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Carolina republican party. let me ask you about this. do you think a tainted election should count? >> chris, we think that this is dee employerable and it shows systematic -- >> should a tainted election count? >> chris, the problem with that is i don't know what that means. it's not an objective standard. but we clearly have a problem here and we may very well be headed for a new election. we need to treat mr. mccready right, we need to treat the voters right. we also have the problem of 286,000 cast legal ballots that are not in question here, and so unfortunately, as good a job as the pres...

Going on, that made you throw up. it makes me wonder if what we know already made you sick to your stomach, why not call for a do-over instead of waiting for the board of elections? >> that would not match the legal standard. the 286,000 people cast ballots that are not in question. most of those people would be disenfranchised. as good as the media reports are, we need to see the actual evidence from investigators and if it rises to a level that the evidence shows that there needs to be a new election, we will not oppose that at all. >> if the board of elections orders a do-over because of mi...

Yet. as incredible as the media reports are, we have to hear from the investigators and we have to have a good, legitimate reason based on the number of votes that could have been changed to throw out 286,000 people's legitimately cast votes. that's the balance. two other things have to happen. there has to be criminal investigations state and federal of the people involved and there has to be a detailed public accounting of how this problem has festered for over a decade and the state has been unable to do anything about it. >> talking about the state, do you support, do you believe in the pr...

Problems with drug abuse and opioi opioids. the unintentional death rate of drugs in that area is 29% higher. >> i want to get to the very question at hand is should there be a new election? the democrat and the republican open to this, are you saying you're also open to this then? >> absolutely. we are open when we see the facts. i think the media has done an incredible job here. we thank them for that. we can't throw out 286,000 votes based on media reports. we have to get the non-spart hn investigators to come forward. if the evidence justify a new election, then we should have one. i think...