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Kari Lake - November 9th, Hour 2
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, so glad you could be here.
We welcome back to the program Congressman Jim Jordan, the great state of Ohio.
Mr. Jordan, sir, how are you?
I'm fine, Sean.
How are you doing today?
I'm good.
Well, so where do you think we are in the House?
I've heard anywhere from 16 to 20 net.
What do you have?
Yeah, we're going to win the House.
You can feel that.
You look at some of the Arizona numbers.
Eli Crane was just declared a winner out there.
Great candidate.
Going to be a great member.
We're going to win some of those seats that we were down in early.
So I think we're going to have the majority in the House.
And I think, Franklin, we're going to get the majority in the Senate.
And I learned a long time ago, winning beats losing.
So, you know, this is, while we had hoped for the money.
You think?
You think winning beats lose?
I don't know, maybe that's...
Every single time it's better to win, and it looks like we're going to win both.
So, you know, the Democrats can say what they want.
But I think it's going to wind up being good for the country because we're going to be able to put the brakes on the craziness from Joe Biden and the Democrats.
So here's the information I've got on the Senate that I can pass on to you.
The Maricopa officials have come out, and they still have not counted.
And by the way, this is such a disgrace for the American people.
It's so unfair to every state that, like your state of Ohio, that you get the results night of in Florida and 46 at least of the other states that can get their elections done that night or the next morning, like Ron Johnson won in Wisconsin, which was good news today.
And Herschel, now it's official, he's in a runoff against Raphael Warnock, a very tight race.
And I think that's a winnable race for Herschel.
I hope every Republican in Georgia goes all in.
This is a very important race.
But anyway, I found out that the outstanding votes in Nevada, there's not enough out there, especially in Clark County, which is the Vegas area, which is heavily Democrat, or, in fact, blacks hope to lose that race.
And then Blake Masters, I mean, look, Kerry Lake is only down 12,000 based on 275,000 day of ballots not counted.
And the weekend before, another 125,000 and another 17,000 in some of the more rural areas.
All three of those categories will go heavily Republican if history is any indicator.
And then as many as 100,000 or more, you know, in Pima and other rural areas.
I mean, this is insanity.
They can't even give you an exact number, but we are learning that in Nevada that black salt, there's not enough votes out there for the Democrat to win, and that Masters might even have a shot.
He's down by 90,000, and you got four, 500, 600,000 votes outstanding that look heavily Republican.
He might have a shot to come back.
Yeah, no, it keeps getting better as the day goes on for Republicans.
And I'm like you, like, I remember when, you know, we're about the same age, Tom.
We remember when you get to all the results.
Every state on election night or the next morning, as you indicated.
And now with all this advanced technology, why does it take days and days for some of these places?
If it's frustrating for you and I who live this stuff every day, imagine for all the American people.
Like, well, what is going on?
It's ridiculous.
But the good news is we are going to, I think, have control of both the House and the Senate.
And that's going to help us stop the craziness from Joe Biden.
And, of course, just as importantly, it gives us the ability to do the investigations that need done so the country, so we the people can get the facts on what our government's been up to.
And in our situation, specifically the Justice Department, we issued a thousand-page report last week that highlights all the politics and all the shenanigans going on over there.
So we want to get to the bottom of all that as well.
Well, let me ask you this question.
You know, as I try to explain to people, I thought people's expectations.
I don't know if you followed a lot of my coverage leading up to on TV or radio.
You sure did.
Yeah.
Okay, so I'm looking at candidates, three in particular, the most radical.
You know, people like Raphael Warnock, Cash Bell, no fossil fuels, CRT in schools.
People have to repent for their whiteness.
You know, admirer of Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright and Fidel Castro.
I mean, really radical.
People seem to ignore that.
Fetterman, another example.
You know, legalized drugs, safe heroin injection sites paid for by taxpayers, no limits on abortion, moratorium on fracking, release as many convicted murderers as I can and open up the prisons and let a third to half the prison population free.
You know, sanctuary cities and states all over Pennsylvania wants that, the shotgun incident we talked at, adapts them about.
The same with Mandela Barnes, you know, and it was a close race for Ron Johnson.
