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Dems Torn By Identity Politics in Planning 2028 Primaries · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
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Speaker 2: and Jim Garritty of National Review.
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Speaker 1: Free Martini's coming up.
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Speaker 3: So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of
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Speaker 3: the Three Martini Lunch. And Jim, we've got a lot
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Speaker 3: of whoppers today, so let's dive right in. And you know,
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Speaker 3: identity politics will eventually eat just about everyone, and that's
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Speaker 3: kind of what's happening in the Democratic Party right now.
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Speaker 3: You might remember after the twenty twenty primary where Buddha,
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Speaker 3: Jedge and Bernie kind of battled back and forth in
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Speaker 3: those early states of Iowa and New Hampshire and Bernie
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Speaker 3: surged in Nevada, and then Biden won South Carolina and
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Speaker 3: everything else kind of unfolded from there and Biden won
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Speaker 3: the nomination. But at that time the Democrats decided, WHOA,
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Speaker 3: Iowa and New Hampshire are way too white. They can't
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Speaker 3: lead off the caucus and primary schedule anymore. And so
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four, New Hampshire technically went first, but
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Speaker 3: didn't give out any delegates because of their spot on
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Speaker 3: the schedule. South Carolina really was the first on the schedule,
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Speaker 3: but Biden was the only one the Democrats were advancing
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Speaker 3: at that point. It was him versus Dean Phillipson. They've
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Speaker 3: removed every possible impediment to Joe.
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Speaker 1: Brian Marian Williamson, don't forget her.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, yesstoric, dark, sinister, dark, psychic forces are attacking.
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Speaker 1: This country with Donald Trump. So the black lawge just
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Speaker 1: on the move.
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Speaker 3: So now the Democrats are plotting for twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: They're obviously focused on the midterms, but they're also keeping
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Speaker 3: a eye on twenty twenty eight and which state will
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Speaker 3: go first. And it's coming down again to identity politics.
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Speaker 3: South Carolina wants to keep going first, but Nevada also
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Speaker 3: wants to keep going first. South Carolina. The black vote
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Speaker 3: is the dominant part of the vote in Nevada. It's
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Speaker 3: the Latino vote and it's getting a little bit ugly.
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Speaker 3: Hat tipped to Hot Air here, but also Michael Crews,
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Speaker 3: who they quote his tweet here where it says this
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Speaker 3: is a quote from Christall Spain, who is the chairwoman
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Speaker 3: of the South Carolina Democratic Party. This is not some
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Speaker 3: just rando. She says, if Nevada gets elevated over South Carolina,
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Speaker 3: it would be because of their Latino vote. So you
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Speaker 3: would then be telling black voters that you matter less
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Speaker 3: than Brown voters. And I refuse to believe that our
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Speaker 3: party wants to send any type of message like that. Unquote.
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Speaker 3: So Jim, like I said, once you start seeing everyone
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Speaker 3: in groups, you're inevitably going to end up in a
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Speaker 3: moment like this, and the Democrats deserve every moment of
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Speaker 3: this frustration.
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Speaker 1: I would point out that in past cycles, Nevada traditionally
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Speaker 1: did go before South Carolina. So hasn't the Democratic Party
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Speaker 1: been saying brown voters or Latinos or Hispanics I think
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Speaker 1: are a much more a better term better than have
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Speaker 1: they always been saying that they're more important that African
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Speaker 1: Americ or black voters by this logic, all right, But okay,
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Speaker 1: this is the state party chair who's trying to revel,
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Speaker 1: rouse and stir up controversy to keep make sure that
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Speaker 1: her state goes as early as possible. For those of
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Speaker 1: us who don't live in Iowa or New Hampshire, the
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Speaker 1: idea of shaking up which states goes first never seemed
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Speaker 1: all that bad or never seems all that unthinkable to us.
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Speaker 1: I don't mind it I actually think that, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's good to shake it up a little. And yes,
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Speaker 1: Iowa and New Hampshire are very white states, but let's
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Speaker 1: also not forget they are states in which Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: did terribly in the twenty twenty cycle. You know, finished
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Speaker 1: distant as a third or fourth in Iowa and anyways
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Speaker 1: fifth in New Hampshire and all which people thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's got to be the end of his campaign. Didn't
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Speaker 1: do well in Nevada either. South Carolina was already won
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Speaker 1: by a huge margin, and as we've looked at what
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Speaker 1: this potential calendar could be, if you don't like the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Socialists of America and you don't like this quasi
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Speaker 1: or explicitly communist turn that the Democratic Party has taken,
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Speaker 1: you want South Carolina to be going as early as possible.
