the former president to deliver a closing argument. at all. at all. that s not normal. when you go to court and you choose to be represented, you have a lawyer for a reason. that lawyer represents you. speaks on your behalf. you don t get to go back and forth between whether you want to be pro se, meaning representing yourself or having counsel represent you. so typically a judge would not consider this. you wouldn t have the opportunity to say i ve had lawyers the entire time, but now i have things i need to get out. in fact, most judges if a client stood up or a defendant stood up would tell you to sit right back down. your lawyer speaks, not you. why do you think he did in this case? frankly, i think he was get giving some level of deference of former president trump being the former president. i think there have been concerns about so-called muzzling the president, impacting his first amendment rights, the gag orders. i think those concerns probably influenced the judge s d
this to be what it is, which is again, a way of muzzling, if not censoring the voices of ohioans who have a tough time getting legislation passed given the gerrymandered nature of the state. it was a very blatant. that red wine and blue, a third of our members are former republicans and independents. if republicans keep trying things like this, those numbers are just going to continue to grow. these are absolutely not just democrats are rejecting extremism. it was independents, republicans as well. it was so transparently a power grab, just going way, way too far. not only that, i think they really expected that hey, we re just going to sneak this through. it will be a low turnout election. no one will notice. and they saw these huge numbers coming out in early voting. so they cranked up their disinformation machine, it s been a shame to see what we have seen across the state in the last few weeks. there have been huge attempts
state, but we are seeing a dramatic difference tonight. just turnout is blowing everyone out of the water, everyone s expectations. it is good to be an ohioen tonight, and i think the ramifications are huge not just for the reduction of extremism in ohio, but republicans they have gone too far all across this country. it s not just trump, and this is a big message against extremism tonight. on that note certainly abortion seems to be a driver that continues to bring democrats, independents, and some republicans out to the polls, but this was beyond just that. these were sort of anti-democratic tacticthality were being embraced to make it harder for voters to get their voices heard, and i wonder, you know, how that fit into, you know, the portfolio of reasons why people were going out. i wonder if you heard not just from women but from independents who understood this to be what it is, which was, again, a way of muzzling if not censoring the voices of ohioans who have a tough time get
we re seeing a dramatic difference here tonight. the turnout is blowing everyone out of the water. everyone s expectations, it s good to be an ohioan tonight. the ramifications are huge. not just rejection of extremism in ohio, but republicans have gone too far across this country. it s not just trump. this is a big message against extremism tonight. on that note certainly abortion seems to be a driver that continues to bring democrats, independents, and some republicans out to the polls. this was beyond just that. these were sort of anti-democratic tactics being embraced to make it harder for voters to have their voices heard. i wonder, you know, how that fit into the portfolio of reasons why people were going out. i wonder if you heard not just from women, but from independents who understood this to be what it is, which was again, a way of muzzling, if not censoring the voices of ohioans who have a tough time getting legislation passed