Election results and Maine Kampf | Hour 2

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Wilson came in second with twenty six and a half percent, so yeah, two and a half points back, then followed by Ralph Norman at sixteen and a half, then rom Ready with fourteen point nine, and in fifth place Nancy Mace with eleven point four, which I have to say I was a little surprised at that. I a little surprised, not that she didn't win. I wasn't. I did not think she was going to win. But I don't make predictions, but you know, I had a sense. It's kind of like, really, I would kind of feel surprised if she were the voteener, right, if she came out on top, but. She did not. But I did not expect her to finish behind rom Ready. In fifth. This from the Washington Examiner, the runoff result is a hit but not a loss for President Trump to like again, like, why is everything through this Trump prism? Right, it's a hit but not a loss. Why he endorsed the one who won? He endorsed Ebitt and she won in I mean, she finished first. Now we'll see if she clears the primary over Allan Wilson, I don't know. So, I don't know why that's a hit. You had a crowded field, You had a whole bunch of candidates, people that had names that were recognizable, right, Ralph Norman, Nancy Mays then two statewide elected officials already, so there were four people in the race that had name recognition. So it seemed to me like a runoff was going to be likely, but okay, Trump endorsed Evid for the nomination at the end of May. Eviitt had led in several recent polls, and Trump's backing has typically gone far in the deep red state, which he won by over seventeen percentage points back in twenty twenty four. Evitt focused her campaign on aligning South Carolina with Trump's agenda, running the state more frugally and modernizing the state's infrastructure. Wilson ran on similar priorities, but also centered his message on securing law and order in South Carolina, as well as an economy driven message to make South Carolina affordable again, which does not really lend itself well to the acronym MSCAA or MESCA. I guess both candidates campaigned on getting rid of the state's income tax. As a North Carolina resident, I would urge South Carolina not to do that. Please. Look, I mean, look, we already said we're not going to be building U I seventy seven expansion lanes from the border into center City Charlotte. Okay, so like you guys, you can't just all move across the border down there. And then keep working up here, although you would have to pay income taxes here, so that's probably not a great idea. The runoff result throws more uncertainty into the trends surrounding Trump's endorsement power in twenty twenty six. See again, so this is why why it you know, why Trump matters in this It throws more uncertainty. And by the way, this is the kind of thing that you write as a reporter. This is the kind of thing that you write in order to add some words to your story when you don't really have like enough words to make the story look like a full story, so you have to kind of chuck a bunch of stuff into it, you know. And I tell I say this from experience, like sometimes a story is only one sentence, but if you have to go cover a story and you have to fill forty five seconds, well you're gonna have to come up with about, you know, six or seven more sentences. So here's how they do it. Is this is throwing more uncertainty into the trends surrounding Trump's endorsement power in twenty twenty six. Though Evitt placed first, if she won outright and skipped the need for a runoff, it would have sent a resounding victory message for Trump. Okay, So that's why they're saying that this was a hit but not a loss. It's a hit because she has to go through a runoff. And that's the reporter's opinion. That's what that is. That is bias. That is subjectivity, right, That is the reporter having a view that this is somehow relevant at the very least, or dispositive in some way at the most. And that's why it's thrown in there when it really it's like, it's not really, you can't prove this. This is just an opinion. Anyway. The GOP runoff election is going to be on June twenty third. Over on the Democrat side, Representative Jermaine Johnson won the primary and avoids a runoff. Got what was it fifty eight, yeah, fifty eight point four percent Lindsey Graham. Thank you, Lindsey. Lindsey Graham as one his Republican primary in South Carolina. He does avoid a runoff. Graham faced multiple primary challengers, but the biggest threat came from self funding businessman Mark Lynch, who lent his own campaign five million dollars. Graham's campaign spent more than thirteen million on ads, according to ad Impact, It's an organization that tracks this stuff. Graham finished with just under fifty seven percent of the vote, Lynch with just under twenty nine percent. Trump had recently slammed Lynch as a quote lunatic, criticizing his support for GOP Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky, which Graham highlighted on the airwaves. Graham had been facing another high profile challenger this year, Paul Dans, who was an architect of the conservative policy blueprint known as Project twenty twenty five. Bukity. But Dan's ended his campaign in mid April and endorsed Lynch. Over on the Democrat side, Annie Andrews, a pediatrician. I wonder what her views are on the childhood mutilations. Anyway, she led