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New GA GOP Chair Josh McKoon In AJC's Crosshairs · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, thirteenth
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day of June. I'm wes, thanks for joining me. I need to
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get my friend Josh mccoon on the show. That's on my list of things
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to do. I'm realizing that this morning, as he has now been voted
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the new chair for the Georgia Republican Party. He assumes the leadership role after
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the convention over the weekend, and I'd intended. I thought, well,
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I saw that, and I thought I need to need to get Josh on
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the show. Interviewed him many times, talk to him over the years,
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and especially need to talk to him now. I saw the headline he shared
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this from the Atlanta Journey Constitution picture of Josh. I assume this is after
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he was announced as the winner, or maybe while he was at some point
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speaking over the weekend at the convention here in Columbus twenty twenty election Deniers to
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lead Georgia GOP as the headline, and Josh posted this on his social media
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account. I'm not going to go into too much about exactly what he said.
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It's very long, and it's very well thought out. He's a very
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smart guy, very articulate, and I need to get him on the show,
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give him an opportunity to talk through some of these things. But the
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gist of this is that they're throwing this very general accusation in the direction of
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everyone involved. Right next to his picture, by the way, so and
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he lays out some of the iculousness of what happened in twenty twenty when it
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comes to the way votes were counted, the way signatures weren't verified. But
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he concludes this really long statement, he makes a couple of great points that
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is similar to you know what I've been saying for quite some time. When
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we hear these terms like election denier, no one seems to bring up Hillary
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Clinton. No one seems to bring up Stacy Abrams. I've also pointed out
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nobody seems to bring up John Lewis. There's a number of people who just
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they seem to get a pass on the election denier thing. The White House
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Press Secretary Kreeen, John Pierre, another person who has made posts in the
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past. There's a lot of people who questioned elections in the past, denied
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the outcome. Stacy Abrams said that she won the governor's race in Georgia and
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that there were other people who told her that she won she should have won.
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And you know, Hillary Clinton doesn't think Donald Trump beat her in twenty
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sixteen. She was vocal about that. She basically told stories about how she
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wanted to fight longer and that it was Barack Obama who told her that she
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should not. And then she, I guess, told the Biden campaign that
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no matter the outcome, they should never accept the results. This is all,
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you know, stories that have been out for some time, someone who
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was planning setting up other people to be election deniers, I guess is the
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way that you would described that. But he pointed out that about Hillary Clinton
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and Stacy Abrams, and he talked about the importance at the beginning why a
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public trust in journalism is at an all time low because of this particular article
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that was written. And here is I think the real kicker, and this
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is a legal mind walking through exactly the way this is all laid out in
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this particular article from the Atlanta General Constitution and on the front page right there,
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top local story Georgia Republican Party. That's the way it's worded, and
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then the headline he says, so, just realize these headlines are written to
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try to prevent Republicans from being taken seriously by smart people who understand that they
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are deceiving you. And therein lies the discussion point. And then he immediately
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has some jackass that tries to go after him right away and challenge him and
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other things. But anyway, it's another it's another topic altogether. I don't
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know this particular person, but based on what this per and has written in
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this post, I just see jackass that again is following right in line,
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right in tow with what the Atlanta Journal Constitution is doing with this particular headline
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in this particular article. But I think that you have a great point coming
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from coming from Josh when he says this, these are headlines written to try
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to prevent Republicans from being taken seriously by smart people who understand that they are
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deceiving you. This is something we've talked about on the show for a long
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time, for years years, going back to the radio show. Here on
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this show, you've heard me talk a similar language. Josh does a great
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job of summing it up there, and it's the reality of they're either smart
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who understand they're deceiving you, or they're ridiculously foolish and that they're believing their
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own lies. And sometimes it's hard to know the difference. This is a
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perfect example, though, This particular article about the Georgia GOP in this convention
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is not someone who's dumb and doesn't know better. It's very skillfully and artfully
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done, intentionally done, intended to be a type of propaganda, and it's
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intended to try to take the feed out from underneath the Georgia Republican Party after
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having a ridiculously successful convention here in Columbus. Talked about this yesterday. When
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you start talking about a record crowd for an event like this in Columbus at
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the Trade Center, when you start talking about the people that were visibly out
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in support of Donald Trump, doesn't matter what you think of Donald Trump.
