All the President's Conspiracies

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Is the Republican Party in the midst of a policy wasteland? Today’s guest, Ben Ginsberg, surely thinks so. According to Ginsberg, who is perhaps the most prominent Republican election lawyer of our time, the future of the GOP rests on its ability to transform its policy agenda into one that appeals to minorities and women. “If [the GOP] can avoid the circular firing squad and instead concentrate on positive policy ideas to appeal to voters,” Ginsberg warns, then “there is a chance for the resurrection of the party.” Stick around for a conversation about our democracy’s nonexistent voter fraud problem and the GOP’s concerted effort to restrict access to the polls. Show Notes: -“My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump,” by Ben Ginsberg in the Washington Post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another special edition of the dispatch podcast on Fridays.
0:05.0	Today we are joined by Ben Ginsburg, the famed election lawyer.
0:11.2	He has worked in election law on the Republican side for 38 years.
0:15.3	He co-chair the bipartisan 2013 presidential commission on election administration.
0:20.7	You may know him from HBO versions of the 2000 Florida recount,
0:26.6	or as my former boss in both the 08 and 12 Romney campaigns.
0:33.6	This podcast of course is brought to you by the dispatch, visit the dispatch.com.
0:37.3	The check out our newsletters.
0:38.6	We've got more podcasts.
0:40.5	And did I mention I'm joined by Steve Hayes?
0:43.6	I'm always joined by Steve Hayes.
0:56.9	Let's dive right in and joining us.
0:59.9	The one the only my former boss, Ben Ginsburg.
1:03.9	Thanks for coming.
1:05.9	Hello there. Nice to be with you.
1:07.9	So Ben, before election day, you published an op-ed with a Washington Post,
1:13.1	in which you said nearly every election day since 1984,
1:16.7	I've worked with Republican poll watchers, observers,
1:19.1	and lawyers to record and litigate any fraud or election irregularities discovered.
1:23.1	The truth is,
1:24.3	that over all those years, Republicans found only isolated incidents of fraud.
1:28.3	Proof of systemic fraud has become the lockness monster of the Republican party.
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