No WaPo endorsement & EV stats (10-25-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I got breaking news. The Washington Post has come out on the question of their editorial board has come out after debating on whom to endorse in this presidential race. The Washington Post editorial board has announced it's not going to make an endorsement.

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_00]: The Washington Post not making an endorsement? Do you know that Hitler is on the ballot? Oh my God!

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_01]: So now that's two. Two major papers, because what I think it was, was it the LA Times yesterday or the day before? And they made an announcement that their editorial board was not going to make an endorsement either? And they had like one guy, I think it was like one guy that I don't even know who the person was. Somebody quit. They're, I can't believe you won't take a stand against literally Hitler. And they quit.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm wondering who all is going to quit now at the Washington Post. Oh my gosh. Like that's, there's a fellow I follow on Twitter. His name is RB Pundit. He used to be a, well, a pundit. I think his first name is Ryan, but he's out of the game except for his snarkiness on Twitter, which I do love.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_01]: But he points out that this is an indication of really how bad Kamala Harris is. The Washington Post editorial board of all entities not going to make an endorsement. That's nuts. I've not read their explanation. Frankly, it doesn't even really matter to me because I don't care about newspaper editorial board endorsements because they're a joke.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I remember, and I can tell you when the, when it was that I quit caring about these types of things. If anything, I only read an endorsement from a newspaper editorial staff when I want to know who to vote against. That's usually how I, it's usually how I use their endorsements.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but I remember it was, it must've been. Oh, four, maybe. I guess it was the 2004 election presidential race, which would have been, uh, George W. Bush running for reelection against John F. Kerry, who, as I understand, served in Vietnam.

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I believe it was that race where the Charlotte observer editorial board made its endorsement of John Kerry. And, um, they got a lot of blowback and, you know, letters to the editor back then when Republicans actually read the paper, uh, and then would write letters to the editor at the observer.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And so they got a lot of criticism for that endorsement and their explanation. This is what did it. It was the response where they said, we endorse Republicans all the time. We make lots of endorsements for Republicans.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_01]: So this attack on us and the institution of the Charlotte observer that we don't make endorsements of Republicans for office. That's crazy. Look, we made an endorsement in like this city council race last year, which was a Republican district, which is one of the things that they do also.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_01]: So they will, they'll end up. Well, except if it was bill James, they would never endorse bill James for County commission. They always endorsed the Democrats against him, I think, but the, but like in, uh, uh, uh, a safe Republican seat, they would make endorsements for Republicans.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_01]: They may have endorsed Pat McCrory against Ellis Scarborough or something too for mayor at some point, but at the presidential level, this is what they argued.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_01]: They said, we have made endorsements of Republican presidential candidates. We do it regularly. And then they cited as their latest example. Um, I believe it was Eisenhower. I think that's right. I think that was the, cause I think he was, he was Republican, right? Um, they went back, they, they literally had to go back like 60 years to find the last Republican.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_01]: That they had endorsed for president. And they cited that as their example. That's when it's like, okay. Uh, yeah, I'm out. You know, I'm out. I'm not, I don't care what you guys have to say anymore. And it's just, it's, it's just gotten worse ever since. Anyway. So I thought that was interesting. Um, Russ says, uh, yes, the Biden Harris administration stopped construction of the wall on day one.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And they sold off materials at a huge loss. And recall also that they welded gates open in the sections of the wall that had been completed. And it's not, and this was also one of the, you know, fact checking. It's not really a wall, but merely a series of steel columns that have been, you know, drilled into the ground 20 feet deep, whatever.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's true. So you can kind of see through the wall, you know? So it's not really a full on like Berlin wall concrete thing. So, uh, so that was a big fact check at the time, but yeah, they welded open the gates.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_01]: So yes, I agree with Russ. I'm thinking she still thinks the wall is a bad idea. And that's why she won't answer the question. Cause it's a pretty straightforward question. And the fact that you can't answer it means that you're trying to deceive me in for about something, whether it's about your support of the wall, your opposition to the wall, or you're trying to deceive everybody in thinking that you have a position on the wall, right?

