>> WHEN "ALL IN" STARTS RIGHT
NOW.
GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK.
I’M CHRIS HAYES.
WITH FIVE DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE
END OF VOTING, THE DYNAMIC OF
THIS RACE AT ITS MOST ESSENTIAL
CORE LEVEL HAS COME INTO SHARP
FOCUS.
IT IS A BATTLE BETWEEN A
PRO-DEMOCRACY MAJORITY AND AN
ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY.
THIS IS A FIGHT FOR MAJORITY
RULE IN THIS COUNTRY, TO REST
CONTROL FROM THE MINORITY OF
TRUMPISTS.
A MINORITY THAT HAS GOVERNED
WITH DISASTROUS AND CORRUPT
CONSEQUENCES AND THAT PRINCIPLE
AT THE HEART OF THIS RACE IS ON
DISPLAY EVERY DAY IN THE ACTIONS
OF THE TWO CAMPAIGNS AND THE TWO
PARTIES AND THE TWO COALITIONS.
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY SOLUTION TO THE
PROBLEM OF TRUMP AND THE ONGOING
CRISIS IN THIS COUNTRY AND THE
CRISIS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS
TO HAVE EVERYONE GO VOTE.
MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO
VOTE.
EXPAND VOTING AS, FOR INSTANCE,
DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS HAVE DONE
IN HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS.
EXPAND THE TIME WHEN PEOPLE CAN
VOTE.
WORK THROUGH THE COURTS AND
THROUGH POLICY TO BE ABLE TO
START COUNTING VOTES BEFORE
ELECTION DAY.
AND THEN COUNT VOTES THAT MIGHT
ARRIVE LATE FROM THE MAIL.
THE BASIC THEORY GUIDING ALL
THIS IS THAT THE MORE PEOPLE WHO
PARTICIPATE IN AMERICAN
DEMOCRACY, THE BETTER FOR THE
COUNTRY AND THE BETTER FOR THE
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO
SEE AN END TO THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
ON THE OTHER SIDE, DONALD TRUMP
AND REPUBLICANS ARE DOING THE
EXACT OPPOSITE.
AND WHILE IT’S IMMORAL AND
FUNDAMENTALLY ANTI-DEMOCRATIC
ITS IN APPROACH, IT’S NOT AN
IRRATIONAL STRATEGY FOR THEM.
THEY KNOW THEY ARE NOT GOING TO
WIN A MAJORITY OF THE VOTE.
LAST TIME DONALD TRUMP WON WITH
NEARLY 3 MILLION FEWER VOTES
THAN HILLARY CLINTON.
HE HAS A CEILING OF SUPPORT THAT
POLITICO CALLED HIS 50% PROBLEM.
DONALD TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING
HAS NEVER HIT 50%.
HE REMAINS UNDER 50% IN NATIONAL
POLLING AVERAGES.
AND IT IS DAWNING ON MAINSTREAM
OBSERVERS OF THIS RACE THAT
STOPPING PEOPLE FROM VOTING AND
STOPPING VOTES FROM BEING
COUNTED IS THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN’S
ONLY VIABLE OPTION FOR VICTORY.
AS POLITICO PUTS IT, "NEVER
BEFORE IN MODERN PRESIDENTIAL
POLITICS HAS A CANDIDATE BEEN SO
RELIANT ON WIDE SCALE EFFORTS TO
DEPRESS THE VOTE AS TRUMP."
A LOT OF THESE VOTER SUPPRESSION
EFFORTS AS WE’VE BEEN REPORTING
ARE COMING THROUGH THE COURTS.
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CAMPAIGN
AND REPUBLICAN AGENTS ACROSS THE
COUNTRY ARE FLOODING THE COURTS
WITH LAWSUITS TO TRY AND STOP
VOTES FROM BEING COUNTED AND
FROM PEOPLE CASTING VOTES.
THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF
LAWSUITS AT VARYING -- THERE’S
HUNDREDS.
WE HAD TO SHRINK THE FONT JUST
TO GET ALL THIS ON ONE PAGE TO
GIVE YOU A TASTE OF WHAT’S GOING
ON.
SO EARLIER THIS WEEK THE SUPREME
COURT SIDED WITH REPUBLICANS
RULING THAT WISCONSIN CANNOT
COUNT MAIL-IN BALLOTS RECEIVED
AFTER ELECTION DAY.
EVEN IF THEY WERE MAILED BEFORE
ELECTION DAY.
LAST WEEK, THE SUPREME COURT
AGREED WITH REPUBLICANS BLOCKING
AN ORDER ALLOWING ALABAMA
VOTERS, PARTICULARLY OLD AND
DISABLED VOTERS, TO CAST THEIR
BALLOTS CURBSIDE.
TOOK THAT AWAY.
COURT AGREED WITH SOUTH CAROLINA
REPUBLICANS EARLIER THIS MONTH
THAT MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN THE
STATE MUST HAVE A WITNESS
SIGNATURE.
MAKING IT OBVIOUSLY HARDER TO DO
THAT.
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS TRIED
AND SO FAR HAVE FAILED TO GET
THE SUPREME COURT TO REVERSE A
STATE COURT RULING THAT WILL
ALLOW BALLOTS THAT ARRIVE UP TO
THREE DAYS AFTER ELECTION DAY TO
BE COUNTED.
