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Dr. Ronny Jackson - September 19th, Hour 2
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Early voting ongoing.
Commonwealth, Pennsylvania, and early mail in ballots to being sent out in Wisconsin next.
And of course, you have a presidential candidate that hasn't answered the most basic rudimentary questions on her radical positions.
And so far the corrupt state-run media mob has allowed her to get away with all of it.
A lot of it has to do with the issue of immigration.
Now, President Trump yesterday says, I want to be known as the border president.
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He said this in his rally in Uniondale, Long Island last night.
They had more than two and a half times the number of people that they had room for wanting to get into the building.
The former Nassau Coliseum.
And uh here's what here's what the president said.
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Uh the president also pointed out that early voting is now going on in Pennsylvania.
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Joining us now, Scott Pressler, founder, early vote action to elect Republicans by mobilizing a nationwide grassroots network for voter registration and increasing absentee and early voting.
And Selena Zito, national political reporter for the Washington Examiner, nobody knows the state or the Commonwealth, rather, the Pennsylvania better than her.
Uh welcome both of you.
Selena, let me start with you.
Uh are we getting any indication at this point uh about early voting in the first few days in Pennsylvania?
Well, the early voting hasn't actually started because there was a little bit of a uh legal situation uh in which a lower court had decided that people um who handed in signatures, uh ballots without proper signatures or signed in the wrong places or not gated would be allowed.
Uh and the state supreme supreme court um uh overruled that.
And so we're kind of right there right now.
Okay, so it really is has it started yet or no?
No.
No, something's changed dramatically in the past 24 hours and I missed it.
Scott might know.
All right, let's talk.
You have this whole theory about how to win the state of Pennsylvania.
You point out, for example, and you wrote a great Column about this in 08, nearly 54% of I believe you pronounce it Luzerne County, is that right?
Yes, it's county, yes.
And they voted for Obama four years later.
That number went to fifty-two percent.
And if you look at twenty sixteen, Donald Trump had a whopping fifty-eight point six percent of the vote to Hillary's thirty-eight point five percent.
Uh where do you see these these what is it, twelve to nineteen counties that matter the most in Pennsylvania?
Where are they where are they leaning at this point?
Well, right now, you know, they are leaning towards Trump.
So there's Luzerne, uh, Beaver, Washington, Cambria counties, all these sort of counties that, you know, people tend to, in particular, both Democrats and Republicans, to be honest, ignore these counties because they don't they're they're looking to try to pick up large counties.
Well, Pitts well Republicans are never going to win Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.
What they do need to do is drum up them the margins, and that's what Trump did in 2016 with Luzerne, but also Erie and Northampton counties Erie and Northampton hasn't voted for a Republican forever in a day.
So you see these counties, uh, Burks County is also very important, by the way, the home of or the ancestral home of Taylor Swift.
That's where she was brought up.
It used to be um 7,000 uh Democrat majority um Democrats in 2020, and it's now 4,000 um Republican uh uh voter registration.
Um voter registration in general has sh um been shifting away from Democrats towards Republicans pretty dramatically in the last eight years, is that not correct?
Yes, that's absolutely true.
And and so what what Trump wants to do to needs to do to win these these uh this state is to focus on those counties and drive up um drive up the vote.
You know, he won them in 2020, however, he didn't win them as much as he did in 2016.
So they that's why you see him in in Luzerne, in Erie, in Cambria, he's going to be in Westmoreland in Indiana County um uh uh on Monday, Sunday and Monday.
Though those are important places for him to show up, energize people and and have them close the margins away from whatever happens in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
Are you getting any anecdotal evidence about about motivation of voters uh compared to 2020, 2016 to today?
Sure.
This is how you know voters are motivated.
Traditionally, Republicans have been good at doing absentee balloting.
That was before COVID.
And then that sort of dropped off in 2020, and and Democrats took a hold of that effort and were very successful for it with it.
Now you see people can they can't wait to uh use their mail-in ballots.
They're they're very, very energized.
I think that's incredibly important.
