{"id":15115,"date":"2024-07-30T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15115"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:20:58","slug":"heritage-fndn-prez-were-not-gonna-tell-ya-everything-thats-coming-bradcast-7302024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15115","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Fndn. Prez: &#8216;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Tell Ya Everything That&#8217;s Coming&#8217;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/30\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_KevinRoberts-HeritageOrg_073024.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">If you haven&#8217;t begun already, as detailed on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> (along with much else), now is a good time to start keeping your eyes on the many ways that Republicans are planning to &#8220;legally&#8221; steal the November election in the event that, once again, they can&#8217;t win it the old fashioned way by receiving more votes and an electoral Electoral College victory with them. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Recently, <b>Kevin Roberts<\/b> (<em>pictured above<\/em>), the President of the far-right <b>Heritage Foundation<\/b>, creators of <a href=\"https:\/\/project2025.org\">&#8220;Project 2025&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; an extremist 900-page manifesto designed to repeal the 20th century the next time a Republican wins the White House &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KamalaHQ\/status\/1816573433741795598\">told supporters<\/a>: &#8220;We are winning. There are a lot of victories that have been secured. Some of them are partial. Some of them in ways that the other side doesn&#8217;t yet know, are foundations for what&#8217;s coming. And that&#8217;s just the beginning. And we&#8217;re not gonna tell ya everything that&#8217;s coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, after weeks of focus on that Project 2025 by Democrats and media, it&#8217;s nominal operational director, <b>Paul Dans<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/project-2025-heritage-foundation-trump-e2674ea34da786d85e97c0908b0b98a8\">stepped down<\/a> to assuage <b>Donald Trump<\/b>, who both doesn&#8217;t like the fact that Project 2025 makes him look like the puppet of more than a hundred far-right organizations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-what-know-rcna161338\">his own former Administration officials<\/a> (which he is), and because the document is so extremist that he&#8217;d prefer to keep all of its atrocities under wraps until he&#8217;s safely back in office.  But those plans to gut the government as we know it and place a Republican President in direct autocratic control of every government agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoAngelo\/status\/1818371139280032252\">aren&#8217;t going away<\/a>, even if Heritage and friends have now been ordered to tone it down for a while until Trump can be installed back into the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>As corporate media outlets are finally reporting on Project 2025, Roberts&#8217; plans for &#8220;victories&#8230;that the other side doesn&#8217;t yet know&#8230;and [he&#8217;s] not gonna tell&#8221; us about for now, are becoming clearer by the day, nonetheless. Largely, they are about stealing the election <i>in advance<\/i> by voter suppression assisted by corrupt friends now seated on the courts; stealing it <i>during<\/i> the tabulation by the many Trump-supporting election denialist who now serve as county election officials in battleground states, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692\/\">they plan to prevent<\/a> certification of a Trump loss; and, in doing so, create enough havoc <i>after<\/i> the election to toss the <b>Electoral College<\/b> certification on January 6 to the <b>U.S. House<\/b>, where Republicans hope to control a majority of state delegations in order to name Trump the &#8220;winner&#8221;, even if he loses again, as he did in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>We detail just some of those plots and plans, along with much more, on today&#8217;s program. Among our <i>many<\/i> stories today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After hundreds were killed amid downpour-triggered landslides <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/southern-ethiopia-mudslides-cb727bb89150c9d521ccbe2ef1a63f14\">last week<\/a> in <b>Ethiopia<\/b>, at least <strike>70<\/strike> 93 were killed by mudslides under similarly climate change-fueled conditions in southwestern <b>India<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/india-kerala-landslides-rains-5eddd0911ec0a98bb65c01a3b6c3b679\">today<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 1 million union workers have now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/07\/29\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-protecting-600000-teamster-pensions\/#\">had their pensions saved<\/a> by the <b>Biden-Harris Administration<\/b> and <b>Congressional Democrats<\/b>, thanks to their <b>American Rescue Plan<\/b>, which not one single Republican voted for in the House or Senate. That now includes some 600,000 <b>Teamsters<\/b>, many of them in the rust belt, the midwest and New England, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/07\/29\/metro\/biden-allies-celebrate-giant-relief-pensions-rescue-72000-teamsters-new-england\/\">celebrated on Monday<\/a> in Manchester, <b>New Hampshire<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kamala-mentum<\/b> continues, as <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/harris-sees-boost-favorability-after-biden-drops-race\/story?id=112306763\">new polling<\/a> shows her favorability rate skyrocketing and her unfavorability rate plummeting, following <b>President Biden<\/b>&#8216;s decision to drop out of the 2024 race and endorse his Vice President instead.  