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And again, thank you so much for your support. So,

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I guess if you've had a record of corruption and

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failure for as many years as the North Carolina Democrat

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Party has, then I guess it makes sense that you

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would have to rely on a whole bunch of funding

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for your campaign victories from out of state donors. But

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I don't think this is a healthy sign for the

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North Carolina Democrats or the Democracy.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's.

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Speaker 2: Generally a good idea to have a state party propped

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up by out of state interests because you're short circuiting

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the market signals, if you will right, the local market

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is telling you that you stink. They don't like you,

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they don't want what you're selling, what you're offering, they

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have no interest in electing you or your people and

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that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: So they don't want to give you any money.

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Speaker 2: They don't trust you to run campaigns, they don't trust

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you to win, right, and so you in your efforts

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to win, despite the market signals telling you that your

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messaging is awful, your policies are awful, people don't want

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you to enact them. You then go outside the state

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to collect a whole bunch of money for a couple

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of candidates, and then those candidates funnel a whole bunch

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of that money into the state party, which apparently is

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then unable to actually, you know, turn that cash into votes.

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Oh if only vote buying were that easy. The North

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Carolina Democrat Party. This is a piece over at the

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Federalist dot com, but it relies on research done by

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the John Locke Foundation who went through and analyzed the

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campaign contributions from the twenty twenty four election cycle and

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the Democrat Party, Like if you had to guess what

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percentage of the individual contributions. Okay, so these are contributions

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coming from people, individuals versus like super pac money and

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that kind of stuff, outside interest groups.

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Speaker 1: All of that.

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Speaker 2: This is just people who live outside of the state.

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What percentage of their whole of individual contributions would you

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think the Democrat Party in North Carolina raked in from

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out of state?

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Speaker 1: Would you think ten percent? Would you think.

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Speaker 2: Half half of every dollar raised came from an out

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of state individual? Or do you think it's higher than half.

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If you think it's higher than half, how much higher

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do you think it's like sixty seventy five percent? It's

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actually eighty percent, it's seventy nine it's almost eighty percent,

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So it's it's seventy eight point five, So seventy nine percent.

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That is a massive proportion. Seventy eight and a half

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percent of the Democrats individual donor funding came from out

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of state. Pet, what about the Republicans? Ah, yes, I

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hear your what about ism? So the John Locke Foundation

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took a look at that also, and the Republican number

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is seventy one point eight percent. Oh I'm sorry, Yeah,

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that's in state. Oh, right, So the Republicans obtained like

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seventy two percent of their individual donations from people inside

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the state. Right, So if you're talking about democracy and

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who is representing people in the democracy, then it would

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seem to me to be that the individual contributions paint

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a pretty vivid picture of who is funding which party.

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Now that this is not about individual campaigns and special

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interest groups and you know that sort of stuff. That's

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a separate category. But this is just the individual donor list.

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There is a quote from Jim Sterling. We've had him

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on the program before. He's a research fellow at the

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John Locke Foundation Civitas Center for Public Integrity, and he

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is quoted in this piece at the Federalist. This is

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not as much of a shocker as you would expect

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it to be. He says, Democrats have been moving more

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towards an out of state model.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that?

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Speaker 2: Did you know Democrats were moving towards an out of

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state model to fund their elections in this state. But

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this is the lowest amount of money that they have

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raised in the last six years for in state contributions.

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The Federalist writer breckon these. He goes on to say

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Democrats' reliance on out of state funding is likely to

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have implications for the twenty twenty six midterm elections because

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Republicans will have the in state advantage on being able

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to stay connected with donors who have an actual stake

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in the elections in North Carolina. It also keeps Republicans

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quote insulated from national political dynamics that according to Sterling,

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who is quoted in the Carolina Journal, So this is

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a pretty important part of the problem that the Democrats

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are facing. The nationalization of politics where you know, Nancy

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Pelosi becomes the face of the state Democrat party. And

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in a state like North Carolina where you know, Democrat

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votes are not really all that like far left moonbat

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brigade cast. You know, you've got a lot of sort

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of your country club Republicans. They voted for Stein. These

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are like your business people that really don't have any

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kind of political hardcore ideology. You know, they are more

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interested in being acceptable to their friends on the cocktail

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circuit locally speaking, right to be invited to the potlucks

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and stuff or in their churches and whatever. It's like,

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I've referenced this saying it's been around for a long

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time in Charlotte at least, it was always that there

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are three political parties in Charlotte, and it's the the Democrats,

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the Republicans, and the Chamber of Commerce. And the Chamber

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of Commerce is the strongest of the three right, that's

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the one you don't cross. I don't know if that's

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necessarily true any longer, because I feel like the Chamber

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kept feeding the radical left Democrat Party as it grew ascendant.

