Marc Elias Sounds Alarm On Trump’s Election Plan
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | new-ish friend, Mark Elias of Democracy Docket. I'm sure you know him. We should be monitoring |
| 0:27.8 | his work. He's a democratic campaign lawyer du jour. Who now is leading the fight in a lot of |
| 0:34.4 | courtrooms against Trump's attack on democracy. I want to grab him |
| 0:38.2 | because I am, I'm pretty alarmed by the statement that Trump put out on truth social, the |
| 0:44.3 | bleat he put out, about mail-in ballots. I want to read that for everybody. But first, Mark, |
| 0:49.0 | I guess I'm wondering, could you give us kind of an alarm scale for you on what you're seeing out of the White House today on mail-in ballots? |
| 0:57.8 | Look, I think it's very alarming. |
| 0:59.2 | I think, you know, anytime the President of the United States says that he is going to shut down the predominant method of voting in, you know, a quarter of the states, a method of voting that Democrats disproportionately rely on |
| 1:11.4 | versus Republicans, and to boot is also going to attack unspecified voting equipment. |
| 1:16.7 | We're not sure what voting equipment is that he's attacking, but he's going to attack that. |
| 1:20.6 | It is something we have to take both literally and seriously. |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.1 | So here's the statement. |
| 1:26.1 | Bekinans, I'm going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots and also while |
| 1:29.6 | we're at it, highly inaccurate, very expensive and seriously controversial voting machines, |
| 1:34.8 | which cost 10 times more than accurate and sophisticated watermark paper, which is faster |
| 1:40.6 | and leaves no doubt. |
| 1:41.6 | Okay, so we'll say that for a second. |
| 1:42.7 | But we move forward. |
| 1:43.8 | He goes on to talk about how he has an executive order plan. |
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