Kayleigh McEnany, Trump 2020 campaign adviser, gives update on coronavirus vaccine progress and the election lawsuits on 'Fox & Friends Weekend.'
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President said yesterday and
get your reaction
President Trump, the average
development timeline for the
vaccine, including
clinical tests and manufacturing,
can take eight to twelve years
through operation. Warp speed
were doing it in less than one
year.
This process is starting right
away. Millions of doses will
soon be going out the door.
They are already waiting for
that final approval.
As soon as April, the vaccine
will be available to the entire
general population.
Ideally, we wont go to a lock
down. I will not go. This
administration will not be
going to a lockdown,
it wont be a necessity.
Lockdowns cost lives and it
costs a lot of problems.
Pete a lot of good news from
that podium there. The country
doesnt, have the appetite for a
lockdown Kayleigh and, at the
same time, operation warp speed
delivering that vaccine.
Maybe it could have been
announced a few weeks earlier,
which raises eyebrows for folks,
but its coming.
Absolutely look what this
president has done. This is
historic. This is record time,
the fastest time for a vaccine
in history by five times
its because President Trump
tore down bureaucracy,
regulations, barriers to get a
safe and effective vaccine by
the end of the year and what he
did- and this is so brilliant
manufacture the vaccines at the
front end so its not as if we
get a green light on a vaccine
and then you manufacture after
he did it on the front end. And
when you compare this to the
disastrous vaccine under Joe
Biden disaster, its a politico
article about the
mishandling of the swine flu,
and they promised one hundred million
vaccines and brought it down to
forty million and ended up
distributing twelve million not to
the vulnerable populations. It
was the disaster, a story of a
businessman as president versus
a liberal Democrat who gets
tangled up in regulations,
bureaucracy and just simply
cannot deliver,
will Kayleigh. Can you give us
insight? I want to see if we can
get some sense of where this
might be going in the
coming months.
President Trump said twenty million
vaccines available in December.
What would that look like in the
ensuing months, and also
while were on the note he said
no lockdowns, no lockdowns during
his administration?
What, though, should we expect
from either a governmental
mandate from the federal
government or at least advice
when it comes to rising
coronavirus cases?
The twenty million is huge in
December. You know well be in
the fall. Obviously, the winter
months thatll go to elderly
populations to our frontline
workers. It will protect them and
coming just in time when we need
it thanks to President Trump,
but of course, were not going
to lockdown this country again.
The lockdown was for a specific
reason.
This was a novel virus that came
in from China. No one had seen
it.
We had to temporarily shutdown
the country to administer and
develop therapeutics good
working products to make
sure we can move forward and
reopen society were past,
that
no more lockdowns thats the
design of liberal Democrats,
but its not the american way
not happening on President Trump
S watch
Jedediah Kayleigh. I want to ask
you about the state of the race.
From your perspective,
some news that broke this week
is that Pennsylvania had Reject
Ed Trump campaign and GOP
legal challenges. Five of them, I
believe, to the ballots. As the
Secretary of State is
saying, she will not order a
recount
weave, seen in some other states
that they have denied hearing
the cases, because they lack
specificity, and some have argued
theres no case here for
widespread voter fraud. That
would change the outcome of the
election, but I want to give
you this, how you see it at this
point? From your perspective,
sure we have a significant
argument that are so important
for this election and every
election. Beyond this moment,
the Secretary of State you
mentioned is an anti trump
leftist with tweets to that
effect.
She spent her time in the months
coming up to this election,
trying to change the rules to
favor Joe Biden and the Democrat
S, and she created a
system where, if youre in seven
Democrat counties in
pennsylvania- and you had a mail
in ballot that was
defective, you got contacted by
the Democrat Party and contacted
by democrat candidates. Go in and
fix your ballot, even though the
legislature said theres no
way to do this in the advance,
but in the other, sixty republican
counties. You didnt get this
opportunity
its an unconstitutional system.