And I know this is anecdotal.
I know that signs don't vote.
However, I'm see the seeing them like crazy um in the places and in the counties and in the suburbs and neighborhoods where you know those votes will be needed.
Yeah, let's get your take, Scott Pressler.
Um I first started saying that I I really would like to have a whole different system of voting and election day be a national holiday, and I would prefer that we have paper ballots, and I'd prefer proof of citizenship, which the SAVE Act would would have mandated if it passed in Congress yesterday.
Uh and we'd have voter ID and signature verification, chain of custody controls on any mail and ballots.
They should be on camera the whole time uh when they are stored away and updated voter rolls and partisan observers in every precinct in the country watching the voting all day and the vote counting all night.
Um, you know, I point out to people that's just not the system we have now, and the only way you change it is if you win elections.
So the system we have now is early voting, voting by mail, and you can't, in my view, start out election day down hundreds of thousands of votes in a state or a commonwealth like Pennsylvania and expect to win.
Exactly.
Well, thank you, Sean, for having me.
My organization is Early VoteAction.com.
And let's address the facts for a second.
Democrats vote for 550 days in Pennsylvania.
Republicans vote for twelve hours.
It's not a level playing field.
And so at Early Vote Action, we believe in an all of the above approach to voting.
And the facts are you guys were talking about voter registration.
Four years ago, Democrats had an advantage of six hundred and fifty thousand more D's than ours.
Today, that number is only three hundred and forty-three.
If you take out inactive voters, Sean, it's one sixty-eight.
And furthermore, you want to talk in mail and voting and why I'm more psyched about our opportunity to win this November.
Four years ago, at this moment in time, the Democrats had three hundred thousand more mail and ballot requests made due right now.
And Republicans on the other hand is this in one state or is this in the seven swing states?
This is Pennsylvania.
All of our time, all of our energy and talent are going to Pennsylvania because we are keenly aware we deliver Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump is elected president.
I wouldn't take Georgia and North Carolina for granted either.
We uh early voteaction.com, we are focused on winning Pennsylvania and delivering that fee for Donald Trump.
The Democrats are down half of the voter registration in North Carolina that they were two years ago.
And in Georgia, while he isn't the most conservative candidate, uh Governor Kemp has signed a like election integrity legislation into law.
But as far as we're concerned, Pennsylvania wins the whole ball game, Sean.
Uh I I would just pay a little bit more attention to Georgia, North Carolina.
Are you in those states at all?
Yes, early vote action has been focused on Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
But again, all of our time and talent is going to the beautiful Commonwealth of Pennsylvania where I bought a home just to vote for Donald Trump.
Wow.
You moved to Pennsylvania just for that.
Uh well, it's a great state.
Linda lives there.
Uh Selena, do you see the same, you know, those the the ballot requests reduction seems dramatic to me.
Yeah, uh, you know, it uh the Republicans are you know, I I I had this conversation with President Trump um several months ago.
And it it makes it only makes sense that that Republicans um you know are encouraged to to um to use a mail in ballot because they are the most excited people to vote.
Why wouldn't you capture the genie in the bat uh b bottle, right?
Why wouldn't you encourage it?
And I uh I've seen him um do that.
Uh I've I've seen him do on social media, I see him do it um uh at the rallies, and and voters are embracing it.
Now, do I think they'll do it as much as Democrats?
No.
Why?
Because uh voters tend to really love the sense of community that comes with going up and showing up to uh at your local precinct.
You see your neighbors, you see your family, oftentimes there's donuts involved, but but uh you see more and more Republicans um energized and embracing the idea of getting their mail in ballot in and they can follow it.
It's really interesting.
You can literally follow your ballot um from the moment you drop it off um online and see exactly where it goes.
Well, I think that's actually very key, and I think being able to follow it is important.
I know that means a lot to people, especially people that have had reluctance and resistance towards early voting or voting by mail.
Uh I know they had kinks and problems over the years in Florida, but they have perfected it in my state now, and and I have no problem.
