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The Al Franken Podcast

189: Dems Top Election Lawyer Marc Elias on the Legal Battles Ahead

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Trump and the GOP are working harder to disenfranchise voters NOW than they were in 2020. They are no longer a majoritarian party and want to disrupt our electoral process as much as they can. How will we preserve the integrity of this election? What are some of the ways that Trump and GOP lawyers will attempt to derail the will of the people? Our friend and top Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias from Democracy Docket joins us to break down some of the ways that our democracy is under attack and what we can do to fight it. 


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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change.

0:09.0

And this time, this time, I mean it, because Mark Elias, the Democrat's super election lawyer

0:15.6

joins me to talk about how he's fighting this bastard Trump, who is doing everything he can to steal

0:23.7

this election, including threatening to imprison election officials he claims are cheats.

0:31.5

You see, Trump continues to claim ridiculously that he won the 2020 election, even though Elias won 64 cases against

0:41.6

Trump after that election, proving that there is no question that Biden won, beating Trump

0:47.4

by more than 7 million votes and 306 to 232 in the Electoral College.

0:54.5

Please be aware, Trump wrote the other day, quote,

0:58.6

that this legal exposure extends to lawyers, political operatives, donors,

1:05.9

illegal voters, and corrupt election officials.

1:09.3

Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought

1:13.6

out and caught and prosecuted at levels unfortunately never seen before in our country.

1:21.4

In other words, he's going to prosecute and imprison state election officials who certify that Kamala Harris won.

1:31.2

This during a week when he and his running mate, J.D. Vance, continued to spread malicious

1:37.2

lies about the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio. Vance got the ball rolling by spreading

1:43.9

what he knew to be a false rumor,

1:47.4

that the Haitian immigrants were stealing residents, cats, and dogs, and eating them.

1:53.5

But he put that out after local authorities had told him that those rumors were not true.

2:01.6

Then he said later on CNN,

2:04.6

The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes.

2:10.6

If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people,

2:19.1

then that's what I'm going to do.

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