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Speaker 1: You want as many Southern states as early as possible,
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Speaker 1: because African Americans, while they're heavily democratic, don't like socialists.
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Speaker 1: They don't like the communists, and they're not going to
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Speaker 1: be interested in voting for that one. With Latinos, if
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Speaker 1: you had any experience in Nicaragua or Venezuela or Cuba,
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Speaker 1: you're very anti socialists and you're very anti communists, but
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Speaker 1: you're not necessarily that has not shaken out. The fact
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Speaker 1: that Bernie Sanders has won Nevada indicates that that opposition
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Speaker 1: is not strong out there. So we'd kind of like
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Speaker 1: to see South Carolina go first. The other thing Ocetion
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Speaker 1: point out is that South Carolina, in terms of the
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Speaker 1: delegates at stake, was considerably higher than the ones in
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Speaker 1: Iowa and New Hampshire. Iowa, New Hampshire fairly low population states.
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Speaker 1: So there's a reason why Joe Biden's win in South
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Speaker 1: Carolina outweighed or was comparable to Sanders winning Iowa, New
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Speaker 1: Hampshire and Nevada. So I kind of, you know, good
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Speaker 1: luck South Carolina. I think this would be good for,
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Speaker 1: you know, the Democratic Party avoiding its most leftward option.
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Speaker 1: We will see how this shakes out. I don't if
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Speaker 1: i'm the Democrats. I'm sure they find race based rabble
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Speaker 1: rousing and accusations of racism really effective against Republicans. But
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Speaker 1: once you start doing it for other people in the party, well,
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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden you've created a problem. And also,
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Speaker 1: this is one of the reasons why accusations of racism
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Speaker 1: there's been terrible inflation in them. They've been devalued. They're
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Speaker 1: now everywhere so as currency, they don't carry as much
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Speaker 1: value as they used to. So it's kind of a
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Speaker 1: fascinating fight past the popcorn. But I definitely would feel
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Speaker 1: better if South Carolina goes first compared to Nevada.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll find out. And I don't know if you
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Speaker 3: see the poll yesterday where AOC is supposedly leading a
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Speaker 3: New Hampshire hypothetically, what more.
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Speaker 1: Reason to not have New Hampshire go first.
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Speaker 3: Early exactly exactly, So a lot of twists and turns
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Speaker 3: to come, I'm sure. But watching the Democrats eat themselves
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Speaker 3: over their own identity politics is quite entertaining and we'll
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Speaker 3: see if it has a major impact not only on
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Speaker 3: the order of the states, but how voters feel about
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Speaker 3: we know there are some big primaries coming up in Michigan.
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Speaker 3: We're also going to vote in Virginia in on August fourth,
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Speaker 3: but there's not a lot of super exciting stuff on
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Speaker 3: the ballot in terms of competitive races. But the week
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Speaker 3: after that, we've also got the Minnesota primaries, and there's
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Speaker 3: an open seat for governor because the fraud scandal of
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Speaker 3: forced Tim Walls to not seek a third term. Immy
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Speaker 3: Klobashar has pretty much been crowned as the Democratic nominee.
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Speaker 3: We'll be taking a look at the Republican side of
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Speaker 3: the governor's race in just a minute. On the Senate side, though,
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Speaker 3: Tina Smith is retiring and there is a absolute dead
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Speaker 3: heat for the Democratic nomination right now. According to the
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Speaker 3: latest polling here from KSTP in Minnesota, Congressman Angie Craig
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Speaker 3: and the Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan both locked at forty percent.
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Speaker 3: That race has gone back and forth the whole time.
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Speaker 3: On the Republican side, our friend Michelle Tafoya, who's been
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Speaker 3: one of our rare guests here on the Three Martini Lunch,
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Speaker 3: seems to have the nomination pretty well locked away. Of course,
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Speaker 3: you never know until the votes come in, but the
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Speaker 3: latest poll, also from KSTP has her up with forty
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Speaker 3: one percent. The next closest is ten percent on the
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Speaker 3: Republican field. Now, Michelle unfortunately is pro choice and so
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Speaker 3: I would have a tough time probably voting for in
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Speaker 3: the primary. But Jim, the reason that she's doing so
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Speaker 3: well is not only that she had pretty solid name
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Speaker 3: recognition going in, but because of her media background, she
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Speaker 3: presents very very well. And here's one of her most
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Speaker 3: recent ads targeting the fraud right in her own backyard.
