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Hasnt stopped my friends that hasnt stopped our brand name and cheap us President Donald Trump from crying foul we think we will win the election very easily we think theres going to be a lot of litigation as we have so much evidence so much proof and its going to end perhaps that the highest court in the land will see what we think theyll be a lot of litigation because we cant have an election still in the like this and i tell you i would i have been going about this for many months for those of you and i have said very strongly that mail in ballots are going to end up being a disaster so yes there is donald once again declaring that this fight for the white house between our 2 geriatric leaders could end up in a legal battle on the floor of the Supreme Court democracy at its finest so what is the wave of litigation as the trump and his supporters are counting on will vox reports that be true. Campaign has filed a wave of lawsuits seeking to make marginal changes to the procedures governing ballot counting but nearly all of these suits involve such minor disputes that its unclear what trump stands to gain even if he prevails in court and as far as the Supreme Court is concerned so far the Associated Press reports that the Trump Campaign also seeking to intervene in a pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court that deals with whether ballots received up to 3 days after the election can be counted interestingly most legal experts have said that none of these kinds of cases could potentially overturn the election but for those of us who lived through the great bush versus gore debacle of the year 2000 with the Supreme Court ultimately took the presidency out of the hands of the voters and handed it over to the partisan waters we remain on edge and always watching the honks. If you will whats going on a city street you want to. See this as this you always state see a. Great city displays systemic deceptions late show which. Some things are just as. Well theyre going to watching the hawks i am tire opened and im in the crowd and joining us to discuss the postelection legal and political fist fight for the presidency is the codirector of the National Grassroots Election Protection coalition professor and journalist journalist Harvey Wasserman thank you so much for joining us harvey. It could be one of your mind thank you always nice to hear that so professor wasserman you and many others have been sounding the alarm on the potential for a legally or politically hijacked election outcome for quite some time after hearing President Donald Trump invoke the Supreme Court once again this week are your fears and concerns becoming a reality. What are we going to see be kids. 654 thats why they rushed for that seat d its very good and you know hes got 3 texts but you know he has lost this election by more than 3000000 votes he lost by substantially more than the austin 26 team and thankfully this year the Electoral College votes are lining up differently than they did in 2016 but you know weve got to get rid of that Electoral College thats one of the reasons we convened our grassroots Election Protection coalition i think hes done i think hes such an outrageous and ridiculous character that the powers that be are not going to keep him in there but the important thing to remember is that he lost the popular vote by well over 3000000 votes in any sane actual democracy we wouldnt be talking about undecided election the elections over us by 3000000 votes as it stands so i mean and you know bush in 2000. All we won by you know if. He actually lost by 500000 what happened in florida should never have happened and what happened 2016 should never have happened down top should never been the white house so weve got to get rid of the Electoral College we got to get with kerry and bring one good thing after in the selection very big deal is that almost all the ballots were on paper you know because that one good thing that came from the go of it is that we had a giant spread of hope by mail which is a really big step forward for democracy and made a big difference and also because older people like myself didnt go into the polls to work we had a major generational shift and they had millions of 1000 samoa ideals and generational z. Kids came out to work the polls a great education and democracy this will change the nature of our country so the. Terms of paper ballots big step forward because for the last 20 years theyve been doing using a were trying to go to machine. Hes still the vote you know push and pray now at least we have a paper ballots that are just going to help those who are most affluent and those are all really good points i like the Transition Team you know the people who are actually involved but at the polls this go around versus you know weve seen over 10 aeration before you touch on 2000 and thats something that weve heard back and forth in media lately what are some of the ways the losing party which in this case now appears to be president dollar trump could still essentially steal this election away from joe biden and the democrats should we be worried about a repeat of gore versus bush in 2000 weve already seen so many legal challenges. Yes absolutely because 1st or they stole for this year i mean they disenfranchise one more than a 1000000 excellence who the people of florida voted and said ok you can vote and then the legislature the gerrymandered register if you stepped in in scenario cant vote or if you pay your fees and you cant even find