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This is supposed to be the way that we approach things. It's not supposed
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to matter what you think of the political candidate. If you are a journalist
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and you see that there are people out lining the streets and I mean calling
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really the area where people were lined up along the airport to see Trump,
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I mean these are very busy roads, These are very busy streets, and
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people were lined up along the streets in folding chairs with flags, wearing red,
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white and blue, with the intentions of seeing the man, or being
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seen by the man. That was their hope. They wanted to show support
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for Donald Trump as he was coming into town and as he was departing town.
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They wanted to be a part of that. And as a journalist,
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your job is to report on that, not to report on what you think
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of Donald Trump. Your job is not to talk about, Oh, he
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was impeached twice, he was twice indicted. Those things don't mean anything.
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It doesn't mean anything to refer to Donald Trump as twice impeached, twice indicted,
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when the reason that he was twice impeached and twice indicted, it's really
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a mouthful to say. It is for the purposes of being able to say
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he was twice impeached and twice indicted. That's the whole reason for doing it.
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Impeaching him the first time was to hang that on his head, was
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to put that on him, to be able to say, well, we
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impeached him. No hope, no evidence to convict him, no possibility that
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he was going to be convicted in that impeachment. There was no way that
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that was going to happen. Took a long shot. Maybe they get a
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couple of those rogue Republicans to come over, and but it didn't happen.
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It wasn't ever going to happen. It was just a blind swing and you
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just see what happens, and it didn't happen. The second impeachment was solely
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for the purposes of saying, well, he's the only president to be impeached
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twice. That was the goal, that was the intention. It was about
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trying to create this particular line of thought, this line of speaking, this
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marketing for the Biden campaign moving forward, to be able to say, well,
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he was impeached twice. No president has ever done that before. That's
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never happened before, and now it's happened. And you had Nancy Pelosi laughing
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about it, about the fact that we will we impeached twice, didn't we.
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We promised you we would get him, We were going to get him,
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and we would do this, and we did. It wasn't about right
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and wrong. It was about being able to say, right now, at
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this point in time, that he has been twice impeached. It's for people
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like this person who commented on Josh's social media account and said that he's been
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twice impeached. He's been twice indicted. And we've talked about the indictments.
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We've talked about the fact that this has never happened before to a political opponent,
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not in America, not someone that is getting ready to likely be the
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Republican nominee for president, and the current administration's Justice Department has now placed two
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scarlet letters on him by saying he's now twice been indicted, now federal indictment,
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solely for the purposes of getting the campaign ads ready. I told you
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yesterday this is like the herschel Walker thing. Raphael Warnock was going to be
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taking on a Republican and Democrats wanted that Republican to be herschel Walker. They
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put a lot of money into making sure that a lot of the wrong and
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I'm using quotation marks, the wrong candidates got nominated by Republicans and a lot
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of races to try to prevent this red Way from happening. And some Republicans
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thought, man, if we can just get anybody that Trump has supported this
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is going to go well. And one of those people was herschel Walker.
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Democrats wanted him. They wanted it to be herschel Walker. They wanted that
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to be the candidate because they already had the campaign ads made. They were
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ready to go. They had the knives sharpened, they had the arrows in
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the quiver. They were ready to go. They knew what they were gonna
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say about herschel Walker. The ads were made, they knew what the strategy
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was going to be. They knew what they were going to have to do
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and what they wouldn't even have to bother doing. They didn't think he was
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going to come out and debate, and that happened, and when he had
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a pretty good debate, they attacked him for well, he brought out props.