Everyone in this country has the
fundamental right to cast
their ballot and we must fight
this fight and we will fight
this fight. President Trump is
making sure this election was
fair and that only the legal
votes are counted and that going
forward. We dont have
situations like in Nevada, where
I was just reading about some of
the things they put in place
where they Mass mailed out the
ballots. They allowed people
to fill out ballots for those sixty five
years and older fill out
ballots on their behalf ballot
harvest and up to three days
after the election, you could
still vote.
You didnt need a postmark on
your ballot. That is not an
effective system and put in
place because President Trump
was winning Nevada,
PETE Kayleigh. You know it feels
like the Trump campaign has
shifted its argument away from
individual circumstances per se
into systemic issues that were
part of his campaign and an
article in the Federalist
caught. My eye and part of the
argument said president
trumps lawyers arent, making
the same argument as your uncle
on Facebook. They are playing
for keeps the thrust of their
legal argument. Doesnt hinge on
the number of fraudulent ballots,
but the inconsistent
and illegal application of
election law, namely in
Pennsylvania. Are you making a
larger argument that there were
two tracks? Two systems and
therefore certain people were
disenfranchised and you dont
want the official count Validat
Ed.
So that is absolutely the
argument that were making
in Pennsylvania
the unequal system where
Republicans and Democrats were
treated differently when it came
to voting, but were also making
the argument about
irregularities in Michigan ive
held up. I have the binders here
of our affidavits, the two hundred and thirty four pages
of our poll watchers, who were by
the way pushed shoved called
racial slurs, gender, specific
slurs as well. This was in
Michigan and when they did have
access to see the ballots and
the count, they found significant
irregularities. All documented
and sworn testimony so were
making that argument as well,
but in a state like Pennsylvania,
when we were
unable to see the counting of
six hundred and twenty seven thousand ballots unable to see
that unable to identify
irregularities, we needed access
to that to see the count and to
see how it was happening, because
for a very long time in cities
like Detroit in cities, like
Philadelphia poll watchers, have
been bullied. There have been
election fraud and we want
access to those ballots so were
making both arguments. Pete
will just to be clear. Kayleigh
when you make the argument, it
was a two track system, a larger
systemic issue. Are you talking
about, as you just point out
there, I believe the access to
ballots in the proximity of poll,
watchers and theres also
an argument about the curing of
flawed ballots. I believe as well
is that right.
That is exactly right,
so it was the curing of flawed
ballots in Democrat counties,
even though the Supreme Court in
Pennsylvania said theres no way
to cure a flawed ballot. In fact,
Pennsylvania Election Code says
when the ballots come in. This
is in advance of election
day youre supposed to put in a
storage container. They are
supposed to be locked until
election day at 700, a dot m. You
are allowed to start what they
call canvassing the ballots
looking at them and then youre
not allowed to report results
until five p dot m. This is under
Pennsylvania LAW,
but Democrats designed a system
where they were doing this in
advance, contacting voters
saying come to the polls fix
your ballots, but only in
Democrat counties.
It is a fundamental, equal
protection argument that were
making here Republicans
deserved the same advantage that
Democrats had and the Secretary
of State was behind it, and let
me just add this one: wrinkle
838 p dot m the night before the
election. She sends an
e mail. Her counsel does to
all sixty seven counties
by the way allow people to fix
their ballots.
838 p dot m on election night when,
in the Democrat counties they
have been doing this all along
will really quickly how many
ballots would that include that
you are then challenging under
that accusation.
Tens of thousands, because
in the counts as well, the
legislature said you
must have a signature and
address and a date, and they were
counting ballots without a
signature address and a date in
Democrat counties. So it would
amount to tens of thousands of
ballots that be affected by both
systems.
Pete, very interesting,
Kayleigh, real, quick, the
President said he might stop
by the million Maga March today.
Will he be there?
I certainly hope so
he said he might
well see what happens, but
there are a lot of great patriot
s that are descending on
the capitol that have their
voice heard and he really would
like to join them. So im really
hoping so
PETE all right well see.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-14.