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1 big thing

Pressure to the breaking point for election officials

1 big thing

Axios

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The fourth public hearing this month by the January 6th committee focused on how former President Trump and key allies put pressure on election officials, to promote the lie that there was widespread election fraud in 2020. Many of the witnesses testified on the personal toll that Trump’s lies were taking on them and their families. Plus: new details of the failed response in Uvalde. And: how companies can think differently to get and keep workers today. Guests: Axios' Alayna Treene and Jim VandeHei. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Lydia McMullen-Laird and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: Jan 6. panel witnesses recount post-election threats of violence Texas claims "abject failure" by Uvalde cops The rise of aspirational capitalism America's workers are up for grabs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. We've made it to Wednesday. It's June 22. I'm Nailibudu.

0:24.6

Here's what you need to know today. New details of the failed response in Uvalde.

0:29.7

Plus, how companies can think differently to get and keep workers today.

0:34.4

But first, our one big thing. Pressure to the breaking point for 2020 election officials.

0:45.8

There is nowhere I feel safe, nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have

0:54.7

the president of the United States that targeted you?

0:59.3

That's audio from the closed-door deposition of Fulton County Georgia election worker,

1:03.8

Ruby Freeman, in the fourth public hearing this month by the January 6 committee.

1:08.8

Yesterday's hearing focused on showing how President Trump and key allies put pressure

1:13.8

on election officials to promote the lie that there was widespread election fraud in 2020.

1:20.0

Many of the witnesses testified to the personal toll that Trump's lies have taken on them

1:24.9

and their families. Axios' Elena Trin joins us now with the details. Hi, Elena.

1:29.8

Hi, Naila. Let's start with that clip we just heard. Both Ruby Freeman and her daughter,

1:34.7

Shay Moss, were poll workers in Georgia. And I think many of us watching were struck by the

1:39.9

treatment they faced, which was horrific. It was. It was really striking. Shay Moss was testifying

1:46.8

how she's received death threats. People telling her that she'll be in jail with her mother racist

1:53.0

attacks on her. And she even said she said, I am still afraid to leave my home. I think it's hard

1:59.1

sometimes for people to realize the effect that some of these threats and this narrative has had

2:07.4

on their lives. We also heard from several election officials like Arizona House Speaker

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