STEVE BANNON'S FIRST INTERVIEW AFTER HIS SENTENCING
Moments after Steve Bannon was sentenced to jail time, he calls into The Charlie Kirk Show to divulge what his immediate reacting is, as well as issue a wake up call with an election just weeks away that can impact our current systems. Charlie dives into the key races happening right now, what YOU can do to help this November, and what we should expect. Also, do we have enough ballots?Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ballot Shortage Warning00:07:02
Hey everybody, today Charlie Kirk Show.
Steve Bannon joins the program.
Really important comments.
I'm worried we're going to run out of ballots on election day.
Explain an election day warning.
We have got to communicate with our local county officials.
I'll talk about that.
Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Get involved with turning pointusa at tpusa.com.
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Buckle up, everybody.
Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want to thank Charlie.
He's an incredible guy.
His spirit, his love of this country.
He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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Had an amazing campus event last evening in Tallahassee, Florida.
I met many of you.
Thank you for the kind words and your prayers and support.
Turning Point USA is leading the charge in educating the next generation on American exceptionalism, conservative ideas, conservative values, free markets, individual liberty, the Constitution.
It's awesome.
And we have another Turning Point USA event coming up on Tuesday.
We are not stopping almost every single day.
We are organizing, we are educating, and then on Turning Point Action, we have some amazing events coming up.
Super Saturday door knocking.
We are going full court press, everybody.
And I mean, our team was just saying last night, you know, as we were up very, very late after the event, we were saying, man, like, this is going to bring us into the ground.
Like, we are giving everything that we have, and that's the way it's got to work in an election season, especially what we're doing at Turning Point Pack and Turning Point Action.
We have got to go 10 out of 10.
And I encourage all of you to do the same.
It has to be an active posture.
The Democrats are on defense.
They are collapsing.
In fact, there are some new polls out as we wait for Steve Bannon in just a second here.
In Michigan, Tudor Dixon, the amazing Tudor Dixon, former Real America's voice host, is within the margin of error against the wicked witch of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer.
The Minnesota governor's race is tied.
There is something happening right now.
And by the way, these polls could still be underestimating the support.
And something that we're going to be talking about throughout the hour and something I just want to warn everybody about.
I am very worried that so many people are going to show up on Election Day, that they are going to run out of ballots.
The lines will be so long, so intimidating, that they will be so overwhelming that it's going to probably be an issue if we do not put our recorders' offices on notice, the Secretary of State's offices on notice, and demand answers now, wherever you are across the country.
Especially if you're listening right now in Pennsylvania, if you're listening in Florida, if you're listening in Georgia, if you're listening in Wisconsin, if you're listening in Michigan, especially though, if you're listening in Arizona, which is a circus of how we do our elections, Katie Hobbs, who's running in the race for governor, is administering her own election, is also the Secretary of State.
How is that even legal?
How is that acceptable?
It shouldn't be.
Katie Hobbs just sent out 6,000 ballots without having any of the federal races on them or state races.
I'm confusing one of the details there.
So Katie Hobbs is supposed to oversee her own election against the amazing Kerry Lake, and she can't send out the right ballots.
Everybody out there, we have to put the pressure on it this moment.
We are 18 days out to make sure that we have plenty of ballots, to make sure that the lines will be processed quickly and fairly, because I'm very afraid that the lines are going to be so long, the enthusiasm will be so overwhelming that it's going to have a deterrent effect because people do not trust mail-in voting or absentee balloting.
We need answers now from Stephen Richard.
We need answers from Katie Hobbs.
We need answers from our local recorder's office.
And I'm telling you, what's happening with Steve Bannon, what's happening with all these different things across the country is only going to galvanize our base.
It's going to only increase our turnout.
But I do not want to have to toast the Charlie Kirk show on Election Day, where all of a sudden we're going to be talking about our show.
And I'm going to be getting email after email.
Charlie, they just ran out of ballots in Maricopa.
Charlie that just ran out of ballots in Sun City.
Charlie, they just ran out of ballots in Fulton County.
Charlie, they just ran out of ballots in Pennsylvania.
That's not acceptable.
Because are the local election offices prepared for a double or triple midterm model turnout of the most fired up conservative base of independents, of mama bears, of parents that we've ever seen?
Are they prepared for that?
