The first midterm election results had just started trickling in, Tuesday, and MSNBC was already jumping to the conclusion of “voter suppression” and “nefarious intent” in Georgia. Even though the polls weren’t even closed, reporter Trymaine Lee worried, “This race has been controversial from the very beginning. Concerns about voter suppression efforts, especially coming down from Brian Kemp, the Secretary of State, who is also running for governor.”

He warned this was all linked to “the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.” Lee then brought on Derek Johnson, NAACP President. With no pushback, Johnson called for “bring[ing] criminal charges against how [the Republican Kemp is] treating our democracy during this election cycle.”

Regarding long lines and problems at the polls, Lee led the conversation this way: “How much do you think is mismanagement of the polls and how much might be nefarious?”

And yet, as ABC noted, preliminary exit polls have record high turnout for nonwhites in Georgia:

In preliminary exit poll results, turnout among nonwhites is a record 40 percent, including 30 percent black voters. The previous high among nonwhites was 36 percent in 2014 – compared with just 18 percent in 1994.

On his Twitter page, MSNBC's Lee praised Maryland’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous as a “really strong voice” and insisted that Donald Trump “disrespected” Puerto Ricans.

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