Thank you both very much. Very helpful.
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We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.
I think what McConnell was worried about is that this is a game of chicken and McConnell blinked because Democrats could have just changed the rules.
The longer they refuse to acknowledge that Joe Biden won fairly, the more Republican base will buy into the fiction that this was rigged, and that undermines democracy, and that causes lasting damage.
This is basically what Donald Trump did. And then there`s no recourse. This is the founders worst nightmare that someone would use the power of the White House to try to steal the election and then basically just get away with it.





