What these state legislatures are doing is they’re trying to strip the secretaries of state in their respective jurisdictions of their power to administer elections, that oath to wake up Joe Manchin, that this is very serious, this is a civil rights issue.
McCaskill discusses the importance of election administration and the civil rights implications of state legislation.
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I have won when the polls said I couldn't and I have lost when the polls said I would win, so I am not a big believer in all of the horse race stuff.
Well, first, I want everybody to slow down a little bit. We are still the underdogs in this election. And I am speaking as someone in 2018, we picked up 40 seats in the House but we still lost four senators.
I think it would be very hard for him, with the abortion -- anti-abortion forces in this country that are totally Republican, I think it would be very hard for him to not let there be a vote.
I think the Democratic Party will benefit from really doing some navel-gazing about how can we get more young people to the forefront because young people are going to be really important to us in 2024.
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