Twenty thousand California mail ballots flagged by the federal government as likely cast by noncitizens will be counted anyway, after the Ninth Circuit ruled two to one on Monday against the Justice Department's request to stop the count. Seven days before Election Day, guest host Robert McNeily, in for Jenny Beth Martin, spends the hour with Jim Pfaff, president of The Conservative Caucus and a veteran of congressional offices on Capitol Hill, on what that ruling says about who checks citizenship. Pfaff explains why the court never reached the merits, why the enforcement tool the Justice Department needs has existed since the 1990s, and what the SAVE America Act would restore. He walks through the charge against former FBI Director James Comey, filed as a criminal information rather than an indictment ten years to the day after the alleged disclosure, and why that distinction decides the case. He names the races that will show early which way election night is breaking, forecasts Republicans holding the Senate at 50 to 53 seats, and explains why he trusts turnout, not polls. Also in the hour: President Trump's $1 million reward for voter fraud reports that end in a conviction, the Department of Homeland Security's finding of thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls in three states, Senator Mike Lee and the end of a visa-free program for Chinese nationals in the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Battle of Midway memorial at Chicago's Midway Airport. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Guest: Jim Pfaff is president of The Conservative Caucus, the grassroots organization that has worked to protect American sovereignty and constitutional liberty since 1974. He ran congressional offices on Capitol Hill, has worked on and run campaigns for more than thirty years, and is a regular guest on The Jenny Beth Show.
Guest host: Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, hosts this episode in for Jenny Beth Martin.
Key topics:
• The Ninth Circuit rules two to one that California can keep counting about 20,000 mail ballots the federal government flagged as likely noncitizen votes; the case returns to the district court
• Why the court never reached the merits, and Pfaff's case that California has selections, not elections
• Is the failure in the courts, or in a Congress that never gave anyone an enforcement tool? The 1990s law that already lets the Justice Department request voter rolls
• Article I: states run elections, Congress can regulate them, and has since the Civil Rights Act
• Motor voter, automatic registration, and what the SAVE America Act would restore
• Why the polls have undercounted Republicans since 2016, and the turnout model that wins a midterm
• Pfaff: as few as a quarter of Americans who claim the Christian faith vote, and the left has worked for decades to keep it that way
• What a grassroots activist worried about the voter rolls should do in the next seven days
• James Comey faces two counts under the Espionage Act, filed ten years to the day after the alleged disclosure
• A criminal information is not an indictment: why prosecutors filed without a grand jury and why the ten-year clock is the whole fight
• Lady Justice is supposed to be blind: ten years of lawfare and who gets charged
• The races to watch on election night: Texas, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Maine
• Where The Conservative Caucus is putting its effort, and the redistricting states that decide the House
• Pfaff's forecast: Republicans hold the Senate at 50 to 53 seats; the House leans Democrat but is not decided
• Will the far left turn on Hakeem Jeffries if Democrats win a narrow majority?
• President Trump offers $1 million for voter fraud reports that end in a conviction
• The Department of Homeland Security says it found thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls in California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Our request: publish the numbers
• Justice Department election monitors headed to Philadelphia polling places on Election Day
• 82.3 percent of voters say only citizens should vote; Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund's commitment to clean voter rolls and the SAVE America Act, whatever happens November 3
• President Trump and Vice President Vance close the campaign: Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, and Texas with Ken Paxton
• Senator Mike Lee credits Homeland Security for ending a visa-free program that let more than 3,000 Chinese nationals a year into the Northern Mariana Islands, near Guam
• Birth tourism, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Justice Kavanaugh's message to Congress
• President Trump says the Senate is letting the daylight saving bill die; clocks fall back November 1
• Speaker Mike Johnson marks three years with the gavel; House Republican leadership elections run November 10 through 12
• Get out the vote: Tea Party Patriots Action and Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund on the ground in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania
• Constitution Minute: the Battle of Midway memorial at Chicago's Midway Airport, and what a few minutes of courage in June 1942 changed
Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold open: seven days to Election Day
00:55 — Robert McNeily in for Jenny Beth Martin: what we are watching
02:10 — California: the Ninth Circuit lets 20,000 flagged ballots be counted
02:34 — They did not judge on the merits
04:18 — Failure of the courts, or of Congress?
09:50 — Polling is a bad way to judge what is going on
11:09 — The Christian vote: who claims the faith and does not vote
11:50 — Shepherds for Sale
14:54 — What a grassroots activist should do this week
17:41 — Friends Help Friends Vote
18:36 — Comey faces two counts under the Espionage Act
18:47 — The timeline: ten years to the day
19:05 — A criminal information, not an indictment
19:38 — Setting the marker inside the statute of limitations
24:09 — The races to watch on election night
25:14 — Michigan: Rogers versus El-Sayed
26:37 — New Hampshire and Maine
27:21 — Where The Conservative Caucus is putting its effort
28:28 — Republicans keep the Senate: 50 to 53
29:15 — Will the far left turn on Hakeem Jeffries?
30:33 — A $1 million bounty for voter fraud?
32:27 — Trump's reward; DHS finds thousands of noncitizens on the rolls
33:04 — Publish the numbers; election monitors to Philadelphia
33:38 — 82.3 percent say only citizens should vote
35:16 — Trump and Vance close the campaign
38:22 — Senator Mike Lee and the Northern Mariana Islands program
39:51 — Birth tourism and the Fourteenth Amendment
41:12 — Daylight saving time
42:29 — Speaker Johnson: three years with the gavel
44:18 — Get out the vote: Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
46:06 — Constitution Minute: the Battle of Midway memorial
48:34 — A few minutes of courage, and seven days to vote
49:48 — Sign-off
Links mentioned:
friendshelpfriendsvote.com
jennybethshow.com
teapartypatriots.org