And I'm looking at this, and I'm coming to the conclusion that Democrats didn't care.
If you had a D-nexed to your name and a pulse, they were going to vote for you because they knew you'd be a rubber stamp.
Am I wrong?
Well, and also you got the corporate media, the mainstream media out there going along, just an extension and arm of the Democrat Party, saying all kinds of things, repeating all the false statements made about Republicans and championing the Democrats' message.
So that's difficult too.
Now, a lot of Americans listen to folks like you, Sean, and they get the truth and the facts.
But the mainstream press certainly doesn't do that.
So I think you put that all together.
Yeah, that's why some of these races were so close.
But the end, it's about winning.
And Ron Johnson is going to win, and he's a great member of the Senate.
You know that.
This guy is a fighter.
I'm so glad he's coming back.
It looks like a J.D. Bance won Ohio.
We know that.
It looks like Herschel is going to be in the runoff.
I think he's going to win.
We're all going to go to ⁇ I was in Georgia two years ago.
We spent December in Georgia, right?
So I think we're going to be doing the same thing to do everything we can to make sure he wins.
That's just where it is.
We know the left's against us.
I always say the left controls everything, the big tech, big media, big sports, big corporations, the higher education.
They control Hollywood, the House, the Senate, and the White House, but they don't control we the people.
And in spite of all that, the left control that we the people spoke yesterday, and I think they're going to give the House and the Senate to Republicans.
Well, I think so, too.
But, you know, this gives us now an opportunity.
If we can get the Senate along with the House, that would give Republicans an opportunity to dig into the Hunter Biden laptop.
That would give us an opportunity to look at these whistleblowers in the Department of Justice and the FBI that are claiming the FBI has been politicized.
What have you learned so far about that part?
We issued that report last week.
The press went after us, the mainstream press, because it was, you know, we got 14 whistleblowers, FBI agents who come and talk to us and told us how bad it's gotten.
One whistleblower said this, Sean.
I want you to just think about the terms he used, the language he used.
He said the hierarchy, the Washington Field Office, the hierarchy of the FBI is, quote, rotted to the core.
This is not the agents.
You talk about the agents.
I talk about the agents.
The rank-and-file agents are good men and women.
But the people at the top, specifically the Washington Field Office, totally driven by politics.
And we live, as you know, in the greatest country in history, greatest country ever, but we are not America.
If you have a Justice Department that doesn't treat people equally under the law, and that is exactly the situation we have now.
So one of the key things for us being in the majority is the ability to further the investigation we've already done and actually call in witnesses, call in people, and get to all the facts.
Now, we can't ultimately hold them accountable, but by putting out the facts, you begin to hold people accountable because now the nation, the country, the people know what's going on, and that will also factor into the decision that we're going to make in two years of who's going to be our next president.
Let's talk a little bit about where we think that this, you know, what do we take out of this election from your point of view?
If people are just so locked into partisanship to the extent that they are.
Now, I think you're right.
I think the media is complicit.
It's the biggest donation they give Democrats.
They allow somebody like Fetterman to go unchecked, unquestioned, hide in the basement the entire campaign, barely survive a one, one-hour debate after voting had taken place for over, what, five, six weeks, whatever it happened to be, at the very end of the election.
If the media doesn't vet, and people in Wisconsin, they would never support the insanity of Mandela Barnes.
People, if they really knew Raphael Warnock, I mean, only we found this out.
It never even came up in the election runoff against Kelly Loeffler.
You know, it's, you know, to me, it's nuts.
Yeah.
Well, I think there's a couple of key takeaways.
One, we look at Florida.
Florida was, I think, a win for freedom, a win for liberty.
The up and down the ticket Republicans did so well in that state.
I think, two, Democrats ran away from their leadership, and no Democrat was embracing.
No one was hugging Joe Biden.
In fact, they didn't want him anywhere near them during the campaign.
And many of those Democrats talk like Republicans when they were out on the stump.
So I think those are a couple takeaways.
And then third, never underestimate the importance of the candidate themselves and their work ethic.
And let me give you a great example.
Scott Perry, chairman of the Freedom Caucus, was attacked mercilessly by the left.
They called him everything.
The FBI took his phone.
He's in a swing district, but he busted his tail.
