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CSPAN Washington Journal Open Phones July 12, 2024

Washington post. That is happening in michigan. Stop the count was the chant there. I want to take you to arizona yesterday. We talked about arizona, a razor thin margin there. Zona state, that associate associate press and fox news called for joe biden. Gathering outside the State Capitol in arizona, supporters of President Trump calling for the ballots to continue to be counted. They believe President Trump still has a chance to win arizonasnd one of republican members of congress, paul gosar, joint one of those gatherings in the state capital yesterday. Here is some of the scene that he posted from that gathering. You can hear the count devote chant in this video. Vote chant in this video. Straight hours. Vote nt the count the votes count the votes count the votes count the votes count the votes yesterday, phoenix posted by commerce and paul gosar, a couple of other images from what was happening in Maricopa County at their Election Center yesterday. This posted by michael chow of the arizona republic. Trump supporters gathering outside of the Election Center, demanding that they count the vote. You can see the arms demonstrator there. This was an image from inside that Election Center. This was posted by breanna oftney from cbs 5 out arizona, showing Maricopa County sheriffs deputies ready and Tactical Gear inside the Election Center. She writes, potentially to make a move on the protesters and demonstrators outside as the crowd continues to grow. Some of the scenes from around the country yesterday. Our twitter account, that you can participate as well. Please go online and track your vote. My voted i learned that was canceled due to a questionable signature. I was able to fix it. From steve, allowing meaningful access is not an unreasonable rule unless you have something to hide. Ivan is next, a supporter of your biden from tennessee. Caller good morning, pedro. For joe biden. You know, the postmaster general was taking up mailboxes and stuff, nobody even said anything about that. Then the piece of paper that was protested, those people you see right there, trump supporters, they was coming in there and doing all the damage that they did. They wanted to claim that the democrats was doing it. It is those people that you see chanting out there that was in the protest, and they are the ones. Larry is next up, maryland, a supporter of President Trump. Hello. Caller there is rampant fraud. The congresswoman from arizona said there are 600,000 uncounted votes, fraud transpired in philadelphia. The sharpies, they showed a ofyer with a camera, a video and joe biden is a chinese operative and we are heading toward a civil war. Make no mistake about it. He doesif joe biden, if not get in the white house, he is going to prison. Steve in oako ridge, tennessee, a supporter of joe biden. Hello. Caller good morning, pedro. I would like to address the lady from South Carolina that stated that the democrats are willing to lie, cheat, and steel to win the election. In 2018 i lived in north republicand the candidate was mark harris, a retired preacher from the biggest Baptist Church in charlotte. Caught harvesting votes. He denied it. He went before the election board and he denied it, and his son got up in front of the election board and stated that his father was lying at new what was going on. So if you want to talk about lying and cheating and stealing, there is a good example. I think also the top three republican officials in North Carolina were indicted for the postmastero general is under investigation right now for illegal contributions. All those folks that are out there saying that the democrats are going to lie, cheat and toal, if you would get john fact check that, i would think that would be great. Host greg in new carlisle, ohio, a supporter of President Trump. You are up next. Caller good morning. I would like to know why donald screwed. Being from the very first day until 20s ash from the very first day of 2016 until now from the very first day of 2016 until now. He is being screwed. I believe donald trump has the president art of any that any president has. Would you answer me this, yes or no . Trump im sorry. Host we will go to rebecca in california on our line for others. Caller good morning. I just really wanted to make a couple of comments. My concernmment is is president pelosi. If trump is going to do all these lawsuits, that just goes on and on and on, and it is my understanding that if a certain amount of time goes by and a decision is not made, that the speaker of the house becomes the president. Now, my second comment is, we are screwed either way. If biden wins, he is going to lock us up for three months to get rid of the virus. If trump wins, he is going to open us up, and you will have to enter the world at your own risk. My last thing is i would like to advocate for the American People. We cannot take much more of this. We are on the edge of the ledge. Weve got to see some kind of resolution here. Thank you. Host rebecca, to your first point as far as Speaker Pelosi, that is a great question for john mcardle to tackle and dig into, to see the role that she may play in this to see if certain scenarios parse out. Maybe he can find some answers and bring that back to us in a little bit. Tallahassee, florida, a supporter of joe biden. Good morning. This is bill. Caller the only victim here, people talking about donald trump as a victim, the only victim here is the u. S. Democracy. Our republic. I am 66 years old, and i have such actions by any candidate for anything. They want to count the votes in arizona, but they want to stop the vote in another place. That right there shows you that they are not interested in getting the results and the truth, that they just want they are the ones trying to steal the election. Military used to have up to two weeks to get their votes in because they were overseas. After the election. If they