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After midterms, GOP reconsidering antipathy to mail ballots
"Are starting to reconsider the party's resistance to mail in ballots. Got to be careful with those ballots. Watch those ballots. When former president Donald Trump condemned mail in voting in 2020, conservatives began to shy away from it. They're unsolicited millions being sent to everybody. But Republican National Committee chair ronna mcdaniel said on Fox News this week that Republican voters need to cast ballots early beyond the challenges of COVID-19, ballot glitches, long lines, or bad weather on election day, giving Democrats a multi week jump on voting makes it more difficult for Republican candidates to catch up. In Georgia's Senate runoff, Democrat Raphael Warnock topped Herschel Walker by an almost two to one ratio in mail ballots, Tea Party organizer Debbie Dooley is a Trump loyalist, but says the midterms were the last straw, the GOP has got to put a priority on competing with Democrats from the start, she says, and beat them at their own game.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Danielle Covers the Recent Loss of the Georgia Senate Race
"We just got the sad news that Herschel Walker has lost his race for the United States Senate. Warnock unfortunately will continue to be one of Georgia's senators. And something I want to draw attention to is that Georgia, traditionally a red state, maybe now a purple state because of Atlanta. Is literally represented as though it is a blue state. Georgia will continue to have two Democrat senators representing them in Warnock and ossoff. I find this really weird because Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate, cleanly and clearly won his race for governor in Georgia this fall. So something is going on here where for some reason, people are voting red for statewide offices, yet voting blue for nationwide offices. We apparently saw very high turnout in the runoff, but it may not have been enough Republican voters turning out Herschel. So what does this mean for us as a nation? This means that the Democrats will have a 51 majority. So an even greater majority than they had before. This means they will no longer need Kamala Harris as a tie breaker vote. This also means that senator Manchin and senator sinema will carry a little less weight than they had before and being able to block the runaway train of the radical Democrats. So this is all very bad news. But the good news is, the Republicans have taken the house so we have a narrow margin there. So we will hopefully be able to get some things done hopefully be able to prevent the nation from getting far worse too quickly. But the house has had no say in confirming appointments. So those will likely all go through the Democrat controlled Senate and presidency and be confirmed.
The Officer Tatum Show
Herschel Walker Loses Georgia Senate Race
"Big news coming out. That Herschel Walker did not win. The election. And so we'll talk about that right now and I know that there's a lot of people that may want to make an excuse, but I believe that there's no excuses that need to be made. We literally did not win the race. We did not win. And if you see that Brian Kemp won and we lost, this race, then that tells you something. It tells you that we did not compete and we did not do the things that were necessary to win this race. It wasn't cheating. It wasn't ballot harvesting and none of that of the stuff because those things, we could have done to if you help ourselves in this particular election, but we didn't do what it takes to win. And I'm glad to see that Herschel Walker made up in his mind that he was going to say he's not going to make any excuses and that we just did not run a good race. Let me give you some numbers. I think I had them here. So if you didn't watch the election, I think with 99% of the vote in, I don't know if they have a 100% of the vote, but this is as of the 7th, which is today 9 45 a.m. this morning. Harsher walker ended up getting 48% of the vote and Raphael Warnock got 51% of the vote. So he got beat by a pretty decent margin.
The Economist: The Intelligence
"georgia senate" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"It's easy to forget just what a big deal it was in 1996 when IBM computer beat Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess. I can't believe it. That surprise was renewed 20 years later. When some artificial intelligence from the company DeepMind beat a so called 9th Dan expert player of the Chinese game go. To be honest, we are a bit stunned and speechless. But in some games, not all the action actually happens on the board, and computers are catching up there too. I would like to introduce you to Cicero. This is an artificial intelligence program that was designed by a group at meta Facebook's parent company. And this artificial intelligence program was designed to play the board game diplomacy. Writes about science and technology for The Economist. AI participated in an online anonymous league, it played 40 games and it ended up being in one of the top 10% of players. And I guess more importantly, none of the players realized that it was playing against an AI. So let's wind back. Tell me about the board game diplomacy, first of all. This board game was invented in the U.S. in the 1950s. It harkens back to pre World War I Europe. There are two to 7 players and each player represents one of the great powers at the time. It can be Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, or turkey. Each player has armies and navies and resources, and the point of the game much like risk is to capture as much of the European map as possible. But unlike risk in diplomacy, there is no randomness. The way that you capture territory in the way that you fight and raise more forces is by negotiating with your counterparts. So there's this negotiation phase where you talk to the other players of the game. You decide on strategies and then after the negotiation phase is when you see who are your true friends and who are your enemies because every single player writes what their move for that round is and then the game plays out from there. Sounds like a fiendish game even before you bring AI to it. I mean, how do you teach a computer program to do all of this? So the standard way that AI is taught to play most games is via reinforcement learning. So this is when an artificial intelligence plays against itself or another version of itself over and over it again with this kind of objective goal in mind to win the game. So first it will act randomly and the reinforcement learning is kind of this carrot and stick approach it gets rewards when it does well, it gets punished and it's when it doesn't do well. And it kind of eventually learns to win. But for diplomacy, it's a little more complicated because in addition to needing to choose which moves to make, it has to know how to communicate in order to do those moves. The key to this, the meta engineers, what they did is they combined reinforcement learning with natural language processing, giving Cicero the ability to talk like a typical diplomacy player and also the ability to figure out the strategy to win. And so by letting Cicero learn the game by playing itself and learning how to talk about the game by watching how others do apparently it got very good that if it ends up in the top 10% of players. Yeah, it did learn to play very well. It didn't win everything notably. So the way that Cicero works, it's very step by step and logical. First, it kind of tries to figure out what other players might want to do. The moves that they might want to make. And then based on what it thinks that other people are going to do, it decides what move is best for it to make. Once it figures out, it's best move, it figures out how to say how to communicate who to talk to, what to say in order to implement that move. It generates multiple possible options of what to say, throws away the bad ones, and then it talks with the other players via what it's come up with. It negotiates, it convinces a cooperates, but notably Cicero never actually backstabbed or stabbed any of the other players. It kind of always negotiated in good faith. And I guess this is interesting for two reasons first. The fact that it was able to perform so well without being malicious or without backstabbing anybody is kind of notable, but also maybe that is the difference between being in the top 10% and being the best player, perhaps of Cicero could intentionally mislead or intentionally backstep other players it might have performed even better. So is that to say then that the AI, this reinforcement learning, the way that these games have been learned like chess and go and so on. Simply don't involve, we haven't taught computers yet to lie. I would say that's accurate. The researchers said that sister did quote strategically withhold information from players in gameplay. But we can't ask Cicero, whether it actually strategically withheld the information. We're humans interpreting an anthropomorphizing what Cicero is saying and we might say, oh yes, it's lying. We might say, oh yes, it's withholding information. But the ability to lie kind of comes with the theory of mind that you actually also have to know the truth and your intentionally doing it. And that's really hard to adjudicate with these AI models. Well, I don't look forward to the day when AI is independently discover how much better for them things can get when they get really sneaky. Abby, thanks very much for joining us.
