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Speaker 1: Right nowur to Sean Hannity Show. Thanks for being with us,

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Speaker 1: it's already a number one best selling book. It's called

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Speaker 1: The Courage to Be Free. Florida and DeSantis Governor, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the program. Always great to have you. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much, Sean. Great to be here. You know,

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Speaker 1: I look at the state of Florida. This is a

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Speaker 1: phenomenon that's happening, and I think in large part it's

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Speaker 1: because of what you're saying, the Courage to Be Free.

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Speaker 1: But you have states like New York California losing nearly

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Speaker 1: a thousand residents a day. Florida is picking up about

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Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty new residents every single day, more

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Speaker 1: than any other state in the country. And you know,

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Speaker 1: on the downside of this, when you look at presidential elections,

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Speaker 1: you know, if people are moving from Wisconsin and their

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Speaker 1: conservative and Michigan and their conservative, in Pennsylvania and their

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Speaker 1: conservative and then move into Florida or the Carolinas or Texas,

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Speaker 1: that makes any Republican running for president, that makes that

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Speaker 1: job that much harder However, there is a reason for

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Speaker 1: this mass migration, and I would argue it's about freedom.

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Speaker 1: It's about people sick of shutdowns, as sick of the weather,

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Speaker 1: the sick of high taxes and regulation. Yeah, I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot to be said for

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Speaker 1: a variety of factors. I mean, just compare New York.

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Speaker 1: You and I have had this discussion before. New York

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Speaker 1: has two to three million fewer people than Florida, and

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Speaker 1: yet New York's budget is twice the size of Florida's budget.

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Speaker 1: And yet we have better infrastructure, our services are better,

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Speaker 1: and our K through twelve schools perform higher. So what

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Speaker 1: are you getting for all the taxes that you're paying

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Speaker 1: and what are they spending this money on. Florida is

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Speaker 1: also the number one state, fastest growing state, number one

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Speaker 1: or one of the top states for lowest tax burden,

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Speaker 1: and then one of the lowest debt burdens. And we

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Speaker 1: have the big budget surplus we've ever had with no

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Speaker 1: state income tax. So you can just see how these

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Speaker 1: things go. And yet, look, the migration has always been something.

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Speaker 1: People work in New York, they get older, they moved

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Speaker 1: to Boca. That has been happening long before I was here.

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Speaker 1: But I think what's different in the last four or

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Speaker 1: five years because you've got people in the prime of

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Speaker 1: their careers going from California to Florida. I never saw

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Speaker 1: Florida license plate growing up here in Florida. Then we

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Speaker 1: start seeing all these Californats. A lot of Floridines were

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Speaker 1: worried about how these people were going to vote. Well,

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Speaker 1: I do think it turns out a lot of them

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Speaker 1: liked what we were doing. But you're going three thousand

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Speaker 1: the states run crime has been a huge issue because

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Speaker 1: you've had Soros backed prosecutors in many of these blue

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Speaker 1: cities that haven't that have let the criminals roam free.

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Speaker 1: They've attacked the police, they've defunded police, and crime has

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Speaker 1: gone through the roof. In Florida, our crime rates at

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Speaker 1: a fifty year low. And then I do think there

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Speaker 1: were a lot of COVID refugees because the restrictions that

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Speaker 1: those Blue states were doing were going on forever and

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Speaker 1: they just weren't sensible, and so people just had enough

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Speaker 1: people wanted to vote with their feet on. I don't

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Speaker 1: sean go out and beg people to come here because

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Speaker 1: it's we need more infrastructure. There's a lot of things

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Speaker 1: but it just happens organically and the results speak for themselves.

