The Republican Party held a national convention in a midterm year for the first time in American history, two evening sessions in Dallas with the Vice President on the first night and President Trump on the second. Jenny Beth Martin marks that week by going state by state with the party chairmen of Georgia, Illinois and North Carolina, recorded in the days before the delegates arrived.
Jason Simmons brought the number of the hour. When President Trump was first elected in 2016, Democrats held a 645,000-voter registration advantage in North Carolina. Today Republicans hold the advantage. Democrats have lost more than 300,000 registrations, Republicans have gained more than 300,000, and North Carolina's absentee ballots started going out on September 4. Josh McKoon will not predict a Georgia win: his party has targeted roughly 400,000 low propensity voters, Mike Collins has cut a double digit Senate polling deficit in half since early July, the governor's race is tied with both candidates under 50 percent, and he thinks the state comes down to five or ten thousand votes. Bob Grogan is three months into running the Illinois Republican Party, and he explains why the Chicago Bears are leaving for Indiana, what a $300 million annual stadium tax bill tells you about a state, and why seven members of the Chicago City Council now sit in a Democratic Socialists of America caucus.
Guests: Josh McKoon, Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. Jason Simmons, Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. Bob Grogan, Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party.
In this episode:
The one year anniversary of the loss of Charlie Kirk, and the three things Jenny Beth Martin says honor him
Why turnout beats persuasion in a midterm, and what 400,000 targeted Georgia voters are worth
Poll workers, poll watchers, and what election integrity actually means
The Bears, the property taxes, and 20 of the 27 original Illinois Tea Party leaders who left the state
Hurricane Helene, a bureaucratic response, and a bulldozer
The registration flip that took ten years and one voter at a time
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. Every precinct needs a poll worker and a poll watcher it can trust, and you can sign up at helpatthepolls.com. Watch more at jennybethshow.com. Learn more about the organization behind the show at teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — One year ago today: the rally in the rain, and the news that followed
00:54 — The three things that honor Charlie Kirk
04:34 — A historic convention, held in a midterm year
06:11 — Josh McKoon, Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party
06:58 — The 400,000 low propensity voters Georgia has targeted
11:34 — Mike Collins cuts a double digit deficit in half
14:26 — What Georgia's delegation expects in Dallas
17:45 — Five or ten thousand votes in either direction
18:27 — Poll workers, poll watchers, and a level playing field
22:44 — Bob Grogan, Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party
25:20 — The Bears are leaving, and they are tax refugees
27:53 — Illinois was ground zero for the Tea Party movement
30:08 — Seven Democratic Socialists of America members on the City Council
32:59 — Charlie Kirk was from Illinois
37:29 — What Illinois needs to hear from the President in Dallas
40:51 — Jason Simmons, Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party
44:25 — A party captured by the Democrat socialists
46:33 — Hurricane Helene, and where the government was
49:50 — Answering the people who are still frustrated
54:21 — A 645,000-voter Democrat advantage, gone
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