He worked so hard.
He won that race by 10 points.
And the voters in his district know that Scott Perry means what he says.
When he gets to Washington, he's going to do what he told him he was going to do.
And they re-elected him in spite of the onslaught from the left and all the stuff the mainstream media did to him.
So the candidate themselves, their genuineness, their commitment to doing what they're told the voters they were going to do, and their willingness to work hard makes a big difference as well.
No, I think you're right.
Back to the two powers that Republicans will have in the House that are very powerful.
One is the power of subpoena.
We talked about that.
That would include the Hunter Biden laptop, the implication of his father, Joe, the origins of COVID-19, politicizing the FBI, weaponizing the DOJ, all under investigation, and whistleblowers that hopefully the country will get to hear from and learn a lot about what's been going on.
And I think a lot that's been covered up over the last number of years.
But then it's also the power of the purse.
No president can spend a penny without the approval of Congress.
Now, that's going to get to some very dicey times where a small majority of Republicans in the House and hopefully the Senate are going to have to stand strong and not give in to you're shutting down the government.
You're stealing grandma's social security, even though grandma will get her social security.
You're exactly right.
You know that fight is coming.
Yeah.
And you've got to be willing to make that fight and make it in a principled way and focus on winning on one.
You can't demand 10 things.
You've got to demand one important thing in that deal when you're dealing with appropriations.
And of course, part of that is demanding that we not spend at these ridiculous levels.
So I do think that's important.
The founders in their wisdom wanted the House to be the body closest to the will of the American people.
That's why every two years they get a chance to throw us all out.
And that's also why in that body, the one closest to the people, the House of Representatives, that's where all the spending and taxing policies and bills have to originate.
So, we got to focus on spending, but we also got to focus on making sure on those important bills that we're doing what needs to be done on energy, what needs to be done to secure our border, what needs to be done on holding big tech accountable for their censorship and attack on conservatives up and down the line, making sure we're speaking up for moms and dads because Democrats have taken the position that they think government is smarter when it comes to the education of your children.
And Republicans say, no, no, no, we actually think it's moms and dads.
We actually think it's parents.
After all, they know their kids' name for goodness sake.
So, all those issues, we have to show a clear difference.
And that will actually help frame up the presidential contest in two years as well.
This is going to have to cause Republicans to unite.
Republicans tend to create circular firing squads.
Will the Freedom Caucus get along with the establishment wing of the Republican Party?
Is everybody going to play nice in the sandbox or are you all going to kill each other?
We've been united over the last four years.
You saw it.
I used this example, Sean, and you know, because you were right in the middle of this as well.
But when the Democrats did their crazy impeachment back in 2019, the conventional wisdom was that, oh, Republicans, all the Democrats are going to vote to impeach.
A bunch of Republicans are going to join them.
But after four months of fighting the fight and pointing out the facts, every single Republican voted not to impeach President Trump.
Several Democrats joined us.
One switched parties and is now a member of our conference, good member who won re-election last night with 60-some percent of the vote.
Jeff Van Drew from New Jersey.
So you're right.
That's how we have to be united in fighting for the things we told the American people we were going to fight for.
I think you're going to be probably the bridge to the more conservative American first movement and any establishment people that are there.
And they're just going to have to do the hard work that maybe they would have shied away from otherwise.
This may end up being a good thing in the end.
Jim Jordan, Ohio, congrats and look forward to following up on a lot of these things that have gone under the radar that now will be front and center for the country.
Thank you, sir.
Oh, Joe Biden, he's come a long way.
He went from this notion that democracy is in peril and Republicans are going to take you Social Security and Medicare and your veterans' benefits.
And now he's saying he now is invited, let's see, what did it just break on someplace?
Following the G20, I will invite leaders from both parties to the White House to discuss how we will collaborate.
All of a sudden, out of power, Republicans, power of subpoena, power of the purse.
I think I'll go back to that unifying theme, not the one that I just used for the entire election season, lying about Republicans and their intentions and who they are.
And we can all get along now.
We'll just forget all that happened.
If you look at the polls, I don't look at them much anymore because I'm not quite sure how to read them anymore.
He actually said that today, too.
Can you imagine this?
It's unreal.