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Speaker 1: You see leftist governments driving people away, and then states

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Speaker 1: that perform, like Florida, are where everybody's going. I've had

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Speaker 1: that have lived in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York for

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Speaker 1: all these years, why are they leaving? They're mentioned everything

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Speaker 1: that you just said, you know, you talk about, for example,

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Speaker 1: The infrastructure is probably you know, fifty times better down

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Speaker 1: that's a great example in that California had been one

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Speaker 1: And now those people are being pushed out of that

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Speaker 1: don't regret it. They like what we're doing in Florida,

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Speaker 1: it's like I carried the county by eleven percent. There's

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Speaker 1: the same as if they were in northern California. Let

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Speaker 1: me talk about national elections in this sense, because Florida,

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Speaker 1: I think has led the way. Can anybody with any

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Speaker 1: George W. Bush. But Florida then fixed its problems when

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Speaker 1: And so my question to you is in Florida Republicans

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Speaker 1: place also in Florida, based on the law and based

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Speaker 1: on very stringent integrity measures. Oh you don't have ballot harvesting.

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Speaker 1: we banned Zuckerbucks in the state of Florida, so you

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Speaker 1: can't do any of those. We have absentee ballot requests,

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Speaker 1: but you, as the voter, have to have ID and

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Speaker 1: you have to personally request it. Then they will mail

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Speaker 1: not allowed in Florida to just mail a ballot to everybody. Shawn,

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Speaker 1: So in twenty twenty two, you know, we really clicked

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Speaker 1: on all cylinders. We have actually now in the state government,

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Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent for that, but not every state

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Speaker 1: I think Republicans should do it. I think they should

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Speaker 1: be legal. But if they are legal in a state,

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Speaker 1: we've got a fight with both hands ready to go,

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Speaker 1: Why haven't these other states adopted what you've done in

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Speaker 1: I mean, Florida, the Republican Party of Florida was the

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Speaker 1: ones that pioneered absentee voting. It used to be we

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Speaker 1: we're competitive with them on that, but then we'd blow

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Speaker 1: them out in early in person in an election day. Look,

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Speaker 1: absolutely need to get rid of that or at least shorten.

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Speaker 1: At Florida, we have a one week mandatory early voting.

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Speaker 1: I Look, I prefer election day, and I would probably

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Speaker 1: I'd go to my rallies. I'd say, guys, the polls

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Speaker 1: You could have a flat tire, you could have a

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Speaker 1: family emergency if you're going back and forth, and you

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Speaker 1: know what, the message was heard. Because we clean the

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Speaker 1: was a bloodbath. We also clean their clock on election

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Speaker 1: day two. But if you have votes banks going into

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Speaker 1: I think every state can learn a lot about how

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Speaker 1: to Be Free. If Americans learn that, I think we

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Speaker 1: an amazing task, especially in light of the current administration. Governor,

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Speaker 1: we always appreciate your time. Thank you as always. I

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Speaker 1: think I'll see you in Florida sometime in the next

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Speaker 1: and we always appreciate you coming on the program. All right,

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Speaker 1: God speed, my man. Take care. Eight hundred and nine

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Speaker 1: a part of the program. We're in. Fake news gives

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Speaker 1: you lies. Annity supplies the truth. Sean Annity is on

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Speaker 1: right now. All right, let's get to our busy phones.

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Speaker 1: Many of you been very patient. Here we have a

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Speaker 1: Why do you think, David as a liberal that for

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Speaker 1: the first time in California history, you are having a

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Speaker 1: massive net loss in terms of population. In other words,

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and seventy some odd years, you know,

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Speaker 1: the population of California was writhing. Now you're losing close

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Speaker 1: What do you think that is? Well, as a native

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you want, well, what are you going to

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Speaker 1: do with the fact that now Gavin Newsom, you're a

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Speaker 1: wonderful governor, has accumulated to what forty billion dollars budget deficit.

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Speaker 1: That means the ones that remain like you, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to end up paying that. I'm pretty sure it'll

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Speaker 1: all work out in the in the end. We've had

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Speaker 1: big budget deficits before. They also have a big surplus

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Speaker 1: right now at the same time, so you know the no,

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Speaker 1: they don't. They don't have a surplus. They have a

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Speaker 1: twenty five billion dollar budget deficit that's expected to go

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Speaker 1: to forty or fifty billion by the end of the year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've had them before, and that's the way capitalism works,

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Speaker 1: boom and bust. But I wanted to talk about how

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Speaker 1: you said we can't believe our government, and as a liberal,

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. We cannot always agree that we can't.

