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12 GOP Election Deniers Are Running For Secretaries Of State — Transcript

by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · 883 words · 144 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:01hey welcome back everybody
  2. 0:04was Cato
  3. 0:07yeah
  4. 0:13very nice
  5. 0:15Lewis tonight
  6. 0:18tonight
  7. 0:21we got some fantastic guests coming up
  8. 0:23here in just a minute that's right
  9. 0:25um uh we got the one the only Senator
  10. 0:27Elizabeth Warren
  11. 0:29all right we've got a head of steam yeah
  12. 0:32that woman's got a head of steam and I
  13. 0:33can't wait for her to blow it now we
  14. 0:36also have coming up former Secretary of
  15. 0:37Energy uh Ernest uh monis you're like
  16. 0:40why are you having Ernest monisson oh
  17. 0:42there's some monies heads here now is
  18. 0:44that you know how they're all talking oh
  19. 0:45Putin my used tactics for the nuclear
  20. 0:47weapons but don't worry it's just
  21. 0:48tactical
  22. 0:50um I'm gonna have Mom and say what does
  23. 0:51that mean yeah because he's he's the
  24. 0:53antonus guy he runs a couple of anti-new
  25. 0:55organizations I'm like what does that
  26. 0:57mean tactical nuke is that is that bad
  27. 0:59I'm gonna guess the answer is uh
  28. 1:01you betcha
  29. 1:04um folks the midterms are next Tuesday
  30. 1:06as I told you in the monologue over
  31. 1:08there I hope I didn't have to tell you
  32. 1:10they were next Tuesday please go vote
  33. 1:12and here's the thing
  34. 1:19here's the thing in the last couple of
  35. 1:21years some of our fellow citizens in the
  36. 1:22Republican Party have gone a little
  37. 1:24funny in the head
  38. 1:26you know camo face mask body armor
  39. 1:28automatic weapons zip ties hanging
  40. 1:30around Ballot Box drop boxes you know so
  41. 1:32not so much haha funny as funny
  42. 1:36and I would say the source of the funny
  43. 1:38is all the lies about the 2020 election
  44. 1:41that have been spread by people who know
  45. 1:43better so now some of those election
  46. 1:45deniers are running for the job of
  47. 1:46overseeing and certifying their State's
  48. 1:48electoral process the secretaries of
  49. 1:51State this year 12 Republicans who have
  50. 1:53publicly questioned or disputed the
  51. 1:55results of the 2020 election are running
  52. 1:57for Secretary of State across the
  53. 1:59country and if elected they could try to
  54. 2:01sway election results in 2024 and Beyond
  55. 2:05meaning the election deniers might be
  56. 2:08running the next election that doesn't
  57. 2:10seem right
  58. 2:11that's like saying hey we need a
  59. 2:13babysitter how about Cassandra the dark
  60. 2:15denier of children
  61. 2:17I know I know but she really wants the
  62. 2:19job or don't you enjoy date night
  63. 2:23one of the most dangerous candidates is
  64. 2:24down in Arizona where the GOP nominee
  65. 2:26for secretary of state who's been
  66. 2:28leading in the polls is state
  67. 2:29representative whose 11 secret herbs and
  68. 2:32spices are all Ivermectin Mark fincham
  69. 2:35now remember in 2020 Arizona was on the
  70. 2:38edge of being stolen by Mega Maniacs
  71. 2:41pushing the big lie and the only thing
  72. 2:43standing in the way was the Secretary of
  73. 2:45State who stuck to the rules now that
  74. 2:48job could be taken over by a guy who is
  75. 2:50credited with starting the stop the
  76. 2:51steel campaign in Arizona and was part
  77. 2:54of the mob that rioted outside the
  78. 2:56capitol on January 6th you don't get to
  79. 3:00attack democracy and then ask to run it
  80. 3:02that's like a bank robber saying put the
  81. 3:04money in the bag also a job application
  82. 3:07I can start Monday I would say my
  83. 3:09greatest weakness is that I'm robbing
  84. 3:10this Bank
  85. 3:12then over in Nevada you got a former
  86. 3:14state representative and news anchor
  87. 3:16from the future telling you about the
  88. 3:17life before the event
  89. 3:19Jim Mark shant Marchant falsely claims
  90. 3:23the former president defeated Joe Biden
  91. 3:26in Nevada and has said he wouldn't have
  92. 3:28certified the results there in 2020 and
  93. 3:30has pushed the false claim that Pelosi
  94. 3:32Schumer and Schiff weren't legitimately
  95. 3:34elected oh so he's just denying every
  96. 3:37election Schumer lost shift jaded Justin
  97. 3:41Guarini beat Kelly Clarkson I won the JD
  98. 3:44Power and Associates initial customer
  99. 3:46satisfaction for midsize family van
  100. 3:49but
  101. 3:52there you go
  102. 3:57but the cream of the crazy crop is
  103. 3:58Michigan GOP nominee and woman who can't
  104. 4:01wait for her parents to meet her new boy
  105. 4:03flag
  106. 4:04Christina caramo caramo looked at all
  107. 4:09these other dangerous cranks and said
  108. 4:10hold my Chalice of adrenochrome because
  109. 4:13she said that the former president not
  110. 4:15Biden is the real winner of Michigan and
  111. 4:19the election and thinks demonic
  112. 4:20possession is real and also sexually
  113. 4:23transmitted
  114. 4:25having intimate relationships with
  115. 4:27people who are demonically possessed or
  116. 4:28oppressed I strongly believe that a
  117. 4:31person opens themselves up to possession
  118. 4:33that is an awkward phone call hey Hey
  119. 4:37Beth yeah it's Rick look this is
  120. 4:39embarrassing but I just found out I'm
  121. 4:40demonically possessed
  122. 4:43so you might want to hit the clinic and
  123. 4:45see if you test positive for asmodius
  124. 4:47yeah
  125. 4:48keep an eye out for moderate to severe
  126. 4:50goat hoof okay
  127. 4:53I'm sorry
  128. 5:00I don't know
  129. 5:04all these people have straight up said
  130. 5:05regardless of what the vote count is
  131. 5:07next time we're declaring Republicans
  132. 5:09winners of the next election no matter
  133. 5:11what and I believed them but don't take
  134. 5:14it from me as paramo herself put it at a
  135. 5:16recent rally history is telling us
  136. 5:18history is screaming to us that if we
  137. 5:21don't step up and fight now we will lose
  138. 5:24the greatest country in human history I
  139. 5:26never thought I would say this but we
  140. 5:28should really listen to the lady who
  141. 5:30believes in penis demons
  142. 5:32go boat
  143. 5:34[Music]
  144. 5:43[Applause]

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