carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them a
including dona perry who have been on this show and others wrote that a section could be used where the theory is not that every american voter was interfered with but that voters in battleground states where the fake electors were advanced, their rights would have been interfered with by convincing mike pence to disregard the legitimate right of folks in those 5-7 states. interesting. the conspiracy to defraud the u.s. seems fairly straightforward in terms of what that portends and what that actually means, barb, but what about tampering with the witness? we spent some time at the top of the show talking about how tampering with a witness may not mean tampering with a witness, sort of singular, but it s the umbrella for the potential obstruction of an official
three weeks ago former president donald trump was charged with 37 criminal counts for unlawful retention of classified documents and frizz efforts to obstruct the justice department from recovering secret materials. that on its own is a story of historic proportions except it might not be over yet. the new york times is reporting today that a federal grand jury in miami is still investigating the mar-a-lago case and that in recent days, quote, the grand jury has issued subpoenas to a handful of people who are connected to the inquiry. now, we don t know who received those subpoenas or what kind of information prosecutors are after, but post-indictment investigations can result in additional charges including charges against new defendants. well, joining me now is dona
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