out how much you owe edges d if those people had voted in florida. Trump would not have carried for 4 was stolen this year again and for gods sakes hopefully when 40 years we can correct that i think gerrymandering has got to go but this year tactically you know the way the constitution is written the state legislatures choose the electrophoresis to the Electoral College to choose the president there is actually no mention in because the 2 sion of the right of the people to vote directly on the president quite the opposite in fact 478921860 there was a transition the legislatures chose the president there but then by 860 the they were following the lead of the public but we do educators have the right to choose the ork doors and if tribe had not been such a raving lunatic it could happen again this year but i dont think hes got the support to pull it off you have to have some kind of public support. This is an election by 3 d 3 and a half 1000000 votes and behaved the way hes behaved i dont think he can pull it off but legally he could do it you know its interesting because you mentioned a few things that number one lead you know giving would have the Electoral College which i agree with but what what can we do to better protect our voting and democratic processes from getting it you know legally or illegally hijacked by one or both of our dominant political parties. Well ive read a history book getting i states about that actually had a history United States raid a published called this people spiral of us history this summer and then i had Bernie Sanders saving the world but that thats not going to happen then so we get the history of the Electoral College its ridiculous you know Alexander Hamilton came up with this he was a minor because basically he did now and the public to choose the president was so far beyond that we need to get rid of the Electoral College we need get need to get rid of gerrymandering we need to have great Choice Voting paper ballots and a reliable Action System we also there was also another big step forward this year not much talked about but the a lot of the n. B. A. National Basketball Association i read yes were used for voting and its a huge step forward now to have people on these lines people could come in their residence or d their screwed their safety thats their very big success this year 20 a basketball arenas a couple of football stadiums you know in kansas city and charlotte very very good good stuff but number one get rid of the Electoral College number 2 get rid of gerrymandering these are the things that are really killing our democracy thats how we wound up in statewide michigan and wisconsin pennsylvania and North Carolina with extreme right wing republican legislatures in states that are evenly divided ohio for god sakes a 5050 democrat republican state the same legislations a super majority republican as is the congressional delegation and thats what one of the reasons our government is so unresponsive is because these people get these seeds and theyre in the state legislatures and congress and theyre completely safe because theyre not competitive elections where its actually been improved this California California has a very good Redistricting Commission which is not. Partisan or by multi parties it actually and in 20062008 but the edges from each and the congressional delegations were put under control of this district the commission and guess who funded it Arnold Schwarzenegger choice nader put 3000000. 00 of his own dollars in for a statewide campaign that was successful and thank you arnold you know for for helping students auto for the rest of it and over the next 4 years if we can win state referenda and maybe even get federal legislation get rid of this gerrymandering thing well again take a big step toward democracy were good good folks like you out there fighting for this and educating the public id truly do believe that we will hopefully see this in the near future and i and its funny they never mention alexander the monarchist in the much popular play i have to thank you so much. He was also he was also bisexual by the way that they have that actually our rivalry of this thank you so much for coming on the president was one pleasure having you on. If the great monologues great way to wake up. Have a great days or you too. As the democrats and republicans continue to fight over ballots votes election observers and who makes the Better Coffee on election day one go to controversy that has been thankfully left to the sidelines of 2020 as postelection fight for the white house has been accusations of foreign election meddling or interference unlike 2016 which saw cries of foreign meddling dom meddling dominating the headlines but hey lets not forget to 1020 is not over yet and donald is desperate for excuses of this point here is our to americas alex mahela bridge with an indepth look at the hypocrisy surrounding United States appears before an election meddling especially given our own sort of history on the matter. From ukraine. To venezuela. For decades the us has been accused of interfering in elections around the globe while insisting that other state out of its voting process but ill give you a present from one that is a building standard at the present when they meddle in the internal affairs of other countries where they do not respect the electoral rules of those countries such as what happened in bolivia such as what has happened in venezuela where we are an example in terms of electoral matters u. S. Security Officials Say that there has been no foreign meddling detected in americas current president ial vote a stark contrast to just weeks ago when u. S. Intelligence accused russia and iran of interfering in the election well things are supposedly above board in the us vote the same cant be said for elections in countries where america has been involved bolivia is a prime example of that a nation that just recently democratically elected a new government after the us imposed its will a year ago. What occurred is nothing to be surprised about we also won last year and when democracy didnt serve their purpose they carried out a coup detat the us is accused of helping a right wing interim government take control of bolivia in october of 2019 at least 35. 