Speaker 1: My Billy cunning in the Great American welcome the glorious
Speaker 1: but Randy Monday Afton in the Tri States, Bengals looked impervious,
Speaker 1: two in a row marching for glory. About six other
Speaker 1: things have to happen if the Bengals went out, Who
Speaker 1: knows what occurs down the road.
Speaker 2: But until then you may not know it. But the
Speaker 2: person voting for president tomorrow will be, among others, the
Speaker 2: Great Alex Truant Tofilu and something called the Electoral College.
Speaker 2: And the electoral College is an incident where, let's face it,
Speaker 2: we don't vote for president directly. In fact, there's seventeen
Speaker 2: Ohio WANs getting together tomorrow. Tomorrow's today. Actually Trump will
Speaker 2: be elected president at least through the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2: Joining you and I now is the Great Alex Truant Tofilu,
Speaker 2: Chair of the Republican Party. Alex, welcome again to the
Speaker 2: Bill Cunningham Show. And Alex, first of all, explained briefly
Speaker 2: to the American people, to the butchers, the bakers, the
Speaker 2: cement makers in the Tri State, what happened on no
Speaker 2: remember the fifth and why really didn't elect Trump to
Speaker 2: the presidency? But what's going to happen tomorrow, will explain
Speaker 2: that to the American people.
Speaker 3: If you will, well, Belly always going to be with you.
Speaker 3: And it's a high honor of my career really to
Speaker 3: go and be an elector on behalf of President Trump.
Speaker 3: It will be the second time actually in my career
Speaker 3: that I've done this. But so what happens, Bill is,
Speaker 3: you know, the way the electoral College works is each
Speaker 3: state has a certain number of electors. Ohio happens to
Speaker 3: have seventeen something. You just covered that number. We get
Speaker 3: to that number because we have fifteen members of Congress.
Speaker 3: So you know, if you're southwest Ohio, you have Greg Landsman,
Speaker 3: Warren Davidson, et cetera. So you have fifteen members of
Speaker 3: Congress plus two United States Senators. That's how you get
Speaker 3: the seventeen. And that's based on population. So there are
Speaker 3: seventeen electoral votes that are cashed for president the United States.
Speaker 3: And it's all done according to our states constitution and
Speaker 3: ally state law. There's some provisions in both of those
Speaker 3: documents that kind of outline what we're going to do tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So what happens is early in the presidential contest, the
Speaker 3: various candates asked people to serve as electors, and being
Speaker 3: the state chairman of the Republican Party, you know, and
Speaker 3: a Trump loyalist and supporter, they asked me to be
Speaker 3: one of those seventeen, along with sixteen other people that
Speaker 3: are equally as loyal and supportive of President Trump and
Speaker 3: who will honor the votes of the people of Ohio.
Speaker 3: So Billy, Ultimately, on November the fifth, which was election Day,
Speaker 3: we got our directions from the voters of Ohio. We
Speaker 3: got directed to go and cast our electoral votes for
Speaker 3: President Donald J. Trump to be not only forty fifth
Speaker 3: and now the forty seventh president of the United States.
Speaker 3: And we will do that tomorrow with much fanfare. At noon,
Speaker 3: which is the hour of set by law. We will
Speaker 3: meet in the state capitol, and the governor will president,
Speaker 3: President of the Senate, Matt Huffman will be president, and
Speaker 3: other dignitaries of different kinds. And it looks like I
Speaker 3: will be sharing that process tomorrow, which again is a
Speaker 3: high honor for me, and we will cast our seventeen
Speaker 3: electoral votes I'm confident for President Trump, which will ultimately
Speaker 3: will forward those electoral ballots onto the House of Representatives
Speaker 3: in the United States House Representatives and then we will
Speaker 3: live officially cast our electoral votes for President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: So let's break it down. When we vote in November
Speaker 2: the fifth for Donald J. Trump in the state of
Speaker 2: Ohio by like ten or twelve percentage points, what we
Speaker 2: actually did was select people like you on our behalf
Speaker 2: to go to the state capitol, which are going to
Speaker 2: be tomorrow, to vote for Donald Trump. Does every state
Speaker 2: capital meet on the same day, which is tomorrow at
Speaker 2: noon or do different states have different dates that they meet.