All right.
When we get back, Harry Lake, Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona.
Big announcement today by Maricopa County that they have not counted 275,000 day of ballots handed in to their varying districts.
That would probably lean heavily Republican.
They didn't count 125,000 ballots handed in, handed in.
Mean people walked it in.
They didn't want to mail it over the weekend.
And then it may be as many as 100,000 or more in some of the rural areas.
We don't know.
We just know it's somewhere between 400 and 500 and maybe higher thousand votes not voted.
And she's only 12,000 votes down.
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As we said, massive amounts of votes outstanding in the great state of Arizona.
Now, we may know by Friday.
We were told earlier today to prepare.
By the way, told by Katie Hobbs, the gubernatorial candidate for the Democrats, Arizona Secretary of State, voters be prepared to wait days for votes to be counted in this year's midterm elections.
What a disgrace.
The rest of the country was able to calibrate their votes.
The rest of the country didn't have tabulation problems with 20% of their tabulators like they did in Maricopa County.
And people had to scramble to go here, there, and everywhere or wait in perpetuity for this thing to work.
I mean, it's unreal.
Here's what the Maricopa officials are saying about the outstanding votes.
There are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them.
Once the signature is matched, we send it forward to a bipartisan ballot processing team.
What that team is, is that team sits over there.
It's a bipartisan team, different parties sitting across from each other, taking those ballots out of the green affidavit envelopes, making sure that the ballot isn't damaged, making sure that it's not torn, making sure that it doesn't have red ink on it, making sure that it doesn't have coffee on it, anything that would inhibit it from being tabulated.
So as I mentioned, we've already processed those, and that was about 86,000.
We've sent those ahead to the board for tabulation.
Now, we also received approximately 50,000 early ballots on Monday.
So those were dropped off and received on Monday.
Those ballots are currently undergoing processing.
So again, they've already undergone that signature review process.
They've been signature verified.
They've gone through that audit queue.
And now they're with the bipartisan team.
We will have those done today, and then they will be moved forward to, again, the board for tabulation.
Finally, and this is the big number that is bigger than ever before, we received approximately 275,000 early ballots dropped off yesterday on election day.
So that is what we were doing late last night.
My team and I, if you saw us in the warehouse, we were receiving back those early ballots that are returned from the voting locations after the voting locations are closed.
We're then sorting those.
We're then processing those.
We're sending them in.
We're image capturing that signature.
And what we will be doing today and tomorrow and the next day is we will be reviewing the signatures of all of those 275,000.
Once they go through signature verification, once they are deemed good signature, once they go through an audit queue, then they can be sent ahead to the board for tabulation.
This number is immense.
And it's something, it's a conversation that probably Arizona needs to have in terms of public policy because this is a number that keeps on growing.
In many ways, it's wonderful.
Arizonans appreciate the ease of the voting process in that you can just take your early ballot and drop it off on election day.
But it does inhibit us from having a higher percentage of returns available within the first 24, 48 hours.
But it is important that we do signature verify all of those because it is how we confirm your identity.
In the November 2020 election, which of course I was not here for, but I can still pull statistics from, there are about 170,000 early ballots that were dropped off on Election Day, November 3rd, 2020.
So obviously, in just the span of two years, despite my best efforts, over 100,000 additional people returned ballots just by dropping off an early ballot on Election Day.
All right, joining us now is Republican gubernatorial candidate Carrie Lake.
The latest ballots that I saw, the latest numbers I saw, was that you were only down 12,000.
It was 50% to 50%.
And why don't you explain your interpretation of what the Maricopa officials are saying?
How many ballots do you believe are now outstanding?
Because we didn't get a definitive number.
Well, we believe there are 600,000 to 800,000 left to count.
And these are people who are our voters.
How convenient that they haven't been thrown into the mix yet.
275,000 mail-in ballots were dropped off on Election Day.
I'm going to let your audience guess what kind of a voter dropped off their mail-in ballot on Election Day.
It's pretty obvious.
People who don't trust the drop boxes, who don't trust the system, and who don't trust the mails.
And those are probably the vast majority.
I would venture to guess 80%, maybe even more, are our voters.
So we're going to get the majority of that.