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They kept feeding it in the hopes that it would

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get eaten last and I mean to an extent, it worked, right.

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The Republicans got eaten. Voters moved doubt those Republican voters

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moved Out's why the Mecklenburg County is bluer and the

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surrounding counties are now red, and that used to be

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the opposite. I started tracking this twenty years ago and

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did a bunch of stories when I was a reporter

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here at WBT would track it and do stories on

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it that you had this migration going on of Republicans

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out of Charlotte, Mecklenburg and into the surrounding counties, and

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you had people in the surrounding counties moving into Charlotte

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with the you know, higher taxes, but all of the

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services and such that they so love, and all of

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the shiny things. As a former host here at WBT

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used to call them all of the you know, the

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arenas in the parks and all of the you know,

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the pretty shiny things that the Chamber would would get built,

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and they would rely on Democrat votes at the polls

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for the referenda and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Right if you're you're.

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Speaker 2: Putting up bonds for certain projects, relying on people to

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turn out the vote. And that's why they played They

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played nice with Democrats for a very long time, and

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then Republicans eventually, you know, they lose. The demographics shift

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in such a way there are not enough Republicans to

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get them a majority any longer. Democrats then proceed to

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get further and further to the left. And there's no

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as I went over yesterday, there's no limiting principles here

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for the left. They just keep going. There's never they

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can never go too far. That's the thing about leftism,

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It never goes too far. All right, If you're listening

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media landscape more transparent. So the Federalist doing a big

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story This was yesterday over at the Federalist dot com

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doing a big story on how North Carolina Democrats sourced

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nearly eighty percent of their individual contributions from outside of

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the state. Democrats' need for outside donors could come down

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to a trust issue from high level donors who see

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state party leadership, like the Democrat party chair Anderson Clayton

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has not up to the job. The party has trended

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away from in state contributions since twenty twenty two. Despite

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Democrat wins in the state this past election. It is

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unclear to Democrats in North Carolina whether the party really

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helped or if the scandal ridden Republican guberatorial candidate Mark

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Robinson was the deciding factor finding money from higher profile

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donors outside the individual donor party funding. The organization that

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was successful with Roy Cooper and others is known as

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the Council of State Committee, all right, the Council of

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State Committee, and then there's another one called the Leadership Fund,

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which was able to obtain forty two million dollars in contributions,

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giving Democrats a financial advantage over Republicans despite the lack

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of in state support. Because the Council of State and

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the Leadership Fund, they passed on about eighteen million of

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the forty two million that those two entities raised, they

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passed it along to the state party eighteen million dollars

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to the state party. The Council of State Committee is

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run by high level staffers who ran Governor Roy Cooper's campaign, right,

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That's where the fundraising power is and we know this

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has been the case since HB two, right since the

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bathroom bill and the whole fight over that.

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Speaker 1: We you know, had the All.

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Speaker 2: Star the NBA All Star Game canceled, and you know

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Roy was dialing up the sales Force CEO and getting

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all of his corporate cronies to start boycotting the state

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of North Carolina. And then Roy threatened all of the

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Democrat lawmakers in the legislature saying, don't you dare work

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on some kind of a quote fix for HB two

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before the election. If you do, there will be no

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role for you in my administration when I win. Right,

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He threatened all of his fellow Democrats to not fix

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the problem because he needed it as a campaign issue

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against Pat McCrory. And then, of course he wins, and

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with all of that money, he wins, and then of

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course does a quote fix which he had blocked from

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happening before the election. Wall Street Journal reported that at

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the time, Right, so, he literally tried to harm his

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own constituency by his own words. Right, he said, HB

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two is terrible for North Carolinians, but he worked to

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keep it in place for longer because it helped him personally,

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and he was able then to make all the connections

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with the outside donors, and that infrastructure remains.

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Speaker 1: That's what he's gonna parlay.

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Speaker 2: That's how he got the Harvard gig, and that's what

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he's going to use to parlay into his run for Usene.

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by the Carolina or sorry, the John Locke Foundation Jim Sterling,

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and finds that like eighty percent of all of the

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individual contributions to the North Carolina Democrat Party last cycle

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were from out of state. Okay, so one in five

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dollars came from in state North Carolinians to the state party.