Speaker 3: I believe there are different dates, and you know, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what some of the other dates are across
Speaker 3: the I know just as them. For instance, Wisconsin, because
Speaker 3: I happened to be a good friend of the Wisconsin chairman,
Speaker 3: the great Brian Shimming, who also delivered his swing state
Speaker 3: for President Trump, the meeting tomorrow at noon as well.
Speaker 3: But I think various states do it a couple of
Speaker 3: different dates. And you know, I didn't brush up on
Speaker 3: some of the rules here, but I will tell you
Speaker 3: that it happens during this window here after the election
Speaker 3: results are certified across the country.
Speaker 2: I understand from speaking with you off the air that
Speaker 2: some of the others selected by Donald Trump includes Sheriff
Speaker 2: Richard K. Jones. He's not likely to vote for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3: Sheriff joneses as a great American? I know he's a
Speaker 3: frequent guest on this program, and I would stake my
Speaker 3: life on the idea that he will not be casting
Speaker 3: a ballot for Kamala Harris. There are some things you
Speaker 3: count on in life, Billy, like the sun coming up
Speaker 3: and you know, the go ahead, that paying your taxes.
Speaker 3: There's certainties in this world. One of those is that
Speaker 3: good Sheriff, my friend and yours, Rick Jones, will be
Speaker 3: casting his vote for Donald Trump and not for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: So that's good stuff.
Speaker 2: Another one is you. Another one is my sister. Diane
Speaker 2: Cunningham Redden was selected by Donald Trump to be one
Speaker 2: the aunts of her voting for Kamala Harris and the
Speaker 2: same category as Richard K. Jones. Is that fair to.
Speaker 3: Say, you know, Billy, she's my favorite member of the
Speaker 3: Cunningham family. Let me just be clear about that. Diane
Speaker 3: Cunningham Reddon will also be joining us tomorrow and thrilled
Speaker 3: that she's joining us as an elector. You know, Billy,
Speaker 3: I want to say one very quick thing. And I
Speaker 3: know she's your sister and you love her and everything,
Speaker 3: but she's an outstanding Republican leader in her own right.
Speaker 3: She is the elected treasurer of the state Republican Party.
Speaker 3: She runs the she Lead program here in Cincinnati. She's
Speaker 3: been a precinct and ward leader for a long time.
Speaker 3: The reason I say it, Billy, is if you're out
Speaker 3: there listening, you're thinking, well, Bill Cunningham's sister. I got
Speaker 3: a new Philly Cunningham is talk radio guy and a
Speaker 3: great guy. But but Diane Cunninghambrett is a doer. She's
Speaker 3: a worker, she works hard for the Republican cause, and
Speaker 3: she's somebody that we all adore despite to her brother
Speaker 3: is Billy.
Speaker 2: And so the odds of her voting for Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: aren't likewise not good, and the odds of you voting
Speaker 2: for Kamala Harris not good. But in a tough race,
Speaker 2: it may make a difference, which was like in twenty
Speaker 2: oh one, it was like two seventy one to two
Speaker 2: sixty nine. And there have been cases of disloyal electors.
Speaker 2: Explain if somebody not the three we mentioned, but somebody
Speaker 2: near Cleveland who was picked by Donald Trump to vote
Speaker 2: for him. What if you have a disloyal, unfaithful elector
Speaker 2: who says, you know what, I had a bad morning,
Speaker 2: I'm voting for Kamala Harris. Is that possible because it's
Speaker 2: happened before.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's in Ohio. Actually, there are lots of
Speaker 3: safeguards in place. So if you're out there listening, you
Speaker 3: think that, well, gosh, he's seventeen people can flip the
Speaker 3: results and I you know, it's it's quite the flow
Speaker 3: chart to get into. But there's very little concern about that. Yes,
Speaker 3: there are some provisions for replacing faithless electors. There are
Speaker 3: provisions for uh, you know, for kicking us over to
Speaker 3: the House of Representatives, and there's some other things. But
Speaker 3: under the law that would prohibit a faithless elector from
Speaker 3: from another process.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen. So explain, because it's fascinating. There's
Speaker 2: six ballots, So explain to the American people, including Dave Keaton,
Speaker 2: my great producer. Explain to Dave, what how do you vote?