Uh I'm I'm planning to vote by mail.
I haven't figured it out yet.
Linda, you're gonna have to tell me what to do.
Um, as per usual on issues involving this.
Uh, but I am registered to vote, and I am a registered Republican, uh, which uh I was always a registered conservative when I when I lived in New York.
Uh but you know, I've changed that.
You don't have that option down here.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more on early voting issues as we continue with Scott Pressler.
He's the founder of Early Vote Action, and he's mobilizing.
It's a grass uh roots network, voter registration around the country, and he's doing an amazing job.
Selena Zito also doing an amazing job, national political reporter with the Washington Examiner.
Nobody knows the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as she does.
All right, as we continue, Scott Pressler, founder of Early Vote Action.
He's out mobilizing a nationwide grassroots network for voter registration and increasing absentee and early voting.
Selena Zito, national political reporter with the Washington Examiner, uh, who knows more about the great state uh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania than anybody in the country.
If we're to look at, you know, these numbers, do we expect that early voting requests are going to remain depressed by Democrats in Pennsylvania?
I've got to imagine that they've got to be acutely aware of that number, Scott.
Oh, they they definitely are, because I know uh a team member or a partner is Cliff Maloney's PHA, and all of the work that we're doing to register voters to get people to do mail and ballots, there is an entire operation that is going to be knocking on doors and getting those people to put in their ballot.
But where I'm going with this, as Cliff has even mentioned weekly, the amount that the Democrats have a deficit in.
The the Democrats, there is no enthusiasm like there was for mail and voting in 2020.
And I think that that shows that they're gonna have to get people out on election day.
But one thing I really want to clear up, Sean, that people aren't talking about in Pennsylvania is yes, we have mail and voting.
Yes, people can request a ballot, but in Montgomery County, for example, you can vote right now at this very second.
We don't have in-person voting per se, but you can go to your board of elections and ask for an on-demand mail and ballot, and you can fill it out, vote right then and there, and it goes from your hands to the election workers' hands.
So to anybody listening in Pennsylvania, if you don't trust the United States Postal Service, I hear you.
If you don't uh trust a drop box, then please, by October 16th, statewide, every single BOE should have the opportunity by that date for you to go in person to vote a mail in ballot at your board of elections, and that is another way you can lock in your vote for Donald Trump and PA.
Will you just maybe one promise?
Will you please put as much energy, effort, and focus on Georgia and North Carolina for me, just for my own mental health.
I really appreciate it.
And Arizona and Nevada and uh other counties and other um states.
Is that okay?
You're gonna promise me that, Scott?
Well, well, Sean, if if people are very generous and they contribute financially at EarlyvoteAction.com, Earlyvote Action.com, then yes, I can have more support to dedicate to those states.
Yes, sir.
I know that you're doing a great great service and a lot of work, and you do it with a lot less than other organizations, and I applaud your efforts.
Selena, we always appreciate your insights, and we appreciate you being with back with us as well.
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I still for the life of me am absolutely livid over the comments of the interim or acting Secret Service director, you know, saying that the security plan for Donald Trump on Sunday actually worked because if it really worked, somebody would not have gotten within three hundred yards plus and it would have been closer when he actually took the shot and the fact that they didn't sweep the area of that that they know to be vulnerable.
It's a treat area with a fence in front of it that you know people can hide out in this is a well known area where paparazzi hang out and take pictures and videos of Donald Trump playing golf.
That area was not swept by the Secret Service that does not negate the heroism, the courage and the incredible professionalism of those people around the president to save his life, jump on him when the shots were fired and then of course get him away from that situation as quickly as possible.
But you know why didn't they sweep this treat area and why didn't they have eyes on that area the entire time to make sure nobody would go or sneak into the bushes.
Never mind the fact that apparently this would be assassin was there for twelve plus hours.
Let's play the acting Secret Service director telling us how great this plan works.
Yesterday was an off the record movement.
Off the record and the president wasn't even really supposed to go there it was not on his official schedule.
