Episode 124 – Paths to 270 Remain Open For Trump and Biden. Is The Era of Speaker Pelosi Almost Over？ Lil Wayne Chooses Trump Over Girlfriend. French Bulldog Wins Mayoral Race in KY.
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Votes are still being counted, and it appears both candidates still have a path to victory. But is there still enough votes to flip an election? And is there a possibility of election fraud? And will the media be able to count them all?
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news boat counting still
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happening and it appears both candidates still have a path to victory right now it looks like
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the president is closing the gap in arizona each ballot drop resulting in a reduction in the biden
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lead in that state now it's down to about 60 000 votes with more than 400 000 votes left to be cast
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and in the last two tranches the president has done what he's needed to do getting 57 to 59 percent
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of that vote in the state of georgia we see that the number of ballots remaining to be counted doesn't
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appear to be sufficient to allow joe biden to take a lead it's it's going to be very close in
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both arizona and georgia maybe five ten thousand votes either way could decide it and lord knows
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what's going on in pennsylvania there it looks like they are continuing to have a large number of
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ballots left to be counted the president won the election day vote overwhelmingly you'll remember
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from prior episodes of the podcast this is exactly what i said would happen no one really believed
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that donald trump wouldn't win the election day vote he did overwhelmingly and then there is now this
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period of uncertainty from the tuesday election until now on thursday where we really have a media
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narrative that is controlling more than maybe the votes themselves ap and fox news calling arizona
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obviously prematurely it's obviously premature just based on the ballots we see coming in and what
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i thought was particularly noteworthy was yesterday brett bayer was pressing someone from
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the fox decision desk about these outstanding votes left to be counted in arizona and the fox
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decision desk said well we're not worried about those because donald trump's only going to get about
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45 percent of that vote the reality is he's getting a lot more of that vote particularly in the early
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tranches now i've seen some reporting from arizona sources saying that as more and more of those
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ballots are counted they're going to be more people in those pools that do not have major party affiliation
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so they've been pretty republican to date but there are several uh of those batches of ballots that have
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a large number of no major party voters now i don't think that necessarily means they're not voting
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for donald trump remember this is arizona i think a lot of those voters are a bit older a bit whiter
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they've moved from other parts of the country to arizona for climate and tax reasons for low cost
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of living and those might be just the type of voters who would break at the end toward president
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trump so i'm not saying he won arizona i'm not saying he didn't i'm saying that the call was way too
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early and more importantly the assumptions baked into that call regarding the percentage of the
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outstanding vote just was wrong it just wasn't accurate and there hasn't been a reckoning for
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that for fox news yet i don't think it's a good sign for fox news to have people draped in trump
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flags chanting fox news sucks i think that erodes the confidence that exists between this the major
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news network in our country and the people who turn to that channel for news and commentary it does
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appear to be a strained relationship at the moment i also want to make mention of the decision
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to count these mail-in ballots after the election and i know in different places different you know
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the legislature might have made that call or a governor or a state elections official might have
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made that call here's how we do it in florida first we count all the ballots that were in before
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election day and in fact that count happens before election day and then on election day you find out
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the election day vote and that's why we were able to get a result out of the state of florida in a
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pretty timely and orderly fashion the reason we do that is because you're always able to ascertain
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the universe of total ballots you see when you do election day first and then you spend days or
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weeks or however long counting the mail-in ballot it becomes harder to ascertain well how many ballots
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really are there out there and the concern is you don't want a situation where people just want to
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obtain the requisite number of ballots necessary to flip an election in the event of fraud i'm not saying
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that's the case but i am a bit confused when i see reporting that 28 000 ballots in philadelphia
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county pennsylvania were on a pallet and all of them were for joe biden literally 100 percent of
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them not one out of those 28 000 in this particular pool went for donald trump or similar reports in
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michigan where there was a pallet of over 120 000 ballots all of them for joe biden it almost makes you
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wonder whether or not that's the consequence of actual humans voting their ballots or whether that's
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a consequence of some machine that harvested ballots without the person's actual vote being
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manifested through that ballot so again i i not saying that this is explicit evidence of fraud i'm
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saying it's very fishy and you can cure that you can bring greater confidence to the process if you
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get those legitimately cast mail-in ballots counted before the election that's what we do in florida
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it might be a better model for the nation than what we're going through now
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in the house of representatives right now nancy pelosi is dealing with quite the consternation among
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her membership house democrats believed that they would actually grow their majority in this election
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believing the pollsters and pundits who were all projecting this biden blowout this blue wave 2.0
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the reality is that did not come to fruition many of the polling entities now have a good amount of egg on
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their face and also the number of democrats is shrinking in the house of representatives not growing
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republicans may be picking up seven seats i know there's still some sorting out of some ballots out
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in california where there's still some competitive seats but certainly the republican majority growing
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growing through the addition of additional conservative women veterans minorities and there will be some in
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the democratic caucus who say this is a consequence of going too far left there will be some who say that
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it's the consequence of not going left enough and they'll have that little battle here's my hot take
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elections are about the quality of the candidates and i'll give pelosi and the democrats credit in 2018
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they recruited an excellent slate of candidates and beat a lot of republicans but i think in this
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particular election our candidates were better we had folks from really a wide array of professional
