00:00:21.000We go through the specifics of the election reform bill and also how the Democrats are predictably reacting to it.
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00:02:22.000Now, a lot of people have been saying to me in the various events that we have been doing across the country from Oklahoma to Missouri to Kentucky.
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00:02:32.000Charlie, when are we going to reform our elections?
00:02:37.000This is something that the grassroots, the base, concerned citizens across the country have been demanding for the last couple months.
00:02:45.000We know that our elections are not being conducted correctly in our country.
00:02:50.000We know that our systems are easily interfered with and possibly compromised.
00:02:56.000Therefore, states like Georgia and Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania have to step up to the plate and reform their elections.
00:03:07.000On this program, we have been relentless pressuring the legislatures of Arizona and Georgia.
00:03:16.000But I'm here to give you some good news today, some positive news, that Republicans in Georgia, signed by Governor Brian Kemp, someone who I have been very critical of, have signed sweeping election reforms into law.
00:03:34.000Now, the Democrats are having a very typical reaction to this.
00:03:42.000And we're going to dive into the specifics of the bill first.
00:03:46.000Then we're going to tell you how the Democrats are reacting.
00:03:50.000And then we're going to kind of take a step back and ask the question, what's really going on here?
00:04:21.000Now, why didn't Brian Kemp and the Republican legislatures do this back in June of last year?
00:04:27.000While we knew that you signed a consent decree with Stacey Abrams and that over 1.2 million ballots will be used in Georgia, but at least they're fixing it now.
00:04:38.000It will shorten runoffs in the state after two high-profile Republican losses.
00:04:44.000So instead of a nine-week runoff period, it will go to a four-week runoff period.
00:04:50.000And it will strip the Secretary of State off of the state election board.
00:04:57.000So you have an incompetent, weak person like Brad Raffensperger, who is the Secretary of State of Georgia, makes it harder for him just to run the entire show.
00:05:08.000Politico has a story on this where Brian Kemp is quoted.
00:05:11.000He says, quote, Georgia will take another step towards ensuring our elections are secure, accessible, and fair.
00:05:20.000So how are the Democrats reacting to this rather vanilla, innocent bill, just requiring voter ID for absentee ballots?
00:05:31.000Oh, yeah, it's also saying that you cannot give gifts to people when they are voting in line.
00:05:40.000Now, it's being immediately flipped by the Democrats saying that Republicans want it to be illegal to give water to people in the polls.
00:05:50.000Obviously, that is not the intent of the law.
00:05:53.000Instead, the intent of the law is to prevent what happened in Nevada under the Nevada Native Project, where they were giving gift cards and cash to people that went and voted for Joe Biden.
00:06:06.000As I mentioned, the law adds an ID requirement so that when you have absentee ballots flowing in from all across the state, we know that the person who has filled out the absentee ballot is actually that person.
00:06:20.000There's a verification requirement alongside of it.
00:07:10.000They are already flooding cable news, comparing voter ID for absentee ballots, shorter runoffs, the return of poll taxes, and literacy taxes.
00:07:23.000This is insulting for all the people that actually fought through and ended Jim Crow.
00:07:32.000This is not Iraq or something over in the Far East.
00:07:36.000This is America where we send our sons and daughters overseas to fight for democracy in other countries.
00:07:42.000But over here, the Republican Party does every damn thing that they can in order to take the right to vote away from duly qualified Americans.
00:07:52.000And it's not right, and we're going to fight back against it.
00:07:55.000No one is taking anyone's right to vote away.
00:07:57.000You see, Jamie Harrison compares this to the new Jim Crow with no specifics whatsoever.
00:08:04.000Stacey Abrams just tweeted an image that shows that Jim Crow 1.0 was Democrats in the South, and Jim Crow 2.0 is Brian Kemp.
00:08:14.000Now, for the Republican establishment, I hope this is a lesson for you that you're never going to win over the Democrat Party.
00:08:22.000They are going to call you racist no matter what, regardless of the facts or the details of these bills, regardless of the facts or the details of what's actually in these pieces of legislation.
00:08:34.000So, what does Joe Biden have to say about this?
00:08:37.000Joe Biden in cuts one of these cuts, that cut right there, play cut.
00:08:48.000Again, the New Georgia election law is an atrocity.
00:08:52.000The idea, if you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they pass a law saying you can't provide water for people standing in line while they're waiting to vote.
00:09:07.000You don't need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive design to keep people from voting.
00:09:15.000Now, that's just not what the bill says.