Favorable\/unfavorable numbers for <b>Donald Trump<\/b> and his running mate <b>J.D. Vance<\/b> have done the exact opposite according to polling numbers from the week after the assassination attempt on the former President and the Republican National Convention as compared to the week after, following Biden&#8217;s endorsement of Harris for the top of the ticket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Rolling Stone<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692\/\">detailed<\/a> on Monday how at least 70 <b>pro-Trump conspiracists<\/b> who now hold positions as election officials in a number of counties in six battleground state &#8220;are poised to make a giant mess&#8221; by refusing to certify election results in hopes of preventing state results from being certified if Trump doesn&#8217;t win them. The magazine&#8217;s <b>Justine Glawe<\/b>&#8216;s deep-dive report warns that &#8220;Republicans have refused to certify election results at least 25 times since Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden&#8221;&#8230;because practice makes perfect. You have been warned. You may want to keep your Jan. 6 open next year. There may be something dramatic on television, depending on how things go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Early legal efforts by <b>Republicans<\/b> to bollox things up for the <b>Kamala Harris Campaign<\/b> do not appear to be going well. An <b>FEC<\/b> complaint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/07\/24\/us\/harris-trump-biden-election\/trump-campaign-files-complaint-over-transfer-of-biden-funds-to-harris?smid=url-share\">filed last week<\/a> in hopes of preventing Harris from being able to use the money from the former Biden-Harris Campaign account isn&#8217;t likely to get very far, UC Irvine Election Law professor <b>Rick Hasen<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=144771\">notes<\/a>. Though he does recognize that the complaint will at least give Trump the opportunity to falsely claim on the stump that what Dems are doing is a <i>much<\/i>worse campaign finance violation than his own in 2016 which resulted in his 34 felony convictions in <b>New York<\/b>. Good luck with that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also, recent claims by Republican House Speaker and Trump tool <b>Mike Johnson<\/b> (who is, theoretically, an actual attorney) that there are legal &#8220;impediments&#8221; preventing Democrats from putting Harris on state ballots instead of Biden, turn out to be 100% wrong. At least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/26\/politics\/harris-ballot-legal-obstacles-48-states\/index.html\">according to CNN<\/a>, which surveyed all 50 states to find that there will be legal impediments for Harris in (<i>&#8230;checks notes&#8230;<\/i>) ZERO states!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the meantime, expect a mountain of frivolous legal complaints by Republicans about election laws in hopes of suppressing the vote with favorable rulings from corrupt, Trump appointed federal judges. One such effort in <b>Mississippi<\/b>, filed earlier this year, seeking to block the counting of mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days afterward, as per state law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/cases\/mississippi-mail-in-ballot-receipt-deadline-challenge-mississippi\/\">failed on summary judgement<\/a> on Sunday.  But you should expect both appeals and more such voter suppression cases to flood the courts between now and Election Day (and beyond).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15114\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> as the climate change-fueled Park Fire in Northern <b>California<\/b> explodes to become the fifth largest in state history; the death toll from heat exhaustion amid power outages following Hurricane Beryl in <b>Texas<\/b> continues to climb; Extreme heat and water pollution complicate the <b>Paris Olympics<\/b>; and the <b>U.N.<\/b> warns that the nations of the world are not moving fast enough to avoid the far worse effects of climate change that are coming&#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-IndiaLandslide-BidenPensions-HarrisApproval-RepubElectionSchemes_073024.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/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=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/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; 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