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The fundraising or nots in the Democrat Party this last

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cycle were connected to the individuals of Roy Cooper and

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Josh Stein who raised tons of money from out of

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state donors, and so there is you know that that's

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part of the story.

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Speaker 1: The other part of.

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Speaker 2: The story is the internal politics inside the Democrat Party.

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You know, why would Cooper and Stein not trust the

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state party to raise all of this money on its own. Now,

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part of it could be that they've got a twenty

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five year old running the party, Anderson Clayton, right, who

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unseated Bobby Richardson in the last election for the Democrat

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Party chair. Bobby Richardson was a longtime lawmaker.

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Speaker 1: I want to say.

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Speaker 2: She was, you know, in her sixties or seventies, and

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black female, and had thesements of all of these elected

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officials like Cooper and whatnot. And Clayton with her band

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of activists inside the party overthrew Richardson. So there may

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be some lack of trust there. Also, although the media

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treats it like it's some sort of badge of honor

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or qualification, the fact that Anderson Clayton has minimal experience

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and is very young. Oh yes, yes, she was a

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field organizer for Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign, so lots of

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success over there. They did not trust her to be

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able to raise the amount of money because she just

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doesn't know what she's doing at this point. And that's understandable, right,

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She's only twenty at the time, she was like twenty

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three or something. And again, while all of the media

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and by the way, media had no problem with somebody

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that young taking the reins of a state party in

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a crucial swing state for Democrats. They celebrated this as

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how cool is this? And she says, y'all and she

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cusses some and that's how we're gonna win some rural voters.

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Speaker 1: That was That's her whole pitch, that was the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and she also screams into microphones, which is

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a that's a key requirement for all Democrat leaders as

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I understand it nowadays. And so the coverage she got

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compare that to the coverage that the doge dudes get. Right,

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these are like tech wiz kids, super smart, but they're,

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you know, the same age she was when she ran,

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except they're trying to find waste, fraud and abuse.

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Speaker 1: And so they're only twenty two years old. You don't

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know anything. But she can run a party. I mean,

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not well, but she can run a party. Oh my gosh.

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The children shall lead us.

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Speaker 2: And don't even get me started on the comparison with

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Greta Thunberg, who I think has now morphed from yeah,

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she's she is morphed from what climate stuff to now

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she's like pro Palestine. She's just kind of just kind

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of morphed into like team baby beheading rapist advocate, I guess,

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or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, so yeah, she was like she was like,

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I don't know, four or five months old, and they

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were like, oh, she shall lead us, you know, but actually,

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let me do this now because it ties in Anderson Clayton,

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the Democrat party chair, which I think this is a

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pretty good indication of the problems that the party is having,

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how tone deaf they are, how out of touch they

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are with their messaging.

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Speaker 1: She just tweeted.

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Speaker 2: Out, Uh, let me see the timestamp on this, Yeah,

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one twenty sorry, okay, this is from yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I just saw it one twenty four yesterday. Quote.

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Speaker 2: It's ironic folks who are begging Sorry, I was going

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to read it in her. That's fine, it's ironic folks

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who are begging for USAID to be defunded. Will also

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be the people in church pews on Sunday giving offering

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funds so someone can go on a mission trip overseas.

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I thought Christians would never be the group to say

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helping people everywhere isn't a godly priority. Look, kid, this

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is not the way to reach rural voters.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I know you're from rural North Carolina, so you know

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these things and you know how to talk to them,

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which is why it all went red.

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Speaker 1: But no, I understand that's what you think. But this

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is part of your problem.

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Speaker 2: Okay. There is a big difference between me going into

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a church voluntarily donating money to help somebody go on

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a mission to help others while spreading the word of

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Jesus Christ, spreading the gospel. That there's a difference between

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that and you confiscating money out of my paycheck at

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risk of you know, loss of liberty for me if

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I don't want to pay it through taxes. Right, you

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confiscating the money from me, handing it off to some

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other entity to go chop off people's genitals in Guatemala. Right,

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Me objecting to that doesn't make me less Christian because

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I'm funding a mission to Guatemala to spread the gospel

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and help people like I'm sure she thought this was

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a super owning of the cons man. All right, I

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hope you had a happy holiday season. But tell me

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if something like this happened at your house. Your family

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and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in the

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living room, You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad,

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remember those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred?

