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Voting Security Is Easy - August 4th, Hour 1
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, where's our engineer?
Where did Blair go?
Because I have something.
I don't think everything's set up there right.
Anyway, glad you're with us.
We're in Dallas today.
That's why we are a little bit discombobulated starting the program.
Anyway, big show today, and we're here for CPAC.
You know, I missed last year's CPAC, and I missed it a lot because I go every year.
I don't go to as many events as I used to go to.
And it's always a great crowd.
It's always a lot of fun, always wonderful people.
And now they've been doing Florida CPAC and Texas CPAC.
So I wanted to do Texas because I hadn't been in Dallas in a long time.
And here we are, and it couldn't be any better.
And I passed an In-N-Out burger on the way in, which is even better.
That makes me really, really happy.
We're going to talk a lot about races.
Later on, Dr. Oz is going to join us, and I'll get to that in a second.
You know, here we are.
Today is Thursday.
The election, the primary election was on Tuesday.
So ever since Tuesday, well, let's say early into Wednesday morning in the race for governor, you have Carrie Lake, Taylor Robson, and they had 82% of the vote in.
Today, they still have 82% of the vote in.
What the hell is going on in Arizona?
How do you expect people to have faith and confidence in the integrity of elections if you don't count the votes in 24 hours?
That's not that much to ask.
It's why so many other countries, they don't have any of this early voting BS.
They don't have, they do paper ballots.
You put the thing in, you go show up on election day.
I'd even be in favor of making election day a national holiday.
If it means we have one election day, show up.
Now, if you're disabled, you could vote by mail.
If you have a legitimate reason, you're going to be out traveling, you still want to vote, patriotic duty, you can apply for an absentee ballot and vote that way.
And then you have to have, of course, partisan observers should watch the vote count start to finish.
This vote has not changed now in 48 hours.
And it's unfair to the people of Arizona.
It's unfair to the candidates.
It's unfair to the country that some states are incapable of running efficient elections.
Like I'll give you another example.
So we had the problems in 2000 down in Florida.
All right.
Then you have the Baker-Carter commission, and they determined how to get away from hanging, swinging, dimple, pimple, Chads, et cetera, that mess of 2000.
You know, nobody could really ever have any sense of certainty that Bush and Cheney won by 537 votes.
But I mean, at some point, the Supreme Court weighed in.
You needed a winner.
And Al Gore's lawyer, I thought, made a mistake at the time.
I didn't particularly like the equal protection clause used in that case, but that's a separate issue for another day.
How is it we still don't have a declared winner?
What's so hard about counting the votes?
Why every other state is now counting votes and they can't count the votes in this state.
Now, if it's within the margin that they have an automatic recount, fine.
Harry Lake is winning 46.2% to 44.4%.
But they say they're estimating that there's still 142,890 votes uncounted.
And my question is, why are they not counted?
How does this happen in state after state after state?
They just had a ruling with the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
You know, the Supreme Court doesn't even care about its own state constitution in the Pennsylvania Constitution.
They literally have very specific criteria that you need to meet to vote by mail.
And it's limited.
They designed it that way.
Now, the state legislature, they passed, what was it, Bill 77, and they decided rather than going through the difficult, hard, arduous process, which would be to have a constitutional amendment, they just decided, you know what, that's too hard.
That's too big a heavy, too heavy a lift.
Let's go this way and we'll just pass a law.
We'll circumvent our own state constitution.
That's not how it works legally.
And for the Supreme Court to go along with them just bypassing their own state constitution speaks volumes about why we want people that interpret the Constitution on the bench, not people that legislate from the bench or people that affirm legislating from the bench, even though it's in the Constitution in clear, unambiguous language, what the criteria should be.
We have the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
They determined those drop boxes that they used in 2020 shouldn't have been used.
Look, everybody, the country needs to get out of this horrible cycle of having questions after elections, especially because we know how to do it right, because so many states, they do it right.
And 11 o'clock, you know, Fox News can now project so-and-so is one Florida.
Fox News can now project that this state wants so-and-so won in this state and so-and-so won in this state.
We can now project.
If you can project the winners in 40 states or 45 states, why can't we have it in all 50 states?
And all it does is it creates suspicion.
People doubt the integrity of it.
They don't have confidence in the final outcome and the results.
And, you know, you find yourself creating a problem that you don't need to have.
We're smart enough.
Other states do it.
And Arizona needs to get their Adam shift together and they need to get it right.
I mean, it's that simple.
It's not fair to anybody in Arizona.
The fact that you don't know who won the Republican primary two days later is unconscionable.
And we don't even have a date when we might know who they're going to declare as a winner.
And then who knows what's going to happen after that?
We're going to have another recount, then another recount, then a third.
It's insane.
And it doesn't have to be this way.
That's the problem.
It's something you can easily fix.