The Economist: The Intelligence
"georgia senate" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"Kept tweaking the constitution to be able to run again, and again he ran for four terms. As public theory grew, he withdrew more and more from the national stage. He hadn't been seen for two years when he announced a run for a 5th term in 2019. That public fury spilled international protests and swiftly led to his resignation. With boot of leaker gone and with piles of wealth flooding into the country, thanks to high oil prices, you'd think algerians were at last getting a break. If only. I would say Algeria is basically an unhappy country run by a very opaque and unpopular government. Zan smiley is editor at large for The Economist. There are a couple of words in the local Algerian lexicon, which pop up all the time, one is, which has a sort of white variety of meanings, but it's essential one is a sense of oppression, a sense of humiliation, even a sense of hopelessness, and I think a lot of young people, especially in Algeria, have this feeling. The other word that popped up quite a lot as well was hariga, which literally means those who found. It applies to illegal immigration, a lot of young people now get on to rickety boats and head across the Mediterranean, mainly to Spain, and the reason it's called those who burn is that they burn their passports or identity papers. And head for a better life abroad. Those two words did come up a great deal when I visited the country recently. And I think they encapsulate the mood of ordinary algerians, especially young ones. So a lot of algerians see no other way but to leave. Are there a lot of them going? Well, according to the European union's border force, at least 13,000 have left to Algeria in recorded boats in the course of the past year. And then at the upper scale of society, a lot of them seem to go to the gulf or Europe or even America. And coming back to the first word that you mentioned the one with the connotation of oppression what's driving the use of that word that feeling. I think there's a feeling that the government is unaccountable. It's rung essentially behind the scenes by a sort of military security apparatus. Basically, the economy is in very poor shape. Everything depends on oil and gas, which Algeria has a great deal of. But they've really failed to diversify beyond those two things. Unemployment is quite high, and nobody knows the exact figure, but it's probably at least 15%. And for younger people, the reckoning is its two or three times higher than that. So that is why there is this prevalent feeling of so called, but there are one or two global factors chiefly the high price of gas and oil, which is keeping people at the moment relatively quiescent. And how does that work? Why does that reduce any pressure? Well, I think there are several factors that seem to stifle the disgruntlement. The first by simply is that the price of oil and gas, which Algeria has a great deal of is very high. So the coffers are relatively full at the moment. And the second is because of the high price of oil and gas. There is a sort of social contract whereby the government subsidizes massively the basics of human life, such as food, petrol, cooking oil, and even housing. And as one of the critics of the government said, nobody in Algeria goes hungry, very few do. And another factor which I think should be mentioned is that Algeria has had an incredibly violent history going right back to the war of independence in the late 50s early 60s. French man clashes with French men as students and veterans riot in protest against the gauls announcement of a plan to give Algeria its own choice between independence or continuous association with France. These demonstrators but also gain in 1992 onwards the so called dark decade. When the Islamists were opposed to win the second round of an election, which the army then canceled, precipitating a very violent Civil War, which went on for almost a decade, and in which between a 150,200 thousand people were killed. So anybody over about 40 has a very sharp memory of that terrible period. And this, I think, makes people pause before thinking of going back onto the streets or setting about a revolution that might get rid of a repressive government. It doesn't sound like a very robust set of conditions, though, to keep people off the streets. I think what's happened is that after the fall of bhuta fika, a new regime came in, and a lot of butterflies, Friends and relations, indeed his brother, two past prime ministers, heads of the security service string of ministers, at least a dozen generals were all put in prison, most of them were still there. But that having been done, the new regime began to look very much like the old regime, and I think that's one of the reasons that people are still on the whole pretty depressed, because nothing really seems to have changed. And my reckoning is that if the price of oil and gas collapsed and the government found it difficult as it were to pay off the people, then dissent and disgruntlement could get very much worse and the regime could find itself wobbling all over again. And do you get the sense that the regime feels that way as well that it has some precarity that they did all hinges on foreign oil markets? The regime gives off a very odd kind of mood. On the one hand, official Algeria feels it should be a sort of leading light in the old global Non-Aligned Movement. It's very proud, for instance, Algeria is the largest country in Africa in area. It's tries to play a big part in bringing together the Palestinian movement against Israel. It has a neuralgic feeling of hostility to Morocco on the western side of it. It's almost obsessed with its position in the world. And yet at the same time, it's also somewhat paranoid. And if anything goes wrong, it tends to blame others for its misfortunes that unspecified powers want to destabilize Algeria and do it. Driven by hatred and so forth. So it's a sort of very strange mixture of boastfulness and paranoia. And so where does that leave us in terms of a prediction? Is that to say that things will only become more repressive and more bureaucratic and what have you or is there a hope for reform here? Well, let's talk of reform and there was talk of reform when the new president came in, but most people, I think, feel that it just simply hasn't happened and therefore I would expect if there isn't any reform if there isn't really an improvement in the economy in particularly if the price of oil and gas were to fall, I would guess that eventually the regime
The Economist: The Intelligence
"georgia senate" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"Of his supporters who were all chanting 6 more years. I wrote it. Stand up for workers. Standing up for women. To stand up for our children. I'm ready. To build a stronger Georgia, God bless you. Keep the faith and keep looking up. His opponent Herschel Walker has conceded and I have to say conceded gracefully, which is not something that we can take for granted anymore in American politics. So that was good to see. And how much is it a surprise that mister Warnock one? On the one hand, it's not a surprise in the sense that he was ahead in the polls, but I have to stress that it was only a narrow lead. And the reason we are in this situation with a runoff election was that neither candidate managed to break 50% in the first round of voting. So this was a tight one, and Georgia Jason, it's not quite a purple state. I mean, Republicans did very well statewide in the other elections. So this is quite a peculiar result in some senses, especially given the fact that it's a midterm election and the president's party normally does pretty badly in midterms. And so Raphael Warnock the incumbent had quite a lot of headwinds, yet he's managed to win. And I think that tells you something about the state that Republican Party is in nationally at the moment and also something about Warnock's own qualities as a candidate, which I think had considerable. And I should also say that walker was among the worst Republican candidates at this cycle. You know, this election was a test case for the theory that Donald Trump's endorsement could propel a Republican candidate who wasn't really suited to be a senator to the top of the ticket and that they could then win through partisanship. The partisan reflexes of Republican voters in a state like Georgia and actually we've seen that theory proved wrong in various cases in the midterms already and this is another one. Perhaps the most high profile one. So tell us a bit about mister Warnock and what we can expect from another term. Raphael Warnock is 53 years old, makes him fairly young for a senator. He's got quite an unusual CV for a member of the Senate as well. He has a PhD in philosophy and most remarkably, he is the head pastor at the ebenezer baptist church in Atlanta. That's an extremely famous church. He holds the same position there that was once held by Martin Luther King. So that's a pretty extraordinary CV for a senator. He spoke about Martin Luther King Jr. and about faith in politics at a rally at the Georgia institute of technology a few days ago. Martin Luther King, junior was killed before I was born, but his voice captured by imagination and part of what I was drawn to was the way in which he used his faith. Not as a weapon to crush other people, but as a bridge to bring us together. Because he understood that God is known by many names and worshiped in many houses and I've taken that same spirit with me. I've tried to take that same spirit with me to the United States Senate is my faith that drives me to do this work. In terms of his politics, he's a liberal senator, but I think he's quite independent minded also. He's not somebody who can just be relied upon to vote with the rest of Democrats on everything. He's got a pretty