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Congressional race, his concession and he wants this election opened up again. whats your view of whats going on where there appears to be or are allegations of fraud on absentee ballots that favor the republican? >> yeah, i believe the premise of your question is spot on because there are some concerns with the absentee. i believe its bladen county. if you look at my district and other districts. i do believe theres an issue and what weve seen is a nefarious gentleman who has been part of this ...

Were registered republicans. yet, 61% ended up going. this chart helps explain the discrepancy here. there is a data issue here, joe, which jumps out at people. >> right. not only that, the results really dont pass the eye test. we can go back to the 2016 primary when he was working for a candidate by the name of todd johnston. he was running against mark harris and the incumbent. johnson got 19% of the mail-in votes. mark harris got four votes. an incumbent got one vote. we could be on the ball...

He won pretty overwhelmingly in every county in the district, double digit victories, often 20 points or more and one county sticks out like a sore thumb on here. bladen county. mark harris won that thing by 23 points in the absentee ballot total. what makes that particularly interesting is that only 19% of the voters, 19% of the ballots that received absentee in this county were were cast by republicans. and yet somehow harris gets 61% of the vote here. its the only county where he wins the abs...

Blaten county. this year, a blaten county fire investigator alleges he overheard a conversation at a polling station saying dallas would get a $40,000 bonus if harris, the republican candidate, won. now the charlotte observer is calling for a new election. something the executive director of the states republican party actually says he would support. this is a complicated story. joining me now from charlotte, north carolina, is professor michael bitzer. in raleigh, party director dallas woodhous...

County, over 60% of the absentee by mail ballots requested were not returned. the concern is what happened to those ballots, but more importantly, with the affidavits that have come out through the state democratic party, concerns by voters about potential ballot tampering by those who were going around to collect ballots, which is illegal in north carolina. i think a lot of this is all kind of tied together to absentee by mail balloting in the ninth congressional district. >> i know you had som...

The sheriff of bladen could want and also red dome. red dome worked heavily with the mark harris campaign. the reason the subpoenas were issued to these three groups is very likely because of their connections to mccray dallas. >> hes the individual who appears to have been at the center of this scheme. can you explain, best of the evidence you gathered, what actually was the scheme here, as best as people can tell? >> so what ive gathered from talking to people who know mccray and worked with h...

Thanks so much first of all for that compliment there. the latest really is that subpoenas have been issued to the mark harris campaign, the campaign of jim mcvicker who is the sheriff of bladen could want and also red dome. red dome worked heavily with the mark harris campaign. the reason the subpoenas were issued to these three groups is very likely because of their connections to mccray dallas. >> hes the individual who appears to have been at the center of this scheme. can you explain, best ...

Consultant, a company called red dome group which hired mccray dallas. the investigation is continuing. i think more revelations will be coming every day right now. >> i want to talk about, michael, i want to talk about this mans history. and the history of elections in bladen county, from dave wasserman from the political report. in 2016 dallas worked for todd johnson who mails in absentees 221 for 1, and 437 to 17 over pittinger. its a blatantly obvious absentee mail. it looks like somethings ...

Coming every day right now. >> i want to talk about, michael, i want to talk about this mans history. and the history of elections in bladen county, from dave wasserman from the political report. in 2016 dallas worked for todd johnson who mails in absentees 221 for 1, and 437 to 17 over pittinger. its a blatantly obvious absentee mail. it looks like somethings going on here, huh? >> the numbers just do not lie. and the fact that 40% of bladen countys absentee mail ballot requests did not see a b...

The only solution here isa new election? >> i believe it may very well be heading in that direction. what you can do is you can look at the absentee by mail and compare it across the different counties that are in this district. and in almost all of the counties, what you saw was the absentee by mail was more favorable towards the democrat than the rest of the vote was in that particular county. in fact, what you saw in the county where a lot of this alleged fraud may have taken place is in fac...