The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech and Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce discuss voter concerns and the issues with the election system as the presidential race remains undecided.
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Ainsley thanks so much
Jillian,
well, the elections coming down
to just a handful of states now
and some major ones still remain
up in the air
here with more Fox news,
contributor, Tammy Bruce, along
with the Federalist publisher
Ben Domenech
Good morning to both of you
good Morning,
Ainsley Tammy ill start with
you,
whats your take on what were
going through this morning
without without knowing who the
presidents going to to be
well. Its frustrating
obviously, and the president was
frustrated.
He expressed that last night,
even his approach last night
being misrepresented when it
comes to his sense of this race
and what we all saw unfolding,
which were massive leads in many
of the states which were not
being called states that were
being called that were being
called too early
of, and you know its
understandable, considering weve
dealt with four years with an
establishment that has been
willing to lie and cheat and
prepresent fake russian dossiers
and lie to the FISA court in an
effort to change the outcome of
that election.
So maybe this is all the new
insurance policy who knows,
but weve got to remain. I
think vigilant,
I trust the presidents decision
in how to pree dot D. This is going
to be the first time that the
Democrats see a Republican whos
willing to fight back.
This is an extremely important
election. We all know that
the polls were extraordinarily
wrong, almost like they were
wish cast
and, of course, people are
concerned that vote counting
stopped overnight, ballots being
moved to various places
and its understandable that the
american people are suspicious
if of the process, and want to
see transparency e and want the
system perhaps like in the
year two thousand to be used in the
way it was meant to be used to
make sure this election
legitimate and accurate and
fair
Awps, Indiana Ben. How about you
whats your take
whats the headline this
morning.
I think the headline this
morning is that the system that
was supposed to tell people what
was going to happen in this
election utterly failed them.
The pollsters, the data geeks,
all the people who were
asserting the way that things
were going to happen. They
turned out to be wrong and they
turned out to be wildly wrong.
This I mean we have a
situation now where the last
poll that we got from ABC and
the Washington Post about
Wisconsin a 17 point lead
yeah youre only off by sixteen or
seventeen points, guys
thats great.
This is a total failure, s and
what we saw after two thousand- and sixteen was a lot
of these media organizations.
They doubled down on the idea
that Donald Trump was a fluke
that he didnt represent
something new that was going on
in the Republican Party and
they refused to change any of
their approaches.
The New York Times in their
runup to this election did went
weeks without publishing any
kind of support for the
president whatsoever,
and I think the idea that they
can just ignore the opinions of
millions and millions of
Americans its just insulting,
and I think that look after
two thousand and sixteen the media, I think, failed
to or refused to learn any of
the lessons they needed to
learn
this time around theyll
probably try to do the same
thing and the american people.
I think, shouldnt allow that to
happen
in the short term. As Tammy
said, this is a situation thats
not going to be like Richard
Nixon in nineteen sixty.
I think the presidents going to
fight this and fight it hard
legally
were going to see what happens,
particularly in these midwestern
states.
But I think the concerns being
raised are absolutely
legitimate and we cant have
any confidence in the media to
report on these things9
accurately either
were going the need people on
the ground, paying attention to
whats really going on
this isnt just like Florida,
its much bigger than Florida,
and that deserves the american
people deserve to have
confidence of in what comes out
of it.
Ainsley absolutely
can I add,
Ainsley out of time guys
real quickly.
Just the Seltzer poll in Iowa
shows you pollsters can do the
good job when they want to
its the difference between
getting it right, because you
want to versus getting it wrong
because you want to
Ainsley yeah thats the DES
Moines poll right,
thats, right,
thats, Right DES Moines Iowa,
which got it perfectly right
when it came to how he performed.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-04.