10.15.2024 -- NLS -- Exposing the Deception Behind Idaho’s Proposition One and Trump’s Lead in Key States

On this episode of the Neal Larson Show, Neal and Julie discuss Idaho's Proposition One, voicing strong concerns about its potential impact on the state's election process. They argue that the proposition’s supporters are using misleading tactics to sell the idea, emphasizing that if passed, it could strip political parties of their ability to nominate candidates and allow candidates to falsely claim any party affiliation on the ballot. Neal and Julie stress that this change could significantly alter the integrity of Idaho’s elections, urging listeners to engage with their communities and spread the word.

The duo also touches on the broader political landscape, diving into the latest polling data that shows Donald Trump leading in several key swing states. They reflect on how polling often underestimates Trump’s performance and question the media's portrayal of the 2024 presidential race. Additionally, Neal and Julie share their frustrations with how the media covers political controversies, such as Kamala Harris's plagiarism scandal and selective reporting on issues like immigration and election integrity.

As the show progresses, Neal and Julie encourage Idaho voters to stay informed and active, especially with only three weeks until the election. They also announce plans for a rally and sign distribution to encourage a "No" vote on Proposition One, calling for citizens to advocate for the truth and protect Idaho’s election system.

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Good morning. It is 807 on Newstalk 1079. Welcome to today's program. If you'd like to be a part of the show. Of course. The fall River propane Collin Text line is (208) 542-1079. Now, I know we've spent a lot of time talking about prop one, and I feel we're we're going to be spending an increasing amount of time talking about prop one, as we had someone forward along a text yesterday after the show and was basically, copy and paste.

They said, I just received this via text. Hi, John, this is Travis with Idahoans for open primaries. Proposition one will be on your ballot this November, and it will open Idaho's closed primary election and give voters more choices in the general election by adding an instant runoff. Party insiders closed the primaries in 2011, which now blocks 270,000 independent voters from participating.

Voting yes for prop one will give voice back to voters and make politicians more accountable to their constitution. Send stop to opt out. Can we count on your vote for proposition one? They're very busy. They're very busy sending out their I don't even it's it's too generous to call them half truths. These are blatant distortions of the issue.

And quite frankly, they're masking what this proposition really does. They don't tell you they're actually gutting our our elections. They're getting rid of of parties. Now you can still have a party, but there will be no legal standing or recognition in the state of that party. There will be no capability to choose nominees. There won't. That that all goes away.

And they're not up front about that because they know people would be like, wow, I don't think we need a wrecking ball because they pitch it like it's your lawn mower and your carburetor needs to be tweaked. So here's a screwdriver. No, they're bringing in a wrecking ball and obliterating what we have for elections in Idaho. And then they're implementing something very different that actually opens some really funky scenarios for their lefty candidates to sneak in.

And when I say sneak in, no, their name would be on the ballot. But they can list whatever party they want. Not because it's accurate, but because it's strategically advantageous. They're not telling you any of that. And so again, I come to you today to reiterate that and tell you that your friends are getting texts like this and people are busy, people are living their lives.

They're going to work doing their their jobs as construction workers and attorneys and cashiers and, street sweepers and whatever it is that they do in their lives. They're not following this at a depth and a level that you are. And I know you are, because you're listening to talk radio. So, again, here we are, exactly three weeks away from the polls being open and Idahoans deciding on this.

And we must be ambassadors for truth. We must be the ones to go out and talk to our neighbors, to share the message of the truth of this, because they there I will hand it to them. They are very, very methodical. They are clever and they are organized. They're not truthful. They're not honest. They integrity is not their priority.

But they are clever and they are very, very focused on getting this passed. We have our hands full now. I'm optimistic we can defeat this, but I'm a little twitchy because I eight years ago, actually, six years ago, I also had optimism that Idahoans would reject expanding socialized medicine in Idaho. But under the banner of compassion, this group got it passed.

They expanded Medicaid. And now the costs are a big, big challenge for lawmakers to try and figure out how they're going to how they're going to keep up with it. I tried to warn I tried to to share. We we have to be the ones. We have to be the ones. So, we're still getting final confirmation. I'm not going to give any specific details, but we are working on another vote.

No sign distribution and giveaway. This time we'll have a lot more signs that, we will be able to, distribute. And we hope to have details for you no later than tomorrow. But we our target right now is for Friday. Again, I'm not giving details, because if I give details, people will think it's actually happening. And in case it doesn't, I don't want them showing up.

But I am just saying very generically, we are working on doing another distribution with a lot more signs. But the most important thing that you can do. Yes, put the sign in your yard or in the your back window. We got a text yesterday. Someone had taken the sign and they didn't put it in their yard. They put it in the back window of their vehicle and I thought, that's brilliant.

That's going to be way more visible then putting it in your yard in a residential neighborhood where you might get, you know, a handful of cars driving by all day. This one is that's I think it's great. So, however you feel, but the most important thing is to reach out neighbors, friends, family, the people who will be voting in Idaho on November 5th.

And don't tell them how well you could you could tell them how they ought to vote. But the most important thing is just to tell them the whole story. I firmly believe if if people just simply understand the foundational changes that will come to our election if prop one passes, they would say, I don't want to do that.

That's not what I signed up for. They told me I was taking a screwdriver to adjust the carburetor on my lawnmower, not a massive wrecking ball that blows out everything that we have right now. So we have that. We also have a comet. So I'm working on a project and again, it's one I'm not. I have to be vague on the details because if I'm specific.

But I was here at the station pretty late last night. We're also in the midst of a big technical change over here too, so lots of hours at the station. But I see on social media the comet's visible. A couple of people, texted, messaged me, and I thought, you know, if I hop in the car in about ten minutes, I can be away from the city lights.

So that's what I did. Drove to the west, to the desert. And sure enough, there it was. Now it was subtle. I didn't have binocular. I didn't have anything to magnify the comet. But but there it was. Now we learned that this comet was coming. What was it? A year like the last year? Year and a half? Something like that.

And it's going to be visible for just a few more days. So I would encourage you to get out tonight. I think it's going to be a pretty good night, but we do have a storm coming for tomorrow. I'm hopeful what will happen is the storm will come, rain will fall, the air will clear. And then Friday night we might have super nice clear skies and and get a really good view, of comet Atlas.

So if you get a chance, it will appear, just when it gets dark, look to the West. And if you're if you're if you have a fairly clear sky, you will see it. And I would suggest to get some, binoculars. So anyway, kind of fun and, you know, me, I, I geek out a little bit.

There was a comet that came through, what, three years ago? Something like that. It was. It was, I want to say stellar. That's a little too obvious, but I it was it was beautiful. And it was a wonderful, wonderful display. And so. Yeah. Does anybody else feel like if you're a religious person and, you know, biblically it talks about there being signs in the heavens like, here's a little wink, here's a little warning.

Something's coming. And I've had this conversation with people, and this is not a religious show. We're not going to do a deep dive and get specific about prophecies. But I will say the last couple of years we've had sort of this and little more than a couple of years, the last couple of decades, we've kind of had this parade of comets that have come through, and it's great, I love it.

