12 GOP Election Deniers Are Running For Secretaries Of State — Transcript
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- 0:01hey welcome back everybody
- 0:04was Cato
- 0:07yeah
- 0:13very nice
- 0:15Lewis tonight
- 0:18tonight
- 0:21we got some fantastic guests coming up
- 0:23here in just a minute that's right
- 0:25um uh we got the one the only Senator
- 0:27Elizabeth Warren
- 0:29all right we've got a head of steam yeah
- 0:32that woman's got a head of steam and I
- 0:33can't wait for her to blow it now we
- 0:36also have coming up former Secretary of
- 0:37Energy uh Ernest uh monis you're like
- 0:40why are you having Ernest monisson oh
- 0:42there's some monies heads here now is
- 0:44that you know how they're all talking oh
- 0:45Putin my used tactics for the nuclear
- 0:47weapons but don't worry it's just
- 0:48tactical
- 0:50um I'm gonna have Mom and say what does
- 0:51that mean yeah because he's he's the
- 0:53antonus guy he runs a couple of anti-new
- 0:55organizations I'm like what does that
- 0:57mean tactical nuke is that is that bad
- 0:59I'm gonna guess the answer is uh
- 1:01you betcha
- 1:04um folks the midterms are next Tuesday
- 1:06as I told you in the monologue over
- 1:08there I hope I didn't have to tell you
- 1:10they were next Tuesday please go vote
- 1:12and here's the thing
- 1:19here's the thing in the last couple of
- 1:21years some of our fellow citizens in the
- 1:22Republican Party have gone a little
- 1:24funny in the head
- 1:26you know camo face mask body armor
- 1:28automatic weapons zip ties hanging
- 1:30around Ballot Box drop boxes you know so
- 1:32not so much haha funny as funny
- 1:36and I would say the source of the funny
- 1:38is all the lies about the 2020 election
- 1:41that have been spread by people who know
- 1:43better so now some of those election
- 1:45deniers are running for the job of
- 1:46overseeing and certifying their State's
- 1:48electoral process the secretaries of
- 1:51State this year 12 Republicans who have
- 1:53publicly questioned or disputed the
- 1:55results of the 2020 election are running
- 1:57for Secretary of State across the
- 1:59country and if elected they could try to
- 2:01sway election results in 2024 and Beyond
- 2:05meaning the election deniers might be
- 2:08running the next election that doesn't
- 2:10seem right
- 2:11that's like saying hey we need a
- 2:13babysitter how about Cassandra the dark
- 2:15denier of children
- 2:17I know I know but she really wants the
- 2:19job or don't you enjoy date night
- 2:23one of the most dangerous candidates is
- 2:24down in Arizona where the GOP nominee
- 2:26for secretary of state who's been
- 2:28leading in the polls is state
- 2:29representative whose 11 secret herbs and
- 2:32spices are all Ivermectin Mark fincham
- 2:35now remember in 2020 Arizona was on the
- 2:38edge of being stolen by Mega Maniacs
- 2:41pushing the big lie and the only thing
- 2:43standing in the way was the Secretary of
- 2:45State who stuck to the rules now that
- 2:48job could be taken over by a guy who is
- 2:50credited with starting the stop the
- 2:51steel campaign in Arizona and was part
- 2:54of the mob that rioted outside the
- 2:56capitol on January 6th you don't get to
- 3:00attack democracy and then ask to run it
- 3:02that's like a bank robber saying put the
- 3:04money in the bag also a job application
- 3:07I can start Monday I would say my
- 3:09greatest weakness is that I'm robbing
- 3:10this Bank
- 3:12then over in Nevada you got a former
- 3:14state representative and news anchor
- 3:16from the future telling you about the
- 3:17life before the event
- 3:19Jim Mark shant Marchant falsely claims
- 3:23the former president defeated Joe Biden
- 3:26in Nevada and has said he wouldn't have
- 3:28certified the results there in 2020 and
- 3:30has pushed the false claim that Pelosi
- 3:32Schumer and Schiff weren't legitimately
- 3:34elected oh so he's just denying every
- 3:37election Schumer lost shift jaded Justin
- 3:41Guarini beat Kelly Clarkson I won the JD
- 3:44Power and Associates initial customer
- 3:46satisfaction for midsize family van
- 3:49but
- 3:52there you go
- 3:57but the cream of the crazy crop is
- 3:58Michigan GOP nominee and woman who can't
- 4:01wait for her parents to meet her new boy
- 4:03flag
- 4:04Christina caramo caramo looked at all
- 4:09these other dangerous cranks and said
- 4:10hold my Chalice of adrenochrome because
- 4:13she said that the former president not
- 4:15Biden is the real winner of Michigan and
- 4:19the election and thinks demonic
- 4:20possession is real and also sexually
- 4:23transmitted
- 4:25having intimate relationships with
- 4:27people who are demonically possessed or
- 4:28oppressed I strongly believe that a
- 4:31person opens themselves up to possession
- 4:33that is an awkward phone call hey Hey
- 4:37Beth yeah it's Rick look this is
- 4:39embarrassing but I just found out I'm
- 4:40demonically possessed
- 4:43so you might want to hit the clinic and
- 4:45see if you test positive for asmodius
- 4:47yeah
- 4:48keep an eye out for moderate to severe
- 4:50goat hoof okay
- 4:53I'm sorry
- 5:00I don't know
- 5:04all these people have straight up said
- 5:05regardless of what the vote count is
- 5:07next time we're declaring Republicans
- 5:09winners of the next election no matter
- 5:11what and I believed them but don't take
- 5:14it from me as paramo herself put it at a
- 5:16recent rally history is telling us
- 5:18history is screaming to us that if we
- 5:21don't step up and fight now we will lose
- 5:24the greatest country in human history I
- 5:26never thought I would say this but we
- 5:28should really listen to the lady who
- 5:30believes in penis demons
- 5:32go boat
- 5:34[Music]
- 5:43[Applause]
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