The speakers in the video discuss various instances where they believe elections were stolen or illegitimate. They mention Russian interference in the 2016 election, voter suppression in Georgia, and issues with electronic voting machines. They express doubts about the fairness and integrity of these elections and call for reforms to ensure a more transparent and secure electoral process. The speakers also mention specific cases such as the 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush and the 2018 gubernatorial race in Georgia between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp. They emphasize the need to address these concerns to protect democracy.
Speaker 0: You can
Speaker 1: run the best campaign. You can even become the nominee. And you can have the election stolen
Speaker 2: from you.
Speaker 3: How can you win with Russian interference, though?
Speaker 2: That's the real thing. Cared about
Speaker 1: it in 2020. But rightly.
Speaker 2: Because I think I'm taking
Speaker 3: an illegitimate president that didn't really win. So how do
Speaker 2: you, you know, fight against that in 2020? You are absolutely right. He is an illegitimate president in my mind. Could you
Speaker 4: be my vice president for Denimid president in my mind.
Speaker 2: Could you be my vice president for candidate? Paul Brooks, I absolutely agree. Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put in the office because the Russians interfered.
Speaker 5: Russia interfered with our election, attacked our democracy for the sole purpose of artificially placing someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they were successful.
Speaker 1: Trump knows he's as an illegitimate president.
Speaker 3: The president will elect, although legally elected, is not legitimate. Unless it is president-elect As a legitimate president.
Speaker 6: You said you believe that Russia's interference altered the outcome of the election.
Speaker 1: I do. We have a president who, if In fact, it is proven, has been assisted by the Russians and may, in fact, not be a legitimate president. The one thing that Trump Is fearful of, when it comes to his being president, is that finally, we will see how illegitimate his victory actually was.
Speaker 2: I have an objection.
Speaker 7: I object to the 15 votes from the state of North Carolina. I object because people are horrified.
Speaker 6: He's an illegitimate president. Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to hashtag protect our democracy and hashtag follow the facts.
Speaker 5: John Lewis is completely right. There is a cloud of legitimacy around the election of Donald Trump. The Russians interfered with his election. James Comey and the FBI interfered with his, Election. The fake news industry interfered with his election.
Speaker 1: Trump knows he's an illegitimate president who got illegitimate foreign powers. Do you believe Trump is a legitimate president?
Speaker 4: What I believe is that there's no question that the outcome of this election was affected by the Russian interference.
Speaker 2: There actually is a cloud of Okay. Legitimacy.
Speaker 6: So that legitimacy is the question. Yes.
Speaker 3: So that was a very tainted election. And and in that sense, it's it's illegitimate.
Speaker 1: Why Why do you think the president is going to such great lengths to essentially prove that he beat you? Because he knows he didn't. He knows he's an illegitimate president.
Speaker 6: Stolen email. Stolen drone. Stolen drone. Stolen election. Welcome to the world of unprecedented Trump.
So do you believe President Trump is an illegitimate president.
Speaker 2: Based on what I just said was I can't for Trump.
Speaker 6: He tweeted in February 2018, quote, the more we learn about 2016 election, the more illegitimate it becomes. America deserves to know whether we have a fake president in the Oval Office.
Speaker 3: And The rest in attempt to to have the election. And frankly, the FBI is weighing in on the election. I think make the make it makes this election illegitimate.
Speaker 1: There was a widespread Understanding that this election was not on the level. We still don't know what really happened, Isaac. I mean, there's just a lot that I think will Be revealed, history will discover, but you don't win by 3,000,000 votes and have all this other shenanigans stuff going on and not come away with An idea like, woah, something's not right here.
Speaker 5: Seems to me that there's a cloud of illegitimacy that continues to hang Over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Speaker 4: The outcome of the election was affected by their interference. And now we need to know, To what degree, if any, the Trump campaign was actually in collusion
Speaker 1: with the Russia? He knows he's an illegitimate president. So of course, he's obsessed That's with me. And I believe that it's a guilty conscience.
