The Great America Show - August 24, 2022


STATE GOP PARTIES RALLYING AROUND MAGA CANDIDATES, WORKING TO ASSURE NO REPEAT OF 2020


Episode Stats

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1 hour and 5 minutes

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153.96072

Word Count

10,130

Sentence Count

601

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary

As we approach the mid-term elections, there is a lot going on, some of which is public and above board, and a lot more that is still in the shadows and out of sight, far from the prying eyes of American citizens who prize integrity in our elections, honesty in our elected officials, and insist on the public s right to know what their government is doing. We ll be talking with Kyle Arguin, Secretary of State for Louisiana, a national leader in the campaign to assure fair, honest elections in the great state of Louisiana, and Kelly Ward, Chair of the Republican Party in Arizona, on the fight for electoral integrity in Arizona.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.
00:00:05.520 Happy to have you with us today.
00:00:07.740 Today we should take a look at where we are as we approach November 8 and the midterm elections.
00:00:13.540 There's a lot going on, some of which is public and above board.
00:00:17.760 A lot more is still in the shadows and out of sight,
00:00:21.580 far from the prying eyes of American citizens who prize integrity in our elections,
00:00:27.200 honesty in our elected officials, and insist on the public's right to know what their government is doing.
00:00:34.840 We'll be talking with Kyle Arguin, Secretary of State for Louisiana,
00:00:40.140 a national leader in the campaign to assure fair elections, honest elections in the great state of Louisiana,
00:00:47.340 and Kelly Ward, Chair of the Republican Party in Arizona, on the fight for electoral integrity in Arizona.
00:00:54.440 They'll be with us here in a few minutes.
00:00:57.200 Some of what's going on with the midterms now only coming to light.
00:01:01.620 We've learned that the Biden administration is now teaming up with Chinese-owned TikTok,
00:01:07.300 if you can believe this, to partner with the Federal Voting Assistance Program.
00:01:13.020 The Gateway Pundit reporting that development.
00:01:15.760 By the way, the FCC telling tech companies two months ago
00:01:19.940 to remove TikTok from their app stores as it surveils American users.
00:01:26.320 There are an estimated 6 million American voters overseas.
00:01:30.440 Good to know that the Biden regime and the Marxist Dems are still working for the American people.
00:01:37.420 And if you're worried about a recurrence of the Zuckerbox intervention in the 2020 election,
00:01:43.460 Facebook, we're told, is planning to protect the 2022 midterms.
00:01:49.040 Forty teams with hundreds of people to prevent interference,
00:01:53.280 giving reliable information to voters.
00:01:56.180 And oh yes, they'll be partnering again with the Biden regime
00:02:00.060 through an alliance with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
00:02:05.440 In other words, there will be direct interference by government in our 2022 elections.
00:02:12.800 This is truly scary, folks.
00:02:15.280 Where is the outcry from the Republican leadership?
00:02:18.940 This is a foundation for a repeat of 2020
00:02:22.220 and a further intrusion by the federal government into state elections.
00:02:28.240 And so it goes.
00:02:30.520 Joining us now, the Louisiana Secretary of State, Kyle Arguin,
00:02:34.820 who is not only credited with leading election reform in his great state,
00:02:39.000 but setting the standard for the rest of the country.
00:02:42.260 Arguin has terminated Louisiana's relationship with a highly controversial
00:02:46.740 and criticized electronic information system called ERIC.
00:02:52.040 It's a nationwide voter registration system that is partly funded by George Soros.
00:02:58.600 31 states are voluntary members of ERIC,
00:03:01.900 and Louisiana is the first of those states to withdraw,
00:03:06.180 expressing serious concerns about election security.
00:03:10.280 Secretary Arguin has also ordered all Louisiana election officials
00:03:14.680 to retain election records not only for the upcoming midterms,
00:03:19.600 but for 2020 as well.
00:03:22.140 Kyle Arguin, good to have you with us here on The Great America Show.
00:03:26.000 Thanks for all you're doing for election integrity.
00:03:28.440 How do you feel right now about Louisiana's readiness for the upcoming midterms?
00:03:34.720 Well, I think we're very much prepared for it.
00:03:38.000 We have been working very hard to make sure that everything is on the up and up
00:03:44.280 and that we are prepared to make certain that people are eligible to vote in person.
00:03:52.380 And, you know, when 97% of our people voted in person during COVID,
00:03:58.300 during the presidential election, I thought that was really a great thing for us
00:04:02.700 because people were certain, they wanted to make certain that their vote counted.
00:04:08.060 And we're still doing that now.
00:04:10.500 We fought back, you know, additional mail-in voting.
00:04:13.980 We fought back on vote harvesting.
00:04:18.040 We had passed legislation to prevent that from politicians to political parties
00:04:22.880 to political action committees to the nonprofits.
00:04:27.880 We feel good where we are.
00:04:29.400 We worked really hard.
00:04:31.320 We had just had an audit done by the Louisiana legislative auditors,
00:04:35.600 and they provided us with what they believe is that Louisiana has done a phenomenal job
00:04:42.260 in terms of keeping integrity in our elections.
00:04:46.100 And they noted, you know, numerous things, about five things that we were doing really well,
00:04:52.180 which was working hard to keep our lists accurate by using out-of-state information
00:04:56.820 to make sure that we had a cure process that was clearly defined in law
00:05:02.200 so people who utilized mail balloting couldn't fake it
00:05:09.260 but could surely make sure that their vote counted.
00:05:13.200 And, of course, verification after the election.
00:05:17.460 And so we just passed some additional legislation to provide for us to be able to start an audit process.
00:05:24.260 We're in the middle of working towards a paper-based voting system.
00:05:31.020 And so we're really excited about where we're headed.
00:05:33.540 I think that the Louisianians trust their elections,
00:05:36.600 and we work every day with patriots to make sure that we're headed in the right direction.
00:05:42.840 Well, that's wonderful.
00:05:44.080 And I think a lot of people probably their ears sort of hit the brakes
00:05:48.980 when you said you used the words paper-based system.
00:05:54.260 When everybody else seems to be talking about electronic voting, first and foremost,
00:05:59.920 give us an idea of what you mean when you talk about a paper-based voting system.
00:06:06.460 Well, we want voters to be able to verify their vote.
00:06:09.820 So either use of a hand-marked paper ballot or a ballot-marking device,
00:06:16.460 and the voter verify their vote prior to casting it in a formal way.
00:06:24.460 That way, when all is said and done, we can do a full audit or a risk-limiting audit,
00:06:31.660 whichever the people prefer for us to do, whatever passes the legislature.
00:06:37.060 We want to make sure that the election, the vote tally is accurate.
00:06:42.380 And that's the most important thing because that gives voters the confidence
00:06:47.000 that their votes were accurately counted and reported to the public.
00:06:54.160 Now, every state in the union is using voting machines in some fashion.
00:06:59.940 What voting system are you using, electronic voting?
00:07:02.820 We are using Dominion.