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Speaker 2: Criminals stole millions from Minnesotan's at places like this Quality
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Speaker 2: Leering Center because far left Democrats didn't have the spine
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Speaker 2: to stop them. I'm Michelle Tafoya, and I'm at the
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Speaker 2: epicenter of our embarrassment today as your senator. All pass
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Speaker 2: tougher prison sentences non citizen fraudsters, and strip federal funding
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Speaker 2: from states that won't do audits. No accountability, no more money.
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Speaker 2: I'm Michelle Tafoya, and I approve this message because I
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Speaker 2: will protect Minnesota taxpayers.
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Speaker 3: Now, Jim, I don't believe a Republican is one of
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Speaker 3: us Senate race in Minnesota since two thousand and two,
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Speaker 3: when Norm Coleman beat Walter Mondale after Mondel replaced the
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Speaker 3: late Paul Wellstone on the ballot. The other issue potentially
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Speaker 3: working as a challenge to Michelle Tafoya is that in
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Speaker 3: the governor's primary, Mike Lindell is currently leading by nine
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Speaker 3: points over the House Speaker Lisa Dumout. Than While I
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Speaker 3: love Mike's pillows and his bathroobs, and his slippers and
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Speaker 3: his sheets and so many other products, and I would
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Speaker 3: prefer him to Amy Klobasher, it's not exactly a state
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Speaker 3: tailor made for Mike Lindell, So Michelle Tafoya will probably
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Speaker 3: need a decent amount of ticket splitting to keep it
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Speaker 3: close and have a shot flip in that seat.
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Speaker 1: Greg got to know about you picturing someone who likes
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Speaker 1: Michelle Tafoya and doesn't like Mike Lindell. I'm guessing that's
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Speaker 1: not small demographic, either in Minnesota or in the rest
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Speaker 1: of the country. Look, i'd love to see Michelle Tafoya
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Speaker 1: get elected. Minnesota not the easiest state for Republicans to
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Speaker 1: win statewide, and you know, midterm elections traditionally go badly
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Speaker 1: for the president's party, so this is probably not the
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Speaker 1: ideal cycle for Michelle to run. But with that said,
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Speaker 1: you want to have your best players on the field.
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Speaker 1: To use the football metaphor that she covered for so
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Speaker 1: many years. And it's one of those things where you
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Speaker 1: never know, is the Democratic candidate going to get caught
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Speaker 1: in a scandal right before you know the voting starts,
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Speaker 1: is turnout going to be low on their side because
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Speaker 1: of a poor get out of the vote, Like the
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Speaker 1: things can happen, right, So the thing is nominate your
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Speaker 1: best candidates, get them out there, get them as well
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Speaker 1: funded as you can, being able, being an effective communicator,
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Speaker 1: you know, being really good on camera. That's an important
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Speaker 1: part of campaigning. That's just you know, you cannot look
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Speaker 1: from ed from accounting and stammer your way through a
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Speaker 1: speech and hope that you're gonna, you know, do the
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Speaker 1: best you can. And you look at that like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: maybe this isn't the cycle for Michelle Tafoya. Maybe two
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Speaker 1: years from now, maybe four years from now, maybe at
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Speaker 1: some point run if she keeps it close, that's a sign. Ah, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we've got a talented candidate here. This was not the
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Speaker 1: great circumstances to run in, but maybe that some point
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Speaker 1: better national circumstances, better state circumstances, and you know, like,
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Speaker 1: this is a really embarrassing scandal for the state. I
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Speaker 1: figure there have to be some Minnesota Independence maybe even
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Speaker 1: some Minnesota Democrats who are embarrassed by the fact that
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Speaker 1: their state is now associated with this wide scale fraud scandal.
