The Cheat Is ON

Michigan Secretary Of State Working With Other Battleground States Against "Coordinated Effort To Undermine Democracy"

Posted By Tim Hains

On Date March 6, 2024

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson discusses how secretaries of state of six 2024 "battleground" states are "coordinating" in "the battle over the future of our democracy."

JOCELYN BENSON, MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE: One of the things we saw in 2020 was that particularly in battleground states, we were all battling a common adversary, a nationally coordinated effort to undermine the will of the people both before, during, and after election day.

And we learned to semi-coordinate with each other in 2020. Katie Hobbs and I, she was secretary of Arizona at the time, were friends and we would talk regularly. But there was really no way for us to consistently as a team, the six of us in those battleground states Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada to constantly compare notes and say how we are going to respond to this nationally coordinated effort ith a coordinates response. So now we have that. We actually spent 2022 working to build that team in these six states.

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We're all very clear-eyed about what we're up against because the battle over the future of our democracy isn't going to be in the post-election process, it starts now with how various court battles are playing out.

As we talk to each other we can develop common strategies and be much more powerful and united as a team, even across party lines, than we would be if we were fighting these battles in these respective states by ourselves.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/06/michigan_secretary_of_state_coordinating_with_battleground_states_coordinating_against_common_adversary.html