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In a pearl-clutching report out Wednesday, Politico’s Heidi Przybyla treated normal Election Day operations such as poll watchers and mobilizing election lawyers as an assault on democracy. But the reason this was suddenly a problem was that Republicans were stepping up their game. But MSNBC’s Deadline: White House (a home for the barely lucid to hyperventilate about Republicans) kicked off the show with the report and treated it as a serious story.
“We start this hour with a deeply unsettling news-making worth piece reporting today in Politico on organized, calculated efforts by the Republican Party that could throw the 2024 presidential election into chaos,” proclaimed fill-in host John Heilemann.
As though he was filling in on an episode of PBS’s Reading Rainbow, Heilemann decided to just regurgitate whole passages of Przybyla’s piece, even though he had Przybyla on hand and would speak to her during the segment.
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