{"id":12912,"date":"2019-03-05T18:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12912"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:32:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:32:06","slug":"elections-fraud-and-trump-oversight-til-the-cows-come-home-bradcast-352018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12912","title":{"rendered":"Elections, Fraud, and Trump Oversight &#8216;Til the Cows Come Home: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 3\/5\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Trump_Whitehouse_ProfileShadow_030519.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">That headline will make sense once you listen to the show. With the news &#8220;only&#8221; turned up to 11 today (as opposed to its usual 12 or 13), we&#8217;re able to catch up on a whole bunch of important stories, breaking and otherwise, on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [<i>Audio link is posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among those many stories&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oregon U.S. Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/07045edd692b42e49e6227aac8ea5a2a\">Jeff Merkley<\/a>, former NYC Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-03-05\/our-highest-office-my-deepest-obligation\">Michael Bloomberg<\/a> and former Senator, Sec. of State and 2016 nominee <a href=\"http:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/story\/40067048\/im-not-running-hillary-clinton-rules-out-2020-bid-for-first-time-on-camera-in-exclusive-interview-with-news-12\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> all announce they will <i>not<\/i> be running for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2020. That&#8217;s mostly good news, as we discuss;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A southern <b>Indiana<\/b> election board is <a href=\"https:\/\/wsbt.com\/news\/regional\/southern-indiana-election-board-to-consider-using-old-school-paper-ballots\">considering<\/a> using hand-marked and hand-COUNTED paper ballots in an upcoming local primary election. That&#8217;s <i>definitely<\/i> good news;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>North Carolina<\/b>&#8216;s State Board of Elections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-north-carolina-idUSKCN1QL29U\">announces<\/a> the dates for the redo election(s) in the state&#8217;s 2018 U.S. House race for the 9th Congressional District. The first one was nullified a week or so ago, due to Republican absentee ballot <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12899\">election fraud by a GOP contractor<\/a> on behalf of the disgraced candidate and Baptist preacher Mark Harris. The Democratic candidate, Marine vet and businessman Dan McCready, has already announced he will be running again, and only one Republican, so far, has announced his intention to run in the do-over contest. That one candidate, Union County Commissioner Stony Rushing &#8212; endorsed by Harris (ouch) &#8212; turns out to be a real peach, as we explain with some help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/4\/1839418\/-North-Carolina-schedules-do-over-election-and-Republican-candidate-issues-bizarre-sexual-challenge\">from Daily Kos&#8217; Jeff Singer<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also in NC, the judge who nullified two state Constitutional Amendments, one of which would have imposed disenfranchising Photo ID voting restrictions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/north-carolina\/articles\/2019-03-01\/judge-refuses-to-delay-order-voiding-voter-id-amendment\">stands by his recent ruling<\/a> to nix the measures on the basis that the state legislature that placed them on the ballot had been &#8220;illegally constituted&#8221; by unlawful racial gerrymanders in several NC legislative districts;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, speaking of GOP election fraud, in <b>Virginia<\/b>, the criminal investigation into (now-former) Republican Rep. Scott Taylor and his paid campaign staffers who forged petition signatures to place an independent candidate on the ballot in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/government-politics\/prosecutor-says-ballot-fraud-investigation-involving-scott-taylor-race-is\/article_ef95ad4a-a81b-5576-b939-dddf46a6c4ac.html\">continues<\/a>. The GOP scheme, <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/rep-called-constituent-in-effort-to-bury-first-allegation-of-signature-forgery\">exposed before the election last year<\/a>, included what a judge described as &#8220;out-and-out fraud&#8221; via forged signatures from people who had long ago died or moved. The failed scheme was meant by the Republicans to dilute the votes of Taylor&#8217;s Democratic challenger, now-freshman Rep. Elaine Luria, in VA&#8217;s 2nd U.S. House District;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A huge majority of American voters now believe, 64 to 24%, that Donald Trump committed crimes before becoming President, with a smaller plurality believing he also has committed crimes since becoming President, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/national\/release-detail?ReleaseID=2603\">new polling from Quinnipiac<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, Trump characterized the new House majority Democrats&#8217; several burgeoning investigations into his and his associates myriad apparent crimes as a <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/house-dems-investigation-fishing-expedition\">&#8220;big, fat, fishing expedition&#8221;<\/a>, &#8220;PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!&#8221;, &#8220;nonsense&#8221; and &#8220;a disgrace to our country&#8221; today.  He charged the &#8220;real crime is what the Dems are doing.&#8221; But, as we discuss today, the long, <i>LONG<\/i> overdue exercise of Congressional oversight into an unprecedentedly corrupt Presidency is anything but. We list an <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/muckraker\/an-extremely-comprehensive-guide-to-house-judiciarys-investigation\">astonishing number<\/a> of potential crimes now under the Democrats&#8217; microscope thanks to the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/house-democrats-demand-documents-from-more-than-80-people-and-institutions-affiliated-with-trump\/2019\/03\/04\/51c249ec-3e87-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html?utm_term=.7fc012b79688\">massive document requests<\/a> sent Monday to more than 80 Trump associates, family members, organizations and institutions. That, as we also note, is just the tip of the iceberg for what is still to come, thanks to voters who put Democrats back in charge in the House last November;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12911\">latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with tragic news out of Alabama, stupid news out of CPAC, and important news at the EPA and from the latest Democratic candidates entering the 2020 Presidential contest&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_2020Dems_GOPElectionFraud-NC-VA_TrumpOversight_030519.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_2020Dems_GOPElectionFraud-NC-VA_TrumpOversight_030519.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That headline will make sense once you listen to the show. With the news &#8220;only&#8221; turned up to 11 today (as opposed to its usual 12 or 13), we&#8217;re able to catch up on a whole bunch of important stories, breaking and otherwise, on today&#8217;s BradCast. 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