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The Main Event – November 16, 2018

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Breakaway Caravan Reaches Border

Amid President Trump’s vow to keep the huge Central American migrant caravan from coming into the country, a “breakaway” caravan of several hundred arrived in Tijuana on Wednesday aboard nine busses.

  • Meanwhile, U.S. troops continue to deploy to our side of the border – led by Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who also arrived Wednesday.
  • According to Tijuana’s Head of Migrant Services, the group immediately went to a stretch of border fence to celebrate after exiting the busses.
  • After visiting the border fence, the migrants were taken to Tijuana shelters in groups of 30 or 40.

This week’s show has plenty of details on the caravan, including who we now know is organizing and funding it.

 Florida’s Election Saga

It’s the year 2000 all over again as Florida is once again the center of contested elections for office. Incumbent Senator Bill Nelson and Democrat party officials are looking to the courts to help them find votes to narrow the margin in Nelson’s bid for re-election against Republican challenger Governor Rick Scott.

Before the recount, Scott led Nelson by around 20,000 votes; now, it’s narrowed down to about 12,000. Meanwhile, more clearly organized efforts to alter the election outcome include:

  • In Miami-Dade County, about 108 provisional ballots were eliminated because they were from individuals who had voted twice.
  • Across the state, 93 provisional ballots and almost 3,700 mail-in ballots have been rejected by 45 counties, mostly because of mismatched signatures. When all is said and done, the total number of rejected ballots in Florida is estimated to be around 5,000.
  • The federal judge who heard Bill Nelson’s case has ruled that voters who were “belatedly notified” that their mismatched signatures disqualified their ballots have until Saturday at 5 p.m. to correct the problem, and Palm Beach county gets a 5-day extension to finish counting their ballots.
  • But as always, the biggest problem child in Florida is Broward County – where a whopping 83,000 ballots mysteriously showed up after election day, supposedly because of a misprinted date on election forms.

And here’s another detail you can’t make up: Also in Broward County, provisional ballot boxes were found in the back of an Avis rental car.

Provisional Ballots Florida

Who is primarily responsible for the debacle in Broward County? It’s their Election Supervisor, Brenda Snipes, who – among all these other problems – was also caught counting provisional ballots illegally.

But Snipes is no stranger to attempts at rigging elections – and yes, that includes letting dead people vote. Last March, a judge ruled that Snipes had implemented a “reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters, by reason of death or change of address.” The ruling came in response to a 2017 lawsuit by the American Civil Rights Union; in that case, Snipes was represented by lawyers from the groups Demos and Project Vote, both of which are funded by – who else? George Soros.

But despite all this, everyone’s favorite Floridian – Debbie Wasserman Shultz – is standing by her woman.

Maybe Debbie is defending Brenda Snipes because of what Snipes did for her in 2016 (yes, there’s more!). In another lawsuit this May, a judge ruled that Snipes had violated both state and federal law in 2016 after she destroyed ballots in the congressional primary – which just happened to help Wasserman Schultz, who won re-election by less than 7,000 votes against her challenger Tim Canova. The case also exposed that Snipes’ staff had opened ballots in private on election day 2016.

But if you ask Brenda Snipes, she’s the victim here. Unbelievable.

All of this and more in the first half of this week’s The Main Event; in the second half, a rep from Election Integrity Project calls in to give more insight. Don’t miss it!

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The Main Event 11/2/18

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Developments in the Caravan

Morale appears to be eroding inside the various migrant caravans pushing toward the United States. Some members are dropping out to return home, some opting to apply for asylum in Mexico. However, those who journey on toward the U.S. border (some toward Texas, others breaking off and moving west toward California) demanded this week that Mexico help them get here.

How? Early in the week, leaders of the caravan attempted to appeal to the Mexican government to provide them “safe and dignified transport” through the country in order to avoid wading through the water in the isthmus of Mexico and the violent city of Veracruz. The transport requested? Buses. Mexican officials ignored the request. By Thursday, Walter Cuello (one of the Honduran organizers of the first caravan) admitted to reporters, “The attempt to get the buses has failed.” Ed alert: “Why did they ignore the request? Because they don’t want to break any deals with President Trump. It’s nice to have a President who puts our interests first.” Meanwhile, Obama is using his time at Democrat campaign rallies to mock those of us who don’t want this caravan invading our border and Harry Reid is eating the words he said about birthright citizenship back in 1993.  

Some inconvenient truths about the caravan:

  • Mexican law enforcement has deported at two migrants in the first caravan, as they are reportedly fugitives wanted for triple murder.
  • Mexican officials have warned that “migrants in the caravan attacked agents with rocks, glass bottles and fireworks when they broke through a gate on the Mexican end but were pushed back…some allegedly carried guns and firebombs.”
  • One migrant traveling in the caravan admitted to a reporter that he fled his home country of Honduras after he “got in trouble” for attempted murder.

Speaking of truth and lies…

Democrats have shown they will do whatever it takes to make the blue wave happen on November 6th, no matter how low they have to stoop. What they did to Judge Kavanaugh backfired, funding the caravans backfired…and whatever you believe about the mail bomb stunt – er, threats – they also backfired (we aren’t hearing about that anymore, are we? Except for this: Coincidentally, porn-star-who-sues-Trump Stormy Daniels and bomb threat suspect Cesar Sayoc have worked at
the same strip club
in the recent past. Interesting…)

After 11 people were killed in Pittsburgh, Democrats had no problem using the tragedy to spread another lie about President Trump: that he’s anti-Semitic, even though his daughter and grandchildren are Jewish. The lies about the President are multiplying; meanwhile, the Dems’ Message of the Week in the final days before the midterms is that President Trump lies. It started on Sunday with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who asked the President whether he always tells the truth. “When I can, I tell the truth” was only part of Trump’s reply, but the headlines generated included:

  • Washington Post: ‘When I can, I tell the truth’: Trump pushes back against his peddling of falsehoods
  • CNN: Donald Trump’s wacky approach to truth, explained in 7 words
  • Newsweek: Donald Trump Admits He Only Tells the Truth ‘When I Can’

But guess who had a very similar answer about truth back when she was running for President? Yep!

Tune in this week to hear more!

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  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

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