>> As we know, Donald Trump supporters are looking to intimidate voters at in-person
voting locations, and now we have more details based on how they're communicating to one
another on publicly available chat forums. So these far right groups on the donald.win
say things like this, consider this polling station on lockdown, says one individual.
That's what a member of the far right message board, the Donald posted this week, alongside
a picture of a South Carolina poll managers handbook. David Gilbert is the vice reporter
who is reporting on this. Now, a comment on the same post also read, my polling place
is gonna be like trying to enter North Korea, effing lock down.
I will be honoring the BLM movement by working in blackface. And by the way, this is the
result of Trump calling on his supporters to be, so called poll watchers, during the
first debate, that was when he said it. And his campaign has been following up this rhetoric
ever since.
The Trump campaign has set up a website with the militaristic title, Army for Trump, which
is recruiting supporters for election day operations. So now, members of the Donald
are acting on cues from Trump. One member posted a picture of a reference guide for
a voter service and polling center judge in our pay whoa county in Colorado with the caption,
all your polling stations belong to us.
A user called Lincoln posted a picture of a manual for poll workers in New York State,
while another user posted a picture of an electronic poll book training manual. So basically,
they're literally getting hired as poll workers as well. We've shared stories in the past
of how the Trump campaign I should say, is planning on hiring Armed off duty law enforcement
to also serve as poll watchers.
And so, listen, if you have the ability to vote by mail or vote ahead of time, vote early,
do whatever you can, because as we can see from the actions being taken by Trump supporters,
they're doing anything and everything they can to intimidate people from voting.
>> And don't under any circumstances, let them intimidate you.
Now, of course, we have a giant problem here, which is that this problem should be taken
care of right away. Get the police on it, they protect the country and democracy, and
they find out who these folks are, if they can. But most importantly, on the day of the
election, they're on standby.
Not the far right militias, but the police are on standby to immediately go to polling
stations sort out problems, so people don't wait in line. So they don't get intimidated,
because remember, the right wing doesn't have to win a fight at a polling station. They
just have to create a fight.
Once you create a fight, the people are scared, and they don't show up to vote, in democratic
areas or heavily democratic areas, that's mission accomplished. So it is so important
for the cops to be on top of that, and to makes sure that that does not happen under
any circumstance.
The problem is, oftentimes, the cops are not on our sides. So there's a cop in one of these
states who said no, I'm not gonna do anything about it. Okay, I was in the vise story, and
five of the battleground states allow for people to walk into polling stations armed.
And then the police in that case, rightfully go, that's the law, there's nothing I could
do about it. They could all walk in with weapons. They can't point it at people, they can't
fire it. We hope the police would do something about that. But they could come in brandishing
weapons and try to intimidate people.
Gee, I wonder who's on the side of democracy, and who's on the side of dictators and fascists.
And these are the same little crybabies that said, there was two black panthers at a polling
station in one election in 2012 in Philadelphia. My God, there's two black people. I was intimidated
because they're black, right?
Meanwhile, they come in heavily armed, ahead of time telling you, we're gonna try to intimidate
you and block you from voting, including with our weapons, and there's barely anything done
about it. The disparity in this country is mind boggling and maddening.
>> Yeah, and one of the things Cenk that really stands out to me is how, they're under the
impression that Democrats are trying to cheat.
Donald Trump has burned through his campaign money. He's canceling ads all over the place.
He's fallen behind in polling, Biden is leading nationally in the double digits. They're the
ones who have tried to dismantle the post office and do a number of things to essentially
get an edge in this upcoming general election.
It's just pathetic that they think that Democrats are the ones who are trying to cheat here.