WEBVTT - Trump Wants To Steal Our Elections

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<v Speaker 1>It is Tuesday, August fifth. This is the warning.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's talk honestly about what's happening in America. Conditions are deteriorating.

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<v Speaker 2>The assault on the republic, on democracy, on freedom, liberty,

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<v Speaker 2>however you wish to think about, is worsening. One of

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<v Speaker 2>the grave offenses of this era is the arrogance of

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<v Speaker 2>the political elite, who have decreed that it is their

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<v Speaker 2>right to take away your right to pick, to choose,

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<v Speaker 2>to elect who leads you.

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<v Speaker 1>What they seek is a world.

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<v Speaker 2>Where the professional politician, using very intricate software, picks their voters.

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<v Speaker 2>And so this is why congressional districts look like this

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<v Speaker 2>and this and this modern art design, where block by block,

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<v Speaker 2>a Republican house is carved in a Democratic household carved out,

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<v Speaker 2>or vice versa to give one side the advantage over

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<v Speaker 2>the other. And what it has produced is a Congress

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<v Speaker 2>where over ninety percent of all the members know that

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<v Speaker 2>once they're in there, it is impossible for them to

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<v Speaker 2>lose an election, except perhaps maybe in a primary, for

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<v Speaker 2>not being pure enough in holding the line and being

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<v Speaker 2>extreme enough to the satisfaction of their faction. Because there

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<v Speaker 2>is no moderate middle whatsoever. It has literally figuratively, like

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<v Speaker 2>with a laser, been carved out of existence, like minded

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<v Speaker 2>hive communities online reinforce hive communities that have come to

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<v Speaker 2>exist in real life, and congressional districts carved between the

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<v Speaker 2>two that exist in this space where the hive mind floods.

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<v Speaker 2>They're fellow travelers with information curated so that no offense

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<v Speaker 2>is ever given, that celebrates their leader as pure and

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<v Speaker 2>true and making America great again. So we have witnessed

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<v Speaker 2>over the last six months the effects of all of this.

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<v Speaker 2>We've seen the consequence the massed agents, a secret police

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<v Speaker 2>force now funded to the size of the fifteenth largest

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<v Speaker 2>military in the world, concentration camps, migrants sleeping on concrete,

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<v Speaker 2>the evisceration of America's scientific industrial complex, the evisceration of

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<v Speaker 2>the concept of facts.

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<v Speaker 1>And data from the government.

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<v Speaker 2>The reduction of the word of the United States around

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<v Speaker 2>the world to that of a Banana Republic dictator from

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<v Speaker 2>a Hollywood cartoon. Mostly, it has happened on the watch

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<v Speaker 2>of the schumercrats in Washington, d c. It is there

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<v Speaker 2>that Trump has steamrolled his opposition and has eviscerated the

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<v Speaker 2>checks and balances. It is there against Chuck Schumer, a

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<v Speaker 2>man who is not competent to the task, not competent

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<v Speaker 2>to the moment, A feckless man, a man who is appeased.

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<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump, a deluded man, a man who, when there

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<v Speaker 2>was an opportunity to arrest this, to stop it, to

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<v Speaker 2>slow it, instead went out and delivered this.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna stand with you in this fight, and we

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<v Speaker 1>will win.

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<v Speaker 3>We will win.

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<v Speaker 1>We will win, we will win.

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<v Speaker 2>He was not winning, and America still is not winning.

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<v Speaker 2>But the battleground is moving. Politics is zero sum, and

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<v Speaker 2>what we have seen from the Maga imperialists, from the

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<v Speaker 2>Maga fanatics, is a desire not to perfect the union,

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<v Speaker 2>but to eradicate dissent and opposition, to securitize their power

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<v Speaker 2>forever more. And so Greg Abbot, the malicious governor, extremist governor,

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<v Speaker 2>corrupt governor of Texas, is.

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<v Speaker 1>Going for it.

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<v Speaker 2>In the middle of a decade, seven years off from

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<v Speaker 2>the redistricting, Greg Abbot looks around and he says, Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>Trump is unpopular. So what do we do?

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<v Speaker 1>Well? We better take.

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<v Speaker 2>Votes away from unhappy people and distribute them through modern

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<v Speaker 2>science and technology on a map that creates five new

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<v Speaker 2>Republican districts for the purposes of maintaining Trump's unchecked ambitions

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<v Speaker 2>and unchecked power pristine. In the end, this aggression, of course,

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<v Speaker 2>is answered by let's see the governor of New York.

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<v Speaker 3>But here in New York, we will not stand on

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<v Speaker 3>the sidelines with the timid souls on the sidelines who

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<v Speaker 3>don't care, will not investor their heart and soul into

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<v Speaker 3>this battle. This is a war.