00:07:07.860 We started out some years back when, you know, after the Florida presidential race
00:07:14.800 where there was hanging chads, they used the original,
00:07:18.760 previous administrations used the original HAVA money to buy electronic voting machines.
00:07:24.960 And so Louisiana is determined, I'm determined as Secretary of State,
00:07:30.000 to have a paper-based system so that our voters are able to make sure that their votes are accurately counted.
00:07:38.120 With all the concerns around the country and what happened in many of the swing states,
00:07:43.680 you know, I feel like that's an important thing.
00:07:45.440 And we've been working towards this.
00:07:47.040 We've hit a couple of bumps in the road over the last several years
00:07:50.440 because of the fighting between the vendors.
00:07:54.640 You know, it's a very niche market.
00:07:57.660 There's only five major companies.
00:07:59.480 And so the competition is pretty hefty.
00:08:01.640 And they use all means available legal and political in order to try to win contracts.
00:08:10.480 And so that's what we've been up against in the last several years.
00:08:14.180 So with Dominion, which has been the focus of some considerable criticism and concern and lawsuits as well,
00:08:25.900 what are your plans with Dominion itself?
00:08:30.660 Well, we have met with Dominion now three times in the last month.
00:08:36.100 We have made sure that all of the mitigation efforts that are necessary to make sure that the early voting machines are working properly.
00:08:48.540 Our Election Day machines aren't technically Dominion machines.
00:08:51.800 They go back to a company called Diebold and Sequoia that ended up being bought out by Dominion.
00:08:59.960 So I pushed hard to find out what was in Dr. Haldeman's report.
00:09:06.520 Last December I sued to try to be admitted into the court case in Georgia so that I could get the information to secure our machines moving forward.
00:09:18.880 And I was denied that by the judge.
00:09:23.260 The Secretary of State in Georgia also opposed my intervention.
00:09:26.820 So I started pushing for CISA to get involved and to help us make certain that we had the information we needed in order to fix any possible vulnerabilities.
00:09:42.420 So we've utilized all the recommendations from CISA.
00:09:47.260 But in addition to that, we had about 12 additional recommendations that my staff came up with that we're currently working on to mitigate any concerns moving forward.
00:09:57.740 Now, a lot of folks right now are wondering, you know, this is an awfully complicated subject.
00:10:03.460 And when you talk about Sequoia and Diebold and just a matter of complete transparency here, I started working on the issue of electronic voting and the concerns with it in a democracy 20 years ago.
00:10:23.480 And Sequoia and sequoia and sequoia and Sequoia and Sequoia and sequoia andérence.
00:10:34.800 And those old systems had immense vulnerabilities.
00:10:37.160 You're not saying that this current Dominion machines have the same, let's say troubled or concerning aspects to them that existed 20 years ago.
00:10:49.460 are you? No. What I'm saying, you know, 20 years ago, obviously, the technology wasn't the same as
00:10:58.100 today. I think in terms of today's efforts, I think the concern is how far has the technology
00:11:05.360 come, and are we able to make sure that they're accurately counting votes as people intend to
00:11:13.700 vote, and that's why a paper-based system is so important in order to confirm accuracy or, in some
00:11:22.040 cases, allow voters not to have to use the machines at all. I think what we need to do, and I think it's
00:11:28.640 incumbent upon states to make sure that whatever is used to tally the votes is separate from the
00:11:38.100 actual machines that either mark ballots or record voters' intent and not be the actual tallies
00:11:46.460 machinery. And then, obviously... That's interesting. That's interesting. Yeah. To separate the ballots
00:11:55.400 and, if you will, the counting machines, voting machines and counting machines. Is that an easy
00:12:02.580 way to say it, or is it incorrect? That's an easy way to say it. That's exactly right. So, I think
00:12:09.660 that's smart as smart as can be. Are your machines in any way hooked to the internet? No. Never have
00:12:19.440 been. We know that vulnerability exists, so we check for it. We have tamper-proof seals that we put
00:12:27.320 on our machines. The old machines don't even have any capability. They're so old. And so, they're just
00:12:37.100 basically, you know, a calculator, if you will. But the newer machines, the early voting machines, and the
00:12:47.520 machines, I guess, that are used in the state of Georgia and elsewhere are, you know, newer technology. And so, you
00:12:55.620 have to make sure that, one, you provide for tamper-proof seals so people can't get
00:13:02.180 into them. You keep them under lock and key. And in Louisiana, we don't allow the vendor
00:13:09.820 to program any of our machines. All of our ballots are programmed by us in our state, by
00:13:17.160 my employees, and then programmed onto the machines directly. So, we don't let the vendors touch the
00:13:23.240 machines once they're in our possession and we utilize them. But again, Lou, it's, you know, the
00:13:29.440 more you can air gap things, the more that you can separate productivity. So, you know, the machines
00:13:37.360 mark the ballots, or you allow individuals to mark their ballots, and then you separate that from
00:13:42.360 the tabulators and let the tabulators do their job without any Wi-Fi connectivity, sort of just a,
00:13:50.080 you know, a dumb calculator kind of thing. And then you, and then you audit the tabulators
00:13:56.200 afterwards. That, you know, if we want quick results, then we're going to have to use automation.
00:14:02.880 If people don't care about how long it takes to count votes, which I think they do, because they're
00:14:07.520 worried about undue influence in the process, then, then you have to, you have to figure out how can I
00:14:14.020 get unofficial results, and then how can I audit it after the election to make sure that before we
00:14:20.120 certify that everything was accurate. And, and I think that's the key. That's what, I think that's
00:14:25.540 what Americans are looking for all across the country. I think that's, I think that's well said,
00:14:30.500 Kyle. And Americans right now are a little tired. I mean, you just used the reference to early
00:14:36.220 voting. Early voting has become a category unto itself, with greater precedence and more time
00:14:42.600 available and an attempt to attract people to, in many states, early voting, or, you know, incessant
00:14:51.540 voting, if you will. This has become a, instead of an election day, this has become, across most of the
00:14:58.020 country, I believe is a fair statement. It's election season, for crying out loud. And this is creating,
00:15:04.300 in and of itself, as you well know, immense distrust and skepticism about the integrity of each state's
00:15:13.300 voting systems. Yeah, Lou, that's why I pursue and, and, and push hard in-person voting, because I think
00:15:24.620 that's the best way for individuals to make sure that their vote was cast as accurately as possible. I'm not a
00:15:32.340 big fan of, of mail voting. I know that that, that is a process by which we have to utilize for, you know,
00:15:38.580 elderly, for sick, disabled individuals, and people who travel a lot. I get that. But the more that you
00:15:47.620 can have people vote in person, gives the voter the best shot at making sure that their vote is,
00:15:54.380 is accurately counted. And one thing we do in Louisiana that's different from many other states,
00:16:00.760 I don't want to say all states, because I just don't know their, all their details. But for
00:16:05.820 Louisiana, if you vote by absentee, one, you have to request the ballot by filling out a form,
00:16:13.680 identifying yourself, and giving the reason why you're asking for an absentee ballot. And you have
00:16:17.840 to sign it as if you were attesting and, you know, testifying in court against, you know, perjury,
00:16:26.380 possible perjury, et cetera. So then once that's processed, and the registrar believes, the local
00:16:32.580 registrar believes that that's a legitimate request, then the ballot's sent. We track all
00:16:37.060 that, when it's returned. And every single absentee ballot that is to be counted has to be in
00:16:44.020 the registrar's office by 4 30 p.m. the day before the election. That way, then we can process it and
00:16:51.480 make sure, one, the person's removed from the election day rolls. We do a supplemental list
00:16:57.540 that goes to every precinct in the state on election morning. And if that ballot is not in
00:17:04.620 by 4 30 p.m. the day before the election, it is not counted. Whereas in other states, and we saw this
00:17:10.880 in 2020 in the presidential election, states were still counting ballots that came in if they had a
00:17:16.080 postmarked days after the election. And I just don't think that's, see, when you talk about
00:17:22.260 election season, you know, I don't know any hunter that can go duck hunting or deer hunting after the
00:17:29.800 season's over. It's not, there's no possibility for that. It ends on the day. And I think that's what,
00:17:35.880 that's the problem we're having right now. And a lot, why there's a lack of confidence in the
00:17:40.420 process, because elections turn after election day, and it just doesn't make sense.