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_01]: You may not have one. You may just do whatever is politically expedient at any given moment, but you don't want people to know that. So you're being dishonest about that. So I don't know how it is. You're trying to deceive me exactly, but I know you are trying to deceive me. And I think this is the thing that comes through.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_01]: So the Washington post, not endorsing Harris, that seems like a pretty big deal to quote Joe Biden, right? Um, here's a tweet. It's a Pete tweet from an account called shadow of the Magi.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_01]: The Harris walls campaign has evolved like a season of the documentary chip Eden. I've not seen it first. They run at you flailing their limbs wildly in the air, trying to intimidate you into submission. But in the end, they just throw all of their own poop at you. So that's, it does sound pretty accurate. Actually, that's where we are.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, Joseph says Democrats called the wall racist for eight years and accused Trump of stealing the 2016 election by working with, with Russia. Their political strategy is to punch you in the face while yelling, stop hitting me.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, well, and I, this is the thing, these tactics, I called it a sugar high. They might work in the short term, but they don't last. And then they just make you fat. Um, and I think that's what we're seeing. I think people are just kind of fed up with it all. Um, Mike Rusher, who worked for the North Carolina state Senate, I believe. Um, and I think he does, he may still actually, I don't know, but he's a

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_01]: state politics guy. He's a Republican and he posted up some of the stats from day eight of early voting, which was yesterday. So this morning, so in the mornings, if you go on to Twitter, um, formerly X, if you go on to Twitter and you type in, uh, in the search bar, the number sign.

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So the pound sign hashtag NCPOL, you will find people posting about North Carolina politics. That's where I do a lot of the wet work that I engage in, um, highlighting the various levels of dumbassery from our political elites.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_01]: So he posts and, and others do as well, some of the running totals on early voting. And, you know, there's, there's actually, you know, data and analysis that's provided on that hashtag along with the dumbassery, but, uh, the early voting numbers from yesterday, there are 2.296. So just under 2.3 million votes.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Democrats outvoted by Republicans and unaffiliated now for the second day in a row. So this occurred yesterday and it occurred on, uh, Wednesday. So Wednesday and Thursday, Democrats were outvoted by Republicans and by unaffiliated.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_01]: What makes that most astounding is the fact that Democrats are, they outnumber Republicans and they have always held the, the lead, the, you know, in early voting results. Always.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: They are down 8% in North Carolina. The GOP now has a 17,000 vote lead. This is by voter, right? So when Republicans show up at early voting, we obviously don't know who they're voting for, but we know that a Republican showed up and a Democrat showed up.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_01]: And in this case, now we know that there are 17,000 more Republicans who have shown up early. And that is unprecedented. We literally have never seen this before in North Carolina.

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[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, the reports are that the Washington Post was ready to make an endorsement for, you may want to sit down for this, Kamala Harris.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_01]: But they were blocked from doing so by their owner, Jeff Bezos.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And that is a similar report of what happened at the LA Times, where the ownership said, no, we're not making any endorsement.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, you could say that's because they were afraid of Donald Trump and retribution, his enemies list, and all that stuff.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe they just know that Trump is leading, or they believe Trump is leading, Trump's going to win, and they don't want to antagonize Trump.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Going into the, I don't know.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Interesting times indeed.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, John. Welcome to the program.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Keith.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_03]: The early numbers for the Republican voting is encouraging, but rewind the clock a little bit to the Republican primaries.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_03]: North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona are all closed primaries.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_03]: And if I remember correctly, a bunch of Democrats switched their registrations so they could try to be a poison pill and invoke Nikki Haley to throw Trump off.

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_03]: So how much of these Republican early votes are actually Democrats who just changed their registrations back in the spring?

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's a critical mass.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's a, yeah, I don't think people change their registration to go do that in a large enough quantity to actually have an impact.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. Good. Thanks.

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. I mean, I could be wrong on that.

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That's just, that's my feeling.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I understand that people, especially, you know, Operation Chaos and all of that stuff, like, but I don't think that there's actually, because we don't, you know, they would have just gone to unaffiliated.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't need to go to a Republican registration to go vote in a Republican primary in North Carolina.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_01]: They could just register unaffiliated, like I am, and then you get to pick whichever primary you want to be in.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why unaffiliated is now the number one voter registration in the state, right, surpassing now the Democrats.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So I think there may be some, but I don't think it's a lot.

[00:13:50] Okay.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, John.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So some of the other data points here.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Among 65 years and older, so among the people who are over 65 or older, that turnout number is up 6%.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_01]: The youth vote, 18 to 30 years old, that is down 1.4%.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_01]: In 2020, after the first week of early voting, females made up 52.8%.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_01]: 52.8.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_01]: That was four years ago.