the Democrat field in fundraising. She finished with sixty one and a half percent of the vote. Andrews was already on the airwaves slamming Lindsey Graham as a warmonger and a swamp creature, which she will not be. She will not just be a vote for the Democrat leadership when she gets to the Senate. She will not be a swamp creature is Oh, this is about Lindsey Graham. Back in twenty twenty, the last time he stood for reelection, he was running against Jamie Harrison. Remember Jamie Harrison then parlayed that loss, that landslide loss, lost by ten points, and a landslide is anything double digit. Harrison parlayed that loss into becoming the head of the DNC for a few years there. But that campaign, that race generated more than two hundred and eighty million dollars in spending. Okay, get that's for all of the both of the candidates there. Okay, so that was a very expensive race. We will dwarf that here between Wattley and Cooper in North Carolina. Then you've got the primary in Maine, and the Democrat primary obviously made making a lot of news. We've covered a lot of the scandals regarding Graham Platner, as the Hill refers to him as the progressive oyster farmer. That's what they call him, the progressive oyster farmer. Okay. The farm is owned by his richie rich buddy who basically gave him a scholarship job, and the farm basically supplies Graham Platner's mom's restaurant, her bougie high end restaurant. It's like it's its only client. Okay, so like this is a scholarship gig. But the progressive Oyster Farmer easily won the Democratic contest to take on Senator Susan Collins, the incumbent Republican, officially teeing up one of this year's marquee Senate races. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Mint Hill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. 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We're going to see the stuff that Republicans have because my assumption, my belief is that all of the stuff that we have heard so far about Graham Platner and if I shouldn't even try this, I need to just sit down and make a list. It's what I need to do of all of the scandals. But I have lost track of all the scandals because there are literally too many of them for me to remember them all. The biggest one, obviously, is the Nazi tattoo. Right then, you've got his comments about how he wanted to go to war so he could kill people. You've got the sexting that he was doing like right after he got married. He's a newlywed in twenty twenty three, and he's going on to the predator's paradise app called Kick, which is basically where like underage young girls are, and so he's on there trying to hook up with the ladies immediately after he gets married. You've got the. Loan for his house that he lied about saying first it was a VA loan, and then it turns out no, he you know, his dad gave him the money for it. And then there's the. Oh, the trashing of American sniper Chris Kyle, the trashing of a service member who was shot in combat, purple heart recipient. And there's some questions also about his disability level, that he's one hundred percent disabled but he's still working as an oyster farmer. There's oh gosh, I mean the stuff he posted on Reddit about gays. He had the post about how he would rape somebody who broke into his house, not in a gay way, though he made that very clear. He's like, I would rape them, but not in a gay way. Which I don't even know is there, So there's a non gay way to do that. I'm not. Okay. His possession, his ownership of a quote unquote assault rifle in Washington, d C. His comments about rape victims on Reddit, his self identification as a communist. I mean, I feel like you got the idea, you know, like, what is that? Probably seven or eight different things that would have ended anybody else's campaign, But for Democrats, the heart wants what it wants, and it wants not Susan Collins, the most moderate member of the Republican conference in the US Senate, who votes against Trump more than any other Republican. I would guess, if not like the most, then probably pretty close to the one who votes the most against Trump. Right. Susan Collins, who has voted for like all of the Democrat appointees, goes with the Democrat on certain items and issues. Over the years, you know. Has constantly drawn the charge of being a rhino from Republicans and conservatives. Like Republicans don't like her outside of Maine, Republicans don't like her, But as I tell people, like trying to knock off her in a blue state is probably not a wise thing to do because she's the kind of Republican that would win in that state, and you need that seat in order to pay at your majority in the US or yeah, in the US Senate. So she is a bridge too far. So therefore we have to elect the guy who claims he didn't know that it was a Nazi tattoo for eighteen years, even though there were all these people who were like, oh, yeah, he totally knew. He blamed the Marine Corps and the culture of the Marine Corps to why he got the Nazi tattoo, but he totally didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo. But he was also an amateur historian, and he would read all these books about World War two hit he could identify, He could identify uniforms by like some Swedish volunteer force that aligned itself with the Nazis against the Soviets. Right, talk about Sophie's choice there, like, okay, here are your sides. You can pick