00:17:46.080 Absolutely. And I want to point out to everybody that the Secretary of State of Louisiana,
00:17:53.020 Secretary Arguin, has made it certain that there will be no ballot harvesting.
00:17:58.840 Tell us about how you, how that went and how much opposition you had to get it done.
00:18:06.940 Well, it actually, it, it passed early on, I believe in 2020. And before people really understood
00:18:16.060 in depth what ballot harvesting would look like. And so we were able to pass it bipartisanly and have
00:18:25.680 the governor sign it. But what we did was we wanted to make sure within our current system that any
00:18:33.680 expansion for COVID, the minuscule expansion that we had for absentee by mail voting, would not
00:18:42.820 create a problem for our election. And so we wanted to make sure that no political party,
00:18:52.440 no political candidate or campaign, no political action committee, and no 501c3 or 501c4,
00:19:03.120 quote unquote, nonprofit organizations were would create an advantage for one side or the other. So we
00:19:12.420 outlawed them being able to harvest absentee ballot requests or absentee ballots. And, you know, in
00:19:22.460 Louisiana, the only time someone can turn in a ballot for another person is if it's a family member,
00:19:28.820 or if it's a neighbor, you can do one or the other, but you can't do both. And if it's for immediate
00:19:35.820 family, you can only bring in two, but you have to bring them in person, you have to show ID, and you
00:19:40.140 have to fill out a form saying that you were given permission to do this, what your relationship is
00:19:45.680 to those individuals, and you have to show your ID so that we can confirm who you are, and you have to sign
00:19:51.500 it under penalty of law, which is an election fraud, which is a felony in the state of Louisiana.
00:20:01.660 So, you know, we tightened it all up, we made sure we were going to have integrity in our elections,
00:20:08.280 and we made sure that organizations weren't going to be able to manipulate our elections. So
00:20:13.120 I was really excited when we got that that legislation passed. Absolutely. Zucker Bucks,
00:20:22.160 I think most people understand it, primarily the $415 million that Mark Zuckerberg threw into the
00:20:31.920 election to tip the scales in favor of the Democrats in the 2020 election. You tried to ban Zucker Bucks
00:20:42.040 in Louisiana, but as I understand it, your Democratic governor there, John Bell Edwards,
00:20:48.680 didn't like it. So he wanted to have that freedom that Zucker Bucks bring. Your reaction?
00:20:57.160 Frustrated, aggravated, and obviously, when you look at what Zucker Bucks did, and we put it on the record,
00:21:05.920 the manipulation, and how it was used to change the outcome of the election, and where those dollars
00:21:13.040 were spent, and how those dollars were spent, you know, it's very frustrating. In my opinion,
00:21:20.080 along with my attorney general and the author of the legislation two years in a row, Representative
00:21:26.240 like Miguez, we all together fought that issue and wanted to make sure that no outside money
00:21:35.840 infiltrates our local election offices. And, you know, it's frustrating to me that it's such a political
00:21:44.640 issue because if you look at it from either side of the aisle, if you will, then you could see how
00:21:52.080 individuals or small groups with a lot of money could manipulate the outcome of an election.
00:22:00.160 And it's, for me, as an election official, as a chief elections officer of the state of Louisiana,
00:22:08.800 it's my job to make sure that everybody knows the rules and the playing field is level, and that we
00:22:14.560 have an honest, accurate, secure election. And you can't do that when private money is infiltrating
00:22:21.600 the election administration. You know, when you start giving money to different...
00:22:27.520 So what are you going to do about it? I mean...
00:22:30.560 Well, we don't allow for ballot boxes in the state of Louisiana. So we're going to watch for it. The
00:22:36.400 attorney general and I are watching for it. If anything occurs, we're going straight to court.
00:22:41.840 We're going to stop its usage. Luckily, I have more authority as the chief elections officer in
00:22:47.120 the state of Louisiana to direct how elections are handled across our state. And so I'm able to
00:22:53.360 stop some of the shenanigans that might be utilized or that was utilized in 2020.
00:23:01.920 Well, you also have the authority to suspend participation in the so-called electronic registration
00:23:08.000 center, the system called ERIC. You're very upset with the fact that it didn't seem to you that it was
00:23:18.160 helping you in any way to boost the accuracy or voter rolls or assure election integrity. Tell us more about that.
00:23:26.640 Well, I felt when looking at it in depth, I didn't feel like the security measures are there.
00:23:34.880 I didn't feel like that there was enough third-party auditing to make certain that our
00:23:41.040 voters' data was not being infiltrated by third parties and then manipulated. As you know,
00:23:47.440 one of the significant things about the ERIC operation is that they use motor vehicle information
00:23:56.560 from all the states. And so when you're able to do that, my concern is, are they manipulating it? They
00:24:04.400 force us to try to register unregistered voters, which is fine. That's an important thing if people
00:24:11.920 want to get registered to vote and participate. But what they didn't do is they didn't force states
00:24:16.560 to clean up their voter rolls. And that was evident post the 2020 presidential election. And so I just
00:24:25.520 felt like there are other opportunities out there that we can look forward to to clean up our rolls. And
00:24:31.840 I'll work in those directions and not put Louisiana at risk of having our voter rolls manipulated
00:24:40.720 or voter data manipulated for by third parties without any security mechanisms.
00:24:49.680 Is there any question about the people who run ERIC, who have funded ERIC and perhaps political purposes as well?
00:25:02.240 Well, you know, I don't want to get into personalities because it really wasn't a personality issue. It was
00:25:06.960 more about how the process worked and which companies had contracts and how the operations,
00:25:14.320 the information was exchanged and who had access or didn't have access and how that was audited.
00:25:20.400 You know, there's a lot of stories out there as to how it got started. I will say this, you know,
00:25:25.280 there are some, a member or two on the board of directors that probably shouldn't be there. And I know
00:25:30.640 that there's some secretaries of state, Republicans that are seeking some reforms of ERIC. But until
00:25:38.000 that's accomplished, I felt like it was just best for Louisiana to remove itself from the situation
00:25:43.600 altogether.