strong interest in veterans affairs, which is a vote winner, and he makes bipartisan noises. So he's pretty moderate Democrat. He's good at talking to religious voters, unsurprisingly. And I think the thing that's perhaps most remarkable about him, Jason just politically, is that because of this strange rule in Georgia, whereby if you don't get 50%, you have to have a runoff. He is now faced four Senate elections in a purple state because he's been in two runoffs. He ran in a special election in 2020, and then there was then a runoff in 2021. So there was two. And now he's had two elections this year. So he's very unusual in the sense that senators are elected and served 6 years terms. Here Warnock has won four times in a purple state in very different political environments. That's the kind of political skill that gets you national attention. So how did he do it? How would you characterize his campaign? Well, I think we probably have to start with his opponent, Herschel Walker, who is beloved by many people in Georgia because of his skills as an American football player. He's very famous in Georgia, but he was completely ill suited to campaigning in such a high profile race. He was a political novice and even though voters quite often give the impression that they want career politicians out of office. It turns out that knowing how to campaign and not say dumb things is important and aside from that, all sorts of things came out about walker's personal life during the race that made him look too close to us in a bit estranged from the truth. So walker was a really poor candidate. But then I think you'd also have to say that Warnock has real political skills. This is a state where statewide Republicans did really well in this cycle. They won all the other races. Stacey Abrams, who's a well-known democratic campaigner, lost her campaign for governor in the same cycle that warlock won for the Senate. So there's something special about him, I think. And mister walnuts win now seals the Democrats outright lead in the Senate. That's right. So up until now, the Senate has been 50 50 with the vice president Kamala Harris casting the deciding votes. 51 votes in the Senate gives Democrats a little bit more breathing room. In practice and legislative terms, that doesn't make a huge amount of difference. The fact that Republicans control the house means that it's going to be extremely difficult for those 51 democratic senators to get what they want. But it does make some difference to the operation of the Senate in the sense that, with 51 votes, democratic senators now control committees, that could be quite important for things like the judiciary committee that vets, Supreme Court nominations. So I would say not a huge difference in terms of legislation, but something of a difference in terms of the way the Senate operates. So make it easier for federal judges to be confirmed and also cabinet members and executive branch officials who need Senate confirmation to get through. And so that makes staffing the administration a bit easier and day to today operation of government a bit smoother. So at last the midterms are over with this results with a bit of distance here, what does it all tell you about the state of American politics? Let's say two things, this particular election tells you something about the state of Georgia, it's not quite a purple state, yet, as I mentioned, Republicans did pretty well statewide, but it's trending purple. And so that changes the map in terms of presidential elections and other elections in the future. But the other thing I'd say, Jason, is that when we last talked about the midterms, which was probably the morning after the election, it takes such a long time to get the fine grained results from these votes. That it's only really now that we're able to look through all the results and run some analysis and see where these elections were really won and lost. And when you look at the numbers, a couple of things stand out, one is that Republicans did incredibly well in House seats that they hold already. So essentially they ran up the score in incredibly safe seats that they were never going to lose. Democrats by contrast did really well in more marginal seats. That tells you that the Republican Party with Donald Trump at its head is an absolute base turnout machine, but is very bad at persuading voters who might be somewhere more in the middle. And actually that's a really bad strategy in American elections. We did some analysis that showed that candidates who Donald Trump had endorsed performed considerably worse than those he hadn't endorsed. I also think it was interesting that Democrats seem to get quite a bit smarter in this election. So they learned something from 2020 when being associated with phrases like defund the police and abolish ice, which is immigrations and customs enforcement really hurt them. And you didn't see candidates using any of those slogans, beloved by the left wing of the Democratic Party. So I think the Democratic Party has taken a slightly more centrist turn. The other thing I'd say is that even in a race like the walker Warnock one, where it seems extremely clear who the strongest candidate is, American politics is just so competitive now. The parties are so evenly divided. That in a race like that that has, I think, the clearest contrast you could possibly have in terms of candidate quality, the result was still very marginal. That tells you something about the enduring strength of partisanship in America. And at the mention, again, of mister Trump, what do you think all of this means for him? Well, I think anyone independent minded looking at the results of the midterms were conclude rightly that Donald Trump is a serious drag on the Republican Party at this point. I've no doubt that senior Republicans in the Senate believe that. And yet, we're still in a situation with the Republican Party that a lot of senior Republicans are loath to pin the blame on him for this poor midterm result because they're still scared that he'll go after them and they feel that they need voters who love him in order to win their primaries. So we're still in this strange situation where Donald Trump looks like a vote loser but still has considerable power over the Republican Party primary electorate. There have been so many opportunities for the Republican Party and Donald Trump to part ways. You might say there's a new one now or maybe two new ones after Herschel Walker's defeat and the Trump organization tax trial verdict, which has just come through where the jury decided that Donald Trump's company had effectively cheated on its tax returns. And yet, Jason, this is a familiar story. You and I have talked about this a lot over the past few years, more times than I wish to count or remember. Elected Republicans have just missed so many opportunities to break up with Donald Trump. And so at
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"georgia senate" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"This. Well, here it is. As an educator, I am constantly worried if I am part of the problem. What do I mean by that? Well, public education is an institution that upholds lots of problematic systems in our society like white supremacy and misogyny and colonization, et cetera. In my role as an educator, I try to undermine that BS in my classroom as much as I possibly can. I teach high school English and whoo. The white supremacy runs deep. What do I mean by that? Well, let's look at how we write essays. Start with an introduction that includes a thesis. Always state your sources. Use transition words like however, and therefore. These are all made up rules, they're arbitrary, they were created by westerners and power. In linguistic justice, April baker bell calls this the language of respectability or the language of power. She got me thinking, what if I started in my school year with a unit honoring how we talk rather than teaching students how to write properly? So this is the start of my series. I'm teaching linguistics in high school. So number one, God help me. God help us. Number two, when you hear the term linguistic justice, you know you're in trouble. And when you first offered up this story, I had a little internal voice in my head saying, what is this teacher going to be? Proclaiming that good grammar is racist. Will it be an African American teacher or a self loathing crazed woke white woman? And I figured it would be B and you did not disappoint. No, because the thinking is inherently racist. The patron, the patronization, and the condescending way that the left treats African Americans and Hispanics and minorities is stunning. I mean, it goes right to the core. Look at what we're having in Georgia. I mean, all the left has been screeching about is voter suppression and blacks shouldn't be forced to provide an ID in order to vote. Of course, there's been record turnout. I'm hoping that the record turned out benefits Herschel, who knows. I mean, you know, I'm trying to use reverse psychology. I want to get to Georgia with you here just a moment, but now I'm projecting a kind of a laissez-faire attitude. Maybe that'll help. But to this point of this teacher, her argument is, you know, a lot of high school kids use terrible grammar. They are probably from a minority community. And so it's white supremacy to try to improve their grammatical skills. Think about that, Mark. Isn't that what you said? Of course it is. And it's poisonous racism. Perfectly to the notion of voter ID, the message from all of these people who supposedly have people of color and their best interests to heart, the message is, the black kids are too stupid to write well. The black folks are too stupid to get dysfunctional to get an ID, which everybody needs to live life. All of this dumbing down of everything ostensibly for people of color, it says you can't do