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Speaker 1: So there's that. Mike Lindell, my pillow, was a sponsor
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Speaker 1: on this podcast for quite some time. We talked about
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Speaker 1: how great the pillows were and the blankets were, and
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Speaker 1: we didn't say a single nice thing about Mike Lindell
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Speaker 1: the entire time. We said, when we took those ads,
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Speaker 1: we are going to criticize Mike Lindell whenever we feel
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Speaker 1: like it, and they were fine with it. Mike Lindell
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Speaker 1: is a joke. Mike Lindell other than driving Larry Sabato
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Speaker 1: crazy because he gets mistaken for him in an airport
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Speaker 1: all the time, and Larry Sabatow has to say, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm a totally different guy with a mustache. That's the
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Speaker 1: only funny thing that Mike Lindell has ever done. And
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Speaker 1: Mike Lindell is crazy and kooky, and he's always kicked
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Speaker 1: up with you know, the Venezuelan hackers and Bamba, and
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Speaker 1: he's just, you know, one crazy thing after another. Minnesota Republicans,
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Speaker 1: how can you have such good judgment in your Senate
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Speaker 1: primary and such terrible judgment in your gubernatorial primary. And
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Speaker 1: you'd figure, considering this is a state government heavily a
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Speaker 1: state government scandal, you might think that would be lower
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Speaker 1: hanging fruit in this election cycle. So, Minnesota Republicans, you
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Speaker 1: still have time to change your mind, You still have
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Speaker 1: time to look at other options. Please do it. I
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Speaker 1: believe there are stuff wal State Legley, people who have
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Speaker 1: actually done things in government and who are not known
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Speaker 1: for going on Fox News and Newsmax and saying that
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, there's bamboo in the paper of
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Speaker 1: the ballots of Arizona and every other kind of crazy
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory out there. Minnesota Republics, get it together. You
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Speaker 1: can do this. This could be a good year for
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Speaker 1: you guys, but probably won't be.
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Speaker 3: The Minnesota State Party, as far as I know, has
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Speaker 3: actually not endorsed either one of the front runners. There's
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Speaker 3: a different candidate they're supporting in the Senate race. But
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Speaker 3: President Trump has endorsed Mike Lindell. I don't know that
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Speaker 3: he's weighed in on the Senate primary. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 3: it's going to determine how close the Senate race is
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Speaker 3: on who wins that Democratic race. Because Lieutenant Governor Peggy
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Speaker 3: Flanagan is bonkers. She's absolutely crazy. She's all in on
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Speaker 3: all the tran stuff, and she makes Auntie Craig look
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Speaker 3: slightly normal. But Angie Craig knows where the electorate is
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Speaker 3: right now and how far left it's drifting. She's actually
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Speaker 3: apologized for voting for the Lake and Riley Act. That's
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Speaker 3: how insane this base is on the Democratic side in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: Let's point out to Peggy Flanagan is intenant lieutenant go
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Speaker 1: so all of these fraud scandals happened on her watch,
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Speaker 1: She says, judge beyond you like Minnesota's Please judge her
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Speaker 1: on her record and how she's done in state government
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Speaker 1: so far.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think she'd be the easier one to beat,
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Speaker 3: So pick your poison. Neither one of them would be
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Speaker 3: a good senator there on the Democratic side. But we
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Speaker 3: will see about two and a half weeks to go
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Speaker 3: before that election, and we'll obviously keep an eye on it.
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Speaker 3: of folks on the right have pointed out over the
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Speaker 3: last couple of days, that thing that never happens has
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Speaker 3: happened again, and that's non citizens being registered to vote.
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Speaker 3: And it appears hundreds of them actually did vote this
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Speaker 3: time in New Jersey. About sixty six hundred non citizens
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Speaker 3: not necessarily illegal, but some could be in there. I
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Speaker 3: guess we're allowed to register to vote, and roughly four
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Speaker 3: hundred of those actually voted. Here is Governor Mikey Cheryl
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Speaker 3: making the announcement yesterday, and it's pretty obvious from the
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Speaker 3: tone of her comments, Jim. In addition to explaining what happened,
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Speaker 3: the main point she wants to get across is it's
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Speaker 3: not my fault.
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Speaker 4: In June of twenty twenty three, nearly three years before
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Speaker 4: I became governor, a serious software error in New Jersey's
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Speaker 4: motor vehicle system led to the improper voter registration of
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Speaker 4: what we believed to be roughly sixty six hundred people
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Speaker 4: in our state. When New Jerseyans applied for a driver's
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Speaker 4: license or identification at the MVC, they were asked if
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Speaker 4: they wanted to register to vote. In the case of
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Speaker 4: this error, some individuals indicated that they weren't citizens and
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Speaker 4: weren't eligible to vote, but the software registered them anyway.