REPUBLICANS IN THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN TRIED THE SAME THING IN
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA TO
STOP BALLOTS FROM ARRIVING AFTER
ELECTION DAY TO BE COUNTED WITH
THE SAME RESULT.
THEY GOT REJECTED.
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN PREVIOUSLY
SUED TO LIMIT THE USE OF DROP
BOXES IN PENNSYLVANIA.
IN NEVADA THEY FILED THREE
DIFFERENT LAWSUITS TO LIMIT THE
STATE’S EXPANDED MAIL F-IN VOTE
SYSTEM.
IN TEXAS THE TOP COURT IN THAT
STATE UPHELD THE REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR’S POLICY ALLOWING ONLY
ONE DROP-OFF BOX PER COUNTY,
THAT’S ONE DROP-OFF BOX FOR
PEOPLE IN4
MILLION PEOPLE IN THE COUNTY.
SUING TO VOID THOUSANDS OF
BALLOTS THAT WERE CAST BY VOTERS
IN THEIR CARS.
REPUBLICANS IN GP GNMICHIGAN SEE
TO BLOCK A RULING A I LOWING
VOTERS, ANYONE DELIVERING AN
SENSYSEN
SY
ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND
REPUBLICANS WON A SERIES OF
VICTORIES IN IOWA LIMITING
ABSENTEE VOTING MAKING IT HARDER
FOR COUNTIES TO PROCESS ABSENTEE
BALLOT APPLICATIONS.
THAT IS JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF
ALL THE LITIGATION THAT’S BEEN
GOING ON.
JUST MINUTES AGO, MINUTES AGO,
MINNESOTA REPUBLICANS WON A CASE
IN THE 8th CIRCUIT COURT OF
APPEALS, A FEDERAL APPELLATE
COURT, THAT ORDERS THE SEGREGATE
SEGREGATION OF LATE-ARRIVING
ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN THE STATE,
ONES THAT COME AFTER ELECTION
DAY, MAILED BEFOREHAND, WITH THE
SUGGESTION THAT VOTES THAT
ARRIVE AFTER 8:00 P.M. ON
ELECTION DAY BE EXCLUDED FROM
OFFICIAL COUNT.
AS CONSERVATIVE NEVER TRUMPER
DAVID FRENCH PUT IT, "IT’S
DEEPLY DISTURBING VIRTUALLY
EVERYWHERE THE CONCERTED
LITIGATION STRATEGY IN THE GOP
IS TO MAKE SEWERURE FEWER VOTES
COUNT.
THE STRATEGY GOES FAR, FAR
BEYOND ANY LEGITIMATE CONCERN
ABOUT FRAUD."
THE TRUMP AND REPUBLICAN
STRATEGY HERE HAS BECOME
COMPLETELY UNTETHERED FROM ANY
EITHER INVENTED CLAIM, REALLY,
ABOUT FRAUD.
I MEAN, THEY VOTER SUPPRESSED IN
THE PAST.
VOTER I.D., THEY SAYID DAYTHEY W
WORRIED ABOUT FRAUD.
WHY WOULD THERE BE MORE FRAUD IN
A BALLOT THAT’S MAILED THE DAY
BEFORE ELECTION OR THE ONE
THAT’S MAILED TWO WEEKS BEFORE?
THE THIN EXCUSES FOR VOTER
SUPPRESSION EFFORTS THAT WE USE
THE TOUSED
TO SEE ARE JUST DONE.
THEY JUST WANT FEWER VOTES TO BE
COUNTED BECAUSE THEY CAN’T WIN
ANY OTHER WAY.
THEY THINK THEY HAVE THE COURTS
ON THEIR SIDE.
ON TOP OF THAT MAYBE EVEN MORE
DANGEROUSLY, REPUBLICAN FORCES
IN BATTLEGROUND STATES ARE
BASICALLY DOING EVERYTHING IN
THEIR POWER TO DELAY THE
COUNTING OF MAIL NF VOTES WHICH
ARE, OF COURSE, EXPECTED TO BE
HEAVILY PRO-BIDEN.
IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE DONALD TRUMP
WON BY OVER 17 POINTS IN 2016,
THE COUNTY ELECTION BOARD
ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY IT WILL NOT
EVEN START COUNTING MAIL-IN AND
ABSENTEE BALLOTS UNTIL THE DAY
AFTER THE ELECTION.
WE ARE LIVING THROUGH, AS YOU
MAY KNOW, A ONCE IN A CENTURY
PANDEMIC WHICH LOOKS TO BE
SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL WITH
FIVE DAYS TO GO UNTIL THE
ELECTION DAY.
THE INCUMBENT PRESIDENT IS DOWN
AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT NINE POINTS
IN THE POLLS.
UNEMPLOYMENT IS STILL NEARLY 8%.
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THIS RACE
ARE A DISASTER FOR THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS PARTY.
AND THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT
THEY’RE DOING.
THEIR LAST HOPE IS TO
ESSENTIALLY SUBVERT DEMOCRACY,
ITSELF, BECAUSE A FREE AND FAIR
ELECTION IN WHICH EVERYONE