Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Democrats’ top legal strategist in the 2020 Presidential election won nearly every lawsuit brought by Trump’s team. He explains why the threat to democracy is far greater in 2024.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC studios and the New Yorker.
0:07.0	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:12.0	I'm David Remnick.
0:13.0	In the fire hose of outlandish statements bursting out of Donald Trump,
0:18.0	like Mexico sending Hanam elector to the United States or
0:22.0	Kamala Harris becoming black just recently, well,
0:26.2	you might have missed something like this.
0:28.9	You don't have to vote, don't worry about voting.
0:30.7	The voting, we got plenty of votes.
0:32.3	You got to watch election night you
0:34.4	know it used to be election day election night now it's election month now it's
0:39.7	election period some of these things going for 53 days.
0:44.6	We've got plenty of votes, because in Trump's view,
0:47.8	he's always the winner and the election is always rigged.
0:51.1	In 2016, he said it was rigged until he won it. He claimed the 2020
0:55.7	election was stolen as he was desperately attempting to steal it. Now right up to
1:01.6	the January 6th insurrection, Trump's main strategy for denying his loss in
1:06.8	2020 was a barrage of legal challenges.
1:11.3	For Democrats fighting off those challenges, the tip of the spear was an attorney named Mark Elias.
1:17.0	He was so good, winning virtually every case that Trump's team brought,
1:21.0	that even Steve Bannon speaks of him with a sort of admiration.
1:27.0	Now Mark Elias is working for Kamala Harris's campaign and despite all his past victories he is really
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