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Journalists have warned for weeks about the potential of violence indicated on online forums. "I couldn't be any more upset to be vindicated...they are saying explicitly, 'If they don't overturn the election results, we are going to storm the Capitol,'" @oneunderscore__ said.
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After today's Capitol invasion, does Mike Pence regret backing Trump? "Yes...this is him, center stage, presiding over these proceedings — over the democracy of our country — while being attacked personally by the president through tweets and at his rally," @OliviaTroye says.
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Congress will reconvene tonight to ratify the election following the mob invasion of the Capitol. @BradSherman: "We're in for about a 20-hour process, delayed a few hours by thugs who were trying to disrupt democracy...we saw the death of the Republican Party today."
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.@TimothyDSnyder on the “f word”: "If you want to tell a big lie, which leads people to storm the building... then you have to expect that people are going to call this not just authoritarianism but fascism."
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.@RubenGallego recounts his experience in the Capitol today: "We had to evacuate the floor of Congress — the People's House, their house — because these terrorists, these treasonous bastards, could not stand the fact that we had a free and fair election."
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Amid the chaos in DC, explosive devices were found at the RNC, DNC and on Capitol grounds. "This is domestic terrorism. It is the use of force or the threat of violence to create political change," @selectedwisdom explains.
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@mehdirhasan: "American democracy is under siege tonight from supporters of the President... Let's be clear the President incited this attack on the capitol."
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Chaos is unfolding in Washington. Joining @mehdirhasan to break down what’s going on are: @BradSherman @TimothyDSnyder @selectedwisdom @JoyceWhiteVance @OliviaTroye @oneunderscore__ Tune in at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV or live: youtube.com/8O0nkw3q1Q4
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DeKalb County — which is majority Black — could push Democrats to victory in the Senate runoffs. But should it always come down to Black voters? "Black people are the keepers of democracy...it shouldn't have to rest on us, but it always seems to," @Dr_CMGreer says.
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.@oneunderscore__ on what a Warnock and Ossoff victory could show about misinformation: "The Republican Party will have to take a step back and look at this tactically...Republicans have to decide if this is part of what they want to be in the future."
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.@JamilSmith on Kelly Loeffler’s support of efforts to overturn the election on Wednesday: “She said Georgians have a voice and she is going up there to make sure their voices are counted, but yet she is going to Washington to help invalidate the votes of Georgians."
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Watching from the edge of our seats for the last votes to be uploaded in DeKalb County. @bfouhy, @sahilkapur, @Dr_CMGreer, @JamilSmith, @ProfJoeWatson, @TIAreports, @JessicaTaylor, & @katieleebarlow join @mehdirhasan for more coverage as results come in. youtube.com/bpykV0s1xAM
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Could GOP infighting lead to Democrats capturing Georgia’s Senate seats? Cook Political Reporter @JessicaTaylor says “the party that is divided is not the one that usually wins,” adding, “what we have also seen is that if Trump isn’t on the ballot – these voters don’t come out.”
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Georgians are well aware of what’s at stake in tonight’s races: “This is the first election that I have ever been involved in, that I did not meet a single person that did not know that an election was happening. That in itself is profound,” says @MsLaToshaBrown.
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.@ProfJoeWatson on the division among Republicans: "What we're seeing in Georgia is what we're seeing nationally, which is — there is a civil war that's brewing within the Republican Party today. There's just no way to get around that fact. It's fact."
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.@AriBerman on differences between Democrats' and Republicans' reactions to incoming election results: "Democrats understand the process. They understand that this is how counting works...Democrats basically understand and accept democracy in a way that Republicans don't."
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.@bfouhy says Kelly Loeffler "really threw herself full on into full MAGA with President Trump,'' which may have hurt her appeal to suburban women.
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.@mehdirhasan: "What is Mitch McConnell, the man himself, the current Senate Majority leader, the master strategist of the GOP — what is he thinking as he's watching these returns tonight?" @sahilkapur: "Probably drinking some bourbons and hoping it flips the other way."
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The @MehdiHasanShow is back live with the latest from Georgia as the Senate runoff races tighten. Tune in via @peacockTV or livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=bpykV0s1…
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.@mehdirhasan: "When truth is up for debate and maybe even losing... what - if anything - can we do about it?"
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