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That is according to a colleague by the washington post. many of them are expected to win the races. this comes as nbc reports from two sources. donald trump, the twice impeached former president who is currently under investigation by the department of justice, he will likely announce his next bid for the white house as soon as this month. this is why voting is so important. control the senate in the house are on the line. history is not on the side of those bowing to uphold democracy in voting rights in this country. the party to control the white house typically loses featuring midterms. th...

Hold his beliefs. that is, it is very concerning, it is the same thing we saw again right before january 6th. it is a feeling that this is really infiltrating the mainstream and a way that is deeply uncomfortable. you saw, when people talk about violence online, and they say they are going to commit violence online. often they go do that thing. >> i want to ask you about what the npr headline, one in five local officials saying they are likely to quit before 2024. this is an example, perhaps the civil war thing is a distraction, this is not an abstraction. we have seen violence and threats of ...

It is likely that civil war will break out within the next ten years. i don't know enough about the poll to understand, do the 43% want a civil war? do they fear a civil war? but the idea that this kind of thing can happen is the undermining of democracy, right? if you believe america will be in a civil war in the next decade, that means that faith and the fact this is a working democracy is diminishing. >> absolutely, for that, we can take the pulse of the way people are feeling from on social media i'm in the space a lot. the idea that people are hang on to those guns for the civil war is ex...

Strategy. wherein lies the risk? >> what is different here, we had parties interfering. we had republicans supporting green candidates and democrats supporting libertarians. what is here, is there's major parts of the republican party that are not supporting democracy. what you need for a working democracy, people that support both parties. if democrats knock off the republicans that are for democracy, they are playing with fire. >> here's your comment. i will put it on the screen. from the same "new york times" editorial, the cook political report changed meijer's district to lean republican ...

Would like to see him do much more of what he did last week. i think it was very effective. it was incredibly reassuring for democrats who have kind of bemoaned the fact he hasn't taken on trump and i think you'll see democrats' approval of him go up when he does this, and we're going to see him again on next week or this upcoming week in georgia when he talks about voting rights. so i think he can't put this issue aside, he's the leader of the free world, democracy is a good issue. this is how he won the presidency, fighting for the soul of democracy. when he does it, you can feel him get tha...