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And then the room gets all quiet. All eyes are

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on Dad, who says, oh, you know, well, I've been

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the twenty percent of donations that the Democrat Party got

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from individuals who made up that that base, Right, that's

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a good question to look at as well. And luckily

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the John Locke Foundation did that as well. And so

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if you look at just the in state individual donations, remember,

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like eighty percent of the donations came from out of

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state individual out of state, okay, But for the individuals

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in state, who were the big donors here Josh Stein's

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parents apparently, Yeah, Josh Stein's parents gave the Democrat Party

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five hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Josh Stein comes from money, apparently,

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and he gave and they gave more than half a

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million dollars to the state Democrat Party. Also, the billionaire

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Saul family salll Sal Saul Sale, whatever, they gave four

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and a half million dollars. That made up just those

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two made up about half of all of the in

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state donations that Democrats got from individuals. According to the

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Carolina Journal, Stein himself transferred thirteen million dollars in funding

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to the state party from the Leadership Fund. I guess

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that's the one connected to him that allowed the Democrats

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to outpace Republicans because Republicans had raised twenty nine million dollars,

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virtually all of it from individual in state donations. And

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then there's one other footnote here in the story over

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at the Federalist dot com, and it is about the

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race for the state Supreme Court seat, which is still

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not certified. It's still in the courts, okay, working through

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different appeals and state and federal levels and everything else.

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Jefferson Griffin, Republican who's on the Court of Appeals, ran

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against Alison Riggs, who has gotten into her seats because

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Roy Cooper kept appointing her. She was a radical activist,

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leftist lawyer, and so she was rewarded with the judge ship,

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and so this was her attempt to defend her Supreme

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Court seat. The court right now is five to two

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Republican majority, and Riggs is one of those two seats.

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So even if Riggs ends up winning this seat, it's

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no change, okay, in the five to two breakup, it

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could go six' one If griffin ends up winning these.

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Appeals basically on counting the votes from voters that maybe

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kind of sort of shouldn't have been, Voting they are

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a whole bunch of. Them he's down by like seven

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hundred and thirty four, votes and he was up by

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ten thousand on election. Night but then when you, know

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they when they finish all the, counting and they counted

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a whole bunch of, votes hundreds of them from people

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who live overseas and have never lived In North carolina

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yet are registered to vote. Here and that's. ODD i

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feel like that's. Odd that's a little. Odd and maybe

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there's a reasonable explanation for. IT i don't, know but that's.

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Speaker 1: It that's.

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Speaker 2: Odd you also have a bunch of, people thousands of,

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them who don't have like identifiable Like Social security numbers

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attached to their voter profiles and, stuff or they didn't

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send in a photo with their, ballot you, know PHOTO

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id now being a requirement. Anyway democrats poured into her

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race more than five million, dollars Which Jim sterling at

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The Carolina or at The John Locke, foundation quoted In

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The Carolina, journal said that this is nearly unheard of

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this amount of money for a judicial. Race griffin raised two,

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million so she so she raised and spent more than

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two times as much as he did in order to

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get a seven hundred and thirty for vote. Lead speaking

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of that, Race Jefferson griffin filed notices of appeal in

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all three lawsuits connected to his challenges of more than

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sixty five thousand ballots cast in his election Against Alison.

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Riggs those appeals to The North Carolina court Of appeals

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arrived three days after A Wake County Superior court judge

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Named William pittman rejected three different categories of ballot Challenges

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griffin is. Pursuing pittman issued his rulings On friday, afternoon

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just hours after holding a.

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Speaker 1: Hearing one.

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Speaker 2: Page orders in each case upheld The State board Of

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elections decision they made back In december that rejected three

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different groups of ballot. Protests, Okay AND i know The

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democrats are all about you, know constitutional crisis and the you.

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Speaker 1: Know De bibi say they're.

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Speaker 2: Whatever they're making all these arguments that this is so

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beyond the. Pale but AS i, said with the lawsuits

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Over trump's executive, orders and you, know going through the

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courts like this is where it's supposed to be. Done,

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Right Jefferson griffin is following the. Law he is going

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by the rule book that he is supposed to go.

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By when he has objections and has identified deficiencies in his,

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mind and it will be up to courts to decide

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whether those have merit and if they, do what remedy

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do they?

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Speaker 1: Do they?

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Speaker 2: Enact this is the normal, process But democrats Want griffin

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to just stop, fighting and he doesn't seem like he

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intends to do.

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Speaker 1: So all, right that'll do it for this. Episode thank

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you so much for.

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