Because early voting numbers in certain states are significantly down, especially in Arizona because no one trusts the elections in Arizona because you have all these smug, arrogant left-wingers that are running the elections that don't answer questions directly and instead condescend you.
So people say, you know what, forget it.
I'm going to show up in person.
Okay.
But we need every single Republican leader stepping up and speaking out and saying, are we prepared for the deluge?
Are we prepared for the wave?
Are we prepared for the tsunami that could be happening?
One way that they could stop the tsunami, one of the ways that they could stop this overwhelming movement is by saying, oh, we ran out of ballots or the lines are four hours.
The lines are five hours.
The lines are six hours.
It's a very huge, it's a massive concern.
Everybody I'm talking to, I've seen a couple people that have emailed us freedom at charliekirk.com, say, Charlie, I plan to show up on Election Day.
Well, look, I could tell you, because of the way Arizona does their elections, they've got rid of precinct voting that you're about to see something massive.
Do they have the staff, the personnel, the ability?
And by the way, in Arizona, it's so stupid.
They print ballots.
They literally print ballots when you show up.
Of course, that will never be abused.
And so there is something looming in our country.
But what if all of a sudden the red wave becomes a red ripple because our election officials are not prepared?
They're like, oh, well, we've never seen turnout like this.
We don't know what's happening.
Could you just imagine their excuses?
And by that time, it's too late.
You see, we focus on campaigns.
Democrats focus on election day.
You see, if I was the Democrats, the way that I would stop the red wave is I would have every single vote in person place woefully under-resourced, tragically underprepared.
I would not have the right staff, the right personnel.
I would have chaos happen on election day.
That would be my strategy.
Is the surprise or is the trick up the sleeve of the Democrat Party have it so that you get super frustrated when you show up on election day?
What else do they have left?
Subpoena Donald Trump.
That didn't work.
Convicting Steve Bannon.
That's only going to encourage more people.
The Dobbs decision isn't proving to be anything massive for them.
The only thing they have left is to try to blunt the actual wave itself on Election Day.
Now, lines are great if people are willing to stand in them.
But what if the October surprise is to clog up the Election Day plumbing to maybe have a 5%, a 6%, a 7% kind of taper-off effect?
And some of you might say, oh, Charlie, I'm willing to wait in line forever.
Yeah, you're what we call a four out of four Republican.
You are a super Republican.
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You're a conservative.
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America first.
You show up to rallies.
You listen to this program.
God bless you.
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You're instrumental.
But what about the two out of four Republican?
Someone that's paying too much in gas, that knows that they should vote every election cycle, makes a habit out of it, has three kids yelling in the back of the car, and they say, okay, I got to go vote.
And it's 3:30 in the afternoon.
And they show up at one of the voting centers in Arizona.
And there's a line of 300 people.
And they say, yeah, they ran out of ballots.
They can't print them fast enough.
The personnel don't know what they're doing.
And it's kind of crazy here.
But if you wait in line, you will be eventually able to vote.
It might be a two to three hour wait.
Do you think that mom's going to do that?
She's going to say, forget it.
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Joining us now, Steve.
Steve, how are you doing?
Walk us through the decision this morning.
I'm doing good.
Look, I respect the judge.
I respect the court.
I respect the process.
You know, he laid out in his summary the four areas of appeal.
We're going to appeal in four different segments.
I feel very good.
And just everybody, that's all noise.
Signal is 8 November.
That's what we got to do.
If we want to end all this madness, we have to vote them out of office.
And that's why everybody's got to focus on the signal is converging everything to the 8th of November.
Let's have that.
Today was Judgment Day for me.
I fully accept it.
It is what it is.
On 8 November, the American people, Charlie, rendered judgment on the illegitimate Biden regime.
Fighting for November 800:04:54
And we need all MAGA to turn out.
Do you share the concern, Steve, that in Arizona in particular, the infrastructure might not be prepared for an election day tsunami?
Should we really be warning about this?
What are your thoughts on that, Steve?
I think you have to.
Look, people have opinions at Michael and Dell Crowd about voting only on game day.
I know Kerry Lake had a turnout.
I think people got to really talk about this and reach into their heart of whether it's set up to do it and make their decision by voting early.
Yeah, we've been talking about that a lot on this program.
And I say, look, if you got to vote early, if you don't want to wait long in lines, then do it.