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He wasn't supposed to bring out props. He brought out props. Look
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at him, he's got a toy badge. They wanted it to be herschel
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Walker. And this time they wanted to be Donald Trump. You know why,
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because they hadn't figured out a reason to impeach Rhonda Santis or indict Rhnda
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Santis yet if it was gonna be him, they would be nervous because they
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don't have that kind of ammunition ready to go against him. So that was
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the purpose of the impeachments, that was the purpose of the indictments. That's
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the sole reason they're getting that ready for campaign ads, because they're to do
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whatever they can to help make sure Trump gets across the finish line and then
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they can attack him. They'll be ready to go. And I don't know
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that this is now going to be the second time that this is what they
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want, and they didn't learn the first time. They look at the failure
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the first time as people didn't want to vote for Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton
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didn't campaign as well as you should have, but Biden, who didn't really
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campaign at all, just kind of got handed. The thing just kind of
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happened for him. And yes, there were still questions at the time the
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election was certified about some of the votes in Georgia, about some of the
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absentee ballots at a time when we were in the middle of a pandemic and
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it was record absentee ballots, and some of those signatures weren't verified or properly
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verified. And yes, there were people outside of the state of Georgia who
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haven't lived here for years that voted in this election. They didn't vote,
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but they voted in the election. I know one of them. I was
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contacted very soon after the election by someone who said, hey, I got
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a call asking me about why I voted in the county that I voted in,
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and I had to tell them I don't live in Georgia anymore. I
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didn't vote. So apparently that's an example a vote that they caught. I've
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told that story on the air, radio and here. But how many of
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those did they not catch? And who was casting votes on behalf of people
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who don't live in the state anymore? How many of those calls didn't get
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sorted out properly and make sure that the person didn't vote twice. By the
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way, this person I'm talking about, who lives in another state did vote
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for Trump, but in Georgia, someone else voted on their behalf in their
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name as an absentee ballot for Biden. So yes, thankfully that one was
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caught. How many weren't caught? There were questions was it enough to make
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a difference. We won't know because they didn't do all of the audits.
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They didn't do everything that they were going to do. There are questions,
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but we've all moved on. Right, the election was certified, everything went
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on, We've moved on. That's the way the process works. You move
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on. But to call everyone involved in all of that questioning it election deniers
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for asking questions and not acknowledged that Stacy Abram's point blank said, I really
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won the governor's race against Brian Kim. For Hillary Clinton to say the election
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was stolen from her, for all of the people who questioned whether or not
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George W. Bush should have won the state of Florida in that election.
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Some of you too young to even remember the hanging Chad fiasco, But yes,
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there were Democrats who you know. Lewis was one. He never acknowledged
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George W. Bush as the winner. He never did, didn't want to
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go to State of the unions, didn't want to attend inaugurations, refuse to
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accept he was the winner. Same with Trump. Didn't accept it, didn't
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want anything to do with it. So what did Georgia do when they tried
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to bring in different laws election laws in Georgia? They wanted to name them
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after John Lewis, who qualifies, by not their standards, as an election
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denier. Right, the very least should be acknowledged as one because he denied
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many elections. So some election deniers or looked at, I guess as honorable
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heroes. Some are looked at as despicable. Twenty twenty election deniers to lead
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Georgia Goop. That is the headline there. Looking forward to talking with Josh
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about this and about other things. I suspect maybe he's ready to put this
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kind of thing behind him and start looking forward to the future for the party
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and looking ahead to this election that's on the way. He's gotten past this
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one. And I know that this was something that Josh felt he was ready
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to serve in this role. And I'm excited for him in this role,
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and I know that the folks that voted for him are excited about him being
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there. But this is really He's right. This is a perfect example of
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why we need integrity in the media and why right now, when you see
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something like this, you realize that this is why faith in our journalism is
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at a all time low, and people just do not have any trust in
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