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Speaker 1: Our government's gonna lie to us sometimes. But my question is,

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Speaker 1: a good reason, like the government may have a secret

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Speaker 1: don't think we should reveal our military secrets, right um.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we should reveal intelligence that we gather

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Speaker 1: on enemy countries, right um. I think you know every

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Speaker 1: government has to have, you know, some secrecy in that regard,

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Speaker 1: of course, yes, And I myself have lied when I

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Speaker 1: felt there's a good reason. No, you don't look fat

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Speaker 1: in that dress, and you Fox News host, you knew that,

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Speaker 1: by the by the by the way, you know you're

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Speaker 1: not allowed to you. I didn't think I thought the

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Speaker 1: the F word that you used anyway, I thought that

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Speaker 1: word was banned. I think you have to use the

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Speaker 1: word chubby. Now you knew the election wasn't stolen from Trump,

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Speaker 1: and you guys lied about it anyway because you felt

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Speaker 1: you had a good reason. No, if you listen to

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Speaker 1: what I said on the air every day, what did

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Speaker 1: I talk about it? Let me remind you. I talked

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Speaker 1: about laws being violated partisan observers. For example, most states

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Speaker 1: count from start to finish. In twenty twenty, they were

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Speaker 1: one hundred feetback, they were a thousand feetback. There was

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Speaker 1: no accommodation to uphold the law that allows partisan observers

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Speaker 1: violated because the Constitution in Pennsylvania it specifies in great

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Speaker 1: detail all the only people that can vote by mail. Now,

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Speaker 1: instead of going through the arduous process of getting a

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Speaker 1: constitutional amendment, state legislators decided they just would pass a law. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's not how you amend the constitution by passing a law,

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Speaker 1: so they went the unconstitutional route. Now, the you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of courts didn't want to take up these cases.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you the truth. In the case

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Speaker 1: That was a three to four case that was lost

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Speaker 1: on the conservative side, but in excoriating dissent that was

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Speaker 1: of the justices, the four justices on this court are

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Speaker 1: ignoring the laws of Wisconsin, and if they continue to

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Speaker 1: do so, this will continue to happen. So I focused

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Speaker 1: you're asking me whether or not I talked about other topics.

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Speaker 1: I did not. Those were not arguments that were being

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Speaker 1: made on this show. No, I'm asking you if you

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Speaker 1: all knew that the election wasn't stolen from Trump, and

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Speaker 1: yet you no, No, you're not listening to what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I said I had problems, that there were integrity issues,

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Speaker 1: and I just spelled out with the integral the issues were.

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Speaker 1: You know, let me give you an example. The Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court made a decision in two thousand Bush v. Gore

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Speaker 1: that George W. Bush, they stopped the counting five hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty seven votes was the margin of victory, and

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Speaker 1: he became the president. Do you think that number five

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven Do you think that number is absolutely,

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Speaker 1: positively beyond any shadow of a doubt, the likely right

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Speaker 1: number of vote differences between Bush and Gore. Absolutely not,

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Speaker 1: because I believe it was Time magazine and a university

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Speaker 1: or somebody finished the vote unofficially a year later and

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Speaker 1: Al Gore actually had more votes than George W. Bush did.

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Speaker 1: You can look that up. So the other thing that

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Speaker 1: I've brought up is I know Democrats like whistleblowers. There

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Speaker 1: were thousands of people that signed affidavits talking about voting irregularities,

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Speaker 1: and yet nobody wanted to pay any attention to them.

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Speaker 1: I would call them whistleblowers. Yes, sir, those are the

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Speaker 1: under the threat of perjury. They signed affidavits and nobody

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Speaker 1: paid attend any attention to them. I think we should

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Speaker 1: have Yes, sir, every election has voter eerie irregular Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm having no irregularities. You're right, but I gotta go.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine four one shown. If you want to

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Speaker 1: be a part of the program,