May 26 — The Threat to Democracy

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🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Secretaries of State Brad Raffensperger (R-Ga.), Jocelyn Benson (D-Mich.), Al Schmidt (R-Penn.) and Adrian Fontes (D-Ariz.) join a special edition of Meet the Press on threats to democracy ahead of November’s elections. Anne Applebaum, author of, “Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World,” and Renee DiResta, author of, “Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality,” describe the international threats from disinformation and authoritarianism abroad. Peter Baker, Evelyn Farkas, Ben Ginsberg and Amna Nawaz weigh in with the presidential race. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, the threat to democracy.
0:05.0	Democracy is on the ballot.
0:07.0	I don't think you're going to have another election in this country if we don't win this election.
0:11.0	It's one of the top issues in the 2024 election.
0:15.3	Mail-in voting is totally corrupt.
0:17.7	We have to watch the cheating.
0:20.0	After the fight over the 2020 election, what lessons have been learned?
0:24.7	Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed.
0:29.1	Election workers facing death threats.
0:31.9	We have seen a dangerous increase in violent threats
0:34.8	against public servants. Are election officials prepared? In 2024 the bad
0:40.6	actors I believe will be more coordinated more strategic better funded.
0:44.7	We support protecting the rights of every voter to have free accurate secure elections.
0:50.2	This morning a bipartisan conversation with the secretaries of state in four key battleground states,
0:57.0	plus the threat of disinformation, artificial intelligence, and a heightened risk from foreign actors.
1:04.4	Russia remains the most active foreign threat to our elections.
1:08.0	I'll speak with the Atlantic's Ann Applebaum and Renee de Resta of Stanford's Internet Observatory.
1:14.0	And in a year when more than half the world's population will hold elections,
1:19.0	how do we restore faith in our institutions?
1:22.0	Joining me for Insight and Analysis are New York Times Chief
1:25.9	White House correspondent Peter Baker.
1:28.3	Aminavaz, co-anchor of PBS News Hour.
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