Episode 4718: Crying Comey; Ending Mail in Ballots; Cleaning Of The Deep State
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Summary
The War Room hosts Natalie Winters and Stephen K. Vance discuss President Trump's call for an end to automatic vote-by-mail voting in federal elections, and Scott Pressler, an advocate for election integrity, joins the show.
Transcript
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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You've just not got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Here in the War Room, it's Natalie Winters hosting today, Tuesday, August 19th,
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There are so many layers, I think, where the Trump administration is engaging
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in full-spectrum dominance, D.C. public safety here being one of them.
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Obviously, everything that transpired yesterday with the European leaders,
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everything we got going on on the China front, the border front.
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But I think President Trump opening up yet another theater of very important war
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on the election front, or as we call it here in the War Room, ballot warfare.
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If we want to toss that true social post up on screen,
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we can see President Trump declaring that he wants to essentially end mail-in ballot usage.
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I think we definitely stand by that, and some nice euphemistic adjectives
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describing some of these wonky voting machines trying to make a voting system
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that is actually deserving of this great country that we live in,
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not third world or maybe even fourth world banana republic vibes.
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I wanted to bring on probably one of the strongest advocates of all things,
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all things taking agency into your own hands when it comes to the security
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and sanctity of elections, and that is none other than Scott Pressler,
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who this is actually very fun to have you on, Scott.
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You are actually, as we speak, I think, registering voters.
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You're out and about in New Jersey, so maybe we'll have some people come and stop you.
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But before we get into what you've been doing on the ground game perspective,
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I'm curious your thoughts on just sort of the cursory plan that President Trump laid out
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with regard to ridding mail-in ballots from our elections.
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Thank you. Well, it's good to be back here on The War Room.
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You know, I'll tell you, on behalf of the millions of people that follow me,
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I can tell you that among peace and the economy and securing the border,
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election integrity is one of the most important issues that the Trump voter base cares about.
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And we want to make sure, especially going into this November in the midterm elections,
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that every American can know that their vote is going to be legal, lawful,
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And so it's a lot to unpack with President Trump's plan.
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If anything, I would probably surmise what it means, Natalie,
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is that President Trump may declare a national security emergency when it comes to election integrity.
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And therefore, he will then be able to issue executive orders at the federal level
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in order to provide for layers of election integrity.
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Now, when it comes to mail-in voting, what I believe is probably going to happen
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is when it comes to federal elections, the president will probably make sure
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And what I mean by that is states like Oregon, California, Washington, even Utah, Hawaii,
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you have these states that every registered voter, California, receives a mail-in ballot
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whether or not that person has requested one, which is totally different than absentee voting
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or for our military, for example, or for the elderly,
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or for people that aren't going to be able to vote on election day.
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And so I believe that there are probably still going to be some ways that people can legally
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but President Trump will be curtailing the automatic vote by mail.
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And I do want to give a brief shout-out to Ben Edel in Oregon,
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who is working right now to collect signatures to end automatic vote by mail in the state of Oregon.
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And that's probably what I see happening, Natalie.
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I'm curious about this national security emergency that you brought up.
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I'm sure Media Matters and all of MSNBC or whatever their new network name is.
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They're probably in meltdown hearing those terms put together.
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Or why do you think that that would be the path forward that the Trump administration would choose?
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a pathway to quickly having some sort of reconciliation or a remedy,
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would be declaring national security emergency in regards to election security.
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If I were in the executive, that's how I would immediately be able to spur progress when it comes to election security.
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Well, President Trump's House, the Republican House, has already passed a SAVE Act.
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And we know that Fetterman and a lot of these senators aren't going to come to the table.
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And it's already really difficult for us to get 53 Republican senators to coalesce,
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notwithstanding getting seven Democrats to come across the aisle and actually vote for election security,
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which, by the way, is probably going to detrimentally impact their ability to win their elections.
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And so, therefore, we have to look at a Plan B option.
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That's why we're looking at citizen-initiated petitions in states like California, Oregon, and Washington.
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And in my opinion, a Plan C and something that we can do imminently
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without having to collect millions of signatures would be an EO from the President of the United States.
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And sort of linking this to what you were talking about,
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how it seems like a lot of these issues, they start out with good intentions,
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oftentimes a very nice, you know, bombastic, true social post.
