'BradCast' 1/4/2021 (Guest: Election law expert Paul Lehto on Trump/GOP effort to steal the 2020 election)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The nation has hit an unfathomable 350,000 COVID deaths, more than 115 times the death toll on 9/11, over the past 10 months.\xa0 The new 117th Congress has been sworn in and re-elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.\xa0 Alarmed about Donald Trump's attempts to steal the 2020 election, all ten surviving former U.S. Defense Secretaries (including Dick Cheney) published a sharp group op-ed explicitly warning against anyone attempting to use U.S. armed forces to resolve election disputes.\xa0 New leaked audio revealed Trump harangued, pressured and threatened Georgia's Republican Secretary of State to change the state's election results and declare Trump the winner - a potential violation of both state and federal election laws. More than a dozen Republican U.S. Senators, led by Josh Hawley of MO and Ted Cruz of TX, announced they will challenge the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, subverting the normally pro forma procedure overseen by Vice President Mike Pence into an attempt to invalidate Joe Biden's decisive victory in the 2020 presidential election. PAUL LEHTO, election law scholar and democracy activist, explains the potential levers still remaining for Trump and his Republicans to steal the election from Biden, and what lessons we must learn from all of this madness.