Transcript
Mark Elias (0:00)
Sounding the alarm about the risks that Donald Trump faced to democracy. Since I was the general counsel to Hillary Clinton's campaign, you and I did a lot of television sounding the Alarm before the 2020 election and what we saw afterwards. And I am here to sound a larger and louder alarm today than I ever have before. I mean, the fact is that Donald Trump has proven himself desperate. As you point out, the redistricting has not worked out the way he wished. I'm proud that my law firm represented the Democratic Party in defeating the Republican effort that just, we just won in the Supreme Court. But the fact is that when that didn't work out, he then went to plan B. And plan B is what we are seeing. It is political prosecutions. It is the threats of more political prosecutions. It is the dry running of how one seizes ballots. Yes, he's interested in 2020, but he's really interested in setting up the mechanism to be able to seize ballots in 2026. He has found a prosecutor in Missouri, not in Georgia, in Missouri, seizing ballots in Georgia. That prosecutor in Missouri apparently has nationwide jurisdiction. So he has found a willing prosecutor to, to. To do these things.
Norm Eisen (1:09)
Good record is in court after court and tribunal after tribunal that nothing untoward happened in Fulton County. So that's been established again and again, litigated and definitively established. And then in terms of protecting the election since the beginning of Donald Trump's pivot to full on authoritarianism, which came after he lost the 2020 election and then challenged those results not just in Georgia, but all over the country, in six states all over the country. The democracy movement and the civil rights movement has been fully deployed and has been successful in court stopping efforts to delegitimize election outcomes. I was a part representing states pro bono of many of those 63 cases that Donald Trump lost in the aftermath of the 2020 election. My organization, Democracy Defenders Fund and Democracy Defenders Action were in every place where there was an election in 2025.
Ken Paxton (2:31)
Eugene.
Norm Eisen (2:32)
And in none of those, we had DOJ observers and others in none of those places. There was little blip in New Jersey. We went to court, we got an order Election Day, stopping an effort to mess with the polls there. So it's been unsuccessful. And there are literally hundreds of groups around the country that are ready to protect the election in 2016.
Cleo Pascal (2:57)
But don't touch the nannies or the gardeners or the ones who are picking up the jalapeno peppers or the oranges or the berries or the ones in the dairy houses. Come on Those people are helping us eat better. Cheaper homes, cheaper vegetables and better fruits. So those are the ones that we are trying to give a dignified status.