Speaker 2: The actual six ballots? Where do they go? And you're
Speaker 2: going to sit there with Diane Cunningham Redden and Richard K.
Speaker 2: Jones and others, Alex t and you're going to actually
Speaker 2: vote the six ballots. What happened to the six ballots?
Speaker 3: Well, you know what happens is you are presented with
Speaker 3: these various ballots, and by the way, you have to
Speaker 3: cast a ballot for vote president and vice president, which
Speaker 3: again just to parenthetically, what a high honor to cast
Speaker 3: a ballot for Ohio's very own Senator JD. Vance for
Speaker 3: this important job as vice president. So we will each
Speaker 3: we will reach both these ballots, and there are six
Speaker 3: and then you know, one ballot goes you know, I
Speaker 3: believe that the House of Representations here at Ohio. One
Speaker 3: goes to the governor, one goes to Secretary of Station,
Speaker 3: and then you know a few of them that go
Speaker 3: to the federal government. So those six ballots go to
Speaker 3: all the people. Really again without chapter and verse here
Speaker 3: as as I'm traveling around Ohio today, exactly where each
Speaker 3: one goes, but each gode where they need to go.
Speaker 3: So people know who we've chosen to be a president
Speaker 3: of the United States and vice president.
Speaker 2: And so that happens, and so officially on January, I know,
Speaker 2: of January sixth, seventh or eighth whatever it is. The
Speaker 2: ballots that the electors in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana actually voted,
Speaker 2: they're opened up and the well of the House of
Speaker 2: Representatives in Washington, and then Kamala Harris, your friend, Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: is going to be the resigning officer that puts Donald
Speaker 2: Trump in office. Is that correct? That is correct?
Speaker 3: And you know, Billy, I just take a minute and
Speaker 3: be bipartisan. It's the holiday season. But that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: You know. The peaceful transfer of power is important, and
Speaker 3: I believe strongly in it. And you know, we'll tell
Speaker 3: you now, I suspect that day will come and go
Speaker 3: without much fanfare, But that is in fact true. The
Speaker 3: Vice President of the United States sits as presiding officer
Speaker 3: of the United States Senate, which also gives that vice
Speaker 3: president a chance to break ties in the United States Senate. So,
Speaker 3: in fact, Kamala Harris will sick just as Mike Pence
Speaker 3: sat four years ago. Is the presiding officer of that process.
Speaker 2: Wonderful. Now, this all happens so sometime the first week
Speaker 2: in January, when the ballots are opened and they're announced
Speaker 2: in the Well of the House Representatives, in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: That's when Trump will be declared the winner of the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 3: JD.
Speaker 2: Vansonb declared the winner the vice presidency. In the past,
Speaker 2: you've had different parties serving in that capacity, parties to president,
Speaker 2: one party's the vice president. That's not gonna happen this time.
Speaker 2: Trump's gonna take office January the twentieth, and all hell's
Speaker 2: gonna break loose. Good stuff. Secondly, take off your electoral hat,
Speaker 2: Alex t take off your hat. Is your hat off? Yes,
Speaker 2: put on your partisan hat. Explain to me how Peggy noon,
Speaker 2: and you alerted me to this this morning and she
Speaker 2: normally has more lucid moments than many. Wrote a column
Speaker 2: for the Wall Street Journal and what she described, what
Speaker 2: Joe Biden is now doing. And by the way, this
Speaker 2: is a very consequential time in American history with Ukraine,
Speaker 2: with Israel, what's happening on our southern border, what's happening
Speaker 2: now with missiles flying over South Korea? Impeach the president.
