Episode 130 – Trump Campaign Scores A Huge Legal Victory. Newsmax's Big Ratings. Chicago Mayor Urges Canceling Thanksgiving. Twitter’s Meltdown Over My Tiffany Trump Tweet!
The biggest win yet for the Trump campaign in court comes in Pennsylvania, where a judge ruled that the Secretary of State does not have the authority to require voters to show proper ID before casting their ballots. Matt talks about why this is a win for election integrity.
00:00:00.000Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. The biggest
00:00:20.960win yet for the Trump campaign in court comes in Pennsylvania. The PostMillennial.com's
00:00:27.400Mia Cthell has the story. Ballots of first-time voters who did not present proper identification
00:00:34.680will not be counted according to this order and the very logic regarding the need for
00:00:40.760authentication and also the departure from the law set by the legislature would also seemingly
00:00:47.960extend to the decision of the Secretary of State in Pennsylvania to count late ballots. So the legal
00:00:54.560issue that is unpacked by the court is whether or not the Secretary of State has the authority to
00:01:00.520make changes to the voting laws, to the way in which ballots are counted, to which ballots are counted
00:01:06.400independent of the state legislature. Here are the courts saying that's the legislature's decision,
00:01:12.400not the Secretary of State's decision. And so there are two such decisions the Secretary of State made
00:01:18.040that are impacted by this holding. The first being these first-time voters that didn't have proper ID
00:01:24.320under the legislative regime. Those would not be counted. The Secretary of State counted them. So
00:01:31.020that's got to get undone. Second, you've got to deal with these late arriving ballots where the issue will
00:01:37.580likely go before the Supreme Court now that there's a full complement on the Supreme Court. But it is a win
00:01:43.180for election integrity. It is a win for the Trump team. It also tells us something else. These state
00:01:50.140legislators are incredibly important for election integrity and really for the preservation of order
00:01:58.100and confidence in our voting system and the way in which representatives are secured. The Democrats know
00:02:04.460this. They might know it better than Republicans. Years ago, Eric Holder, who was the Attorney General
00:02:11.200under President Barack Obama, started a group to go and flip state legislatures from Republican to Democrat.
00:02:19.100They raised millions of dollars. And one might think, well, why would Eric Holder, of all people, have an interest
00:02:25.440in this project? And it's really twofold. First, they want to control the state legislatures because they want
00:02:32.260to control redistricting and how district lines are drawn. And they would like maps that more favor Democrats.
00:02:39.080But the second reason is the voting itself. The control over the voting process really resides
00:02:45.880at the state level. We don't want to federalize elections. We want our states to run elections. Now,
00:02:50.960we want them run fairly, honestly. We want them run in a way that doesn't violate equal protection. And by
00:02:57.760the way, in Pennsylvania specifically, there's pending litigation now on the equal protection question
00:03:04.400because in blue counties, voters were able to go and cure their ballots if there was a mistake.
00:03:10.200That was not the case in red counties. And so that would be a lack of equal protection under the law
00:03:16.280for those voters in the counties that did not allow that curing to occur in other areas. So Eric Holder,
00:03:23.820very focused on this. They spent millions of dollars in Florida. They've spent millions of dollars in Texas
00:03:30.400trying to flip legislative bodies. And really, so far, they haven't been overwhelmingly successful.
00:03:36.660They haven't been successful in Florida. But we need an Eric Holder type organization on the right
00:03:43.780to ensure that we fight for these Republicans who are showing courage in state senates and in the
00:03:50.640state House of Representatives bodies around our country. Right now, the Democrats are outgunning us.
00:03:57.860They're outspending us. And they are organizing around the concept of state legislative battles
00:04:05.880to a better degree than the Republicans. The Republican National Committee should immediately
00:04:12.560launch an operation to ensure that we grow Republican legislatures, that we try to flip the
00:04:19.760ones that are blue to red, and that we make the case to voters that Republicans are best positioned
00:04:26.180to draw districts, best positioned to preserve election integrity, and I would say enact the
00:04:33.000policies that improve quality of life for people. That's what we've done in Florida.
00:04:37.320Low taxes, fund education, fund the environment, ensure that we've got a pro-business climate so that
00:04:44.660people can start and grow businesses, and more people and more capital continue to come to the
00:04:50.720state of Florida. We also run elections clean. So I would say we're a pretty good model for America.
00:04:55.980Usually we only talk about the news of the day on the podcast, but there's a flashback that I think
00:05:04.980is particularly relevant to May. It's a piece in the New York Post by Vincent Barone,
00:05:11.060ex-Philly election official pleads guilty to stuffing ballot box for Democrats. And this goes through a
00:05:17.740federal investigation, a federal plea, where Dominic DeMuro between 2014 and 2016 and during those election cycles
00:05:26.740would stuff ballot boxes for Democratic candidates. And so this New York Post piece, we're going to send it out on
00:05:33.420our social media platforms. It really lays out how the fraud would work. Democrat political consultants would slip cash to
00:05:42.060this poll worker. He would then vote ballots that were blank for the candidates that he was being paid to support.
00:05:49.060And it is unclear whether or not that actually had an impact on the outcome of elections in these local races where he was engaged in this conduct.
00:05:57.060But if there are Democrat political operatives who know that they can slip cash to people who work in elections offices and
00:06:04.060that those people in those elections offices in Philadelphia then have the ability to stuff ballot boxes, do you think they didn't try that in the 2020 election?
00:06:16.060Do you think that they were just doing that in 2014 and 2016 and got caught and stopped? No. You know, I think that these elections officials know that they wield a tremendous amount of power, particularly when observers are kept, you know, 50, 60, a thousand yards away.
