ANGIE MILES: What is on your mind right now, as we move closer to Election Day, what kinds of issues are you contemplating, reflecting on?

DAVID PEAKE: This particular election has made me very much aware of how important democracy is.

And I have seen some indication that it could be eradicated in some areas, which concerns me.

CHUCK HANSEN: I was Republican until 2016 and I didn't like Trump.

And so while I hold on to probably some of my more conservative fiscal opinions, I'm a one issue person and that is Trump needs to go.

That is to be defeated at the ballot box.

ANGIE MILES: There are probably conservatives who say that they don't like Donald Trump at all.

However, if they feel that Donald Trump is a means to an end, they will be willing to support him.

Can you understand that viewpoint?

CHUCK HANSEN: I don't understand how they can make that leap to voting for Donald Trump.

I think when you have a guy who says he wants to terminate the Constitution, that kind of overrides the rest of that.

SCOTT SHAW: I don't think that the American democracy is so weak that it can be brought down by a single individual.

It's been around too long, and it has too many people that still believe in it to just basically topple overnight.

SCOTT GOODWYN: You know, first we have to have, you know, election integrity.

I really feel like, this is a bipartisan issue.

Should be.

AMY MENDELSON CHEELEY: I don't know that any election officials actually said that there was a problem.

There are outside agitating people.

And campaigns that are saying there's a problem.

SHARALYN GARRARD: The election integrity also doesn't just it didn't just include what happens on Election day, but it's the concerted effort to disenfranchize the people that you don't want to vote because they're not going to vote for your side.

ANGIE MILES: Do you think we need more safeguards in place?

CD VAUTERS: Are people voting that are not citizens?

DAVID PEAKE: No.

CD VAUTERS: Okay, so then, you know, it's just all part of this... lies and distraction and and diversion.

And it's not even true.

SCOTT SHAW: I'm not sure it really makes any difference trying to argue with somebody who is encouraged by misinformation because if somebody gets something in their mind, it's very difficult to change that.

But you can gently promote them to maybe look around at other sources before digging their heels in.

ANGIE MILES: I do want to know about extremism and January 6th.

Right.

And the threat of a return to that, if Donald Trump does not win.

We have militia members saying if he does not win, there will be violence.

And are on record saying it.

CHUCK HANSEN: Well, the January 6th, he calls them political prisoners or whatever.

He complains that, you know, demonstrations in 2020, why weren't they arrested?

Why weren't they jailed like the January 6th people?

So I looked it up and 1100 people were arrested and charged January 6th.

17,000 people were arrested during 2020.

During those demonstrations, thousands were charged.

He's wrong.

BILL OGLESBY: If you're 18 years old and you're voting this year, you were nine years old when Donald Trump came into power.

You've never known anything really, but Trumpism.

And I'm sorry, but demagoguery cannot be allowed to rule the day.

And that's what's happening, at least among a large segment of our citizens.

And we have to get back to what it really means to be an American.

CD VAUTERS: When are we going to start seeing, getting at the root of the problem and coming together like this and start working on solutions?