Tracking The Battle To Spread Election Denialism And Chaos

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Associated Press reports there was far too little fraud to have changed the outcome of the 2020 Election, but January 6 key figures are still working to threaten our democracy. Former state and federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski joins to discuss how the anti-democratic movement are now targeting local school boards, city and county commissions and supervisors of local elections.

Also tonight: the Government releases previously classified JFK assassination documents, Democrats quietly question Biden’s future as his approval rating sinks, the price to play football: NFL players are 4 times more likely to die of ALS, and two bipartisan fixes that can help save our democracy.

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0:00.0	News continues, let's hand over to Michael Smerchanish and CNN tonight, Michael.
0:05.2	Anderson, thank you.
0:06.2	I am Michael Smerchanish and welcome to CNN tonight.
0:09.0	This evening, the strongest evidence yet that the 2020 election was fair and square.
0:14.4	Nevertheless, you're also going to learn how the election denialism movement is sticking
0:18.3	around and maybe coming to your town.
0:21.6	First, newly gathered data from the six battleground states, former President Trump disputed
0:26.6	in the 2020 race.
0:28.4	The Associated Press reviewed every possible case of voter fraud.
0:32.4	The numbers are minuscule.
0:34.0	They would have no impact on the final result.
0:36.9	Take a look, 25 and a half million people voted in those states.
0:41.4	Joe Biden beat then President Trump by more than 311,000 votes there.
0:46.6	And how many votes from those 25 and a half million were questionable?
0:50.7	Fewer than 475, less than 1 quarter of 1 percent of Biden's victory margin in those states.
0:56.8	It wasn't even close.
0:59.0	And not all of that handful of votes were even 4 Biden.
1:03.5	And when the AP contacted Trump for comment, he quoted a litany of unfounded claims of
1:08.3	fraud that he'd made previously and offered no evidence that specifically contradicted the
1:13.0	AP's reporting.
1:14.9	But like everything else, in the mountain of evidence that the election was legitimate,
1:19.1	it doesn't seem to matter to those who believe only in promoting the conspiracies at any
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