Topic: Illegal Voting

Voters in Gillespie County, Texas, experienced a traditional hand-count election process for the recent primary. The ballot included several non-binding advisory propositions, such as whether Texas should abolish real estate taxes and if the state should arrest all illegal immigrants. Local sheriff candidates utilized creative electioneering methods, including inflatable tube costumes, near the polling sites.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has begun using the term "newcomers" to refer to illegal immigrants. During a discussion on expanding voting rights to 16-year-olds and non-citizens, Pelosi argued that these "newcomers" make America "more American." The shift in nomenclature from "undocumented workers" to "newcomers" is noted as a strategic linguistic change.

Mika Brzezinski claims that no one in the White House tells President Trump the truth about his "calamitous" executive orders or his claims regarding illegal voting. The hosts deconstruct her assertion that there are "no real men" in the President's inner circle.

Congressman Steve King discussed the possibility of three million illegal votes being cast in the 2016 election, citing sample data from counties in Virginia. King performed his own extrapolation to reach a figure of 2.4 million, suggesting that "motor voter" laws provide a gateway for non-citizens to register and vote. The hosts compare his use of extrapolations to the methodology used in global warming science.