about the are war corkins crisis being the end of american democracy you get people asking how could this happen after the warnings that followed the election in 2016 have you heard questions being posed about the credibility and the integrity of the u.s. election system. well it's something that i've definitely heard time and time again and you read it time and time again about the credibility of democratie macwrite exist i'm here in the united states and you know if we start all small we don't even have to go far back in fact today joe biden at the former vice president we must stress in the days leading up to this caucus in iowa it looked like he was going to perform as well as perhaps he had hoped well his communications director came out saying that the their campaign had some real concerns about the integrity of the process like that they are very strong words and then of course there's been a lot of debate in the united states over the system in general and you know if we go back to the 2016 election in fact in the number of votes president trump if it came down to that didn't