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Speaker 4: The error in the software was corrected a year later,
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Speaker 4: in June of twenty twenty four, that is more than
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Speaker 4: two years ago. I learned of this last Wednesday, and
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Speaker 4: I immediately ordered my chief counsel to launch a comprehensive investigation.
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Speaker 3: So then she blasted the software maker, she blasted the
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Speaker 3: Department of Motor Vehicles or whatever they call it there,
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Speaker 3: or the voting office. And so they say that it's
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Speaker 3: under control now, Jim, I hope that's the case. But
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Speaker 3: my personal recommendation, don't automatically register people to vote at
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Speaker 3: the DMV. Just have that be a separate process. But
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Speaker 3: of course nobody's going to listen to me.
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Speaker 1: At least three major questions coming out of this greg,
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Speaker 1: one being if this happened, If this, you know, the
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Speaker 1: problem happened three years ago, it was discovered two years ago.
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Speaker 1: Why are we learning about it now?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Who has known about this for the past two years
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Speaker 1: and has chosen not to disclose this to the public,
17:39
Speaker 1: or too I was like a fun question, did the
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Speaker 1: previous governor Phil Murphy know about this? Did this ever
17:44
Speaker 1: come a quote? Who knew and when? And was there
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Speaker 1: some effort to cover up this mistake and cover up
17:49
Speaker 1: the fact that apparently roughly four hundred people who are
17:52
Speaker 1: not eligible to vote cast ballots. We got to see
17:54
Speaker 1: where they are. I assume this is statewide. That's probably
17:57
Speaker 1: not enough to get to the point where you'd sway
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Speaker 1: an election statewide election, but local elections, county elections. Well,
18:04
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, again you mentioned the thing that
18:05
Speaker 1: never happens is now happening on the lower end of
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Speaker 1: the range of votes it would take to alter the
18:11
Speaker 1: outcome of an election. Second question, the software makers say, hey,
18:14
Speaker 1: this isn't on us, This was not us, This is
18:16
Speaker 1: not a glitch. This is entirely your guys fault for
18:18
Speaker 1: the way you guys set up the system. This might
18:20
Speaker 1: be usual legal lawyer cya type spons you know, we'd
18:24
Speaker 1: expect them to say something like that, but nothing else.
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Speaker 1: We should hear them out. Three, I noticed the no
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Speaker 1: one said these four hundred people have been removed from
18:31
Speaker 1: the voter roles anybod This all is for people who
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Speaker 1: voluntarily said yes or no, I am not a US
18:37
Speaker 1: citizen and I am not eligible to vote, and they
18:39
Speaker 1: still got registered to vote anywhere. So if someone were
18:42
Speaker 1: less ethical, and if someone were to say yes, I
18:45
Speaker 1: am eligible to vote, they could have gotten you know,
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Speaker 1: registered to vote. And based on what we've done here,
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Speaker 1: there's no reason to think that would have caught them.
18:52
Speaker 1: So we know about the four hundred votes that have
18:55
Speaker 1: been cast, we know about the sixty six hundred people.
18:57
Speaker 1: We really don't know the scale of the problems done
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Speaker 1: this because you've already said that people who did the
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Speaker 1: right thing and said I am not eligible to vote
19:05
Speaker 1: got registered to vote anyway, and some portion, you know,
19:09
Speaker 1: numbering in the hundreds, not too small, those people actually
19:12
Speaker 1: went out and cast ballance. By the way, will any
19:13
Speaker 1: of those four hundred people be prosecuted should we broke
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Speaker 1: the law? None of this has been answered by this yet.
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Speaker 1: None of it is reassuring. Does voter fraud occur on
19:21
Speaker 1: a level to alter national elections, almost certainly not. Does
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Speaker 1: voter fraud happen on a level scale large enough to
19:28
Speaker 1: alter state elections? Probably not, But occasionally you get a
19:31
Speaker 1: bushby Gore four hundred vote margin or Al Franket in Minnesota.
19:35
Speaker 1: You know, a couple decades back, you do get really
19:37
Speaker 1: close elections and people do kind of wonder about that,
19:40
Speaker 1: whether this and three this, don't worry it's very hard
19:44
Speaker 1: to vote if you're not legally eligible. Clearly it's not
19:48
Speaker 1: that hard. And as you mentioned about the automatic water registered, look,
19:51
Speaker 1: we want registering to vote to not be difficult, but
19:54
Speaker 1: we also clearly don't want it to be too easy.