We're watching, something very strange is going on in the state of Pennsylvania.
I mean, really, really strange.
So Dr. Oz won the Republican nomination.
By the way, and to the credit of all the candidates in Pennsylvania, they have all now rallied around Dr. Oz.
Dave McCormick, who that race was won by less than 1,000 votes, 900 and some odd votes.
He is supporting Dr. Oz.
Jeff Bartos is supporting Dr. Oz.
Kathy Barnett, I understand, is supporting Dr. Oz.
And good for all of them because they needed to do it.
And that's the same in any other state.
Now, I know some of you, after you put your blood, sweat, and tears and passion and heart into a campaign and you lose, you're not so quick to want to just turn around.
All right, I'll support the winner.
But with this important election cycle, you better put aside your personal feelings and you better support the winner or else you're going to get Billback broke more 2.0.
Then you're going to get a Supreme Court.
They're going to stack the Supreme Court packet with as many liberals as they can put on there.
Then they're going to eliminate the legislative filibuster.
Then they're going to make, let's say, D.C. and Puerto Rico, they'll give them statehood and God knows what other power grabs they'll put in place so they have power in their minds in perpetuity, at least on paper.
You want sanctuary cities, sanctuary states, the United Sanctuary States of America, you'll get it under the left wing in this country.
And if you thought the Green New Deal is bad, it will get far worse than that.
Anyway, so in Pennsylvania, the guy that won the Democratic nomination is a guy by the name of John Fetterman.
John Fetterman acts like he's a real tough guy.
He's got a bald head and he wears a hoodie everywhere he goes.
And he thinks he's a tough guy.
All right.
He tries to act like he's an everyday working Joe, blue-collar, tough guy, as the Philly Inquirer said.
They actually said the phrase blue-collar tough guy flashes across one of his TV ads as a grim-faced Fetterman poses before billowing smokestacks, and a narrator says he looked different and he's been different his entire life.
And they finally did a deep dive.
Now, here's problem number one: he's only been seen one time since before the primary when he had a stroke before the primary.
Only one time.
Now, I think the people of Pennsylvania need to know whether or not this guy is healthy enough, strong enough, and that's physically and cognitively to take on a stressful job like being a U.S. Senator.
I hope that Pennsylvania will and Pennsylvanians will demand answers to these questions because this guy's got some of the most radical positions of any Senate candidate running in the country in this cycle.
He is it.
This guy makes Bernie Sanders look like a member of the John Birch Society of years gone by.
That's how right-wing he is off the charts.
Anyway, so they did this piece on Vetterman today.
The guy bills himself as Mr. Working Class, always wearing the hoodie, hoodie, hoodie, hoodie.
Okay.
The Philly Inquirer, they're not a right-wing publication.
They've not been that kind to Dr. Oz in this campaign.
Anyway, so they looked into his background, and what they're finding is he was a spoiled trust fund baby brat for most of his life who lived off handouts from his parents until just six years ago when he was 46 years old.
I mean, let me tell you something about my kids.
They're not getting a penny from me now.
Never mind when they're 36 or 46.
Go earn your own money.
I've got you through college.
Now you're on your own.
Go work.
And to my son's credit, my daughter will experience this soon.
He tried to swindle me out of Uber Eats that at least when I get my first job, you're going to continue to give me Uber Eats, right?
And I said, nope, I took it away from your brother and I'm not giving it to you.
Anyway, so the Philly Inquirer goes on to say, now, apparently, Dr. Oz's campaign is pointing out Fetterman was depending on mommy and daddy to cover most of his income.
And they're saying that he failed to pay taxes 67 times on the small amount of money that he did make on his own.
Public records and Fetterman openly acknowledges that for a long stretch lasting well into his 40s, that his main source of income was from his mommy and his daddy.
And this guy still, he doesn't even show up to work as a candidate.
You know, in Pennsylvania, around Philly alone, they had 561 murders this year, more than ever before, while he is the lieutenant governor for crying out loud.
He doesn't do a thing.
He wants Pennsylvania to be a sanctuary state.
He says he wants open borders.
He has said publicly that he wants Joe Biden to be more like Bernie Sanders.
And he says, I'm not going to be a Joe Manchin Democrat.
This is not a guy in touch with any Pennsylvania values that I know.
He wants to decriminalize all drugs, everything, crack, heroin, meth, you name it.
This is a guy that, you know, again, he wants all the power.
He supports openly, you know, getting rid of the legislative filibuster, packing the U.S. Supreme Court.
He doesn't care.
He wants to release at least a third of all prisoners.
He doesn't want any life sentences.
And, you know, he's a pretend populist is the word that Dr. Oz used about this guy.
And many think it's because of the way he dresses.
Just because you wear a hoodie doesn't mean you're from the hood or that you're cool.
You're a trust fund spoiled brat that doesn't work.