00:09:17.000The bill actually expands weekend voting that is usually used by black churches for the souls to the polls.
00:09:27.000How could they possibly say that that is Jim Crow 2.0, which, by the way, was all conducted by Democrats, their party?
00:09:37.000Republicans are concerned about the integrity of our elections.
00:09:42.000Republicans are concerned about whether or not the votes that are cast in the state of Georgia are being counted correctly.
00:09:52.000And the Republican legislature in Georgia is now leading the way, and Arizona needs to take note of this.
00:09:59.000Pennsylvania needs to take note of this.
00:10:01.000Michigan and Wisconsin need to take note of this, that we need stricter election laws, not looser election laws, which House Resolution 1 in front of Congress right now is trying to make it easier to cheat in our elections.
00:10:19.000And yet, Democrats are immediately calling this Jim Crow 2.0.
00:10:24.000This is the number one news story right now in the country.
00:10:27.000Major League Baseball, they are now threatening to move the all-star game, a typical boycott, divestment, and sanction tactic that is used by the activist left, a typical strategy that is used to try and bully and subdue conservatives into not fighting.
00:10:49.000We're going to explore together why the Democrats are so wrong on this and how they're actually advocating for something that is directly contrary to their criticism of this bill.
00:11:02.000The Democrats are calling the new Georgia election reform bill Jim Crow 2.0, the most racist piece of legislation in recent memory.
00:11:16.000They are going on every cable television program imaginable.
00:11:22.000And in fact, Major League Baseball has come out and they have said that they are not going to have the all-star game in Atlanta, Georgia, if this bill stands.
00:11:36.000Now, this is a tactic that is used by the Democrats and the leftists quite often.
00:11:44.000They use this with the abortion law in Georgia, where they caved.
00:11:47.000They use this with the Bathroom Bill in North Carolina, where these national sports organizations say, we're going to pull out of your state completely.
00:11:56.000And you're able to find out very quickly whether your leaders have a backbone and a spine.
00:12:01.000And I don't know if Brian Kemp will be able to hold the line or not.
00:12:06.000So Democrats are unable to say specifically why this bill is racist in nature, because it isn't.
00:12:15.000But the thing that they're focusing on is the voter ID requirement.
00:12:20.000They're saying that blacks are not able to get voter ID.
00:12:25.000Wouldn't that be a racist thing to say?
00:12:28.000If all of a sudden you believe that a certain group of people cannot identify themselves or get the paperwork to identify themselves, wouldn't that make them the racists?
00:12:40.000And how do Democrats possibly justify the fact that New York City is now going to require a Chinese coronavirus vaccine passport?
00:12:56.000In New York City, this passport will be required for you to go into certain restaurants, grocery stores, and public gatherings.
00:13:11.000So how is it not racist to require a vaccine passport, but it's somehow racist to require people to identify themselves when they just send in an absentee ballot?
00:13:32.000And this all kind of ties together to something that's happening quite a ways away from Atlanta, Georgia, of a trial that is happening right now in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
00:13:44.000The trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd.
00:13:49.000Now, we have gone into great detail around the death of George Floyd.
00:13:55.000And you're already starting to see arguments be made by Derek Chauvin's team that George Floyd was overdosing and said, I can't breathe seven times before a police officer ever laid hands on him.
00:14:12.000So what do the two have to be tied together?
00:14:16.000The only way Democrats are going to be able to stay in power is if elections are not reformed or if they are permanently damaged.
00:14:25.000If elections are permanently damaged, which is what HR1 wants to do, Democrats will then be able to have the voter registration rolls, the counting periods, the ballots, the reforms of the apparatus of how we do elections in their favor that they will never lose a chamber of power again.
00:14:46.000But the only way they know they're going to be able to get that done is not the merits of the bill, but instead inciting some sort of racialization of the issue.
00:15:20.000Even Politico has said that it is Georgia law allows you to bring water into the line and set up water serving stations if you're waiting in line to vote.
00:15:29.000A total lie by the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
00:17:12.000I wish we could have a robust conversation, a dialogue, which means the pursuit of truth or through truth, if you go back to the Greek of what the word dialogue actually means, towards the best way to govern ourselves, get back to a doctrine of the separation of powers, the consent of the governed, natural rights, first principles.
00:17:34.000Instead, the Democrats have a playbook and they are going to run this play until we adjust to what they have been doing to us.
00:17:43.000And the play that they have been running is very simple.
00:17:48.000Everything I don't like is a racist, and I will put race baiters on television to say that.
00:17:55.000Democrats want to be in power forever.