00:25:44.080 Well, so as, as we're wrapping up here, Kyle, give us a sense, if you will, and we always give our
00:25:53.360 guests the last word. Give us a sense about how you feel this election will go. You're, I want you to,
00:26:01.280 if you would, give us a sense of first Louisiana, but then also your confidence level about the integrity
00:26:07.680 of the, the national midterm elections. Sure. So I, you know, I feel good about where we are
00:26:17.440 in Louisiana. I feel even better as to where we're headed. You know, we had a, my staff and I had a
00:26:23.840 two hour meeting, my election staff, going through all the issues that we feel are important to make
00:26:30.400 sure that we continue to build confidence for the people of Louisiana, that their vote will be
00:26:34.800 securely and accurately counted in this upcoming election. We continue to look for ways to improve
00:26:41.840 our processes and procedures to build upon the, the legislative auditor's report from this last
00:26:49.680 spring, from last year's statewide election that was reported this, this past spring. We're continuing
00:26:55.920 to look at ways that we can make sure that our voter rolls are as up to date as possible. Obviously,
00:27:02.320 given the fact that the governor vetoed a second time legislation, that would have helped me clean
00:27:07.200 up our voter rolls even more. But we're going to, you know, we're, I'm not stopping here. I'm determined
00:27:13.120 to, to get to the paper-based process that we need in Louisiana. I feel good about, you know, having just
00:27:21.360 concluded a national conference in Baton Rouge with my colleagues. Everybody is keen on doing what they need
00:27:30.960 to do in their states. I feel really good about the, what, what, Lou, what, I'd like to say this. I am
00:27:41.600 appreciative of the patriots all around the country. For the first time, people are asking tough questions
00:27:47.360 of their election officials. And I don't think it's an insult. At first, I probably did. But in discernment,
00:27:54.880 I realized, you know, people are waking up, people are noticing, people want to make sure that their
00:28:01.920 elections are running right, that their elections have integrity, and they're asking all the right
00:28:07.040 questions. And that's what, that's what our country is about. If our leaders don't listen to the people
00:28:14.160 on the ground, the voters themselves, then how can we ever improve? And how can we give them the confidence
00:28:20.080 level that they need, that their democracy is not being stolen from them? Or excuse me, their republic
00:28:24.800 is not being stolen from them. So I feel better than ever, just because of the patriots that are
00:28:31.840 working so hard to, to hold election officials accountable. And I'm one of them. And I thank them
00:28:37.280 for it. Well, Kyle, we appreciate so much for being with us. And we thank you for everything you're
00:28:43.200 doing for the great state of Louisiana, and, and across the country. We appreciate it. And I wish
00:28:50.160 you all the very best as election day closes in on us with less than three months to go now. Thanks
00:28:55.840 so much. And God bless you, Kyle. Thanks, Lou. God bless you.
00:29:01.520 And now we turn to the Arizona chair of the Republican Party, Kelly Ward. Kelly is also concerned
00:29:08.640 about election integrity, of course, in her state. She's also credited with pulling the GOP together,
00:29:14.240 building a great slate of candidates, and creating a MAGA Republican Party unified throughout the
00:29:20.720 primaries and looks to be running strong come November. Kelly Ward, great to talk with you again
00:29:27.040 and have you with us here on The Great America Show. And congratulations on your success as you look
00:29:32.720 forward now to November 8. Thank you, Lou. Yes, we embraced the America First mantra before the 2020
00:29:43.360 election and since. And we've been fighting to bring the power back to the people here in our state.
00:29:49.920 There was a time, Lou, and you know, you watched it happen under John McCain and other people like him,
00:29:56.880 where they amassed all kinds of political power. They took it away from our precinct committee,
00:30:02.320 and they took it away from our voters, and they really hoarded it to themselves.
00:30:06.560 And it was detrimental to our state. Look, we ended up right now, we have two Democrats as our
00:30:11.680 senators. We have a congressional delegation that is five Democrats to four Republicans.
00:30:17.280 We almost lost our legislature to the Democrats, for goodness sake. And that was under that kind of
00:30:23.280 leadership, which I personally think was not very good leadership. And now we have really activated the
00:30:30.320 people to come back to life and to come back to the party because they understand that we do want
00:30:36.160 to make America great again, and they want to help us do it. And you've got to feel good about being able
00:30:42.320 to back that up with a very important statistic and turnout record, the best turnout in primary history
00:30:51.680 in the state of Arizona, right? Yes, we had record-breaking turnout for the primary. And of that turnout,
00:30:59.920 85 to 90 percent were Republicans who showed up to vote. They wanted to make their voice heard. And when you see
00:31:07.360 our candidates that won, it's just, it's spectacular. Every single person that Trump endorsed at the top of the ticket,
00:31:16.000 as well as down into some of our legislative races won, we were able also not only to get good people in,
00:31:22.880 we were also able to get some pretty bad people out. One of the biggest political stories, I think,
00:31:29.520 of this cycle is the unelecting of Speaker of the House, Rusty Bowers. Now, the media wants to say,
00:31:38.080 oh, they censured Rusty Bowers because of his testimony at the January 6th committee. It had nothing
00:31:44.720 to do with January 6th. And I can tell you that here on the ground, nobody even talks about January 6th.
00:31:50.320 Nobody cares about January 6th. They care about the economy. They care about gas prices. They care
00:31:56.160 about the border being secured. They care about education with our kids. They do not care about
00:32:01.520 J6. But with Rusty Bowers, he was censured because instead of sticking with the Republican Party platform
00:32:09.200 and championing those things that our voters care about and the people of Arizona care about,
00:32:14.080 he went the way of the Democrats. And we as Republicans and leaders in the Republican Party
00:32:19.680 have to hold our own people accountable. Because if we don't, they will continue to move us to the
00:32:27.200 left. They will continue to allow the Democrat policies that are so detrimental to our communities,
00:32:32.640 to our state and to our nation to go into effect, maybe a little bit more slowly than they would if it
00:32:37.840 was all Democrats in charge. But we can't have Republicans who are assisting in that effort.
00:32:43.840 Well, good for you. And this is precisely, I think, the lesson for Republicans across the country.
00:32:52.720 Hold your party members and office holders in, hold them accountable. Because that's what the
00:33:00.720 Democrats do. It's why they have a unified voice. You don't hear, you know, you don't hear Democrats in
00:33:08.240 name only, do you? Never.
00:33:10.320 Never. But you sure hear it about Republicans. And the rhinos at the national level are a huge,
00:33:17.680 toxic cesspool of trouble for the national party. It is, it's, I'm just so proud of you for getting
00:33:27.520 that done and for the party in Arizona to do so. And, you know, I'll say it's just straight up. I want
00:33:37.760 Kelly Ward to replace Ronna McDaniels right now. So if you would put that on your, your, your maybe,
00:33:46.240 you might consider to do list. Well, I think Ronna has a terrible job. It's a very big challenge. I
00:33:53.200 know just at the state level what a challenge it is because you're always making somebody mad. I think
00:33:59.520 that there are a lot of establishment Republicans and they like to now call themselves institutionalists.