Speaker 2: We actually won the last presidential election, folks. They stole And Al Gore won that election. I think he won anyway. Actually, I think I carried Florida. Al Gore won the election nationwide Also in Florida, but the Supreme Court ruled the other way.
Al Gore got more votes, but not enough to stay out of the Supreme Court where president Bush was elected five four.
Speaker 1: Bush versus Gore. A court took away a presidency.
Speaker 2: If all the votes were tallied in Florida, Adele Gold would be president today and George Bush would be back in office.
Speaker 0: I come from Florida where you and others participated in what I call The United States coup d'etat.
Speaker 6: In 2013, according to reports, vice president Joe Biden, he claimed that Al Gore was The one who was elected president. And he claimed that the recount result was, quote, a bad decision.
Speaker 2: And never forget, dear friends, what they did in Florida to Al Gore and me, to all of us, to older Americans, to African Americans, to Haitian Americans Deny the right to vote and have those votes counted.
Speaker 8: I do believe that projections were right in the 1st place at 7 o'clock when they called
Speaker 1: it before. Let me tell you without a doubt. George Bush did not carry Florida and it was not closed.
Speaker 2: There's no question that you won Oh, thank you, Charles. No. It's a question.
Speaker 4: That's a question.
Speaker 2: We will never know because The votes weren't weren't counted. But but and and then in your judgment I mean, that's unfortunate. And there is no other way of saying Let's be very blunt. Al Gore won the state of Florida in 2000, and we should never Forget it. Most Americans or great many Americans don't have confidence that the election of 2000 was fair.
Speaker 8: But I don't believe we lost that. I believe we just failed to have all of the votes counted
Speaker 4: The Supreme Court elected president. In 2004. Yeah. Al Gore won the state of Florida in 2000, although not the presidency.
Speaker 3: We know we won this election. They know we won this election. And Americans know we won this election.
Speaker 7: I know some people want you to believe that the Gore Campaign was a campaign that wasn't able to complete its mission. We did. Had all of
Speaker 0: those votes been found in Florida,
Speaker 8: I
Speaker 7: think Al Gore would be president on today.
Speaker 2: We had more votes. We won, and we are never going to let the United States Supreme Court choose the president of the United Takes the care. You should know by now based on the fact that he lost the popular vote by more than a half 1000000 voters, And we don't know how many he lost to buy in Florida. There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president.
Speaker 9: I rise to Object to the fraudulent 25 Florida electoral votes.
Speaker 2: Really, we won the election in 2000, but they stole the election. I must object because of the overwhelming evidence of overwhelming evidence of official misconduct, deliberate fraud, and an attempt to The chairman has provided Imran had already Helped the Bush team with such favors as burying their rent a mob to Florida in 2000 to permanently halt of the counting of legally cast ballots. It is
Speaker 7: signed by myself on behalf of my diverse constituents and the millions of Americans who have been disenfranchised by Florida's inaccurate vote counts to Supreme Court not to speak with
Speaker 4: the United States despite of this election.
Speaker 1: Speaking to a Democratic group in Chicago, he said he made it clear he thinks Al Gore was the winner.
Speaker 2: The time it was over, our candidate won the popular vote. And the only way that could win the election was to stop the voting and fraud it. Catherine Harris, Jeb Bush, Jim Baker and the Supreme Court hadn't tampered with the results, l Gore would be. President? I think that the issue before us today, is not who won or should have won the 2000 presidential election.
That issue has been settled not to my opinion, but it has been settled. Let's just drop the vice president president or not. Al Gore should have been president of the United States.
Speaker 10: Al Gore, made it possible for George Bush to be The only appointed president in the history of these United States.
Speaker 6: Democrats have won the past 3 presidential elections. In two
Speaker 2: 1,000 unions turned out 25% of the vote and Al Gore won. But the Supreme Court hampered? That's a large The Supreme Court stopped the counting of votes, and if they've left the council on, Al Gore would've got the necessary votes.