00 people died in related incidents from Campaign Financing to violent coups some would say the us is the biggest election meddler of them all dove levon a political scientist who conducted an indepth analysis of election meddling told usa today the us has intervened in the most elections between 1906 to 2081 elections in total this includes well known cases in guatemala and he ran in the 1950 s. And in chile in nicaragua in the seventys and eightys. More recent campaigns into the 2000 election in serbia where the United States openly funded a movement to defeat president Slobodan Milosevic approach in afghanistan where the u. S. Failed to remove him meet karzai from power as well as everything from simple funding to revolutions in places like ukraine kenya and lebanon the list goes on one of the most publicized examples of u. S. Interference in recent years happened in venezuela the United States recognize the Opposition Leader one wide open as venezuelas interim president ignoring that countrys 2018 Election Results in which president Nicolas Maduro was reelected even though some may be questioning just how democratic americas elections are many outsiders are insisting that the process must be allowed to run its course according to the laws of the United States at the same time they hope that the u. S. Will give other nations the same respect for our t. V. Hyla bitch. Already were going to recommend that you can also start watching the hawks and other r. T. Programming on demand for the brand new portable t. V. Which is one of the t. V. Operatives available on all platforms with that play download it check it out all right coming up weve talked about the massive amounts of money spent on this election with the cohost of by any means necessary a radio spot meant jack a look and so stay tuned for watching the fox you dont want to miss this. One else seemed wrong. Like all wrong just dont. Get me world yet to see how does this come out of. An endangered list trail. When somebody find themselves worlds apart. Just in the common ground. He has no food which will. Give those will soup will sure wish to leave your. Truth to the body of the club was if you are sure. I can board it doesnt actually matter vegetable wouldve been murdered by. You to go there when youre sick as all of those going to use the word because those told me again we will see in the movie it is with the weve seen the most news but is the most severe some of it is in your speech coming off the news the in. 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The 2020 alexion its coming to a close america could have a president announce before the end of the day but that likely wont come without legal challenges and a fight to prove vote by mail as progeny and all heralded by the Truck Campaign this election seemingly has lasted longer than a lifetime and amid the backdrop of a pandemic the competition for the white house only intensified unlike most countries america is known for a long. Long president ial campaign. And for all the time and money spent on attack ads knocking on doors sending mail or calling people and using social media to change minds campaigns are high dollar events in fact the 20 president ial election was a whopper of worker setting proportions this president ial election cost 14000000000. 00 it is singularly the most expensive election in history and twice the cost of the 2016 president ial election breaking it down even with many unemployed and suffering from the weight of covert 192020 solemn more individual donations to campaigns in other years women in particular just kept giving in the donations were often sit the candidates from out of state. Democrats definitely went above and beyond blowing past republican election spending margins Democratic Candidates and groups spent 6900000000 dollars between super pacs big business individual giving and a strong sense of urgency following the death of a Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg democrats got the money machine rolling and here to break down those moneybags in the 2020 campaign is jack a look cohost of by any means necessary welcome. I think for having me while checking the fundraising structure in 2020 for the president ial race this has been very strong especially considering it continued to grow even after the pandemic hit what do you think are some of the driving factors and the biggest influence its. Just the fact that the us political system itself is a form of political socialism and people giving to campaigns dont get that they they believe that you know least candidates come begging for money that you know they have to support them in order to save them from the other candidate who is also begging another group of people for money to save them from other candidates and most americans dont understand that the entire Campaign Finance system in this country is a massive financial rest of the American People but it is so baked into the political process that the money that is spent so obscure it really does a good job of hiding that for people so people believe that theyre funding better policies for themselves only really theyre just being ripped off. When you look at these numbers over 14000000000. 