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Now they make up 52.1%.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_01]: So there was a slight erosion, 0.7%, among males and females that are going to vote.

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Females are down a little bit.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Males are up by about 1%.

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Males were 41%.

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Now they're at 42.2%.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So what does it mean?

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, as I talked about on shows past, you've got people who are, well, you've got a gender gap, right, that has widened between Democrats and Republicans.

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_01]: More Republicans are registering and identifying as Republicans and more women are identifying and registering and voting as Democrats.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_01]: That has gotten more pronounced.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_01]: But also keep in mind the Gallup numbers that came out a couple of weeks ago also that found more Americans now identify as Republicans versus Democrats.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And that is the first time that that has happened in over 30 years.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_01]: So, again, when you look at not just the single data points, but you look at overall trends.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is what has a lot of people very concerned in the Democrat circles.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Going over some of the early voting results out of North Carolina so far through yesterday.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Again, we don't know how people have been voting.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_01]: We just know, like, the numbers of people that are voting.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_01]: And we know, you know, very limited demographic information.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we'll know male or female, that kind of a thing.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll know party registration, that kind of thing.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, what counties they're voting in.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_01]: For example, Wake County leads the state with 240,000 early votes cast.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Mecklenburg is second by about 20,000 votes at 222,000.

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Then Guilford at 116,000, Forsyth at 88,000, Durham at 83,000, Buncombe at 58,000, Union County at 57,000, Cumberland, Brunswick, Johnston, New Hanover, Gaston, Iredell, Cabarrus, and Orange County.

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_01]: All with more than 40,800 early votes so far.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Republicans have cast 789,000 votes.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_01]: A little bit more.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_01]: 789, Democrats 772, and unaffiliateds 723.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_01]: So unaffiliateds are the largest group by registration in North Carolina.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_01]: They surpassed Democrats, I don't know, what was it, like a year or so ago?

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_01]: So by registration, number one, unaffiliated, number two, Democrat, number three, Republican.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_01]: But Democrats have been steadily losing registered voters, and Republicans have been steadily gaining.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Unaffiliateds have also steadily gained at a higher pace than Republicans.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So those are not good trends for Democrats who have their hearts set on, you know, flipping North Carolina blue.

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_01]: And the fact that they have not mobilized their voters to the extent that Republicans have at this point, as I said, has a lot of people in Democrat Party circles very, very concerned.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I do wonder if this trend holds.

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_01]: What does that say, then, of the whiz kid that's been running the North Carolina Democrat Party?

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Anderson Clayton, who says y'all a lot as her form of rural outreach.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, abort your babies, y'all!

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_01]: See, that's the, that's how she's going to get a lot of the rural voters to vote Democrat.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Because Democrats have largely ignored, you know, large swaths of the state focusing their efforts on the urban core areas.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And that has, I don't know, like, it seems like that might not be such a great strategy here.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Or they're doing whatever that strategy is, they're doing it poorly.

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So, I don't know.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_01]: But I wonder if she's going to get the kind of questions that, that would be sort of commensurate with the performance that we're seeing.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Because she's been hailed as this, you know, youth leader.

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Because she's, I think, eight years old?

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I think eight or nine.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget.

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm kidding.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_01]: She's like 23 or something.

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_01]: But everybody keeps pointing to her and she gets all these stories written about her.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, oh, look at her.

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_01]: She's this young dynamo, the future of the party and all of this.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And there's the national media and the state media.

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_01]: They are in love with this woman.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And they give her all sorts of publicity, even though she hasn't really, like, this is, I think, the first real test.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And her predecessor that she beat, Bobby Richardson, who was, you know, this, I don't know, 60 or 70-year-old former lawmaker, black woman.

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And Anderson Clayton beat her in the Democrat election inside the party to be the chair, which I feel like is kind of racist.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you run against a black candidate and beat them, I mean, look at Jeff Jackson.

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He dropped out rather than run against Sherry Beasley.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_01]: So, for the U.S. Senate race at the time.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And so I just wonder, because Bobby Richardson was blamed for the performance by Democrats in the state when she was chair.

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And she took a lot of heat and that opened the door for Anderson Clayton to beat her.