19:57
Speaker 1: When you automate things. Well, now all of a sudden,
20:00
Speaker 1: you know that'll say, to error is human, but to
20:01
Speaker 1: really screw things up, you need a computer. By the way,
20:04
Speaker 1: if we have technical issues during this podcast, it's because
20:07
Speaker 1: my computer has heard me and took that took it. Personally,
20:09
Speaker 1: every state should be reviewing how the process goes for
20:12
Speaker 1: being automatically registered to vote when you register for a
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Speaker 1: driver's license, because clearly the safeguards are not in place
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Speaker 1: despite all the assurances we heard.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, registering to vote should not be like going to
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Speaker 3: the self checkout at the grocery store, and you know
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Speaker 3: you go there to get your driver's license, which you know,
20:27
Speaker 3: if you're here illegally, I don't think you should get
20:29
Speaker 3: those anyway. And not I said it since might be
20:31
Speaker 3: a different story. But you've got your total. And then
20:33
Speaker 3: it's like, hey, it's twenty five thirty five, do you
20:35
Speaker 3: want to donate sixty five cents to whatever charity? And
20:39
Speaker 3: that's kind of like what's happening here? Oh, you got
20:41
Speaker 3: your driver's license. Hey, as long as we're here to you,
20:42
Speaker 3: would you like to register the vote too?
20:44
Speaker 1: Yeah?
20:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, so and so. Then yesterday yesterday on the program,
20:49
Speaker 3: we talked about Josh Gotttheimer, the New Jersey Democratic congressman,
20:53
Speaker 3: absolutely crushing ilhan Omar and Summerlee and their confusion quote
20:58
Speaker 3: unquote about which Jewish Democrat named Josh was involved in
21:02
Speaker 3: signing those shows back in Pennsylvania in the day. He
21:05
Speaker 3: was on Fox News yesterday and one of the things
21:08
Speaker 3: in the Save Act is to make sure that you
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Speaker 3: can prove you're a citizen before you register to vote.
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Speaker 3: And he just thinks that's too darn hard.
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Speaker 5: And by the way, to your question about making sure
21:19
Speaker 5: on the identification side, part of the challenge with this
21:22
Speaker 5: current bill that's being pushed here is the depths of
21:26
Speaker 5: requirements behind the identification. It's multiple forms of IDD involves passports,
21:31
Speaker 5: which lots of people don't have, you know, it's so
21:34
Speaker 5: comm they want photo copies that you've got to send
21:36
Speaker 5: in with your absentee ballots. It's purposely designed in a way,
21:40
Speaker 5: in my opinion, to stop people from voting who should
21:43
Speaker 5: be able to vote citizens and making it making it
21:45
Speaker 5: harder for people who should vote. That's my concern about it.
21:49
Speaker 5: That's a concern of a lot of us.
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Speaker 3: You do not need a passport to register to vote.
21:53
Speaker 3: Anybody who's been through the real ID process lately to
21:55
Speaker 3: be able to be eligible to fly on planes, Now
21:57
Speaker 3: that you actually have to do that, you do need
21:59
Speaker 3: a couple forms if i'd might be a birth certificate.
22:01
Speaker 3: If you don't have that, you know, there's a number
22:03
Speaker 3: of things. There's a whole long list of ways to
22:05
Speaker 3: prove who you are and whether you're legally in the country.
22:08
Speaker 3: And the Democrats just keep finding excuse after excuse to
22:11
Speaker 3: oppose something that just about everyone in this country wants.
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Speaker 1: But you pointing out, greg that we should not be
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Speaker 1: giving driver's license to people in the country illegally. If
22:18
Speaker 1: a state absolutely insists upon giving driver's license to people
22:21
Speaker 1: who cannot prove legal residence or the US citizenship, then
22:25
Speaker 1: at minimum, is it too. I have two teenagers. One
22:28
Speaker 1: is a driver's license. The other actually just got the
22:31
Speaker 1: driver's license, but before that they had the driver's permit.
22:33
Speaker 1: Here in Virginia, the license is horizontal, the permit is vertical.
