Marshall Cohen

That the administration would pull back ICE from Minnesota in exchange for the voter rolls from Minnesota, which, you know, most election officials that we spoke to and nonpartisan experts said that is wrong.

bananas, you know, like a hostage.

I think the secretary of state there said, I've called it a ransom note because one of those two things have with each other, you know, clearly it's, it was just a very aggressive wielding of federal power and people are afraid that more, more stuff like that might be coming soon.

I'll answer in two ways.

Number one,

Everyone should take this seriously, not because people should be conspiracy theorists, but because we've lived through this before, right?

Yeah.

I wouldn't have necessarily said this in 2017 in the first year of Donald Trump's presidency, but we have the benefit of 10 years.

Donald Trump claimed the Iowa caucuses were rigged when he lost to Ted Cruz.

He claimed that the popular vote was rigged against him when he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.

Obviously, he tried to overturn the 2020 election, which led to a violent insurrection.

So this should be taken seriously.

That being said, the nonpartisan people that I talk to who are experts in election administration, they say that despite all this noise, despite all the fears, despite what you've been told at home, that our system is garbage.

It's actually quite resilient.

There are many safeguards.

There are hardworking Democratic and Republican officials and nonpartisan staff that run these elections.

There are judges and courts that take this seriously as a firewall when people do try.

to get involved with some funny business and that you should rest assured that your vote will be counted and will be counted fairly despite all the drama that's what the experts say