So I've gone from like a year ago saying, no, they wouldn't really be this outrageous.

And now absolutely believing that Gabbard, who desperately seeks Trump's favor, will do anything,

and that Trump will do anything, even to the state of trying to interfere in our elections and

potentially interfere in the outcomes. The whole notion that he continues to talk about federalizing

elections in certain key states, that is against the Constitution. So this is as showing a time

as anything I've seen. Hi again, everyone.

It's now 5 o'clock in New York.

Those are the stakes, no less, than the immediate and long-term future of a 250-year experiment in American democracy.

The threat this afternoon from a president and an administration seemingly hellbent, not just on tipping the scales, but on throwing them out.

The seeds of election interference are already in our American soil.

As Donald Trump goes about exerting control over elections offices across the country,

as officials in Georgia engaged with the Trump administration in federal court,

over voter data seized in Fulton County by the FBI last week.

Coalitions in other states are doing everything in their power to resist the Trump

administration ahead of the midterm elections. In the same way, California initiated a redistricting

effort intended to counteract Republican gerrymandering in Texas. Fight fire with fire was a

message to voters. Virginia now is also

joining the fray. Democrats there just yesterday unveiled a new congressional map that would

dramatically shift the balance of power from a 65 Democratic advantage to a 10-1 split.

Here's the president of the state Senate, Luis Lucas. Today we are leveling the playing

field. These are not ordinary times and Virginia will not sit on the sidelines while it happens.

We made a promise to level the plan field and today we're keeping our promise. Our maps are ready.

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