00:34:05.040 They are institutionalists, which I actually think is worse for them to call themselves
00:34:09.040 than establishment. They are shaking in their boots because of what we were able to accomplish
00:34:14.720 here in Arizona. They've been trying to get rid of me for a long time, Lou, you know,
00:34:19.680 because if we had another chairman of this party in Arizona sitting here today, we would not have
00:34:25.840 Carrie Lake for governor. We would not have Blake Masters for Senate. We would not have Abraham
00:34:30.480 Hamaday for attorney general, Mark Fincham for secretary of state. Those people would not be
00:34:36.400 at the table. They would have been smashed beyond repair in some cases. And instead we'd have the
00:34:44.320 establishment automatons that will do the bidding of the big donors of the consulting class.
00:34:50.880 And instead we have people that will work for the people of our state and of this nation
00:34:57.520 to put things back on track. Well, it's just, I think everyone
00:35:02.480 listening to your voice right now has to feel very good about what the Republican Party state by state
00:35:10.240 is accomplishing despite an absence. And this is me speaking, not Kelly Ward.
00:35:16.560 Well, I will tell you, Lou, what you're doing despite the Republican National Committee.
00:35:23.520 President Trump called me. That's right. We're doing it. I mean, sometimes it is despite
00:35:27.200 outside influences from the National Committee, from activists, from consultants. But we are working
00:35:34.000 very, very hard to create the unity that we need. This is not the same kind of unity that Republicans
00:35:40.560 in name only have demanded from conservatives for years. This is actually come to the party and
00:35:46.400 let's win. Their view was come to the party, bend the knee to the establishment, or we're going to
00:35:53.840 oust you. We're going to get rid of you. But I will tell you, President Trump called me a couple of days
00:35:58.480 ago and it was just such an honor. I've talked to him a lot, but he called me this time to say,
00:36:05.360 thank you for what you did. You have shown what a great leader you are. And I'm so proud of you.
00:36:13.760 Whenever Donald J. Trump says, I'm so proud of you, let me just tell you, it makes you get goosebumps
00:36:20.960 because he's seen it. He's gone through it. He knows what I've gone through. And to know that I've
00:36:27.040 done well is all the reward I need. Well, and it's exactly what he has envisioned for some years now,
00:36:37.040 is to have a party that comes together, works together, and from which his administration
00:36:44.720 in 2025 can draw immense talent and have a party that is united also in governance, which was something
00:36:55.120 that President Trump, as you well know, has been fighting political persecution from the latter half of
00:37:02.480 2016 as a candidate through now and his entire presidency. He's staving off a coup by the deep
00:37:11.840 state, the radical Marxist Dems who fought him on every issue on every level.
00:37:18.640 And he did it without a lot of help in that cabinet and in that administration, as you well know.
00:37:26.160 Well, I think the message that those Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney,
00:37:31.920 Adam Kinzinger type Republicans should be getting from Arizona is they're going to be gone. We are not
00:37:39.200 going to tolerate that kind of internal backstabbing of the leader of our party. Those policies that President
00:37:47.520 Trump brought to the table made things better. And we're seeing it in action watching these Democrats
00:37:52.880 and their shenanigans, what they've put us through in just 18 months. But those Republicans in our
00:38:00.160 state who sometimes want to be backstabbers of the Republican Party and the Republican people and the
00:38:05.760 voters that put them into those offices, this better be a wake up call for them. We have a few more
00:38:11.840 targets for two years from now that if in these next two years, if they're not shaping up and they're
00:38:17.360 not going with our strong leadership here in Arizona, not just with Carrie Lake as governor,
00:38:22.080 but inside the legislature as well, that conservative movement, the people that believe in faith,
00:38:27.600 family and freedom, the people who want small government and low taxes and following the
00:38:32.400 Constitution, personal responsibility. Those are the people that we are amassing here in Arizona,
00:38:37.440 and we want to be a shining example. I don't know why more states, more governors in particular,
00:38:43.840 don't follow Ron DeSantis' lead. He is the most popular governor with Republicans across the board.
00:38:50.960 Of course, he's a target of the Democrats. Of course, he's a target of the fake news media
00:38:56.400 because he's effective. But if we can create more conservative governors with a backbone,
00:39:04.000 I say that my job here as the chairman of the party is to make sure that our people have a heart,
00:39:09.200 a soul and a spine. I live it by example. And I want them to know that if you have a heart,
00:39:15.840 a soul and a spine, you're going to go far and you're going to help the people who put you into
00:39:20.160 the position that you currently hold. And if you don't have a heart, a soul and a spine,
00:39:26.000 then we're going to hold you accountable and we're going to unelect you and put better people in.
00:39:30.400 Yeah. Well, good for you. And I couldn't agree with you more. And I think most of the country,
00:39:37.760 and I'm not talking about just Republicans. I think most Americans want the Republican Party
00:39:44.240 and the leadership of Donald Trump to be exactly that. And I love the description. But to the issue
00:39:53.680 of the governors as you raise it, right now, the New York Times is blaming Republican governors for
00:40:00.720 causing havoc by, as the governor there in Arizona, Governor Abbott in Texas, bussing illegal aliens
00:40:12.240 to the nation's capital or New York City. It's havoc if governors do it. But if Joe Biden is doing it,
00:40:21.760 putting them on buses, moving them all across the country in the dead of night. And by the way,
00:40:26.240 we're talking somewhere around 1.6 million in the first year of his administration all over the
00:40:32.480 country and dropping them in and private chartered aircraft as well. And this is this ignorant hypocrisy
00:40:42.800 and deceit on the part of the corporate left media, like the New York Times, like ABC News,
00:40:50.320 like CBS, MSNBC, you name it. It's just ridiculous. And they're heroes. They're not raising havoc.
00:40:59.760 They're creating hell for the people who are causing hell on our middle class,
00:41:04.400 our working men and women and their families all across America.
00:41:08.480 You're exactly right. And I agree with Carrie Lake when she says, I don't want them to be further
00:41:14.640 into our country. I want them to be gone. But the message that has been sent by putting just a few
00:41:21.760 of these illegal immigrants, illegal aliens into these liberal bastions has been spectacular.
00:41:30.160 They didn't care whenever they allowed illegal aliens into Arizona for decades and how it affected
00:41:38.960 every aspect of our society, from health care to education, to public safety, to our judiciary.
00:41:45.040 Our very judiciary is clogged up with people who shouldn't even be in our country. And so
00:41:50.640 I love that the message was sent by Governor Abbott and others that they got to see it in action. I
00:41:59.520 mean, their services in their liberal states are being taxed by people who shouldn't be there.
00:42:06.240 They didn't care when it was in conservative Arizona, when it was in conservative Texas.