00 a massive amount of money to be spent on political campaigns im immediately my mind kind of goes to what else could we have gotten for 14000000000. 00 going to. Theres been a lot of talk about removing money from politics would have 2020 is any indication that isnt going to happen anytime soon not about kind of numbers i was curious could you explain kind of the strength stronghold in the breakdown of individual donations from citizens versus you know Political Action Committee Spending and why one is is your wide political actors women so much more devastating to our political process. I mean your average american citizen really doesnt have a whole lot of money to give to individual candidates even though you know collectively well when individual people get like 27. 00 you know say bernie to Bernie Sanders campaign yes when millions of individual people cant give that amount of money to a candidate who is advocating for policies that will improve the material conditions of the people who are contributing to their campaign thats one thing but were talking about Political Action committees that can represent corporate interests that are Companies Large Companies Like amazon and over and you know fossil fuel industries that hate these companies to advocate for issues that a lot of them until only a few are taxes to pay people less money to reduce peoples benefits so that workers are taking away less money and a less secure. Existence in this country then you see the outsized influence of money and politics its not that individual people are giving too much money to politicians its that massive corporations that have enormous endless amounts of money to literally buy policy and politicians have much more insolence and power and politics than your average you know model who wants medicare for all. Scraping together 27. 00 every 2 or 3 months to give to Bernie Sanders amy and jack a at the beginning of a president ial campaign and the Republican National committee out one rave and outspent democrats but there was a huge shift after the summer and moreover in the fall we saw a large surge of donations for Democratic Candidates not only in the president ial race but also infinit and other down ballot races what do you think are some of the think you are events or groups of events that contributed to the giving shift in that time frame i know we saw a black lives matter but what are some of the things that you would say really shifted the scales from trump giving to a lot more democratic giving. I think in the way that trump the administration handled the pandemic really rubbed a lot of. Conservatives dont know its absolutely the wrong way and i dont want to give these people any credit for being or world in any way was just bad optics when bob woodward came out with the recording where truck admitted that he knew the virus was much more serious than it was that it was deadly from the beginning and he intentionally lied to the American People republicans to keep their lies like that under cover so that was a really bad p. R. Move for the g. O. P. In their conservative donors and i mean the death toll among people who were some who were succumbing to the fire was virus was rising the trumpet ministration was due to new and detail playing it it didnt look good for the republicans so they they really really didnt want to be seen continuing to fund that type of open everest toward the American People i think for the republican money machine of the republican donors that was the singular. Turning point for them already in trouble with. There month we got a little bit of time left leg about 2 minutes but i want to ask you in this is i think the most important question of all how do we wrestle control of corporate money impact money away from these 2 parties if we even can and get you know the donations if you desire but theres always going to be political donations but how do we get it out of the hands of corporations and back into the hands of the people who are belongs. I mean the 1st answer people always give this to overturn Citizens United that people need to think understand that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of corporate spending and politics well before since its united back in the 800 s. There was a similar a Supreme Court case that ruled that you know corporations can spend whatever they want and political campaigns i think the number one thing we can do is to establish working class solidarity among working class or an oppressed people in this country and unite Work Together by thing for our interests collective interests as well working class the need for a simple war against the ruling class and in percent of the one percent of the elite yes they temper set the one percent absolutely control 80 percent of the find that of the stock market in this country but the rest of us the 99 percent we absolutely have the power to do Everything Else if we like and that is the fight that we will continue to fight and that you continue to fight every day on your radio show thank you so much for joining us Jackie Luqman always a pleasure having you on them. Thanks so much for having me. 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