00:18:10.000Joe Biden even questions whether the Republican Party will exist soon.
00:18:16.000Could you imagine if Donald Trump said that?
00:18:18.000Could you imagine if Donald Trump said, the Democrats, I don't think they're going to have a party in a couple of years.
00:18:24.000Just imagine what he would be accused of.
00:18:28.000And so Democrats are going on television, attacking this very vanilla voter reform bill in Georgia that requires runoffs to be shortened, that makes it a law to prove who you are when you send in an absentee ballot.
00:18:48.000When Georgia had 1.2 million absentee ballots, it limits drop boxes, which is a direct counter for the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
00:19:03.000And so what Republicans should have done is they should have swung for the fences because the Democrats are going to call you the worst things imaginable, even when you do the most moderate changes to voting systems.
00:20:26.000And it's called the Hegelian dialectic.
00:20:29.000Most people would just kind of not understand what she's saying there, but she's making an argument of the progressives.
00:20:34.000She's making an argument that actually John C. Calhoun made back in 1820, a pro-slavery Democrat, of we must view ourselves in a historical paradigm and that every action we must make must have us go towards an inevitable.
00:20:53.000It could be utopia, could be heaven on earth.
00:21:27.000Her argument is that I think that black people are too dumb and too stupid to be able to prove who they are when they vote, which is of course nonsense.
00:21:41.000Why would you not be able to have your voter identification also saved on your phone with the driver's license number that you could put down?
00:21:50.000Phones are nearly ubiquitous in America.
00:21:56.000So why would it be illegal or immoral is a better term to require someone to have their voter identification near them?
00:22:08.000Which again, ironically, collides with what the Democrats are trying to do in New York, where they say you have to walk around with a Chinese coronavirus passport.
00:22:50.000Oh, I think the president is engaged on this issue.
00:22:53.000And when I've talked to him, he's agreed that voting rights are foundational, that this is the work we have to do.
00:23:01.000And I have to tell you, you know, that I was heartened when I heard him speak so clearly about how urgent this is, recognizing that this is Jim Crow 2.0.
00:23:14.000And I think you're going to see that we are going to find a way to secure voting rights and pass the kind of legislation that expands rather than contracts our democracy.
00:23:28.000This is the most important issue happening in the country.
00:23:31.000The over-racialization from last year with BLM Incorporated and them burning down our country, receiving money from corporations like Coca-Cola, receiving money from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and PepsiCo.
00:23:44.000The real agenda has always been changing the way we do elections.
00:23:49.000That's actually their most important issue.
00:23:52.000Their most important issue is not, obviously, the debt and deficit.
00:24:00.000The thing that Democrats focus on, which we as conservatives have got to get activated and aware of the significance of this, is Democrats only care about power.
00:24:14.000How long am I able to stay in control?
00:24:18.000And elections are supposed to be reflections of the electorate.
00:24:23.000Democrats don't like that in its current form.
00:24:26.000So Democrats want to expand the amount of ballots that are sent out.
00:24:29.000They want to loosen and lessen restrictions to count ballots.
00:24:35.000They do not believe in ID requirements.
00:24:37.000Now, the only reason you could possibly be against an ID requirement is if all of a sudden you believe that there's an action taking place and an ID requirement might prevent that action from taking place, also known as cheating.
00:24:53.000Is New York City racist for having the Chinese coronavirus vaccine?
00:24:56.000Here's a question for Raphael Warnock.
00:24:58.000He's a pro-abortion pastor, by the way.
00:25:02.000Raphael Warnock is coming out and saying that it is racist, Jim Crow 2.0, to ask black people to prove their identity.
00:25:12.000If they vote absentee, by the way, only if they vote absentee do you have to put down your driver's license number or some form of identification.
00:25:20.000And yet Raphael Warnock, in the same sentence, will go on to defend reparations, which is the redistribution of wealth from people that have white skin color to black skin color for no other reason except for the fact that some black people were related to slaves 150 years ago.
00:25:39.000Despite the fact that we have had over 3 million new black immigrants into America since 1980 that were not the descendants of slaves, despite the fact that not every single white person was a descendant of slaves, slave owners, or the fact that every single white person or black person should be tied to something that somebody did 150 years ago, as if you are not your own independent individual to make your own decisions.
00:26:04.000However, the point is less about reparations and more about what it would take to prove reparations.
00:26:12.000You think that a black person can prove and get their paperwork together that they're a descendant of slaves eight generations ago, but they can't prove their identity on their phone or through a driver's license number or from an ID card, which is so unbelievably easy to get to secure our elections.