it. It says you, exactly. What a grotesquely racist thing. It's blatantly racist and we see it. We go back to the origins of affirmative action. We're going to lower standards completely. Go to the theater world. I saw a touring production of a show. I'm not going to mention the show. I'm not going to mention the character. But the character is traditionally played by a white actor, and of course now, as Broadway and theater goes, it's now a person of color. They're taking all the phantom of the opera, the Christine die, the ingenue. Now she's almost always cast by a black woman. You've got Broadway productions like Hamilton. You must be a person of color in order to play. White guys, like George Washington and all the rest of them. Anyway, I see this tour in production and the lead is just awful. I mean, just not good, not. And it was a person of color. And do you know that I know for a fact that the production team was very proud of the fact that they went to another country to cast somebody from this was somebody I should say, who hails from another country, but they were very proud of this young person, origins. And they said, probably not the best person for the job, but look at our diversity. Look at what we're doing in the name of diversity. And so they put somebody who's not really and there's tons of actors who white black green who could do a good job, but they said, no, no, no, it's more important. This is a hill they like to die on. They like this idea of saying diversity is way more important than quality or integrity or in this case, the teacher's case, good grammar, or talent. And by when diversity happened, for example, Hamilton is an admittedly great show, right? So if the idea was, let's do story of the founding fathers that with hip hop flavor and everybody's not white. I don't care. Do that show. Everybody must not be white. I mean, the cash requirement is you must be a person of color to play these white historic figures..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"georgia senate" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"People may walk around with ziploc bags of tails. Tails taste to me like I'd rather be fat. No, from the relief factor dot com studios. Here's Mike Gallagher. Senator John Kennedy, the Will Rogers of our time on a tear yesterday. It was hysterical watching him rant at a stumping for Herschel Walker. It's runoff day. In Georgia, get out and vote. I hope the polling places are jammed, good turnout. I think favors Herschel Walker. It's not over and done with. Rafael Warnock win is not a foregone conclusion, but we shall see. Here was senator Kennedy yesterday talking about the woke leftists that are all around us. They walk a much dust like zombies with their 6 masks on. I thought he was going to talk about ziploc bags over their faces to try to prevent COVID. Yo, COVID's coming back, right? You do know this, right? I think it's the triumvirate of COVID, flu and RSV, we're all going to start dropping like flies again and you can see it here in New York. I see the nervous faces, the people on the subways, the people walking around, the people walking down, you should New York is such a wild place. I got to get this off my chest. In all their infinite wisdom, they've decided to take 8th avenue, one of the busiest thoroughfares in Manhattan. And carve out a huge part of the street for pedestrian traffic. Now they used to have bike lanes. That wasn't enough for the woks here in New York. They understand this is a city with a gazillion cars. You got cabs, ubers, commercial vehicles, traffic in New York is a debacle, okay? Always has been. And of course, they always talk about congestion pricey. Let's just tax people to drive through. I got an idea. Why don't you open up the roads a little bit? You know what? No, no, they go the opposite direction. Here's what they did on 8th avenue. They have this huge wide lane for people to walk. But nobody walks out there because they think they're walking in the street. So they're all crammed on the sidewalk. So you got an empty lane of nothing. Meanwhile, the cars are all squeezed together in like two little lanes, honking, backed up, traffic jams. It's insanity. It's the crazy and nobody's using the pedestrian walkway on 8th avenue. I've been here three or four days. I've gone up and down there and I use it because I figure well. I don't want to be around people. Not because I'm a germaphobe. I just don't want to be around people. I don't like people. I want to walk on my own lane. That's what I like about. I like it. It's like the Mike Gallagher lane on 8th avenue. Because nobody else is using it. The bikes can't use it, 'cause they got the bike paths. So here's John Kennedy talking about some of this insanity with the woke crowd and the real smart kids in the room, right? These woke high IQs stupid people. They're easy to recognize. They hate George Washington. They hate Thomas Jefferson. They hate doctor Zeus and the hate mister potato head. These woke heart accused stupid people. They walk around. They walk around with ziploc bags of kale. They're thinking eat to give them energy. Now, if you want to eat kale, that's up to you? I don't eat kale, you know why? Because kale tastes to me like I'd rather be fat. How do you not love that guy? Yes. He's right about kale. Kale's that's such a thing right now. Kale. It is. It's like eating, I'd rather be fat. I would say it's like eating stocky leaves off the tree. It's so nasty and that's the thing. Go to thing, but it tastes like crap. I thought he was going to talk about ziploc bags, wrapped around your face because that's it fascinating the way COVID and reactions to health are right left. I think historians a hundred years a hundred years from now are going to write about people on the left insisting on shutdowns mandates, masks, isolation, people on the right, exercise, freedom, personal responsibility, choices you make about your own health. If you're vulnerable, I mean, I don't judge anybody who's out wearing a mask. But your understanding in LA, for example, they're about to reinstate an indoor mask mandate, going to be mandated to go inside a building. You've got to wear a mask. Here we go again with the mask mandates. We've had this conversation. It feels like we've had this for ten years. And no American should be okay with that. Wear a mask if you want to wear a mask. Don't make somebody else wear a mask. Every time I get on the elevator to come up to this studio here, on Broadway, near Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. I'm mindful of half the people have a mask on, half the people don't. The people with the mask on are very nervous looking. They're looking around. I saw a lady the other day, she got on the elevator, saw there were three people on the elevator without a mask, she got off. And she was tsking. You could hear it under the mask. She was just disgusted. So let me share with you what they do in Germany..
AP News Radio
OnPolitics: Who will Georgia voters pick?
"Voters return to the polls in Georgia's Senate runoff. Rafael Warnock is the first black senator from Georgia, either he or Republican challenger Herschel Walker will have the distinction of winning a full 6 year term. Warnock says Georgia needs people who are impatient. Content with things as they are. Who know that while we live in a great country, we can always make it greater. Warnock is the senior minister of Martin Luther King's Atlanta church, Herschel Walker played football at the university of Georgia, and won the Heisman Trophy. We, together, can make anything happen. We can win a championship. And championships are a teams individual
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Herschel Walker: Raphael Warnock Is With Joe Biden
"The left is getting pretty worried about this race. Herschel, there's a news story up in The New York Times the headline how Herschel Walker could win the Georgia Senate race. So you can't buy into the mainstream media headlines. You've been out there pounding the pavement. And if the good people of Georgia get out and vote on election day, you're going to have a great day on Tuesday. I will. And I want to give people to get out and vote. I think Raphael won as shown who he's for. He's for Joe Biden. He was California and New York. That's the way he's voted. And I think he's shown that he's been a wolf and seat clothing. He tried to hide everything he's done, but you can't hide your record. You voted for this inflation. You voted for crime on the street. You vote for this open border. You voted to put men and women sports. He also voted against religious free liberties. And that's when you get to the point that he's a man out of cough and to vote for a religious liberties. He will wait. What's going on with this guy?
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: California Will Not Be the Only State Paying Reparations
"Hey, Mike. Hey. I just wanted to say that inevitably it won't be just California's pay these reparations. Because California will go bankrupt and then the rest of the country will have to send them all our money. Somebody texted me that they're doing reparations right now in Asheville. Now Asheville is a little bit pretty progressive for the Carolinas. Is that possible? Have you heard that? I have heard that it is in the works. And I'm telling you, I've said this for years, I never thought I'd live to see the day where this could happen, but then again, I thought I'd live to see the day any of this crap is happening in our world. We look around, like the guy shot, I keep thinking about that voicemail caller. It is a wild, crazy movie. They were living through. If the day comes when because this is what it means, non black people have to pay black people for slavery. 1800s stuff.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: Why Can't We Encourage California to Leave the Union?
