WEBVTT - All Eyes on Arizona with Abraham Hamadeh 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.120 I take questioning elections seriously. I don't believe it should 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.680 be done, and necessarily it's an important thing to raise questions, 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.480 to raise doubt, to cast out on elections. We have 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.280 to have faith in the election process. We have to 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.320 have faith in the system. But what happened in Arizona 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:20.159 deserves to be questioned. Even Maricopa County election officials have 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.599 admitted that at least sixty voting locations experienced issues with 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.240 their ballot on demand printers. The Attorney General's Office also 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.200 has concerns because they launched an investigation into a series 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.440 of complaints and raising questions if Maricopa County complied with 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.760 Arizona election law. Instead of being truthful and instead of 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.879 trying to answer questions, it looks like Maricopa County's leaders 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.479 are just trying to cover things up. I mean, listen 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.360 to what Maricopa County Board of Supervisor's chairman Bill Gates 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.600 had to say. Hi, I'm Bill Gates, and I'm chairman 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.680 of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, and I want 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:02.040 to talk to you today about voters suppress. Unfortunately, that 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.440 phrase has been thrown around in our county since election 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.480 day people have claimed that there was voters suppression because 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.639 we had issues with the printers, which did not reveal 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.920 themselves when we tested these printers before election day. I 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.560 hate that this happened, and my colleagues and I are 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.240 committed to figuring out exactly what happened so that it 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:27.600 never happens again. But that does not constitute voter suppression. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.160 We know what voter suppression looks like in our country. 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.319 The inconvenience and the lines that people experience were unfortunate. 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.520 But the fact is every voter had the opportunity to 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.880 cast a vote on election day. Now, you gotta remember 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.560 that Mercoba County is Arizona's most populous county. You also 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.160 have to remember who's turning out on election day. It's 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:56.640 Republican voters. It's not Democrats being disenfranchised. Its Republicans. And 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.040 what raises suspicions is that Thomas Liddy, the division in 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.720 chief for the Civil Services Division of the Maricoba County's 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.800 Attorney's Office. So he's trying to say that no voter 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:13.119 was disenfranchised because of the difficulty the county experienced with 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.640 some of its printers. How is that possible when you 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:21.880 have issues at least sixty voting locations. So even that 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.760 response from Mericoba County makes no sense. It flies in 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.240 the face of logic, it flies in the face of 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.160 the truth. So what really happened in Maricoba County and 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.840 what happened in Arizona, We're gonna get to the bottom 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.880 of it with a Bama Day, who is the Attorney 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.640 general candidate for Republicans. He's currently facing a recount in 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.520 the election. He's down by just a little over five votes, 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.200 so what happened matters a lot to him and could 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.360 mean if he ends up being the Attorney General or not. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.600 So he's launched a lawsuit and uh he waiting to 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.440 see the results of that and also waiting to see 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.800 the results of the recount. But he's not giving up 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.000 the fight, and I don't believe he should because there 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.480 are questions about what happened in Maricopa County, and it 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.839 doesn't sound like the Mericopa County election officials there want 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:28.079 to give answers. So here's a you know, a right now, 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.079 we've got the certification taking place of what happened in Arizona, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.920 but there's a lot of questions about what went down 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.280 on election day. Maricopa County officials have admitted that at 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.000 least sixty voting locations experienced issues with their ballot on 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.840 demand partners. What happened on election day, Well, that's a 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.680 good question, and you know, a lot more journalist should 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.760 be asking this because supposedly what happened in a Merricopa 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.120 county was that they tested all the issue all the 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.240 machines and the printers the night before and then suddenly, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.320 you need imediately, as polls opened up at six am, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.000 what we saw was so many of the printers and 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.240 the machines malfunctioning. So a lot of what happened. I mean, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.880 I voted in personal election day too, and I witnessed 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:18.360 firsthand people bout their ballots being rejected constantly by these machines, 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.280 and so it took them hours and hours to finally 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.080 figure out what was wrong. And what the county is 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.839 saying was that the printers were not printing dark enough, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.680 which is quite odd since they say that this is 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.400 the same settings that they've had it on for the 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.679 primary in August and also the primary and general election 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:42.039 back in So you know, it's really concerning that the county, 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.480 you know, what happened. Besides this, the long lines to 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.880 the long lines are what really doesn't franchise so many people. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.960 I mean, the lines were taking some of them are 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.560 up to three or four hours long. People were leaving 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.000 the lines. At the Republican National Committee and Carry Lake 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.400 and Blake Masters, you know, we all wanted to extend 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.119 to voting hours because of these issues, and at the time, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.840 the judge rejected it. So the polls closed at seven PM. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.880 And I only highlight that because in my race for 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.800 Attorney General, I mean, we are down five hundred and 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.440 ten votes, and as you can imagine, I mean there's 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.599 a hundred and twenty voting centers Americopa County. If you 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.040 can imagine it for three hours, you know, just grabbing 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.479 another five voters, you know, it would be pretty impactful 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.760 because on election day here in Arizona, the Republicans we're 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:34.120 winning seventy five percent to I mean, that's how much 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.159 of a stark difference it was. So that's why you know, 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.680 we filed our lawsuit earlier this week with Republican National 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.360 Committee because ultimately we want every voters, uh there, they're 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.960 votes to actually be counted, and we want justice for 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.760 what happened on election day we all know is a 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.359 botched election. Well, and what's important to point out is 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.560 this isn't just a disenfranchisement of voters. It's a disenfranchisement 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.200 of Republican voters, because as we know from this election 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.760 in the past couple of actions, it's Republicans who are 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.520 turning out on election day at much more significant rates 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.280 than Democrats. Yeah, exactly, and that's you know, across the state, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.760 we are winning election day voters in every single county, 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.000 right and even Blue County. So and here America seventy 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.640 five percent. I mean, can you imagine seventy That definitely 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.240 had changed and altered the outcome of this election. But 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.640 you know, ultimately we need to find out what went wrong. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.960 And I think the Hubrists of America, the county is 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.359 what's so shocking is that, you know, the smugness, they 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.119 don't want to admit fault, and you know, they're telling 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.120 people to put these ballots in the door three. I 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.719 don't know if you've heard about that, but the door 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.440 three situation, so that they would be tabulated later on 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.960 and then at the voting centers they were mixing in 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.599 the door three ballots that are uncounted with other ballots 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.080 that were counted. It was just a complete mess. So 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.200 you know, right now, the certifications are going on across 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.600 the state. UM here in the in the county needs 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.839 and one county just today in Coaches County, they just 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.560 voted to delay certification, which is quite interesting because that's 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.240 never happened as far as I can tell in Arizona 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.960 history because statutorially, they're mandated to UH to certify the 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.640 election twenty days after UM the election day, which would 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.280 be today. So it's it's really interesting, but it's really 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:26.400 Americopa County's incompetence has thrown Arizona into a laughing stock 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.680 across the country. And what our lawsuit is saying is 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.040 that Arizona shouldn't have to suffer due to the incompetence 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.520 of Americapa County. And you're exactly right. It was Republican 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.920 voters who are disenfranchised, and imagine if this was the 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.679 other way around. And this is this has actually happened before. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.280 In sixteen, there were long lines because they switched this 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.880 voting center model away from precincts voting. And what happened 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.640 then with a phoenix mayor at the time now Congressman 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:57.360 Greg Stanton, Liberal Democrat. He actually called for a Department 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.480 of Justice investigation into disenfranchise. So, you know, it's really 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.360 interesting how the media is carrying the latter for Americopa 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.840 County when you know, these the so called guardians of democracy, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.400 they're the ones who should be asking these questions. Why 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.040 did the machines go down, what were the contingencies, and 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.680 why was there a failure in how to we prefend 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.600 this from happening again? Well, and the Attorney General's office 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.760 is asking these questions. Jennifer Wright, the Assistant Attorney General, 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.720 wrote a letter to Thomas Liddy, the Civil Division Chief, 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.880 and the Maricope Counties Attorney's Office raising a lot of 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.000 concerns about the door three ballots which you mentioned, as 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.480 well as the printer configuration settings. Questions about that as 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.280 well as election day checkout procedures that took place as well. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.600 Do you know what the update is on the Attorney 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:45.880 General's investigation and the questions that they opposed to Maricopa County. Well, 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.200 the county just released a statement answering some of the 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:54.000 questions yesterday. And it's really interesting because you know, our 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.400 lawsuit that we filed with the Republican National Committee, it 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.800 actually alleges many of these issues where the out procedure, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.120 So once you're going into go voting, to go vote 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.160 at voting center, you have to check in right, and 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.720 that basically says that, Okay, this person voted UM at 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.880 the time, the county has told them that they could 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.760 go to a different location if they didn't want to 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.760 put their ballot in the box three. So a lot 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.760 of people were leaving the voting centers without having checked 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.000 out because nobody knew first of all, how to check 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.360 people out. It was, you know, pretty complicated. So you know, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.440 the county seems to have wanted to they answered this 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.280 question to the A G. S Office. But it's really 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.559 odd because at our lawsuit that we filed last week, 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.320 you know, we were we were in communication with the 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.160 county and they never told us what the number was. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.280 But conveniently yesterday told us it was a hundred and 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.240 twenty two that they that they found who left the 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.280 voting center without checking out, and they counted a hundred 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.560 and nine of them, you know, which, uh, you know, 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.720 it would be nice to have that information prior to 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.280 us filing the lawsuit, like we were asking them constantly, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.760 and we actually learned about that from a newspaper article 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.839 that that they were talking to the media, not to 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.120 the attorneys, but you know, the AG's office. I'm glad 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.760 they're stepping in right now to to get some of 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.400 these questions answered. But you know, when you have a 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.240 rogue county like Americopa County who doesn't want to admit faults, 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.600 what they're doing is kicking the can down the road 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.000 and trying to hope this goes away in time for 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.640 the inauguration. But you know, my race, since it's so close, 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:25.360 my race is the closest statewide race in Arizona history. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.640 That's a margin of point zero two percent of votes 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.320 out of two point five million. UM. We are going 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.400 to be going into an automatic recount probably next week, 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.920 and it's gonna take weeks for that too, for that 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.320 to settle as well. But what we're trying to do is, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.680 I mean, we all understand that our voters were showing 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.160 up at the voting polls on election day, they didn't 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.040 extend the hours, and they had all of these issues, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.839 and suddenly what we just saw was just a total 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.199 disenfranchisement of Republican voters particularly, But I hope the AGS 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.400 office gets the bottom of it, but I'm not confident 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.280 that the county to answer these questions quick break more 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:12.400 on this crazy election in Arizona. And to your point, 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.400 I'm looking at the response from Maricopa County now and 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.920 Thomas Lidy, the division chief for the Civil Services Division 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.439 a Meercoba County, is saying that no voter was disenfranchised 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.640 because of the difficulty the county experience with some of 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.240 its printers. But how can you make such a declarative 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.880 statement when we know that there were so many issues 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:35.600 with the printers, and then also there might have been 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.680 comigling of these ballots, of the door three ballots, So 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.000 how how how is it possible to to make such 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.240 a declarative statement such as that it's because they're hoping 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.560 to sweep this under the road, Lisa, But I mean 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.360 you're right. I mean what we witnessed and what we 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.120 have people saying is that there are a lot of 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.760 busses from retirement homes that we're going to the voting locations, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.960 and a lot of them left without voting because they 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.240 couldn't stand in line for two hours, you know, or 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.680 three hours. So and there's this They had no timeline 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.440 and when they were gonna get these ballot machines to 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.240 be working in operational again, that's what's concerning. For him 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.480 to make that type of statement without the facts right 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.320 now is pretty shocking, right. I mean, even in our loss, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.120 it was pretty measured and what we were alleging. But 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.560 you know this, this is the uh, the Hubrists of 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.840 the county and and I hope that justice is ultimately 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.840 done with what happened. But I mean to to suggest 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.439 that when you have sixty or seventy voting locations out 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.559 of a hundred and twenty have malfunctions for hours before 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.600 I was actually remedied, you know, clearly there were people 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.960 who left the lines, who didn't vote because I mean, 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.960 people have other things to do, and uh it is 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.200 they have lives to live. So it is a little 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.680 shocking that they're suggesting this and it has determined the outcome. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.960 I mean, five ten votes, this is absolutely this is 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.679 a statistical dead heat, right and uh we know that 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:00.240 this was you know, clearly affecting Republicans because sevent in 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.160 meercoa County voted for Republicans on election. I try to 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.280 be careful in questioning elections because I believe, you know, 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.920 working in the media, responsibility to get my facts straight 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.640 into not you know, unnecessarily cast out on things. But 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.560 I mean there are questions we asked when you know 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.960 there's reports in town. I believe human events rather that 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.480 Arizona's Merica County Recorder Stephen Richer wrych Er whatever his 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.360 name is, and Supervisor Chairman Bill Gates that they had 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.400 started a political action committee to stop Maga County candidates 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.679 in two thousand twenty one. Uh, and the whole goal 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.640 was to uh support Republicans running for non federal offices 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.120 who acknowledged the validity of the election and condemned the 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.960 events of January six. So, I mean, you know, these 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.840 are some of the people in charge of Merico County 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.160 and ensuring that, you know, there's integrity in the process. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.880 Yet they've already declared an animus against candidates, uh, you know, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.720 like you who support Trump. So it's hard to have 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.920 confidence in that. Yeah, And I think if you look 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.960 at what happened, I mean, those two that you mentioned 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.680 or they are Republicans basically a name only at this point, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.400 if they had spent their efforts in their time to 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:11.040 actually take you know, issues and take election integrity issues seriously, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.000 we may not have had the problems we just witnessed 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.959 in Americo, PA County. But instead what they were doing 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.480 was starting a political action committee and trying to promote 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.960 their agenda and try to undermine people like myself, Carry 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.960 Lake and Blake masters Um. So that that's what's so 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.200 appalling about this because and honestly, so this is backfired. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.200 I mean, even people who are not skeptical of the 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.240 election now have become you know, skeptics of this election. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.880 So I think this is ultimately back started in a 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.800 big way against these two because I'm telling you, this 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.560 is gonna be the top issue of voters mind, at 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.720 least in Arizona going forward. I mean, I just I 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.440 can't fathom how the incompetence that was displayed on election 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.440 day and the smugness and the unwillingness to take responsibility 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.440 for what occurred, especially given that we know how high 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.280 the stakes are and all the rhetoric you know, going 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.240 around this and a lot of the conspiracies, but a 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.120 lot of now has come to fruition. So It's really 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.280 made a lot of people who are not conspiracy theorists 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.720 into now being questioning the the elections. So it is 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.480 totally backfired on Bill Gates and Stephen Richard. But you know, 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.800 this is totally their own doing. And can you imagine 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.120 the people in charge of the elections creating a superpack, 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.840 you know, the ones were in charge of tabulating the 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.400 votes creating a superpack to undermine specific candidates who will 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.840 be on that ballot. It it is shocking and it 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.280 shows a clear, you know, display of you know that 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:44.920 that have no integrity. It is really it's really surprising. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.320 But you know, here in America, the county are elections 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.000 have become a laughing stock all across the country, and 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.320 you know, it's something that we absolutely need to fix. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.400 And you know, we thought we were on the right track, 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.080 but you know, now look at the consequences of what's happened. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.760 The Democrats have taken over are taking over every single 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.120 statewide office. This is gonna be so detrimental and it's 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.480 due to the incompetence of America accounting well, you know. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.080 And then of course it raises questions because Katie Hobbs 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.320 is the secretary of stage. You know, it looks like 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.920 she might end up being the governor of this state now, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:17.760 but she was the Democrat candidate in the race. So 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.960 that raises concerns as well that you just have all 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.760 these individuals in charge of elections that already have a 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.760 preconceived animus against the political opponents running in the race 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.440 just obviously cast out. And then to your point earlier, 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.760 I think it would make things a lot more believable 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.800 and more trustworthy if the individuals in charge acknowledged their 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.960 errors and acknowledged what seems to be the basic truth 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.480 that there were voters who are disenfranchised just by you know, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.240 common sense and logic. So I think the outright denial 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.880 of that, obviously, you know, raises additional suspicions and questions. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.480 People aren't stupid, right, And you know today, actually we're 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.680 going to be our case that we filed last week 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.880 on Tuesday. Today is the first hearing in a few hours, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.680 so you know, we're gonna see the Secretary of State 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.639 Katie Hobbs and my opponents they're seeking emotions dismissed that case. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.840 But I mean, there are a lot of issues that 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.240 need to be answered, and that's why you know, we 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.919 feel so strongly about our about our case. I mean 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.000 votes right now, how many ballots have they not counted 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.119 at the county Because of these issues and these errors, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.560 we don't know, you know, I no longer trust what 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.920 the county is saying. So this is why the lawsuit 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.239 is necessary for us to go in have discovery and 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.320 to litigate some of these issues. I mean, this has 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.080 ability to have ramifications for the next four years. Right 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.160 with this election, and with this being the closest race 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.000 in statewide history. Of course we're going to file the 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.560 lawsuit and fight it. And uh, you know it is, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.080 you know, to question election. It's really it's really surprising 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.480 because Democrats were the you know, they were the best 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.240 at it for a while. Now. I mean, if you 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:56.000 remember Outgore in two thousand, remember Stacy Abraham's refusing to concede. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.080 So this is where when we have actionable reports that 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.640 suggests that the machines failed, they were not operational, and 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.440 you have people disenfranchised because they were waiting for hours 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.520 and unsure if they wanted to drop off this ballot 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.520 into a a box three that they didn't know where 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.160 it would go to. Ultimately, you know, it's it's really 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.639 sadly so, because I'm really worried about Republicans not showing 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.600 up to vote anymore because they no longer have trust 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.479 in the system. Because the same people who vote on 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.399 election day already suspicious of you know, early voting and 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.560 mail and voting, and they already suspicious of the voting 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.520 process in general. So now if the courts don't take 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.240 these issues seriously, it's going to destroy whatever faith that 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.639 they had left in our elections. And that's what's so 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.879 status see, and that's why I'm fighting this all the 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.120 way to the end to be able to restore confidence 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.439 in our elections, to get justice, and to see what 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.159 happened in November eight. Well, I'm glad you are. You know, 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.199 before we go, I wanted to ask you about that 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:59.000 conundrum that Republicans are facing because you know, again, you know, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.880 the only election really questioned as Republicans initially was which 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.080 was unprecedented with mail and ballots. So I think it's 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.000 completely a fair to question something that's new people were 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.199 totally unprepared for, and you know, you have issues like 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.080 signature matching and things of that nature, Whereas to your point, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.919 Democrats have question pretty much every election that Republicans have win, 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.359 regardless of the y behind it. But you know, I 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.199 want to ask you about that conundrum that we're in 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.719 because it's almost like the game has changed since COVID 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.040 and Democrats have been able to win I think in 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.800 the mid terms because they've weaponized mail about it, mail 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.600 and balloting and early voting. I mean, the Republicans in 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.480 some respect have to play that game in order to 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.800 win and to hopefully change it. Absolutely, that's ultimately we 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.040 have to do. And if you look at Florida, I mean, 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.240 the Florida results are beautiful, right, I mean here Ron 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:50.240 de Santi governor to Santes barely won against Andrew Gilli. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.840 I mean that was very close race too, and now 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.960 he defeated Charlie chris By. But isn't it also convenient 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.679 that the voting system was improved and Florida in that 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:05.160 time period. And uh so that's what that's ultimately what 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.000 what we have to do is you know, actually get 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.719 into office and take power. And if you look at 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.120 Arizona and you look how close these margins are five 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.000 ten votes for me and carries down about sixteen thousand votes. 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.719 But you know, the Democrats. They've they've understood that it's 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.920 not about getting voters, it's about getting ballots. And here 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.639 in Arizona, I don't know, um if I don't think 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.240 it was widely reported, but the Arizona State University voting 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:33.800 precinct was going in favor of the Democrats seven percent. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.600 It was like nine thousand plus of votes went to 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.520 the Democrats and only a few hundred went for the Republicans. 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:41.480 And that's something that we have to take a look 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.560 at too. How many college kids are voting in multiple 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.560 states right by these mail and ballots that that the 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.960 Democrats rely on to win. So now this is why 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.399 it was this election is so critical, and this is 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.520 why we're fighting because we know what the left wants. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.600 They want to give felons their voting rights right, and 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.040 they felons are have they have been known to have 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.639 been voting in elections even though they're not allowed to 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.360 in those are illegal ballots. So this you're exactly right. 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.520 We have to fight fire with fire. We have to 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.480 play the game and the sandbox that they've created until 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:14.960 we take back power, just like what Ronda Santis was 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.880 able to effectively do back in and now We've seen 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.639 how Florida has become a purple state into bright red 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.600 and that's ultimately what we're hoping for Arizona to become. 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.520 But you know it, it is really it's really scary 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.080 what we've witnessed over the past few weeks and the 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:34.880 incompetence and the smugness of Americopa County, Lisa, and uh, 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:36.800 you know, I'm not gonna put up with it. I'm 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.920 fighting this in court. I'm glad the Republican National Committee 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.639 is with us, and uh, you know, our recount is 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.040 still going to start next week. But you know that 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.320 it is unimaginable, and I I feel for so many 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.600