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Days. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, chuck, on everyone's minds here this morning, the number one guy is congressman cawthorn. he's been mired in one controversy after another. so the democrats were coming here to this polling precinct in this republican district. they want him out. and then even some of the republicans here who have been on the sidewalk before they go in and vote have been kind of mulling over this. trump's continued support for cawthorn and the endorsement that's got them sort of leaning his way. but they are worried the 26-year-old congressman isn't ready to serve...

But first let's turn to one of the lead reporters on this massive propublica piece. isaac, thanks so much for joining us. this all sounds like a sneak preview of coming attractions, insurrection 2, the sequel. at its core what's the plan? >> the plan is exactly like you said, jim, take over the republican party from the bottom up at the local level. but the reason this is important is because that local level, we have locally run elections in this country. that's really where the rubber meet the road. and people usually don't realize this or don't think about this, but in every state it's a li...

People demonstrating outside counting facilities right after the election in 2020, people threatening election workers and ultimately people marching to the capitol, a lot of those same people in the months that followed have gone into these republican party positions at the county level, and that means that next time around by virtue of those party positions they're actually going to be inside the room, inside the polling precinct, inside the counting facility in a position to influence the casting, counting and certification of ballots in ways that they just didn't have the infrastructure to...

Demonstrating outside counting facilities right after the election in 2020, people threatening election workers, and, you know, ultimately people marching to the capitol, a lot of those same people in the months that followed have gone into these republican party positions at the county level. and that means that next time around, by virtue of those party positions, they're actually going to be inside the room, inside the polling precinct, inside the counting facility, in a position to influence the casting, counting, and certification of ballots in ways that they just didn't have the infrastr...