"Regards to this thing. Why can't we just encourage California to leave the union and just become its own little country? To be your own country. Be your own place be your own little play because can you imagine living there? Yeah. Well, I think I've come to the conclusion of what the problem is. It doesn't California you have a lot of active volcanos. Like no. I don't think they have a lot of confusion with Hawaii. No, I thought there was one that's kind of like, I'm just trying to understand and maybe they're breathing in sulfuric some sort of gas leak. It's got to be something to do with them. Maybe it's the water, maybe it's the air, maybe I don't know. Maybe the smog is they say that smog over there. I feel so sorry for normal people in California. I feel so badly for people who are normal who just see this stuff. I mean, imagine your tax bill. Well, that's the reparations fee because you had to pay a black person $223,200 each. For housing discrimination under the guise of reparations.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Non-Black CA Taxpayers Might Pay $223,200 to Each Black Resident
"You want to know what $569 billion translates to for the 2.5 million black Californians who would get reparations? They would get 223,000 dollars each. $223,000 apiece. And that, of course, would be paid by the taxpayers of California. Who aren't black? You couldn't pay, you couldn't be taxed for the 200 or the 569 billion, right? Because you'd be paying yourself. So it has to be only citizens who are non black. So if you're white, if you're Hispanic, if you're Asian, whatever ethnicity, other than black, you'll pay hundreds of billions of dollars to 2.5 million black Californians.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
California Panel Estimates $569B in Reparations to Black Residents
"They are recommending slavery reparations for black Californians. Now, this task force to 9 member task force called reparations task force, it was, of course, formed by goofy Gavin Newsom. Who very well might be the Democrat nominee for president in 2024. He's who I think is going to be the Democrat nominee. It's not going to be Joe Biden. Joe Biden, we're lucky he didn't fall down the steps and defecating. I mean, you see video of him walking around at the state dinner. I mean, this guy, he is not a youthful 80, okay? Me wheeling him around any day now. So it's going to be Gavin Newsom. The focus, one focus of the California task force has been housing discrimination. So somehow there are millions of Californians who had housing setbacks between 1990 three and 1977. According to The New York Times. Well, California wants to give, are you ready for this? Sit down if you're standing. Because you might fall down the steps and poop your pants. Listen to this. 569 billion dollars. Billion with a B to compensate the 2.5 million black Californians who suffered setbacks from 1933 to 1977.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Medical Crisis Week for Mike Gallagher
"This is like medical crisis week for me. First I go to the dentist earlier in the week. Oh, I got to go to a period. You got two pockets of 6 millimeters. You're going to have to get some kind of surgery. I am not doing that. And then dummy, I go get my regular checkup from my great doctor, and I do have a great doctor. And he starts telling me in the checkup about treating a couple of patients with shingles. He says, if you had looked at my record, he goes, you haven't had a shingles vaccine. I wasn't even sure I knew what shingles is. I guess it's a painful skin thing like chickenpox, and I think it really does hurt. And that's what the doctor told me. He said, you don't want to get shingles. He said, I got to treat a lady just yesterday and she is miserable and so he said, why don't you get a shingles vaccine today? I'm thinking, well, I'm traveling Friday. I'm going to New York for a long weekend, the big Christmas party in Salem, New York, and I'm going to see you a couple shows. I guess I said, are there any side effects? You go, oh, your arm just gets a little sore. Arm gets a little sore. I'm lucky I didn't fall down the steps in defecate. After I got the shot, it hurts. That nurse puts the shot in my arm, I thought, now if I scream like a little kid, will there be concern here in the office? I mean, I know I'm a big baby. I know I'm a bit of a hypochondriac. Then I get home. And I'm minding my own business and I'm putting around the house and I start feeling crappy. Now I don't feel good. I haven't felt good since yesterday. So, and then of course, to add insult to injury, I call my buddy Tom Travis. What are you doing getting a vaccine? What is wrong? What's with you and vaccines? Then it turned into a whole vaccine argument.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Putin Fell Down Stairs, Speculation Over Worsening Health Grows
"Uh oh, got a bad news out of Russia. Vladimir Putin, this is not a good headline. I hope this headline's never written about you or me. Putin fell down stairs and soiled himself. According to news reports, the 70 year old Vladimir Putin suffered the unfortunate fall and his Moscow official residents Wednesday night, the ailing Russian leader allegedly fell down 5 steps before landing on his tailbone, although his security guards immediately rushed to his aid, the impact of the fall called Putin to caused Putin to involuntarily defecate due to cancer affecting his stomach and bowels. According to the telegram channel general SVR, which purports to be run by a former Russian spy. It's the latest health scare for Putin, wow. I mean, that could upend the whole Ukraine crisis. If he's filled with cancer and he's falling down the steps and soiling himself, it ain't good. That's not good.
AP News Radio
Nonprofits strain to support voters in Georgia Senate race
"Georgia's Senate runoff is Tuesday and Democrats are making a final push to get voters to cast their ballots early. I'm Ben Thomas with a look at the campaigning. In Atlanta. I'm back. Former president Barack Obama. I am back. Rallying voters. For my friend. And your outstanding center. Rafael warm up. Friday is the last day of early in person voting in the Senate runoff between Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker. Voters have already cast more than 1.4 million ballots amid an all hands on deck push by Democrats while Republicans, especially walker, have taken a less aggressive approach that could leave the GOP nominee heavily dependent on runoff election day turnout. Senate control is not in play, Democrats have already secured 50 Senate seats and have vice president Kamala Harris tiebreaking vote, but 51 would make their position stronger
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: President Biden Is Destroying Our Country
"Okay, thank you. President Biden is destroying our country. There is we should we can not stand for this. We can not stand for this. He is destroying our country. He is against us, and he's letting in all these immigrants to vote for him the next time he wants to be president. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. He led in all these immigrants, all these crime ridden people that are coming into our country talking in every day and by President Biden has to go
Mike Gallagher Podcast
How You Can Support Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree Campaign
"Hey guys, I want to talk to you about prison fellowship we're in day two of Mike's annual prison fellowship angel tree campaign where your donations will make it possible for boys and girls all over America who have a mom or dad in prison to get to experience the blessing of a personalized message and the gospel through the angel tree program of our friends at the nonprofit, prison fellowship. Incredibly, over one and a half million Americans have a mom or dad that's in prison and some of them ask themselves, does my mommy or daddy still love me? Do they even remember me anymore? It's heartbreaking. But that won't happen in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the local angel tree volunteers know how important their mission is in this year's campaign. It's really devastating for a child to not have their parents around during Christmas time or to know that somebody loved them. 'cause that's really the key. They need to know that somebody loved them. Just having that connection with their parent and sending that message from the incarcerated parent. And to get that on Christmas morning, love dad or love mom is one of the greatest gifts you could ever give a child. So Thanksgiving is this Thursday and then before you can blink Christmas will be here. You can still make an eternal difference in the lives of these children when you support angel tree by going to Mike online dot com, click on the angel tree banner at the top of the page and make a donation.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Mike Rowe: Employment Numbers by Democrats Miss Key Data
"On to say that we've been focusing on the wrong thing. We look at the unemployment numbers and guys, there's a real unemployment number and there's a basically a fake unemployment number, I shouldn't say fake unemployment number, but there's the U three and the U 6. I'm gonna forget everything that in entails right now, but basically the U 6 number, which is the real unemployment number, which is what we used to calculate. It encompasses everything from people that have discouraged workers. People that have lost lost their jobs completely. The discourage workers, like I said, they moved out of just left the job force, got discouraged. Maybe they went to look for another job, but they're temporarily out of the job force. And it would count those people that moved from full-time to part time. So you had three facets there. All right? So the people that just left were completely get discouraged, we're not even counting at this point. I believe that's what they would the categorize these people as. So when the Democrat party tries to pretend as if the unemployment numbers are great. Guys, we are still feeling jobs. We're still feeling jobs that were absolutely an utterly destroyed during the pandemic. And I should say, I was gonna say as a result of the pandemic, but actually as a result of the lockdowns. Because the left totally destroyed this economy. And I believe they did it intentionally. But I think as a result of that, we're seeing manhood being totally destroyed in America.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Mike Rowe: 7 Million Men Are Choosing Not to Work
"And I continue to quote. And I mean, last week, there was an article in The New York Times called something like how to combat the assault on modern work. And I thought it was going to be an article about coal miners or crab fishermen. You know those tough guys, this is me going out of the quote like deadly catch stuff like that. Or you know big tough jobs where the danger is real micro says. It wasn't. It was an article about everything from paper cuts to the non existent pet bereavement policies that are being deemed harsh. And he says, I'm not making this stuff up. And so we are, we're in a place where 7 million able bodied men are not only not working between the ages of 25 and up 7 million able bodied men are not only not working, they're affirmatively not looking for a job. That's never happened in peacetime. He says, ever.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Mike Rowe: Screens Cause Men to Be Soft and Lazy
"Mike Rowe was recently on Tucker Carlson's show. They were at the patriot. I believe it's called the patriot awards yes it is for Fox. And micro was interviewed by Tucker Carlson. And I just want to go through some of the things that Mike rose said to kind of set the tone. And I really do think this is important. And the more that I think about this, there's always when it comes to politics, there's always micro issues. There's symptoms and there's always a greater disease at play. And I think the denigration of manhood in America has become a huge problem. And we're seeing it play out in politics if you, if you just look at it. All right? So Mike Rogan, he was on Tucker Carlson's show. And Tucker Carlson obviously was interviewing him and Mike wrote to Tucker Carlson that the man in this country they're becoming soft and lazy and he says that's in part due to how much time these men are spending on their screens. I want to get into some of the specifics of what Mike rose said, but I think we all can relate to that. Listen, I spend a lot of time on my phone screen. I spend tons of time on my computer screen. I'm not looking to be influenced, though. I'm looking to search for, you know, news stories, headlines, and to be able to do a show like this or to be able to do my own show. To be able to do my podcast, by the way, check out my podcast the Carl Jackson show dot com Salem podcast network dot com or wherever you get your podcasts. And you can follow me on social media. The Carl Jackson show. But here's what Mike Rowe had to say to Tucker Carlson. So he said, so I'm wrong about I'm quoting, obviously, so I'm wrong about as much as I am right. And it's for that reason. I hate to say, I told you so.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Carl Jackson: We Have a Manhood Crisis in America
"This manhood crisis. We see some of the manhood crisis that I think is transpiring with this defense of not the defense of marriage act, this respect for marriage act. I think there's a crisis there. I think we see a crisis when we see more and more men placate to the radical left when it comes to abortion. I think we see a crisis in our woke military as it's as it's turning into a center of diversity, equity and inclusion. Now, listen, I know a lot of recruits go there. They go to fight and win and to defend us, but the leadership is a real problem and we've got to do something about it. I also realize that there's real manhood and real heroes that still exist and they do pop up from time to time. I mean that happens to be the case in the shooting yesterday that occurred or the other day that occurred at club Q, which is the gay nightclub in Colorado Springs and I want to talk about the person ironically that happened to be the guy that ended up saving lives. Others jumped on to the shooter eventually, but there was a guy that happened to be in a club and guys, I'm a Christian. I believe that God works in mysterious ways. It's just unbelievable. It's unbelievable.
