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Steve Bannon (0:00)
Bob, let me start with you on the specifics of the North Carolina case. This is a very close race. There are millions of votes cast. And I think it was, you know, an 800 vote margin, 734 votes. It's a bummer to lose by that close.
Mike Davis (0:11)
It's a very close race.
Steve Bannon (0:12)
I wouldn't say otherwise. The claim here that 60,000 people voted illegally seems highly dubious to me.
Jason Jones (0:19)
And the fact that the Republican Supreme.
Steve Bannon (0:21)
Court Republican majority is now going to get to select whether or not they could choose another Republican for their majority also seems a little sketchy.
Jason Jones (0:30)
Well, first on the on the question of whether the North Carolina Supreme Court is going to make the decision, there's an appeal to the US 4th Circuit on the decision to send it back. So we've got to wait and see which court actually ends up with jurisdiction of the case.
Mike Davis (0:46)
But you have to remember this is a game plan.
Jason Jones (0:49)
And you mentioned that the things that.
Mike Davis (0:51)
Trump and the Republicans learned from 2020.
Jason Jones (0:54)
And that is you don't go into court with crazy theories and a weak crew of lawyers. And so this has been teed up well before the no election to go.
Mike Davis (1:07)
In and challenge certain categories of voters.
Jason Jones (1:10)
That they arguably, at least according to the complaint, weren't eligible to vote. And so, you know, on the one hand, you don't want to see rioters in the street like we saw on January 6 four years ago.
Mike Davis (1:26)
But we also want, if they're legitimate.
Jason Jones (1:30)
Legal questions, to let the court system play out. And I was talking to the professor.
Steve Bannon (1:37)
At Harvard, Stephen Levitsky, who writes about.
Jason Jones (1:39)
Sort of Democratic backsliding.
