The Trump guardrail is gone; so are those nutty election board rules

Back-to-back "bad days" in courtrooms for Georgia's MAGA-led state election board this week, with another superior court judge wiping out the board's "eleventh hour" rules-a-palooza onslaught. Fair High Action CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo joined me today to give reaction to that and the many and varied ways Republicans - the pro-Trump ilk and even just the 'good old fashioned voter suppression' kind - have sewn so much calamity around Georgia's process all on their own. Meanwhile, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance has gone to "Big Lie" camp and gotten his merit badge. Yep; Vance is now a full-on election denier, meaning any hint of there being a 'guard rail' against Donald Trump's anti-democratic tendencies on the GOP ticket is now gone. In the "trees for chainsaws" conversation, why there's even one Hispanic voter even considering a vote for Donald and J.D. is already beyond me, but Donald's Univision town hall was a bit of a disaster for their sales pitch to that voting bloc. There we learned January 6th was a "day of love" when he was pressed by a skeptical Republican voter, and he regurgitated (poor term?) the Haitian cat/dog-eating smear because "it was reported" to him. That's not at all unsettling - to know a former and would-be-again future president is so easily misinformed and would react so publicly to incorrect information. In contrast, VP Kamala Harris went into the "Fox hole" with Fox personality (I dare not call him a journalist anymore) Bret Baier. It didn't go well; at least not for Baier's credibility or Fox's flimsy-already pretense it's a legitimate news source.