00:42:11.280 They didn't care about that one bit. And so I love, I love the message that it sent. And maybe,
00:42:19.360 just maybe, I mean, you see that Joe Biden's saying that we're going to
00:42:22.400 start building Trump's wall again here in Arizona, in Yuma. Now, they think that's going to help Mark
00:42:29.040 Kelly in the Senate race, but people's eyes have been opened. We're going to get Blake Masters,
00:42:34.640 amazing, smart, young, dynamic fighter into the United States Senate. It's not just going to help
00:42:41.440 Arizona. It's going to help this whole country. And yes, we are going to finish the wall. We're
00:42:45.600 going to build Trump's wall. And I appreciate Biden helping us do it. Yeah. You know, if indeed,
00:42:52.160 we do see even any effort at all that will help the Yuma sector along that border in particular,
00:43:00.080 slow down, uh, sex trafficking, the, uh, the exportation by Mexico of the ingredients they
00:43:07.360 get from China, the deadly fentanyl poisonings that are so successful that over a hundred thousand
00:43:14.800 deaths and the numbers go perhaps twice that much, uh, that twice that high. Uh, it's a fentanyl
00:43:21.440 poisoning designed by China and Mexico, and it's being unleashed on the entire country. And that makes
00:43:28.320 this president, this administration, Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of DHS, that makes them all
00:43:34.480 pro cartel because the cartels are controlling all of that traffic across that border. And I mean,
00:43:40.480 on both sides of that border. Don't you agree? I do. I do. And, and many people in our government
00:43:47.040 know who these people are, but they've been either fearful or complicit with the people that are in
00:43:53.760 charge of our border that actually are from across the border, bringing bad things into our country.
00:44:00.080 The, the human trafficking, the toll it takes on women and children in particular is horrific.
00:44:07.200 I'm a doctor, you know, I'm a family physician seeing the fentanyl poisoning and seeing the, the,
00:44:14.720 just the, the sadness and the, um,
00:44:17.840 the terrible things that happen to families because of if they're not killed by fentanyl,
00:44:23.840 their lives are ruined by fentanyl. And, um, we have to stop it. You, we, we are the most welcoming
00:44:31.920 country to people that want to come here. We allow more people to come to the United States
00:44:37.680 than any other country, but we all know that everyone cannot come to the United States.
00:44:43.920 I think it's our job to export free market capitalism and freedom and the love of, of
00:44:50.960 each other to these other countries so that their boats can rise in their own countries.
00:44:55.840 Because when they come to the United States, many of them are not able to have a boat that rises
00:45:02.080 because they don't speak the language. They don't share the culture. They don't like the food that we
00:45:07.120 have. They aren't able to get jobs. They aren't able to take care of themselves and they end up being
00:45:12.000 dependent on the government, which is the worst place for anybody to be. I would rather see these
00:45:18.320 countries around the world grow, thrive and help their citizens to survive and thrive there rather
00:45:24.880 than here. Absolutely. And, and by the way, uh, this is at the design. This is the design to the Marxist
00:45:34.320 left Dems. Uh, that party wants them dependent, wants them, uh, dependent upon government. And by the way,
00:45:43.920 by extension, the Marxist Dem party for their welfare, for social safety nets. And, and by the way,
00:45:52.240 uh, the, all of the NGOs and, uh, not for profits that are bringing them here, giving them money and
00:45:59.040 supporting them, uh, through the, the good offices of George Soros or whichever billionaire or oligarch
00:46:05.920 you want to talk about American oligarch. Uh, it's, it's a messed up world right now when we have this
00:46:13.280 going on and we have a wide open border, despite all of the deadly drugs, all of the sex trafficking,
00:46:20.000 the human smuggling. It's disgusting. It's appalling that we have an entire party that is pro cartel,
00:46:27.840 pro deadly drugs, and don't give a damn about the deaths of over a hundred thousand Americans.
00:46:35.040 Fentanyl now is the number one cause of death. Folks, 18 to 45. If you're an American 18 to 45 right now,
00:46:43.760 the leading cause of death in your demographic is fentanyl. Think about that. That's insane that we
00:46:51.680 were to have this level of national, uh, poisoning being carried out by the Chinese and Mexico without
00:46:58.800 any response by this administration, even to defend the American people, let alone, uh, exact
00:47:05.840 retribution against these, uh, evil, uh, people in Mexico, the cartels, and in China, the CCP that
00:47:14.640 condones it all. Well, they definitely are terrorists and, and imagine I've heard Sheriff Mark
00:47:21.200 Lamb down from Pinal County. I think he's been on with you, Lou. If he hasn't, you need to get him on,
00:47:26.320 but he's talked about how, um, if 200,000 people were killed in a bombing, uh, of the United States,
00:47:34.720 there would be outrage. There would be demands to do something, but whenever 200,000 people in a very
00:47:41.120 short period of time are killed by the importation of fentanyl by China and Mexico, um, and nothing's
00:47:49.200 done, they just wring their hands and say, there's nothing that we can do. There are plenty of things
00:47:53.040 that we can do. We just don't have people at the top who are willing to do it either because they're
00:47:58.080 afraid or because they're complicit. Those are the only two choices. I want people, um, even in the
00:48:04.160 Democrat party. I would love to see the Biden administration. And I always put a quote around
00:48:08.880 administration because we don't know what those people are doing. We certainly know that Joe Biden
00:48:13.360 is not heading up anything, but I would love for them to have a spine and to put a stop to this
00:48:19.360 cartel violence, to put a stop to the deaths of Americans that could be stopped if we had a secure
00:48:24.800 border. And we actually followed the immigration laws that we currently have on the books. They're
00:48:30.480 always trying to find ways to skirt that so that more people can flood into this country, uh, legally
00:48:35.760 or illegally. And that's got, we've got to put a halt on that so we can get things under control
00:48:41.200 here on our side. Absolutely. And it's great to see a group of candidates, uh, MAGA America first
00:48:49.280 candidates, uh, Blake Masters, Abe Hamada, uh, uh, and Carrie Lake, uh, at the top of the,
00:48:56.720 the top of that list. Those are people I have to say, I'm impressed with all three. Uh, they've all
00:49:03.760 been well, except Blake Masters. He hasn't been on the show. Uh, they've been on the show and they
00:49:09.360 are impressive as they can be. I really think they'll make a difference. The average age of that
00:49:15.280 ticket with Blake, Lake and Abe, Blake, Lake and Abe is, is 39 years old. When you look at Abe Hamada,
00:49:23.120 he's 31, he served in the military. He's been a prosecutor in Maricopa County, the worst county
00:49:29.280 in Arizona, in my opinion. Um, he, he is fierce. He is fearless. Um, and he's ready to go on offense
00:49:36.640 on these things that are affecting our country. Blake Masters just turned 36, just last week,
00:49:42.320 36. Attorney has been done great things in the tech world and in the venture capital world,
00:49:48.400 has three amazing, cute little boys and a wonderful wife. They're homeschooling their boys
00:49:54.960 because they don't want that indoctrination of the public school of the government school.