CNN Political Briefing
"georgia senate" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"From the abortion clinic. Even his own son is saying walker is lying. A walker campaign spokesperson responded to this new ad by saying, quote, everything points to Herschel having the momentum on his side. Herschel is focused on the issues that Georgians care about, like the economy and crime. That's certainly what Herschel Walker hopes all the Georgians are focused on since those issues are playing well for Republicans. It's also important to note that Herschel Walker has been in several different places on the abortion issue as a policy matter. As recently as August, according to first on CNN reporting by my colleague Dan America, walker had said that he's against any exceptions to a ban on abortion. But during Friday's one and only Georgia Senate debate, walker walked that position back and denied that that was his stance. Listen to this exchange, courtesy of news nation. You've been vocally pro life supporting a ban on abortions without exceptions. Would you support a complete ban on a national level? First of all, that's not true either. I said, I support the heartbeat bill and I say I support the Georgia heartbeat bill because that's the bill of the people from governor Kim. And I said, that has exceptions in it. I said, I'm a Christian, but I'm also representing the people of Georgia. Walker echoed that sentiment in an NBC interview with Kristen Welker. Antoine, I never said I didn't have an inception. I said, I'm for life. But as you know, Herschel Walker has now acknowledged that a check presented to him by NBC News is indeed a $700 check that he wrote. He just claims that none of the allegations are true that Czech was not for an abortion as far as he understood and he's desperately trying to move on. Both walker and Warnock are out on the campaign trail today. Here's how Rafael Warnock responded to my colleague Eva McKenzie questions about this ad and whether or not there's a change in strategy here. I think that the women of the state deserve to know the choice between the two people in front of them and about my commitment. To a woman's right to choose. As you hear, Warnock really wouldn't repeat all the sort of negative character attacks that are in the ad instead he stuck to his own sort of preference to make their difference about the policy issue that's not quite what the ad is doing, but we're not clearly is going to leave that to the airwaves rather than come out of his mouth directly. One of the other biggest Senate races in the country is also getting a lot of attention today, largely because Air Force One is touching down in the state of Pennsylvania. President Joe Biden went to Pittsburgh today, part of what I'm sort of dubbing his, look what we've done door. Trying to really highlight the administration's accomplishments and achievements in these final weeks of the midterm campaign to try to remind voters that he and Democrats in Congress have actually delivered on a lot of their promises. Today's focus was his infrastructure Bill, which of course was bipartisan, as you know, and he hopes it's going to help John fetterman the democratic nominee for Senate there across the finish line. Fetterman was at that official event today with the president he greeted him at the airport when the president arrived in Pennsylvania. In fact, fetterman who you know wears hoodies more than anything else was all dressed up in a suit and tie today, which showed you it was a special day for him in Pennsylvania. Fetterman was then hopping a ride aboard Air Force One across the Commonwealth to Philadelphia, where he will be by the president's side for a campaign fundraiser this evening. We've talked on this podcast that President Biden's approval rating numbers are sort of upside down. He's more unpopular than popular, broadly, and that is true in Pennsylvania as well, but clearly fetterman sees more good than bad in terms of bringing Biden into the state a state that Biden won a state where Biden has been 18 times now in the course of his presidency and will be critical to his reelection chances if he runs again in 2024, fetterman says, hey, this guy will do me more good than bad and it'll help me raise a ton of cash when I need it right here at the end of the race, it is worth his upside down poll numbers to stand by his side. And finally today, I have a feeling we're going to see a lot of these stories over the course of the next 19 days, with all the attention on election integrity and the ongoing support of Donald Trump's election lie that many Republican candidates are still espousing as well as the effort from partisans to increase sort of ballot watchers around people voting to try and avoid shenanigans, some will say to try and intimidate voters. Well, last week, the Maricopa County recorder out in the Phoenix Arizona area told reporters that people had been recording voters dropping off their ballots in mesa, Arizona. And now, the Secretary of State, by the way, she is the democratic nominee for governor in Arizona, Katie Hobbs, has referred a report of voter intimidation to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Arizona attorney general's office. Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Carrie Lake, who, of course, is backed by former president Trump and has so doubt about the 2020 election results commented on this report. I haven't heard anything about it. It just shows you how concerned people are though.
CNN Political Briefing
"georgia senate" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"Here's what you need to know in politics for Thursday, October 20th, the Raphael Warnock campaign goes there. They go up on the air with a tough hitting ad against walker and those abortion allegations, and president Joe Biden hits the campaign trail in a key battleground state. We got a very telling sign of where things stand in that ultra competitive Georgia Senate race. The one that may go on to a December 6th runoff if neither Warnock nor walker gets a 50% plus one, the one that may actually, at the end of the day, be the race that determines control of the United States Senate. And when I say that we got a really good look at the state of play there, it has nothing to do with the new poll out of Georgia. It has to do with a surprising move being made by the war not campaign. Now remember, he's the democratic incumbent senator and one of the most vulnerable democratic incumbents in the country, largely because he comes from a very purple state, if not a tinge red, and Warnock has been really resistant to jump on the last several weeks of stories now of these allegations surrounding Herschel Walker. You know that a woman has alleged that he paid for her to have an abortion and she has alleged that he urged her to have a second abortion, though she actually carried that pregnancy to term and gave birth to walker's son. So CNN has not independently confirmed the woman's allegations. Now, Warnock, the Democrat has always just gone to his pro choice pro abortion rights policy position when this comes up. Instead of sort of going at walker's character or calling walker out for the apparent hypocrisy of urging someone to get an abortion, as the allegation is, when you profess to be pro life. So today, the Warnock campaign launched a television ad that does exactly that that goes right at walker, totally apart from the way Warnock has been handling this, which indicates those stories have not sort of put walker's candidacy at bay. In fact, it indicates that Warnock needs a little bit of that negative firepower to try to still drive up walkers unfavorables. Listen to the app. For you, Herschel Walker wants to ban abortion. There's no exception in my mind 'cause I believe in life. There's not a measure ban on abortion right now. And I think that's a problem. The four himself. Personal walker. Paid for an abortion for his then girlfriend. She's supported her claims with a $575 receipt
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"georgia senate" Discussed on Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
"Bound and determined to eliminate the electoral college or render. It irrelevant now from a purely partisan perspective. Republican presidential candidates have won the national popular vote only once in the last thirty two years. They have therefore depended on the electoral college for nearly all presidential victories in the last generation. So if we perpetuate the notion that congress may disregard certified electoral votes based solely on its own assessment that one or more states mishandled the presidential election. Well wouldn't that be de legitimizing. The very system that led donald trump to victory in twenty sixteen and one that could provide the only path to victory in two thousand twenty four. There's one and only one path to victory for president trump today and that depends on state legislatures certifying trump electors in the states that issues pursuant to state law and yes the constitution and based on a finding that votes lawfully cast in november were sufficient to produce a trump victory if they believe there was fraud and if they believe that such fraud affected the outcome of the election day must as a body convene immediately and send us that information rota. Ken bach along with his colleagues in the statement along with certified electoral votes cast by a trump slate of electors. Absent such action. There is not a constitutional role for congress to change the outcome of any state's boats. So let's break it down because the text of the constitution is pretty abundantly clear states of select electors. Congress does not. Congress must respect the state's authority here though doing so may frustrate particularly Republicans and their immediate political objectives. Congress members of congress have sworn an oath to promote the constitution above policy goals and those accounts. Those electoral votes as submitted by the states must be counted as they are submitted. I dunno. is this a case of. Be careful what you wish for you. Tell me nine seven three five three thirteen ten six forty nine now thirteen ten. Kfi k code now weekdays at four northern colorado's voice. Thirteen ten kfi k. unc. Bears basketball can be heard on northern colorado's voice thirteen ten kfi k..