Vote early in person.
There's a risk that obviously a lot of people still might touch that ballot, but it's better to vote early than not vote at all.
Do not put your ballot in the mail.
We are not endorsing mail and voting at all.
But if you show up in person, better than not at all.
But I'm just very worried.
I know this, the Stephen Richard character, Maricopa County recorder, Katie Hobbs, who's the Secretary of State over her own election, which should be illegal and not allowed in the state of Arizona.
I could just see the last October surprise is the clogging of the MAGA wave, if you will, is trying to blunt it, confuse it, throw a little smokescreen where we might be at lunchtime on election day and we might be getting reports across the country.
Charlie, I tried to vote to four-hour wait.
We have to get ahead of this and warn it and put these people on notice that this is not acceptable.
So, Steve, what keeps, you know, what drives you to keep going?
You've been attacked from every possible direction from the Mueller investigation to the Senate Intelligence Committee to the state of New York to the Department of Justice.
And you just keep fighting and you're focused solely on Election Day as the Democrats' Judgment Day.
You know, people complain all the time to me, Charlie, things are so tough, and you never let that get to you.
Talk about that, Steve.
I find that super interesting and important for our audience to learn.
Well, Charlie, you know, and you've met my daughter.
You know, I volunteered and served in the Navy as a naval officer under a destroyer in the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf.
My daughter went to West Point, served in Iraq with the 101st Airborne.
What keeps me going is this country.
And, you know, I served this country in a formal capacity at the early stages of my career in my early 20s.
And after I was fortunate enough to make some money, I've decided to serve my country ever since I really met Andrew Breitbart right after the financial collapse.
I met Andrew a couple of times around the financial collapse of 2008.
And the reason I did it, I made a movie then called Generation Zero.
It was about Gen Z.
It's about how Generation Zero is going to get wiped out.
What keeps me motivated, quite frankly, is you, Pesobic, the people at Turning Point.
I see this generation coming up, and we have an obligation to bequeath this generation the same constitutional republic with the same basic economic opportunities that were bequeathed to us.
I've had a blessed life.
I had, you know, my dad didn't make a lot of money, but we had a family of five, and my mom was a homemaker.
It was kind of a, I look back at it, it was an absolutely golden childhood.
I had every break in the world, and it was just terrific.
And we want to provide that and make sure that I'm part of that generation that hands that off.
And so, what does it, that we work seven days a week here at the war room, 18, 20 hours a day, is simply that we owe our previous generations to bequeath to you guys, the up-and-coming next generation, really the people under 40, the same country we had.
And we're in a fight for that.
It's not a given.
It's going to happen.
In fact, starting, as you remember, after the election was stolen in November of 2020, starting around January 20th, when Biden stepped in, we have long odds.
All Wall Street's against us, the university's against us, big tech's against us, Hollywood, the Uniparty, the Globalists, the World Economic Forum.
But we've got the American people, and this participatory populism gets bigger every day.
And the inclusive nature of it gets bigger every day.
And I see guys like you and all these young people picking up the baton.
I see the story in the Federalists that now Conservative Inc., you know, says we're not conservatives.
Hey, it's fine.
We're redefining politics in this country.
The biggest turnaround and victory in political history is not simply going to be 2016, which was number one.
It's going to be this midterm election in 2022.
And this is definitely driven by the people.
Ron DeSantis doesn't matter.
Steve Bannon doesn't matter.
Charlie Kirk doesn't matter.
Donald Trump doesn't matter.
This is a victory for the people.
And if we converge all the forces and people come out and we do those things that you're talking about in Arizona, we got a lot on the table we could lose and not close on.
Remember, it's one thing to win.
It's the other thing to close.
We must close.
So this is a people's victory.
And that's what keeps me motivated every day, brother.
What happened to you, Steve, is only going to fuel our fire.
I could speak to our audience all across the country.
It's so wrong when you see these criminals, these legit criminals on the left, Peter Struckstroke, Smirk, James Comey, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, Hunter Biden, and they walk scot free.
And you take advice from your legal counsel, and then they go after you and try to persecute you in a Soviet show trial style.
Final call to action for our audience, because some people say, okay, Charlie, I'm going to vote.
Closing the Victory Gap00:15:02
What else?
Steve, that's not enough.
