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Can he undo a lot of damage that was done in places like louden county by donald trump during the trump era? glenn youngkin doesn't necessarily need to win louden county to win tuesday night, but can he get it to ten points or less? that's something we'll obviously be watching on tuesday night. again, that's a story everyone nationally is going to be watching because in 2022, if republicans are going to win back the house, they need to win back the suburbs in district after district around the country. they need to win back voters they lost during donald trump's presidency. so those are two ty...

Facts and lived experience to prove it. this is "american voices." we begin with the future of american democracy and why the threat against it today is all but new. in fact, a key sign came several years ago when this group of torch-bearing neo-nazis and white supremacists marched through charlottesville, virginia, to protest the removal of confederate statues. the year was 2017. the president was donald trump. until that moment, many americans believed these people you're seeing only existed in the shadows of society, not on the streets out in the open, loud and proud. you know what happened...

Those in the philippines who are the mass extrajudicial killings, those in brazil look to us. over the past four years, they didn't recognize what they were seeing. all the while, china is extolling its model, which people should make no mistake is totalitarianism. there is a vigorous global competition over those two ideas, autocracy and democracy, and it's vital to us at home, but vital to people around the world that we win that argument. >> it brings me to what you said in the book about the significance of the title you chose, midnight is the darkest moment of the day but the most hopeful...

Despair while we get through it because it requires all of us to be engaged. the greatest danger to the republic is this effort around the country to disenfranchise people of color, but also to strip independent elections officials of their jobs and their duties and give them over to partisans who will find the votes that don't exist that brad raffensperger refused to find when donald trump pressed him to do so. what we can do right now is we can defend the right to vote around the country. we need to fight to get voting rights legislation passed in congress, but we also need americans all ove...

Of darkness? >> i am confident we're going to get through this. we don't have the luxury of despair while we get through it because it requires all of us to be engaged. the greatest danger to the republic is this effort around the country to disenfranchise people of color, but also to strip independent elections officials of their jobs and their duties and give them over to partisans who will find the votes that don't exist that brad raffensperger refused to find when donald trump pressed him to do so. what we can do right now is we can defend the right to vote around the country. we need to f...