50 votes. this wasn t, as you know this was as you have note in some ways predictable. ....
From 52 to 88 seven times. but now you have like newt gingrich, it s all those people in new york or california, and i have a suspicion what he means. if we can get the margins in the big states with the help of some, you know, voting restrictions and the help of some creative accounting, we ll take the presidency through the electoral college. and i find that despairing. and their attempts to overturn the election have been an abject failure on every level. so they re trying to put people in place who can change that strategy. jeff and kristin, thank you both. robert, bringing that new report to us as well. thank you. the latest on breaking news we ve been covering out of south florida. these are live pictures. nbc news learned now at least one person has died after the ....
Supports has many word r worried he s done damage to our democracy. what else does your report tell us? thanks for having me. i think it tells us two things one is a familiar story. the familiar story is that people who lose elections, people who are supporters of the losing candidate tend to distrust elections more than the people who supported the winning candidate. that s normal, happens election over election, nothing new there. what is unusual about 2020 is because of this campaign of lies by the president and significant portions of the republican party, we are seeing these unhugely high levels of distrust among republicans this election cycle and we say in the report we think it s a crisis of confidence. this is a significant level of distrust among republicans and now we re eight months out from the election and not seeing these levels dissipate. you know, kristin, i m sure ....