Speaker 0: The Supreme Court selected tent. George w Bush
Speaker 2: as the president. He was not elected. There is overwhelming evidence that George w Bush did not win this Election.
Speaker 3: What I observed, as a voter, as a citizen of Illinois, 4 years ago were troubling evidence of the fact that not every vote was being counted. Don't think that George w Bush won the election, in 2000 against our goal because I I think he he probably lost Florida and also the nationwide.
Speaker 2: If you invite me back on this show
Speaker 3: in about 8 weeks, I
Speaker 2: think you're gonna learn that No, Roy. I think you get all the votes there. I felt what happened in Florida was a carefully worked out conspiracy. That many things could not go wrong in one state Without there having been a conspiracy, and many, many different things did go wrong. Many tricks were pulled of various kinds.
Speaker 8: The vice president did win, but, And I do believe that the majority of voters that intended to to go to polls last year wanted to vote and cast their votes for Al Gore. I do believe that in in in terms of Florida as well.
Speaker 2: The court has been supporting formation of the popular will. The most spectacular example being Bush versus Gore, where the majority by a five For a vote and joined the counting of more than a 100,000 ballots in Florida and essentially gave America its 1st court appointed president. A stolen citizen is naked and stolen. Even though Al Gore won the election, he won't take office.
Speaker 11: That election was stolen from of the rightful winner. So, mister speaker, I'm here today to talk about a stolen presidential election.
Speaker 2: I think in 2000, everybody Talk. Well, he did win the election out of the war. He started dividing America here in Florida By trying to take an election that I think any reasonable person would say he hadn't Actually, one.
Speaker 0: What happened in Florida will go down in history As a coup d'etat.
Speaker 2: Could we conclude, is it possible There was a conspiracy, and Florida officials were involved in the conspiracy. Never have so many things gone It's too wrong in one place before. Why how do all these things happen all at the same time in the same state? It is not as possible if there was a conspiracy that was very well organized. Why was the state police out there on that Today, election day, checking license plates and and so forth.
You know, how did all these things happen in 1 state at one time in 1 election? Is is it possible that Use the word conspiracy and not be afraid of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure wish Gore was president right now. He should be.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, he got elected. Well done. A battle that by the will of the people should have ended in victory. But tens thousands of Florida votes either were not counted or tossed down in the 2000 presidential election. 5 supreme court justices.
You've trumped the votes of 51,000,000 Americans. We should've let the entire state be reconned so it was clear, that Al Gore actually won the state of Florida.
Speaker 0: And Al War won the election.
Speaker 2: We had the election stolen from us. You must admit that. They stole it, And we need a leader to help us get revenge.
Speaker 6: I voted for Al Gore. He won the election.
Speaker 2: They usurped the the powers as far as being put in it and intervene. It was With the fix as far as we're concerned, you know, it's it's there's no polite way to talk about it except the fix was in.
Speaker 0: After the election, when you stole Hold the election. You came back here and say, get over it. No. We're not gonna get over it.
Speaker 2: You know it. I know it. They know it. We won that election.
Speaker 12: Constantly shifting vote tallies in Ohio and malfunctioning electronic machines, which may not have paper receipts have led to additional loss of confidence by the public.
Speaker 2: The right to vote has been stolen from qualified voters. The New
Speaker 6: Yorker reported that Kerry thought that, quote, proxies for Bush had rigged many of the voting machines.
Speaker 7: In 2004, the democratic process was thwarted.
Speaker 2: To The 2004 presidential election in Ohio was riddled with unnecessary problems.
Speaker 4: Some machines malfunctioned, causing votes to be counted more than once or not at all.
Speaker 2: Based upon an inordinate number of allegations suggesting gross voting rights violations and misconduct, I joined with my colleagues and objective to counting the state of Ohio's electoral votes. As in 2000, the votes of many who wanted to vote were not, in fact, This
Speaker 3: last Friday night, I I arranged to meet senator Kerry at a fundraiser to give him a copy of my book. He told me he now thinks the election was stolen.
