Mara Liasson

All right.

Well, it's also a pretty good preview of one of the big messages that they're using to try to dissuade people from voting in the 2026 elections and perhaps lay the groundwork for challenging some votes of people who did vote.

In other words, they're saying that Democrats are bringing voters.

undocumented immigrants into the United States in order to vote illegally in elections.

There is next to no evidence of this happening.

The thing about the anti-immigrant rhetoric, it's like a Swiss army knife.

It's useful for almost everything that the administration wants to do, foreign policy, domestic policy, undermining faith in American elections.

It's all pervasive.

But also don't ignore the fact that when you live in right-wing media, as the president does, as J.D.

Vance does, the constituency of people who are white nationalists and do respond positively to these messages is not insignificant.

You know, they might be very small compared to the general population, but they're an important part of the Republican constellation.

I'm Odette Youssef.

I cover domestic extremism.

And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

Well, it's so interesting because Democrats in general this cycle got the recruits they wanted.

And for a long time, Mills was the recruit they wanted.

In other words, they thought she's been a governor.

She's popular.

She had a famous standoff with Donald Trump in the White House.

So usually in the past couple of cycles, it's Republicans who would nominate candidates who are too far right or not –