22:37
Speaker 1: It looks very different, and this is why you shouldn't
22:39
Speaker 1: be able to show it to get into a bar,
22:41
Speaker 1: to be able to drink or something like that. Would
22:43
Speaker 1: it be too much to say that if you're not,
22:45
Speaker 1: if you can't prove that you're in the country legally,
22:48
Speaker 1: or you can't prove citizenship, you can't prove legal residence,
22:51
Speaker 1: you get a permit, or you get a driver's license
22:53
Speaker 1: that looks different, and it clearly is distinctive from the
22:56
Speaker 1: driver's license that is given to all us, because we
22:58
Speaker 1: already have the ability to print both cunts. That strikes
23:01
Speaker 1: me as a really basic change you could make. They
23:04
Speaker 1: would automatically make it harder for those who are in
23:06
Speaker 1: the country illegally to use a driver's license as a
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Speaker 1: form of ID to do things they're not supposed to
23:10
Speaker 1: be able to do.
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Speaker 3: Well said, I would love to see states adopt that.
23:13
Speaker 3: The Blue ones. I don't think I have any intention
23:15
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24:50
Speaker 3: Tuesday was primary day in Arizona. David Schweikert currently represents
24:55
Speaker 3: the first congressional district. That's a toss up district. He
24:58
Speaker 3: ran for governor loss to Biggs, and so there was
25:01
Speaker 3: an open seat there and both nominees one is official
25:05
Speaker 3: on the Republican side, but the Democrat the likely Democratic nominee.
25:08
Speaker 3: They both have ties to the New York Jets. The
25:10
Speaker 3: Republican nominee is Jay Feeley, who you might remember as
25:13
Speaker 3: a kicking analyst on CBS Sports. I remember him way
25:16
Speaker 3: back as the Michigan Wolverines kicker in the late nineteen nineties,
25:19
Speaker 3: but he played for a number of teams, including the
25:20
Speaker 3: Jets in the late two thousands, including when they were
25:23
Speaker 3: I believe making one of their AFC Championship runs there
25:26
Speaker 3: in two thousand and nine. And he's likely to face
25:30
Speaker 3: one time New York Jets team doctor Amish Shaw. And
25:33
Speaker 3: he's actually not the one the Democratic Party wanted to
25:36
Speaker 3: win that race. So my suspicion is he's even further
25:39
Speaker 3: to the left than the one that the Democrats wanted
25:41
Speaker 3: to win. So we'll see how this plays out in Arizona.
25:44
Speaker 3: It's one to watch as a key race. But Jet
25:46
Speaker 3: versus Jet, Jim, I.
25:47
Speaker 1: Was going to say, one of the great ironies of
25:49
Speaker 1: having one Jet against another Jet in a political race
25:52
Speaker 1: is that one of them's got to win. They theoretically can't.
25:55
Speaker 1: It'd be very extremely rare to have a tie. Look
25:59
Speaker 1: between the two, do you want the guy who spent
26:01
Speaker 1: the time cutting up the team or the guy who
26:02
Speaker 1: ended up putting, you know, putting the dagger into the
26:04
Speaker 1: other team. Now, people might say, you know, can you
26:07
Speaker 1: rely on Jay Feely to be straight with you? He
26:10
Speaker 1: kicks it pretty straight, occasionally a little hooks to the right,
26:14
Speaker 1: but really between the two hooking to the veering to
26:16
Speaker 1: the left or veering to the right. You want this
26:18
Speaker 1: guy to veer to the right. He left the Jets.
26:21
Speaker 1: I remember being kind of frustrated they didn't resign him.
26:23
Speaker 1: Just a terrible job of like developing, like really good
26:25
Speaker 1: Jason Myers. Generally, if you're a good kicker, eventually you
26:28
Speaker 1: leave the Jets for more money elsewhere. But anyway, I
26:30
Speaker 1: don't think Jay Feely is going to sign with some
26:32
Speaker 1: foreign parliament or something like that. I think if you
26:36
Speaker 1: elect am Arizona, he's going to serve the full four
26:38
Speaker 1: or two year term with a possible extension for multiple
26:41
Speaker 1: years after that.
26:42
Speaker 3: That's right, That's right, Go Jay, Go Blue, Go Jets.
26:46
Speaker 3: We'll see how that race turns out. Should be a
26:48
Speaker 3: tight one and who knows, could play a major role
26:50
Speaker 3: in which party has the majority next year. Wouldn't that
26:52
Speaker 3: be a wild Jim, have a great day, See tomorrow.
26:54
Speaker 3: See tomorrow, Greg, Jim Garretty, National Review. I'm Greg Corumbus
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