And so we put together a security plan and that security plan worked.
No that security plan failed the agents were phenomenal the agents around the president but you have to you know bifurcate the two separate issues.
If they had if the plan had worked nobody with an AK 47 and a scope would have gotten within three hundred plus yards of the president.
Just like in Butler PA, if the plan worked nobody would have been able to get on a roof with an open shot at Donald Trump a hundred and thirty yards away.
You know for anybody with even a a moderate degree of skill that's an easy shot.
Dr. Ronnie Jackson, Congressman Ronnie Jackson joins us now to discuss this well does that sound like the plan work to you because it doesn't sound like a plan that worked good worked well for me.
No Sean it sounds like a miserable failure and it sounds like something that was uh pretty easy to do and you know you know I was uh I was at the White House for fourteen years and I worked side by side Secret Service every day all day long and uh I when I was there uh I can imagine uh something that straightforward and that simple being overlooked.
I don't care if it was an OTR movement.
Uh you know there there are plans in place where you still protect the president just because it's an OTR movement doesn't mean he doesn't get protection in you know I think that Secret Service's biggest failure here is you know I talked to his detail uh his his his uh actual detail that's with him all day long every day not Secret Service leadership it is on multiple occasions uh uh as far back as a year and a half or more ago and I'd asked them how things were going and they confided in me at that time that life was difficult for them because they didn't get the resources that they needed.
They told me that they were the smallest protective detail of all the formers, despite the fact that he traveled way more than any of the former presidents.
And he's a much higher, much higher threat than any, you know, he has many more threats on his life than they do.
Despite that, he had the smallest detail.
And I'll tell you, the reason is they asked for stuff and they were told no.
And I think that what happens at Secret Service headquarters is they got those requests.
and, you know, the Secret Service Director, who thank goodness is gone now, you know, she left but she was the main part of the problem I think initially she basically her attitude was like no they're not gonna get it who cares it's Trump.
I mean the whole attitude of the you know people in in DOJ uh you know and this is not DOJ this is DHS but DHS DOJ everybody that's been involved in everything that goes on with Trump you know and and uh you know the things that have happened to him over the last few years their attitude is like it's President Trump who cares his life's not worth protecting and uh I just I find it sickening and you know they they keep making the comment that he's a former you know a former president.
Well he is he's a former president and traditionally former presidents don't have the same protection as the current president but he's also the candidate but the reality is that everything that happens in the Secret Service and I know this to be a fact because I was like I said associated with it for a long time it's not based on on on the on those facts alone it's based on the threat.
As the threat changes the protection's supposed to change and based on the threat, you know, this is the second time that someone's tried to kill him he should have the same level of protection right now as the President of the United States and he should have had that you know before this second attempt was even made.
So I'm I'm really disappointed in in what's going on.
I'm a huge defender in general of the Secret Service and I uh you know I love the guys uh that I worked with and I I have a lot of respect for his current detail but look th the ball has been dropped and things have to be done differently.
The ball's been dropped twice and in two months and I I think in this particular case that we were likely just minutes away from Donald Trump being assassinated.
I don't think from that location that anybody would miss and the fact that the guy had been there what some twelve plus hours is even more frighting.
Sean I mean counting we we should count ourselves extremely lucky right now as a country that this hasn't happened to him.
You know taking you got to consider the fact too that the last two attempts on his life were by people who are not professional killers, right?
And uh you know it it God forbid that the Iranians put a team together to come over here which they want to do to kill the president right if you put a professional team up against the the lacklustre and you know unimpressive and disappointing protection that he's had to date they would have killed him.
They would have done it.
So uh we we have to fix this.
We have to fix it now.
I mean it cannot wait uh because uh something is going to happen to President Trump if we don't fix this and fix it immediately.
I mean it's gotta be fixed I mean any time Trump is out from from here on in and I uh the the fact that it wasn't fixed after the first time is is stunning to me.
Um I don't know if you noticed the story but the Iranians had hacked into the Trump campaign and did you notice that they had passed on the information to the Biden people.
