Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of the Left Podcast

Podcast in which as the country gears up for election in November we look at a

variety of ways the GOP and their election denialist supporters are preparing

to subvert the democratic process to get the result they want. Sources today include

The Gaggle and Arizona Politics Podcast, the PBS News Hour, the majority report, the

Tom Hartman program, Alex Wagner Tonight, and the Rachel Maddo show with additional

members only clips from The Gaggle and the

Tom Hartman program.

The Rachel Maddo Show,

It's interesting because you see a national movement, not just here in Arizona, where people who are disappointed with the outcome of elections, be at 2020 or 2022, are being led to believe a set of

lies.

It's perfectly understandable to be disappointed about the outcome of elections.

There's hardly an American that hasn't experienced

disappointment at their candidate lost. And we live in a country that's divided 50-50.

Arizona is a state that's divided 50-50. Maricopa is a county that's divided 50-50.

It should not surprise any of us

when our candidates lose and it's understandable that it's

disappointing.

But that doesn't mean that they didn't lose.

And it doesn't mean that we don't know that they lost, that this is a

knowable thing, provable, verifiable, thanks to things like paper ballots and audits and transparency and the bipartisanship that encompasses Arizona's

and others elections. And yet we see good Americans in many cases who are

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