We also have most of those votes, the hundreds of thousands that haven't been counted, were the day of voters.
These are people who are going to be able to.
I think they said over 275,000 day of votes and then weekend before votes, which I would argue likely favor people like yourself, Republicans, and people like Blake Masters.
What do you think roughly the idea, the number realistically is?
Because we add up what they're saying at 412,000-ish, but maybe more.
That's what they said.
Well, we have a clear run to runway here to victory with all those votes left to count.
Hobbs needed to win mail-in votes by more.
She didn't.
And now we're seeing even more mail-in.
They had more people show up on Election Day to vote than did in 2020.
We had huge numbers of our voters show up to vote.
And most of them haven't been counted yet.
So we know that of these hundreds of thousands left to count, they're going to go our way in big numbers.
And we're only down by 12,000.
So as a race for Hobbes.
Well, what the hell happened last night?
So I'm watching last night, and I'm looking at these numbers, and I'm like, they're not making sense.
You're down by 12, 14 points.
I'm like, there's no way.
It's impossible.
And I'm waiting.
And then all of a sudden I keep hitting refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh.
And it doesn't move for hours.
We're stuck at 52%, I think it was at the time.
And now we have all of these other outstanding votes.
We don't even have an exact vote total.
What do you think in terms of, let's break it down, day of voting, how many votes do you think are outstanding yet to be counted?
How many votes from the weekend before that were dropped off by people that, yes, you're right, don't have faith in the system in all likelihood.
We have 275,000 mail-in ballots that were dropped off on Election Day.
Those are our votes.
We had 125,000 that were dropped off in the weekend before.
Now, those could go either way, but I think they're probably more likely to go our way, to be honest.
And then we had 17,000 that showed up and the machines weren't working.
They decided to vote anyway and had to put their ballot in that door three.
And I'm guessing that those were also going to go heavy Republican because that tended to happen in Republican areas.
If you look at the neighborhoods, Anthem, Arcadia, East Mesa, these are heavy Republican areas.
So those are most likely going to go our way as well.
And now we're hearing there could be 100,000 or more of people who just showed up and voted that haven't been tallied yet.
I'm going to go from our 100,000, where did they come from?
Well, we've got 275,000 mail-in ballots dropped off Election Day, 125 that were dropped off the weekend before.
That's 400,000.
And then we're told there could be 200,000 that just haven't been tallied yet that were Election Day voters.
And this is the problem.
We don't have specifics, and our election officials are incompetent, incompetent.
They didn't mention that today.
Why didn't they mention that today?
These are votes left.
This is Pima and rural areas.
That would tend to favor Republicans, correct?
Rural areas will favor me heavy.
We were looking when numbers were coming in last night, Sean, in our rural counties, they were going my way between 79 and 89 percent.
Our war room says there's no path to victory for Katie Hobbs to win.
And they also believe that all of us I'm talking about Blake.
It's going to be tighter for Blake.
I'm talking about Abe and Mark Fincham are going to be victorious.
The problem is they're so incompetent, they're dragging their feet and counting, and they're trying to make excuses.
We need to reform our elections.
The voters deserve better in Arizona.
And when I get into office, this will be priority number one, reforming our election so that we have winners declared on election night, votes tabulated on election night.
It can be done.
And I think if we had elections that were run fairly like they are in Florida, we would have had a win, and the Republicans would have won with big margins on election night.
So let's go to Blake Masters for a second.
Now, Blake was kind of always trailing you, and you noticed that.
And then you invited him to be a part of a lot of your events.
And I think that was extraordinarily generous of you.
And I think it's going to be helpful to Blake in the end.
He is down now by about 90,000 votes.
Based on the numbers you're giving me, he'd have to win about 70% of outstanding votes.
Is that about the right math?
70%, yes.
And I think we're going to win.
I think we're going to win closer to 80% of that vote.
That vote I just described, as you know, are going to be hardcore Republican voters who are fed up.
And I think Blake is going to win.
We were working together yesterday.
Blake and I went to a bunch of polling places where the lines were long and encouraged people to stay in line, took pictures with them, talked to voters.
These people are true patriotic Americans who are so fed up and they know that their vote is their voice and they were willing to stand in line.
