>>> WERE IN A STATE OF
EMERGENCY WHEN IT COMES TO
DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTRY, AS
WELL AS POLICING.
AND JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS,
AND I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
WANT TO SEE DRAMATIC ACTION ON
BOTH OF THESE ISSUES.
SO WELL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT
TOMORROW WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN.
>> MARK MORIALE WILL BE ONE OF
SEVERAL LEADERS MEETING WITH
PRESIDENT BIDEN TOMORROW TO
FOCUS ON VOTING RIGHTS.
BACK WITH US, CORNELL BELCHER
AND STUART STEVENS.
I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THIS POLL,
THE LEFT SIDE OF THE POLL TALKS
ABOUT WHETHER YOURE CONCERNED
ABOUT VOTER ACCESS, 85% OF
DEMOCRATS ARE MORE CONCERNED
WITH VOTER ACCESS.
25% OF REPUBLICANS ARE CONCERNED
ABOUT VOTER ACCESS.
72% OF REPUBLICANS ARE CONCERNED
ABOUT VOTER ELIGIBILITY.
MEANING, PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT
ELIGIBLE TO VOTE ACTUALLY VOTING
IN ELECTIONS.
COULD YOU PLEASE TELL THIS
AUDIENCE HOW BIG A DEAL THAT IS,
HOW MUCH OF AN ISSUE PEOPLE WHO
ARE INELIGIBLE VOTING IN ELECTIONS IS IN AMERICA?
ELECTIONS IS IN AMERICA?
>> WELL, ALI, AS YOU KNOW, WE
DONT HAVE WIDESPREAD VOTER
FRAUD IN THIS COUNTRY, WE DONT
HAVE WIDESPREAD PROBLEMS WITH
INELIGIBLE VOTERS VOTING IN THIS
DOURNT
COUNTRY.
ITS PART OF THE BIG LIE, AND
THE REPUBLICAN BASE HAS BOUGHT
IN TO THAT BIG LIE.
THATS PART OF THE PROBLEM, WHAT
IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
ONCE YOU START LYING, YOU CANT
GET OFF OF THAT TRAIN.
EVERYTHING YOURE SEEING HAPPEN
RIGHT NOW HAS TO FEED INTO THAT
LIE.
THE GOOD NEWS IS, YOU STILL HAVE
A MAJORITY OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS
IN THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE MORE
CONCERNED ABOUT VOTER ACCESS.
IT GOES BACK TO THE INITIAL
POINT, FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY IS
A WINNING ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATS IF
THEY EMBRACE IT GOING INTO THE
MIDTERMS.
>> STUART, HERES THE PROBLEM.
IVE HAD A NUMBER OF
CONSERVATIVES SAY TO ME, DONT
YOU WANT ELECTIONS TO BE SAFE,
SHOULDNT WE MAKE THEM
ABSOLUTELY AS SAFE AS WE CAN?
BUT OUR ELECTIONS ARE
FUNDAMENTALLY SAFE.
PEOPLE HAVE BOUGHT INTO THE IDEA THAT THERE WAS FRAUD.
THAT THERE WAS FRAUD.
AND A PLURALITY OF REPUBLICANS
BELIEVE SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED
IN THIS PAST ELECTION.
>> YES, AND IF JOE BIDEN IS AN
ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT, WE DONT
LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY.
THATS THE HEART OF THE DANGER
OF THE PATH THAT REPUBLICANS
HAVE GONE DOWN.
THEYRE THE HEIRS TO THE LEGACY
OF THE GREATEST GENERATION, WHO
FOUGHT FASCISM, WHO FOUGHT
PEOPLE WHO HAD THE SAME VIEWS
ABOUT LIMITING PEOPLE FROM
VOTING.
THERE IS NOT A PROBLEM WITH
VOTER FRAUD IN THIS COUNTRY.
IT SIMPLY DOESNT EXIST.
>> CORNELL, IN TEXAS, HOUSE
REPUBLICANS ARE HEADING INTO A
SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION,
THEYRE PROPOSING BANNING
DRIVE-THROUGH AND OVERNIGHT
EARLY VOTING.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE TEXAS
REPUBLICANS HAVE LOOKED AT
EVERYTHING THAT WORKED TO GET
PEOPLE OUT TO VOTE, AND DECIDED
WERE GOING TO BAN THIS.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS
CATCHING ON ALL ACROSS AMERICA.
THE IMPETUS FOR THIS IS STOPPING
FRAUD.
STOPPING BAD THINGS FROM
HAPPENING.
BUT IN TEXAS, LIKE IN ARIZONA,
MICHIGAN, PENNSYLVANIA, AND
GEORGIA, BAD THINGS DIDNT
HAPPEN.
MORE PEOPLE JUST VOTED.
>> WELL, CAN WE BE REAL HERE FOR
A MOMENT?
ITS TO STOP PEOPLE WHO QUITE
FRANKLY LOOK LIKE ME FROM
EXERCISING POLITICAL POWER.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS,
YOURE GOING TO HEAR MORE CALLS
ABOUT A STOLEN ELECTION AS THE
COUNTRY OVER THE NEXT DECADE AND
A HALF MOVES CLOSER TO MAJORITY
MINORITY.
BECAUSE THOSE PLAYING A ZERO SUM
RACIAL GAME AND THE TRIBALISM
GAME, THINK THEY EVERY POLITICAL
STRIDE THAT PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE
ME MAKE IN THIS COUNTRY IS THEM
LOSING OUT.
UNTIL WE HAVE THE REAL
CONVERSATION ABOUT WERE ALL ONE
AMERICA, YOU DONT LOSE IF A
BLACK MAN IS ELECTED PRESIDENT.
YOUR TRIBE ISNT LOSING, WERE
GOING TO HAVE REAL PROBLEMS.
I ONLY SEE THIS ACCELERATING
UNTIL WE GET TO THAT MOMENT IN
THIS COUNTRY WHEN WE TILT TOWARD
A MAJORITY MINORITY COUNTRY, AND
THOSE TRYING TO STOP MINORITIES
AND PROGRESSIVES FROM EXERCISING
THEIR POLITICAL POWER.
>> I HOPE YOURE WRONG.