if the president does not accept defeat
why would his supporters they're trying
to suppress us they're trying to break
us
joe biden is the president-elect but in
arizona the votes are still being
counted
and the longer it goes on the more some
suspect foul play
somewhere something's not right the
ballots are being found on the streets
no ballots are being submitted for
people who have been dead
accusations of widespread and systematic
fraud
are sweeping across social media
no credible evidence has yet been
presented to support such claims
but they're coming from the president
himself and for many
outside the maricopa county vote
tabulation center
that is proof enough in that one county
in michigan
six thousand votes were changed to biden
that were voted for trump
so i i heard that wasn't true at all
well that's because you're [ __ ] full
of [ __ ]
and by the way don't turn our country
into a [ __ ] like yours
how come we can't see what's in there
right how can we can't observe
the whole foundation of american
democracy is that people trust the
result whatever the result is right
you you trust it is fair we don't care
if it's biden or trump
right but long as it
at the edge of the gathering there's a
solitary counter protester
i wanted to come and show my support for
president-elect biden
other biden supporters i wanted to show
my friends who might be like worried
about coming out here
is it okay thank you for being here the
mood
is mostly friendly guns are part of the
culture
they don't necessarily signify intent
but their presence does
come with implications
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some more counter protesters arrive with
a more provocative message
donald trump is a [ __ ] nazi
unfortunately
he won't he won't denounce white
supremacy
why won't he do it the past four years
have exposed
deep chasms in american society
okay if he's so racist how could he got
more hispanic reported
support in this election the culture war
has at times
looked in danger of spilling over into
actual war
i'm proud to be white is that okay
you're a little man you're a little man
what [ __ ] country do you think you're
in right now
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you guys are gonna lose you can't cheat
the situation
is diffused the cameras will go away
when we go away
let's go trump's supporters still
believe the count
if done fairly will keep their man in
the white house
once upon a time in america elections
were relatively straightforward
votes would be cast ballots counted the
tv networks would call the race
and a few notable exceptions aside that
would be that no longer
i'm actually under warning right now on
facebook
the internet has shifted the balance of
power
the narrative of a stolen election is
spread online
by people like karen wood the arizona
state organizer of something called
stop the steal in the two days after the
election
the group amassed more than three
hundred thousand followers
before being taken down by facebook
because of threats of violence
posted by some members they're saying
anything is incitement to violence
one of the claims karen makes with no
evidence
is that an error at a machine count in
michigan which was quickly rectified
was widely replicated they actually had
some of these machines
changing votes from from trump to biden
where are you where is this information
coming from
you find it that's your job but now
where have you got it from
oh i've got i'm getting it from a lot of
the people in the white house
that they have posted that this this is
what's happening
when you see something posted from the
white house from donald trump on
downwards
i believe him
i believe him do you do you worry about
the
the tone of of public discourse now
absolutely
we're in my opinion we're very close to
a civil war
in america i think seriously yes
we are patriots we will fight to the
death
to not have socialism and communism come
into our country we don't want to be a
venezuela
does it ever occur to you that perhaps
your
um patriotism and and your your sense of
what is right and wrong
is being used in a way by somebody who
maybe knows that they've lost an
election and is is using you by
telling falsehoods no i don't believe so
but when donald trump says i won this
election by a lot
he's lying to you right he he didn't and
there's no evidence to say that he did
i think he may i think he knows a lot
more than we know
so far few senior figures in the
republican party
have spoken out publicly against the
unfounded allegations emanating from the
white house
one exception is the former senator for
arizona snowflake my hometown
it went 99 for trump his opposition to
donald trump
cost him his seat two years ago most of
the republican party has accepted it
whether they want to admit it or not a
lot of them are still plain to that
audience of one
not knowing where the trump base will go
if the republican establishment
knows that this is bogus but they're not
saying so
isn't that dangerous yeah it is i think
it's it's terrible for the system
it's it's not a good thing for democracy
but
um it will run its course and it will
say more about
the president than it will about our
demands i just wonder whether the genie
can be put back in the bottle once this
tactic has been used
in a presidential contest yeah i think
it can
it's you know not that easy he still
commands a lot of support and dedication
on behalf of the base you can see that
by how many are still sticking with him
people that know better i mean lindsey
graham he knows better
uh you know ted cruz those guys they
know better why are they sticking with
him
but well they look at the bases he
controls and they don't want to run
afoul of that base
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outside the counting office in phoenix
the vibe is definitely not
civil war we're going to stay out here
until we get an answer from them
and then we're going to go to the
capitol right because
other brothers and sisters in america
need our support realistically though
joe biden's going to be the next
president don't you think
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we just want actually a fair and honest
election whether it is joe biden
that's great as long as it's a fair and
honest election
the counting is not yet done but the
chances of the result changing is
vanishingly small
donald trump's time in the white house
is coming to an end
but the strength of america's faith in
its democracy
may depend on the manner of his leaving