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"georgia senate" Discussed on Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
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"georgia senate" Discussed on Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
"America's confidence in our electoral system of free and fair election. System is one of the fundamental building blocks of our republic as a member of congress. I took an oath to uphold the constitution and the rule of law press release alleges that some state election officials and state courts bypassed the constitutionally vested authority of their state legislatures to make fundamental changes to election law. But it begs the question. Does congress have any play here. Tell you what we're going to get into that in just a few six fifteen now thirteen ten. Kfi a thirteen ten kfi. Gay dot com nuggets. Basketball is back. The latest stories surrounding the mile high crew by listening to the whole show a northern colorado's voice thirteen ten kfi kfi future of the republican controlled. Senate very much in question as got most media outlets projecting a democrat. Ron wore knock. As one one of georgia's to senate race offs. Meanwhile the race between now purdue and at this point in time still too close to call. We'll keep an eye on this morning for you. Six twenty two now thirteen ten. Kfi k a thirteen ten kfi k. A. dot com northern colorado's voice mornings with gail from the auto collision specialists studios but Well that's not the only game in town. The says congress convenes today to certify those electoral college results. And you've got well a hundred or so congress critters saying oh hell no. We are going to dispute these results. But what does the constitution have to say about this today. What i did reach out to rob nagelsen constitutional scholar with the independence institute. Unfortunately well he's a little bit busy this morning but we will catch up with him either to tomorrow or on friday but what does the constitution have to say about those in congress this group of over a hundred congress members that want to contest the electoral college count and certification. Well remember this the constitution. That's complete authority to set state election laws and procedures only only in state legislatures which by the way and it readily appears that this happened in pennsylvania at the very least state legislatures may change those laws and procedures at will seemingly on a whim without even needing a governor's signature. Now again. i go to this piece by scott weiser in complete colorado on page to talking about the fact that doug lambourn has committed to objecting to the certification of the electoral votes in a press. Release he points out and rightly so that in the last twenty years. Democrats have a tempted to trigger the disputed elections provisions of the us code every single time. A republican has won the presidency the presidency. There's nothing new to see here and unfortunately it seems as though not to lapse into cliche..
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"georgia senate" Discussed on Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
"Well isn't this. Just georgia on all of our minds this morning as senate control seems to be on the brink of slipping out of the republicans grasp six. Oh seven now. Thirteen ten k of k a thirteen ten. Kfi k dot com northern colorado's voice mornings with gail from the auto collision specialist studios potentially giving the democrats well the trifecta complete control of the government. Something that the founders feared mightily. Yes this as a democrat. Rafael warnock has been widely projected as the winner of one of the senate runoff elections in georgia becoming the first black senator in his state's history and putting of course the senate majority within the parties reach now at last check. Here are the tallies you've got worn out. With fifty point six percents lafler at forty nine point four percent. Meanwhile and the off of the purdue race still too close to call us up at fifty point two percent purdue coming again at forty nine point eight percent but yes a pastor who's spent the last fifteen years leading the atlanta church where martin luther king junior preached wore knock apparently has defeated republican incumbent. A kelly leffler now the focus now shifts to that second race for between purdue and democrat jon ossoff and again that contest is still too early to call as votes. Were still being counted. Still some mail in ballots in person early votes left to be counted statewide. The majority of which not good news for the republicans are in democrat leaning counties. Now remember this under georgia law. A trailing candidate can request a recount when the margin of an election is less than or equal to a half percentage point. And of course as. You're well aware if asif wins. Democrats will indeed have complete control of congress and everything that that entails were not acknowledged his victory in a message to supporters Early this morning law flir for her part refused to concede brief message to support a shortly after midnight. She said we've got some work to do here. This is a game of inches. I'll tell you what it was a knife's edge race. If you were watching the results come in last night. I mean they were separated by tenths of a point throughout the entire evening and one thing that i found rather interesting. And maybe you can help me out on this this morning. Wiser heads prevail. But if you were watching the returns coming out of georgia. Last night. I started watching at when one percent of the vote was tallied down that way but i'm watching as the numbers are going up from one to fifteen to twenty three to forty to fifty seven and on up seventy eight eighty percent. Did you notice that in both races. The numbers were exactly the same in any given point in time. And i kept waiting for all the self styled election. Experts to say hung. Isn't this interesting when you look at the numbers. They're both at fifty. Forty eight or fifty to forty nine to anybody else. Pick up on that. Or am i just making a mountain out of a molehill. Nine seven zero three five three.
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"To victory. The november election suggests that no. He really can't start with the senate which crashed were favored twin instead. They have a forty eight seats so they need to sweep both senate runoff elections to get a fifty fifty time which kamala harris with then cast the deciding vote. And i don't think there's any question that we know how she would vote. Democrats fared even worse in the house. Though expectations were that the democrats would pick up seats. Republican victories that narrowed nancy pelosi's democratic majority to eleven votes from a thirty seven. She did win by airy teeny tiny. Close mar that gavel as speaker of the house once again but now all of this is being re fight in georgia. November offers very little evidence of a biden of fact in georgia. So let's work through the math. Because i think that readily makes the case for the proverbial biden coat-tails problem take mr saw who garnered eighty eight thousand fewer votes than mr perdue did in november roughly one hundred thousand georgians. Who pulled the lever for joe biden failed to do so for mr ossoff mr warnock who is challenging misled player and it up more than eight hundred thousand of mr biden but most pundits agree and again. How many times have we have the discussions about whether you can take the polls with a grain of salt a pillar of salt or if you just categorically ignore those polling numbers but there seems to be Some pretty unified agreement that this is going to be a very close race. Almost all the pulse almost all of them are within the margin of error and they go back and forth latest polling numbers. I've seen have shown these two runoff elections effectively had a dead heat and it boggles my mind that each democrat is holding a slight lead and meanwhile democrats have been very very very busy registering new voters and successfully getting them out to vote overriding overwhelming importance for democrats to turn out african american voters. They account for about a third of the state's registered voters. Now navy the democrats are looking to come. La harris and barack obama to get the job done and of course as expected you had Ms harris blasting mr trump for his weekend call to mr rathbun's burger asking him to quote find the eleven thousand seven hundred eighty votes. He needs to overturn georgia's presidential election results but the stakes are very very high. And will joe biden president-elect any difference in these runoff elections whatsoever remains to be seen six fifty eight thirteen ten. Kfi k y all sports story in northern colorado the state in the country tune into the whole show weekdays noon to two and thirteen ten kfi k. Nuggets basketball is by the latest story surrounding the mile high crew by listening to the whole show a northern colorado's voice thirteen ten. Kfi six fifty nine. How thirteen ten thirteen ten. Kfi k dot com from northern colorado's voice mornings with gail from the auto collision specialist studios..