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and personal experiences and we brought it to them in florida we flipped two seats down in miami-dade
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county there no doubt the democrat embrace of socialism uh really cut against them in miami-dade county
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not just for cuban americans but for venezuelan americans el salvadorian americans uh nicaraguans you know a lot
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of south america has been decimated by socialism and far left-wing politics and so for the democrats to embrace that
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it really drove away a lot of hispanics that might have been unique to florida i don't know that they lost hispanic support
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to the same degree in arizona but i guess when you look at texas you know there uh there were a lot of hispanics that
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came the president's way so maybe not constrained to florida and and ultimately we'll see how the final
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result shakes out in arizona i do know one thing there is an arizona scottsdale area seat currently
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held by congressman david schweikert on election night that appeared to show schweikert behind but
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now that we've had these additional votes coming in from arizona he's retaken the lead so it may be an
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even better day for republicans in the final tabulation uh when we look at our control over
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portions of the membership and if nancy pelosi is nursing you know a majority that's in the single
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digits low low double digits that becomes a governance problem for her it may become a problem for her
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election as speaker they may have to have a different candidate that's that's less divisive even within
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their own caucus but i've learned this after four years in washington i don't bet against nancy pelosi
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because she is a ruthless political operative highly highly effective at managing her fellow democrats
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and she rules them with an iron fist so we'll see if she's able to maintain power
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but they were not able to maintain the same number of congressional seats
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the hills justine coleman has a story that we all may need right now
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french bulldog wilbur beast wins mayoral race in kentucky and the photo they have we'll tweet it out
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shows the french bulldog in quite the mayoral pose the french bulldog prevailed over a rescue pit bull
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he got 13 143 votes a total of 22 985 votes were cast in rabbit hash kentucky
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in rabbit hash they've had dogs as mayors since the 90s they serve as ambassadors for the town
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and each vote apparently comes with a dollar toward the animal politician of their choice i guess and so
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the uh runner-up and third place winner were beagle jack rabbit and golden retriever poppy they will
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serve as ambassadors for rabbit hash kentucky a spokesperson for the mayor elect wilbur beast
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was his human amy nolad she thanked supporters for the win congratulations to the new mayor
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six counties in virginia vote to keep confederate monuments the story comes to us from justthenews.com's
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sophie mann and in these six rural virginia counties there were non-binding resolutions and
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you often saw approval rating for the monuments exceeding 70 percent in 2020 a virginia house bill
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removed language from state law that made it illegal for local authorities to disturb or interfere with
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monuments and memorials the past ballot measures require local authorities to present residents with
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30 day notice for public hearings in which officials vote on removing monuments but it is interesting
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to see that in the circumstances where this question was put before the voters there wasn't really this
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desire to virtue signal or erase history and it's long been my view that we shouldn't be tearing down
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our monuments or our history even in the case of confederate monuments if anything we should add to them
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provide richer context deeper understanding of the social circumstances and events of the moments
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and recognize that as tragic and awful as the civil war was we have come back from it we have stitched this
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great nation back together and we are moving forward with a great sense of determination and prosperity
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foxy knoxy getting into it with piers morgan on social media folks may remember amanda knox the american
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student who went to study abroad in italy her roommate meredith kircher was brutally murdered
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in the residence that they shared amanda knox was not at the residence she was off with her boyfriend
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raffaele selecito at the time the italian authorities arrest amanda knox try her for murder convict her
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she is then released based on an appeal that showed that the forensic evidence was not well maintained she
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returns to the united states they then overturn that appeal but of course she does not return to italy
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i studied the facts pretty closely as this was going on my belief was that amanda knox
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was not guilty of this crime that in fact rudy gaday who was fleeing was apprehended was directly linked to the crime
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scene was in fact the perpetrator of this and amanda knox tweets out during this election period of uncertainty
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no matter how bad the next four years may be it will not be worse than my four-year study abroad in italy
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again a good amount of that she spent behind bars piers morgan lashes out back at amanda knox saying that
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she should not utilize humor that there was tragedy here associated with this young woman who was murdered
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amanda knox then says that she is not in any way utilizing humor in relation to the trauma others felt
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but she feels entitled to joke about her own incarceration and to deal with her trauma in that
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way here's my hot take if another country falsely imprisons you for a crime you didn't commit a vicious
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high profile crime like the murder of your roommate i think you get to joke about it afterwards and i don't
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think piers morgan gets to really say anything about it so here's to foxy noxy i'm glad she's back in the united
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states terrible tragic outcome but it certainly goes to show us how lucky we are to live in a country
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like the united states of america with due process with protections for the accused and uh we'll see
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if amanda knox continues to offer political commentary going forward
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bros before well you know how the saying goes and apparently lil wayne does too lil wayne sticking with
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president trump over his relationship page six reporting that lil wayne's model girlfriend
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denise bidot has left him as a consequence of his support for president trump the 38 year old
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took to twitter to talk about the breakup he said i live the way i love and love the way i live
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i'm a lover not a lighter because they burn out i am an eternal flame of fire and burning love either
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leave with a tan or a third degree burn or stay and die in love sincerely the fireman lil wayne
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choosing to stick to his politics more than maybe this particular romance we wish him luck and we wish
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the young lady luck who i guess has to find a better woketopian match thanks for listening to hot takes
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