The Next Coup Attempt Will Be More Dangerous: Review of "The Steal" by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague
A new book shows how scattershot January 6 was—and why a repeat could be harder to stop.
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A new book shows how scattershot January 6 was—and why a repeat could be harder to stop.
“The Steal,” by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague, memorializes those brave Republicans who defied their party and refused to overturn the 2020 election.
To try to stay in power, this failed, stopped by integrity of hundreds of obscure americans from every walk of life, many republicans, some trump supporters, they saw the steal for what it was, fraud on the united states of america. joining us now, mark bowden and matthew teague, authors of "the steal: the attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the people who stopped it." mark, you went around the country to see everything that happened between election day and january 6th, how did what we know so far about the plotting in washington connect with or sync with what you found happening out in...
Mark bowden and matthew teague co-authors of "the steal: the attempt to overturn the 20 election and the people who stopped it." their plan didn't work not because our two system shut it down but because of a few high integrity election officials and vp mike pence said no to trump. may have cost pence his political future. what's the wildest thing you learned that the public doesn't know? >> well, i think that, you know, most of the wildest stuff was coming out of washington. in fact, there were hundreds of local election officials, local elected officials throughout the country who many of wh...
Not as dishonest as donald trump would like them to be. as we see in the story, local officials who run the elections in this country -- don't have federal agency who supervise the elections, they're held every county and state all over the america, run by your neighbors and mine. truth is, at least what we found looking at this effort in 2020 was that most local officials, republicans and democrats, are determined to run an honest and fair election and refuse to be cajoled and bullied into lying and taking it back. that gives me hope. i think to me a party that's desperate to hang on to power...