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Hello, i'm christian fraser. you're watching the context on bbc news live from washington. all eyes are on california, the golden state that will determine the size of a republican majority in the house. not so far away, the vote—counters are being watched closely by republican candidates who have already cried foul. we will talk to the man in charge of the count in maricopa county. and will ron run for president? sadly, not the man next to me — we are talking instead about ron de santis, the florida governor, who is on the charge. tonight with the context, ron christie — former adviser ...

And in a hot mic moment senate majority leader chuck schumer expressed concerns over the fate of the senate. >> we're in danger of that seat. >> joining us now to discuss, cnn political commentator errol luis. what did you think of his assessment of georgia? >> senator schumer, i've known him a long time, he's one of the better vote counters out there. he's the architect of the senate democratic majority. he goes out and recruits candidates, he raises the money, supplies a lot of the messaging,

But how is all of that connected to the storming of the capitol? >> i think it's all part of a peace, in the sense that our democracy is under attack. we have to understand how fragile our democracy is. i think we are at a real dangerous point here and i'm not being alarmist and i don't think i'm being hyperbolic. but i'm real concerned about the state of our democracy. you saw in on january the 6th an attempt to keep in place somebody who lost an election by 7 million votes. we have seen instances of voter suppression around the country. we have seen partisan racial gerrymandering. we have se...

Maybe we need to look at the blue states which have not been nearly so reactive and supportive of voting as opposed to a state like georgia, which clearly has relative to them. >> this push by democrats as senators in dozens of states are taking steps to restrict voting in many cases with republicans invoking the big lie that the election was stolen as justification. just to be clear so our viewers know, you have said that joe biden won the election fair and square and called the big lie the big lie, but we did see trump last night in arizona trying to pressure legislators to decertify the 202...

>> of course, there's no constitutional way to do that. and trump delivered this message to the republican party in pennsylvania. pay attention to this part -- >> we have to be a lot sharper next time when it comes to counting the vote. there's a famous statement, sometimes the vote count is more important than the candidate and we can't let that ever happen again. we have to get tougher and smarter. >> democrats are very focused right now on capitol hill about beating back republican efforts at the state level that make it tougher to vote. while it's true many of those efforts are predicated ...