Nye se yo. This is Kylie on J.J.

Island in South Korea, where I just submitted my ballot for the 2022 midterms.

This podcast was recorded at

104 PM Eastern time on Thursday, the third of November.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully my ballot will be safely on its way to the US.

Okay, here's the show.

Congratulations on voting.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.

I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Elena Moore. I cover politics and I'm a Dominican Montenegro Senior Political Editor and correspondent.

President Biden is sounding alarms about internal threats to American democracy.

Make no mistake.

Democracy is in the ballot for all of us.

Last night in a somber speech, he encouraged Americans not to vote for the hundreds of election deniers on the ballot all over the country.

He described the attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband and talked about further threats of political violence.

This intimidation.

This violence against Democrats, Republicans and nonpartisan officials just doing their jobs.

Are the consequence of lies told for power and profit.

Lies of conspiracy and malice.

Lies repeated over and over to generate a cycle of anger, hate, vitriol and even violence.

Domenico, what did you make of the President's speech?

And more importantly, this seems like a closing message.

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