Yeah I saw that yeah I mean you know uh that that's crazy and uh you know that's not getting any real play on from the left you know uh they're they're acting like well you know this kind of stuff happens uh to both sides.
This kind of stuff does not happen to both sides, right?
And we need to find out more about what happened there, too.
But our intelligence agencies should be all over that.
And that kind of stuff should not even be a consideration in upcoming elections.
But it is, unfortunately.
And it is because the people that are supposed to be preventing that, protecting candidates from that kind of stuff, are operating in a political realm.
They're not operating in a political fashion like we paid them to.
Let's talk about what is Congress going to do on this?
Well, you know, it's been turned over to...
I'm gonna have some involvement in it being now that I'm on the intelligence committee.
So uh we got a brief on some of it today.
Uh we didn't get some of the answers that we want we're gonna have to go back to the well and get more answers but uh we made it clear that uh that the that this is completely unacceptable so I don't know what other committees are going to be involved in this.
The intelligence committee will be involved in it to some extent but I'm sure there will be other oversight and some of the other committees are gonna are going to involve themselves in this pretty quickly as well.
And we don't have much time to to uh to get answers to this.
I mean the election's just right around the corner and these are not the these are not the questions that you want answers to after the fact.
You want answers to these questions now.
Well they tried to make the excuse that the reason they didn't uh cover the the roof in in Butler Pit Pennsylvania is because uh it was a slope roof.
It turned out it was not a slope roof by by any measure, and I say that as somebody who used to do roofing.
I mean I could I could literally in the winter time put water on that roof and let her freeze and I'd be able to ice skate on that roof without any fear of falling.
I mean that's how ridiculous because it was barely sloped at all, and they had uh sharpshooters on roofs that were had a far a far bigger slope than the one that we're talking about where the where the would-be assassin was and you know I look at all of this and I just I I can't even believe that we're having the discussion.
Then it turns out we learned from the Hawley report that the real reason was, and and again they didn't even cover the perimeter of that building, they had agents inside the building, which you know doesn't monitor somebody, you know, getting up on top of that roof with a rifle no less.
Uh but more importantly, that what the original statement that was made to the public was a lie.
You know, the original report that came out on Sunday was, oh, these were two people in the neighborhood shooting at each other.
That turned out to be false.
And and it this this guy was there to assassinate Donald Trump.
And I think that any director that would claim that this was a success and we have an interim director after Kim Cheadle's uh stepped down.
But I think Ronald Rowe's statement that the plan worked, you know, tells me that he's not qualified for this job.
What's your reaction?
Well, I think you're right.
I think uh we we need new leadership uh in in the in the Secret Service at this point.
You know, these are things that we've need.
We've been in the new leadership across the board, FBI and a lot of these uh a lot of these other organizations as well for a long time now.
And I think they're used to getting away with just saying whatever they want and having the press just pick it up and run with it and give them top cover, and they honestly think uh to some extent that uh that that the American people are stupid and that uh that the that the the mainstream media is gonna help them to the extent that they can get away with this and with no consequences.
And they have good reason to believe that because up until now that's pretty much been the pattern.
All kinds of stuff like this happens, and nobody gets fired, right?
Nobody gets fired.
I mean, look at you know, even in DOD with Afghanistan and everything, nobody got fired from that.
Uh, you know, all the stuff the issues we've had with the FBI, no one's been fired there.
Uh, but we the the culture in DC has to change.
There has to be some level of accountability, and people in leadership roles, uh, when when their organization fails miserably, as uh the Secret Service has done uh recently, uh they need to do the right thing, and you know, they shouldn't even be fired.
They should have the uh the the character to step up to the plate and just uh say uh you know, I fell I failed in my mission and I'm resigning and turning this over to somebody else.
But that never happens, never happens.
Uh but uh you we we we need to clean house.
I agree with you.
Appreciate you as always, Dr. Ronnie Jackson, Congressman, thank you.
All right, quick break, we'll hit the phones when we come back.
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