one of these two sides. You could be. You could be with the Nazis or you could be with the Soviets. Ah man that he was really in love with their uniforms, and he correctly identifies them in some post. But he did not know that the toten Kopf the SS insignia for the prison camps for the concentration camp guards. He did not know that that's what that was when he got it in the only nation in Europe that allowed for Nazi insignias to be purchased as tattoos. He just happened to be in Croatia, the only country that allows for that. Yeah, the guys alive. He's just a congenital liar, and so no, I don't believe anything that he says when it comes to this stuff and the accusation that just came out last week about him being physically abusive, he denies. Once again, he's a liar. So I don't believe him. But I suspect we're going to see more opposition research that gets dumped on him, more scandals to come because Republicans, I suspect wanted him to be the nominee. This is from the Hill dot com. Populist oyster farmer Graham Blattner with the Nazi tattoo. He won the primary yesterday. Political observers were closely watching Tuesday's primary to see whether a sizable chunk of Maners opted to vote for outgoing Governor Janet Mills, Democrat, who suspended her bid against Platner in protest of Platner amid recent controversies. In other words, will people in the Democrat primary in Maine go and vote for Mills because Platner has become so toxic And the answer is no. And now the guardrails have been set permanently because, as we know, with the moral relativism that has rotted the Democrat Party, there is no fixed position when it comes to principles. Okay, so the guardrail now is everything that Graham Platner has been accused of is acceptable, all of it. You will not risk losing a Democrat primary, even if you have a Nazi tattoo, even if you are accused of. Assaulting women. By the way, one of the women in that New York Times article a Democrat, and one of and there was another woman who was his former campaign advisor who came forward with the with the allegations or not allegations, with the truth that he was sexting with women. And Plattner's wife found out about it, and then she told the campaign like, hey, heads up, this might come out. They were like, nah, it's fine, it's just a personal matter. You know, no one's going to care about that. And it was so long ago, right, That was when you guys first got married in twenty twenty three. Yes, right, So there are no guardrails any longer. You can have any of these things. If you have just one of them, no problem. But if even if you have all of them, as long as you are an oyster farmer it's big, manly manly man and talks like this like, then you'll be fine. Don't worry about it. You'll clear the primary. By the way, the people responsible for recruiting Platner to run a pair of socialist political operatives, Daniel Morath and Leanne Fan Okay, And they had determined that they were looking at somebody else, but that person had a quote skeleton in the closet, so they went with Platner. The Wall Street Journal got an interview with this duo. And this may not be readily recognizable when I start playing the audio, but the first person you're going to hear speak is a man. Okay, this is the guy named Daniel Morath. And at this point you hadn't that's the Wall Street Journal reporter. I apologize. So the Wall Street Journal reporter is a dude, and he's asking the question. Vetted grand Platner. You hadn't done a full scrub of who he is. How did you go about vetting him? And why did you We've paid a Yeah, we've paid a so the woman laughing as fan. She's just giggling, giggling about their vetting abilities or something, and Moraf is now going to describe how they hired a firm to do the vetting. We've paid a nice firm a whole chunk of money and got some stuff back. Some of what you've seen on the news we got back. Other stuff we did. And did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial now the reddit posts? Did that turn up in the vetting process? The firm sent us thing and it had some of the poop, but it didn't have all of them? And what did you think about that? How did you think your way through the fact that he had posted these things on social media? I said, none of this will or should stop him from becoming a us cenator, And what was thinking very I think if what the voters wanted were people who were grown in bats and had never done or said anything that they might regret their entire lives, we'd have a very different country. Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in bats. They want people who are real human beings, and they want people who do not look and sound like the background people who've been leading this country off a cliff for the last century. And that was Graham. No, by the way, just to be clear, because I can see the video, nobody is strangling him. Okay, that is just his normal voice. Apparently he just and if you were unclear prior to this audio clip of what vocal fry is, that's vocal fry. However, I have never. In all of my years listening to NPR, which is where you can get a steady dose of the vocal fry, never have I heard anybody speak in a consistent vocal fry manner. Usually the vocal fry just occurs on the last like two or three words, comes down like that. That's the that's the fry. That's that's the frying part. It's really unsettling to listen