Not enough.
Tell us about it.
The precinct strategy, go become a still time to be a poll worker, a poll watcher, to go join Melody Jennings and the people watching the boxes to get out the vote, to do phone banks across the country.
You don't need to write a check.
What we need now is everybody's shoulder to the wheel.
We must close on this.
We must close on the biggest political turnaround in American history, and they hate it.
That's where they're trying to shut down the war room.
That's trying to shut me down.
That's where all over Charlie, huge front page story in the Arizona Republic last week, trying to tie Charlie to illegal political activities.
It's everybody, whether it's Project Veritas, turning point, they're coming for everybody.
So we just have to, the way we do this is victory.
The way we turn around is victory.
And there's no substitute for victory, Charlie.
No substitute for victory.
Amen.
That's right.
It's a once-in-a-generation opportunity to be able to execute upon a political annihilation event of the Democrat Party and put them into a Democrat civil war for a generation.
That's what we have in 18 days.
Steve, keep the faith.
Thanks for your leadership.
Talk to you soon.
Thank you, Steve, for joining us.
Appreciate it.
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If you live in a state like Georgia or Arizona or Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, it's worth a kindly written email but focused email asking your local officials if they are prepared to have the infrastructure and the personnel to be able to facilitate a massive red wave on election day.
So for example, in Arizona, they do all this goofy stuff.
And Tyler Boyer from Turning Point Action does such a great job of explaining it.
From the best of my knowledge, and he's educated me, and Austin Smith, who's going to be a new state rep in Arizona, has educated me as well.
And we have a lot of friends.
Obviously, we're headquartered in Arizona.
Is that they've got rid of precinct voting and it's now voting center.
And it's conceivable, these voting centers, there's less of them, less places to go vote.
It's conceivable that thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people are going to show up across the valley and they have to print ballots.
They have to literally create ballots at the voting center to then facilitate the people that are showing up in record numbers.
I do not trust the Arizona Board of Elections.
I do not trust the Georgia Board of Elections.
I do not trust the Pennsylvania Board of Elections.
I don't trust any of these to be able to facilitate this massive red wave.
And so someone emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com, and they said, on election day, I'm bringing a fold-up chair and staying as long as it takes.
Good.
But most people won't.
And they're going to try to create a deterrent.
They're going to try to create a backlog.
They're going to try to create a traffic jam.
They think they can stop the red wave if there's a traffic jam on election day.
So two things need to be communicated.
Number one, all of you that are listening that are planning to vote on election day, plan to do nothing else.
You just got to plan for five or six hours.
If you get out in 20 minutes, praise God, you're the lucky one.
But be ready for a pipe burst all of a sudden in Maricopa County or whatever nonsense that might arise.
That's number one.
Number two is we have to put our election officials on notice and repeatedly ask questions and repeatedly and incessantly put them out in public and say this.
For example, I tweeted Stephen Richer, who is, I think he's the recorder, his official title in Maricopa.
I said, hey, Stephen Richer, mail in numbers are way below 2018, which means we will have a tsunami at the polls.
Can you guarantee every voter on Election Day will have a ballot?
Will you have enough ballot paper, backup printers, technicians, so that no one goes without a ballot?
We need to keep this narrative going because I'm seeing every single fundamental.
And I'm telling you, the Democrats are running out of time to be able to execute on an October surprise.
The subpoena on the January 6th committee didn't work.
The Dobbs stuff isn't resonating.
They're running low on money.
Their candidates are awful.
We are consolidating.
We're winning every single demographic except hyper-educated people with PhDs, whatever.
You can have them.
We're beginning to win Hispanics.
We're beginning to win the muscular class.
We're starting to win with women.
We're winning across the board.
So what happens all of a sudden on election day when people that are upset with inflation and crime and the southern border invasion, they want to go vote for Carrie Lake and Blake Masters, and the infrastructure itself is not ready.
And so, look, if you have the time or if you are at all worried, I do not recommend voting by mail, but there is an argument that if we can get 10 or 15% of our base to vote in person and early, yes, there is a risk there.
It's not the worst thing in the world.
Someone replied to my tweet where they said, stagger the votes.
By that, I mean vote early in person from next Monday to the 31st, then have the last avalanche of votes on election day to put them away.
And I don't necessarily disagree with that.