The last couple of years we've had spectacular displays of aurora borealis things. I really don't remember growing up. Now we have technology today we didn't have back then that allows us to predict these things, and maybe they just happened and we we didn't know about it. I don't know if there was any way prior to having the the network of satellites that we have out in space that measure the solar wind, how if there ever was an aurora borealis forecast, now we can look at an app.

I have an app on my phone, I can look at it and I can say, oh, the next few days there's a good potential that we could see something. And then it has even kind of an extended forecast beyond that. But it feels different, like we're in a season that something is different, that that something is changing. And then when you do that overlay with events happening in the world, in the Middle East, in unrest and everything else, it's again, I don't make any predictions.

That's not where my strength is or my realm. I don't spend all day reading prophecies. I don't try to become an expert on on that. And you know why I don't? I'll tell you why I don't. The people who do become experts disagree vehemently with other experts. And if as an amateur, I look at this and thinking, wait, both of these people have invested massive amounts of time and brainpower and not even they've arrived at any kind of a consensus on this stuff.

So for me, it's like, I feel like I could probably study it, but I would develop opinions and they would be nothing more than that. So generically, I go with my gut and I try to see what's happening, and it just feels like it's interesting. I'll just say like that we are three weeks away from the election, and I feel it is our duty to look at the look at the polls and to check out the landscape.

And when I do, in my heart, I feel optimism. Donald Trump is now showing subtle, very slight leads, some of them less than a single percentage point in most of the swing states. The only state where Kamala Harris appears to have a razor thin edge right now is Wisconsin. That could change very, very quickly. The reason why I have the optimism, even though the polling shows a razor thin margin, is that Trump always outperforms the polls.

You had massive polls showing that Hillary Clinton was going to win in multiple swing states. Everyone was predicting Hillary Clinton would win in 2016. Clearly, she did not. Thankfully, she did not. Four years later in 2020. We know Biden ended up being named the president, but, he he showed, multiple, percentage point leads. That didn't turn out to be accurate.

In other words, he underwhelmed. He underperformed compared to the polls in the swing states right now, Donald Trump is actually leading. And we're three weeks out. And I also sense that the Kamala Harris campaign is now throwing Hail Mary passes. She's entering high risk, situations. They're trying to control certain elements of it, but entering high risk situations that maybe she can get get ahead.

One of them will actually happen tomorrow night. Bret Baer of Fox News is going to interview Kamala Harris in a one on one. Here's the thing. Julie tells me it's not going to be live, and Fox News will not release the entire transcript. Which makes me wonder, why wouldn't you? What what is is there a defensible decision to not release an entire transcript of an interview here on radio?

We the the we almost always have live interviews. If we pre tape an interview, I almost never edit that down. I might just for the purpose of length. But I don't consider there's never content that I say oh this will make him look bad or her look bad. I'm going to take this out. It's it doesn't work like that.

It's okay. We've got to. We only have 12 minutes and this is a 15 minute interview, so I gotta find maybe the least compelling answer or the least interesting topic. And and cut that out. I may do that, but, but in terms of this, I don't know why. Number one, it's not live. And number two, they don't release the entire transcript.

My hunch is this Fox probably would be fine releasing the entire transcript. But the Harris campaign may have demanded that, number one, they don't do that and that it's not airing live. And I'm guessing just my gut here is that the Harris campaign, once they do the interview, I mean, they're it's going to air. Don't get me wrong.

But they have some editorial discretion here saying, I don't want you to air that answer now. I hope that's not the case because they there's lots of ethical issues with that. And and I find it weird. You we have Kamala Harris, by the way, in the midst of, a plagiarism scandal. Apparently the book that she, that she put out is really not hers.

There's a lot of copying and pasting, like direct copying and pasting from Wikipedia. Wow. Now, I don't know all the stories here. There. But the the publisher is not allowing underlings to comment much, and it's only making the rounds in the conservative media. Can you imagine if it was Trump, even for a moment, that that would be talked about nonstop, lesser controversies, far lesser controversies on the Trump side have obsessed the media for days.

And here we have Kamala Harris plagiarizing, apparently. And nothing it's crickets will be brat will be back. It's 825 now on Newstalk 10798 29 A Newstalk 107. Well Julie, based on our very abundant texting this morning, other people also remember it as Haley's common. So you're not alone. Yeah, maybe we just been gaslit. Maybe it was Haley's comment and then they're like, by the way, it's Halley's Comet.

I think they sit around in rooms and laugh about the fact that they can change things. It was never Sacajawea. It's always been way. Because we're from PBS and we know I mean, I don't I don't know that's a that's a touchy subject on the heels of it being Columbus Day yesterday. Oh, people losing their minds. You didn't really see it again.

Julie, my head's not been in the the news cycle as much the last few days, so. Yeah. What? How did they lose their minds about Columbus Day? This continuing to have a problem? I mean, there's video of Kamala Harris in previous years saying how it's a horrible lake. We stole this land. While you're trying to become president of this land of a nomination that you stole.

So pot, a neat kettle. Well, yeah, that's a really good point. He like she's one of the occupiers by her own definition. Yep. So get out if that's how you feel. And it's your interpretation, then there's six other continents you can choose. And, Martha Raddatz, it's okay that Venezuela island gains take over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado.

That's immigration. And we need to have tolerance for that. But when Columbus comes across and and yeah, takes over land, we don't have to have toleration for that. He's the worst thing that's ever existed. And then you got the other one over on MSNBC demanding that we know Donald Trump's cholesterol level. That's a that was an interesting take too.

Yeah. So it's a rough it's a rough news cycle right now. You know, it it really is because you go you go through I think a big challenge is people don't know what to believe anymore because they know they're being lied to. They know they're being lied to by all, all the different media. And they're like, I don't even know what's true and what's up and what's down anymore.

Yeah I agree with that. Totally. I, I think that people, I think they've had to suspend the ability for independent thinking to continue to just listen and not, not take in information and then go find out for yourself. They just want to be lead. They've just suspended their independence. Lead me however you want me to to go.

Yeah. Which they expect that to by the way. Because with Obama telling black men brothers, you need to vote it. They they expect that of you. So can we go to the Venezuelan gangs for just a moment with Martha Raddatz? Yeah, I, I don't know if Donald Trump does this deliberately. If he does, he is brilliant. Where you talk about an issue, you deliberately get a detail wrong and let's say you talk about an issue that the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about, because the more you talk about Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes, the next logical for nearly everyone, the next logical step to that is what caused this problem.

And it's our border. It's our it's our super lax immigration policy. And that lays at the feet of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and everyone knows it. I mean, that's a that's a that is a no. We didn't have these kinds of things happening when Donald Trump was president. And there's a very clear, direct connection to that. If Donald Trump had stated it fully, accurately, no media would issue.