were postmarked on the day of the election. Host that is bill in tallahassee, florida. Lets go to john mcardle. Caller i appreciate i appreciate the homework you are giving me. Keeping viewers uptodate on the latest with the vote tallies coming in, i want to take viewers to the Georgia Senate race, where senator david purdue is trying to hold onto his seat against jon ossoff, his democratic challenger. Cspan viewers might remember jon ossoff from the very expensive georgia six special election that broke fundraising records, jon ossoff trying to knock off david purdue there. You can see the numbers separated by more than two points, but the key number here in georgia is 50 . David purdue down to 50 . If he gets under 50 of the vote, this heads to the race heads to an automatic runoff on january 5. Even if he has higher Percentage Points, if it is under 50 , it goes to a january 5 special election. You will remember that the january runoff, there is a special election taking place on generally five as well, the seat that Kelly Leffler is trying to hold onto. She is in a race against her democratic challenger, rafael warnock, there in georgia. So georgia could become a key state january 5 with two final senate seats being decided that day. To put this in context for you, right now democrats have taken over two seats in the senate. That is in colorado and arizona. Republicans have taken over one seat in the senate. That is in alabama, or senator doug jones lost his seat to tell me to prevail. Two tommy to reveal. Two tommy tupper ville. If thom tillis hold onto his seat in North Carolina as well, they could net three seats in the senate, and the reason i bring that up is because if joe bidens president , democrats would need to net three seats to take over the senate. So the senate could still be in play if this Georgia Special election, the georgia regular election of david purdue goes to a runoff alongside that special election. So something about super bowl in the senate could be taking place january 5 in georgia. So we will continue to watch what happens there into peach state. It is just after 8 00, one hour of a threehour program today. 2027488000 for those of you who support joe biden and kamala harris. 2027488001 if you support President Trump and Vice President mike pence. If you supported another candidate altogether, 2027488002. You can text us, tweet us, and you can post on facebook. We will hear from charity, starting off in the second hour. A supporter of President Trump. Caller good morning. Just some factual points i want to make. Let me start with my history. I am working american, and i never used to be into politics. I was a default democrat, but then my boyfriend had a hand in explaining that swaying me because at first i said trump is racist, this and that, but then after some time you can literally see that he is making sense and he is making progress. The points i want to make is we are down in florida. We have already won for trump, but we basically are just sitting at home, hoping to god that the people in wisconsin, michigan, that they will do becausee diligence fraudulent things have been happening. It is actual fact. You can see that it is unprecedented. , theclosed down the county ballots. After they closed it down, they started bussing in mysterious ballots and things like that overnight, after they just closed the county down. How does that work . Host what convinces you of that fact or that assertion . Caller they have video of it happening. I believe valid observers that were not able to observe the ballots. They have video of it actually happening. So my questioning so my question is, and you dont even need an id to vote. So it is in plain sight. I dont see how people are allowing this to happen. Host that is charity in tampa. Another floridian in devonport. This is jane, a supporter of joe biden. Caller hi. I just wanted to say that it is not so much about supporting biden, but i did work the polls for the first time this year. Of the peoplemuch saying that there is all this cheating going on and they dont understand the process. It was very illuminating for me to see how the votes are counted, how the votes are registered. How they are collected at the end of the night. The polls do close at 7 00 im a but i did not get to leave that room until 10 00 but i did not get to leave that room until 10 00. All the numbers have to be matched up. Everything has to be certified, and then they go into a car and are taken to another place. People might misinterpret certain things like that. But what i did see is that you are working and you are making sure the forms are correct and you are putting in the numbers the way you need to put them in, and you dont even notice who is a democrat or who is a republican. We just make sure that everyone gets a fair process. That is the overriding concern. Host how much education did you have about all this process before being before showing up to be a worker. Caller ordinarily it would have been a couple of hours in a classroom, but we completed an online quiz, and then of course when you show up you have your book that instructs you again. You also have several supervisors if you have a question, something out of the ordinary happens. We had three poll watchers from the Trump Campaign. One was from gop, one was from trump, and one was from some other organization. They never had a question. They eventually left early or smooth,t it was so and people should just calm down and let these folks count the ballots. Many checks and balances that they dont realize. It is very hard to vote twice. Host that is jane in florida, giving her spirits as a poll worker. We will hear from a supporter of President Trump in colorado. Owen is next. Caller how are you doing this morning . Host fine, thanks. Go ahead. Caller i just wanted to say i have been to the casino when it was the trump casino and i won even on the way out the door. But then when the indians took over, i didnt win nothing. The guy is really