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<v Speaker 1>We are at war, and that's why the gloves are off,

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<v Speaker 1>and I say bring it on war.

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<v Speaker 2>I as an American, do not want war, and I

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<v Speaker 2>don't like the Governor of New York talking about war.

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<v Speaker 2>But what Democrats must realize is that Donald Trump's aggressions

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<v Speaker 2>must be answered and that power must be used to

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<v Speaker 2>stop the abuse of power. Here's California Governor Gavin Newsom,

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<v Speaker 2>who's much closer to the line of where the party

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<v Speaker 2>must be active.

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<v Speaker 3>We're going to play fair in the world that is

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<v Speaker 3>wholly unfair. We may have the higher moral ground, but

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<v Speaker 3>the ground is shifting from underneath us, and I think

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<v Speaker 3>we have to wake up to that reality. And I'm

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<v Speaker 3>talking to members of my legislature. Whatever our alternatives, we

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<v Speaker 3>could do a special session. I can call from one today.

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<v Speaker 3>If I would chose to, we can then put something

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<v Speaker 3>on the ballot and I could call special election. We

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<v Speaker 3>could change the Constitution with the consent of the voters,

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<v Speaker 3>and I think we will win.

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<v Speaker 2>That Republicans cannot be allowed to redraw congressional maps and

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<v Speaker 2>pick up ten, fifteen, twenty seats to insulate themselves from

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<v Speaker 2>voter outrage about their aggressions against the Constitution, against civil liberties,

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<v Speaker 2>against the least of us, by the richest amongst us,

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<v Speaker 2>who have taken great license with the people's government. It's

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<v Speaker 2>time to remind the powerful politicians that in fact, we

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<v Speaker 2>are a government of the people, by the people, for

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<v Speaker 2>the people, and that requires the people having a vote.

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<v Speaker 2>And that is what the mag extremists are trying to

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<v Speaker 2>take away.

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<v Speaker 1>But war.

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<v Speaker 2>We must never think about this as war, or allow

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<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump to pull us into thinking about our filled

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<v Speaker 2>citizens as our enemies, because then we will have lost

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<v Speaker 2>our country and we must not allow that to have. Instead,

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<v Speaker 2>let's keep our focus on the corruption and on the outrage,

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<v Speaker 2>and be precise and say to the American people with

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<v Speaker 2>candor and truth that in these hours we must use

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<v Speaker 2>all of the power that is lawfully available to us

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<v Speaker 2>to defend freedom, to defend liberty, we must meet these

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<v Speaker 2>maximum positions with maximum strength, and then we will defend

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<v Speaker 2>straight power and its accumult relations in the wrong hands

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<v Speaker 2>in this country. In the next presidential election, we will

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<v Speaker 2>restrain executive power.

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<v Speaker 1>We will restrain the powers.

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<v Speaker 2>Of CEOs, of the big corporations, of the big banks,

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<v Speaker 2>of the big tech companies, of the big agg companies,

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<v Speaker 2>of the big surveillance companies, of the big defense contractors.

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<v Speaker 2>It will be time to rebalance the scales and to

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<v Speaker 2>set things right, with the American Constitution at the center,

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<v Speaker 2>as it should be in perpetuity of all things.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the challenge ahead.

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<v Speaker 2>There should not be loose talk of war or any

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<v Speaker 2>other such things. Instead precise explanation about why it is

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<v Speaker 2>necessary to do unprecedented things to fight back against unprecedented

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<v Speaker 2>aggressions by people who swore an oath that they have desecrated.

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<v Speaker 2>They they have violated as they have turned against their country,

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<v Speaker 2>turned against its people for their own selfish enrichment, for

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<v Speaker 2>their own selfish power and gains. And what it has

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<v Speaker 2>created is something monstrous. Look at these people. Ted Cruz,

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<v Speaker 2>Pete Hegseth, Carolyn Levitt, Donald Trump Junior, jd Vance, Pam Bondie,

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<v Speaker 2>Christy Nome, Corey Lewandowski. These people are but a handful

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<v Speaker 2>in the multitudes of us, and they are the worst

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<v Speaker 2>of the worst of us. And it is time that

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<v Speaker 2>we become much less tolerant of their arrogance, their officiousness,

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<v Speaker 2>their misconduct, and their aggression against us, the people of

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<v Speaker 2>the United States. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the warning. I invite you to join this

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<v Speaker 2>commune unity, where I promise to be honest, blunt and

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<v Speaker 2>direct about what is happening in this country. America is

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you.