Susan Rice

Once we succumb to fear and intimidation and harassment, which many of us may face, then we're losing the larger fight here.

for the rule of law, for democracy in this country.

And I'm unwilling, for one, to stand down because I believe too much in this country.

I believe deeply in our Constitution.

And I have, as many of us, ancestors who fought and bled and died for the rights that we all have in this country.

And I'm not going to be one to sit here and let them be stripped away without a fight.

Nicole, I don't want to speculate.

I just want to underscore the point that there's no factual basis.

There's no legal basis.

There's no crime.

And so all of this would seem to me to fall into the category of harassment and intimidation.

We have to fight like hell to hold free and fair elections and to win those free and fair elections.

We don't have the luxury on the one hand of saying, well, they're not going to be elections, so we're not going to do everything we can to contest and win them.

And we don't have the luxury of ignoring the possibility

that he means what he says and does what he threatens.

So we have to play both hands simultaneously.

We have to make it absolutely clear that the United States of America, we have elections every two years, and those elections are meant to be free and fair and played on a level playing field, even though they're trying to do all kinds of things from redistricting to

you know, upending the electoral rolls in various states to fighting in the Supreme Court to make the playing field as unlevel as possible.

We got to resist that, counter that.

And at the same time, we got to fight to win them.