Trump's 'vile poison' is forcing election workers across America to quit: former RNC chair

Election workers are giving up across the country and dropping out of public service in the face of unprecedented threats from Donald Trump supporters and others who believe conspiracy theories. MSNBC's Michael Steele blames the former president and his allies for injecting that "vile poison" into U.S. politics in their effort to overturn the 2020 election results, and which Republican acolytes such as Kari Lake have tried to replicate in their own losses -- and those lies have pitted neighbor against neighbor in local elections. They have been volunteering and working at election centers for decades, in many cases, longtime activists in the space, nonpartisan election officials, and yet, our system has now become so infected with this vile poison, perpetrated by Republicans, especially -- I take that back, not Republicans per se, but these MAGA folks, right?" "The strain of this Republicanism that now these folks live in fear, and you have the kind of, you know, hearings that you open the segment with where those very average citizens coming out with pitchforks ready to skewer someone because of a lie, and here's the rub," he continued. "They know that these individuals who have been in these jobs, who know how the system works, who know where the problems lie, they would be the first ones to call out the problem and say, wait a minute, this election isn't right," Steele added.