ABC news surely would not have talked about Venezuelan gangs occupying apartment buildings. But they cannot resist the facts check of Donald Trump. They think it's a gotcha. They think that it's a oh he said something and it wasn't right. I'm going to talk about that. He's actually baiting them into talking about Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes because they're not doing the right work all on their own.

Right. We talked about cats and dogs for two straight weeks in Ohio. Yeah, because they just had to we had to stick it to Trump. We got to stick it to Trump. We spent no time talking about the 12 year old girl in Texas who was raped and tortured for several hours by two illegal immigrants. We they don't cover any of that.

No, they don't, which makes me think Donald Trump should have said a 13 year old girl. And then they would have fact checked him and said he she's 12. Like, I, I feel like maybe he does this so that it forces them to talk about the issue. Yeah, maybe he does. I don't know I it is it positive is as the last week has been feeling a little bit better about the presidential race, I have also been even more discouraged about our mainstream media.

Yeah, they are broken. They are dishonest. They are. They are agenda driven. They don't have integrity. There's no integrity left in the mainstream media. And whatever it is, if it's because you've got to keep your job, I don't care. That's gross. And I, I say that from somebody who we left a job. That's true because we weren't going to we weren't going to cash in our integrity to keep a paycheck.

If you're if you're talented, you go find a new job. Yeah. You find what you find where you can't speak truth. Yes. Yeah. You can. And and, yeah. But I actually think Martha Raddatz in this case, she's just all in on it. I don't think she was trying to placate her bosses. I think she she genuinely wanted to fact check Trump and JD Vance handled it so well.

He's like, listen to yourself. Are you hearing what you're saying? Yeah. Which instantly put her. She was trying to get him on the defensive like, why did Trump get this wrong? And he he flipped it like instantly said, are you do you even hear yourself. You're talking about Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes and you're upset Donald Trump got the details wrong.

Yeah. And by the way why are they allowed to do it. Donald Trump's not in power right now. Yeah. Ask yourself that's a question Martha. That's a great point too. Yeah. It's this isn't Donald Trump's fault. I know that, people in the media and the Trump deranged have become conditioned to think that every ill that we have in society, Donald Trump is at the root, foreign man bad has caused all of our misery, and they live in that realm.

But I don't think Americans do. And I think it's frustrating for the media, for those courageous enough and, well, not courageous. That's the wrong word. But for those in the media, at least observant enough to realize America does not hate Donald Trump even close to the level that you think they do and that you do. You're projecting your hatred on to an entire nation.

They don't share that hatred of Donald Trump. Yeah, he we roll our eyes at him once in a while, and he he says some crazy things. And he's certainly brash and a different sort of politician. But he's not a fascist. He's not a dictator in waiting. He's not Hitler. He's not he's not all the things they say that he is.

And I bet you there's a lot of cognitive dissonance when they see the this polling come in and he's edging out Kamala Harris and he is I mean they're about identical. When you when you look at the favorable to unfavorable they're they're on even par. And they probably go everything that we've done as a favorite of Kamala Harris, the stories that we've overlooked and the favorable stories that we've manufacture cheered.

And she's still not doing any, any, any measurably better than, Donald Trump. Do you know what would make my, my week? I am so craving, over the next three weeks before the election to have Joe Biden call her out, I, I need, I need it, I need him, you know, maybe in two weeks to say the real anger that he feels about being kicked out of his position.

And and I'm not arguing that he should have been on the ballot. I don't think he should be leading our country right now. The man is is too disabled at this point to be doing what what we're expecting him to do. But I oh, I would love for him to go. What do I have to lose? Let's just throw that out there, okay?

I know, again, we're writing a movie script here, but is that why they're not pulling the 25th amendment is like, they know he'd get very vocal. I don't think he'd ever endorse Trump, but he's not doing any favors for Kamala. I it might be that, but I also think that they know how bad she is. And if she had to split time between campaigning and running the country, well, it would look bad.

It would look so bad for her. Yeah. I just don't think they can risk it. Yeah, for a couple of reasons. I don't think they can risk what Jill was saying. I don't think they can risk what Joe will say. Yeah. And I don't think they can risk putting her in a position to make her look even more inept.

No, you're right. I mean, it's a very fragile thing, right now because she's not even likable among her own people. They pretend to like her because she is the nominee. So there's a level of pretending you have to do, but I don't. I think behind the scenes she she doesn't have people. Yeah. I don't think she's got people.

The only allure she has is the power that she can give to others if she becomes the president. Yes. Transactional. That's it, that's it. I want to play something Julie. That makes me. It sort of fuels this conspiracy theory and this palace intrigue of who's who's for, who's for whom. Here's, Bill Clinton. He had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn't you?

They made an ad about about a young woman who'd been killed by an immigrant. Right? Yeah. Well, if they had all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn't have happened. But if they are properly vetted, that doesn't happen. And America is not having enough babies to keep our populations up. Okay, so we need immigrants that have been vetted to do work right?

There wouldn't be a problem. And he couldn't keep people all torn up and upset. Okay. This is he's he's absolutely right here. It's one of the rare times Bill Clinton's telling the truth. But what why is he saying this right now. This is not and this is not a time to be speaking this truth. If you want Kamala Harris to become the president of the United States.

And Bill Clinton is smart. He's not stupid. I don't think that this was just him. You know, I think that you might have people that don't want Kamala to be the president of the United States, that there is a rift in the Democrat Party right now. It's quite possible. I mean, they've got him out doing this, right. He doesn't look thrilled about it.

He's he's also and this is not something negative that I'm saying about him. It's me reading the situation. I'm not sure he's healthy enough to be out doing this. Do you see how shaky he is? Oh, yeah. Yeah, he is so shaky. I have no idea what kind of health challenges he has. Yeah, this is why I believe that you've got to call it quits when it's appropriate to call it quits.

Yeah, for some people, that's an age. For some people, it's when their health starts to climb. He shouldn't be out doing this. Yeah. And I think he felt obligated. Maybe there's some kind of a maybe Hillary told him he had to. I don't know, maybe they thoroughly disagree on it. Maybe he's got some obligation. He'll fulfill it. And then he's going to go back to his home.

Whatever it is. He doesn't seem 100% in on Kamala. Yeah, I, I agree because he's he's not helping her and he's undercutting her in with comments like this. It it's not that dissimilar from Joe Biden last week praising Ron DeSantis and saying, yeah, he's done a great job in this hurricane. He's handled it very well. And we've talked.

Meanwhile, you have this dumpster fire off at the side because Kamala Harris got mad that DeSantis wasn't taking her calls, and she accused him of playing politics. I mean, it's it's his weird thing. And if they were all on the same team and on the same page, Biden would not have said what he said. I don't think Bill Clinton would be saying what he's saying.

And furthermore, how many news stories or at least, media coverage, how much media coverage do we have showing these polls unfavorable to Kamala? What is that what's happening between these individual states, these internal polls? Yes, that aren't being reported on Real Clear Politics or whatever these internal polls are, they're leaking and that this is not going well for her.