to. I don't do it. This guy speaks in a constant fry, is constantly frying. So he and his pal. There Fan uh leanne Fan, these are the two that recruited Grand Platinner. And when you hear him speak, do you think that maybe he was a bit blinded by Graham Platner's voice. Let me think about it. In the way you talk is like this all the time, Maybe it would be attractive dad, so it come along and speak like this to you. Oh my god, he's such a man. He's gonna be He's gonna be so attractive to those those stupid, backwards, redneck rural voters. Grand Platner is a caricature conjured up by the left of what they think Republican voters want. That's what's so rediculous about him and this effort like this is this guy is who they think Republicans are going to like. Well, he's big and he's barely he has a beard, he's a nice de farmer, I'm a Nazi tattoo, I'm one of you, right, Like, that's what they think will win, and they might not be wrong. Maine is stupid. From the text line, got a bunch of messages here, uh nine eight zero number says, does this guy look the way I imagine he's going to look? Probably, you know, very like a thin dude, a bit of a paunch belly, and he's got a you know, a beard. He looks like your typical European socialist. And uh, Seth says, did you say that that guy's name was Kermit the Frog? I did not know. Beth's favorite Russ. That dude's voice, I know, I know that's Jeff with a G, says Pete. That vocal fry dude had me trying to claw my ears out while driving. Yes, the good Jeff says, Uh. There was another candidate that could not run because he had skeletons in his closet. Graham Plattner has more skeletons in his closet than a spirit Halloween store. In the off season. At the uh Bebop in Rock, Thrill says, Holy smokes, what's wrong with that guy's voice? He doesn't seem to be so sure with his words. Amy says, was he crying? No, he was not crying. No. Um, let me see here. The hellian is Platner will win. Wait and see, he will win because you won't hear a combative word out of cow. Yeah. I'm not so sure, Like I don't all I know is this what I read in the reporting and the commentary by people who follow main politics, and she has had numerous challengers, she has pulled below them, going into like every single race, and she always wins. So I don't know what the dynamics are up there, but I would be I mean, she's already hit him on some of this stuff, and his hit on her is. That she voted to send me to war. Like, yeah, no, she voted for the Iraq War Authorization for the use of military force. She voted for that. And then two years later, after you did your gap year backpacking across Europe and you cut it short because you just really wanted to go kill people, That's what you said, Plattner. Platner said that, in fact, he loved it so much. Right, So the war's going on, he cuts short his trip so he can join the Marines, he can go overseas, go to see combat, go into war. And then he gets out of the military and he wants to kill people so much more. I guess that he joins Blackwater. Like this was the boogeyman for the left for a decade. Like they like the stuff they say about Trump now is what they were saying about Blackwater. They sit there and laugh their butts off. They know he's going to win, otherwise they would not be so arrogant. The Wilford Brimley professorial voice does not match Plattner's appearance. John says Maners apparently would vote for Jeffrey Epstein, another generate Democrat, if he ran against a Republican. That's probably true. Do do do do do do do do. Mark says, uh pete. I continue to enjoy your show, Thank you. I run my errands purposely in the afternoons. Don't disagree with the Democrat machine, but we have ours in certain states, people like Lindsey, Thank you, Lindsey, Mitch McConnell and for that matter, John Thune, all with failing grades by the Liberty score fifty or less. Everybody knows it, but they keep getting elected. Yeah, well this is again I say this. In any jurisdiction where the government is controlled by one political party, like controlled absolutely right, then you end up with these kinds of squishes because the deals that they cut in order to get things either for themselves or their districts or whatever right they they're willing to engage in that horse trading and violate printnciples because there isn't any kind of accountability that they face because they're so entrenched in that political machine. Did you? Eddie says? People voted for his lies. People love to be lied to nowadays, they love a lie over the truth. This country is decaying in front of us. All there was another thing I saw? Where was it? Do? Here? I got it on the laptop. Sam Stein. Works for The Bulwark and MSNBC, and he interviewed some people, some Platner voters, Susan or sorry. One of them said that they would vote for a warm body over Susan Collins quote. I'm a feminist. I've been cheated on before, like I have all these things. So I'm like, oh yeah, trigger, trigger, trigger. But he's real about it. And I don't mean to be controversial, but whatever is in those Epstein files, I'm sure whatever Graham Platner did is not as bad? Is that? So bring it on. Another one. Heidi said, I'd rather have some guy that maybe like cheated on his wife than pedophiles, you know, with Epstein files. This is tell me how that's any different than the massy Right? All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.