Tom Nichols

I think the thing that we're all hesitant to say at moments like this when the president wanders off into these flights of fancy, and Senator Duckworth walked up to that line as well, is that the president is just not, doesn't have a grasp of reality.

He's not stable.

There's something not right here.

um and he on on his initiative and for his reasons and i think senator duckworth was right it's ego he started a war um and now he can't get out of it and he doesn't know where to turn now and so he's getting a very filtered view of reality

They're showing him heroic montages every morning.

That's bonkers.

That's not how you brief.

I worked for a politician.

I worked for a senior senator during a war.

That's not how you brief a senator, much less a president.

Look, I think some states have handled mail-in balloting well.

I think Florida is a good example of that.

They don't allow fraud, and they have great systems.

I mean, I was talking yesterday to Laurel Lee, one of our colleagues here in the House, and she used to help run elections in the state of Florida, and she talked about

that you don't have a lot of fraud.

But that is not true in other parts of the country.

And that is the concern, especially in a state like California or states where they just send mail-in ballots to everyone for no reason whatsoever.

It is a matter of common sense.

It is an obvious thing that if you're mailing ballots out inherently, it opens the door, at least the possibility, of fraud.

Yeah, you know, I think every poll that, every time they take a poll, what you really find is about 35 to 40% of the country