And I wonder if you have a few level heads in the Democrat Party that are saying it's a disaster. If she gets elected, she is not ready to be the president of the United States publicly, I have to put the Harris Walls sign in my yard. I have to I have to on a on a public level, I have to say I support her.

But in reality, you might go, the country is going to burn if she's the president. Yeah. We need somebody to stabilize things. And oddly enough, that's Donald Trump. Yeah. So, okay. It is, 843 on Newstalk 179. We'll break. We'll come back after this, news break and continue. If you'd like to reach us on the fall River propane, call and text line 208542 179.

All right. My blood pressure is already sorry.

It's a good thing you didn't listen to the Sunny Hostin clip I sent you. So, yeah, that would have thrown you clear over the edge. You send me a Sunny Hostin clean on Facebook? Yeah. Oh, okay. Gotcha. All right. But it's infuriating. Is what we were listening to. So you would be off the charts if you had listened to both?

Yes. Well, I was just listening to one of the proponents of proposition one, a not even. Here's the problem, Julie. They have their soundbites that are like quarter truths. They're not even half truths. They leave out so much. And it requires a discussion and an explanation to counter them. And I it takes an awful lot of work because they've, they've honed their little talking points really, really well.

And they're more than willing to give you just that little smidgen because they think that's what will convince you. Right. And then and then to get the same people that will make a decision based on these little smidgen of talking points to engage in a longer discussion, it requires a lot more intellectual rigor and work. That's hard to do.

Like it? It's just hard to do. And so this frustrates me, to to know. And I was doing a little research on, on ranked choice voting, and there was a think tank out of Wisconsin that they were busy writing about this and studying it when it was such a big deal in Alaska. A couple of years ago.

And did you know, Julie, that in a ranked choice system, you're still going to get 97% of the same results? Okay, you're not really moving the needle at all. You're you're not. However, the problem with the proposition is that you if if all other things are equal, you get 97%. But now you're allowing Democrats to lie about who they are.

Yeah, there's a couple of things that are going on here that aren't measurable, right? Yeah. So one of them is that yes. Because you can't measure people's integrity. Yeah. Right. It's not a scale. Yeah. So when you open it up that they can dismiss it. Deceitful. Yeah. How do you measure it. You can't. No you can't. Okay then the second thing is how do you measure cheating in an election.

Clearly it's very very very difficult. Yeah. Look at 2020 and all of the shenanigans. And we still were not able to measure how much cheating happened. So when you open up a system, when you first off, when you blow up the current system and then you bring in a new system that makes it near-impossible to audit, that makes it more possible to cheat.

Yeah. And that you can't measure that. Yeah. And then you also when you open up a system and make it possible for people to lie about who they are, you can't measure their lack of integrity. No, you can't, you can't I don't Julie, I don't know. And maybe I just don't understand the law. But in my mind, if if you can lie about your party affiliation, which if prop one passes, anybody can say they're part of any party.

There is no threshold, there's no scrutiny, there's no double checking that none of that. You can just show up. And if it if it's strategically makes sense for you to call yourself a Republican, that's going to be the vast majority of scenarios in Idaho. You can do that. You may hate every Republican you know, you may have donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Democrat Party.

You might go to your Democrat meetings every week or two. You can still call yourself a Republican on the ballot, because that's what's going to help you in in your district. It's a lie. It is. It is it is misinformation that you can prove is misinformation, but they're institutionalizing, allowing it onto the ballot. It would be like, what if I wanted to run in some other district because I didn't like it?

I felt like another candidate was weak. How is lying about what you believe any different than lying about where you live? Yeah, or lying about anything else related to this your age? You could lie. You could be 17 and lie about how old you are and say, I'm running. You could lie and say, I'm 19. So I get to show up and vote or I get to run in this race, whatever the case may be.

How is that lie? Enforceable? But a lie about your party affiliation is actually protected and even encouraged. Yeah. And and somehow twisted and pretzel into this virtuous concept like. Yeah that if you, if we institute ranked choice voting all of a sudden we're actually going to represent the constituents. It's like this mad tick event like purging, right. All of a sudden you're representing the constituents when you can lie about who you are.

Yes you can. And again, go back to this. If it was just ranked choice voting, but we required people to identify their party accurately, we're going to get 97% of the same results. Ranked choice voting isn't really the big threat. It's it's a lot more complex. It's more expensive. That's why I oppose it. The big threat here is the distortion that will be institutionalized on the ballot after this.

If it's it starts with deceit. They've lied to you about the proposition. Yeah, it flourishes with deceit. If it gets passed. Yes, yes, they're making it a part of the election process. All right, quick break. 855. All right. It's 859 on this Tuesday on Newstalk 179, hour two coming up.

You said. All right. Welcome back. It's 907 on Newstalk 109. Julie I want to read directly from the long ballot title of proposition one. You ready? So ready. This measure proposes two distinct changes to elections for most public offices. We're only going to deal with one right now because this is the topic du jour. This is a very important piece and one I've talked about a lot.

It says this first, this measure would abolish Idahos party primaries under current law, political parties nominate candidates through primary elections, in which party members vote for a candidate to represent the party in the general election. So we know all this. The initiative creates a system where all candidates participate in a top four primary, and voters may vote on all candidates.

The top four vote earners for each office would advance to the general election. Okay, then, this sentence and this is the most important sentence, and I want the listeners to pay very close attention. This is verbatim from the long ballot title. Candidates could list any affiliation on the ballot, but would not represent political parties and need not be associated with the party they name.

That's their wording, their words, not mine. Their words. So this morning, East Idaho News, released an interview that they had with Hyrum Erickson, who has become sort of this region's voice for force person because, yeah, Luke Mayville and Todd Achilles don't I don't know why they're not out there answering these questions, but we can't get them here either.

So, they have Hyrum Erickson doing this. I want you to listen again. I'm going to read the verbiage of the long ballot title. What the actual proposition says, and let the listeners match that up with what Hyrum Erickson has told Nate Eaton. Candidates could list any affiliation on the ballot, but would not represent political parties and need not be associated with the party they name.

Here's what he said on East Idaho News video. Give me a second here. Okay. The idea that it allows people to lie about their party affiliation on the ballot is just simply incorrect. And a lot of people believe it. It's not accurate. And and I can read to you the exact language from the statute that is clear that in their in their certificate of candidacy, the candidate is required to list their real actual party affiliation.

This says there is no need to be affiliated with a party in the ballot title. That's the thing all the voters will read. They need not be associated with the party they name. But then he tells East Idaho News, they have to. They have to say what? They're real association. Real. He emphasizes the word real. What does what does that even mean then?

Hyrum, I don't know if you're listening, Hyrum, but I would tell you your description is in direct contradiction with the long ballot title. That's the one that a lot of voters might actually read. There's a short ballot title, and then there's a three paragraph long ballot title. It's actually two paragraphs. It's just there's an intro sentence. But, so am I.

