former new hampshire gop chair and lincoln project co-founder jennifer horn just announced she is leaving the republican party and registers as an independent. jennifer says that the party support for the texas lawsuit to overturn the election result was, quote, the last straw. now it seems jennifer is ready to fight the worst instincts telephone party on her own terms. quote, as long as today's republican party holds sway over our nation, freedom and democracy are at risk. and every one of us must set aside our partisan differences and tribal instincts in their defense, end quote. leading off our discussion tonight, jennifer horn, former chair of the new hampshire republican party and co-founder of the lincoln project, and professor eddie glaude, chairman of the african american studies at princeton university and msnbc contributor. good evening to both of you. thank you for being here. jennifer horn, i can't agree with your words more. when steve schmidt says he is a single issue voter now, and that issue is democracy, that is the one thing that should bring us all together. and at the

jennifer horn. former chair of the new hampshire republican party and co-founder of the lincoln project. and professor eddie glaude. msnbc contributor. good evening to both of you. thank you for being here. jennifer horn, i -- i -- i -- i can't agree with your words, more. when steve schmidt says he is a single-issue voter now, and that issue is democracy. that is the one thing that should bring us all together. and at the end of the day, once we've all agreed that democracy is the thing we need to -- to -- to -- to provide for and to protect, we can go our separate ways. and join other political parties. there's no reason we shouldn't have multiple, political parties. there is a good reason why we shouldn't have political parties that are anti-democratic in this country. >> that's exactly right. and thank you so much for having me, tonight. you know, i was one of those people that was holding out hope that, when trump was behind us, when the election was over and he lost, that, maybe, there would b

her name is jennifer horn.incoln project co-founder, detailed her reasons for leaving in "usa today." here's some of what she wrote. for the past five years, however, i found myself fighting for what i felt were the principles of my party in the face of the ever deteriorating character and integrity of party representatives. it seems there is no assault on human dignity too great, no attack on democracy too extreme to inspire the republican weaklings in congress to speak up or stand up to president trump. jennifer horn joins us now. appreciate you joining us. >> thank you for having me, chris. it's going od to be here. >> it's interesting. in the piece, you talk about not trump starting the fire but him basically being a turbo charger to what was already happening. >> right. >> what do you think the trump effect really has been on the republican party? >> well, it's been terribly destructive obviously. you know, donald trump and, you know, his idea of cruelty as policy, his embrace of racism and misogyny and th

joining us from the lincoln project, jennifer horne, former chair of the new hampshire republican party and this morning we can call her a former republican overall. jennifer, thanks for coming on to share this with us. when you leave a party, usually it's because you don't have any hope for it anymore. that it could ever come back to what it was. tell us about your decision. >> well, first, good morning, mika and joe and everybody. thank you for having me on this morning. that's exactly the conclusion i have come to and to be frank it's not because of president trump. donald trump is a weak and cowardly man. he could have been defeated, pushed back, silenced at any time if the leaders of the republican party wanted to do so. if they had the will to do so. it's because of exactly what you have been talking about this morning. it's because of what we have seen in the weeks since the election from so many elected republicans across this country who were willing to enlist in a coordinated, intentional effort to essentially overthrow democracy in the united states of america. it has become

tina nguyen and jennifer horn, we'll have to leave it there.acock every week night at 7:00 p.m. eastern. "the rachel maddow show" starts now with my good friend, ali velshi in for rachel. good evening, ali. >> i got a smile on my face when you said that part about how we just all need to be pro-democracy. it should be obvious, but it's actually not, and i think the important thing to point out is whether you're republican or an independent or a libertarian or a liberal or progressive, it doesn't matter. there's a choice to be made right now. you're on the side of democracy, or you're not. fantastic that we have to say it, but it is what it is. >> indeed. 100%. pro-democracy, the bare minimum. the benchmark. >> yeah. have a good evening, my friend. good to see you. >>> and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel's got the night off. there are just 23 days left in this presidency, 23 days until joe biden and kamala harris are sworn in. and yet after four years, another first. tonight the house of representatives overrode a presi

chris lu and jennifer horn, thank you both. >>> from kitchen products to iphone screens, one company called corning glass is on the front lines of the pandemic. the safe and sturdy valor glass vial. more on this. pretty fascinating. >> reporter: it's about 7:00 on the east coast on a sunday morning and just behind me in this facility are folks that are creating the covid vial for the vaccine. they're creating millions of them right now and it's also a company that created pyrex so you probably have it in your kitchen. if you have a newer generation iphone it's the glass on your iphone so certainly a name brand already but operation warp speed has brought them on as one of two vial creators that will be sending millions out to these pharmaceutical companies to fill the vaccine. now right here this is the vial, the covid-19 vial the vaccine will be going into. let me go through them. it has a low friction exterior coating that increases the production on the line speed and has a number of putting more of these vials on one production line at one time. it has a special chemical mixture,

we get new reaction right now from jennifer horn, the co-founder of the lincoln project and former new hampshire republican party chair. also joining us, podcast host danielle moody. thank you guys for being here. and jennifer, congratulations. one year since the formation of the lincoln project. not bad, huh? so, who's going to tell this, the president, that it's over, you know? there's been all this talk for so long that, you know, who's going to go? is it going to be jared and ivanka? we're now about 30 days from the inauguration. who's finally going to do it? >> well, i think it's probably going to be the american people who are going to have to tell him, frankly. it's been over for this president for a long time now. the problem is that because of his problems and his destruction and his ugliness and his, you know, hatred and misogynmisogyn seems like we're on the path for it to be over for the republican party as well. so, in a more serious vain, i suppose the person or the people who have the most to benefit from the president accepting that it is over and moving on are people l

people like jennifer horn, they live in big metropolitan areas, most notably atlanta where we saw theen. they're college educated men and women, tend to be white men and women who have had enough of this party. i think they would vote for mitt romney or george h.w. bush, and they will be a right wing portion of the democratic party of going forward. what's happened on the other side is that republicans have now picked up these obama trump voters permanently. these white working class voters that are disproportionately in small towns and rural areas. these two groups flipped. talking about the autopsy, i think this is why the republicans are not interested in an autopsy. they're happy with this trade. they're not trying to win a majority of the vote anymore. they see the fact that they've gotten these voters in states that have influence in the senate and the electoral college coming into the party and they figure they can be a minority party in the country but have a majority of the senate and every once in a while the electoral college. i think that's basically the trade that we've s