I just don't trust early voting as much as I trust game day voting.
I'll be very honest.
But in everything, in life, everything is a risk.
Okay.
And so my biggest concern, the risk that I want to make sure I communicate to you is an election day fiasco.
And so, for example, some of these people, you know, some of you guys are emailing us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
What happens if they run out of ballots?
Can they extend election day to the next day?
Well, look, a judge can extend voting hours by an hour, two hours, five hours.
But once Election Day is over, that's it.
There's no do-over.
That's what makes this whole kind of game day voting strategy very, very risky.
So let's put ourselves kind of in the Democrats position.
The Democrats know they're losing in the polls.
They're losing in support.
Independents are collapsing.
A massive fired-up MAGA America first wave.
Parents Party growing.
You got Carrie Lake up against, you know, the wine mom, Katie Hobbs.
You got an incredible avalanche of support that is growing and expanding and is solidifying and strengthening.
The only thing the Democrats have left is to try to ruin Election Day itself.
And so, you know, someone said here, well, Charlie, what do you mean they print ballots?
Yeah, I mean, just so you know, when you show up on game day on election day in Arizona, they're literally printing new ballots for you.
So if there's 500 people in line at a voting center, they got to print new ballots for every single person that votes on game day, every single one.
So we got to talk about this.
We got to figure it out.
We got to try to, yes, have the wave on game day.
But if we mess up game day and they have some sort of surprise for us, oh, we're under-resourced.
Or I could just see Stephen Richard and all these people.
It was unprecedented turnout.
We've never seen anything like it.
And then all of a sudden, the suburban mom pulls into the parking lot with two kids in the back and she says, forget it.
I'm going home.
They don't need my vote.
What kind of taper are we looking at here?
Ballot shortages are a legitimate concern.
This happened.
Was it in Pinal?
I think it's in Pinal.
It happened in Pinal County in the Republican primary.
They just ran out of Republican ballots.
And by the way, Katie Hobbs, who's supposed to be in charge of this, is also running for governor.
It's in her interest to mess up the election, which, by the way, is something I think we have to talk about more.
It is in the interest of Katie Hobbs to have a chaotic election day.
You want to talk about a conflict of interest.
I mean, Katie Hobbs will benefit from Election Day being total and complete bedlam.
And by the way, the Democrat numbers coming in are very, very concerning in Arizona.
They look awesome for Republicans and conservatives.
So how do we fix it?
The only way we can really fix it is a couple of things.
If you can vote early and in person and securely and you trust that methodology of voting, then so be it.
I'm a game day guy.
We're going to be waking up at 6 a.m. on election day.
Yes, we have the show.
Actually, it will be at 10 a.m. at that point because of the time change.
And we're going to wait in line and we're going to be game day.
So I'm a game day guy.
And I know a lot of you are as well.
I'm going to wait in line.
I'm going to do it.
I'm going to securely vote in person.
But some people say, Charlie, what if I get a mail-in ballot and I want to submit that ballot?
Well, look, then make sure you show up and submit that ballot, not in a Dropbox, but to somebody and actually see them process it at a voting processing center.
Shelly says, don't most people have mail-in ballots they can simply drop off to take and yet drop off in person?
Yes, but a lot of you decided not to do that in the primary, God bless you, where you put an X through the ballot, you show up, and then you vote with a ballot they produce for you on election day.
Someone says here, Bob, why can't it be demanded that for every precinct there needs to be the same amount of ballots that equal what is on the votes register?
Because they print ballots.
They don't even have ballots waiting for you.
They have printers that produce new ballots when you show up.
This is how screwed up this is.
I'm just trying to warn you.
What if they don't have enough ink?
What if the printer stops working?
Could you just imagine?
Oh, yeah, in four of the heaviest Republican precincts or voting centers in Scottsdale and Mesa, we've run out of ink.
Supply chain shortage.
Sorry.
These are things we have to talk about now.
I don't trust these people at all.
And they're like, oh, yeah, I'm going to show up in person.
Oh, yeah, a pipe could burst.
Or I'm sorry, we have an electricity failure in Mesa, Arizona.
Air conditioner went out.
Whatever it is.
When you put all of your eggs in the game day basket, just rationally, you increase the likelihood of them being able to see our, we are broadcasting our strategy to them.