Am I not processing something correctly? No, I and I get your frustration completely. You're frustrated right now. I understand it because when we interviewed Hyrum Erickson, we talked about these exact paragraphs that you're reading from these exact ones. And we asked him what the injustice was, because in there it's it explains that there's an injustice in the current system.

And he said, oh, I wouldn't have chosen that word. So now my question for Hyrum is if in our interview you disagree with the words that are there and now in your East Idaho News interview, you're disagreeing with, I mean, it seems to me like it's a complete disagreement with what is written in the ballot title. Are you really the spokesperson or is this thing that confusing that their main spokesperson on this side of the state has this many disagreements with what's going on?

Julie, I don't know if we can get high Raymond, before the end of the art, will you? I'll text him if you'll. If you'll text him. I would love to have him. Come on. Because what he has told East Idaho News is not at all in alignment with the actual verbiage of what's on this proposition. Yeah. I'll shoot him a text.

Again I want to read to you when I repetition is very important here. Candidates could list any affiliation on the ballot but would not represent political parties. That middle part isn't that important because there won't be any representation of political parties. But the most important thing is that they could list any affiliation on the ballot and need not be associated with the party they name.

But then he says this certificate of candidacy, the candidate is required to list their real, actual party affiliation. Okay. This is this is in direct opposite to what the proposition is saying. At least the most visible part that is presented to the voters. I think it's also important, as we discuss this, for people to truly understand, because maybe you missed it when Neal was explaining that that this is right at the very beginning.

We're not in on page 16, digging into the minutia of this. This was so important to the people who wrote this proposition that it is front and center. Yeah. And now it appears Hyrum Erickson is completely disagreeing with what is front and center. Yes. This is incredibly confusing. Now, when you fill out a packet, apparently when you when you sign up to vote, you can list a party affiliation.

Okay. So I, I don't know how that meshes with, with what we've just read the actual long ballot title, but I think what he's saying, and he goes on to explain it a little bit. Now, that doesn't mean that that person is the nominee of that party. It just means that if I am a registered Republican, I can't say I'm a registered Democrat.

And if I'm a registered Democrat, I can't say I'm a Republican. Okay, so you only have to lie once. Yeah. And in Idaho you can switch, you can register. There's a there's a time frame that you're required to do it within. But you can switch from party to party. So he's saying that if you're if you're a registered Republican, that's who you really are.

And that's what you're going to put down anyway. No, that means nothing to me. And and here's the thing. When because and then Nate Nash, you switched parties though. What? You can do that now. And in fact, there's lots of Republicans that are upset that people that they don't think are. And then he goes off and, you know, that's the Dorothy gripe.

But, I guess I'm looking at this saying two years ago and we have Jim Jones on tape, our interview with him openly asking people to disingenuously join the Republican Party. You don't believe anything. You don't want to be affiliated with the party, but you do. So you can vote in that party. So this whole cadre of people already has a history of wanting people to disingenuously align with the party.

So of course, they can vote and they can have an impact on on the Republican Party outcome. But I don't understand the direct contradiction here. And he he's not wrong. In fact, that was the basis for the lawsuit back in 2010 and 2011 was that we have crossover voting. Back then, dishonesty was a bad thing. Now it's a strategy.

No, I'm not a no. And it is celebrated. It is celebrated, I mean, and the judge, it was Judge Windmill. He noticed the threat and and there were tones of concern that yes, indeed, you had people crossover voting. Look how much our integrity has eroded in a little over a decade, to the point where you have a former chief justice and attorney general who you would think would be the pillar of integrity now in has engaged in a campaign to openly do the thing that was clearly dishonest 13 years ago.

Because they, they, they're filled with bitterness and hate. I don't have another option here. I, I'm getting hung up on a word and it might just be a Julie thing, but I'm going to make the point anyways. In Hiram's comments he emphasizes the word real. I don't believe anything of this. It's a it's a proposition of deceit.

It has been brought forward with deceit, and you're telling people they can be deceitful after it passes. Yeah, but you're going to emphasize the word real. No, no, you can't sell me that bill of goods. I'm not going to buy that from you. That that tone of this is how we actually get real people involved. Know people. You're encouraging people to lie.

Yeah. I don't sell it to me with that tone and that word. It for me, that is as, as not genuine as the word injustice in their lead paragraphs. Yeah, that's not genuine. The word block is not genuine. And in an interview, don't say you're going to get there real the party affiliation right there. You tell them they can put down whatever they want.

Yeah that's not truthful. All right. Again this is another example Julie. And I'm hoping we will hear back from Hiram Erickson today because I think he's got some splaining to do because what he told, East Idaho News is in direct contradiction with what the actual measure says. So I hope we can clarify this for us because it it's a it's massively confusing here.

I will say this on a side note, and this will be a nice little aside here. The signs have arrived. Hundreds of them have arrived. The vote no signs. Julius and I will be at Wealth of Health on Friday with, bunch of other people who are going to help distribute these signs. So, 1 to 230, we want you to put it on your calendar.

Maybe you can swing by, take a little bit of a late lunch and come and join us for a few minutes, and it'll be a little bit more than just here's your sign and thank you. We're going to it's going to be kind of a rally atmosphere. And so we hope that you'll join us for that. Again, that will be Friday from 1 to 230 in the parking lot.

It will actually be just south of the Wealth of Health parking lot. So it'll be in the big shopping plaza area there. Our area, though, will be kind of just just south of where the wealth of health is directly off of Woodruff. But this health is located on the corner of First and Woodruff. Yeah. Where will be is south of Wealth of Health, directly off of Woodruff.

Kind of between that subway and wealth of health. Yes. In there. So I hope you'll join us. We've reached out to I believe some lawmakers are going to join us on this. And based on the turnout that we had this past Friday, I'm looking forward to a very robust crowd. Yes. So come and and make sure that you represent all of these eight there are people getting a voice that clearly don't understand the proposition that they're there.

Cheerleading. Yeah, I have I have felt this with I don't want to call Hyrum Erickson a liar. I don't want to. Maybe he has a different interpretation of what's going on. But when you when you can read the words and they contradict what he says in an interview, when we can interview him and he says, well, I don't like the word injustice, but that's the word they've chosen to use twice in their opening paragraphs.

Yeah, I it's bizarre to me that you're going to cheerlead a proposition when when the talking points aren't matching up in your interviews. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Exactly. So any any word back? Nope. Okay. All right. Well, we're going to take a break. (208) 542-1079.

Interesting to read. The the comments. Someone said no chance of passing. This is the dumbest thing on the ballot. Only two other states have implemented this. One is fighting like crazy to get rid of it and go back to normal voting policies. Idaho are smarter than this. So how many comments? It's already like, gotten what?

This morning? Because it's only been out for, what, an hour, 45 minutes? It's got up to four comments. Okay, not a not a ton yet. It's gonna look and see if he has he has his read receipts on and he hasn't read it. Yeah okay. We got a text. We are on Facebook Live, right. Thank you.