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But oftentimes from within the tent, not even from the Democrats,
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but you can see them try to co-opt these issues and go soft.
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What would your advice to the White House be in terms of, you know,
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who you think should be helping guide them, providing input, people like yourself,
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Obviously, this is an existential crisis, and I use that not in the way the left does to describe climate change.
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But what would your sort of suggestion be, if you were advising the White House, of course,
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hypothetically on this issue, as to the type of people that they should be really talking to,
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Well, I'd like to take a little bit of a more stern tone.
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I know probably some White House individuals, I know they do, watch Stephen K. Bannon's War Room with you, Natalie.
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If we don't peacefully fight fire with a flamethrower and make sure that we are enacting every level of election security
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and making sure that we have the candidates in order to win the midterm elections in 2026,
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Trump already knows that history may repeat itself.
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And what I mean by that is we lost the House of Representatives in 2018.
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If we do not maintain control of the House of Representatives in 2026 and they take over in 2027,
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We're not going to have funding to secure our border.
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And President Trump, for the remainder of his presidency,
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he will have only served out of eight years, four years of legislative success.
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And the Democrats will have successfully taken four years from him.
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You redraw Texas and Florida and Indiana and every state that you possibly can,
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because if the Democrats are going to do it, and they have in Massachusetts and Maine and Vermont
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and New Hampshire and California, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut,
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every tool that the Democrats have done for the last 50 years, dare I say 100 years,
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And Scott, if you can still hear me, I know we're coming in live from,
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I think one of the reasons that people appreciate you so much, Scott,
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sorry we're having some connection issues, but I think we can hear you now,
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I think you are the action, action, action ethos that we preach here.
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In the war room, you know, speaking about our congressional Republicans,
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unless it has to do with jamming more funding through for Ukraine or Israel
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or, you know, any foreign country or any foreign border,
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do you think that they actually have, like, my point essentially being that
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it's up to President Trump, right, to take this into his hands,
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because he doesn't necessarily have backup on this issue from anyone in Congress.
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Do you think that we have the ability to do this?
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Or how can the posse make sure we push it across the line?
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And so what the posse needs to do is, especially in states like Texas,
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you need to have everybody call your state representatives
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and your state senators and let them know that you support
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the redrawing of the maps at the state level in Texas,
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in Florida, in Indiana, and in every state, quite frankly.
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is especially that we won the popular vote together.
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The posse helped deliver the popular vote for President Trump.
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that the majority of the country stands with the president and his agenda.
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and we must let them know that we support the redrawing of the maps
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in order to make sure that we have success in the midterm elections.
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And Scott, just take a few minutes and walk through, you know,
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where you are, what it exactly is that you're doing,
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and maybe more broadly, your sort of take on where we stand
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just from the people that you've been interacting with going into the midterms.
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we have a Republican tent here at the Grange Fair in Center County, Pennsylvania.
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where all of our students and all of our teachers are for the, by and large, and PA.
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We're continuing to make sure that we're setting up the infrastructure for 2026.
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And so to anybody in Pennsylvania, please share me clearly.
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We have three Democrats, Supreme Court justices that locked you down during COVID,
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that stole the 2020 election, and that gerrymandered maps in 2018.
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I need you in Pennsylvania to vote no to retention to Justice Daugherty,
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And I have 25 full-time staff on the ground in Pennsylvania.
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Natalie, we have 14 full-time staff on the ground in New Jersey.
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to become the next governor of the Garden State.
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The election in Pennsylvania and the election in New Jersey is on Tuesday.
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If every Trump supporter that voted last year votes this year,
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you will deliver a red Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
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and you will deliver a new Republican governor, Jack Cittarelli,
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and drive down property taxes, not raise them with Democrats,
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Scott Pressler, sir, we are very lucky to have you.
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support you, stay up to date with everything you've got going on,
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maybe even come and knock doors, canvas, meet with people,
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Well, number one, Posse, thank you for having Stephen K. Bannon's back,
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You can support our work by going to earlyvoteaction.com,
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All of my social media is at Scott Pressler, S-C-O-T-T-P-R-E-S-1-S-L-E-R,
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and I would love to knock on doors personally with you.
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I would love to register voters personally with you,
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Scott Pressler, love to see actual patriots out in the field,
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