Maddow: Republicans Who Supported Recount Are Now ‘Torpedoing’ Arizona Recount’s ‘Proverbial Ship’

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MADDOW: "There’s a lot going on in the news, a lot going on this hour. We’re going to be going live to Arizona in just a few minutes tonight where the Republican Party’s indulgence of the Trump election fraud fantasies have now turned into sort of a nightmare for their own party. The dangerousness of what they are doing with this so-called audit of Arizona’s election results is now causing some Republicans who initially supported it to not just jump off this proverbial ship, but they are now trying to torpedo that proverbial ship itself. Republicans in Maricopa County, again, including some who initially supported this thing, they’re now not only demanding an end to the recount, they’re saying they will refuse to cooperate with or have anything to do with it anymore. They’re now pledging, among other things, to defend the integrity of Arizona’s election by fighting in court any purported result that is announced for this audit. Some of the most lurid allegations made by the so-called audit group, the so-called recount groups about something being terribly wrong and them having discovered terrible discrepancies in what they have recounted and audited thus far, some of their most lurid and irresponsible claims they have actually walked back tonight and admitted they aren’t true.”