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And so I just wonder now, what are we to make of this?

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And is that a reflection on her capabilities?

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not making any predictions.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, they don't invite me to their meetings.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_01]: The Democrats, for some reason, don't invite me to their party meetings.

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Jeff, welcome to the program.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Jeff.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, hi, Pete.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thanks for taking my call.

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And happy Friday to you.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, sir.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: You too.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm glad to hear that, you know, people are turning out to vote early.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a great thing.

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_02]: But I've just got some questions sort of relate back to the 2020 election.

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it seemed like Trump was leading, you know, early into the morning hours.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And then all of a sudden, things flipped.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_01]: What are you talking?

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, hang on.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Are you talking about North Carolina?

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm talking about the U.S.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, but...

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Primarily the swing states.

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, that he all, all of a sudden, he lost whenever the early returns were showing

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_02]: that he was, he had a, he had a close lead.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_02]: But anyway...

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_01]: There were some, well, there, but...

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So you're talking about the, you're, I'm assuming you're talking about like Pennsylvania, Georgia,

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: and Arizona specifically, because I'm not, I don't remember there being other states that

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_01]: had the kind of swings that you're talking about.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think Michigan was one of them.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, it seemed like that, like I said, that he had the election won and then all of a

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_02]: sudden things flipped in those close states and then all of a sudden he lost.

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So the thing that I have a question about is whenever you mail in a ballot, or let's

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_02]: say you vote early and you're in a state that uses paper ballots, what's the chain of

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_02]: custody on those ballots?

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_01]: For, well, for the mail-ins, it's going to be different than the early voting.

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're in the type of ballots that you're using are going to be, like, that's

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_01]: going to be different as well.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_01]: So let's just start with the mail-in ballots.

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_01]: If I, and every state's different, right?

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's why I'm kind of struggling to give you an answer because like, I know the North

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Carolina system better than I would know what the Pennsylvania system is because I don't

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_01]: live there.

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I've never, you know, worked there, covered their stuff.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know what that process exactly is.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_01]: But in North Carolina, you have to request the absentee ballot and then fill it out.

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_01]: You got to follow the rules on filling it out, show the ID, have a notary, that kind

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_01]: of thing.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_01]: You send it in.

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_01]: It has to be in the elections office by 730, polls close on election day.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they open them and start counting them.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And then that'll have, so that count will come after election day.

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_02]: So, so the, the, let's say that physical ballot goes to the elections office and it's supposed

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_02]: to be sequestered there.

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if you, if you deliver it in person, it goes directly to them.

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise you're dropping it in the mail and then the U.S. Postal Service.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_02]: But eventually, but eventually it's supposed to go to the election office.

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_02]: So then who, who enforces the custody of those ballots?

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: The elections office officials, the ones that work at the elections office.

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_02]: So then theoretically, if, if I'm controlling the office, then I would have a chance to invalidate

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_02]: those ballots by replacing them with others.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_02]: You would have to know which ballots to do that to.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, well, yeah, but, um.

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_01]: So, like, cause you, when a ballot comes in, so like you would have to know what's, what,

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_01]: who the person's voting for, right?

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_01]: If you're trying to change everybody's votes to Trump, you would have to, you would have to

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: find out which ones are not voting for Trump before you even open the ballots.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Or, or if you just, if you just, um, had thousands of ballots ready to put into the mix and then

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_02]: you just did a huge purge and, and replace.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But you would have to have all of the information on those ballots filled in as well.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_02]: But you just have to have the ballot filled out for the person you want.

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_01]: No, you have to have also the information that the, the, the personal identification

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_01]: information of the voter that's inside that ballot.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But, but, but again, who enforces that?

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_01]: The elections workers, the board of elections.

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And when they start running those ballots, you've got observers that are there too.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_02]: So, because the thing that's, that's suspicious to me is, is that all of a sudden, whenever

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_02]: the mail-in ballots start getting counted, all of a sudden you go from a population that's

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_02]: voting, let's say 47, 48.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And, but then all of a sudden the mail-in ballots are coming in at 90% or better for just one guy.

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not always true though.

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_01]: The mail-in ballots have traditionally gone for Republicans because they're military

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_01]: ballots.

