A Moment Of Clarity: "Numbnut Republicans are lying about how mail in ballots work." - Michael Steele
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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What if the "controversy" surrounding mail-in ballots is actually a distraction from how elections are really won? Michael Steele breaks down the mechanics of the "ground game"—the essential process of getting ballots into the hands of seniors, veterans, and expats. He exposes the disconnect between political rhetoric and election reality.
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| 0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
| 0:05.0 | Over my years of service in politics, you know, you learn a lot, and you learn a lot about ground game and how to execute ground game and how important that is. |
| 0:16.0 | And a big part of the ground game is, guess what? Turning out your voters, right? And how does a party do that? |
| 0:22.6 | Party does that in a number of ways. |
| 0:24.6 | They send out flyers and all those types of things, but they also want to get the ballot in the hands of their seniors who are unable to get to a voting location, to the handicap. |
| 0:36.6 | Oh, they're veterans who are serving overseas to expats who are working abroad, |
| 0:43.5 | but still want to execute on the promise of the franchise by voting in presidential elections, |
| 0:51.3 | etc. |
| 0:52.0 | The fact that we still have these numb nut Republicans running around, |
| 0:56.7 | lying to the American people, lying to their constituents about how mailing ballots are bad, |
| 1:04.0 | mailing ballots are fraudulent. It astounds me. How did you're behind get elected? |
| 1:10.5 | Representative, Republican, state senator, |
| 1:13.1 | Republican, U.S. Senator Republican? It's because your party organization, from the county |
| 1:19.2 | level to the state level, to the national level, ran mail-in ballot programs. So can you help |
| 1:27.4 | people, because those folks, they're lost and gone. |
| 1:30.3 | If you want to believe that stupid, don't mail your ballot in. |
| 1:34.3 | Don't just go wait in the long line, do whatever you think you need to do. |
| 1:38.3 | But for everybody else, take advantage of early voting. |
| 1:43.3 | Take advantage of the mail-in ballot opportunity. |
| 1:47.7 | Explain and clarify just a little bit more. |
| 1:49.7 | I know you've done it before, but I think at this stage is important as we see, as Simone |
| 1:54.3 | has noted, this storyline unfold that people understand. |
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