Jason Snead is Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project. He joins to talk about the poll worker training his organization is running in Alpharetta, Georgia on Friday, August 28, co-sponsored by Tea Party Patriots Action alongside Heritage Action, Turning Point, and the American Constitutional Rights Union, with more events planned in Nevada and Wisconsin.
William Spencer is Vice President of Membership for the Atlanta Young Republicans, the largest Republican club in Georgia, and a Marine Corps veteran. This is his first appearance on the show. Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement for Tea Party Patriots Action and a regular on the program.
Joe Mitchell is the Republican nominee for Iowa's Second Congressional District. He was sworn into the Iowa House at 21, the youngest member ever elected to it, served as chief of staff to the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the Trump administration, and is a developer and business owner in Iowa. He faces Democratic state representative Lindsay James in November.
Jenny Beth Martin hosts.
Key topics:
- Alexander Vindman raised 16.3 million dollars, Angie Nixon raised 975,000, and she beat him by double digits
- The first member of the Democratic Socialists of America to win a statewide nomination in the Democratic Party
- What the platform actually says: abolish the Senate, the presidency, the Electoral College, and the Supreme Court
- The Democratic National Committee resolution urging a bill to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, adopted alongside a competing resolution to reform the agency instead
- Chuck Schumer and the Democratic senatorial committee funding her opponent all primary, then praising her within hours
- The national debt passes 40 trillion dollars, two years ahead of the Congressional Budget Office projection
- Six billion dollars borrowed a day, more than half of it interest, more than the entire national defense budget
- The difference between a poll worker and a poll watcher, and which one Jason Snead wants you to be
- What actually happens after you sign up, and why some shifts run fifteen hours
- The average poll worker in this country is about 67 years old
- Why a message beat sixteen times the money in Florida, and what young voters heard
- Running for the institution your own platform wants abolished
- Repealing the Seventeenth Amendment
- South Carolina Republicans pick a Senate nominee, and the debate moment that went viral
- Georgia: Jon Ossoff, Natalie Harp, and Mike Collins
- Georgia governor: Rick Jackson's foster care story against Keisha Lance Bottoms' record in Atlanta
- Your assignment this week: pick one campaign, sign up, and come back and say who
- No corporate political action committee money, term limits, banning congressional insider trading, and ending the lawmaker to lobbyist pipeline
- A balanced budget constitutional amendment on day one
- A projected trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse at the federal level alone
- The 22-year-old with a camera and a YouTube channel who exposed more than the networks did
- Lying, cheating, and stealing, which is what Jenny Beth Martin says we should be calling it
- Tax cuts or spending cuts, and which comes first
- The ninety-ten issues Republicans should be running on
- Charlie Kirk, six years to the date, and what Joe Mitchell says the last conversation was
Timestamped breakdown:
00:51 — The national debt passes forty trillion dollars
01:21 — Six billion dollars a day, and half of it is interest
01:49 — Angie Nixon at her victory party
02:50 — The platform: abolish the Senate, the presidency, the Court
03:34 — The Democratic National Committee and Immigration and Customs Enforcement
03:58 — Chuck Schumer praised her within hours
04:34 — Seventy five days to Election Day
05:44 — Jason Snead and the poll worker training
06:11 — Poll workers are the machinery of elections
08:13 — Poll worker versus poll watcher
10:08 — What the job actually involves
10:45 — The average poll worker is sixty seven
11:10 — Where to sign up
12:35 — William Spencer and Robert McNeily on the Florida result
14:02 — The left keeps leaving the left behind
16:26 — Running for the institution you want abolished
16:45 — Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment
18:04 — South Carolina and the debate moment
18:58 — Grieving, honest, and in over her head
20:35 — Show the Democrats how many of you there are
21:37 — Georgia: Jon Ossoff and Natalie Harp
24:43 — Talk to me about housing
25:20 — Georgia governor: Rick Jackson and Keisha Lance Bottoms
27:56 — Two Democrat sheriffs endorsed Rick Jackson
29:44 — Your assignment: sign up with a campaign today
30:35 — What the radical left wants to abolish
32:49 — Joe Mitchell, Republican nominee in Iowa's Second District
34:11 — No money from BlackRock, Pfizer, or Goldman Sachs
34:31 — Term limits: twelve years in each chamber
35:51 — Day one: a balanced budget constitutional amendment
36:58 — Newt Gingrich, 1994, and the Contract with America
38:14 — A trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse
38:32 — The twenty two year old with a camera
40:35 — Lying, cheating, and stealing
41:35 — Tax cuts or spending cuts
44:24 — The ninety ten issues
46:53 — Running against literal communists
51:09 — Why the founding documents matter
52:52 — Charlie Kirk, six years to the date
55:06 — Favorite founding father: George Washington
55:47 — The call to action one more time
Links: jennybethshow.com, teapartypatriots.org