Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161124:02:09:00
They would all go to the republican candidate. and so the republican candidate would win the presidency. and in exchange, you know what the democrats would get? they would get the yankee troops out of the south. here, party of lincoln. sure. you can have the presidency, which you did not win in this election. but in exchange, the confederacy gets the south back. and that's how reconstruction was switched off in the south, like somebody taking an a ax to a junction box. reconstruction got traded away. it got traded for the white house. which then went to a guy who did actually lose that preside...