00:50:00.960 They want education, not indoctrination. And then of course, the great Carrie Lake,
00:50:05.360 Carrie is a movement unto herself. And she was funny the other night, we were together at a rally just
00:50:11.600 before the primary election. And she said, remember when I called you and said, how do I run for office
00:50:17.840 and look where we are now? Yes. And we are strong. We are together. We are unified. We are, we are going
00:50:25.520 to take it to the left and we are going to save Arizona. Arizona is going to be the example for
00:50:31.600 America. And we're going to take this country back. Well, and you've got, you've got a very important
00:50:38.480 race coming up. That is the general election on November 8th. The, the turnout of the primaries,
00:50:44.560 does that carry forward? Do you believe to the general election? Yes, I definitely do. And, and one
00:50:50.880 of the things that, you know, the, the other side, the, the, the fake news and some of the establishment
00:50:56.960 type Republicans, they're trying to create this, this idea that independents are not with this ticket.
00:51:03.280 I will tell you that independents made up a big portion of the people who pulled a Republican
00:51:08.560 ballot and voted for Blake, Lake and Abe and Mark Fincham and Tom Horn and all of our candidates down
00:51:16.400 the, the, down the, the pipe. So independents are already with us. And even some Democrats,
00:51:22.880 these disenfranchised Democrats who somehow were brainwashed into voting for a brain less
00:51:29.040 so-called leader, Joe Biden, and his cackling cohort, Kamala, they are, they are coming to the
00:51:36.720 table. It's going to be a massive red tsunami. That doesn't mean anybody should take anything
00:51:42.560 for granted. Nobody can get complacent. Act as though we are behind by, by 10, by 15, by 20,
00:51:49.760 and work during this time between the primary and general to educate your neighbors, educate the
00:51:54.880 people at church, talk to people in line at the grocery store, and wake them up so that we do
00:52:02.400 put this country back on the right track. So this is, let's get to sort of the, the brass tacks of it
00:52:10.160 all. Right now, one of the reasons I want you to be the head of the RNC is because Ronna McDaniel
00:52:17.920 hasn't done a thing as far as I can detect anywhere to bolster the, the, the ground game.
00:52:24.160 She assured me in 2020 that they had it all put together. They had the lawyers in position.
00:52:29.360 They had the poll watchers. And by the way, then I started getting phone calls from Philadelphia and
00:52:35.440 from other places from attorneys who couldn't, were shoved out of polling stations all around the
00:52:42.400 country. It was, this has got to stop. The national Republican committee has to be more than a
00:52:50.000 fundraising group and a PR machine because the DNC as has its own skip, its own portal into the FBI
00:52:59.520 system for crying out loud. So they can exact punishment against Republicans, conservatives,
00:53:05.440 and anyone associated with Donald Trump. We've got to do better than that. And I, I want to ask you
00:53:12.880 this because it was a nail biter, as you well know, with Carrie Lake, who was up 10 points in every
00:53:18.640 single poll and had been from the outset of that race. And suddenly you think Katie Hobbs, secretary of
00:53:27.040 state, and she could have some considerable influence over the outcome of this election. I want to know
00:53:34.560 how confident you are in the integrity of the election in November.
00:53:39.760 Yes. Well, I mean, we always have to have eyes on the process. And, you know, the RNC can't just
00:53:46.400 give lip service. And they do do things, Lou, just so you know, a lot of people don't know. They do help
00:53:51.920 us here in Arizona to have a great field team that works directly with me as a state party. So the people
00:53:57.520 that come here, they have to be America first, or they have to be go to a different state.
00:54:02.480 Great. And so we've created a very, very good working relationship with the people
00:54:08.480 that are on the RNC side. But that doesn't mean that we take our marching orders from the RNC.
00:54:14.080 We have our own election integrity efforts. We've created an election integrity army,
00:54:19.840 azelectionprotection.com. So if anybody's in Arizona and wants to be a poll watcher,
00:54:24.880 an observer of the process and help us to make sure that the bureaucrats and the people who might want
00:54:30.640 to cheat, they know we've got eyes on the process. And it was great to see some of the things that we
00:54:36.800 did. In Pima County, the person that worked for the county elections department was training poll workers,
00:54:44.000 telling them incorrectly that they could give Republican ballots to Democrats when they came
00:54:50.320 in. Because we've seen across the country where these Democrats are crossing lines and voting in
00:54:55.920 the Republican primaries to try to get the candidates that they think will be easiest to beat. Well,
00:55:00.960 our poll observers saw that, sounded the alarm, and we were able to put the stop to that. So
00:55:08.080 Republicans got Republican ballots and Democrats got Democrat ballots only. Pinal County, disaster,
00:55:14.800 disaster. It's the third biggest county in Arizona. And remember, Arizona only has 15 counties.
00:55:21.760 Maricopa County is the biggest. It needs to be broken up. Rusty Bowers wouldn't even let that be
00:55:26.720 entertained this last session. It needs to be broken up. But Pinal County,
00:55:30.480 disaster during the election from before the election started with printing ballots that didn't
00:55:36.080 have the right people on them for the right voters to election day where they didn't have enough
00:55:41.440 Republican ballots at 14 polling places to allow Republicans to vote. That was Pinal County again,
00:55:48.400 right? Yes. Yes. But the power of the party, Rana joined with me and we put out a call that their
00:55:56.960 election director should resign. And the next day he did. And so I'm glad to have, you know,
00:56:02.720 the voice that I have here in Arizona and that Rana added whatever she could add to that effort. And we
00:56:08.160 were able to get that guy out so that come November, Pinal County voters are not disenfranchised.
00:56:15.360 Uh, every vote was that guy, a Republican voter. Um, was that appointed by the board of supervisors?
00:56:22.560 And I believe that he was a Democrat, but I might be wrong, but I, why would a conservative
00:56:28.160 board of supervisors? And those are like county commissioners appoint a Democrat to such an
00:56:32.800 important position. Um, now we've got the former recorder who stepped down from being the recorder. She
00:56:38.640 is a Republican has moved over to the position of election director, her assistant recorder,
00:56:43.840 who I have heard is just amazing. She is the best thing in that whole department has now become the
00:56:50.080 county recorder. So I think Pinal County it's safe to say is good is in good hands, good Republican
00:56:55.920 hands now and going forward, all legal voters will be able to cast a ballot. We're working very,
00:57:02.320 very hard to make sure that it's easy for legal voters to be able to vote and hard,
00:57:08.000 if not impossible to cheat. The Democrats want different. They want something different.
00:57:12.960 We've got an initiative that they've brought to the ballot. They call it the fair elections, um,
00:57:18.720 initiative. It has nothing to do with fair elections. It's all about power in Washington,
00:57:23.920 D.C., federalizing our elections, voting without voter ID, extending voting for three months of,
00:57:31.520 of having an election. It's ridiculous. It's got to be defeated. Got to be defeated.
00:57:35.600 I should know this. Do you have voter ID in Arizona? We do. We do, except with the mail-in
00:57:42.480 program. So with the mail-in program, as Trump said, it's the biggest place for fraud. As Republicans
00:57:48.960 and Democrats have said for decades, it is ripe and it is a place where fraud can occur. Because
00:57:54.080 the only ID that you have to have... So what are you doing about it? Well, it's the signature on the ballot.