00:06:33.860It would only seem to tell us why there were such lengths taken to keep observers away if people in these elections offices are moonlighting for political consultants to stuff ballots into boxes and to pollute the legal, legitimate votes of the people of Pennsylvania with this nonsense.
00:06:55.140So, again, this is a charge, a plea of guilty from elections past, but I think it tells us a lot about the culture in the Philadelphia Elections Office, and it should raise tremendous concern based on what we've seen in this 2020 presidential election.
00:07:12.860Last night, I joined Greg Kelly on the Newsmax channel, and I've got to tell you, Newsmax has just seen their audience exploding lately. Take a listen to our interview.
00:07:26.220Congressman Matt Gaetz, he was a warrior for the president. He is for his district and for the country, and I'm thrilled that he's on Newsmax tonight. Congressman Gaetz, welcome.
00:07:33.780I've spoken to the president recently, and he is built for the battle. He understands that if we don't fix these problems now, Republicans may never win another election again.
00:07:42.860Now, we know that dead people don't always vote, but when they do, they most certainly prefer to vote by mail.
00:07:49.420And as we've bounced the number of voters in some of these swing states off of the national change of address database, we're also seeing tens of thousands of illegal votes cast where people in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona literally manifested their intent to move out of those states and then cast ballots in those states that were counted.
00:08:09.740And there's another piece of data. I prefer the data over the anecdotes. In the state of Pennsylvania, there's something called the Dorothy effect in the data.
00:08:18.300In the year 2020, more people over the age of 90 registered to vote than in the four years previously combined.
00:08:25.740Now, either you have to believe that in the middle of a pandemic, there was this explosion of interest in people over the age of 90 and registering to vote, or this is evidence of ballot laundering, of mechanized fraud.
00:08:39.500And I think we could prove that fraud. The question is, will we be able to do it quickly and will we be able to show sufficient scale to demonstrate that there might be a different outcome than the media wants the American people to believe?
00:08:52.300Carl W. Smith has penned a very persuasive data driven essay for Bloomberg opinion, Trump's economy really was better than Obama's, at least until the pandemic, the president's unconventional policy got unprecedented results.
00:09:12.300So between December of 2009 and December of 2016, the unemployment rate in America dropped 5.2 percentage points from 9.9% to 4.7%.
00:09:24.200And Trump's economy then brought that unemployment rate down an additional 1.2 percentage points to 3.5 percentage.
00:09:32.840Now, some might suggest that that's just the continuation of the Obama trend, but if you look inside the numbers, the story is quite different.
00:09:41.800You see, under the Obama economy, the Congressional Budget Office and a number of other groups that were within the administration said that we were at full employment and that further improvement in the labor market just wasn't likely, it wasn't attainable, that this was the best we could do.
00:09:58.140And maybe it was Trump's stubbornness, but he ignored that consensus and got going on tax cuts, regulatory reform, and a lot of pressure on the Fed to cut interest rates.
00:10:10.160And when he said that we were going to have, you know, 3% growth, a lot of people derided that.
00:10:15.320But we really did see quality of life improve.
00:10:17.660Not only did the unemployment rate continue to fall, but the percentage of Americans, 25 to 54, either employed or looking for a job, saw its first increase since, like, the 1980s.
00:10:30.360And that inflection point did change the labor market.
00:10:37.920The key to the number is, like, the agenda of the Trump administration on the tax cuts piece.
00:10:45.060I mean, that is what brought back so much investment and led to so much of the wage growth that really propelled the Trump economy.
00:10:52.320And, you know, we'll see what the, you know, future holds with the current uncertainty about the election result.
00:10:58.880But I am encouraged that the policies of President Trump have been vindicated by a stronger economy than Barack Obama had and a stronger economy than Barack Obama told the rest of us that we could ever have.
00:11:13.400I love an America that's ambitious and forward-leaning and always thinking about how we can be better, more productive, more encouraging to investment, more attractive for growth and opportunity for our people.
00:11:29.000On yesterday's podcast, we talked about the goals of Joe Biden to see a national mask mandate in the country.
00:11:38.800And so I wanted to dive a little deeper into that subject.
00:11:42.040And PJmedia.com's Matt Margolis has an exceptional data analysis that we're going to put out.
00:11:49.520And it raises the question, do mask mandates really work?
00:11:53.220And there are a series of charts in this article that show in the state of Hawaii, in the state of Kansas, in L.A., Orange, Ventura, and San Diego counties, in California, in West Virginia.
00:12:07.640You can see where the mask mandates are implemented from a date, time standpoint.
00:12:13.200And then you can see subsequent to those mask mandates, real big increases in coronavirus cases.
00:12:19.120And so it just may not be that a mandate from government that makes mayors and governors and city council members and maybe even future presidents happy, it doesn't really work for our people.
00:12:32.500It doesn't really make folks safer according to this data.
00:12:35.800Now, I know there are likely alternate causalities that can impact the coronavirus increases or decreases in particular states and communities.
00:12:44.300But I was motivated, compelled, persuaded by what I saw in this PJmedia.com piece.
00:13:27.400There are a lot of people in Washington, D.C. who benefit, get rich when China does well.
00:13:33.800And there are a lot of people in Washington who believe that in a potential Biden administration, the United States will draw China in, that we will become more interconnected with China, and that the elites will have opportunities for vast riches as a consequence of that change in policy.
00:13:51.120So this may be just the Commerce Department having a delay as a consequence of a court order, but to me, it smells a lot like cozying up to China with some elements of the swamp with hopes that in a potential Biden administration, there will be great opportunities for wealth for the elites and more hollowing out of the American economy where our workers and our people deserve greater protection from China.