Charlie Hurt and former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus discuss the president's claims on 'Hannity'
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We are still waiting to learn
when lawyers will be back in
court on this case Trey.
Thank you. Rick
Democrats and enablers in the
media had a different when it
comes to election integrity.
Stacey Abrams doesnt concede
shes a hero
president trump. Well, that is x,
substantial threat to the
republic.
So ask yourself what is an
exceptional error rate in
elections?
How many unlawful votes are
acceptable, whether a mistake
miscalculation an innocent
error or fraud?
Wouldnt you want to correct it,
so they elections are as close
to perfect as possible.
President Trump and his campaign
are bowing to ensure that every
legal vote is counted and no
unlawful votes are counted.
Three years were spent gathering
zero evidence to impact the twenty sixteen
election
three weeks. Are they too long to
look at the integrity of the one
in twenty twenty, or is the analysis
different depending on whether
the media likes the results or n
joining me now to explain more
Fox news, contributor,
Charlie hurt, along with former
White House chief of staff,
Reince Priebus
good evening to you both
hey Trey?
Let me start with
you.
What is wrong with desiring the
minimus or zero mistakes in our
election?
You were in charge of Wisconsin.
You were in charge of Rnc,
tell us about election integrity
and what you have learned in
those two roles.
Well, thank you for having me
on
high Matt, Charlie, happy
Thanksgiving
look. This is nothing new.
This has been going on for a
long time and I think both
parties have plenty to blame and
I certainly believe the
Democrats are taking advantage
of the coronavirus
but weep at the same problems. In
Wisconsin years and years ago
we had the Milwaukee Police
Department of all entities issue
a seventy page report many years ago
in Milwaukee,
and it wasnt the Republican
Party, saying this.
It wasnt Donald Trump. At this
time
it was the Milwaukee Police
Department saying that clerks
not doing their job
voter rolls where billboards and
vacant lots were located.
I think what the party needs to
do moving forward as well. We
need a permanent group of people
that come together and that all
the players in the party, the
conservative movement, to hold
these legislators accountable.
They have control in Wisconsin,
Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Ohio, Georgia, and we need to
clean it up.
We can take advantage now of our
majority in the states and
finally get to it.
I think the Rnc can lead on this
effort. Moving forward,
Charlie, the
president said the evidence is
pouring in, but the deadlines are
closing in.
How do you see the legal
efforts, particularly with the
electoral college meeting in a
few weeks?
Certainly it is an uphill
battle for the president. At this
point, especially, the states
have already begun the
certification process,
but I think you put your finger
on the most important point, and
that is what is the level of
fraud or abuse that we would
accept.
The thing to remember is for
every illegal or improper vote
that is cast. Somebody who
should be allowed to vote in
this country is having their
vote canceled out.
That person is being
disenfranchised,
so any number above zero should
be unacceptable to all of us.
I think it is so interesting. We
are hearing a lot of these.
They seem like outlandish
accusations about votes that are
switching and about voting
machines and all of this kind of
stuff.
Maybe four years ago I would
have said. Oh, that is
ridiculous.
I dont believe any of that,
but think about what we have
been through for the past four
years.
Think about what General Michael
Flynn went through in the past
four years.
Think about what you had to deal
with for the past four years
with all of these endless
russian investigations and the
impeachment and all of this stuff,
my level of credulity might
trench hold of credulity has
fallen for it,
and I have to believe just about
every accusation if it involves
an accusation of something that
these people will do to
Donald Trump to stop.
Donald Trump in the media will
look the other way,
I believe anything
all of his sleep. I want to see
the evidence, and I want to be
assured without a doubt that the
accusations are correct and
accurate, but my goodness im
open minded to everything
because of what we have been
through for the past four years.
You know reince the
great thing about living in a
democracy. There is always
another election,
this one we have coming up and
it just a few weeks
is there going to be an impact?
Do you think there will be an
impact, this litigation and
illegal pursuits on the runoffs
in Georgia?
Well, that is a great
question.
I hope the impact is that it
energizes Republicans even more
to get out and vote and realize
that you know you always hear
Republicans say we need to win
by three or four points to
combat the fraud.
Well, maybe that is true,
but what I would also really
focus in on is getting as much
as you can. The president down to
Georgia
getting Don Jr down to Georgia
Eric because we dont want to
see you know the most ardent
trout fans in Georgia, say: hey
it isnt worth it.
We worked hard and went to these
rallies,
so I really would focus in on
that pier. That is where my mind
is on it really trying to speak,
to motivate them and to get them
excited about voting in those
really pivotal Senate races in
Georgia. Come January fifth,
Charlie, do you see a
danger that the longer the
presidential election is
litigated that the President
supporters in Georgia will be
less enthusiastic about going
out in January?
It is only the United States
Senate that hangs in the balance,
and that is a pretty big deal.
It is a really big deal and
because it is the United States
Senate and the last refuge of
any sort of sense of sanity in
Washington, it is the entire
federal government hanging in
the balance. Because of those two
seats,
I dont blame the president for
wanting to fight this thing to
the very end.
Here is why?
Because that is not what
undermines peoples, faith and
frustrates conservatives and
Republicans
what frustrates them is the fact
that there is all of this
evidence and that there was
funny business that went on in
the election,
whether that was enough to turn
the outcome of the election or
not, I dont know,
but the problem isnt
President Trump shining a light
on it.
The problem is the fact that
this stuff happens in the first
place.
You think, but I do think you
are right.
If we think the suppression
poles at the beginning and
before the election, that said
there Biden winning by double
digits and Trump, has no hope or
chance of winning Joe Stay home,
you think that is bad. Think
about what it is like on the
back end where you feel like, and
you would think that the guy got
ten million more votes than last
time. After being told he
couldnt win or no chance of
winning,
and then people say well it
doesnt matter anyway.
I cant think of anything more
devastating, more demoralizing
peer. That is why we have to
fight so hard, as you said at the
beginning of this, to make sure.
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