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Trump allies expect certification fights in the states, Barrón-López reports

Al Sharpton and Molly Jong-Fast join Alicia Menendez on Deadline: White House to weigh what could follow if key races go against Republicans.

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BREAKING: Trump allies ADMIT plot to BLOCK election certification for results they don't like

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0:16Alicia Menendez opens with Republican campaign events canceled across the country.
1:10Talarico mocks Paxton's canceled rallies, and Trump's Iowa and Kansas stops are reinstated.
2:46Barrón-López reports Trump allies plan to challenge results at county and state certification stages.
5:18Al Sharpton warns that disrupting certification, not winning challenges, may be the real aim.
7:31Molly Jong-Fast discusses Trump's public polling and voter mood before the midterms.
8:26Barrón-López covers possible post-election legal moves involving congressional leadership and the House Clerk.

"Whether there's fraud or not, they expect this to be done," Laura Barrón-López says, quoting one of her sources on Deadline: White House.

The MS NOW White House reporter's account concerns what could happen after the votes are counted. Trump allies and people close to the White House told her they expect Republicans to try to block certification of results in key states and counties if races do not go their way. "Everyone expects the fight after election day to be in the states," she tells Alicia Menendez, who is sitting in for Nicolle Wallace. This is a plan described in advance, not a certification that has already been refused.

The segment opens on the campaign trail instead: canceled Republican events, Trump's Iowa and Kansas stops returning to the schedule, and a jab from James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, at his Republican opponent Ken Paxton. The reporting promised in the title arrives just before the three-minute mark.

Rev. Al Sharpton then argues that drama may be the point of such challenges. "What they really are going to try to do is disrupt the certifications," he says, warning of state-level trouble that recalls January 6. Molly Jong-Fast turns to Trump's polling, and Barrón-López returns near the end with possible legal moves involving congressional leadership and the House Clerk.

Posted six hours earlier, the segment had passed 700,000 views, several times what a regular MS NOW video usually gathers in a whole first day. Comments arrived even faster, already well beyond a usual first day's total. A second election-procedure story ran close behind it: Katy Tur's panel on an appeals court refusing the Justice Department's request to set aside alleged noncitizen votes in California.

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