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INTERVIEW: Michael McDonald on midterms, "The Big Lie", and mail-in voting

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Isaac Saul

Us Politics, News, News Commentary, Local News, Biden, Independent, Congress, Us News, Trump, International News, Politics, Us Senate, Nonpartisan, Us House Of Representatives, Election

4.7816 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, we sit down with election expert Michael McDonald. Michael is the author of the new book From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 Presidential Election. He also runs the website ElectProject.org and is a widely cited expert frequently seen on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and others. Today, we talk to him about his new book, where things stand on the 2022 midterms, mail-in voting, and "The Big Lie." 

You can follow Michael on Twitter @ElectProject

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0:40.6

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking.

1:01.1

Without all that hysterical nonsense, you find everywhere else. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, I'm thrilled to be sitting down with Michael McDonald.

1:09.3

Michael is a professor at the University of Florida and an

1:12.1

elections expert. He runs the website, electproject.org, and is the author of the book from

1:17.7

pandemic to insurrection voting in the 2020 presidential election. For a lot of people in the

1:22.9

media and election space, including myself, Michael has been an essential following on Twitter and his

1:28.0

website is hugely helpful in scouring some of the election data from across the country,

1:33.3

election laws, basically, you know, anything and everything that has to do with U.S.

1:37.3

elections, which we're going to jump into today. Michael, thanks so much for coming on the show.

1:42.4

Oh, great to be with you, Isaac.

1:44.0

So we were sort of talking before we punched record here, and there's, I mean, it's midterm

1:49.1

season, so there's so much going on to talk about. Normally, you've got a book out that I want

1:54.1

to chat about because I think we have some similar interests in the kind of, you know, the

1:59.4

election fraud, big lie, quote-unquote space.

2:03.2

But before you jump in, you know, I love kind of hearing guest stories.

2:07.4

I mean, I'm curious how you got into the political data, election law world.

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