Aaaaand we are officially live! Join us for a *very timely* conversation about the election—and what you can expect in its aftermath:
.@RepRaskin says he thinks Joe Biden will win the presidency in a "massive landslide."

"But I'm telling everybody, we're going to win massively in the vote. We still have to win the election, which is a different thing because Republicans have every trick in the book."
@RepRaskin What does the 25th Amendment say—and does it apply to Trump? @RepRaskin explains:
@RepRaskin .@RepRaskin: "The 25th Amendment exists if the president is unable to execute the powers and the duties of office. One of the duties of office is knowing when and how to leave the office."
@RepRaskin I think @RepRaskin might have just set a speed record reciting parts of the Constitution just now 😲
@RepRaskin "The Republican Party is like a mass religious cult surrounding an organized crime family." —@RepRaskin, on what's happened to the GOP under Trump
@RepRaskin .@RepRaskin just slammed Brett Kavanaugh's recent call to reject late-arriving ballots: "This Supreme Court justice, at this point, has no role in it whatsoever but he decides he wants to expound rhetorically to defend what Donald Trump has been saying."
@RepRaskin "I think it proves you shouldn't drink beer and write decisions at the same time," @RepRaskin adds.
The ruling from Kavanaugh, which no other justice joined, was released at nearly the exact same time Trump tweeted: “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd.” Read more here: bit.ly/3kBsOgw
.@RepRaskin ends with this: "Election Day is really halftime…We've got to make sure that we are every place in the constitutional architecture where the Republicans might go to try to pull victory out of the jaws of this massive defeat that they've earned."
Thanks for joining! You can watch the entire conversation between @DanielSchulman and @RepRaskin here: bit.ly/31ONgTu

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