But I think we lost some people in line.
I just talked to a friend who lives up in Anthem, a very Republican part of Maricopa County.
He said the line was two and a half hours all day and a lot of retirees live up there.
It's hard to stand in line when you have health problems.
Listen, I've done meet and greets the last five, six hours.
My knees and my back are killing me by the end of it, and I'm in pretty good shape.
So this is fascinating to me.
So this is not over in terms of the Senate race either.
And we don't know when we're going to get answers.
All we're being told is to prepare for days and days of counting.
And I will tell you, it is such a disservice to the people of your state.
And also, Harry, I know you agree with me, a disservice to the rest of the country.
You know, 46, seven states, they get it right.
They can count votes.
There's still a few outstanding.
There's still a few problems in other states.
But with all due respect, yours is the worst.
And so, and we're still waiting for, you know, did Adam Laxalt win?
We know in Georgia, at least today, that they're going to go to a runoff with Herschel Walker.
Okay, they made the official announcement.
We know that Ron Johnson won a close race in Wisconsin.
Thank goodness that gives the Republicans a chance.
This Blake Masters race is very impactful to the country.
And we're told we're not going to know for days and days.
And here we have a bunch of incompetent, and we have a bunch of incompetent schools who didn't do their job.
They had one job to do, run a decent election.
And once again, this happened in 2020.
It happened in our primary election, and it happened again.
And they're holding the whole country up.
And I feel for the other people in Arizona who live outside of Maricopa County.
I feel for the people of Maricopa County to have an election run this way.
But think if you ran a perfect election up in Mojave County, Arizona, and you can't get the results because Maricopa County can't figure it out.
These people need to be run out of office.
Stephen Richard needs to be recalled, and Bill Gates should resign and hang his head in shame.
This is outrageous.
And I vow to the good people of this state, when we win, we've already won.
But when we win, and they finally announce it, and we announce it, On January of 2023, priority number one is to turn our elections around, reform them so that every voter, whether they're Democrat, Independent, or Republican, knows their legal vote count, and they can go to bed on election night knowing who won.
And they can live with it, even if their guy didn't win, because they know the elections were fair, honest, and transparent.
That's all we're asking for.
You know, it's like voter ID is not complicated.
Signature verification is not complicated.
Partisan observers watching the vote count and watching the voting is not complicated.
I would go to, frankly, I would go to paper ballots with partisan observers watching all day and watching the count all night and declaring a winner at the end of the night.
Every state should do it.
Make it a national holiday.
Make exceptions for the sick, elderly, and people that are away at work or whatever.
And that's it.
And everybody votes the same day.
Quick break.
We'll come right back more with Kerry Lake, Republican gubernatorial candidate out in Arizona.
What a mess it is out there.
But hopefully we'll get into the bottom of it.
All right, we continue with Republican gubernatorial candidate from Arizona, Kerry Lake, about, yes, well, it's going to be days and days till we get the results.
Maybe it's a blessing in a way that you couldn't even vote.
You tried, you couldn't.
You had to go elsewhere.
And the media had to cover the story.
Yep.
And here's the deal.
I've been calling for reform in our elections.
They called me election denier.
A lot of people didn't believe it.
The mainstream media didn't cover it.
And we want to reform our elections so they're fair and honest.
And now people have a very fresh wound.
And it happened yesterday.
And they will understand how important it is.
I think day of voting is the way to go.
I think hand counting is the way to go.
And it happens in other countries of the world.
And people will say, well, that takes too long.
Well, you know what takes too long is all of these mail-in ballots, a glut of them out there having to verify signatures.
Think how many people are touching these ballots before they're finally being tabulated.
It doesn't take that long when you work in very small precincts with a thousand voters.
Human beings can count that, and we can count it fairly, and there's less of a chance for fraud, to be honest.
Carrie Lake, thanks so much.
I think we'll see you on TV tonight and look forward to that.
And we'll continue to update people on the developments.
And hopefully maybe one day in the next year or so, we'll actually get the results.
But thanks for being with us.
Well, we think we're going to have good news very soon.
But thank you so much, Sean.
You've been wonderful.
Appreciate you being with us and look forward to the vote counting being finished and your victory.
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