When a seven-million-vote margin of victory and 306 electoral votes pointed to Joe Biden as the victor in the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump-fueled conspiracy theories exploded. In The Big Truth, CBS’s Chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett and the nation’s foremost elections expert David Becker completely upend The Big Lie that has infected the Far Right with firsthand stories of election officials like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Bucks Counter, Pennsylvania, election director Thomas Freitag. And they reveal the concrete evidence proving that 2020 may have been the most secure US election ever. But Garrett and Becker go beyond the key players from all six swing states, the pre-election litigation that clarified the rules for both parties, and the fully auditable and verifiable ballots used. They lay bare the methods being undertaken RIGHT NOW to undercut faith, belief, and effectiveness of elections, identifying the places where the most dire actions have been taken since 2020–where election laws have been changed; or election officials been hounded out of office, retired out of frustration fatigue, or been replaced by pro-Trump political figures. Therein lies the Big Truth we face in the 2022 Midterm elections and beyond, when honest election workers of all parties will face lies, threats, abuse, and vilification, and the manipulation of voting laws and election boards threaten the sanctity of our democracy.

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