“I'm optimistic, but I'm sober,” says Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Kamala Harris’ chances in Michigan. “Elections are always close here. We cannot make any assumptions. We take no vote or no vote to her for granted.”
This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 17 episode of 'All In with Chris Hayes.' We’re in the final stretch of the presidential campaign and everyone is obsessing over swing state polling. The reason behind the obsession with just seven or eight states is that we do not elect our presidents by popular vote in this country. Instead, we have a frankly undemocratic system: the Electoral College. It’s the reality of how American elections have worked for more than 230 years.
Even if she is able to mobilize that big of a majority, win the right swing states and secure 270 electoral votes, Harris will then have to deal with what will undoubtedly be a full-scale MAGA Republican effort to overthrow the election. Trump will rerun his playbook from 2020. He will use the courts, manipulate state lawmakers and manipulate members of Congress. He will target election workers. He will rile up his supporters and likely urge them in his own coded-not-so-coded way to violence.
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