'BradCast' 11/3/2016 (Guest: Mark Potok of SPLC on threats from rightwing extremists to disrupt Election Day)

Published: Nov. 4, 2016, 12:21 a.m.

b"Despite Donald Trump's repeated claims that millions of 'dead people' are voting, the evidence, even that gathered by an excellent mainstream corporate news outlet investigation in Wisconsin, continues to show otherwise. But while the threat of 'zombie voters' has long been wildly overstated by Republicans, rightwing extremist groups -- neo-Nazis, the KKK, militia organizations and others -- are claiming they have plans to mobilize at polling places across the country next Tuesday. That, as another black church in Mississippi is burned and the words "Vote Trump" are spray painted onto it.\\xa0 So do these groups pose a real threat for chaos and disenfranchisement on Election Day? Or are they just latching on to Trump's racist coattails in hopes of intimidating American voters? Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremists and hate groups, joins us to answer those questions and much more related to the emergence and rise of the so-called 'alt-right' in this year's extraordinary election. Also today: In North Carolina, a federal judge finds the state's statute allowing challenges to the voter rolls to be 'insane'; and the state's incumbent U.S. Senator, who is locked in a close re-election battle, apologizes for disturbing comments about 'targeting' Hillary Clinton, but vows to keep anybody from being seated on the U.S. Supreme Court 'for the next four years' if she wins..."