The Great America Show - September 10, 2024


Mid-Day Update： September 10, 2024


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

181.06287

Word count

385

Sentence count

21

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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A new report from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty shows a loophole in Wisconsin election law may spell trouble for the 2020 election. Author and China expert Gordon Chang says Americans and the world need to start preparing for what might be coming.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, September 10th.
00:00:05.420 It's debate night in America.
00:00:07.240 At 9pm tonight, President Trump will square off against Kamala Harris on ABC for their first debate.
00:00:12.500 It's the only debate the two have scheduled and it comes at a critical point
00:00:15.780 as the polls show a neck-and-neck race with just eight weeks until Election Day.
00:00:20.940 While Kamala Harris has been locked and shuttered down for the last week preparing for the debate,
00:00:25.380 President Trump has been living life as usual.
00:00:27.900 Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez telling ABC this morning
00:00:31.760 that Trump, quote, does not do traditional debate prep
00:00:34.720 and reiterated that he has been campaigning and engaging in policy discussion instead.
00:00:39.500 A new report out from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty
00:00:42.660 shows a loophole in Wisconsin elections may spell big trouble.
00:00:46.860 The report shows that more than 140,000 Wisconsinites can vote in the 2024 election
00:00:51.980 without proving their identity by self-identifying as, quote,
00:00:55.760 indefinitely confined.
00:00:58.280 Through this loophole, voters can receive an absentee ballot
00:01:01.280 indefinitely without ever showing an ID.
00:01:04.080 The indefinitely confined exception has skyrocketed since 2016
00:01:07.800 when approximately 66,000 voters registered under the status.
00:01:12.000 In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic,
00:01:14.460 266,000 registered under the exception
00:01:17.320 when clerks in the Democratic strongholds encouraged voters to exploit the loophole
00:01:21.420 to circumvent Wisconsin voter ID requirements in 2020,
00:01:25.460 a practice that was later rebuked unanimously by the Supreme Court.
00:01:29.160 To put it in perspective,
00:01:30.300 Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the state by just over 20,000 votes
00:01:33.720 in a swing of around 48,000 votes to the Democrats from the 2016 election
00:01:38.220 when Trump carried the state.
00:01:40.660 Something's going on in Wisconsin, and we should be weary of it.
00:01:43.740 Be sure to join us for today's episode of The Great America Show.
00:01:46.560 We are joined by author and China expert Gordon Chang.
00:01:49.900 Gordon is sounding the alarm on China's recently increased aggression. 0.73
00:01:53.780 He said Americans and the world need to start preparing for what might be to come.
00:01:57.560 Be sure to follow me on Twitter at JohnFawcettNY
00:01:59.800 and on Truth Social at John Fawcett.
00:02:01.860 Be sure to join us each and every day for The Great America Show.
00:02:04.480 I'm John Fawcett with this midday update.
00:02:06.620 Have a great day, folks.