Speaker 1: The wife of John Kerry said she has lingering doubts about the legitimacy of the election. Her theory goes like this. 2 brothers, she calls hard right Republicans, Own 80% of voting machines in the US. Therefore, it would be easy to hack into the mother machines that control the electronic voting.
Speaker 7: There were Numerous irregularities in Ohio, including large percentages of projections of provisional balloting, problems with voting machines.
Speaker 1: As we look At our election system, I think it's fair to say that there are many legitimate questions about its accuracy, About its integrity.
Speaker 12: There are still legitimate concerns over the integrity of our election.
Speaker 3: The question obviously is How many instances were not caught that we don't know about? Number 1, we've seen a lot of, what I'll call, honest glitches where it just didn't work right, But also that these machines are hackable. A dishonest employee of the vendor or dishonest employee of the local board of elections or simply someone who knows electronics And as a computer at home, could hack into these machines and then put in the secret instructions to disregard every 20th Democratic voter had 10% to the carrier to the Bush vote or whatever. He might not even know it.
Speaker 2: I agree with tens of millions of Americans Who are more very worried that when they cast the ballot on an electronic voting machine, that there There is no paper trail to record that vote. The numerous irregularities that occurred with the electronic voting machines In Ohio on November 2nd last year, point to an unresolved national crisis.
Speaker 7: We cannot Clear that
Speaker 3: the election of November 2, 2004 was free and clear and transparent and real. There must be independent testing of the voting machines used in Ohio.
Speaker 1: I'm not confident that the election in Ohio was barely decided. We know that there was substantial voter suppression, and the machines were not reliable.
Speaker 12: The members of Congress who have brought this challenge are speaking up for their agreed constituents, many of whom may have been disenfranchised in this process.
Speaker 6: Treating today's electoral vote count in congress as a meaningless ritual would be an insult to our democracy unless we registered our own protest against the obviously fraud voting process that took place in so many
Speaker 2: of our states. Voters who wish to cast a vote for president or vice president Can't approach the polls with certainty that their vote will be counted. One of the most significant problems in Ohio and in many other states Was a lack of measures to ensure the integrity of electronic voting machines. In 2004, they caused democratic voters in Ohio to wait for 8 hours before they could cast their ballot. They turned the department of civil rights and the justice department into the voter suppression division with Voter ID laws, voter purging, voter caging, voter intimidation.
There aren't gonna be any more election stealing.
Speaker 1: Now you have one very
Speaker 6: We won. But I
Speaker 1: didn't lose. I got the votes, but we won't know exactly how many because of how they cheat it. I did win my election. I just didn't get to have the job. We were robbed of an election.
Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia. Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida. Using the
Speaker 4: word rigged, using the word steal, do you think it's dangerous going into 2020?
Speaker 1: I I don't because we can actually back it up. And so in response What I believe was stolen election. I'm not saying they stole it from me. They stole it from the voters' doors. That's when I was asked if I'm ever gonna concede.
The answer is no. If she had a fair election, she already would have won. This is not a speech of concession. This is a step that needs to acknowledge an action that's right, true, or action is right, true or proper. And I will not concede because the erosion of our democracy is not You refuse to concede and say that you lost.
Do you stand by that decision today? Absolutely.
Speaker 2: If Stacey Abrams doesn't win in Georgia, they Stolen. It's clear. It's clear.
Speaker 1: The only election It was not a free and fair I think the election was stolen from the people of Georgia. I believe it was stolen from the voters.
Speaker 2: So I
Speaker 3: think that Stacey Abrams' election is being stolen from her.
Speaker 1: The election was not fair. The process was not fair. Thousands of Georgians had their voices stolen because they were not able to cast ballots. And they cannot be guaranteed that their votes will be counted in 2020 if we don't do this right.
Speaker 4: If what happens to you happens nationally and we we see, whoever runs for whoever wins the Democratic nominee. If they say, actually, I can prove that there's a number of votes in every state that that and that's and that's the same thing that you just described happens in multiple states should they concede.
