Jamie Raskin

Donald Trump is presiding over an extraordinary consolidation of corporate power.

And it's the corporations who are willing to play by his rules, pay him off when he sues them, sing his tune.

that are the ones that are ending up on top.

That is not how a free market economy should work.

It should not be up to the president to anoint and appoint victors and losers.

But that's what we've gotten into.

So we need to restore meaningful antitrust law enforcement for the sake of consumers, for the sake of democracy.

And that means we've got to get rid of Donald Trump's pay-to-play system of graft and corruption.

So thank you, Diane, and thank you for everything you've done.

I mean, we're in that fight right now, like in North Carolina, right now in Texas.

So I don't want people to think about a stolen election as something that's going to happen in November.

They're trying to stack the rules and change the rules right now all over the country, and people are fighting all

all over the country we of course have our great lawyer mark elias with a team of i don't know it's 80 or 90 lawyers now but there's aclu there's naacp legal defense fund these things are being fought out but remember the best way to steal an election is to run an election and that's what the republicans are trying to do like in texas they try to take over all of the uh outposts of management of the election to prevent people from voting and stop people from voting but

When people say to me, you know, he's going to cancel the election, Trump's got no power to cancel the election.

We had midterm congressional elections in the middle of the Civil War.

We had midterm elections in the middle of World War II.

We've gone through major wars and cataclysms and had midterm elections.

Why would we cancel it for Donald Trump?

Because it's going to hurt his feelings to see his party go down into humiliating defeat?

I'm sorry, that's not a reason to cancel American democracy.