'They Made Up An Entire County' with Marc Elias

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Marc Elias is both the founder of Democracy Docket, a platform for information about voting rights, elections, and redistricting, and the Democratic Party’s super-lawyer. During the 2020 election cycle, Marc’s voting rights practice brought over 150 cases in 30 states, totaling over 120 victories in courtrooms around the country. After Election Day, Marc led the charge against Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud and won 64 times. Steve and David talk to Marc about those cases, the Republican push to pass restrictive voting laws in battleground states around the country, and the role corporations can play in pushing back against the GOP’s march towards autocracy.

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0:00.0	I'm David Plough and I'm Steve Schmidt.
0:03.9	And this is BattleGling, a podcast from the recount and I heart rate you.
0:09.9	Our guest today is Mark Elias.
0:10.9	I worked closely with Mark for longer than either of us would care to admit to.
0:15.9	And he did just amazing work on behalf of the DNC and the Biden campaign, winning 64
0:21.0	victories against Trump's faceless voter fraud claims.
0:24.2	He is an expert on all things voter suppression, voter protection, and we are already seeing
0:29.0	a lot of activity by Republicans to dramatically, dramatically roll back the abode to vote.
0:33.8	So most importantly, let's talk about where that stands and what we can all do about it.
0:37.5	But before we get into our discussion with Mark, let's talk about this crazy week.
0:41.3	Steve, I made the mistake just before joining you here of looking at a video of Marjorie
0:46.0	Taylor Greene caressing a cardboard cut out of Donald Trump's junk.
0:50.3	She must not have read what Stormy Daniels had to say about Trump.
0:53.8	But what a week it's been.
0:55.5	Kevin McCarty made his move, right? Kevin McCarty decided he was going to go move on Liz
1:00.7	Cheney.
1:02.1	Kevin goes on conspiracy, loon, Maria, border, Roma show.
1:05.6	And he says, hey, listen, you know, Liz has heard a lot of people's feelings by saying
1:10.9	that this is the worst abuse the president has ever committed by inciting an attack on
1:15.4	the Capitol to interfere in the certification of an American election.
1:20.6	Kevin said, just going to have to explain it to the conference.
1:23.3	And then they started leaking out the Derribi of vote.
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