00:57:58.800 And so we want voter ID even with that. I would love to see the legislature ad where you have to
00:58:06.240 send your, your, um, a copy of your ID in with your vote. I don't think there's anything at all wrong
00:58:13.120 with that. Verifying the signatures also needs to be codified across the state. Um, now in 15 counties,
00:58:21.680 the signatures can be verified in completely different ways. We need to get rid of drop boxes. I think
00:58:26.800 drop boxes are illegal. I've been suing to, um, to make that happen. I've joined with Carrie Lake and
00:58:33.200 Mark Fincham to demand paper ballots and one day voting across the board. Um, we've got to get mail-in
00:58:40.720 voting under control. The disappointment is that we have a Republican governor and we had Republican
00:58:46.880 Senate and a Republican house here in Arizona and every election integrity measure, almost every single
00:58:53.840 one of them was shot down. The good news is the people who shot them down, Rusty Bowers and, and
00:59:00.320 his cronies are now voted out. So this come January, 2023, this state is going in the right direction on
00:59:08.320 elections. Yeah. The problem is we got to get through this 2022 election to get there.
00:59:13.280 We do. And that's going to, I hope you've got watchers watching watchers because this is going
00:59:19.920 to be something, uh, Arizona has already shown us in 2020, what can happen. And I know that you've
00:59:26.080 done everything you can to, uh, to make it, uh, to fix it to the degree you can, but I even wrote a book,
00:59:33.280 Lou. I mean, I have a book called justified the story of America's audit. It tells everything that
00:59:37.760 happened before, during and after, as well as policies that we can put in place to restore
00:59:44.480 voter confidence and restore election integrity. I hope that people take that to heart by in the
00:59:50.480 next legislative session, but we will have eyes on the process here in November throughout early
00:59:55.440 voting and on election day. We are not going to let people cheat. We are going to stop it in,
01:00:00.480 in its tracks and, um, and we, we will have amazing elections. Well, God bless you. And for,
01:00:07.520 for everything that you're done and are doing, I, I've got to ask you, I going through the,
01:00:12.560 the list of counties, I noticed that, uh, Maricopa County has a different, uh, voting, uh, machine
01:00:20.960 company than, uh, most of the counties, uh, along with have a pie county, which, uh, has, uh, uh,
01:00:29.280 unison, uh, as their machines, uh, while everybody else is ES and S. Uh, why is there that
01:00:36.480 difference and how much influence does the secretary of state have over those, uh, choices on those
01:00:42.960 machines? Well, we, you, you probably know, am I allowed to say the name of the, the company?
01:00:48.960 Uh, I'm going to say it. Yes, this is America on this show. Thank you. Uh, Dominion, I have never
01:00:54.640 been a fan of Dominion. I put out a video about Dominion right after the election of 2020, exposing a
01:01:01.200 lot of, um, of the problems, big problems with Dominion. The counties have local autonomy and
01:01:09.600 local authority to purchase that information. But I will tell you the county that I live in,
01:01:14.080 Mojave County, the most conservative county in Arizona, and maybe the most conservative
01:01:19.280 in the whole United States, their supervisors, my friends, people that I know, they, when they
01:01:25.040 learned about Dominion, they said, this is not secure. This is not safe. We would never
01:01:29.200 use Dominion. Now, Dominion came in and I'm sure that Katie Hobbs had some input into that choice,
01:01:36.160 along with Adrian Fontes, who was the recorder in the past, who's running for secretary of state
01:01:41.840 right now, who wants to be in control of Arizona elections and can't be anywhere near that office.
01:01:47.840 They, um, I don't know what kind of rewards the, they were given, what kind of rewards and incentives
01:01:54.960 the board of supervisors was given. But I certainly know that the people of Arizona don't trust Dominion.
01:02:01.040 They don't trust the tabulators. They, and they don't trust the county, even though there are so
01:02:06.320 called Republicans that are on that board of supervisors. And as the recorder right now,
01:02:11.520 they've been apologists for Dominion and for the, the, the ridiculousness at Maricopa County in 2020
01:02:19.520 and beyond. And I'll tell you this, Lou, there's some other people that are going to be targets of
01:02:25.440 unelecting come 2024. Well, it's, it's, it's, it's good that you're taking on all of this. And I think
01:02:34.560 everyone's getting a sense though, listening to us, what you're up against and what you have to contend
01:02:42.000 with to deliver, uh, elections, uh, and the outcome, uh, that is fair and honest. Uh, and as the president
01:02:50.640 would say inversely, not rigged, uh, it's just, it is just a tough, tough time. And thank you for being
01:02:58.480 so smart and so tough and we wish you all the very best and look forward to talking to you here soon.
01:03:04.320 We always give our guests an opportunity, uh, for the last word, uh, the concluding thoughts to the show.
01:03:10.720 I, I hate to give up that last word, but here it is. It's yours. Well, from the time that I ran
01:03:20.000 against Senator John McCain way back in 2016, I've been put through the fire. I have been
01:03:26.800 drug around by the establishment and by the fake news. Um, and they, they expected that I was going
01:03:33.600 to retreat, but they actually honed me in that fire so that I could go on this fight at this time.
01:03:42.000 God puts you in the right place at the right time for the right reason. And as chairman of the Republican
01:03:47.040 Party of Arizona, I have been able to help our candidates to help our people to help our state
01:03:53.280 to get back on track. I want everybody to join with me in this effort. You can come and find out all
01:03:58.720 about just me, kellyward.com, Kelly with an I, because I care about the people or come on social
01:04:04.000 media, help amplify this message. Kelly Ward, a Z, um, Kelly with an I, Kelly with an I, and,
01:04:11.200 and together we will be able to save Arizona, save America. And yes, ultra, ultra make America great again.
01:04:21.600 Absolutely. A mission, a goal, an objective, uh, and an outcome that we just simply, we, we all share
01:04:31.760 and which we have to have in this, uh, this critically important year. Uh, there was also the group, uh, for
01:04:38.560 those who want to volunteer for the election. Uh, you said, I think AZ election protection, uh, could you
01:04:44.960 give us that URL? Yep. AZ election protection.com. And don't make the mistake of going to Arizona,
01:04:51.440 because the Democrats bought that. Um, and that's the enemy. AZ election protection.com. Join us.
01:04:58.480 Well, those communists to do that. I like AZ better for purposes of a URL. Uh, and, uh, the,
01:05:07.760 again, AZ election protection.com. Kelly, thanks for being with us. Uh, you're absolutely terrific.
01:05:16.320 We are deeply appreciative of both your time and all that you're doing for this great state of
01:05:21.120 Arizona and for the American people. Thank you so much. Thanks Lou. God bless you. God bless America.
01:05:28.960 Thanks everybody for being with us here tomorrow. We'll have Senator Tommy Tuberville and best-selling
01:05:34.400 author, author of the plot to overthrow the president, Lee Smith, all coming up tomorrow on the great America
01:05:41.840 show. Please join us here tomorrow. Till then, God bless you and God bless America.