And nobody has any idea what your real health situation is.
And the people of Pennsylvania need to know the fact that his parents supported him financially, you know, for all the years he was a mayor and until he was 46 years old.
Could you imagine being supported by mama and dad dad until you're 46 years old?
Get to work, you lazy.
Whatever.
I don't want to go too far here.
Open C. Fetterman's father gave him more than $100,000, the single candidate super PAC, backing his son's campaign in 2016.
John Fetterman was living off daddy's money until he was 46 years old.
And he failed to pay taxes, apparently.
They're alleging in the Oz campaign 67 times.
Oz is going to join us.
Everybody better start paying attention.
You know, 538, Nate Silver.
I don't often agree with him.
He says the chances of the Senate remaining Democrat is 58%.
It's going to matter in North Carolina.
It's going to matter in Missouri.
It's going to matter in Ohio.
It's going to matter in Pennsylvania.
It's going to matter in Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Nevada.
It's going to matter in Arizona.
Hopefully we can put Colorado and Washington State in play.
We got to get Marco Rubio over the finish line, Herschel Walker in Georgia over the finish line, but in North Carolina over the finish line.
Unless you want more of this madness and insanity of build back broke and new Green Deal socialism and the climate alarmist cult, you better start paying attention to these races because the media is not going to do that job.
I promise you.
All right, as we roll along, we're in Dallas for CPAC today, 800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
A lot of people have made a big deal, all the saber rattling.
China is set to launch an unprecedented military drill that effectively blockades Taiwan.
China launches 22 aircraft into Taiwan airspace after deploying an aircraft carrier and firing 11 missiles in invasion drills.
Why is the world bowing down before the altar of President Qi?
Now, just like with Russia, there's a strategy you can employ without firing a shot, and that is the world needs to say to China in a united voice, we're not going to import a single product from your country ever again unless you stop.
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So China's doing their normal saber rattling, but this is everything that they've been doing anyway.
This is why last week's call with Joe Biden was that bad.
Because here you have President Qi, you know, if you play with fire, you're going to get burned.
Threatening a U.S. president, threatening even China threatening to shoot out, shoot down Nancy Pelosi's plane if she does go to Taiwan, trying to intimidate the U.S. into not visiting an allied country.
And there's no reciprocity.
How does Joe Biden, you know, be on a two-plus-hour call and get lectured by the president of China without telling him what he can do and where he can go and start pressing him?
How about the treatment of Uyghur minorities in China?
How about their unfair trade practices?
How about their intellectual property theft?
How about what they did to the world with COVID and the origins of the COVID-19 or why they put a travel ban in effect that if you lived in Wuhan province, you couldn't travel anywhere else in China.
And if you lived anywhere else in China, you weren't allowed to travel to Wuhan, but you could leave Wuhan and travel around the world.
That was the travel ban the world should have paid attention to, not the one Donald Trump put in place that Joe Biden called xenophobic and hysterical and whatever other words he was using.
So, you know, notice that all of these hostilities didn't happen when Donald Trump was president because that's what peace through strength means.
That's it.
It's the embodiment of it.
You know, the one thing that Donald Trump had was a level of unpredictability that most leaders don't have.
They tried to study Trump, but they couldn't figure him out.
Now, they figured out that he meant business when he kicked the living crap out of the caliphate.
They figured out that he had no problem taking on Iran when they knocked out Soleimani on that tarmac and Baghdadi and associates and the al-Qaeda leader in Yemen.
But it's interesting that the Taliban, they never killed a single American in 18 months.
Why is that when Donald Trump was president?
And then the incident at Karzai International Airport, because Joe Biden allowed the Taliban over a period of months to make their march, make their move province after province after province, and didn't lift a finger to stop them.
Now, the Trump plan was, and I know because I've interviewed him about it, was telling the Taliban leader: if you move one inch from where you are now until I say it's okay, I'm going to blow you into smithereens.
I am going to send you off, and you can get your 72 virgins in heaven because that's where you're headed.
And then he gave the exact location where he is.
Now, there's a piece out today that I think we should all be paying attention to about you, and it quotes U.S. intelligence officials, and it's on Foxnews.com that China fears the election of another leader that could return to more robust peace-through-strength foreign policy and stronger domestic policies.
Anyway, U.S. intelligence officials are warning that China most likely will invade Taiwan sometime between this November and January of 2025.
Now, the January 2025 date just happens to correspond with the month that Joe Biden is expected to be replaced with a much stronger, less compromised president, hopefully a Republican.
Now, China could invade Taiwan within the next 18 months.
Current and former officials familiar with U.S. and Allied intelligence say, suggesting a particularly dangerous window between the meeting of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party this November.
all right when we come back we got a lot of ground to cover here today We'll check in with Dr. Oz later in the program.
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Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Join us every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.
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