00:26:32.000Raphael Warnock says it's Jim Crow because we want to shorten the runoff system.
00:26:37.000That sounds as if it's consultants that want to run another five weeks of television ads and make millions of dollars in highly contested and highly contested Senate primaries.
00:26:49.000This law in Georgia is a step in the right direction.
00:26:52.000And I'm here to tell you, if you have been clamoring for election reform, this is a good foot forward.
00:26:58.000It is not the entire journey we need to be on to reform our elections.
00:27:02.000But the fact that the Democrats are fighting on this so hard, they are going scorched earth.
00:27:08.000Democrats are pulling out everything they have.
00:27:10.000Every cable news appearance, the president on down, they are saying we are going to do everything we can to not let this happen.
00:27:18.000We're going to pull the all-star game out.
00:27:38.000They believe that they have a divine right of kings to be in charge of you and their life.
00:27:43.000They don't like being in the minority.
00:27:45.000Don't like not being able to have the legislative tools at their disposal.
00:27:49.000They have big revolutionary aims for our country, and it's not going to all happen just with a 50-50 tie in the Senate and a seven-seat majority in the House.
00:27:57.000And Georgia is a state where Raphael Warnock is up for re-election, and he's probably going to lose.
00:28:06.000And this reform is one of the reasons why Warnock and the Democrats are acting the way they are.
00:28:15.000The Democrats and the left are using critical race theory, a misrepresentation of American history, the hyperracialization of our dialogue and our narrative to get themselves into power.
00:28:31.000I wish we did not have to talk about race so much on this show.
00:28:35.000I wish we did not have to always refute the big lies of America.
00:28:38.000I wish I did not have to go against Raphael Warnock when he is saying that a voter ID bill is somehow racist.
00:28:46.000I wish we could have robust discussions on what good ideas for the country are and bad ideas for the country are.
00:28:52.000Instead, we have to defend ourselves and say we are actually not bad people.
00:28:57.000That's what Raphael Warnock is basically saying.
00:28:59.000He's not even getting to the merits of the legislation.
00:29:02.000He is saying that the people behind them are evil.
00:29:07.000Same with that Congresswoman Williams.
00:29:10.000We touched on this story before, but I want to reinforce this.
00:29:12.000Loyola Academy High School, suburbs of Chicago, requires their students to answer numbers of questions.
00:29:22.000How do you benefit from white privilege and how have you held on to that privilege?
00:29:26.000What have you learned about the ways you specifically wield this privilege to do harm?
00:29:30.000Dig deep, no sugarconing, and no focusing on the good you have done with your privilege.
00:29:36.000What have you learned about your white privilege that makes you uncomfortable?
00:29:39.000And at the bottom, it says, note, if you are a student of color, your responses will obviously be different.
00:30:24.000And it makes the narrative that Warnock and Congresswoman Williams more seamless into the American zeitgeist.
00:30:37.000When Senator Warnock comes out and he says Jim Crow 2.0, and you have people that are learning that they have white privilege since they were born, which is a racist, bigoted lie, then all of a sudden these massive structural changes to our country, HR1, become a lot easier.
00:30:58.000When you create an entire generation to feel sorry for something they didn't do and willing to do whatever is necessary to atone for that, such as their existence with white skin color, as they're teaching at Loyola Academy High School, please contact Loyola Academy High School and ask them why they are trying to teach their children to be so bigoted.
00:31:42.000If that's your position, go have the all-star game in New York City.
00:31:47.000Go have the all-star game in Malibu, California.
00:31:51.000Apparently, it's the Players Association that's saying that they don't want this bill to stand as is.
00:31:59.000Here's how you know this piece of legislation is reason to celebrate today.
00:32:05.000And I have good news to share on it: the reaction from the left.
00:32:10.000If this bill truly was just going through the motions, China, I'm sorry, Major League Baseball would not be wanting to move out of Georgia.
00:32:24.000I said China because someone just sent me a message on Major League Baseball, China, because Major League Baseball is partnering with China.
00:32:31.000It's a different topic for a different time.
00:32:34.000So the good news is this: Republicans in Georgia held the line and they got some reforms done.
00:32:42.000Here's the question: Will Republicans surrender to the left when they start boycotting, when they start calling you the R-word on television?
00:32:52.000It is up to us to clarify the record that there is nothing racist about this bill.
00:33:01.000And that if Republicans want any chance of winning an election again, this will be implemented in every state across the country and you will hold the line.
00:33:15.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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