honest. You know what they did . Relateow does this all to the electoral results . Caller yeah, what i was saying scam. Is is a this is all to take trumps economy so they can win this election. But joe biden he doesnt even constitution, and he says we have to rely on scientists when obviously our father in heaven, god, he is the one that gives us our unalienable rights. Host why do you relate what you say is a scam directly to nancy pelosi . Caller over in california, the election, they were already calling it before they even got the votes to riverside yet. They already gave the answer out that they had already won. Host and how does that relate to Speaker Pelosi . Know, i mean, i dont but you look at all the states of california, oregon, they all got fires in them. Host that is owen in colorado. Leader keviny mccarthy was asked about the about fraudcomments yesterday. Here is his response. This is asident said fraud on the american public, this is an embarrassment to the country fulton you think the president should be slowing down on the integrity of the election . Your questions never change. Your questions never change. You said that last night. Your questions never change. I think what the president wants to see is that every legal vote gets counted. Stop counting votes. A lot of house races are still counting votes. Do you think the president should say that . Again, your questions never change. What the president wants to make sure is that every legal vote is counted. The people vote up until election day, not the days after , as others would have. That is what the president refers to. I dont think the president exactly whatt is the president was expressing. I know you want to express Something Different and i know you will be upset if the president wins reelection again, but the American People have a point. The posters were wrong just like they were wrong for years ago. This is what a republic and a democracy is about. We want to make sure it is legal and fair and that every legal vote is counted, and that is what we are working towards. But i dont think people should vote after the election, no. Host from texas, a text saying you the vote, count when are winning, stop when youre losing, that is what the republicans want. Mike, can we have a adult conversation . It is clear that half the country wants Something Different than the other half does. We are going to keep each other from being able to move forward. Atyou want to text us, do so 2027488003. Hello. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have never listen to your program before where people call in. This is so entertaining to me, these poor delusional trump trumpers, i feel so sorry for them. I really do. Especially the lady from South Carolina who said my god, there was so much read on the map. How come we dont have more vote . Somebody needs to tell her that Rural America doesnt have as much population. These people are delusional. They belong in a home somewhere, they really do. Danielle, thank you for watching the program. You should know that we invite everybody to call and express their thoughts on the lines we have chosen. Keep watching and see how other people respond to events going on currently in the United States when it comes to this election. Bob in york, pennsylvania, our line for others. Hello. Caller i am an independent. I have seen the vote and seen how close this is. It shows what a huge divide we have in this country. And i dont think it is going to get better. The positive note, at least it was nice to see some people that were outside talking about count the vote or not count the vote, instead of people running around burning in cities and looting stores, so i think there is this huge divide between the rural and the urban type areas. It is just unfortunate that we are going to be in a lot of trouble if we dont get this columned calms down, and i just dont see trump or biden as to bring this country in the right direction, especially if it is 5050. Host what elements have to take place for calming down, as you describe it . I think we have too many politicians that have been in there for years. You look at pelosi, you look at biden i mean, people on the republican side. We have ald age, like geriatric government, and they are not going to get out. It is sad. If you dont get that change element and i mean change for our country i mean, im a veteran. I was proud of my country. I remember what kennedy said. It is not what you can do for yourself, it is what you can do for your country. Have lost that in this country, and it is sad and unfortunate. Im very concerned about how we are going to go. Host when you voted on election day or earlier, who did you vote for . Caller i voted for the independent candidate. Host which party . Caller im not going to mention that. Host why pursue that rather than the two parties, considering the effect it would have as far as somebody winning, and the independent candidate not winning . Think right now i dont we have enough adults on either side of these two Political Parties to run this country properly. They are all concerned about what they can do for themselves, not for the people of this country, unfortunately. Host st. Petersburg, florida, this is cindy, a supporter of joe biden. Hello. Caller hello. Thank you for taking my call. Yes, i have been in the middle. There are some things i believe on the left, like the environment. I am very concerned about the environment. And on the right. I want the loopholes closed in the immigration visas that are stealing american jobs, whitecollar jobs. But so i was going back and forth as to who to choose from. The other day, for the election, i was walking down the road and i heard some music, and i had stopshirt on that said, overpopulation and overdevelopment. In here in florida, it is unbelievable. There is no stop to it. But that is neither here nor there. The thing is, that message is for all parties, and host ho

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