And I'm not saying it's a bad strategy.
I'm saying we have to put them on defense now in every single state.
Do you have the printing supplies?
Do you have the technicians?
Do you have the staff?
Are you staffed up to be able to withstand this?
And we need to talk about this nonstop.
Someone says here, email is freedom at charliekirk.com.
Charlie, I will give my spot to anyone that can't stand in line.
I'll go to the back of the line.
If I'm there all day, so be it.
God bless you, John.
That's the way you should be thinking.
Someone says here, Charlie, can you sue the state if they do indeed run out of ballots?
If so, what would be the course of action?
Yeah, exactly.
There's no course of action.
Once election day is over, it's over.
You might be able to get a couple-hour injunction extending it.
But once it's a once people are deterred, they're deterred.
I just want you to imagine the visual of someone who's upset about gas prices, pornography in schools.
She has a couple of kids and she votes passively and she wants to vote.
Shows up on election day, her suburban van, kind of, you know, the typical van mom, and she has a couple kids that are just rambunctious in the back seat.
She pulls into the parking lot and there is a line around the block.
And she gets out and she asks, How long have you been waiting?
Well, they ran out of supplies and they don't really know what's on here.
And you can't fault the mom for saying, forget it.
That would be a catastrophe on Election Day.
We have done all the work.
We've recruited great candidates.
We're making arguments.
We're finally with parity on television, running better advertisements.
We got the Democrats on defense.
They don't have a message.
The one thing that could still go wrong is the plumbing of elections.
And I think they're going to try to intentionally clog it.
These people are not trustworthy at all.
And this is the one risk in game day voting: if they know we're all going to show up on game day, then why wouldn't they try to prevent our strategy?
So someone says this: it depends what state.
So if I take my absentee ballot in person, do the X it out and give me a new ballot?
Can I use my old ballot as my sample ballot?
Good question.
I don't know, but they should exit out in person and give you a new ballot to vote in there.
That's the way it works in Arizona.
Charlie, I'm watching your show and I live in Maricopa County.
We've already seen some shady stuff of mail-in ballots.
My father, who passed away four years ago, received the mail-in ballot.
He lived in Cochise County and was registered as a Democrat.
Oh, really?
Dead people getting ballots?
No, that doesn't happen, according to Stephen Richer and Adrian Fontes and Katie Hobbs.
I don't trust these people.
Voting in person on election day is a great idea if we can get assurances that these criminals can conduct a fair election.
Charlotte says, use paper mail and ballot on game day.
Okay?
So, yeah, here's what somebody says.
This is smart.
Charlie, if that were to happen and the mom shows up, she can have my spot.
I'll go back to the line I have all day.
Good for you.
Yeah, that's the other thing, guys, is that if you are, and we're going to talk about this leading up, if you are voting in person and you start to see unfolding chaos, try to actually be a problem solver and don't just complain about it.
Say, hey, do you guys need more volunteers?
Is there something?
Can we run to Staples and get you more ink?
Whatever this excuse might be, because as soon as Election Day closes, that's it.
I am very afraid.
And yes, get video evidence with ever happening.
I'm very afraid that this wave will be so big that you're going to try to fit a semi-truck through a residential door.
It's just not going to fit.
You're going to have a log jam.
You're going to have a traffic jam.
You're going to have to slow things down.
And I think that is the strategy.
So we've got to talk about it.
We got to get assurances.
And by the way, in certain areas, it might make sense to go vote early to try to prevent this kind of traffic jam.
I'm not one of those guys.
I'm not.
I'm not going to vote early after what happened in the 2020 election.
I'm just not.
I know a lot of you agree with me.
But if you vote early, I do not follow you.
I'm not one of those people that scold you if you vote early.
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Mike said, Charlie, to your concern in Arizona about ballot availability on game day, drop your ballot off at a voting center on game day.
Don't wait in line to fill out and then drop it off.
This is one of the many reasons they could not steal it during the primaries.
Even Carrie Lake talked about this.
That's a good point, Mike.
Thank you for that.
And look, I'm not trying to tell you how to vote, but I'm telling you that if you want to vote early and in person, that is better than not voting at all.
I will never shame anyone or scold anyone.
And by the way, someone said here, Charlie, I'm 88 and disabled and really struggle getting around.
I'm voting in person.