Speaker 2: North Korea's arms are at the border. You have China
Speaker 2: encircling right now, Taiwan. All hell's breaking loose. Explain what
Speaker 2: is happening with the drones. Explain Korea, Taiwan, explain Ukraine,
Speaker 2: going to Israel. We have a president right now who's
Speaker 2: functioning an office or not.
Speaker 3: Well, no, I mean we don't. You know, Billy, I'm
Speaker 3: not a big fan of bashing on Joe Biden. We
Speaker 3: did plenty of that. We want an election. It's time
Speaker 3: for him to sail off into the sunset. But the
Speaker 3: reason I answer this question is, and the reason I'm
Speaker 3: getting engaged in a minimum amount of bashing of Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: is how little we're being flewed in by our mainstream
Speaker 3: press on this topic. Bill, Right, So, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: that the point of the Peggy Kneed an article, since
Speaker 3: you referenced it, was how how Joe Biden has just
Speaker 3: been shrinking, ever shrinking, in the presidency, and how traditionally
Speaker 3: the president, the sitting president, has given leeway to finish
Speaker 3: out his term with some sense of dignity, and you know,
Speaker 3: the newly elected president, you know, tends to stand down
Speaker 3: and build out the governments, because really that's what they're
Speaker 3: doing with these various appointments, is building out their administration. Well,
Speaker 3: that's not happening here. Donald Trump is such a force
Speaker 3: of personality and I don't. You know, it's certainly not
Speaker 3: his fault. World stage is already inviting him the things
Speaker 3: like the opening of the cathedral Notre Doab and things
Speaker 3: like the Army Navy game, you know, for instance, something
Speaker 3: President Biden never did. So it is her point was
Speaker 3: Donald Trump's star is so bright and you know, his
Speaker 3: support so big for the American people that he's already
Speaker 3: essentially assumed the presidency and it feels like it. It
Speaker 3: feels like I do a lot of us. And you
Speaker 3: know what scares me is if we do have some
Speaker 3: kind of a national security crisis. Because we all know
Speaker 3: abilly that you know, we've all seen in our families.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a shame what's happened to Joe Biden
Speaker 3: from a personal perspective, but you know, I'm not convinced
Speaker 3: that that administration under his leadership is equipped to deal
Speaker 3: with a major international or god forbid, a national emergency.
Speaker 3: So you know, I'm concerned and thank you in this point,
Speaker 3: is Donald Trump is is you know, this extraordinary political force?
Speaker 3: Of course I believe that of one of his biggest supporters,
Speaker 3: that's not his biggest support in Ohio, So you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's quite the moment and politically, you know, it's
Speaker 3: good for us to have a strong leader. Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: approval rating is up since election day. Yeah, people see
Speaker 3: him asserting himself and stilling out an administration full of
Speaker 3: common sense people who care first about the American people,
Speaker 3: not about you know, the swampish bureaucracy in DC. So
Speaker 3: things are on the upswing and as Republicans, we know
Speaker 3: the peddlms wing, but we're pretty excited right now about
Speaker 3: the ascendancy of one President Trump.
Speaker 2: We allnx make sure the electors in Columbus, those in
Speaker 2: Frankfurt and Indianapolis, they're well, they get up nice and
Speaker 2: early tomorrow. They know where they are. They got to
Speaker 2: be there. If the vote doesn't take place, Ohio's thirteen
Speaker 2: million citizens will not be represented. Get a good night's sleep,
Speaker 2: get up about six or seven in the morning, do
Speaker 2: your duty, as God gives you the light to see
Speaker 2: that duty at noon, and make sure that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: gets the votes of the state of Ohio. I'm having
Speaker 2: the same conversation with Steve washing Machine in Indiana and
Speaker 2: also the Rob Sanders in Kentucky. This area is going
Speaker 2: to give Donald Trump approximately thirty two electoral votes. He
Speaker 2: earned three hundred and twelve. We'll see what happens. Alex
Speaker 2: t get a good night's sleep, and once again, thank
Speaker 2: you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Alex
Speaker 2: you're a great Greek much like Dean Cariacas. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 3: God bless America, Billy, God bless.
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