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Election system 'utterly failed' Americans: The Federalist publisher

2020-11-04 | 🔗
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.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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.