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_02]: No, but, but that's not what they said in the swing stage.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_02]: They said that Trump lost.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_01]: In 2020 because, well, in 2020, yes, because you had a lot of people mailing in ballots

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_01]: because of COVID.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_02]: But again, if the ballot is in the proper possession, lawful possession, how is it that all of a

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_02]: sudden mail-in ballots are 90% for one candidate?

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I just said that.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not possible.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_01]: In 2020, we saw the numbers we saw because people were home voting by mail because of

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_01]: COVID.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_01]: They changed all the rules to make it way easier to vote with the mail.

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_01]: But traditionally people don't generally do that because it's, it's, it's more difficult

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_01]: to do that.

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_01]: It's easier just to go down and vote rather than fill out the paperwork at the notary in

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_01]: North Carolina.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I can, I can speak to North Carolina.

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_01]: See, this is my problem.

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Jeff, here's what I would recommend.

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Get involved in the local election system, volunteer, or even get paid to watch the polls

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_01]: yourself and to learn how the system works and be a part of that.

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_01]: So you can be that set of eyes in the, in the process.

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go over to Jimmy.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Jimmy.

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I have about, well, I got two minutes for you though, but what's up?

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Pete.

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_04]: I just wanted to follow on the last caller.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_04]: I, I, I know he was talking about sort of the process and the chain of custody and all

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_04]: that, but I think, you know, when I hear that, I think of the bigger, the really fundamental,

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_04]: important question riding underneath that was the anomalies that happened on those mail-in

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_04]: votes in 2020 and that you did see, you know, I remember going to bed and New York times

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_04]: had Donald Trump, 98% winning Georgia.

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_04]: And then some very funky things happened.

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_04]: And I know it was sort of, um, you know, a lot of people say, well, the courts didn't

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_04]: take it up, but if you really dig into the data on what happened and there were some weird

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_04]: things about mail-in ballots coming in and they weren't creased and they weren't folded.

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And there was such a lot of anomalies that happened there.

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_04]: So what are your thoughts on, um, you know, were that to happen?

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_04]: My, my hope was that by this time, this election would have been not been neck and neck because,

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_04]: uh, you know, uh, you couldn't get away with something like that.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_04]: If Donald Trump was up, you know, in polls, 15% in, in these States, but if it's close,

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_04]: um, do you think that we've, we've corrected for some of those things?

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and they do exist.

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_04]: If you really dig into the data, there was some very, very funny business that went on.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I know people believe that in, in different States, there is various levels of evidence

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_01]: and proofs to support various claims.

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_01]: I've not, I've not examined every single one of them.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I've asked people to send me stuff.

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I usually get a link to like Breitbart or, you know, or I get some obscure website.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I think I've actually asked you for it, Jimmy.

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I think we've had this conversation.

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I said, send me what you've got.

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think you said that to me last time and you never did.

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, it's called here is the evidence.

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And I went to that site and I am not, I went to that site, Jimmy, Jimmy, I went to that site.

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_01]: The last time we had this conversation, I was not compelled by any of the links that were

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_01]: listed on that site.

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe that.

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_04]: There's probably 500 links on that.

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_01]: The ones I was looking at were not believable.

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_01]: No, you call them factual, Jimmy, but they're not in my estimation.

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_01]: They're not.

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I would ask Pete, I'd ask the listeners then to go.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, go for it.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone is free to make their own determination and you can keep relitigating 2020.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_01]: That's totally fine.

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not interested in doing that because there's no point to it now because there's an election

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_01]: right now.

[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, that doesn't mean I'm going to ignore any kind of reports of of problems.

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_01]: But I also don't think that I don't think the environment is such right now that we're

[00:29:34] [SPEAKER_01]: going to see those types of anomalies just because the 2020 pandemic rules do not apply

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_01]: any longer in a lot of these states.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, some states did actually keep some of those rules in place.

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I disagree with those.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to have to watch that.

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_01]: But part of this is also sort of there are natural things that happen in elections based

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_01]: on where the precincts or boxes come from.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Large precincts with large, you know, overwhelming Democrat voters.

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_01]: They get they arrive at the elections office and then they get counted all at once.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And that looks like a spike.

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And people think, oh, my gosh, that's fraud.

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not necessarily fraud.

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_01]: So there are a lot of different explanations, which is why I try to ask people, what specifically

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_01]: are you talking about?

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_01]: That'll do it for this episode.

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