Yeah, yeah. Somebody sent a text that said I put a vote No sign out here in Pocatello. And the next day it was gone. Looks like Democrats have to play dirty and cheat in order to win. Yeah, this is really frustrating to me to. Yeah, there's so much dark money coming into this. This person said the ads on YouTube and Hulu are constant.

I'm in Courtney, so I don't know if it's just up here, but you guys can't. But can you guys speak to someone to get ads against prop one to show up on those same platforms for the same demographics? The problem is, somebody's got to pay for it. Yeah, and when all of that dark money is coming in, it's a lot they can pay to run ads on YouTube and Hulu.

Oh.

Oh. What's the name of the website that you're pulling the text from? The oh, the actual proposition text if you go to yes for open primaries.com and scroll down to the very, very bottom in small print, it says read the full text of the Open Primaries Act here. Yes, for open primaries.com. Are they is it on Facebook. Yes okay.

Yeah you can. All right. If you're there you know I'll start I will I'm going to send you the link if you want to forward it on I don't okay. And it's it's right there near the top. It's in the, the long ballot title. Here we go.

All right. 925 on Newstalk 117, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason. And if you'd like to reach us, (208) 542-1079 that's the fall River propane call and text line. And, okay, Julie, it's three weeks, three weeks, three weeks, three weeks. You're ready? Yeah, sure.

I, I will say I feel like I'm a little bit like you on this, on this proposition, because the way you are with the presidential race, like, I feel pretty confident if we're even close to counting votes fairly, Donald Trump is going to win the thing. But on this proposition, when I think back in 2018, they got Medicaid expansion passed, I felt pretty strongly it wasn't going to pass.

I thought it might be close. It might be 52, 48, 53, 47, something like that. But I, I thought ultimately it would fail. It got 60% passage. They did it with these these sort of feel good sound bites. They made people feel like, well, it's the compassionate thing to do is well and, this is there's so they're good at what they do.

And and it, it's it to me we get things that if we knew the full story we wouldn't naturally want. And so I'm a little twitchy because of that. But then that's offset a little bit because we know who they are now. We know what they do. We have more information about this group. And I believe that the fact that Donald Trump will be on the ballot, that 2018 was not a presidential year, it might have turned out very differently if you had had the Republican nominee's name on the ballot.

And so I think that's working in our favor today as well. My hope is that the people voting for Trump have taken just a little bit of time to learn everything that they can about this now. I hope so, too. And for the hundredth time, please talk to people about it, please. Yes. Super important. And be sure and join us Friday, 1 to 230 at the parking lot.

Wealth of health corner of first and, Woodruff. So let's go to the phones. Hi, caller, you're on the program. How are you today? Hi, Julie. Hello. Appreciate your guys perseverance over this, ranked choice voting. It is very, very bad. It's, something that is intended. Yeah. It's purposeful and turning, but, state's voting system from from red into blue, and, that's full of deception.

And it's, destroys common sense. It as it confuses everybody to the point that they don't know quite how to handle it. And then it's used against them during that confusion. So I agree with you guys completely. I appreciate your, your, your, your being there, saying that that's day after day up to the election because it is it is important to the life or death of this state of Idaho, of ours.

And it is huge. And my question to you guys is, how many states, which states, which of the 50 states have ranked choice voting to whatever degree they do? And of these same 50 states that have employed this ranked choice voting, how many have turned blue and, perhaps spawned such people such as, a waltz or, a Kamala Harris or an Adam Schiff or people like these.

So which which of the states employed this ranked choice voting? If you could bring that up to the people, I think that might help to illuminate the massive effort that this is being used around the United States. So anyway, well, that all right. Thank you for the call. The most glaring example would be Alaska. And already the blue shift has happened in Alaska with Mary Portola, who actually only got 39% of the vote in round one.

You had 61% of the people voting against Mary Tola in in round one. And then in the subsequent rounds, Nick Begich got eliminated. And then in the final round, Pelle Tola and Palin, Pelle Tola came out on top. But the problem with ranked choice voting is you never have that head to head matchup. You're ranking people, but you never have a binary choice for voters to go and make a decision decision about.

And it's through those little maneuverings where where the crazy can happen. There this think tank in Wisconsin, even though Wisconsin is kind of a blue state, this think tank is I don't know if they're down the middle, maybe they're a bit right leaning, but they've studied this very extensively. You can have a candidate that could never win a majority, a fourth place, even a fifth place candidate in a ranked choice environment.

Through the subsequent rounds, they can float up to the top and end up winning. That's how that's how nuts this is. Now, that doesn't always happen. We mentioned before, I don't want to, operate at the risk of contradicting, contradicting myself. If you were to take a thousand races and run them traditionally the way we do in Idaho right now, and you take those same thousand races and run them in a ranked choice situation, you would get 97% of the same results.

Okay. So that's a that's an interesting thing. And so it makes you think, well why would we spend 25 to $40 million? Why would we make it more complicated for the voters? There's also going to be a cost with the trust that we have in our elections, because they are more difficult to audit, they're more difficult to do recounts in and to do hand counts.

Why would we do all of that when it really doesn't move the needle? Well, you get 97% the same result anyway. And the reason why I believe it goes back to what we were talking about in the first segment, which is there they want ranked choice because I think their moderate candidates do better. In fact, Todd Achilles said that very openly when they launch.

They said, of course we want more moderate candidates. And so they want to take change the texture of it, but they also want this affiliation game to be to be able to be played. What how candidates identify an affiliate on the ballot is super, super important to them. Yeah. To follow up on the call, it's Maine and Alaska that currently have ranked choice voting on the statewide level.

There are lots of counties and lots sounds weird. There's numerous. But think about how many counties there are across the United States. So there's there's numerous counties that have ranked choice voting. Probably the the most, prominent and glaring example of a county is in San Francisco. They have nonstop problems with their ranked choice voting in that county, but they have kept it because they're they're San Francisco.

Yes. Right. I don't know how it's I don't know how else to say that. That's why that's maintained there despite it having tons and tons and tons of problems. And, when you see the signs that neither Neal nor I really love, which is Don't California hate Idaho? Yeah. It's not just people bitter about Californians moving into Idaho.

There are multiple counties in California that run some sort of a jungle primary, something that has a flavor similar to what they're proposing in Idaho. It does change the politics. It changes the state. That's what they want. Yeah, that's where this dark money is coming from. They want to change Idaho. They want to change Montana. They they've cornered the West, right?

They've got Washington, they've got Oregon, they've got, California. It's on and off. Whether or not they have Nevada and Arizona just follow the trail. They want to take Idaho and they want to take Montana. They've got Colorado securely in their grasp. It is a long term goal. This is just part of the goal. Yeah. It is if you go to their website, there is a myth versus fact section here.

And here's just I found all sorts of these kinds of things. One of the myths they're saying is it will take 15 days to get election results. Okay. So just pay attention to the actual words. They're it is absolutely true in Alaska that election day was November 8th. They did not even start tabulating until November 23rd because in in a ranked choice system, you can't even begin to count ballots any ballot until you have every ballot.