Speaker 1: I do not think we should concede an election until we know the results of an election. I still fundamentally believed it could be fair. And that's just not how life works. If it looks like it's cheating, it probably is. If it looks like it's rigged, it probably is.
Speaker 2: He would be the governor of Georgia today had the governor of Georgia not disenfranchised 1,400,000 Georgia voters before the election. That's what happened to Stacey Abrams. They took the votes away.
Speaker 6: You, notably did not concede. I acknowledge. Okay. You acknowledge That he won, but you did not concede. Correct.
5 months later, do you still feel like your opponent won through voter suppression? Yes. Reminder, she wrote. Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams.
Speaker 1: I said that the election stolen from Georgia voters, the process that took place during the legislative cycle was one that did not countenance and did not pay attention To the deep and real concerns of those who watch this election be stolen in the state of Georgia. It was stolen from the voters of Georgia. Georgia voters did not have their votes Counted. They were not allowed to cast votes. They had
Speaker 2: their votes discarded. Certainly gave the appearance of unfairness. I think it was, unfair. Stacy ran a great campaign. Probably won.
Speaker 1: And it was not fair to those who filled up absentee ballots. And depending on the county you sent it to, it Either it was counted or not counted, assuming you received it in time. Brian Kemp oversaw for 8 years the systematic and Systemic dismantling of our democracy, and that means there could not be free and fair elections in Georgia. As long as we have eligible American citizens who cannot cast a ballot, Then the game is rigged. I am complicit if I say that that system is fair.
Concession in the political space is an acknowledgement that the process This is fair. And I don't believe that to be fair. But I refuse to concede because concession means that the process was proper, that the result was true and And right. And I cannot say that. If I tend to
Speaker 0: say I didn't lose, I just didn't win.
Speaker 12: And I don't call it a lot.
Speaker 1: I just didn't win.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Officially. Yes. Officially.
Speaker 1: Put it this way. I didn't get to get Inaugurated, next problem. Okay. But will I say that this election was not tainted, was not a disinvestment and a disenfranchisement of thousands of voters? I will not say that.
Candidates votes, black and white, lost Their races because they have been deprived of the votes they otherwise would have gotten. And the clearest sample is from next door in Georgia. Stacey Abrams should be governor leading that state right now. I was joking with Beth backstage when she lost. I'm like, no, I just didn't win, because we don't know what really happened because of the miasma of voter suppression.
I can't know for a fact that I would be the governor of Georgia, but for the He's in the management of Brian Kemp, but I know it's a pretty good guess. So I can't prove that I would have won, but I know we don't know because of how he behaved.
Speaker 3: Is he the legitimate governor elect of Georgia?
Speaker 1: He is the person who won an adequate number of votes from the governor.
Speaker 2: With all with all due respect, and
Speaker 3: I respect where you're coming from and I respect the the issues that you're raising. You're not answering the question. Do you think that
Speaker 1: Wait a minute. I no. I what I talked to you
Speaker 3: You're not using The word legitimate, is he the legitimate governor elect Georgia?
Speaker 1: He is the legal governor of Georgia. He's not here to tell you that just because you win doesn't mean you're won. And you said to that you did not lose. You just did not win. Yes.
So we're gonna talk about that. Bad news is that we didn't get the victory we secured. And the thing is we will never know empirically that I got more votes because we will never know which votes did make count. This was not fair. It was not right and it is deeply improper that someone could ascend to that role having performed So basically and so crassly against the very people he is now supposed to represent.
The election was not fair. The process was not fair. So you don't feel that you lost fair and I do recognize I am not the governor of Georgia, but I do like to point out something that is true for me and for many in our state. And that is we won.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's gonna be legit because the increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is a Direct proportions not being able to get these these reforms passed.
Speaker 1: Right wing extremists already have a plan to literally seal the next presidential election.
Speaker 13: It's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeed around with elections in the past. Sometimes Democrats have to.
Speaker 2: You
Speaker 13: know, whenever people are in power, they're, you know, they have this tendency to try to, you know, tilt things in their direction.
