In an apparent attempt to outdo her outrageous segment from last week, MSNBC Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace used part of her show not to condemn foreign interference in our elections but to call for other countries to administer them for us. She said this to Democratic Congressman Jim Himes (CT) who seemed to suggest that, while he was opposed to the idea now, he could be open to it at some point.
“I don't want to get off topic but if you read through the papers this weekend, the threats to our elections in – what, two and a half weeks – are so pervasive and they’re dire and they include violence,” she proclaimed, without evidence.
She then suggested that the U.S. needed other countries to come in and run our elections for us and treat us like a destabilized, war-torn country. “I mean, do you think it's time to ask for friends and allies to come over and help us monitor our elections? We used to do that in other burgeoning and threatened democracies,” she pressed.
Instead of giving a full-throated rejection of the outrageous idea, Himes said he’s “not there yet.” A suggestion that he could be open to it at some point.
“And I know why you're asking what you're asking and you're not wrong,” he added, with the understanding that Republicans were the problem. He then suggested, without evidence, that there are places in America where armed observers were intimidating voters like we’re a “third-world country”:
I mean, the kind of intimidation that is threatened around polling places. I mean, you've seen the pictures of the guys with assault weapons near boxes. That stuff is intimidating. And again, that used to be sort of the province of – I hate to use the term, but “third world countries” that didn't care about democracy.
“But no, look, this is something for us to work out ourselves,” he told Wallace.
He then argued that America needs to treat Republicans like they’re a foreign threat like Russia or China:
At some point, the United States is going to need to collectively decide that not only are we going to oppose Russians and Chinese and North Koreans, and Iranians messing around with our elections, we are not going to allow the Republican Party to do it either.
Of course, this got nothing but silent agreement from Wallace.
In another time, eons ago in late 2019, Wallace thought foreign interference in our elections was a bad thing. “Trump solicited foreign interference- planned to hold up military aid until he got it - and Dems are yelling at each other about regulated, disclosed, legal donations that could pay for ads reminding people that Trump cheats at elections. The parallel playing fields = stunning,” she whined.
Do you know what keeps foreign influence out of our elections? Inviting foreigners to run our elections ... according to Wallace.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
MSNBC’s Deadline: White House
October 24, 2022
4:29:17 p.m. Eastern(…)
NICOLLE WALLACE: I don't want to get off topic but if you read through the papers this weekend, the threats to our elections in – what, two and a half weeks – are so pervasive and they’re dire and they include violence. I mean, do you think it's time to ask for friends and allies to come over and help us monitor our elections? We used to do that in other burgeoning and threatened democracies.
REP. JIM HIMES (D-CT): Yeah, Nicolle, I'm not there yet. And I know why you're asking what you're asking and you're not wrong. Right?
I mean, the kind of intimidation that is threatened around polling places. I mean, you've seen the pictures of the guys with assault weapons near boxes. That stuff is intimidating. And again, that used to be sort of the province of – I hate to use the term, but “third world countries” that didn't care about democracy.
But no, look, this is something for us to work out ourselves and, you know, we -- at some point the United States is going to need to collectively decide that not only are we going to oppose Russians and Chinese and North Koreans and Iranians messing around with our elections, we are not going to allow the Republican Party to do it either.
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