So they had to wait for mail ins and absentee ballots. Maybe there were military ballots they were waiting for. They they had to wait until all of those came in before they started tabulating. And then it was a few days beyond that where they had to do tabulating, and there were different rounds. So their fact check on this was and pay attention to the words.

They they have a word play thing that they're doing. Ranked choice results can be ready and released just as quickly as other election results. Now, if you're waiting for ballots to be mailed in. So if you have every ballot, yes. But not yeah, that's the wiggle room they've created. They're in a vacuum when Wisconsin has all of their their ballots and Alaska has all of their ballots, we can count just as quickly as they can.

Yeah, but that's not how people run elections. Wisconsin starts counting early. They start. They start tabulating. So you're not it's not an apples. Oranges. Yes. It says here and they've used an example in Utah, the results of ranked choice elections are announced on election night or the morning after. You know why? Because those are small towns that are doing it.

It's not a statewide system where they're waiting for all these ballots to be mailed in. They don't have to wait. So you're comparing apples to oranges if you're comparing a statewide system to a few municipalities in Utah, figuring out who the county commissioner is in a Utah county? Yes, exactly. Some large states, like Alaska, choose to wait to release any election results simply to ensure they have all ballots returned by mail.

This choice has nothing to do with ranked choice voting. That's just not true. The reason they're waiting is because they can't start counting until they have all the ballots now, and they've got wiggle room here because not all races are going to have four candidates. Yeah. So if a race only ends up after the the quote open primary or jungle primary, if in November a race only ends up with two candidates, it gets counted just like it is now.

Yeah. And so yes, there's going to be maybe 1 or 2 races that only end up with two candidates. Yeah. So that's their other form of wiggle room there. Yeah. But if you've got four clear candidates in November, you have to wait for everything to come in because you can't exhaust ballots. You can't. There's no way you can go on to round two, because you've got to make sure that you count all the other ones first.

Yeah, you got you got to have them all together to begin. And then it says most jurisdictions who administer ranked choice voting should be that jurisdictions aren't people. But most jurisdictions that administer ranked choice elections are able to release ranked results alongside other election results on the same timeline. You know why that is? Because most jurisdiction lines aren't an entire state.

Yeah. Most jurisdictions are. These little towns and counties that have decided, like in New York or California or in Utah, that decided to do it. So they're throwing this out as a fact check, but they're not accounting for the fact that the proposition which will apply ranked choice voting to pretty much all of Idaho, it isn't the same as Moab, Utah.

And what is most what is most? 5,151% 52%? What is most? Yeah, that's true. That's true too. Okay. That feels very generic to me. This is where we need Phil McGrane. And and he could answer, you know, how how long will this take? It may not take as long as Alaska. Alaska's a very spread out state. There may be little villages that don't have the same technology.

Well, actually, no. You know what? There's another there's a couple of big differences between Idaho and Alaska, even though it's an identical system that they want to implement. It's actually more problematic in Idaho because we don't have centralized elections. Alaska does. So when you vote, it is it is uniform throughout the state how you vote, because it's centralized.

I probably in Anchorage, okay. In Idaho, the voting is county by county. If you vote in Butte County, it's going to be different than Bingham County, which is going to be different in Bannock and and Bonneville. You're just you have these voting systems because our legislature gives them that latitude. And as long as they meet certain requirements, they choose the voting system, they choose that.

That's another reason why it's going to be more expensive in Idaho to do the switch to implement another big. And we've talked about this before. Another big difference is that Alaska only has six different offices that are subject to ranked choice voting in Idaho, it'll have 20. So all the statewide offices, all the legislative seats, county seats.

I think it's pretty much any race that currently has Republicans versus Democrats, these Partizan races, there might be a couple of little exceptions here and there, but for the most part, all the big races are going to be subject to ranked choice voting, which not even Alaska has tackled that. Yeah, yeah. Well, Idaho said here, hold my beer.

Right. And then they said, let's do it bigger, better and and blow it up even worse. Yes. Yeah. Any word back from Hiram? No. Okay. Back. All right. We're, We'll we'll break and come back. 020 8542 1079. You know, when you think about all the dark money, you do feel like this is a David versus Goliath. Yeah. Thing.

I think the overwhelming emotion about this entire election season. Yeah has been. Just leave everything alone. Yeah. Stop messing with my second amendment. Stop messing with my First Amendment. Stop using taxpayer dollars to do whatever you want to do. Stop. Like stop blowing up the voting system. So, like, just grimy little hands off of everything. Yeah, that's my overwhelming emotion.

And that's what I think about these people with ranked choice voting. Get your frickin grimy little hands off my stuff. Yeah, well, there's also that. And I feel the same frustration because they're they're leveraging an entire group's dissatisfaction for their own selfish purposes, because most of the I, you know, if you're independent, almost by definition, you, you don't know what their politics are, right?

Which is fine. I totally I'm fine with that. But I would bet you the vast majority of independents are right leaning in Idaho. They just don't want to be tied to the Republican Party. They they like being independent. And I think that's that's great. Yeah. But, it's sort of like what the Democrat Party has done with minority groups.

You cultivate this feeling of you're a victim. You are a victim of injustice. The system is against you. You can't vote in the elections that matter even though you pay for them. Like they sit there and they cultivate this sort of sense of anger. But then they use that entire group of people to be their useful idiots.

Because that's what they think. This proposition is about allowing independents to vote in an election, when in reality it's about they could have fix that problem just with the primaries. They didn't need to do ranked choice voting. They didn't need to do open affiliation or whatever. We want to call that they are using that rage to open the door wide, to slip in more things that they think is going to be advantageous to the candidates that they support.

Yeah. Three weeks. Three weeks. Yeah. Sure. Camera tilted I think it is. Oh yeah. It looks like it's a little I just noticed the TV I'm like why is his camera crooked. Is that better. Let's see. It takes a minute to catch up. Yes. Yeah. That's better.

Yeah okay. If you want to talk about something different you have the Sunny Hostin clip. Okay. It's aggravating. Or we can talk about what Kamala introduced yesterday, which is small business loans that are just for black men only.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What kind of choices are. Hey, yo, it's crap choices, you guys.

Okay. All right. So you okay? I'll talk. Oh, like we can talk about both of these. Julie sent me. Okay. She's like, okay, I'm going to send two infuriating clips to Neal, see what happens. One of them, Kamala Harris, is creating, the program that only black men can get small business loans through this program.

So she'll take our taxpayer dollars, everyone's taxpayer dollars no matter what your heritage. Yeah. And then allocated to only black men. How is this not blatantly buying votes. I mean she releases this three weeks before the election. Her softest demographic expected demographic is black men. Like they don't they don't want her to be the president of the United States.

They're migrating over to Donald Trump. And so she creates a program like this is this is comical, almost. That's almost a pun. But, if I were dyslexic, comical, which I like. Come on. Anyway, so, I mean, it's sort of like the, the student loan forgiveness. That was a blatant. Well, and a lot of people said there's no way this would stand up in court either, like, it would be thrown out immediately.