I don't want to risk an election day.
God bless you for voting, honestly.
I hope the vote counts.
I hope that it's processed correctly.
But honestly, that is better.
Someone said here, listening to your show this morning about the traffic jam, how the precinct voting centers will likely run out of Republican ballots.
Well, it's not even a matter of running out of Republican ballots because there's no Republican ballots, but in Republican areas, they're going to run out of ballots.
Plumbing issues out of ink.
They're printers.
Thank you for alerting us, even though we have to take out mail and ballots to these voting centers and wait and observe that they have to properly process our ballot.
That's right, Lisa.
So if, for example, if you take in a mail and voting ballot and you say, I no longer want it, and you surrender it and they put an X through it, then they have to go print you a new ballot.
Lynn says, Charlie, here in Minnesota, you could go in person, take a ballot at home, have it signed by another registered voter that they saw your ballot before, then watch you sign your failed ballot, have it dated before honor election day, then walk into City Hall in my case.
That's my plan.
That sounds really complicated.
That's a lot of work, but God bless you for that.
Charlie, I'm working the polls on election day first time.
It was strongly suggested that I have to vote early.
The reason being here in Red Virginia, if we have to red part of Virginia voting early, our money resources go to the blue part of the state to help turn it red.
So what do we do about this?
We have to have a massive media campaign, tweets, social media, letters, emails, bombarding, respectfully, the offices of the people that administer these elections and get them on the record publicly that they have enough people.
Tell us how, do you have enough printing supplies?
Do you have enough people, enough personnel?
I'm so worried about this.
So, for example, Republicans lead by expanding margin on generic ballot, 48.4% to 43.4%, according to big data poll.
When the Republicans have a 5.1% generic ballot lead and early voting is now down, I'm telling you, you are going to see something on Election Day that would make a presidential-style turnout.
Because look, here's the thing is that a lot of you, maybe not a lot of you, let me rephrase that.
A lot of gender Republicans used to vote by mail, and that's not happening anymore.
So a lot of people are saying, yeah, I'm just going to show up on election day.
Ooh.
Maybe you should just go voting early unless you want to lose a whole day and vote in person.
I know there's a risk to that.
I'm telling you, you could have five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten the amount of turnout, more so than anyone I think is expecting.
And that could result in less people voting.
It could end up being a deterrent.
It's a matter of how bad do you want it.
Something tells me there's not going to be super long lines in Democrat areas.
Something tells me that if you're a Republican in a Democrat area, maybe in downtown Phoenix, you'll be able to waltz right in and vote and have no problem.
Something tells me, though, that in Cave Creek or in Scottsdale or in rural Georgia or in central Pennsylvania or in western Michigan or in northern Wisconsin, there's going to be lines and lines and lines and lines.
And it's one thing to have lines.
Some of you are expecting that.
It's another thing to not even have any idea how to facilitate it and have the people that otherwise would vote be completely deterred and turned away.
Charlie, in regard to the potential ballot shortage, voters who receive a mail-in ballot have an official ballot in hand.
It could be filled out and handed out at the voting precinct.
This depends on your state, by the way.
Not every state works this way.
Fill out the ballot, put it in the envelope, and take it to the polling place in person.
Turn in the ballot without the envelope.
The ballot should be placed into the ballot box with the other printed ballots by the poll worker.
No one can be refused the right to vote.
A mail-in ballot is an official ballot.
Take your own ballot with you.
This may alleviate some of the waiting in line and get more votes submitted.
That's a good point.
D, thank you.
I don't think that's as secure as asking for a new ballot, but it's better than not voting at all.
Charlie, I called Maricopa County and asked if they're ready with enough ballots.
He said he wasn't at a polling place, but he was sure that they are ready.
I emailed Maricopa County and asked if they are ready.
I also posted on Facebook.
Laurie, you're doing the right thing.
We need to put them on pressure.
We got to put pressure on them.
Put them on notice.
Do you have enough?
You have enough printers?
You got enough people?
You got enough personnel?
Have them so overcompensate with it that there won't be a problem.
And then we've done our job.
I want to be wrong.
On election day, I want to say, wow, there's no problems.
Everyone's voting so easily.
We will have done our job.
We got to get this right.
It's the last thing the Democrats have up their sleeve.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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Thank you so much for listening.
God bless.
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