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"Jordan runoff elections of big test of fort. Joe biden has because begs. The question can carry democrats other than himself. It's victory six fifty one now. Thirteen ten kfi k. Thirteen ten kfi k. A. dot com northern colorado's voice mornings with gail from the auto collision specialists studios. So we're going to learn a number of things. Well we learned today. Well do results tallied. Are we looking forward. We're actually resisting. Once again. the fact that this could be a very very contested the election. When will we actually know the results. But eventually we're going to learn two things from these georgia senate runoffs one is whether donald trump can rally the troops numbers sufficient to put republican senators. Kenny excuse me kelly leffler and david perdue over the top. And the other is whether joe biden has any coattails rights william mcgurn in the wall street journal thus far attention on georgia has been focused on president trump. Not only did he lose the state that has gone for a democratic presidential candidate since bill clinton in nineteen ninety two and yes i understand to. There are some questions as to whether he indeed lost the state or not. But fortunately i believe that we should ask those questions about the efficiency of our election system. Is it working. is it fair. yes every league. Gold vote should be counted but unfortunately despite all the lawsuits that we have seen that come to well it boils down to a very simple paradigm. It's not what you know. It's what you can prove. And so far well Those claims of nasa election fraud had not been proven but president. Trump's now made himself the main issue and these senate runoffs in the outcome. Of course as i mentioned earlier the stakes are very high because it will determine whether the biden or is it. The harris. joe biden. Jeffrey furred to come. La harris as president elect harris had believed that was last week or so but nonetheless regardless of what whose agenda it is radical agenda and the outcome of this election will determine whether this genda will be rubber-stamped through democratic congress or be blocked by a republican senate but can joe biden carry democrats other than himself.
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"And states that are truly so high as we await the outcome of these georgia runoff elections. In seventeen ninety one you had madison and jefferson joining forces informing. What would become the democratic republican party. That by the way was the forerunner of today's democrat party largely in response to hamilton's programs including the federal government's assumption states debt and the establishment of the national banking system by the mid seventeen ninety s jefferson and hamilton both quit washington's cabinet meanwhile the democratic republicans and federalists. Well they spent most of the first president second term bitterly attacking each other in competing newspapers over their opinions of his administration's policy. Everything old is new again. When washington stepped aside as president seventeen ninety six heat memorably warned in his farewell address of the divisive influence a factions on the workings of democracy. Here's what he said. The common and continual mischief tes of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. Think about that. Think about the inherent wisdom in those words reminding our congress critters that they worked for us and not the other way around. Randall says of washington he had stayed on for a second term only to keep these two parties from warring with each other. He was afraid of what he called this. Union that if the parties flourished and they kept fighting each other that the union would break up any parallels here by that time however well the damage had already been done after the highly contentious election of seventeen ninety six this is when john. Adams narrowly defeated jefferson. The new president move to squash opposition by making it a federal crime to criticized the president or his administration's policies. Why is this resonating. So strongly in twenty twenty. One jefferson struck back in spades after toppling the unpopular atoms for years later when the democratic republicans won control of both congress and the presidency. Randall explains he fired. Half of all federal employees top half. He kept only the clerks and the customs agents destroying the federal party and making it impossible to rebuild history not often repeated while the federalists would never win another presidential election and disappeared for good after the war of eighteen twelve. Two party system revived itself with the rise of andrew jackson's democratic party by the eighteen thirties and firmly solidified in the eighteen fifties this after the founding of the republican party and though the parties identities and regional identifications which shipped greatly.
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"The framers of the new constitution desperately wanted to avoid the divisions that had ripped england apart in the bloody civil wars of the seventeenth century. Many of them saw parties or factions as our founders called them as corrupt relics of the british system. They wanted to discard in favor of ruili democratic government. Willard sterne. randall. Is professor emeritus of history at champlin college. A biographer of six of the founding fathers. He said it wasn't that they didn't think of parties. Just the idea of a party brought back bitter memories to some of them george. Washington's family for example had fled england precisely to avoid the civil wars there while alexander hamilton once called political parties the most fatal disease of popular governments james madison who worked with hamilton. To defend the new constitution to the public in the federalist papers wrote in federalist ten that one of the functions of a quote well constructed union close quote should be quote its tendency to break and control the violence of faction close quote but thomas jefferson who was serving as a diplomat in france during the constitutional convention believed. It was a mistake not to provide for different. Political parties in the new government men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties he would write in eighteen. Twenty four in fact when washington ran unopposed to win the first presidential election in the nation's history this back in seventeen eighty nine. He chose jefferson for his cabinet so it would be inclusive of differing political viewpoints. Till that's the con- cancel culture. These days randall. Says i think he had been warned if he didn't have jefferson on it than jefferson might oppose his government with jefferson secretary of state. Hamilton treasury secretary two competing visions for america developed into the nation's first to political parties supporters of hamilton's vision of a strong central government many of whom were northern businessmen bankers and merchants who lean toward england. When it came to foreign affairs they would become known as the federals jefferson on the other hand favored limited federal government and keeping power in state and local hands. His supporters tended to be small farmers artisans southern planters. Who traded with the french. And we're sympathetic to france though. It cited with hamilton in their defense of the constitution. Madison strongly opposed hamilton's ambitious financial programs. Which he saw as concentrating too much power in the hands of the federal government. That's forward.
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"The chassis. Now dot com coaches poll and a packard. But this kind of interesting this has chasa has just issued. This mandate that When the basketball season does get underway. Well players will be required to wear mass at all times including while they're on the court playing your thoughts on that morning nine seven zero three five three thirteen ten. All tall is on georgia as a polls are now open in the peach state and new york post to crack me up with their headline this morning calling at war and peach why it matters stakes are pretty darn high and i expect you to take my word for it but you might wanna listen to the founders who feared that political parties would tear this nation apart Their prescient predictions in a nation so wonderfully divided begging the question. Are they coming to pass. Yeah details coming up in just a few six thirty one now ten. Kfi k. party northern colorado's for thirteen ten kfi k. The block party wednesdays from four ten pm but with your favorite high school basketball teams with perhaps radio and northern colorado's voice thirteen ten. Kfi the senate showdown in georgia. All eyes on georgia as the new york post trump this morning from page war and peach nation holds its breath as george runoffs. Decide are very future. They lapsing into her personally. I think not six thirty eight now. Thirteen ten kfi thirteen ten kfi k. A. dot com northern colorado's voice mornings with gail from the auto collision specialist studios. It's pretty much impossible to overstate the stakes. In georgia's runoff election were voting actually finishes up today. Republicans absolutely need to win at least one of those races to keep control of the senate and serve as a vital check on a democratic party. That's careening to the far left because well democrats running the senate as well as the house and the white house would pretty much spelled disaster for an america so desperately struggling to bounce back from the pandemic see. Democratic senate would spell the end of president. Trump's tax cuts which lowered tax bills for most americans. Despite all the oh. It's all about the rich caterwauling. You're hearing from the far left. Southern border would undoubtedly be inundated regulation business. Killing regulation would increase and a job. Killing green new deal becomes a real possibility. Oh yeah and then there are the issues up court packing and making predator Rico and dc's states well socialized medicine and ongoing efforts to put an end to the electoral college. Founding fathers not a fan of one party government. be it left or right but they also viewed political parties in the eye of themselves as a necessary evil about a little history lesson here because it seems impossible. Doesn't it to imagine. Our government is functional away to imagine our government without its two leading political parties. Democrats republicans but way back when in seventeen eighty seven when delegates to the constitutional convention gathered in philadelphia to hash out the foundations of their new government..
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"Twenty twenty two march twenty twenty two even with the team's recent slide. The broncos ninety six seventy three overall record since started the elway executive error and in two thousand eleven. It's the eighth best in the league. And only new england has been two more super bowls than denver's to in the past two seasons so leave it to you armchair quarterbacks extraordinaire you tell me broncos country. Was this a painful though necessary. Step to take who should replace john. Elway hose are awfully big shoes to fill and should vic fangio be the next to go or more should vic fangio get a pass on this season on an nfl. Season turned upside down by covid. Nineteen you tell me this morning. Nine seventy three five three thirteen ten six twenty nine thirteen ten k. k. Here mornings with gail weekdays. Six to nine and.