Yeah. The problem is, is people buy it hook, line and sinker whether or not it's going to stand up in a in a court situation. They think that that the president to Santa Clause. Yeah. And can just dish out whatever the president desires to dish out. And so yeah, it's a campaign promise that she can't fulfill. Yeah. Okay.

And now Sunny Hostin sure. Sunny Hostin listen, we know all of you were hoping to hear from sending her. Yeah. Here we go. Here we go. Look, I think that Kamala Harris has been running a flawless campaign, and that's why she raised billions of dollars, $1 billion. So I think it's because of, the momentum that she had.

I think it's because people believe in her. And I think people are showing that by the amount of money that they're willing to give to their campaign. I have to stop there. Do you think Sunny Hostin actually believes this? I don't know, a flawless campaign. She chose Tim Walls as her VP candidate. She loves campaign. She hid from the media for months.

Yeah, whatever. Whatever. Weird. It's more. There's more. I think we have the press to blame for a lot of this about, you know, Whoopi, you always say you don't believe in polls. I'm with you now because I'm reading the press. First it was Kamala is not doing enough press. Then she goes on this huge press tour. She was here with us.

I thought she was fantastic. She was energetic. The crowd went wild. It was electric because you have applause lights in the audience. That's why the crowd went wild. Then Democrats got anxious. Axios Blue Wall blues, Fox Dems are scared to death. No, Dems are not scared to death. Then Dems are pumped. What I would like the press to talk a little bit more about is Trump is in hiding.

He didn't do the 60 minutes, interview. He does not want to do it at the debate. He's in mental decline. Obama's speech was captivating in Pittsburgh. Yet instead of talking about that, we're talking about, what he said before the speech to black men. I think that the media has to do a much better job than what they're doing.

So it's the media's not carrying the water enough. That's what she just said. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're they're not all wait a minute. If she's not worried, then why would she say the media's not doing enough? Yeah, right. Like if I, if I rolled back a few seconds and she's like, you know, people are saying that the Democrats are all worried that we're we're panicking.

The worst. Then she wouldn't need to make the point that she's making, which is the media's not doing enough to carry Kamala's water. You're clearly worried or else you wouldn't make that point. Yeah, yeah. This woman, I. I don't know how she doesn't how she looks in the mirror and goes. That was a good performance today. I did my job really well.

And if she has any form of self-reflection, she can't say that. So it must be a skill this woman lacks. I it's impossible for me to even understand. But if we examine it, I think she acts like she's scared to death. I think she I think she's you. I think she's faking it on here. Yeah. She's terrified that Donald Trump will be her president.

She hates the man that bad. So she's got to say these things that she, you know, flawless campaign. Are you kidding me? And nobody Donald Trump is not hiding. When that talking point came out from come on Kamala, he had done five events in three days and three different states. Yeah, five events, three days, three different states. And he's hiding.

Well he because it's very, very different. Kamala Harris was refusing to do friendly interviews. Donald Trump's not going to do an interview that copies and pastes an answer from Kamala Harris to make her look more favorable. Yeah, CBS is in trouble for that interview. Why would you do that when it's very clear they're they're deeply invested in making Kamala look good?

Who's to say they wouldn't do the reverse to Donald Trump, where they would copy and paste, a negative answer to something that they thought, well, we can make him look even worse if we do this. They would do that the other direction. He's still demanding an apology for his last 60 minutes interview that went so bad. It was Lesley Stahl, right?

Yeah. Right. Yeah, yeah. So he should just go right back into that. No. No no, I it's it's funny. You know what I can't. Yes. It's easy to let this bother me, but I look at it and I'm thinking, I think they actually are worried. I think she's trying to project confidence, but I think they know their candidate's a fraud.

She's a DEA hire. She doesn't have much substance. I read at least a portion. That column that you sent me about Kamala is an idiot. That one, you know? And the guy's like, you know, he. I try to I just try to say it like I see it. And he went through and it actually was more than just a name calling column.

He actually listed all the things that she has done and can't do and is she truly is very shallow and superficial. She could not go on to a stage without massive amounts of preparation and just talk freely about a whole host of issues. Well, and she doesn't understand foreign issues, she doesn't understand that she's going to be in these cabinet meetings.

Let's say she gets elected, she's going to be in this camp, these cabinet meetings. She's going to be nothing but a puppet. Yeah. She doesn't she doesn't have the capability to stand up for her own and and go, no, we can't implement that policy for these four reasons. She doesn't even have that depth. No, no. And it's it's sad.

Contrast that with JD Vance, who could walk into almost any environment. I think if he didn't know something, he'd probably say like having an all in knowledge gap on that. But here's what I do know. Like I just he just is so much better. 953 we'll wrap it up after this. On Newstalk 1079.

There was another, view clip from this same day. Yeah. Where they all were gushing over Kamala. She's so heartfelt and love ING and sitting here with her, it is still she might not have answered a question the way you wanted her to answer it, but she is such a kind, giving person. No. Couldn't stand it. Yeah.

So Mike said was wondering if he could stop by and we could hammer out the particulars real quick. No, you're done right at ten. Remember? I'm at 11, right? I'm podcasting 11. Then I got to get to a client. But if we do a post show for like, 15 minutes and he's he's here, can we spend 20 minutes yet?

Does he want to come here. Yeah, he said it. Come here okay. Yeah okay. Yeah. We'll just kind of I don't think there's too much to to worry about. I'm. I don't think there's that much at all. We have the space. We have the signs, we have the platform. They can bring a banquet table and we can set them on there.

I'll. I'll worry about the either Marv or my daughter's PA system, I think will be just fine. So, yeah, I think we can go through it real quick. The only thing I can think is if if we have a traffic issue, maybe he or some people from the party could kind of help direct people where to park.

Because sadly, I'd also love to see him hopefully send out, a mass email or text or group me. I don't even know how he communicates with his precinct officers. I have no idea. Yeah, whatever avenue he uses to communicate. Yeah, that some of those precinct officers show up also. Yeah. Okay. I have so many working parts in my head right now.

Like, the Kiran on CNN right now says 73% of people say election is causing them anxiety. Yeah. You you're there. Yeah. I'm there. I would too. So here's a story that, Bill Clinton campaigns for Kamala in Columbus.

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So on Friday, from 1 to 230, if you'll swing by, it's near the wealth of health. It's kind of the parking lot area between wealth of Health and that subway. There. We will have a rally. We're going to have some lawmakers there. We're gonna have music, PA system. We just kind of want you to come mix and mingle.

It's not going to be any big formal thing. But we love to meet with our, our listeners and like minded people and feel that it's very important that the word gets out on this. Wealth of health is located at the corner of Woodruff and First Street in Idaho Falls. Good friend of the show and of the party and, yeah, come join us Friday, 1 to 230.

Okay. We'll see you tomorrow. It's 959. Mark Lee van Kampen. Robin's up next.